AMD shares pumped after reporting solid sales and profit
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. gained in late trading after the chipmaker topped second-quarter estimates and touted inroads in artificial intelligence computing, putting it in closer competition with Nvidia Corp.
Sales and profit both...
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Nvidia RTX 4060 South African prices revealed
Three reputable South African online PC hardware retailers have published pricing for Nvidia's RTX 4060 graphics card.
Nvidia announced the entry-level RTX 40 series GPU in mid-May 2023 alongside the slightly more powerful Ti version.
AMD provides first-look at AI chip to rival Nvidia
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. showcased its upcoming line of artificial intelligence processors, aiming to help data centres handle a crush of AI traffic and challenge Nvidia Corp.’s dominance in the burgeoning market.
The company’s Instinct...
Microsoft bringing PC Game Pass to Nvidia GeForce Now
Microsoft is teaming up with Nvidia to make its PC Game Pass catalogue available to those with low-spec devices on GeForce Now, the company revealed in a blog post.
While Nvidia GeForce Now isn't available in South Africa as yet, Rain...
Graphics card sales plummet to lowest level in decades — but there is good news for Intel
Market analysis by Jon Peddie Research found that shipments of desktop graphics cards during the first quarter of 2023 were at their worst level in several decades.
Approximately 6.3 million add-in board...
Nvidia briefly joins trillion-dollar club
Nvidia Corp.’s market valuation fleetingly crossed the $1 trillion threshold on Tuesday after the chipmaker’s artificial intelligence prospects vaulted it into an elite club of just five American companies.
The stock rose as much as 7.7% early in the...
Nvidia's AI chip sales forecast sends shares surging
Nvidia Corp. results showing that customers are binging on chips used in artificial intelligence computing sent stocks tied to the burgeoning technology soaring globally.
Nvidia gained as much as 29% in late New York trading, while its rival...
AMD unveils budget-friendly RX 7600 graphics card
AMD announced its new entry-level Radeon RX 7600 graphics card on Wednesday.
The GPU succeeds the RX 6600 and is specifically targeting gamers who want to play recent popular games at a 1080p resolution with over 60 frames per second.
Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti South African prices revealed
Several South African online PC hardware stores have published pricing for Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4060 Ti graphics card.
The new GPU was announced alongside the less powerful RTX 4060 last week.
Nvidia announces RTX 4060 graphics cards
Nvidia has announced a more affordable range of 40-series graphics cards, promising buyers access to the company’s Ada Lovelace architecture without emptying their pockets.
The company is launching the RTX 4060 series, with the base model featuring a...
Microsoft partners with AMD to develop AI chip
Microsoft Corp. is working with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on the chipmaker’s expansion into artificial intelligence processors, according to people with knowledge of the situation, part of a multipronged strategy to secure more of the highly...
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Nvidia's Ray Tracing Overdrive pushes RTX 4090 down to 16fps in Cyberpunk 2077
An Nvidia Ray Tracing (RT) Overdrive Mode demo revealed that even its top-end GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card would struggle to run the high-fidelity settings at playable frame rates without it the help of AI...
Nvidia launches new AI chips to power AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure
Riding the surge of hype around ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products, Nvidia Corp. introduced new chips, supercomputing services and a raft of high-profile partnerships Tuesday intended to showcase how...
Back in Nov 2022, there were articles about rain ISP bringing GeForce NOW to South Africa, some mentioning Q1 2023.
They opened a page on their website for people to register their interest.
Since then, nothing further seems to have come out.
We're coming to the end of Q1, so I thought to...
New Nvidia driver causes CPU usage spikes
Nvidia has confirmed a bug in its latest GeForce driver update that causes spikes in CPU usage.
VideoCardz was the first to spot the company's admission in the official Nvidia support forum for GeForce driver version 531.18, rolled out on 28 February 2023.
ChatGPT will need over 30,000 Nvidia GPUs to go commercial
OpenAI will need 30,000 top-end Nvidia GPUs to power a commercial version of its ChatGPT language model, according to an analysis by TrendForce.
The market research firm explained that the generative AI that made ChatGPT and other...
Razer starts selling RTX 40-powered Blade 16 and 18 laptops
Razer's latest line of Blade gaming laptops — the Blade 16 and Blade 18 — go on sale today, Wednesday, 8 February 2023, with prices starting from $2,700 (R47,350, excl. VAT).
However, Engadget reported that prospective buyers would...
AMD and Nvidia under-shipping graphics cards to keep prices high
AMD and Nvidia have been under-shipping graphics cards in the past few months, keeping prices from plummeting amid weakened demand due to rising inflation and a significant dip in cryptocurrency mining.
PC Gamer reports that AMD...