Video Cards

AMD has officially launched its latest flagship graphics card, the Radeon R9 Fury X. The Radeon R9 Fury X comes with a factory-fitted liquid cooling solution, a breakthrough new memory design, with HBM (high bandwidth memory), silicon interposer, and the memory being relocated to the GPU package, to reduce the chip’s overall PCB footprint, allowing for an extremely compact main PCB.

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NVIDIA released its latest “Game Ready” driver that’s become customary for the company ahead of a big AAA game launch; GeForce 353.30. These WHQL-signed drivers come “ready” for Batman: Arkham Knight, including SLI profiles, and GeForce Experience settings. The driver also adds an SLI profile for Lord of Vermilion Arena in its DirectX 9 mode. Batman Arkham Knight features NVIDIA’s GameWorks varnish, and should feature a few effects and settings exclusive to NVIDIA.

NVIDIA’s GeForce Game Ready 353.30 WHQL drivers can be downloaded from GeForce.com or through GeForce Experience.

AMD has released the Radeon R7 and R9 300 Series of graphics cards. The AMD next-generation graphics cards mark a technology turning point in PC gaming, bringing super high resolutions, exceptional VR experiences, smoother gameplay, support for new, advanced APIs like DirectX 12 and Vulkan, and groundbreaking form factors to gamers everywhere through a top-to-bottom line of GPUs that fit virtually every need and budget.

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It’s a Stallion Baby!

By: Hilbert Hagedoorn @ GURU3D

In this review we take the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming (SOC edition) for a test-drive, the product is superb, awesome cooling, it’s silent, it’s factory overclocked and combined with the default variables like the 6 GB graphics memory this product oozes performance and awesomeness.

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In the wake of its new high-end GPU launch, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, NVIDIA released new GeForce 353.06 WHQL drivers. In addition to support for the new GPU, version 353.06 WHQL is Game Ready for “Heroes of the Storm,” including an SLI profile and one-click optimization in GeForce Experience.

The R353 drivers bring a few new features to the table, including G-Sync support for windowed applications (could be useful in ‘windowed-maximized’ display-modes in certain games), a new feature called ULMB (ultra-low motion-blur), which arbitrarily decreases motion-blur drawn by applications (could help with excessive ghosting on LCDs with high response-times), and Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR) for notebook GPUs. The drivers also add a comprehensive game-optimization suite for GPUs based on the “Kepler” architecture, which should increase frame-rates across the board for GeForce GTX 600 and GTX 700 series.

NVIDIA’s GeForce Game Ready 353.06 WHQL drivers can be downloaded from GeForce.com or through GeForce Experience.

NVIDIA has launched its new GeForce GTX 980 Ti. The new flagship GeForce GPU is an amazing upgrade for gamers who haven’t yet jumped to a Maxwell GPU. If you want to enjoy 4K and VR with all the settings cranked, you’ll need the very best. As of now that is the new $649 GeForce GTX 980 Ti, a 6GB, 2816 CUDA Cores behemoth that’s ready for the future’s demanding, graphically-advanced games. We have collected a large number of reviews and we’ve posted the links to them below for your convenience.

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As NVIDIA’s GTX 980 gradually matures, their board partners are starting to take a few more chances with their custom designs. While cards like the Matrix and Classified series have pushed air cooled options to their max, water cooling has remained persona non grata for the most part. EVGA’s GTX 980 Hybrid is meant to bridge the gap between classically cooled options and those which require a pre-existing water cooling loop for optimal performance.

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NVIDIA GeForce 352.86 WHQL video card drivers are out now and are the game ready drivers for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. This drivers has all the optimizations for GTA V and all the other game titles plus optimizations for the PC release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt along with an updated SLI profile. GeForce 352.86 WHQL The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt drivers can be downloaded through the GeForce Experience or directly from GeForce.com.

The Game Ready driver for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt fully supports NVIDIA technologies like 4K, Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR), GameStream, GeForce Experience one-click Optimal Playable Settings, G-SYNC, HairWorks, HBAO+, PhysX, and SLI.

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It’s a not-so-hidden secret. Game developers will let you know a game isn’t fully polished by calling it an “alpha” or “beta.” But once a game launches, there shouldn’t be anything “beta” about it. Gamers expect it to work.

We feel the same way about our graphics. We don’t want gamers beta testing our work when they play their games for the first time. So we created GeForce Game Ready drivers.

We release Game Ready drivers at or before each major game launch. And one of best ways to ensure they possess the highest level of quality is to secure certification from Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Qualification Lab (WHQL).

As the launch of Windows 10 and DirectX 12 nears, our GeForce drivers have taken a major step forward: WHQL certification has arrived.

It’s no small task. Next to the operating system, the graphics driver is one of the most complex pieces of code on a PC.

We worked closely with Microsoft to develop the new DX12 standard. And that effort has paid off with day-one WHQL certification.

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By: Hilbert Hagedoorn @ GURU3D

We review the 4GB model of the Gigabyte G1 Gaming GeForce GTX 960. The GTX 960 is the mainstream product that we figured has a notch too little memory, will this 4GB version resolve your and our concerns? We do know that this card is among the most silent we have ever tested, it also has great looks including a proper back-plate. The G1 Gaming comes factory overclocked, has a WindForce X3 based cooler and is a great overclocker as well. Let’s check it out, shall we?

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