The demand for memory circuits is very high and in recent years, fresh NAND and DRAM versions have gained a foothold in the market. On the NAND memory front, for example, these are SSDs with the more storage-tight QLC circuits, while several manufacturers have presented new stacked solutions. When it comes to volatile memory, perhaps…
It has been almost 18 years since Nvidia bought the remnants of the former graphics giant 3dfx, which shook the computer world considerably during the 90s. In 1996, 3dfx Interactive launched the Voodoo graphics card with the Glide interface, which offered 3D performance clearly higher than the competitors’ alternatives. ► Read SweClocker’s deep dive into…
At the launch of Doom Eternal, the editors were quick with a performance test where the numbers were not really convincing. Eventually, more performance tests began to appear from elsewhere that showed significantly better numbers. Something must therefore have gone wrong with our own figures. The problem is spelled Steam Overlay and more specifically the…
Last summer, Nvidia introduced the performance-enhanced Geforce RTX Super graphics card series for desktops. Now the company’s Super rollout continues, but this time it’s instead two new models aimed at high – performance laptops. Specifications: Nvidia Geforce RTX Super for laptops RTX 2080 Super RTX 2080 RTX 2070 Super RTX 2070 Technical 12 nm TSMC 12 nm TSMC 12…
The daily SweClockers visitor probably has a good grasp of the editorial board’s graphics card tests and the software used in these. For the more inexperienced, however, it can be difficult to know what each software does, and why we have chosen these particular game titles and respective test loops. For that reason, we go…
A constant tug-of-war for both game developers and computer users is the one between the best possible image quality, via resolution and graphic settings, and the best possible performance. There are a myriad of tricks and solutions to achieve a good balance, with everything from dynamic resolution scaling to anti-aliasing techniques. A vendor-independent technology that…
As the launch of Intel’s Xe-based graphics chips approaches, the company is also starting to lift the lid on various products that apply the architecture. In addition to confirming the launch of the Tiger Lake family’s portable processors, which are equipped with integrated Xe graphics, the company also presents images of a massive socket-mounted graphics…
In the summer of 2019, Nvidia confirmed that the company has chosen to let Samsung manufacture the graphics cards in the upcoming Ampere family, this on Samsung’s 7nm EUV technology. The information then indicated that Samsung had succeeded in stealing a large customer from rival TSMC, but a new report from the industry publication Digitimes…
The graphics card market is today almost synonymous with the two players AMD and Nvidia, but during the year Intel will also join them. The company has long integrated modest graphics performance in processors, but also has a couple of other graphics investments in the backpack. With AMD Radeon’s former graphics manager Raja Koduri at…
As the expected unveiling of Nvidia’s Ampere architecture approaches, reports on what the new architecture will bring will also intensify. Ampere is expected to replace both Turing on the consumer side and Volta on the data center side and will, according to previous reports, be 50 percent faster than the Turing and Geforce RTX 2000…
