Amazon and Nvidia lead tech share rally
The market is regaining its appetite for risk after a bitter 2022 as traders increasingly snap up some of last year’s biggest losers, particularly beaten down tech stocks.
Amazon.com Inc. and Nvidia Corp. are among the biggest contributors to the Nasdaq...
Google and Nvidia join Sony's opposition to Microsoft's Activision Blizzard deal
Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Nvidia Corp. have expressed concerns to the Federal Trade Commission about Microsoft Corp.’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc., adding fuel to the government’s case against the $69...
Best bang-for-buck gaming laptops in South Africa
South Africans looking for a portable gaming machine will find a plethora of capable laptop models on the market.
The early days of gaming laptops taking heavy flak for their lacklustre performance compared to desktop gaming PCs are well behind us.
Galax claims record 40% overclock of RTX 4080
Graphics card board partner Galax has claimed a new overclocking record for Nvidia's powerful GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card.
In a post on Twitter on Tuesday, the company said its overclocking team managed to push the clock speed of a Galax RTX...
Nvidia retiring four cheap graphics cards — Report
Nvidia is phasing out some of its last-remaining Turing graphics cards, which are among the company's best-value GPUs when it comes to price-to-performance.
That is according to rumours on China's Bobantang tech forums, which were picked up by...
AWS launches new Graviton chip in challenge to AMD, Intel, and Nvidia
Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud-computing unit is rolling out new chips designed to power the highest-end of computing, supporting tasks such as weather forecasting and gene sequencing.
Amazon Web Services, the largest provider of...
Goodbye long game loading times — Microsoft launches DirectStorage 1.1
Microsoft has launched the next iteration of its DirectStorage technology on Windows 11, aiming to make game load times even faster.
Because game assets — like characters, objects, environments, and even colours — can...
Rain launching Nvidia GeForce Now — first cloud gaming platform in South Africa
Rain has signed a partnership agreement with Nvidia to bring its high-performance cloud gaming platform — GeForce Now — to South Africa.
The South African GeForce Now service will be hosted locally in Rain's data...
Nvidia wants melted 4090 GPUs returned for analysis
Some partner-manufactured GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards have a flaw causing the 16-pin power adapter to melt, and Nvidia is calling for all affected cards to be returned for analysis.
According to an Igor's Lab post, Nvidia sent a briefing...
GeForce RTX 4090 power connectors melting — Reports
At least two owners of Nvidia's powerful new GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card have reported their power adapters and connectors have melted during operation, Tom's Hardware reports.
The users posted about their experience on Reddit, with one...
Nvidia could launch a GeForce RTX 4090 laptop GPU — report
Hardware specifications posted by reputable industry leaker Harukaze5719 suggest that Nvidia could launch a GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile graphics processing unit (GPU), Tom's Hardware reports.
The hardware leaker shared the Ada Lovelace...
Most popular graphics cards in South Africa
Nvidia has dominated AMD in South African graphics card sales in 2022, while gamers have increasingly looked towards more affordable models amid a tough economic climate.
MyBroadband recently asked the country's biggest retailers operating in the...
Nvidia scrapping launch of 12GB RTX 4080 — because everybody knows it's an RTX 4070 in disguise
Nvidia has scrapped a plan to launch a less powerful 12GB version of its RTX 4080 graphics card.
Agreeing with what tech reviewers and critics have been saying in the past three weeks since the...
South African retailers start selling Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 cards — prices up to R49,999
South African gamers hoping to buy Nvidia's new top-of-the-range graphics card will have to put down between R37,999 and R49,999 for the GPU.
Several well-known online PC hardware retailers now have the...
Overclocked RTX 4090 hits highest-ever GPU clock speed
Overclockers on TecLab OC’s team in Brazil achieved a record-breaking graphics processing unit (GPU) clock speed of 3.45GHz using Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4090 GPU, Video Cardz reports.
However, performance degraded at such high speeds...
Most popular gaming graphics cards revealed
Steam has released its hardware and software survey for September 2022, revealing that Nvidia's RTX 3060 is now the most prevalent graphics card used by PC gamers.
Steam is the world's most popular PC game distribution platform, with around 120...
Intel shows how Arc A750 and Arc A770 cards beat RTX 3060 on price-to-performance
Intel has claimed that its upcoming Intel Arc 750 and Arc 770 graphics cards beat Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3060 on a price-to-performance basis.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger confirmed pricing for the company's new...
Nvidia unveils RTX 4090 and 4080 — while South African retailers discount RTX 30 stock
The world's biggest graphics card maker Nvidia unveiled its first GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs — the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 — during Tuesday's GPU Technology Conference 2022.
The cards are based on the...
Graphics card prices plummeting after Ethereum Merge — but beware timing your buy
PC gamers in the market for a graphics card might find that the perfect time to pull the trigger on that purchase will be in the coming weeks.
Graphics card prices have plummeted in 2022, and pundits expect them...
Why you might want to wait before buying that new graphics card
Those looking to buy a new high-end graphics card should hold off for the next two to three months, according to a Tom's Hardware report.
Nvidia, AMD, and Intel are all expected to release new high-end graphics cards soon, meaning...