Video Cards

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NVIDIA today launched the GeForce RTX 2080 Super graphics card, priced at USD $699. The card replaces the RTX 2080 from this price-point, which will be sold at discounted prices of around $630, while stocks last. The RTX 2080 Super is based on the same 12 nm “TU104″ silicon as the original, but is bolstered on three fronts: first, it maxes out the “TU104″ by enabling all 3,072 CUDA cores. Second, it comes with increased GPU Boost frequency of 1815 MHz, compared to 1710 MHz of the original; and lastly it comes with the highest-clocked 15.5 Gbps GDDR6 memory solution.

The card ships with 8 GB of memory across a 256-bit wide memory bus, which at 15.5 Gbps works out to roughly 496 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a 11 percent increase over the original RTX 2080. Other specifications of the GeForce RTX 2080 Super include 192 TMUs, 64 ROPs, 48 RT cores, and 384 Tensor cores. NVIDIA is allowing its board partners to launch custom-design boards that start at the same $699 baseline.

NVIDIA today that their new GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER graphics card is now available worldwide. We have gathered a number of reviews on NVIDIA’S own GeForce RTX 2080 Super Founders Edition card, and from a few, but not all of their add-in-board (AIB) partners which include ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision 3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac. Click on the links below to find out how the Founders Edition card performs, along with many of the new custom cards.

• ANANDTECH (FOUNDERS EDITION)
• WCCFTECH (FOUNDERS, MSI, GIGABYTE)
• TECHSPOT (FOUNDERS EDITION)
• GURU3D (FOUNDERS, MSI, PALIT)
• TECHPOWERUP! (FOUNDERS, MSI, ZOTAC)
• ETEKNIX (FOUNDERS, ZOTAC, GIGABYTE, PALIT)
• TOM’S HARDWARE (FOUNDERS EDITION)

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NVIDIA today released the latest version of GeForce drivers. Version 431.60 WHQL add support for the new GeForce RTX 2080 Super graphics card. The drivers are also game-ready for “Wolfenstein: Youngblood,” “Wolfenstein Cyberpilot,” “Madden NFL 20″ and the first DLC of “Metro Exodus.” The drivers also address notebook display flickering with GTX 1080 SLI, terrain and icons flickering with “World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth,” and HDR option missing from Windows Settings even when all requirements are met.

You can download the GeForce 431.60 WHQL driver through GeForce Experience or via GeForce.com.

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AMD late Tuesday posted its latest version of Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition. Version 19.7.2 adds optimization for “GEARS 5″ beta. It fixes a number of issues, beginning with Facebook being unavailable with Radeon ReLive. “Star Wars Battlefront II” textures appearing pixellated or blurry with the DirectX 11 API has also been fixed. Radeon Overlay flickering in DirectX 9 apps with Radeon Image Sharpening enabled, is fixed. Valve Index HMD experiencing flickering when launching SteamVR on machines with Radeon RX 5700-series graphics cards, is fixed.

Radeon WattMan auto-tuning global settings not applying per-game has also been fixed. WattMan showing max values instead of increased values in auto-tuning results screen has also been fixed. The WattMan memory clock gauge now correctly auto-updates. Texture corruption on enemy models in “Doom” (2016) has been fixed. A bug that caused Radeon display drivers to fail to uninstall in hybrid graphics configurations has been fixed.

The new Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.7.2 drivers are available online at the AMD driver download page.

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NVIDIA has released the new GeForce 431.36 WHQL software, which adds support for the new GeForce RTX 2060 Super and RTX 2070 Super graphics cards that went on sale from 9th July. The drivers also improve optimization for “Tom Clancy’s The Division 2,” “Strange Brigade,” and “Metro Exodus.” The drivers add SLI support for “F1 2019.” The drivers address the issue of performance counts appearing over the Windows 10 1903 Start menu (since the Start menu is now its own 3D-accelerated process). A “Code 43″ error that appears on Windows 1903 machines with Intel “Sandy Bridge” processors has also been fixed. Another critical bug where Windows 1903 doesn’t write a crash-dump on BSOD has been fixed.

Among the game-specific fixes are screen flickering noticed in “Grand Theft Auto V” with MSAA enabled; a game-crash experienced in “Forza 4″ when driving through tunnels; “Shadow of the Tomb Raider” may experience a TDR crash on GeForce “Pascal” GPU; and staying with this title, its internal benchmark may quit when ray-tracing is enabled.

You can download the GeForce 431.36 WHQL driver through GeForce Experience or via GeForce.com.

Many of NVIDIA’S add-in-board (AIB) partners have released their custom GeForce RTX 2070 & 2060 SUPER Graphics Cards. So with that, we have a gathered up a number of reviews on the new cards from ASUS, GIGABYTE and MSI, just to name a few. So click on the links below to find out what these new new custom cards have to offer.

• BIT-TECH
• TECHPOWERUP! (MULTIPLE REVIEWS)
• GURU3D (MULTIPLE REVIEWS)
• HEXUS
• KITGURU
• TWEAKTOWN

AMD has launched the new RDNA-based Navi Radeon RX 5700 series of graphics cards. The Radeon RX 5700 XT and Radeon RX 5700 are priced at $399 and $349 USD respectively. The new series is based on 7nm architecture, featuring PCIe 4.0 support and GDDR6 memory technology. The reviews we have linked below for you are for the reference models only. AMD’s add-in-board (AIB) partners will have their custom designs available, reportedly by mid-August.

• HARDWARE CANUCKS (VIDEO REVIEW)
• GURU3D
• ETEKNIX (VIDEO REVIEW)
• HOT HARDWARE
• ANANDTECH
• LEGIT REVIEWS
• TOM’S HARDWARE
• THE TECH REPORT
• HEXUS
• BJORN3D

NVIDIA announced today it has launched the new GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER, GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER and GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER graphics card family, claiming that these new cards deliverer best-in-class gaming performance and real time ray tracing for today’s and next-generation games. The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER, and GeForce RTX 2060 Super are priced at $699, $499, and $399 respectively. The 2070 Super and 2060 Super will be released on July 9th. The 2080 Super has a release date of July 23rd. A number of GeForce RTX 2060 Super and GeForce RTX 2070 Super Founders Edition reviews are now available. Click on the links below to learn all about these two latest graphics cards from NVIDIA.

• HOT HARDWARE
• ANANDTECH
• GURU3D
• HARDWARE CANUCKS (VIDEO REVIEW)
• HEXUS
• PC PERSPECTIVE
• TOM’S HARDWARE
• KITGURU (VIDEO REVIEW)
• OC3D
• TECHPOWERUP! (RTX 2060 SUPER)
• TECHPOWERUP! (RTX 2070 SUPER)

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NVIDIA released their latest driver package version, updating the software number up to 431.18. The new hotfix driver builds upon the previous 430.86 release, already fixed upon by another, previous hotfix driver 430.97.

This new release fixes BSODs on hibernation wake-up for ASUS’ ASUS GL703GS/Asus GL502VML notebooks; game crashes or TDR on Shadow of the Tomb Raider when launching the game on Pascal GPUs; Shadow of the Tomb Raider’s benchmark exiting abruptly should ray tracing be enabled; and flickering issues on Grand Theft Auto V when MSAA is enabled.

You can download the GeForce Hotfix 431.18 driver through GeForce Experience or via GeForce.com.

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AMD has released the latest version of their Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition Drivers. The 19.6.2 Beta release offers no performance improvements however it does add support for various Vulkan extensions while simultaneously solving a few problems. These fixed issues include, Crackdown 3 experiencing application hangs on Radeon R7 370 series products, Wireless VR experiencing performance drops across various titles on some Radeon RX 400 and 500 series graphics products, and Performance Metrics Overlay failing to enable or being disabled when toggling Radeon Overlay in game just to name a few.

The new Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.6.2 Beta drivers are available online at the AMD driver download page.