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Better thermal management will help the card’s powerful performance. As expected, the RTX 3080 ships with 10GB GDDR6X of video memory and features 30 shader teraflops, 58 raytracing teraflops, and 238 tensor teraflops. The card supports the Gen 4 PCI Express standard, and Nvidia is also bundling in its new RTX I/O to help improve game loading times on its GPUs. There are three components in play here for the new RTX I/O, including new APIs for fast loading and streaming directly from SSD to GPU memory, GPU lossless decompression, and collaboration with Microsoft for direct storage for Windows. … [Read more...] about Nvidia GeForce RTX 3000 event: Everything that’s been announced

Gateway’s Ultra Slim Laptop series features a variety of different options — ranging from budget AMD A4 and Intel Celeron processors to more powerful Ryzen and Core CPUs — that start at just $199. At the base price, you’re getting an 11.5-inch display with an A4 processor, giving it similar features to the convertible, while the most premium version retails for $649 and comes with a 15.6-inch display, Core i5 CPU, and 16GB of memory alongside 256GB of storage. The remaining models come with 14.1-inch displays, and you’ll find a variety of colors available for these notebooks, including black, purple, blue, and green. … [Read more...] about The ’90s are back: Gateway laptops have been resurrected as Walmart exclusives

AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 family lineup is expected to include multiple cards, spanning entry-level, midrange, and premium GPUs. Like the 5000 series, AMD could offer an RX 6300 as a successor to the RX 5300 at the entry-level spot and position its RX 6500 and RX 6300 as midrange offerings to take on Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3070. At the premium end, AMD could replace its RX 5700 with a new RX 6700. And given that AMD had offered a premium Radeon RX 5700 XT and $499 Radeon XT 50th Anniversary Edition, the company could offer high-end cards with a new RX 6900 model that will be designed to compete against Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090. … [Read more...] about AMD Radeon RX 6000 series: News, rumors, and everything we know so far

The RTX 3090 was unveiled on September 1, 2020, but isn’t on sale just yet. It will hit store shelves on September 24,  with a price tag of $1,499. This is substantially more expensive than the original cost of the 2080 Ti, making it even more of a niche card. Still, it’s far more capable than the Titan RTX, which debuted at $2,500 just a couple of years ago, so if you want the best of the best, it might be a cost worth paying when it goes on sale. … [Read more...] about Nvidia RTX 3090 vs. RTX 2080 Ti: Most powerful gaming GPUs duke it out

During the launch of the RTX 3000 series, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang boasted that these new generation of graphics cards based on the company’s Ampere architecture will perform even better when more ray tracing is utilized in the game, a stark contrast and welcome change when compared to the previous generation of GPUs based on the Turing architecture. In our earlier tests of Turing, we found that even Nvidia’s flagship RTX 2080 Ti struggled with ray tracing performance, and framerates plummeted when higher resolutions were used. … [Read more...] about Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3080 GPU promises 100 FPS gaming at 4K resolution