On Thursday, May 14, Nvidia’s event GTC 2020 kicks off. The event, which this year has been delayed and is being held digitally due to COVID-19, focuses on professional graphics and can also give a taste of upcoming graphic architectures. Before this year’s edition, the latter is expected to happen when the architecture Ampere is…
At the beginning of last year, AMD introduced the Radeon VII graphics card, which became the first consumer model where the circuit was manufactured on TSMC’s 7-nanometer technology. However, the Radeon VII was basically based on the pure Radeon Instinct Mi50 calculation card, which offered additional functionality in the form of full performance for double-precision…
Nvidia sells graphics cards in a number of different product segments, where Geforce represents the gaming segment and Quadro takes up space in workstations. For heavier applications in data centers and machine learning, graphics cards in the Tesla family are used instead. With previous generations, Nvidia has applied different architectures in these product segments, where…
Nvidia’s GTC 2020 event is aimed at professional graphics and this year’s edition is the first where the company’s CEO holds the presentation in his private kitchen, as a result of the pandemic around COVID-19. In addition to discussing hardware, software and tools for professional graphics, Nvidia’s new graphics architecture Ampere is also unveiled, which…
Since the first product from 2007, Nvidia’s graphics card series Tesla has offered calculation cards based on the company’s usual graphics processors, specially developed for calculations via the CUDA and OpenCL developer interfaces. First out were the trio C870, D870 and S870, which were based on the graphics circuit G80, which in consumer attire was…
The year 2020 looks to be an unusually interesting one for those who are interested in graphics cards and computer gaming. In addition to Intel returning to the graphics card market with the Xe family, reigning rivals AMD and Nvidia are also ready to introduce a new generation of graphics hardware. Nvidia’s release is called…
AMD’s long-awaited graphics card, which goes by the collective name Big Navi, is expected to give Nvidia competition in the performance segment. In addition to the graphics circuit itself being expected to be solid with a reported circuit area of as much as 505 mm², Big Navi is also expected to increase performance per watt…
Almost two years ago, Nvidia unveiled the first consumer cards with the then fresh architecture Turing, but before the year 2020 comes to an end, the successor Ampere will be on the market. Recently, the graphics giant unveiled the first hardware with that brand new architecture in the form of data center-adapted A100, which also…
For almost two years, Nvidia’s Geforce RTX 2000 series has offered users the opportunity to enjoy realistic lighting effects via dedicated hardware for ray tracing. In addition to special graphics cards, however, the technology is completely dependent on support from game developers and also requires additions to the DirectX 12 graphics interface, something Microsoft recently…
Intel has for many years competed with AMD for the throne for processors and later also graphics chips with the latter’s acquisition of the graphics maker ATI in 2006. Intel has also been involved in a minor battle with Nvidia, although then simpler graphics chips for laptops. In 2020, however, Intel will switch to a…
