During the Emerging Companies Summit at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, we spoke with several startups and experienced companies, seeing an interesting emerging pattern.
Unconfirmed details have come about pertaining to a supposed GTX-680M mobile graphics solution from NVIDIA launching at next month's Computex 2012 event in Taipei.
During the GTC 2012 opening keynote, NVIDIA announced two Tesla cards, K10 and the K20. While the K10 is effectively a 8GB Tesla-version of the GeForce GTX 690, the K20 brings the monster silicon - 7.1 billion transistors.
The plot thickens, as Nvidia and its partners have announced no less than three new budget GPUs in the 600-series, or have they? Judging by the specifications, we're in fact not looking at new GPUs here at all, but once again re-branded GPUs from yester year.
AMD has gained considerable market share in the budget computing segment since last year's launch of the Llano APU, with "good enough" CPU performance balanced with entry discreet level graphics to boot. After the uncompetitive showing of Bulldozer with their FX enthusiast chips and Opterons, followed by harrowing departures of historically key personnel, the remaining team went back to the drawing board and made a few tweaks to their 32nm BD core architecture. Their efforts resulted in Piledriver, which will debut with the 2012 Trinity Mobile APUs today and then feature in server and desktop product refreshes later this year. Is this the light at the end of the tunnel or just another epic facepalm for AMD?
Nvidia's newest GK104 (Kepler) powered GeForce GTX 670, positioned to go against the HD 7950, is simply a GTX 680 with one of eight SMX units disabled and reduced core clock speed, retaining everything else like the 256-bit GDDR5 memory bus and 32 ROPs. We review GIGABYTE's non-reference take on the new US$399 entrant that really doesn't differ much from their flagship model.
While the fanboys in AMD camp are asking themselves how the company will react to superior benchmark results of competing Kepler-based graphics cards, the company is working in silence on improving the performance of its flagship discrete parts.
Recently, NVIDIA introduced its current king of the hill product in the form of two GK104 GPUs placed on the same board and called the part GeForce GTX 690. In the next couple of days, we will see the launch of GTX 670. We'll dig a bit deeper and see the consequences of recent strategy moves.
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Nvidia's upcoming GeForce GTX 670 is only days away from launching and VR-Zone has managed to scoop a couple of exclusive pictures of two of Asus' upcoming cards. The two models are the GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU II and DirectCU II TOP and although at first the two appear to be identical there are some subtle differences.
Last Thursday evening, the winners of the inaugural Palit Nvidia Counter-Strike Tournament, dream[s]cape and Momentum, were awarded nearly $7,000 worth of product prizes at a dinner event, in conjunction with the launch of Palit's GeForce GTX 680 Jetstream edition here in Singapore.
Overclocking expert k|ngp|n has been tinkering a lot with his EVGA GTX 680 SC card lately and recently reported his result of a whopping 1957MHz on the core using extreme cooling measures.
According to our sources, NVIDIA was delighted with the yields achieved by the 28nm GK104 (Kepler) chip, that they decided to launch not one, but two high-end SKUs before they start releasing value parts.
NVIDIA is looking to transform PC gaming by making the PC experience as hassle-free as possible.
Last month when Nvidia launched their consumer GeForce Kepler architecture, Palit was the first AIB vendor to debut a non-reference GTX 680 design with their Jetstream series, featuring a reworked 6-phase PWM (DrMOS) and an attractive triple-fan blue LED cooler.
Oh joy, Nvidia has gone and complicated its OEM graphics card line-up something terribly, as the company has announce three new GeForce 600-series models, yet there are no less than five new cards using three different GPUs. Talk about a slap in the face for consumers that buy branded computers, especially as three of the new SKUs are all the same model.
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