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AMD has officially announced their latest RDNA 2 based Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU. The new budget-end graphics card - priced at $379 (before Scalpers) offers 1080p gaming and is optimized for budget builds where you don't necessarily need eye popping 4K gaming. The 6600 Xt features 8GB of memory (GDDR6) and 32 compute cores and features a 2359 base clock speed and 2589 MHz when boosted. The Navi 23 GPU can technically - deliver up-to 8K output (HDMI 2.1) and is ideal if you want to run a media hub as well. Gaming on the card is ideal at 1080p and so far all modern AAA titles are playable - but if you want to go beyond 1080p without jitters - the 6700T or the 68-6900 series will be the better option. Power draw on the card is said to be 160W and you can expect various hardware OEM's producing their own chassis for the RX6600 XT in the coming days and is avilable from august 11th.  Gigabyte's take on the RX 6600 XT - Via Gigabyte Source -  Cnet

Wacom Intuos Pro and Pro Paper  Wacom - a leader in graphic tablets has unveiled three new tablets for 2017 , the new lineup consists of two Intuos tablets and one Bamboo tablet . Wacom Intuos Pro /  Wacom Intuos Pro Paper  If you are professional in your artistic talent , then this is the tablet duo for you the tablets are both similar in function with the exception of a paper holder on the Pro Paper which you can draw sketches directly on using the Wacom finetip pen . Specs are as follows Specs * Multitouch support with gestures , 8 hotkeys for quick access , anodized aluminium body in both medium and large sizes *Pro pen 2 supports 8192 levels of pressure (Finetip pen can be used on the paper edition) *Pro version - Medium costs $349  Large  costs $499 *Pro Paper Edition - Medium costs $399 Large costs $549 Wacom Bamboo Folio  This is basically a notepad for students and busy individuals who want to do physical writing but still wa...

“It’s the most advanced GPU the world has ever seen,” Jen-Hsun said, as he presented Tim with the company’s very first production unit. Nvidia has pulled the covers off its new Titan X GPU. The 8 billion transistor graphics card is built around Maxwell architecture and it also has 12 GB of Framebuffer (RAM) which took Nvidia engineers many man- hours years to develop . Further details about the card (pricing , more specs , GPU core count ) are still kept a secret , but we will post them as soon as they are available Written By Rakitha for MasHD Source - Blog.Nvidia

Maingear has upgraded their current gaming laptop aresnal with Nvidia's GTX980m and GTX970m mobile graphics . The new Mawell based GPU's , which offer 1536 CUDA cores on the GTX980m version and 1280 CUDA cores on the GTX970m are both mobile versions of the their desktop variants minus a few cores .The Maingear Nomad 17 , which is their flagship gaming laptop comes with the GTX980m kit while the Nomad 15 , Pulse 17 and Pulse 15 has the GTX970m option .The Maingear Nomad 17 with GTX980m version costs $2399 and the cheapest option with the 970m costs $2099 . Other laptops from Maingear running the GTX970m will cost more than $2000 which means that this is not the best budget purchase of the year , if you are budget conscious , check out the new Digital Storm gaming laptops  instead. Written by Rakitha for MasHD Source - DigitalTrends

Most of us thought the patent wars were over , but apparently Samsung has been taken to court once again over a infringement case which is filed by Nvidia this time . The ITC (U.S  International Trade commission)  , which governs and investigates such incidents is now probing the accusations set on the smartphone giant Samsung . Nvidia , which holds many patents in chip designing took on Samsung and it hopes to block many flagship products from entering the U.S market . The list of devices set to be included in the possible ban include - Samsung Galaxy S5 , S4 , Tab S , Tab 2 , Note 3 , Note 4 , Note Pro and Note Edge devices which run Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors and Samsung's own Exynos processors . Samsung's products which use the Snspdragon processors work along side the Adreno GPU system and the new Exynos processors use ARM designed Mali system which are both competitors of Nvidia's mobile GPU technology . Nvidia , which announced that "We are pleased w...

With Digital storm's desktops shifting to the new Nvidia GTX970 and 980 cards , it was high time the gaming laptops got a upgrade of their own , and now with the announcement of the new Nvidia GTX 9X0 series of Graphics , the mobile divisions can keep up with the heavy graphic crunching world of portable gaming , Digital storm - a well known Gaming rig maker upgraded some of their 4 laptop brands -Lance , Equinox ,Krypton,Behemoth  to the GTX 900m ,970m and  980m from the aging 8X0M graphics on the outgoing models . The newer laptops will be bespoke so you can configure the parts according to your taste , the cheapest model , which is from the Lance family will cost $1483 to buy , the laptops are said to be available from next month . Written by Rakitha for MasHD Source - SlashGear

There's a lot of talk about the new Nvidia GTX  980 these days . The new 980 and 970 Graphics cards  offer good specs for prople searching for good power at a price , and due to its popularity , many companies are now using the card for their off the shelf pc towers, digital storm , one of the more creative hardware companies (like MainGear) are said to be combining the new Nvidia 900 series cards with their new Virtue Level 2 and Level 3 systems (level 2 models have the 970 version, Level 3's have the 980 version) and Bolt 2   Level 2 and 3 systems as well as high end Hailstorm 2 ($4225) and Aventum 2($4643) towers . Other specs on the devices include Level 1 Aventum II and Hailstorm II systems Intel Core i7 4790K , 2x NVIDIA GTX980 4GB , 1TB HDD, 250GB SSD ,Liquid cooling system a ASUS Z97 motherboard and Windows 8.1 Pro Level 2 and Level 3 Virtue systems ($1670 Level 2 ) ($2125 Level 3) Virtue - Intel Core i5 4th gen (8GB RAM on Level 2) (16GB Ram...

Game of Thrones have been quite popular although it is not suitable for family viewing , Season 5 of the Medieval/fantasy TV series is coming soon , but till then , lets take a look at one of the previous season (season 4)'s Visual effects which are all thanks to Mackevision and its visual effect studio responsible for creating some stunning scenes by adding cityscapes , ships and large armies and people . If you aren't a fan of Game of Thrones , you can watch the 5 minute video just for the fun of it . Article may be used in other blogs,but please be sure to link this article as a source Source -  IGN

After announcing details about the Tegra Erista mobile processor and a $3000 graphics card , Nvidia published new details about their upcoming GPU architecture called "Pascal" .The GPU design was previously known as "Volta" and it has been slowly replaced by "Pascal" instead (fate of Volta is unknown as of now) A slide showing the earlier codename "volta" - circa 2013 (via Anandtech) A slide from GTC 2014 showing the "Pascal" architecture after Maxwell (via Anandtech) The Pascal GPU is said be the next step in avoiding data bottlenecks when data transferred between the CPU and GPU slows down the processors ability to perform tasks . The new Nvidia NVLink is a integrated chip to chip communications technology that will eventually replace the PCIe standard by about 80GB per second compared to the 16GB on PCIe. The new Pascal system will also have stacked DRAM chips which are placed in dense modules with wide interfaces...

Nvidia anounced their latest and the most expensive graphics card ever - The GTX Titan Z , the Titan Z is the third graphics card to follow the GTX Titan series and it packs the same GK110 Kepler GPU as the GTX Titan Black launched a few months ago . The impressive Titan Z packs a whooping 5760 GK110 cuda cores compared to the Titan black's 2800 , The Titan Z doubles the memory to 12 Gb over the Titan Black and has two 384bit memory channels .The Titan Z scores around 8 Teraflops , but unlike the Titan black,the GK110 cores are clocked to around 700 mhz each , and this puts it well below the Titan Z's 980Mhz per core ,but according to Nvidia spokesman Bryan Del Rizzo the reason to have a slower clock speed per was to make a "card that is cool and quiet, rather than hot and loud." The Titan Black , launched last month was priced at $999 , so with the doubling of specs on the Titan Z , you would expect it to cost double as well right ? wrong ! The Titan Z costs...

Today , Microsoft announced their new API for DirectX 12 , the new version will allow developers better control on their graphics and allow more complex rendering features which will bring better games for consoles like the Xbox One ,Pc's and future mobile devices . Microsoft however , wants the Directx 12 API to exist as a console like API because devs can work with consistency and have better predictability . Direct3D 12 however will spread the work load across multiple cores , lowering the strain on the hardware , according to Microsoft ,40% of existing Directx 11 hardware will be ready for DirectX 12. Chipmakers like Intel were pleased with the anouncement and said that their new 4th Gen Core i7's will support it at launch.Nvidia said that their current Kepler,Fermi and Maxwell architectures will support DirectX 10 , but AMD was not impressed with the presentation . Although Direct3D 12 added efficient resource handling , the presentation did fail to show any ma...

Related articles CROP CIRCLES unreal engine 4 At its CES press conference, NVIDIA finally revealed the marketing name for Project Logan - NVIDIA's latest mobile SoC: Tegra K1. NVIDIA hasn't said much about the architectural details about its latest Tegra SoC, other than to confirm that it features 192 CUDA cores. Since we already know Tegra K1 is based on NVIDIA's Kepler GPU architecture, and a single Kepler SMX features 192 CUDA cores, we know that K1 uses a single Kepler SMX. With K1, NVIDIA ditches the GeForce ULP GPU core that was present in the previous four generations of Tegra and moves mobile onto the same roadmap as the desktop/notebook GeForce. NVIDIA used the slide below that seems to imply convergence between the Tegra and GeForce architectures going forward, even beyond Kepler. Tegra K1 will be available in quad-core Cortex A15 (+1 shadow Cortex A15 core) and dual-core Denver (64-bit ARMv8) versions. The Cortex A15 version will be avaduilable in 1H...

ASUS ROG has finally gone official with its new gaming rig. The ROG G750 ties together one of NVIDIA's latest mobile graphics card (on stage, it was the GeForce GTX 765M) with a stylish brushed aluminium keyboard surround. Since its last gaming laptops, ROG has added an amplifier within the headphone socket to really crank up in-game sound effects and music. It'll pack in 4th generation Intel Core i7 processors, while the backlit keyboard includes a gamer-friendly isolated arrow key cluster and large multi-point touchpad  (Engadget)

Intel's Iris graphics are going to provide a 2x improvement to 3D performance over Intel's current HD 3000, and HD 4000 that are wrapped into Ivy Bridge cores. Basically, games that would crawl, stutter, or not run at all on older boxes (like your Call of Dutys and Bioshock Infinites) are going to be up for grabs once ultrabooks with Haswell start rolling out. Iris will come in two flavors: Intel Iris Graphics 5100, which you'll find on the Intel 4th Gen Core i7-4000U series for ultrabooks, and Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 which will be making its appearance on H and R-series chips that'll be packed into beefier laptops and all-in-one desktops respectively. So your ultrabooks are going to be up to gaming snuff (if you're down with sacrificing some of the crazier settings), but your more serious (and less portable) machines are going to get an even bigger boost. Intel's boasting that 2x performance increase across the board from ultrabooks on up, and three...

Asus has announced a new motherboard that gamers and computer enthusiast’s building up a high-end PC will certainly lust over. The new motherboard is called the Asus P9X79-E WS and has support for up to four-way Nvidia GeForce SLI or AMD CrossFireX using x16 links. The board also supports Asus Dr. Power to help prevent sudden shutdowns using power supply health monitoring and event notifications. Asus says that the board is 91% power efficient and has enhanced heat removal and connectivity for high-speed storage and data transfer with dual server-grade Intel Ethernet ports. The big feature for computer gamers and enthusiasts looking for all of the graphics performance they can get is the support for up to four video cards from Nvidia or AMD. The mainboard also supports seven single slot graphics cards. With seven available PCI Express slots this motherboard will also be appealing for users who want to build the machine for PCI Express-based video capturing or with numerous SS...

This week the folks at NVIDIA have been revealing bits and pieces of their GPU roadmap with Tegra and GeForce GPU action left and right, moving forward with their newest mobile superhero code-named SoC “Parker.” This SoC comes after the still code-named “Logan” and will, if the naming scheme holds true, be Tegra 6 down the road. Along with this reveal came word of a code-named system called “Kayla” – a processing beast that, when it’s ready for action, will be extra-tiny and extra-powerful beyond anything we’re capable of today. Parker is the newest in a line of code-named Tegra processors, coming after Wayne (Tegra 4) and Logan (Tegra 5, more than likely), and bringing on the innovations of past generations and/or outdoing them with the following firsts: • First with Denver CPU. • First 64 bit ARM processor coupled with NVIDIA’s next-gen Maxwell GPU. • First to use FinFET transistors. According to NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, this is only the beginning. Huang noted that “In five...

This week NVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang spoke up at their GPU Technology Conference on the future of the mobile processor known as Tegra and has teased what will likely be called “Tegra 5″. Running through what we’d already learned about the Tegra 2, Tegra 3, and the upcoming Tegra 4, Huang let us know that the next code-name “Logan” would be breaking boundaries once again. The next Tegra processor will, according to Huang, do “everything a modern computer should do. Speaking on how they created the idea of a single energy-saving core – seen first in the NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor – with 4-PLUS-1 technology, sleeping with this one sleeper core for low-powered tasks. Huang spoke also of the first software-defined radio – Deep Execution Processor – and the Computational Camera using both the CPU and the GPU with the sensors of the mobile camera – introduced on the Tegra 4. Inside Logan we’ll be seeing CUDA 5 and Kepler. This is the first time we’ve seen a mobile processor inc...

NVIDIA’s CEO already is talking about what we can expect to see this year at GTC, and the opening keynote will have 5 main things you can all look forward too. One, we’ll hear plenty about the breakthrough in “supercomputing” we’ve never seen before. As well as all the breakthrough’s this year has already given us. We’ll get a broad update on GPU computing as a whole, how it’s progressing, and where it’s headed. Then what I’m sure many of you are waiting for is the NVIDIA Roadmap. Then last but not least NVIDIA will have a new product announcement. That will be last, so stay tuned for all the details. While on stage Jen-Hsun Huang stated they didn’t know what to call their new GTX GeForce graphics card that you see above. After realizing it was more than just a GPU, but a GPU that truly brings supercomputing to our homes, they settled on the GTX Titan — and we think that’s fitting. (SlashGear )      Click here to watch the LiveStream

When you want workstation performance and reliability out of your computer, you usually have to pony up over a grand for a high-end graphics card. However, NVIDIA has released four new Quadro graphics cards that come in many different flavors, including one option called the K600 that costs only $199. The other three Kepler-based Quadro cards are the K4000, K2000, and the K2000D. The K4000 is the beast of the bunch, racking up 3GB of on-board memory and costing a whopping $1,269. The K2000 and K2000D are similar to one another, both of which are priced at $599 and come with 2GB of onboard memory, but the K2000D comes with native support for two dual-link DVI display connectors, which NVIDIA says is ideal for “interfacing with ultra-high-resolution medical imaging displays.” Furthermore, the K4000 has 768 CUDA Cores, a memory bandwidth of 134 GB/s,and 1.246 teraflops. The K2000 has 384 CUDA Cores, 67 GB/s of memory bandwidth, and 733 gigaflops. The budget card of the bunch, K600 isn’...