ECS Launches GeForce 9800 GTX+ Hydra Pack
	Elitegroup Computer Systems, or ECS for short, has probably come out with the best graphics offer for all performance-hungry gamers. It is called GeForce 9800GTX+ Hydra Pack and it has just been announced today by the company. ECS' offer includes not one, but two GeForce 9800GTX+ graphics cards, cooled down by the company's Hydra Cooling System, which was displayed for the first time at this year's Computex Show ... [read more >>]
	25 July 2008, 07:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ASUS Preps Two 9500GT Cards
	As you might have learned by now, NVIDIA is expected to add a couple of new graphics cards to its GeForce lineup, some of which are designed for mainstream and entry-level users. Since the launch date is getting noticeably closer (the GeForce 9800GT is set to arrive next week, on ... [read more >>]
	25 July 2008, 05:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NVIDIA's GeForce 9800GT Spotted
	Reports on unreleased products sometimes get to be quite overwhelming and the fact that, in most cases, they refer to a release date set in a vague and undetermined future (generally described with the equally vague "soon" term) certainly does not help. This is also the case with NVIDIA's 9800GT, which is expected to drop next - on July 29, to be more specific. Coming as a rebranded version of NVIDIA's GeForce 9800GT, t ... [read more >>]
	24 July 2008, 09:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Zotac Goes Wild on Connectivity
	It looks like Sapphire isn't the only graphics manufacturer that likes to experiment with a certain GPU. In fact, one of NVIDIA's partners seems to be doing the same thing with a GeForce 9600 GT card. The partner in question is Zotac, which is rumored to release a new cust ... [read more >>]
	24 July 2008, 05:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

BFG's Overclocked GeForce 9800GTX+ Available
	Even if NVIDIA is yet to officially announce the 55nm G92 graphics card, the GeForce 9800GTX+, most of its board partners have already listed it among other products. Even more, despite the fact that the new cards have barely arrived, one of NVIDIA's best channel partners, ... [read more >>]
	24 July 2008, 04:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia Is Getting Ready to Release WHQL PhysX Drivers
	A few weeks ago, we announced a new series of Nvidia GeForce drivers designed to bring PhysX support on the company's video cards. The Santa Clara graphics chips manufacturer demonstrated GPU-accelerated physics on 3DMark Vantage on the GeForce GTX and 9800 boards, leveraging th ... [read more >>]
	24 July 2008, 02:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

High Hopes for NVIDIA's 9800GTX+ Cards
	As we reported in a previous article, NVIDIA's GeForce 9800GTX+ edition has become available at a number of its board partners. However, even if details such as the specs, pricing and photos of the new graphics card have already been revealed, the green company is yet to o ... [read more >>]
	23 July 2008, 05:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia GeForce 9800GT Comes Next Week
	The G92 series from Nvidia seems to be getting another member pretty soon, as the 9800 GT, a renamed 8800 GT, is rumored to arrive on July 29. The 9800GT represents the third rebranding/renaming of the same chip, which means that we'll be looking at that same G92 made under the 65nm manufacturing process. The new graphics card will have the same features as the old one, except for the Hybrid power support it brings along ... [read more >>]
	22 July 2008, 05:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Major Partners Abandon the NVIDIA Ship
	Late last month, Gainward was reported to have started offering graphics cards based on AMD's latest graphics processors. Based on this and on the fact that Intel was said to be in the final stages of completing the Larrabee project, a rumor has begun to spread. Apparently, two of NVIDIA's best partners are considering or have already decided to leave the Santa Clara graphics manufacturer. Back when we brought the ne ... [read more >>]
	22 July 2008, 03:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD May Agree with the Porting of PhysX on Radeon
	NVIDIA's newly launched PhysX technology managed to accelerate performance at levels beyond known limits, and that caught everybody’s attention. Shortly after this, NGOHQ announced that they were able to port Nvidia PhysX to AMD's Radeon HD 380 GPU. In the following weeks, their action g ... [read more >>]
	21 July 2008, 05:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

GPU PhysX Removed from Futuremark's Hall of Fame
	Futuremark came with a response to the accusations that Nvidia PhysX overwrites Vantage files. They decided that all the results using PhysX on a GPU should be removed from their Hall of Fame. The explanation is that they didn't mean the 3DMark Vantage to work with GPUs supporting PhysX. So, they proceeded to updating the list without the named results. Also, they changed the way the results were organized in order to facili ... [read more >>]
	21 July 2008, 04:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NVISION 08: New 55nm Card to Take On the HD 4870 X2
	As most of you might know by now, ATI, AMD's graphics subsidiary, will release a new video card that is said to position AMD as the leading graphics card manufacturer. And this is exactly why NVIDIA's current GeForce lineup has recently underwent a series of price cuts, which, looking at things on their brighter side, have only come to favor the end user. However, AMD's reign might not be that long-lived as some believe, bec ... [read more >>]
	21 July 2008, 03:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

GT200 55nm Nears Launch, Nvidia Marks a Bad Q3
	After successfully launching the GT200 65nm, branded as GTX 280 / 260, Nvidia is moving on to the next target, which would be the launch of the 55nm version of the GT200 chip. The Santa Clara company should rush the new chip to the market to provide a powerful competitor to AMD's Radeon HD 4870 X2. The R700 created quite a fuss about a week ago, when AMD allowed a short preview of the card. The dual card presented itself as being ... [read more >>]
	19 July 2008, 05:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NVIDIA and ATI Have Been Lying to Us
	It’s safe to say that most of us believe that the rivalry between the two biggest chip manufacturers is pretty much real and intense. Over time, countless words have been spent on said rivalry, all of them claiming that big players like NVIDIA and ATI have never seen eye to eye. But they do say that, more often than not, appearances can be deceiving – and such could also be the case with these two graphics giants, which are now reported to ... [read more >>]
	19 July 2008, 04:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Intel-based NVIDIA Chipset to Arrive in August
	Even if most news items about NVIDIA place the green company in not too bright a light, we must not doubt that it will continue to release new products. And that's besides the highly anticipated 55nm GeForce cards, which should virtually put the Santa-Clara based chip manufacturer in the leading position in the competition for the highest-performance graphics card. Word in the industry has it that the company is about to introduce its ... [read more >>]
	18 July 2008, 03:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia Releases Three New Tools for Game Developers
	Nvidia, a world leader of graphics cards manufacturer, steps up once again with tools that will help game developers on their future creations. The three products delivered by the company are PerfHUD 6.0, FX Composer 2.5 and Shader Debugger (this one requires payment for commercial use). "These new tools reinforce our deep and longstanding commitment to help game developers fulfill their vision," said Tony Tamasi, v ... [read more >>]
	18 July 2008, 03:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

No Bang for the GeForce 9800 GTX+ Release
	We can't really say what became of the by now traditional press release but, according to the listings on some of NVIDIA's channel partners’ web pages, the GeForce 55nm graphics card is finally out. So, if you happen to be interested in acquiring the new card, you only need to turn to EVGA's site, where it is listed as available for preorder. Even more, you will also be pleasantly surprised once you do so, since the new GeFo ... [read more >>]
	17 July 2008, 04:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia Joins SOI Industry Consortium
	The SOI Industry Consortium announced that Nvidia, the world's leading manufacturer and supplier of graphics processing units, joined the corporation. Nvidia's entrance in the organization may let us believe that the semiconductor developer has in mind a possible usage of the silicon-on-insulator technology on its future chips. "Nvidia is pleased to join the SOI consortium. We are looking forward in participatin ... [read more >>]
	17 July 2008, 03:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Prices for NVIDIA's Latest Card Continue to Drop
	By now, most of you have already found out that NVIDIA is currently going through a rough patch, especially as far as the GeForce lineup is concerned. This mostly comes as a direct consequence of the fact that AMD's graphics subsidiary has finally succeed in putting forward a more than interesting product. Even if the RV770 core chip can provide the same graphics performance as NVIDIA's GT200 GPU, it also offers impressive amount ... [read more >>]
	17 July 2008, 03:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NVIDIA Denies Rumors that All of Its Chips Are Faulty
	Last Friday we reported that all of NVIDIA's G84 and G86 chips were believed to be faulty. Our piece came in the aftermath of NVIDIA’s announcement regarding the fact that a number of its previous generation chips had been found ... [read more >>]
	16 July 2008, 11:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Get Your Money Back from EVGA and XFX
	Here's a quick reminder: before NVIDIA decided to roll out its latest generation of discrete graphics cards, everybody had high hopes that the green company would put out one of its best products to date. Unfortunately for everyone involved, the latest GeForce cards have fallen short of expectations and the Santa Clara-based graphics manufacturer had to cut down prices in order to keep the offer interesting. Then again, NVIDIA' ... [read more >>]
	16 July 2008, 03:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Early Benchmarks of NVIDIA's 9500GT
	Although these days everybody is talking about AMD's upcoming graphics "champion," the dual-GPU Radeon HD 4870 X2, it seems that some still found the time to have a look at one of NVIDIA's upcoming cards. The conclusion was that, even if it is far from being a top performer, the card does provide some level of interest as it is supposed to replace the current GT and GTS versions of NVIDIA's GeForce 8600 GPU. The ... [read more >>]
	15 July 2008, 03:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NVIDIA Officially Slashes Prices for GTX 260, 280 Graphics Cards
	As most of you expected, NVIDIA has lowered the prices for its latest GeForce graphics cards. Even more, to make sure that everybody turns their attention to the company's latest cards, it has also gone official with the new prices. So, all of you out there who want to upgrade to ... [read more >>]
	14 July 2008, 09:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Upcoming X58 Motherboards Might Support SLI
	As we mentioned in a number of previous articles, the Santa Clara-based chip manufacturer NVIDIA has seen better days. Partially responsible for this is the fact that AMD's graphics subsidiary, ATI, has succeeded in providing us with two of the best video cards currently available on the market. This has put enough pressure on the green company to make it slash the prices for its new GeForce cards, less than a month since the official ... [read more >>]
	14 July 2008, 05:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

All Nvidia G84 and G86s Are Believed to Be Faulty
	The reported faulty chips from NVIDIA, those that made the company lose serious credit and important Q2 revenue, have finally got a possible explanation. Things are heating up for the Santa Clara based company, as the "certain versions" of the previous NVIDIA notebook graphics ca ... [read more >>]
	11 July 2008, 06:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

More Bad News for NVIDIA: Sued by Rambus
	Here is a business plan that some might consider twice before putting into practice: create a company that can obtain numerous technology patents and license technologies for which it has no production facilities to work on. Said company will then engage in a number of lawsuits that will be quickly settled through a generous financial agreement. This seems to be the business plan of Rambus, which is back again in court, this time suing NVI ... [read more >>]
	11 July 2008, 05:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Bad News for Intel: DirectX 11 Doesn't Do Ray Tracing
	As some of you already know by now, Microsoft will introduce DirectX 11 as its next-generation graphics API. This means that the DirectX 10.1 API will probably end up as a footnote in Microsoft's history and AMD's HD 3xxx and HD 4xxx will b ... [read more >>]
	10 July 2008, 09:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ZOTAC Announces New NVIDIA-based Motherboard
	Although the Santa-Clara based company isn't doing so well these days, its channel partners are confident in its technology. As if to prove this, if proof is required, they are releasing a number of products based on NVIDIA's latest chips. One of the manufacturers in question is ZOTAC that, besides having released an AMP version of NVIDIA's GT200-series card, has also announced a new NVIDIA-based board. Said motherboard i ... [read more >>]
	10 July 2008, 03:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia Helps Porting PhysX on Radeon
	Nvidia seems to have decided it’s time to make a new tactical move in the already announced war on the graphics cards market. What's coming this time is Santa Clara's direct help for third party modders which started the operation of bringing PhysX processing to AMD graphics cards. Nvidi ... [read more >>]
	10 July 2008, 03:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia Jumps to DirectX11, PhysX Overwrites 3DMark Vantage Files
	Nvidia seems to finally give us an answer to whether it will make its next generation graphics cards DirectX 10.1 ready or not. The company simply says no to this only because it plans to jump over ATI’s DirectX 10.1 and go straight to DirectX 11. Also, its latest PhysX drivers, ... [read more >>]
	09 July 2008, 06:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Details on Nvidia's MCP7A Motherboards
	A few more details on Nvidia's MCP7A chipsets have been revealed, along with some core speeds for the GeForce 9300 and GeForce 9400 boards. The IGP motherboards are expected to come during Q3, as previously announced this year, and they are said to be fully packed and com ... [read more >>]
	09 July 2008, 05:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NVIDIA Uses VIA to Get to Intel
	These days, NVIDIA is almost constantly in the news, but not because it necessarily has something to brag about. It seems rather unfortunate that today's current leading graphics manufacturer is faced with so many things that it has to deal with. As we told you last week ... [read more >>]
	08 July 2008, 11:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New GeForce 9 Card from NVIDIA
	It seems that NVIDIA is preparing for another GeForce 9 series launch, the GeForce 9500, set to come to the market on July 29, 2008. The new graphics card is stated to be classified into the mid range level products, and it seems that the Santa Clara company will provide us with two versions, GeForce 9500 GDDR3 and GeForce 9500 DDR2. Some rumored test results seem to set this new graphics solution as three times faster than t ... [read more >>]
	07 July 2008, 06:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Less Expensive GTX 280 in Europe
	As some of you probably remember, this past week was not actually the best for the Santa Clara-based graphics manufacturer. In all fairness, one could easily say that it was actually the worst the company has seen this year. For those who are not in the know, this happened because the company’s stock shares saw an impressive drop in numbers after it announced the existence of faulty graphics chips for the mobile lineup. People have even su ... [read more >>]
	07 July 2008, 04:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Users' Choice: AMD Graphics Cards Rule
	Although Nvidia is working hard on making its graphics cards strong competitors for the latest Radeon 4800 series released by AMD, some poll results published by HEXUS.community show thet GeForce 260 and 280 are far low in people's preferences. The answers to a question launched about two weeks ago revealed that 74 percent of the community mem ... [read more >>]
	05 July 2008, 03:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

GTX 280/260 Prices Drop, but NVIDIA Preps New GeForce Cards
	There is no doubt that NVIDIA hasn’t had such a tough week in quite a long time. The Santa-Clara based graphics manufacturer has seen its stocks go down significantly after having announced that some of its previous-generation laptop GPUs had been reported faulty. But all this will most probably not affect NVIDIA that much, as the graphics manufacturer still has a number of aces up its sleeve. We all know that its GeForce grap ... [read more >>]
	04 July 2008, 04:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NVIDIA Afraid of AMD
	Some ongoing rumors suggest that the Santa-Clara-based graphics manufacturer, NVIDIA, is planning to resort to some price cuts for its flagship graphics card, the GeForce GTX 280. The GTX 260 is also rumored to be heading for a lower price, but things are a bit more uncertain as compared to the GTX 280. These rumors haven't started from someone inside NVIDIA, but from some of the company's board partners who have put ... [read more >>]
	04 July 2008, 03:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia Announced Faulty Chips, Stocks Going Down
	This week seems to be rather a gray one for Nvidia, as the latest stock changes show that the company has received a powerful hit, and its stocks went down with about 25% when news about its defective graphics card began spreading around. The blow came after the company announced its investors that "significant quantities" of previous-generation graphics cards experienced failings at "higher than normal rates," ... [read more >>]
	03 July 2008, 05:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NVIDIA's CUDA In Shadow By Intel's Larrabee
	The competition between Intel and Nvidia becomes stronger nowadays, and it is spread over a few areas in the computing industry. The chipset manufacturing is the first and probably most important battle field between the two companies, but the latest months have brought to us rather the fighting on the integrated graphics market, where Intel's devices are leading. Another important competing arena is that of data processing, where ... [read more >>]
	03 July 2008, 02:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Leadtek Second to Offer a GeForce 9800GTX+ Graphics Card
	Although NVIDIA is yet to officially announce its 55nm G92 GPU, some manufacturers have decided to go forward with launching their own implementations of the GeForce 9800GTX+ GPU. Besides Inno3d which has been the first to announce the GeForce 9800GTX+ graphics card, Lea ... [read more >>]
	02 July 2008, 09:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

BFG Overclocks GTX 260 and GTX 280
	As expected, BFG Tech, one of NVIDIA's best channel partners, has announced its overclocked GTX 260 and GTX 280 cards. With three levels of overclocking power for both GPUs, enthusiast users can now choose the level of performance that best suites their needs. The OC, OC2 and OCX editions are available for both GTX200-series cards. BFG is known for offering some of the best NVIDIA-based graphics cards available on the mar ... [read more >>]
	01 July 2008, 05:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

First CUDA Center of Excellence Appointed by NVIDIA
	NVIDIA Corporation, a leader in graphics technologies, announced yesterday, together with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), that the University has been appointed as the world's first CUDA Center of Excellence. The Santa Clara company also made a $500,000 donation to UIUC, in addition to the appointment, to facilitate the development of parallel computing and to ensure the continuation of its research programs. ... [read more >>]
	01 July 2008, 04:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia Can't Afford 55nm Just Yet
	If anyone questions why things are this way, the answer is quite simple. The NVIDIA G200 core consists of one point four billion transistors. And that is quite a great number when it comes to putting all those transistors on a chip manufactured using the 65nm lane process, mainly because the number of faulty chips per wafer would be a big one too. [admark=1]Before the launch, the chip was expected to become quite expensive, meaning $100-11 ... [read more >>]
	28 June 2008, 05:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ATI Graphics Cards to Get PhysX Support
	The new PhysX support Nvidia has been working on to bring to its new GeForce 9800 and GTX 200 series graphics cards has created a lot of buzzing lately, especially with some voices that accuse the Santa Clara company of ... [read more >>]
	27 June 2008, 03:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia Drivers Suspected to Cheat 3DMark Vantage Score
	It seems that the last week was quite a controversial one, ever since the new NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ graphics cards have been released. Most of the debates are based on Nvidia's new drivers, which seem to get on little tweaks when it comes to testing. Legit Reviews posted an article in which they try to shed some light on the subject, ... [read more >>]
	26 June 2008, 04:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

BFG Technologies: Intel's Larrabee Is Expected to Change the Market
	Scott Herkelman, the president of BFG Technologies, an Nvidia-exclusive supplier of graphics cards, stated in an interview that Intel’s highly anticipated graphics processing unit, also known as Larrabee, would change the market of graphics processors. He also said that, even so, Nvidia would be able to remain on top. In an interview with Hexus website he said that "Next year we’re going to see a completely different competitive la ... [read more >>]
	25 June 2008, 04:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD and Nvidia Wrestle Again for Mainstream Market Share
	The war on the GPU market we announced a few months ago continues with new rounds between Nvidia and AMD, the industry's two big players. Only a week ago, AMD launched a new series of graphics cards, the Radeon HD 4850, which made Nvidia react right away. The Santa Clara ... [read more >>]
	24 June 2008, 09:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NVIDIA Lowers Prices for GeForce 9800 GTX
	After you finish reading this article you might feel both happy and disappointed at the same time. That is if you have recently bought one of NVIDIA's GeForce 9800GTX graphics cards. The Santa-Clara based graphics manufacturer has decided to go ahead with rumored price cuts for its G92-based lineup and has lowered the price tag for its GeForce 9800 GTX somewhere between $199 and $209. This can only mean great news for all ... [read more >>]
	23 June 2008, 11:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NVIDIA Wants Its Name in the Guinness World Record Book
	The leading manufacturer of computer graphics, NVIDIA, is not satisfied with just offering the latest in computer graphics, it also plans to set a new world record by holding the world's "longest non-stop Lan party". This might sound childish to some, but most of NVIDIA's fans will probably agree with the Santa-Clara graphics manufacturer's intentions. We all know that high-end computer games have driv ... [read more >>]
	23 June 2008, 10:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Inno3D Rushes to Introduce GeForce 9800GTX+ card
	One thing that we should learn from all that has been going on these days in the graphics card industry is that manufacturers tend to rush with announcing their latest products. This time we are talking about one of NVIDIA's channel partners, Inno3D, which decided to introduce its version of the latest G92-based graphics card, namely GeForce 9800GTX+. As you might have read by now, the 9800GTX+ will be released to counter ... [read more >>]
	23 June 2008, 04:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia