Video Cards

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NVIDIA released the GeForce 372.54 WHQL drivers. These drivers are game-ready for “No Man’s Sky,” “Deus Ex: Mankind Divided,” “F1: 2016,” and “Obduction.” It also comes with optimization for “Paragon” Beta. The drivers more importantly add support for the GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile, GTX 1070 Mobile, and the GTX 1060 Mobile, with a major update for BatteryBoost, a feature that stabilizes frame-rates to keep power-consumption low.

You can download the new GeForce 372.54 WHQL drivers from GeForce Experience and GeForce.com.

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AMD released its latest version of Radeon Software Crimson Edition. Version 16.8.2 comes with optimization for this week’s biggest release, “No Man’s Sky,” (if you can get it to work). It also comes with optimization for “Paragon” beta. The game addresses bugs related to “Overwatch,” idle flickering on machines with FreeSync enabled, and installation issues affecting Windows 10 Anniversary Edition.

You can download the Radeon Software Crimson Edition version 16.8.2 drivers here.

AMD has released their latest graphics card, the Radeon RX 460, built for e-sports and low-power systems. We have gathered up some reviews featuring the RX 460 from ASUS, Sapphire and other manufacturers. You can check out the reviews via the links posted below.

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AMD has released their latest Polaris architecture based graphics card, the Radeon RX 470. A number of reviews have become available featuring the RX 470 from various suppliers. You can check out the reviews via the links posted below.

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By Hilbert Hagedoorn @ GURU3D

Today we review something evil, the PowerColor Radeon RX 480 RED DEVIL. Armed with 8GB graphics memory lucifer presents himself as a mainstream graphics card series that will allow you to play your games in both the Full HD 1080P range as well as gaming in WQHD (2560×1440) range. And all that at a rather reasonable price of 269 USD.

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AMD signed off July with the month’s third Radeon Software Crimson Edition release. Version 16.7.3 features performance optimization for “Rise of the Tomb Raider.” The drivers improve performance of the game by up to 10 percent over 16.7.2 drivers. The drivers also address a large amount of game-specific bugs; Radeon Settings UI improvements, and bugs related to task-switching in multi-display setups.

You can download the Radeon Software Crimson Edition version 16.7.3 drivers here.

By Nathan Kirsch @ Legit Reviews

If you ware looking for an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card to purchase you will quickly find that there are 21 different models widely available from NVIDIA’s board partners in North America. Gigabyte alone has five different models to pick from as you have Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition for those that are looking for the NVIDIA reference design and then four custom cards. The custom cards include the Gigabyte GTX 1070 Mini ITX OC model for Small Form Factor (SFF) builders, a GTX 1070 WindForce OC model as the entry level card, a GTX 1070 G1 Gaming aimed at gamers and then the GeForce GTX 1070 Extreme Gaming for those that are concerned with overclocking or what the highest clock speeds possible. Most gamers aren’t going to pay a premium for the Founders Edition by NVIDIA and while we love the Mini ITX form factor the full sized cards are still the most popular cards sold. That leaves three full sized Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 models that gamers will be interested in picking.

The model that we’ll be looking at today is the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming as it is aimed at gamers and at just $429 it costs less than the Founders Edition model and looks to have some great features.

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In a show of shock and awe, NVIDIA today announced its flagship graphics card based on the “Pascal” architecture, the GeForce GTX TITAN X Pascal. Market availability of the card is scheduled for August 2, 2016, priced at US $1,199. Based on the 16 nm “GP102″ silicon, this graphics card is endowed with 3,584 CUDA cores spread across 56 streaming multiprocessors, 224 TMUs, 96 ROPs, and a 384-bit GDDR5X memory interface, holding 12 GB of memory.

The core is clocked at 1417 MHz, with 1531 MHz GPU Boost, and 10 Gbps memory, churning out 480 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The card draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors, the GPU’s TDP is rated at 250W. NVIDIA claims that the GTX TITAN X Pascal is up to 60 percent faster than the GTX TITAN X (Maxwell), and up to 3 times faster than the original GeForce GTX TITAN.

Watch a intro trailer and get more information at the NVIDIA TITAN X product page.

By Parm Mann @ HEXUS

While fans of the RX 480 patiently await a Nitro, or indeed any other custom-cooled alternative, Nvidia’s army of partners has already unleashed a tidal wave of diverse GTX 1060s. All the big names are lining up to send their cards in for review – heck, we may even have to turn some away at this rate – and though retail volume remains something of a question mark during launch week, there’s no shortage of non-reference designs. First on the HEXUS test bench is the MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X.

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AMD on 19th July, released a WHQL-signed version of Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.7.2 drivers. The company first released the RSCE 16.7.2 as a Beta on the 12th of July. The change-log of the new 16.7.2 WHQL drivers don’t say exactly what is different between the 16.7.2 Beta and the 16.7.2 WHQL; so we guess it’s just 16.7.2 with WHQL certification.

You can download the Radeon Software Crimson Edition version 16.7.2 WHQL drivers here.