NVIDIA Turing / RTX Latest news

Paul Musiolik, 13 February 2021, 17:58

Nvidia decided to make DLSS 2.0 technology available to a wider range of developers. The official plugin for Unreal Engine 4 is available for free.

Paul Musiolik, 04 January 2021, 21:19

Further rumours suggest the imminent launch of the new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3060 12GB GPUs. There are also rumors of the series being refreshed with the addition of Super models.

Karol Laska, 03 September 2020, 21:15

This is official - DLSS 2.1 technology will see the light of day. Nvidia also provided some details about it, including compatibility with VR sets.

Bart Swiatek, 02 September 2020, 19:59

Nvidia has developed a new RTX IO technology to enable much faster loading of data from SSD. The process will be done without the processor - the files will go directly from the media to the GPU memory, which will increase performance and reduce the size of games.

Bart Swiatek, 06 August 2020, 13:21

According to leaks published in an Asian website, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti may debut in mid-September this year. In later months, more Ampere-based chipsets will appear on the market - the GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3060.

Bart Swiatek, 31 July 2020, 12:40

Another leak suggests that the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 - the most powerful Ampere-based chipset - will be about 50% faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

Bart Swiatek, 27 July 2020, 11:48

The results of Nvidia's latest GPUs in the OctaneBench benchmark have appeared online. The GPU achieved a record result, more than 40% better than the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. It's worth noting that the benchmark did not test the final product that will go to customers, but a test variant of the most powerful Ampere chipset.

Bart Swiatek, 01 July 2020, 14:39

Nvidia announced that the PC version of Kojima Productions' Death Stranding will receive support for DLSS 2.0. The feature is designed to deliver great performance on every card in the Nvidia GeForce RTX Series.

Bart Swiatek, 13 March 2020, 11:15

An entry in the EEC (Eurasian Economic Union) database suggests that Nvidia is planning to improve the specifications of the GeForce RTX 2060, and more specifically, to add two additional gigabytes of VRAM.

Bart Swiatek, 18 February 2020, 10:42

Jensen Huang, President of Nvidia, believes that gaming laptops equipped with the company's technology will be the most popular „game consoles” on the market.

Bart Swiatek, 17 February 2020, 13:00

A Twitter conversation between CD Projekt RED and Nvidia suggests that the latter may launch a collector's edition of one of its GPU models, associated with Cyberpunk 2077. The most probable candidate seems to be... GeForce RTX 2077.

Bart Swiatek, 27 January 2020, 14:40

Marty Stratton, executive producer of Doom Eternal, revealed in an interview for Digital Foundry that id Software is just beginning work on the implementation of ray tracing in the game. The developer also pointed out that his team has some interesting ideas for using this technology.

Bart Swiatek, 17 January 2020, 13:38

Nvidia has decided to lower the price of the reference model of GeForce RTX 2060, which means custom designs will get cheaper as well. Nvidia's move is related to the upcoming release of the competing Radeon RX 5600 XT.

Bart Swiatek, 08 January 2020, 11:53

It looks like Nvidia is planning to lower the price of GeForce RTX 2060, the weakest Turing-based chipset that supports ray tracing. The move will most likely be the answer to the January launch of Radeon RX 5600 XT.

Bart Swiatek, 05 December 2019, 14:30

Colette Kress, CFO of Nvidia, stated at the Credit Suisse Annual Technology Conference 2019 that two-thirds of the GPUs currently sold by Nvidia support ray-tracing technology.

Bart Swiatek, 27 November 2019, 20:50

In the third quarter of this year, Nvidia's GPU enjoyed greater popularity than the products of the competitive AMD. The former can boast a market share of 72.95%, which is 5% more than in the previous three months.

Bart Swiatek, 16 October 2019, 11:46

During PAX Aus 2019 a Minecraft gameplay with official ray-tracing support was presented. After the changes the title looks very good.

Bart Swiatek, 26 September 2019, 12:50

VideoCardz reports that Nvidia may be getting ready for the release of its next GPU, the GeForce GTX 1660 Super. The chipset would debut in October and sport a fast GDDR6 memory.

Bart Swiatek, 18 September 2019, 14:39

Notebook Check has tested the mobile versions of Nvidia GeForce RTX GPU against their desktop counterparts. The results are not impressive - the difference in performance in one case is up to 25%.

Michael Kulakowski, 17 September 2019, 22:48

As part of Nvidia's special offer, those who purchase GeForce RTX family graphics cards or gaming computers and laptops equipped with them will receive a code to download Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. The game of Infinity Ward will launch in stores at the end of October.

Bart Swiatek, 05 September 2019, 20:03

Square Enix revealed a demo showing the capabilities of the latest version of Luminous Engine graphics technology. The engine supports the famed ray tracing and its capabilities are truly impressive.

Paul Wozniak, 20 August 2019, 19:25

Nvidia's GeForce Now gaming streaming service on Android devices has been announced. In addition, we learned that the company has prepared servers with graphics cards from the series RTX, which will support all the latest games.

Conrad Hazi, 19 August 2019, 15:20

With the latest update to the popular AIDA64 tool, information about a new GPU, which may turn out to be RTX 2080 Ti Super, has appeared. However, the available data is ambiguous and we might yet learn that a refreshed version of the Titan RTX or a Quadro RTX model is in the pipeline.

Konrad Serafinski, 19 August 2019, 13:32

Nvidia has shared a short trailer presenting ray tracing technology in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Participants of gamescom 2019 will be able to test the title with all the graphic bells and whistles.

Bart Swiatek, 23 July 2019, 18:57

Nvidia's new GeForce RTX 2080 Super GPU was released today, and testing is now available on the web. Is the new Nvidia product good enough to be taken into account when looking for a graphic card? Or maybe it's better to bet on one of the older models or Radeon VII from AMD?

Conrad Hazi, 07 July 2019, 02:06

The leaks that circulated over the Internet yesterday turned out to be true and we already know officially that the new Radeon RX 5700 series GPU will be cheaper than announced. The price reductions are quite significant and it seems that they can give AMD a fighting chance against Nvidia.

Conrad Hazi, 05 July 2019, 12:54

The rumors suggesting that Samsung will produce chipsets for Nvidia manufactured in the 7 nm process have been officially confirmed. The Korean giant is expected to prepare engineering samples later this year, and the cards will be ready for mass production next year.

Bart Swiatek, 02 July 2019, 22:46

New Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 and 2070 Super GPU are being tested online. Are the new Nvidia GPUs good enough to challenge the competitive AMD Radeon RX 5000 Series?

Conrad Hazi, 27 June 2019, 14:39

New GeForce Super Series GPUs will be introduced on July 2. The date was confirmed by Nvidia, which also informed that the embargo on the first reviews of the RTX 2060 Super and RTX 2070 Super models would expire on the same day.

Conrad Hazi, 21 June 2019, 23:22

Earlier unofficial reports have not been confirmed and Nvidia has not presented the long-awaited GeForce RTX from the Super family. However, new leaks have appeared, suggesting that the official announcement and their market launch is planned for July.

Conrad Hazi, 09 June 2019, 14:21

New leaks concerning the unannounced GPU from Nvidia, dubbed „Super” have surfaced on the web. They provide a handful of information on the key performance differences in the specifications of new chipsets.

Conrad Hazi, 03 June 2019, 14:50

After Nvidia published a short video stating that „something super” was coming, speculations were made on the Internet suggesting that refreshed versions of RTX 2060, 2070 and 2080 cards would be available on the market. Interestingly, they are said to be more powerful and cheaper than the models currently available on the market.

Bart Swiatek, 27 May 2019, 14:45

Nvidia presented Quake II RTX - a new version of id Software's game from 1997, supporting ray tracing. The game will debut in June and require a GPU with hardware-based ray-tracing support. Three single-player levels will be made available for free.