NVIDIA
With NVIDIA’s Turing architecture turning six years old this year, the company has been retiring many of the remaining Turing products from its video card lineup. And today that spirit of spring cleaning is coming to the entry-level segment of NVIDIA’s professional visualization lineup, where NVIDIA is introducing a pair of new desktop cards based on their low-end Ampere hardware. The new RTX A1000 and RTX A400 cards will be replacing the T1000/T600/T400 lineup, which was released three years ago in 2021. The new cards slot into the same entry-level category and finally finish fleshing out the RTX A series of proviz cards, offering NVIDIA’s Ampere-generation professional graphics technologies in the lowest-power, lowest-performance, lowest-cost configuration possible. Notably, since the entry-level T-series were based on NVIDIA’s feature-limited...
NVIDIA Teases Next Flagship Video Card
As many of you no doubt suspect, NVIDIA is in fact getting ready to launch their next flagship video card. The NDA does not expire for another 48 hours...
69 by Ryan Smith on 3/22/2011NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 550 Ti: Coming Up Short At $150
Throughout the lifetime of the 400 series, NVIDIA launched 4 GPUs: GF100, GF104, GF106, and GF108. Launched in that respective order, they became the GTX 480, GTX 460, GTS...
79 by Ryan Smith on 3/15/2011ASUS G73SW + SNB: Third Time’s the Charm?
With the Cougar Point chipset glitch starting to fade away, we’re starting to get Sandy Bridge systems in for testing. ASUS sent us over an earlier version of their...
57 by Jarred Walton on 3/4/2011AVADirect's Clevo P170HM with GeForce GTX 485M: High-End You've Been Waiting For
When we reviewed the Clevo W880CU and, by extension, NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 480M, we were perplexed. Certainly NVIDIA had reclaimed the mobile graphics crown and no one could dispute...
28 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/28/2011NVIDIA Announces CUDA 4.0
The last time we discussed CUDA and Tesla in depth was in September of 2010. At the time NVIDIA had just recently launched their lineup of Fermi-powered Tesla products...
45 by Ryan Smith on 2/28/2011Motorola Xoom Review: The First Honeycomb Tablet Arrives
A year has passed without a significant Android competitor to Apple's iPad. Today that all changes as Google and Motorola unveil the world's first Honeycomb tablet: the Xoom. With...
112 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/23/2011Samsung's Tegra 2 Superphone: The GT-I9103
On Day 0 of this year's Mobile World Congress Samsung and NVIDIA announced that the new Galaxy Tab 10.1 will come to market with NVIDIA's Tegra 2 (T20) SoC...
29 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/16/2011NVIDIA's Project Kal-El: Quad-Core A9s Coming to Smartphones/Tablets This Year
NVIDIA just dropped a bombshell. Not only is its third generation Tegra architecture, codenamed Kal-El, back from the fab but it's up and running Android after only 12 days...
77 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/15/2011Samsung Intros NVIDIA Tegra 2 based Galaxy Tab 10.1 & New Superphone, Galaxy S II Debuts
Including Apple, we've covered six major players in the high end smartphone SoC space: Apple, Intel, NVIDIA, TI, Samsung and Qualcomm. Not all of these six will survive in...
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/13/2011The Motorola Atrix 4G Preview
A couple of months ago I had the opportunity to join a bunch of NVIDIA employees for dinner. Among those at the table were Michael Toksvig and Tony Tamasi...
41 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/13/2011LG Optimus 2X & NVIDIA Tegra 2 Review: The First Dual-Core Smartphone
2011 is going to be a year dominated by multi-core smartphone launches, but there always has to be a first. So just like that, we have our first example...
75 by Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/7/2011NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 560 Ti: Upsetting The $250 Market
Late last year we saw GF110, the first of the revised Fermi family. Utilizing a new low-level transistor design intended to minimize transistor leakage, GF110 brought with it GTX...
87 by Ryan Smith on 1/25/2011Intel Settles With NVIDIA: More Money, Fewer Problems, No x86
NVIDIA and Intel just released their respective PR announcements a bit ago, but after much rumor mongering it’s official: Intel and NVIDIA are the latest duo to bury the...
30 by Ryan Smith on 1/10/2011Updated: The License Agreement: Intel to Pay NVIDIA $1.5 Billion
Update 2: Our full analysis of the agreement is now available here: Intel Settles With NVIDIA: More Money, Fewer Problems, No x86 In about 30 minutes NVIDIA will host a...
32 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/10/2011CES 2011: Motorola Xoom & NVIDIA Tegra 2: The Honeycomb Platform
The two biggest announcements at CES 2011? Intel’s Sandy Bridge and pretty much everything NVIDIA talked about at its press conference (as well as the MS Windows 8/ARM announcement...
8 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/10/2011Anand Goes Hands On with Motorola's Atrix 4G Webtop
Today I was finally able to spend some time with Motorola’s Atrix 4G and its webtop dock. For those of you who don’t know, earlier in the week Motorola...
63 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/7/2011Hands On With Motorola's Tegra 2 Devices: Atrix 4G, Droid Bionic, XOOM Tablet
Today Motorola unveiled 4 new Android based devices during their press conference at CES today; three smartphones and 1 tablet. We were able to get some limited hands...
21 by Manveer Wasson on 1/6/2011NVIDIA GeForce 500M: Refreshing the 400M
Just four months ago, NVIDIA released their top-to-bottom 400M lineup. Since the announcement, it took about a month but we then got the ASUS G73Jw (460M), Dell XPS L501x...
29 by Jarred Walton on 1/5/2011NVIDIA's Project Denver: NV Designed, High Performance ARM Core: Updated!
NVIDIA's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang just announced Project Denver - its first CPU architecture design ever, based on ARM's ISA. This is a custom design done by NVIDIA in conjunction...
49 by Brian Klug on 1/5/2011NVIDIA's Tegra 2 Take Two: More Architectural Details and Design Wins
Twelve months ago NVIDIA stood on stage at CES and introduced its Tegra 2 SoC. It promised dozens of design wins and smartphones shipping before Spring 2010. That obviously...
21 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/5/2011