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Origin PC: NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 780 Is Being Used in Own Desktop PCs

By now, people will have learned that NVIDIA has finally released the GeForce GTX 780. Naturally, this has prompted two phenomena. For one, all of NVIDIA's partners are launching GTX 780 boards bearing their own stickers. For another, purveyors of gaming PCs are including the new video controller in their sy...

23 May 2013
11:00 GMT

NVIDIA Finally Launches GeForce GTX 780 Officially

It was about time NVIDIA got its act together and finally launched the GeForce GTX 780 graphics adapter. After the Titan came out, it was easy to see that the company would have to launch another high-end board that was actually affordable to more than a select few. That is how the legend of the GeForce GTX 780 app...

23 May 2013
10:06 GMT

NVIDIA Outs GeForce Game Ready Driver Version 320.18 – Download Now

Today, NVIDIA released the 320.18 GeForce Graphics driver that provides up to 10% more performance for Metro: Last Light compared to the previous 314.22 version, and has Microsoft WHQL certification. The package is suitable with both desktop and notebook graphics cards, and is compatible with all of Microsoft’...

23 May 2013
08:31 GMT

Price of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Graphics Card Revealed

Previously, we ran into several rumors and/or reports that claimed to have discovered the price of NVIDIA's next high-end graphics card, and now we actually know that information. True, NVIDIA didn't actually disclose the news, but online retailers did start listing the video board, though the postings do...

23 May 2013
04:29 GMT

NVIDIA GeForce Experience 1.5.0.0 Released for Download

NVIDIA GeForce Experience is clearly a helpful application for those who own a GeForce video card and want to make the most of it, as it packs dedicated options to automatically update drivers and optimize a number of games. The app has just received an update that brings support for several new games, including Met...

22 May 2013
09:54 GMT

Download Now Nvidia GeForce Experience 1.5 with Support for Many New Games

Nvidia has just confirmed that its GeForce Experience application has gone out of beta with version 1.5, which brings support for a variety of new games, including Metro: Last Light, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, or Grand Theft Auto 4. Nvidia decided to make it easier for owners of its GeForce graphics cards to get the b...

22 May 2013
06:56 GMT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Outsells GTX 690

When NVIDIA released the GeForce GTX Titan graphics card, it had the honor of bragging that it had a single-GPU graphics card that performed just as well, if not better, than the GeForce GTX 690 dual-GPU model. Even so, however, there weren't very high hopes for the graphics card as far as product shipments wer...

22 May 2013
04:42 GMT

GeForce GTX 770 Tests Result in Benchmark Score List

The card that will replace the GeForce GTX 680 is not the GTX 770, but the GTX 780. Nevertheless, as benchmarks have just proved, this hasn't stopped GTX 770 from outdoing the 680 as well. As revealed by Chiphell, the GTX 770 was quite thoroughly benchmarked. We don't know exactly what model of the card...

21 May 2013
04:46 GMT

Salvation Prophecy Space Action Game Arrives on Linux

Salvation Prophecy, a space opera developed by Firedance Games, has made it to Linux and it’s working on multiple distros. Salvation Prophecy is a mash-up of multiple genres, but it’s mostly space combat/simulator experience combined with a lot of third-person missions. The player will begin his adventu...

20 May 2013
17:30 GMT

More Official Photos of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 780

This is the second time I am writing about the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 graphics card today, although at least this once, I have photos of the reference card, rather than of an OEM model. That's right, we finally have some new press shots of the adapter, the PCB bereft of the cooler, and the back side of the vide...

20 May 2013
10:38 GMT

Benchmark: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Is 20% Better than GTX 680

This is yet another instance of the newest high-end NVIDIA graphics card making the news. Not that I can blame it after this. And by “this” I don't mean the teaser trailer for EVGA's custom-made GeForce GTX 700 series cooler, though that one was a nice find too. After all, it means that the GT...

17 May 2013
10:10 GMT

Watch: Teaser for New EVGA GeForce 700 Cooler

EVGA, like more or less every other graphics card OEM out there, has its own ideas for what a competent cooling module is. Some companies use coolers made by others, but EVGA likes to make its own. Case in point, the company has put together a new one for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 700 series. Or rather, the company h...

17 May 2013
09:30 GMT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Picture Surfaces

The GeForce GTX 780 has been more or less fully detailed at this point, even though official information continues to be held back on. There were a few photos too, but none that NVIDIA made itself. Now we can finally check out one such photo, thanks to the folks at VideoCardz that nabbed it, somehow. It shows i...

16 May 2013
10:50 GMT

Inno3D GeForce GTX 780 Box Clarifies Specs

The GeForce GTX 780 graphics card from NVIDIA will be out soon, as evident from all the leaks that have been happening. The picture above is of the box in which the Inno3D board will be sold. According to Expreview and PCONLINE, the device has 2,304 CUDA cores, as a whole Graphics Processor Cluster is disabled. ...

15 May 2013
09:05 GMT

Nvidia Shield Gets Presentation Video, Comes Preloaded with Two Games

After confirming that it's going to release its Shield handheld gaming platform in June, Nvidia has now posted a video with the portable device in action. The video showcases its design, features, and preloaded games, like Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 or Expendable: Rearmed. Nvidia surprised a lot of people...

15 May 2013
07:55 GMT

Nvidia Shield Portable Console Out in June, Pre-Orders Start on May 20

Nvidia has confirmed that its Project Shield handheld platform is officially called Shield and will be released in June in North America for $349 (around €269). Those interested in the new device can place a pre-order on May 20. Nvidia impressed a lot of gamers at the beginning of the year when it revealed to t...

14 May 2013
12:11 GMT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Price Range Revealed

There's been lots of talk about NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 780, and what it may or may not mean for the graphics card market. What no one actually guessed, though, was the price. Sure, people speculated, but it wasn't the same thing. Now, Fudzilla has published what it claims is the price range in Europe...

14 May 2013
09:20 GMT

GeForce GTX 680-to-770 Mod Just a Modified BIOS in the End

A short while ago, it came to light that a Reddit user posted a BIOS that could, presumably, upgrade a GeForce GTX 680 to a GeForce GTX 770 graphics card. The folks at TechPowerUp did the world a favor and tested said update and found that it was a relatively straightforward modification to the GTX 680 base BIOS and...

14 May 2013
03:28 GMT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Could Be Flashed to GTX 770

Flashing BIOSes isn't something that graphics cards makers like to promote, because each upgraded graphics card means one less new adapter bought and, thus, less money for said companies. That doesn't mean the options don't make themselves known though. Case in point, the GeForce GTX 770 graphics c...

14 May 2013
02:11 GMT

NVIDIA Outs Another Graphics Beta Version, GeForce 320.14 Beta

After the release of the 320.00 Beta, today NVIDIA’s team launched the 320.14 Beta version of the GeForce graphics driver. The package is the Game Ready driver for Metro: Last Light, and increases the ingame performance by up to 10%. The newly released package is compatible with both desktop and notebook syste...

13 May 2013
09:37 GMT

New NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 Spotting Includes Specs

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 and 770 have cropped up in the news a couple of times, thanks to the ever so active rumor mill, and we have even learned that the two cards will launch this month. Photos of them haven't exactly been in that great an abundance, and neither were the specifications known in full, or fo...

13 May 2013
05:58 GMT

NVIDIA Posts Mixed Revenue and Profits in Q1 FY2014

NVIDIA must have really managed to get good prices out of all its products, if it managed to boost its profits by almost a third while not selling much more than in previous quarters, and suffering a rise in operating expenses. The corporation has posted its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 20...

10 May 2013
04:44 GMT

Nvidia 310.51 Driver for Linux Fixes X Server Crash

Nvidia has announced the immediate availability for download of the 310.51version of its graphics driver for Linux operating systems. Nvidia has just released a new certified driver for all supported platforms and it comes with a huge list of fixes and improvements. Highlights of Nvidia 310.51 Driver: • A bug...

9 May 2013
18:31 GMT

NVIDIA GTX 780 Uses GK110-300 GPU, Roadmap Leaked

It was just the other day that we posted photos of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 and 770 graphics cards, and now we can share the actual roadmap of the enthusiast GeForce line. Most of the cards in the collection have already made their appearance. The GTX 670, 660 Ti and 680 are old news by now. Verily, the GTX Tit...

9 May 2013
04:09 GMT

NVIDIA Tegra 4 Benchmark Surfaces Thanks to Project Shield Owner

No one has yet released a product based on NVIDIA's Tegra 4 system-on-chip. None that is on sale anyway, which is why it has proven so troublesome to benchmark the mobile processing and graphics platform. Curiously enough, the Project Shield portable game console has proven to be the item most commonly availab...

8 May 2013
05:02 GMT

Photos of, Presumably, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 and 770

The other day, we reported on the rumors that NVIDIA intended to release the GeForce GTX 780 and GTX 770 graphics adapters this month (May 2013), and now we have an extra reason to believe that will happen. Said reason is the appearance of the photos of the cards, or at least one of the adapters, on ChipHell websit...

8 May 2013
02:18 GMT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 and 770 to Launch This Month

NVIDIA hasn't been openly saying much about the GeForce GTX 780 and 770 graphics adapters, since they are unannounced products and it won't comment on unannounced products. Leaks are still happening all over the place though, and Fudzilla has one that people might appreciate. Long story short, the two hig...

7 May 2013
04:47 GMT

NVIDIA Quadro/Tesla/GRID Graphics Driver 320.00 WHQL Is Now Up for Grabs

Today, NVIDIA has outed the Quadro/Tesla/GRID Graphics driver version 320.00 that is compatible with both 32- and 64-bit version of Microsoft’s Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8 operating systems. The newly released package is WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Lab) certified, and it increases workstation compatibility ...

3 May 2013
08:28 GMT

Nvidia Releases 319.17 Certified Driver for Linux with Too Many Features to Count

Nvidia has announced the immediate availability for download of the 319.17 version of its graphics driver for Linux operating systems. Nvidia has just released a new certified driver for all supported platforms and it comes with a huge list of fixes and improvements. Among the most important features we find the su...

2 May 2013
11:15 GMT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 to Cost as Much as GTX Titan

Two weeks ago, we learned what the prices of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 and other 700 series graphics cards would be. Or at least what some people thought they would be. Now I've discovered a new report, one that says the price of the GTX 780 will be much higher than the $499 / €499 to $599 / €599 fi...

2 May 2013
09:06 GMT

How to Install the Latest Nvidia Drivers in Ubuntu 13.04

Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) has been launched, and some of the problems we had in the past with the Nvidia proprietary drivers have been fixed. The installation has been made a lot easier, but users can still do it the old fashion way, in a terminal. Canonical has opted to enable by default the Nouveau drivers fo...

2 May 2013
08:27 GMT

NVIDIA Hires Man Who Worked on Texas Instruments OMAP CPUs

While some companies are cutting their losses, others are hunting for more staff members. NVIDIA has just hired a new one, namely Deepu Talla. Deepu Talla worked for Texas Instruments, as the leader of the system-on-chip business unit. During his tenure there, he oversaw development of OMAP SoCs, which means he has...

1 May 2013
03:27 GMT

GeForce GTX TITAN AMP! Edition Launched by Zotac

It's not the fabled GeForce Titan Ultra that NVIDIA is supposedly preparing, but the new card from Zotac definitely has an aura of power. Called GeForce GTX TITAN AMP! Edition, it ships in a bundle with the Assassin's Creed game series. Just as AMD has Never Settle game sets, NVIDIA is including famous t...

30 April 2013
08:02 GMT

10-Inch Tegra 4 Android Tablet Prepared by HP

With NVIDIA's Tegra 4 chip official, the company's collaborators are doing their best to put together tablets powered by it. HP is one of those companies, having developed the SlateBook 10 X2. HP hasn't actually introduced the tablet, and probably won't for a short while yet, but there are other ...

30 April 2013
02:27 GMT

ELSA Intros GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost S.A.C. Graphics Card

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti graphics card isn't exactly something that people would consider mild under normal circumstances, but it is positively nondescript compared to AMD Radeon HD 7900 or even NVIDIA's own GTX Titan. That may be part of the reason why ELSA released the GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST S.A....

26 April 2013
08:42 GMT

GNOME Control Center 3.8.1 Fixes NVidia GLX Implementation

GNOME Control Center, GNOME's main interface for configuration of various aspects of your desktop, is now at version 3.8.1. Highlights of GNOME Control Center 3.8.1: • The translation of the window title has been fixed; • An obsolete libnotify dependency has been removed; • Asynchronous calls ar...

24 April 2013
16:11 GMT

Download GeForce Driver 320.00 Beta for Better Performance in Dead Island: Riptide, More

Nvidia has just released a brand new beta driver for its GeForce graphics cards, improving the performance in many already-launched games, like Tomb Raider or StarCraft 2, but also upcoming ones like Dead Island: Riptide, Neverwinter, or Star Trek. Nvidia has made a habit of releasing optimized drivers on the eve of...

23 April 2013
09:47 GMT

NVIDIA Outs the GeForce 320.00 Beta Graphics Driver – Download Now

Today, NVIDIA releases the GeForce 320.00 beta Graphics driver that increases performance by up to 20 percent for the GeForce 400, 500, and 600 series GPUs in several games over previous driver versions. This is the Game Ready driver for “Dead Island: Riptide, Neverwinter,” and “Star Trek.” ...

23 April 2013
08:35 GMT

No GTX Titan LE, Just GTX 780 and the 700 Series Coming in May, Prices Revealed

The GeForce GTX Titan has made the news so often that we've seen all rumored, future high-end NVIDIA cards be called a variation of the name: Titan LE for a slower version, Titan Ultra for a better one. The Titan LE is a particularly curious case, due to the shifting beliefs about its actual name. In fact, the...

23 April 2013
05:18 GMT

Metro: Last Light Is Bundled with GeForce GTX 660 Cards and Above

Video card chip creator Nvidia and the team working on Metro: Last Light announce that they are collaborating in order to make the title available to all those who buy a GeForce GTX 660 card or a better one. An official list of the retailers who are taking part in the new promotion is available on the official Nvidi...

22 April 2013
09:00 GMT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Gets Supplementary VRM

Normally, NVIDIA's and AMD's partners launch custom-designed versions of their graphics adapters, but every once in a while, something different will happen, like when Gigabyte revealed the G-Power VRM for GTX Titan. The GTX Titan is really making the news, either through its own feats or because of suppo...

22 April 2013
05:09 GMT

NVIDIA Prepares GeForce Titan Ultra Graphics Card

We thought that the GeForce GTX Titan LE graphics card was the only superpowered single-GPU graphics card that NVIDIA was still preparing, not counting the supposed GTX 780 presumably set for launch by June. Then again, it is possible for the latter's name to be no more than hearsay, and for it to be really ca...

22 April 2013
02:21 GMT

NVIDIA’s 311.50 Quadro Certified Graphics Driver Is Now Available for Download

NVIDIA has launched the 311.50 graphics driver version targeted at the Quadro, Tesla, and GRID desktop series, and Quadro notebook series graphics cards. The packages bring workstation compatibility fixes as well as performance enhancements over previous versions. As for compatibility, the notebook graphics driver i...

18 April 2013
03:18 GMT

Unreal Engine 4 Is Tech of Choice for Nvidia Demos

The development team at Epic Games and hardware developer Nvidia announce that they are working together to make the upcoming Unreal Engine 4 technology the sole provider of product presentations for high performance graphics cards and for the Shield project. Mark Rein, the vice president and a co-founder of Epic Ga...

18 April 2013
02:07 GMT

NVIDIA Metro: Last Light Game + Graphics Card Offer Now Live

Metro: Last Light is a survival horror first-person shooter (FPS) game that will soon be officially released by Ukrainian studio 4A Games and published by Deep Silver. It also happens to be the latest game to be added to NVIDIA's list of free bundles that ship with GeForce graphics adapters. NVIDIA announced...

17 April 2013
02:20 GMT

NVIDIA GeForce 7 Graphics Card to Debut by June

We've been hearing rumors about a supposed revision of the GeForce GTX Titan graphics card from NVIDIA, called Titan LE. We've also been hearing rumors about a GeForce GTX 780 graphics card for the desktop, for longer than the Titan has been around even. At one point, we thought that the GTX 780 wasn'...

16 April 2013
07:22 GMT

iPad Games Have “Vintage 1999” Graphics, Nvidia CEO Suggests

In the video embedded above, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang shows off a demo of Kepler Mobile, the company’s latest graphics chip in a comparison with the A6X chip in Apple’s iPad. The demo starts out by showing what the newest iPad can do in terms of 3D graphics in a large, open space, and then switches over...

15 April 2013
13:21 GMT

Mobile Market Will Fundamentally Change Because of Kepler and Maxwell, NVIDIA Believes

There's promise, there's ambition, and then there is the occasional instance where someone claims they have accomplished or will accomplish something so great that the world will change because of it. NVIDIA has made a claim of the sort in regard to the mobile device market: as soon as application process...

15 April 2013
09:01 GMT

NVIDIA 319.92 Beta Workstation Graphics Drivers Are Up for Grabs

NVIDIA has just launched a new version of their graphics driver for workstation cards. Version 319.92 is a beta release, so it must be treated accordingly. The American manufacturer fixed the VBO memory leak issue occurring in Femap as well as applications crash during calls to glDrawElements when GL_TEXTURE_CUBE_MA...

12 April 2013
08:35 GMT

NVIDIA Announces a New Game Bundle Too

As always, Advanced Micro Devices and NVIDIA are locked tight in a perpetually ongoing competition of one-upmanship. That is to say, when AMD added FarCry 3 Blood Dragon to its Never Settle program (for free), NVIDIA immediately countered the move with a new game bundle of its own. Clearly, the Santa Clara, Califor...

12 April 2013
07:18 GMT


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