Toshiba has demonstrated the first games, running at a 4K ( 3840×2160 ) resolution on its 4K Quad-FHD screen. As you may have expected, the company used a powerful PC with a high-end GPU. The good news for all PC gamers is that both AMD’s 7970 and Nvidia’s GTX680 are capable of running games on such resolutions at 30fps. Naturally, a lot of people will wonder why do you need this pricey TV when you can already downsample your games. Well, Toshiba has to promote its screens (one way or another) and since a lot of gamers are not aware of downsampling, they’re taking advantage of it. And although there are rumors about PS4 supporting 4K resolutions, don’t expect its games to run natively at those. Enjoy the demonstration below! Continue reading Latest Nvidia & AMD high-end GPUs can handle pretty well 4K resolution games→
Nvidia has released a new beta set of drivers for its graphics cards. Nvidia GeForce 306.02 is recommended for players of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Darksiders 2, Guild Wars 2, and MechWarrior Online, as they add realistic ambient occlusion shadowing to each of the listed games, in addition to adding NVIDIA Control Panel MSAA and CSAA anti-aliasing support to Darksiders 2. Continue reading Nvidia GeForce 306.02 Beta Released; New SLI profiles, Ambient Occlusion added to a lot of games→
Nvidia has released a new set of beta drivers for its GeForce graphics cards. GeForce 304.79 introduces a new anti-aliasing technique called TXAA. NVIDIA TXAA is new film-style anti-aliasing technique designed specifically to reduce temporal aliasing (crawling and flickering in motion) through a combination of hardware AA, custom CG film style AA resolve, and a temporal filter. We should note that this technique is only available for the GeForce GTX 600-series Kepler-based GPUs. Continue reading NVIDIA GeForce 304.79 Beta Released; New film-style Anti-Aliasing technique ‘TXAA’ introduced→
Nvidia has released a new set of beta drivers for its graphics cards. These new drivers come with increased performance for GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs. In addition, Nvidia has included new SLI and 3D profiles for most recent games, and we highly recommend them if you’re planning on playing Spec Ops: The Line. So, SLI owners can enjoy updated and new profiles for Spec Ops: The Line, PlanetSide 2, F1 2011, Final Fantasy XIV, Saints Row: The Third, Torchlight II and Tribes: Ascend. Continue reading Nvidia GeForce 304.48 Beta Drivers Released; GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs Performance Increases→
Nvidia announced that they’ll be releasing a new Dawn Tech demo to showcase the power of their high-end SLI flagship card, the GeForce GTX 690. The Dawn Tech demo is based on the old Dawn demo that was released a couple of years ago and showcases the advances that have been made in the graphics area. For example, the old Dawn demo featured 7,000 triangles whereas the new Dawn demo is packed with 4 million triangles. You can find below a comparison shot between the old and the new Dawn demo, as well as their official flythrough videos. Enjoy! Continue reading Nvidia releases a new Dawn Tech Demo to showcase their GTX 690 graphics card→
Nvidia released today a new set of drivers for its graphic cards. According to the release notes, GeForce 301.42 increases performance for GeForce 400 Series and 500 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 296.10 WHQL-certified drivers and come with PhysX System Software v9.12.0213, HD Audio v1.3.16.0, OpenGL 4.2, DisplayPort 1.2 for GeForce GTX 600-series, and multiple languages and APIs for GPU computing: CUDA C, CUDA C++, CUDA Fortran, OpenCL, DirectCompute, and Microsoft C++ AMP support, as well as support for single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel and AMD motherboards. Continue reading Nvidia GeForce 301.42 WHQL Drivers Released→
There is no doubt that real-time raytracing and global illumination are ‘the future’ of gaming graphics. And we are happy – and astounded – to report that Nvidia has showcased a real-time raytracing tech demo at this year’s GTC 2012. The result of that implementation is sweet as hell, so be sure to check the following video. Reflections and refractions are as accurate as they can get and this tech demo shows what we can expect from next-generation graphics. Enjoy the video, courtesy of TheVerge. Continue reading NVIDIA showcases the power of Kepler – Real-time Raytracing Tech Demo→
Last week, we informed you about a big announcement that would be made on April 28th. Back then, we predicted that the announcement would be about an Nvidia dual-card and it appears we were right. Nvidia revealed yesterday their high-end dual card, called GTX690. GTX 690 consists of 2 Kepler GPUs and uses a 10-phase power supply to allow maximum overclocking. Its 300 watts of GPU is kept cool with dual water-vapor chambers directly on the GPUs, nickel-plated fins to prevent tarnishing/oxidation, and a fan spinning at 3000 RPM. The GTX 690 also uses an aluminum frame with all components bolted down to create a duct of air flow. Continue reading Nvidia Officially Announces GTX 690; the fastest GPU card on the market→
We are living in exciting times. Although GTX680 is a damn beast, we could very well see a dual-GPU topping it as Nvidia is preparing for a special announcement at GeForce LAN / NVIDIA Gaming Festival (NGF) 2012 in Shanghai, China. The company has revealed an image that shows a new card and if you can recall, that image was leaked a while ago. Not only that, but earlier yesterday, Nvidia sent out a crowbar labeled with the GeForce logo to the guys at Hardwareheaven. Continue reading Nvidia to announce something big in April 28th, possible announcement of a dual GK104 card→
