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Nvidia Kepler GK104 Graphics Cores Start Reaching AIBs

Nvidia has apparently started shipping the first GK104 graphics cores based on the Kepler architecture to its add-in board (AIB) partners, suggesting that the launch of its first 28nm video cards is getting near. According to reports from the Far East, which have been gathered by SemiAccurate, Nvidia’s most im...

13 February 2012
19:01 GMT

Game Will Show NVIDIA PhysX on Kepler GPU This Week

April may still be a while off, but that is not about to stop EVGA, NVIDIA and GearBox software from showing how at least one of its features works. Kepler is the codename given to NVIDIA's upcoming series of graphics processing units (GPUs) based on the 28nm manufacturing process. EVGA, Gearbox Software and...

13 February 2012
07:38 GMT

Nvidia Kepler GK104 Will Be Available in Two Versions, Says Report

Nvidia’s upcoming GK104 graphics core based on the company’s next-gen Kepler architecture is expected to arrive in two different versions, according to a report that has reached the Web recently. According to SemiAccurate’s findings, the two graphics cores will be called GK104-400 and GK104-335. B...

13 February 2012
03:11 GMT

NVIDIA Downgraded by Analyst Group Sterne Agee

Despite all the marketing that NVIDIA has done for its products, it looks like at least one analyst group thinks that the company doesn't quite cut it. Up until a few days ago, NVIDIA was one of the companies on Sterne Agee's “Catalyst Driven Idea List”. This is no longer the case, the 111-y...

11 February 2012
05:44 GMT

Samsung Reveals Ivy Bridge Laptop Two Months Too Soon

It is not strange to hear that Samsung is preparing mobile PCs based on Intel's next generation of CPUs, but to see the company jump the gun by several months is, at the very least, unexpected. It so happens that Samsung somehow managed to post the product page of an Ivy Bridge laptop two months too soon. Th...

11 February 2012
03:44 GMT

FaithPC Reveals 17.3-Inch High-End Laptop with NVIDIA Graphics

There is a certain company in Japan that decided to offer something to the customers from its domestic market, so out came the GXT P170HBD-G580 TWIN-Drive SSR2. This notebook has, one might say, “atypical” specifications even for those who think they know what to expect from a high-end, gaming mobile PC...

10 February 2012
08:54 GMT

New NVIDIA Kepler GPU CUDA Design Explored

Many leaks, rumors and other sorts of reports on NVIDIA's upcoming GPU series are roaming the Internet, but the latest one may be somewhat more relevant than the rest. The folks at TechPowerUp claim that some “reliable sources” provided them with previously unknown details about the NVIDIA Kepler G...

10 February 2012
02:29 GMT

Download Nvidia Quadro/ Tesla Display Driver 276.52 WHQL

The new Nvidia Quadro/ Tesla display drivers are live on our website as of yesterday, for free download, as ever. These new drivers come with a lot of enhancements letting you enlarge and enrich the visual experience, while at the same time delivering better stability. 10-bit grayscale imaging through DVI for Window...

10 February 2012
02:16 GMT

Download NVIDIA 276.52 Quadro Graphics Driver WHQL

It has not been overly long since the release of the GeForce Display Driver 295.51 Beta, but the company has another driver ready, albeit for a different collection of graphics adapters. The new software package that NVIDIA has released is aimed at PCs and workstations powered by Quadro and Tesla graphics adapters,...

9 February 2012
10:08 GMT

Nvidia Confirms Quad-Core Smartphones for MWC 2012

This year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, will mark a new step in the evolution of the smartphone market. The first quad-core handsets in the world will be unveiled at the event, and they will pack Nvidia’s Tegra 3 chipset. The chipmaker has long promised the availability of smartphones ...

9 February 2012
05:26 GMT

Rambus and NVIDIA Settle Differences with Patent Agreement

One would not have expected this to happen after the recent loss Rambus suffered against NVIDIA, but the two appear to have decided to drop all actions and just sign a license agreement. Long story short, NVIDIA and Rambus have signed a patent license agreement that covers a broad range of integrated circuit (IC) ...

8 February 2012
10:02 GMT

Nvidia Kepler GK104 GPU Is Reportedly Smaller Than the HD 7970

Rumors regarding Nvidia’s next-gen graphics cards, code named Kepler, keep on arriving at a frantic pace, the latest of these claiming that the mid-range GK104 GPU has a smaller die than that of AMD Tahiti graphics cores. According to SemiAccurate, some unnamed sources have managed to measure Nvidia’s GP...

7 February 2012
19:11 GMT

Nvidia Kepler GPU Specs, Pricing and Release Dates Revealed – Report

The specifications of Nvidia’s upcoming next-generation GPUs, code named Kepler, were allegedly revealed by a recent report to hit the Web, together with their prices and approximate release dates. This info came into the possession of the Lenzfire Website from unnamed sources, and describes in great detail th...

6 February 2012
16:51 GMT

Dell Alineware M18x R2 Gaming Notebook Packs Super-Strong GPUs

Dell will soon launch a new notebook from the Alienware series, the line known for being both powerful and good-looking. Bearing the name of M18x R2, it will be so powerful that it will barely break a sweat when playing a game, regardless of how hardcore the graphics settings are. The again, when a PC has mighty, n...

3 February 2012
11:27 GMT

NVIDIA GeForce 285.97 Display Driver for HP Notebooks Spotted

We've spotted the Nvidia GeForce 285.97 Display Driver on HP's very own FTP server, after following an announcement made on LaptopVideo2Go.com's forum. As far as we can tell, this is an HP-customized display driver from Nvidia, created to support the GeForce GT 520M and 610M graphic cards. Despite the...

3 February 2012
10:49 GMT

Download Nvidia GeForce and Verde Display Drivers 295.51 Beta

After the very fast withdrawal of the 300.xx beta driver series spotted some days ago on the Internet, it was expected that Nvidia should come up with something as soon as possible. There still is no 300.xx series, but the 295.51 beta is available. The present driver brings version 1.3.11.3 for the HD audio driver a...

31 January 2012
10:02 GMT

Download NVIDIA GeForce Display Driver 295.51 Beta

It wasn't long ago that we drew attention to the new AMD Catalyst driver, and now NVIDIA has taken its turn at launching new software for its consumer-oriented graphics cards. NVIDIA has released drivers for both desktops and mobile personal computers, like it does each and every month. The desktop driver ad...

31 January 2012
09:29 GMT

Rambus Loses a Major Patent, Troll Shares Plummet As NVIDIA Grins

Rambus is one of the few, if not the only, company that we have no problem calling a patent troll, but it looks like the troll isn't going to be laughing for much longer, if it even is at this point. The so-called licensing company has just lost one of three major patents used in a battle against NVIDIA, marki...

30 January 2012
08:53 GMT

Nvidia CUDA Toolkit 4.1.28 Is Live

Despite the fact that AMD have already released their Catalyst 12.1 display driver and the 12.2 preview package can also be downloaded online, Nvidia still makes us wait for their software. There are rumors about a new GeForce driver generation dubbed 300.xx, but until then Nvidia surfaces the Production Release of t...

27 January 2012
11:15 GMT

NVIDIA Shipping Kepler to Notebooks and Ultrabooks

Anyone wondering when Kepler was going to start shipping may have finally gotten their answer, as far as the chips intended for mobile PCs are concerned anyway. The time of arrival for NVIDIA's next-generation graphics solutions is supposed to be the second quarter of 2012. That means the April-June period, a...

27 January 2012
11:04 GMT

NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 4.1 Released

NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 4.1 has just been officially introduced, meaning that life has become a little easier for everyone who relies on GPU computing in their research. Now that GPU accelerators have become a relatively important part of the HPC (high-performance computing) market, NVIDIA has a very good reason to dev...

27 January 2012
09:30 GMT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 630 Graphics Used in Lesance 17-Inch Notebook

People interested in buying a mobile personal computer with more graphics performance than the average laptop may want to look at the BTO GSN721GW TYPE-GX. PC specialist Lesance has unveiled a reference notebook with a screen size of 17 inches and intended to work as a portable substitute for desktops. In other wo...

27 January 2012
08:30 GMT

Nvidia GK104 Kepler GPU May Be Priced at $299 (€230)

Rumors regarding Nvidia’s next-gen graphics cards, code named Kepler, keep on arriving at a frantic pace, the latest of these claiming that the solutions based on the GK104 GPU will be priced at $299 (about 230 EUR). The $299 price tag was suggested by SemiAccurate, which apparently learned about it from vario...

25 January 2012
19:51 GMT

$25 Raspberry Pi Trounces NVIDIA Tegra 2 and iPhone 4S Graphics

We've been keeping an eye out for the Raspberry Pi credit card-sized computer for a while now, and it looks like the small critter is not out to disappoint anyone. One might argue that “critter” is definitely a demeaning word now that we know what the thing can do. According to reports, the device ...

25 January 2012
11:20 GMT

NVIDIA's Financial Expectations Go Down, HDDs to Blame

While Advanced Micro Devices has published its financial results for the past quarter, NVIDIA revised its expectations for the one that will end on January 29, 2012. That is to say, NVIDIA does not yet have financial numbers to hand out, but it can still paint a picture of what one may expect. Apparently, the San...

25 January 2012
03:07 GMT

Nvidia: We Expected More from the Radeon HD 7900 Series

Despite the successful launch of the Radeon HD 7970, Nvidia isn’t impressed with the performance of AMD’s new graphics card and believes that Kepler will have no problems in becoming the fastest GPU around, once it’s officially launched. "Honestly, we expected more from our competitor’s new a...

25 January 2012
02:54 GMT

Nvidia GK110 Kepler GPU Presumably Pictured

A user on a Chinese Web forum has just posted online a picture of what seems to be a GK110 GPU, the graphics core that Nvidia will use for the upcoming GeForce GTX 680 video card.Included above this post, the picture was deliberately modified to remove its markings, but we can still make out the fact that this is act...

21 January 2012
14:41 GMT

TSMC's 28nm Process Doing Better Than Expected, NVIDIA and AMD Can Rejoice

One of the greatest fears in regards to the graphics card market was that TSMC's 28nm manufacturing process would go through the same problems as the 40nm node, but this will not happen after all. There doesn't seem to be any problem with the 28nm technology at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. ...

20 January 2012
04:35 GMT

Mid-Range NVIDIA Kepler to Challenge AMD 7900 High-End Cards

NVIDIA may be trying to make up for how underwhelming the GeForce 400 series of graphics cards were, or at least this is what a certain leak implies. A report has revealed the alleged performance numbers, or some of them, of the NVIDIA GK104 GPU (graphics processing unit). This is the chip that will power the Sant...

20 January 2012
02:37 GMT

FBI Arrests NVIDIA and Dell Employees, Insider Trading Scandal Escalates

Santa Claus would have probably not visited Dell and NVIDIA this past Christmas if he knew that NVIDIA and Dell hadn't been all that good. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested several Dell and NVIDIA employees on charges of having participated in insider trading. FBI arrested seven men in...

19 January 2012
10:23 GMT

Nvidia GK104 Kepler GPU May Feature 256-bit Memory Bus and 2GB VRAM

So far, Nvidia hasn’t published any official details regarding the specs of its next-generation 28nm Kepler graphics cores, but this hasn’t stopped the rumor mill from spreading all sort of info about these GPUs.The latest such report comes from Expreview, which has found out from some unnamed sources tha...

16 January 2012
20:01 GMT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Set for February, Specs Revealed

NVIDIA's Kepler graphics processing units may not leave people waiting quite as long as everyone originally feared. This is one of those rumors that sound too good to be true but still bring a ray of hope to those who want a new and mighty piece of hardware. After all, it is not every day that reports sudden...

16 January 2012
10:05 GMT

Nvidia 285.98 Driver for Asus Mobile Devices

For those who are willing to try new display drivers, even if they don't come from recognized, official channels, here's one piece of news, in the shape of the GeForce 285.98. We've spotted a display driver online ,made by Nvidia for Asus, and which is supposed to work with as much as 40 Nvidia cards i...

16 January 2012
09:59 GMT

You Can Play Skyrim on an ASUS Transformer Prime

You'd think that the Eee Pad Transformer Prime was all out of tricks by now, but that does not seem to be the case, as the slate has proven it can play The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Granted, that is a somewhat misleading choice of words, since the game is never actually run by the tablet's own hardware. A...

16 January 2012
05:31 GMT

NVIDIA Won't Rush Kepler, Wants to Sell Lots of It from the Start

NVIDIA did not demo the Kepler at CES, but it looks like there might be a good reason for that. We already know that, despite initial intention to showcase Kepler at CES 2012, NVIDIA chose not to do so. This only served to deepen the mystery of what the graphics solutions would be able to do when they finally arr...

14 January 2012
05:58 GMT

Nvidia Opposes the Stop Online Piracy Act

Nvidia has released a statement regarding its position on the Stop Online Piracy Act, saying that, while it opposes piracy, the law proposal isn’t the right way to fight such a phenomenon. The whole gaming industry has been rocked by the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill currently in discussion at the U.S....

13 January 2012
14:11 GMT

CES 2012: Nvidia Wanted to Showcase Kepler at the Fair, But Decided Not to

With AMD’s release of the 28nm Radeon HD 7970 at the end of last year, everyone’s attention has now turned towards the green camp, but Nvidia’s Kepler still seems to have a long way to go before it arrives, Jen Hsun Huang, the company’s CEO, advising us to be patient about it.Reportedly, at so...

12 January 2012
15:01 GMT

Nvidia GK106 and GK107 28nm Kepler GPUs May Arrive Soon

After AMD’s recent release of its Radeon HD 7970 GPU, Nvidia is now also said to have plans to introduce a series of 28nm GPUs of their own, dubbed the GK106 and GK107, which according to some sources should arrive by the end of this month.Unlike AMD’s Tahiti XT graphics core, the two GPUs that CPU-World ...

7 January 2012
10:51 GMT

Qualcomm ‘Snapdragon GameCommand’ App for Android Devices Launched at CES 2012

NVIDA’s main competitor on the chipset market, Qualcomm has just announced that its “Snapdragon GameCommand” application for Android devices will go live at 2012 Consumers Electronics Show, next week in Las Vegas.   Qualcomm revealed its plans to release this showcase application about two mon...

5 January 2012
17:11 GMT

4GB Equipped GeForce GT 430 Graphics Card by Inno3D Makes Appearance

Even though Nvidia’s GeForce GT 430 certainly isn’t the fastest graphics card of the bunch, Inno3D has decided to pair this GPU with an impressive 4GB of video buffer and delivered to the world one of the most over designed GT 430’s out there. Although the extra video memory installed won't def...

29 December 2011
11:12 GMT

NVIDIA Graphics Card Maker Galaxy Sells Some More SSDs

People dropping by the Galaxy website or roaming online shops may stumble upon a product that definitely doesn't fit in with the company's typical business practices. Word just got out that Galaxy has completed a new set of solid state drives. The Razor, covered here, was the first and marked the outfit...

29 December 2011
08:41 GMT

Nvidia Readies the System Tools with ESA Support 6.08

Nvidia are releasing the new version of their System Tools utility, now reaching version 6.08. The present package comes with extended support for more GeForce cards and other additions which will make your life easier in case you're a graphics-tweaker. First of all, the new version of the Nvidia System Tools b...

23 December 2011
09:04 GMT

Major Price Cuts Happen, NVIDIA Cards Feel AMD Radeon HD 7970 Heat

This will probably seem more than a little ironic to people who remember what happened back when Advanced Micro Devices got a six-month head start in DirectX 11 graphics. AMD just released the Radeon HD 7970 graphics card, the flagship of video boards powered by 28nm GPUs (graphics processing units). In the meant...

22 December 2011
08:54 GMT

NVIDIA Enables ARM Supercomputers With Carma DevKit

NVIDIA did make it fairly clear it was going to milk the ARM cow for all it was worth and, sure enough, it now has what it claims will enable ARM supercomputers. The idea of ARM supercomputers may not be particularly appealing, but some sorts of computations could definitely do with a more energy efficient means of...

21 December 2011
16:11 GMT

Download Nvidia GeForce/ Verde Display Drivers 290.53 Beta

Nvidia deliver their newest beta version for their GeForce and Verde display drivers, now reaching revision 290.53. The GeForce driver supports Windows XP, Vista and 7, while Verde, the notebook edition, dishes out the old XP. The biggest improvement of the 290.53 Beta driver is related to the Elder Scrolls: Skyrim ...

21 December 2011
08:49 GMT

NVIDIA Wants Tegra Inside Cars, Foxconn Helps

Anyone thinking that NVIDIA was going to settle for dominance on the Android tablet would be wrong, as the company is setting up, or has already set up, an alliance for the spreading of Tegra in a certain other field.Digitimes just made another on of its reports, one of those that may or may not be true.Considering ...

19 December 2011
11:05 GMT

Download the Latest Nvidia Quadro/ Tesla Driver Release 276.42

We're most happy and proud to be the fist major site (after Nvidia themselves, of course) to deliver you the latest Quadro/ Tesla display driver, version 276.42.The Nvidia Quadro/ Tesla Driver 276.42 supports the Open Computing Language (OpenCL) 1.0 in Quadro x700 or newer series, while FX4600/ FX5600. CUDA 4.0,...

19 December 2011
09:04 GMT

NVIDIA Kepler Graphics Card Shaders Won't Be Doubly Fast Anymore

If anyone was wondering whether or not NVIDIA was going to introduce some major changes with the upcoming Kepler GPUs, the latest report on the matter is a definite yes. Granted, it was easy enough to guess that the next line of graphics products would go about things differently, being powered by a smaller manufac...

19 December 2011
05:32 GMT

KFA2 GeForce GTX 580 MDT X4 EX OC Card Has Multi-Display Support

Anyone looking for a graphics card with multi-monitor support but are NVIDIA loyalists may want to check out the new device that KFA2 created. AMD used to pride itself in its Eyefinity technology and how it allowed a PC's desktop to spread across three displays, or six in the case of Eyefinity 6. NVIDIA doesn...

16 December 2011
19:21 GMT

Asus Reveals Nvidia-based 285.66 GeForce Display Driver

Despite the fact that the latest stable and WHQL-ed  display driver from Nvidia is the 285.62 version, Asus surfaces a completely new GeForce driver, dubbed 285.66. This driver version is supposed to support one of Asus' top-of-the-line graphics cards, based on the Nvidia GTX560 technology. The Asus GTX560...

16 December 2011
10:00 GMT


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