The PS5 and Xbox Series X have been given high praise by Metro developer 4A Games. The European studio recently announced plans to release a huge Metro Exodus update for PS5 and Xbox Series X. Fans of the excellent first-person shooter will be happy to find out that Ray-tracing support is coming to the next-gen consoles.
Nvidia has updated its website confirming the core specs of the incoming RTX 3060 graphics card which launches on February 25. As spotted by Tom's Hardware, RTX 3060 models (produced by third-party graphics card makers - there will be no Founders Edition) will run with 3,584 CUDA cores and a base clock of 1.32GHz, with a boost clock of 1.78GHz.
In addition to Qualcomm, Google and Microsoft have now raised concerns to regulators regarding Nvidia's proposed $40bn acquisition of the British chip design firm Arm. According to reports from and , both tech giants have now reached out to regulators in the US, EU, UK and China about how the deal could change the way in which Arm licenses out its chip designs.
Sunlight, a developer of virtualization technology for data-intensive applications, today announced NVIDIA GPU support for Sunlight NexVisor, its lightweight hypervisor providing near bare-metal performance with a compact footprint. Organizations can now unlock the full potential of hyperconverged infrastructure at the edge, maximizing the performance of demanding, GPU-accelerated workloads such as artificial intelligence (AI) running in edge environments.
NVIDIA GeForce Now brings high-quality PC gaming to any PC using the power of the cloud. While you don't need to spend time running benchmarks and adjusting many different graphics settings to get the best performance on your system, there are some things you can do that will help you get the best experience.
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. When Nvidia declared its intention to buy ARM, it sent shockwaves through the entire ecosystem. In the PC world, if you buy an x86 processor, you buy it from Intel and AMD.
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Game developers now have direct access to Nvidia's clever performance-boosting DLSS tech thanks to a new plug-in for Unreal Engine 4. Nvidia released the plug-in for Unreal Engine 4.26 at the end of last week, and golly, I'm really hoping this means we'll get loads more DLSS games from now on, as it's a feature that's become pretty much mandatory in all of the big ray tracing games that have come out over the last few months.
Some of the world's largest technology companies are complaining to US antitrust regulators about Nvidia Corp's acquisition of Arm because the deal will harm competition in an area of the industry that is vital to their businesses. Alphabet Inc's Google, Microsoft Corp. and Qualcomm Inc.
Qualcomm, Google, and Microsoft have privately expressed serious concerns about Nvidia's $40 billion purchase of Arm, reports The Verge. The three giants have concerns that the tie-up will limit their access to the British chip design firm's technology. Qualcomm also reached out to national regulatory organizations in the U.S., U.K., Europe, and China about the issue.
Back in September 2020, chip specialist Nvidia agreed to acquire British chip designer Arm from SoftBank for $40 billion. It was bound to be a controversial move and much has happened since then, not least a further rise in international distrust on the technology front.
4A Games CTO Oleksandr Shyshkovtsov says that though Nvidia's ray-tracing tech is "in a different league", AMD's approach is still more flexible. PC gaming has been reaping the advantages for ray-tracing for a while now, but with the console space also having caught up with the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, the hope is that the technology is going to become much more standardized going forward.
Nvidia's GeForce Now has been updated to work with Apple Silicon Macs, allowing gamers on both Intel and M1-based models to use the game-streaming service. GeForce Now allows Mac and MacBook users to play games made for Windows without requiring hardware upgrades or using Boot Camp, by rendering gameplay on cloud servers and streaming the video directly to the user's computer.
Nvidia's incoming RTX 3060 graphics card, which goes on sale later in February, is seeing its prices hiked even while the GPU is waiting in the wings, still in the pre-order phase.
Nvidia has announced that its entry-level RTX 3060 graphics card will go on sale on Thursday, February 25,, confirming an earlier rumor. Nvidia also revealed that there are no plans for a Founder's Edition reference card this time around. While the 3060 is undoubtedly the budget option of the RTX 30 range, it's certainly no slouch.
Back in September last year, Nvidia made a pretty big splash in the tech realm by officially confirming long-standing rumors of a planned acquisition of ARM Ltd. Back then Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang himself sent-out an open letter, laying out massive plans for joint development and efforts between the two entities, mainly focused on AI.
The Nvidia Control Panel can be downloaded from the Microsoft Windows Store for Nvidia graphics card and utility optimization detection and settings. Nvidia's Control Panel is no longer provided as part of the Windows driver package with its products due to Microsoft requirements, but it is still a useful tool to have.
Nvidia's next entry in the RTX 30 series, the RTX 3060, will launch on February 25th for $329. This is the most affordable RTX 30 card to date, and it will be available for purchase at retailers beginning at 9AM PT / 12PM ET.
Nvidia's RTX 3080 easily beats AMD's Radeon RX 6800 XT in a new mesh shaders test which has just been introduced to the 3DMark benchmarking suite - although the results for both GPUs are seriously impressive, pointing to some massive performance gains when this technology gets used by game developers in the future.
The US Federal Trade Commission has opened an in-depth review into Nvidia's planned acquisition of the computer chip design group Arm from SoftBank, putting it at the forefront of what are expected to be a series of investigations around the world into a deal with broad ramifications across the technology industry.