The GPU Market Might Finally Be Cooling Off
… But we're hoping that in six months, the GPU market will have recovered to something approaching equilibrium, as opposed to overheating like a coked-out parrot in a sauna.
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Attention AMD GPU Owners: A Driver Issue Is Breaking Cards with Zero RPM Feature
… Zero RPM is a feature on some modern graphics cards, particularly third-party models, that keeps the GPU fans off when temperatures and load remain low. However, as the GPU is loaded by a game or other demanding application, the fans are supposed to spin up to prevent overheating. …
Overclock your GPU with an iOS or Android app
… As long as RemoteServer/Afterburner doesn't suck up a significant amount of CPU cycles, you could also use the mobile app to overclock your GPU while running a benchmark. …
AMD Fusion System Architecture Moves to Unify CPUs and GPUs
If you thought that AMD's new A-Series CPU-and-GPU-on-a-chip APU was cool, hold on to your seats: the A-Series is just the first step in unifying CPU and GPU architectures in such a way that developers see just a single, multi-purpose processing unit. …
Nvidia launches overclock-friendly GTX 980 desktop GPU for gaming laptops
… One final note: This GPU is apparently being called the GTX 980 for mobile as opposed to the GTX 980M, or any kind of Titan branding, as we originally theorized. If you go looking for it, make sure you pick the appropriate GPU. …
Nvidia's questionable GeForce 337.50 driver, or why you shouldn't trust manufacturer-provided numbers
… Nvidia GeForce driver 337.50 performance, with a single GPU First things first, the GeForce 337.50 beta driver does improve the performance of high-end Nvidia GPUs, paired with a high-end CPU, running DirectX 11 games. …
2 Ways Tech Manufacturers Can Stop Bots: Validate Pre-Orders, Physical Retail
… Eventually, however, we have to acknowledge that regardless of how good GPU A might be over GPU B on paper, it doesn't matter if GPU B is available for $500 and GPU A is running $1200+. …
Nvidia Shows Off New Ray-Traced Minecraft Screenshots, Modding Resources
… AMD and Intel GPU owners should know that you can run Minecraft with mods that implement their own path-tracing overhaul to Minecraft's visuals. …
Intel X299 Overheating Problem Implicates Skylake-X Design
… High core-count chips have intrinsic overclocking issues related to the sheer number of cores they pack into a wafer, and THG notes that the power curves on Skylake-X resemble a high-end GPU; worse even than AMD's FX-9590. …
Microsoft Unveils DirectX 12 Ultimate, Its Next-Generation API
… GPUs labeled as supporting DirectX 12 Ultimate will offer the following capabilities: DirectX Raytracing Variable Rate Shading Mesh Shaders Sampler Feedback GPUs that can't provide all of these capabilities will continue to be sold as DirectX 12 GPUs, not DirectX 12 Ultimate cards. …