With the introduction of Graphics Core Next (GCN) from 2012, AMD invested in a graphics architecture that would form the basis for products on both the consumer side and in the data center. The fact that the architecture was designed to cover two different types of calculations limited its excellence for both tasks. The answer…
The fact that graphics cards are equipped with active cooling is today more of a rule than an exception and TDP values well over 100 watts can be seen in the higher performance segments from both AMD and Nvidia. When it comes to air coolers for graphics cards, there are two main models, where the…
In the summer of 2020, Intel will return to the market for dedicated graphics cards with the Xe family. Long before launch, as early as December 2019, however, childhood diseases in the form of substandard efficiency were predicted, probably as a result of Xe becoming one of the first products to be manufactured on the…
The outbreak of the coronavirus creates chaos in the world and authorities’ calls to limit physical contacts affect both work and planned meetings and events. In the technology industry, several have chosen to turn their events into completely digital variants, including Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC). Nvidia organizes GTC every year and this is also…
The latest generation of graphics cards have thrown out almost all official support in drivers for several graphics cards, something that was much more common in the past and often resulted in a nice increase in performance. The undersigned sat by himself with dual Radeon HD 7970 for a long time before it was time…
With the next generation of game consoles around the corner, support for new graphics techniques such as ray tracing in real time and variable rate shading – two technologies that previously existed on the PC side via additions to the DirectX 12 graphics interface. Now Microsoft announces that it is bringing together these features as…
In connection with AMD’s launch of the Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics card earlier this year, there was confusion about the speeds at which the graphics card’s memory was actually driven. 2060, to which AMD responded with increased frequencies on both the graphics card and its memory. The memory frequency 14,000 MHz proposed by AMD…
With the graphics cards in the Geforce RTX 2000 family, Nvidia introduced the Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology. As the name suggests, the technology is based on using machine learning and artificial intelligence to scale an image from a lower resolution to a higher one, where the goal is image quality that will match…
In December 2019, AMD was contacted by a person who came across test files with source code for the company’s graphics technology. The source code revealed details about the Navi family and what then went by the code name “Arden”, which speculation pointed out as the graphics part of the game console Xbox Series X….
With low-level interfaces such as DirectX 12 and Vulkan, graphics card manufacturers have lost much of the control they previously had with drivers. At the same time as the new interfaces have opened up new possibilities, they have led AMD and Nvidia to more or less invest in interconnected graphics cards with the technologies Crossfire…
