We usually hear from the tech community that the mobile market moves blindingly fast. And in fact, if you look back at what a high-end smartphone could do in 2006 as well as the types of apps it had and then look at what we’ve got now just 6 years later, the differences and noticeable advancements are insane. But even the best mobile hardware still can’t compete with more “traditional” gaming hardware like consoles and PCs. By 2014, however, Nvidia...
Nvidia’s GTX 680 is a beast of a card by itself, handedly conquering pretty much any game thrown at it with max settings and playable frame rates. But what happens when you up the resolution to a 3-monitor split of 5760 x 1080 and toss in three more 680s? Insanity. Dutch site Hardware.info did just that, throwing $2,000 worth of video cards onto a single motherboard’s back, and flogging the hell out of all of it. Some things like the 89 fps recorded in Alien vs....
While Nvidia is busy unveiling their next-gen 6xx desktop/mobile series AMD is inadvertently working hard to steal back the limelight. Chinese site inpai.com has managed to gather and post what it says are the specs of AMD’s upcoming dual-gpu 7990 graphics card. It is, of course, going to be extremely powerful with a combined 8.6 billion transistors and 4,096 stream processors between the two dies, as well as dual-384-bit memory channels, 6 GB of memory, 64 ROPs, and...
Last week we saw an early glimpse of Nvidia’s next-gen flagship GPU, the GTX 680, by way of leaked specs and images. Today, the mystery is gone as Nvidia has officially unveiled the GTX 680, taking the crown away from AMD’s ~2-month long reign on top. What’s most impressive in our eyes at least is that even with the huge bump in hardware power, Nvidia actually managed to lower the 680′s power requirements from 244w (GTX580) down to 195w —...
If you want to really own the competition when it comes to PC gaming, there only solution is a high-end, bank account draining GPU. AMD’s currently having a grand ‘ol time with their 7970 offering, with Nvidia still chugging along with their 1+ year old (though still more than capable) GTX 580. On the roadmap for 2012, however, is their new 28nm based “Kepler” platform. And wouldn’t you know it, this morning the first of many cards from Kepler...
