After many months of talking up its latest architecture, Nvidia reclaimed the single-GPU performance crown with its GeForce GTX 680, which outpaced the Radeon HD 7970 by about 7 per cent in our tests. Kepler’s arrival forced AMD to slash prices across its Southern Islands lineup, including a $US70 drop on the HD 7970, putting it at $US479 or about 4 per cent cheaper than the GTX 680′s MSRP of $US499.
Capping off Nvidia’s tease from earlier in the week, the company has taken the wraps off the GeForce GTX 690, which will be out on May 3. Price? Oh, a mere $US999.
The Xbox 360 was released in 2005. Back then, its three-core PowerPC CPU and ATI R520-based GPU were respectable pieces of hardware. Today, almost 40 per cent of PC gamers have quad-core CPUs and a video card that would disintegrate the Xbox 360′s “Xenos” GPU with a mere glance. But it’s not the PC, or even consoles, that holds the attention of the gaming industry. No, mobile phones are the focus now.
It’s coming, everybody. Nvidia’s GeForce Facebook page updated this morning to ensure fans of the video card line knew that. And now you know. Don’t thank me. Wait, what’s coming?
This video is described as (and almost certainly is) the launch video for Nvidia’s new GPU, the GTX680, leaked ahead of schedule.
3D technology loves dual video cards, but gaming laptop manufacturers tend to shy away from dropping a pair of NVIDIA mobile cards in their machines. Something about keeping down cost. As I’ve demonstrated in the past, Origin PC isn’t a company that shies away from making a really expensive product, especially when it gets them a ‘first’ achievement.
When it comes to sim gamers, nothing is too expensive or too out of the ordinary. They will pay any price to have an experience that is as close to the real thing as possible. Meet the VRX iMotion. Nvidia was showing this bad boy off at their booth at CES this year, so I just had to give it a whirl.
This past week at CES, NVIDIA and ASUS teamed up to show off The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim running on ASUS’ latest and greatest tablet — the Transformer Prime.
