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NVIDIA today is quietly launching a new entry-level graphics card for the retail market, the GeForce RTX 3050 6GB. Based on a cut-down version of their budget Ampere-architecture GA107 GPU, the new card brings what was previously an OEM-only product to the retail market. Besides adding another part to NVIDIA's deep product stack, the launch of the RTX 3050 6GB also comes with another perk: lower power consumption thanks to this part targeting system installs where an external PCIe power connector would not be needed. NVIDIA's partners, in turn, have not wasted any time in taking advantage of this, and today Palit is releasing its first fanless KalmX board in years: the GeForce RTX 3050 KalmX 6GB. The GeForce RTX 3050 6GB is based on...
MSI Introduces two new GTX 950 2GB GPUs with 75W TDP: the OCV2 and OCV3
A standard GTX 950 reference design comes in at a 90W TDP, which means it requires a 6-pin PCIe power connector as the standard PCIe slot is typically rated...
12 by Anton Shilov on 3/16/2016ZOTAC to Offer Small Form-Factor PC with NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 980 GPU
Various kinds of small form-factor PCs are on a roll these days. Mini-ITX systems have been offering performance of full-size desktops for several years now and even smaller systems...
17 by Anton Shilov on 3/11/2016NVIDIA Releases 364.47 WHQL Game Ready Driver
Not even a week has passed and we have another driver update from NVIDIA. Despite the quick turnaround this is not a rushed released. Indeed, we have some heavy...
22 by Daniel Williams on 3/8/2016ASUS Unveils 75W GeForce GTX 950 Graphics Card; Powered Entirely By PCIe Slot
ASUS has quietly introduced its new video card based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 GPU with a 75W power limit. By virtue of a lower power limit, this...
38 by Anton Shilov on 3/7/2016The Dell XPS 15 9550 Review: Infinity Edge Lineup Expands
It was roughly a year ago that we had a chance to review Dell’s XPS 13, which was the first laptop from Dell to feature the Infinity Edge display...
153 by Brett Howse on 3/4/2016NVIDIA Releases 362.00 WHQL Game Ready Driver
Right on cue NVIDIA has delivered another game ready driver for a collection of newly released titles. Bringing, alongside the typical performance and stability reasons, additional graphical improvements to...
13 by Daniel Williams on 3/2/2016Gigabyte Announces New 17.3” Gaming Laptops with Intel Skylake Processors
GIGABYTE has introduced its new family of desktop replacement gaming notebooks with Intel’s Skylake microprocessors. The new laptops not only feature new CPUs, but also add support for technologies...
13 by Anton Shilov on 2/24/2016Ashes of the Singularity Revisited: A Beta Look at DirectX 12 & Asynchronous Shading
We’ve been following DirectX 12 for about 2 years now, watching Microsoft’s next-generation low-level graphics API go from an internal development project to a public release. Though harder to...
153 by Daniel Williams & Ryan Smith on 2/24/2016NVIDIA Announces Tom Clancy’s The Division Game Bundle for GeForce Video Cards
NVIDIA has announced that its partners will bundle a free copy of Tom Clancy’s The Division game with select high-end GeForce GTX graphics cards starting this week and for...
5 by Anton Shilov on 2/17/2016EVGA Begins Selling "VR Edition" GeForce GTX Video Cards for VR Gaming Rigs
EVGA this week began to sell their GeForce GTX 980 Ti VR Edition video cards, a new lineup tailored for those who plan to use a virtual reality headset...
11 by Anton Shilov on 2/11/2016NVIDIA releases 361.75 WHQL Game Ready Driver
With both the new release of Rise of the Tomb Raider and the upcoming Tom Clancy’s The Division beta, NVIDIA has diligently prepared a new game ready driver to...
19 by Daniel Williams on 1/28/2016NVIDIA’s Partners Roll-Out GeForce GT 710 to Fight Integrated Graphics
Advancements made by iGPUs by AMD and Intel in the recent years essentially destroyed the market of inexpensive discrete video cards. High-performance iGPUs can outperform low-end standalone graphics adapters...
60 by Anton Shilov on 1/27/2016NVIDIA Anounces Rise of the Tomb Raider GeForce GTX Bundle
Tomb Raider is a classic series now running for nearly 20 years. While the original titles are beyond dated graphically, Rise of the Tomb Raider looks to not only...
12 by Daniel Williams on 1/9/2016NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX VR Ready Program
With CES 2016 quickly ramping up ahead of Wednesday’s official opening, NVIDIA is hitting the ground running. While the company will be holding their traditional CES press conference this...
6 by Ryan Smith on 1/4/2016US ITC Finds NVIDIA Guilty of Infringing Three Samsung Patents
An administrative law judge from the U.S. International Trade Commission on Tuesday found that NVIDIA Corp. infringed several patents of Samsung Electronics. The judge ruled that NVIDIA’s graphics processing...
35 by Anton Shilov on 12/23/2015NVIDIA Releases 361.43 WHQL Game Ready Driver
The holiday season is fast approaching a climax, and this season the stream of driver updates isn’t ready to quit. With that NVIDIA has brought us a stocking loaded...
11 by Daniel Williams on 12/22/2015NVIDIA Releases 359.06 WHQL Game Ready Driver
NVIDIA is continuing their efforts to provide game ready drivers on launch day throughout the AAA/holiday season. Without missing a beat they are giving us a two for one...
13 by Daniel Williams on 12/2/2015NVIDIA Releases 359.00 WHQL Game Ready Driver
The season's flurry of games has brought along a blizzard of updates. Bad pun tie-ins aside, there is little that tarnishes a shiny new game like musty old drivers...
26 by Daniel Williams on 11/19/2015GeForce + Radeon: Previewing DirectX 12 Multi-Adapter with Ashes of the Singularity
Today we'll be taking an initial look into the unorthodox multi-GPU capabilities of DirectX 12. Developer Oxide Games, who is responsible for the popular Star Swarm demo we looked...
180 by Ryan Smith on 10/26/2015NVIDIA GeForce Experience Update: 4K GameStream & 1080p Twitch; Driver Update Changes To Come
Since launching their GeForce Experience software utility over two years ago, NVIDIA has continued to iterate on it in a fairly regular fashion. Along with its software update and...
54 by Ryan Smith on 10/15/2015