Major game developers such as Id Software, Valve and Crystal Dynamics are at the forefront with support for new interfaces in their respective game engines, and now it’s time for Crytek. The company’s official product plan for Cryengine reveals when support for both DirectX 12 and Vulkan will be rolled out. During the autumn, two…
Since the introduction of the ATI Radeon HD 4870 in the summer of 2008, the GDDR5 memory technology has dominated graphics cards in the performance segment, to now be more or less standard regardless of price range. With the introduction of the Radeon R9 Fury X did High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) entrance and lifted the bandwidth…
The PCI Express interface is used to connect all kinds of plug-in cards, from graphics cards to sound cards and more recently also fast SSDs. Although today’s version 3.0 is sufficient for the most part, the requirements for bandwidth are constantly increasing, which is why the work with PCI Express 4.0 has been underway for…
Few of SweClocker’s readers have missed the fact that the interfaces DirectX 12 and Vulkan are on the way. A number of game titles are already out, and launches at an ever faster pace await later in the year. The new interfaces focus on low, among other things overhead for reduced dependence on the computer’s…
That Nvidia is the strongest in the market for graphics cards for desktops is nothing new. The company has in recent years picked up market shares from competitor AMD, and currently delivers almost 80 percent of all sold copies. Market shares, graphics cards for desktops Q2 2015 Q3 2015 Q4 2015 Q1 2016 Q2 2016…
It can hardly have escaped anyone that the summer has been filled to the brim with graphics card launches, where both AMD and Nvidia have rolled out their new architectures. In the same vein, many of the models landed in a higher price segment than many expected, where the popular middle class did not really…
After a steady stream of launches in the enthusiast class, Nvidia is preparing to take on lower segments, where AMD has so far been alone with the Radeon RX series and the Polaris architecture. Next in line is the GP107 graphics circuit, which replaces the GM107 from the GTX 750 Ti and GTX 750. Earlier…
For several product generations, Apple’s Macs have been using graphics parts from AMD. Apple often switches between manufacturers and now it seems that in the future they will go back to using graphics cards from Nvidia. This since a number of vacancies related to Apple products appeared on Nvidia’s website. The information comes from Bloomberg,…
It was a packed graphics card summer 2016 from both AMD and Nvidia, which launched their new generations – Polaris and Pascal respectively. However, they are not finished yet. Nvidia is uploading new models in the entry-level segment during the autumn, and next year further news is expected for enthusiasts with well-stocked wallets. Specifications: Nvidia…
The introduction of Nvidia’s new generation of graphics cards with the Pascal architecture was not without controversy. In addition to restrictions at SLI, the company chose a new pricing strategy, where the reference design was named “Founder’s Edition” and a higher price than tailor-made models from partner manufacturers – at least on paper. In addition…
