VR Startup Varjo Announces Shipping of High Resolution Headset Prototype, Aimed at Professional Markets
Today at Slush 2017, Finnish VR startup Varjo Technologies is announcing that their first formal prototype headset will be shipping within the next month, as well as unveiling their...
19 by on 11/30/2017HDMI 2.1 Specification Released: Variable Refresh, Dynamic HDR, & More In 2018
Earlier this week, the HDMI Forum, the open industry consortium for developing the HDMI specification, officially finalized and released the HDMI 2.1 specification. Previously announced in January HDMI 2.1...
26 by on 11/29/2017NVIDIA Releases Maxwell-based GeForce MX130 & MX110 Mobile GPUs
Earlier this month, NVIDIA quietly released the Maxwell-based entry-level GeForce MX130 and MX110, joining the earlier Pascal-based MX150. The MX130 and MX110 product pages were later updated to specify...
27 by on 11/28/2017Futuremark To Release VRMark Cyan Room on November 22: A DX12 VR Benchmark
This week, Futuremark announced that their new Cyan Room DX12 test will be released for VRMark next Wednesday (November 22). This comes around a year after VRMark’s original release...
3 by on 11/17/2017AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.11.2
Update (11/27/17): AMD has released a Radeon RX Vega hotfix as 17.11.3, addressing intermittent crashing on some RX Vega cards. Just ahead of tomorrow’s Star Wars Battlefront II (2017) release...
5 by on 11/16/2017NVIDIA Releases 388.31 WHQL Game Ready Driver
Ahead of Friday’s Star Wars Battlefront II (2017) release, today NVIDIA has released driver version 388.31, featuring Game Ready support for the aforementioned Battlefront II, as well as the...
5 by on 11/15/2017VESA Announces DisplayID Version 2.0 Standard to Succeed EDID
This week, VESA has officially announced the DisplayID v2.0 standard, intended to succeed the venerable Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) used by monitors, TVs, and embedded displays. Like EDID/Enhanced...
4 by on 11/15/2017Intel Releases Graphics Drivers for Windows 15.60: HDR10 and Windows Mixed Reality
In light of the recent feature-filled Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, this week Intel has released their Graphics Driver 15.60, bringing HDR10 and Windows Mixed Reality support to a...
17 by on 11/10/2017NVIDIA Announces Earnings of $2.6 Billion for Q3 2018, Once Again Sets Profit Record
This afternoon, NVIDIA announced its earnings for their 2018 fiscal year’s third quarter, which spans July 31 to October 29, 2017 (and not to be confused with the 2017...
23 by on 11/9/2017AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.11.1
Since the launch of the Radeon RX Vega 64 in mid-August, AMD has been releasing new drivers every other week, sometimes more often, and this week is no exception...
4 by on 11/3/2017The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Founders Edition Review: GP104 Comes in Threes
Launching today is the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, announced last week when it was first available for preorders. As the third GP104 based GTX 10 series card, the GTX...
78 by on 11/2/2017Arm Announces New Mali-D71 Display Processor and IP Blocks
Today, Arm is announcing their Mali-D71 display processor and two closely-related IP blocks, CoreLink MMU-600 and Assertive Display 5, angling for 4K VR and HDR implementations on mobile displays...
13 by on 10/31/2017AMD Releases Radeon Pro Software Enterprise Driver 17.Q4 WHQL: Unified Vega Pro Driver
Last Thursday, the fourth Thursday of Q4, AMD has released Radeon Pro Software Enterprise Driver 17.Q4 WHQL, one year after AMD launched the Enterprise Driver program with 16.Q4. 17.Q4...
1 by on 10/30/2017Now (and Almost) Shipping: Radeon Pro WX 9100 and SSG, with New Vega Pro Drivers
Last week, AMD quietly announced the availability of the Radeon Pro WX 9100 and Radeon Pro Solid State Graphics (SSG), the former card shipping now and the latter shipping...
15 by on 10/26/2017PCI-SIG Finalizes and Releases PCIe 4.0, Version 1 Specification: 2x PCIe Bandwidth and More
This week, PCI-standards consortium PCI-SIG (Special Interest Group) has ratified and released specifications for PCIe 4.0 Specification Version 1, uploading the documents to their PCI-SIG Specification Library. This marks...
27 by on 10/26/2017NVIDIA Unveils GeForce GTX 1070 Ti: $449, Available for Preorders Today
This morning, NVIDIA is finally unveiling the speculation-consumed open secret that is the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti. Based on the same GP104 GPU as its GTX 1080 and 1070...
38 by on 10/26/2017AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.10.2: Workload Toggle and 12x GPU Compute Support
Update (10/26/17): AMD has released a hotfix in the form of 17.10.3, resolving crashes or hangs on RX Vega cards in Wolfenstein II and singleplayer mission six of Destiny...
17 by on 10/24/2017NVIDIA Releases 388.00 WHQL Game Ready Driver
Update (10/26/17): NVIDIA has released the 388.10 Hotfix Driver (non-WHQL), resolving stability issues on certain Kepler-based cards for Wolfenstein II. Ahead of tomorrow’s Destiny 2 launch, today NVIDIA has released...
9 by on 10/23/2017Intel Shipping Nervana Neural Network Processor First Silicon Before Year End
This week at the Wall Street Journal’s D.Live 2017, Intel unveiled their Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP), formerly known as Lake Crest, and announced plans to ship first silicon...
25 by on 10/18/2017NVIDIA Brings Back Destiny 2 Bundle Again for GTX 1080 & 1080 Ti Cards
For what is the 3rd time this year, NVIDIA is offering the “New Legends Will Rise” Destiny 2 bundle for GeForce GTX 1080 and 1080 Ti graphics cards, systems...
6 by on 10/18/2017