Tag: nvidia
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AMD’s Got Their Own Upscaling Tech to Compete With Nvidia’s DLSS
Sam Byford, for The Verge: AMD has announced that FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), its super sampling technique that should boost performance and image quality in supported games, will launch on June 22nd. The company gave a presentation at Computex Taipei today with more information on the feature, though it’s still not clear just how effective…
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The NX is the Nintendo Switch
Nintendo teased that the NX would get revealed in a short video today and here it is. The device codenamed NX now has an official designation, the Switch, a docking combination of home-console and portable device with a detachable controller that splits off of the main tablet-style unit to become two smaller SNES-style controllers for…
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Halo Graphics Boards and Nvidia’s Bungled 10-series Launch
Nvidia just started shipping the GTX 1060 for about $300, the lowest-priced card in their 10 series, and now they’ve announced the new generation of Titan X at $1200. With cars the “halo” model is one that nobody is ever going to buy, but it’s designed to appeal to car enthusiasts and bring them in the showroom…
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Building a Gaming Computer in 2016
This year I set out to replace my aging i7-2600k-based Intel gaming machine. Virtual reality games are incredibly demanding on your computer’s hardware and must reach a very high framerate or you will puke if the framerate drops while playing around in VR. They require the latest generation of processors at a minimum, and although I…
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Geforce GTX 1080 and 1070
Watching the Nvidia announcements today on their Twitch channel was mind-bogglingly boring. Here’s the important parts: The Geforce GTX 1080 and 1070 were announced. The 1080 will cost $600 and be available in some special Founder’s Edition for $700 when it is released on the 27th. The GTX 1070 is about a million times more…