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Lenovo has introduced its all-new ThinkStation machines designed for performance-hungry professionals. The new ThinkStation P-series lineup consists of four machines based on up to two Intel Sapphire Rapids processors and up to four Nvidia RTX-series professional graphics cards. One of the interesting wrinkles in Lenovo's announcement is that the chassis of the new workstations were co-designed with Aston Martin, an automaker whose designers use ThinkStations to build cars. Lenovo's latest ThinkStation P-series family of workstations is composed of three base machines: the top-of-the-range ThinkStation PX based on two 4th Generation Xeon Scalable 'Sapphire Rapids' processors with up to 120 cores in total as well as up to four Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada Lovelace graphics cards with 48GB of GDDR6 memory onboard; the high-end ThinkStation P7...
Launching Today: NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 - Aiming For Mainstream At $329
NVIDIA this morning is launching their previously announced GeForce RTX 3060. First unveiled back at CES 2021, the latest member of the GeForce RTX 30 series is continuing NVIDIA’s...
118 by Ryan Smith on 2/25/2021NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 Gets a Release Date: February 25th
NVIDIA this morning has sent over a quick note revealing the release date for their next GeForce desktop video card, the RTX 3060. The mainstream(ish) video card, previously revealed...
74 by Ryan Smith on 2/12/2021NVIDIA Launches Server Certification Program, Offering Direct Technical Support
While a good deal of NVIDIA’s success in servers over the last decade has of course come from their proficient GPUs, as a business NVIDIA these days is much...
10 by Ryan Smith on 1/26/2021NVIDIA Reveals GeForce RTX 3060: Launching Late February For $329
Alongside today’s CES-centric announcement of their new GeForce RTX 30 series parts for laptops, NVIDIA also offered an in-depth reveal of their next desktop graphics card, the GeForce RTX...
40 by Ryan Smith on 1/12/2021NVIDIA Announces GeForce RTX 30 Series for Laptops: Mobile Ampere Available Jan. 26th
As the cornerstone of their CES 2021 keynote, NVIDIA today has announced their GeForce RTX 30 series graphics adapters for laptops. Based on the same Ampere architecture and the...
24 by Ryan Smith on 1/12/2021The NVIDIA GeForce CES 2021 Live Blog: Game On
Kicking off in a few minutes is NVIDIA's keynote for CES 2021. Dubbed “GeForce RTX: Game On”, the keynote is going to be presented by Jeff Fisher, NVIDIA’s Senior...
21 by Ryan Smith & Andrei Frumusanu on 1/12/2021The Ampere Altra Review: 2x 80 Cores Arm Server Performance Monster
Earlier in the year we have a good look at the first ever Arm Neoverse-N1 CPU in the form s of the Graviton2 from Amazon. Whilst that chip was...
148 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/18/2020NVIDIA Schedules GeForce CES Presentation for January 12th
Even though the 2021 edition of CES will be an entirely virtual affair due to the ongoing coronoavirus pandemic, a number of major companies have still been lining up...
40 by Ryan Smith on 12/16/2020Launching This Week: NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, A Smaller Bite of Ampere For $400
After a short holiday break, NVIDIA’s gradual rollout of their Ampere family of GeForce video cards is resuming this week with the launch of the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti...
55 by Ryan Smith on 12/1/2020NVIDIA Announces A100 80GB: Ampere Gets HBM2E Memory Upgrade
Kicking off a very virtual version of the SC20 supercomputing show, NVIDIA this morning is announcing a new version of their flagship A100 accelerator. Barely launched 6 months ago...
29 by Ryan Smith on 11/16/2020More On NVIDIA Quadro Brand Retirement: Embracing the Graphics and Compute Overlap
Now that NVIDIA’s second GTC event of the year has wrapped up, we’ve finally gotten a chance to follow up with NVIDIA on last week’s announcement of their RTX...
35 by Ryan Smith on 10/13/2020Quadro No More? NVIDIA Announces Ampere-based RTX A6000 & A40 Video Cards For Pro Visualization
NVIDIA’s second GTC of 2020 is taking place this week, and as has quickly become a tradition, one of CEO Jensen Huang’s “kitchenside chats” kicks off the event. As...
29 by Ryan Smith on 10/5/2020NVIDIA Delays GeForce RTX 3070 Launch to October 29th
In a brief news post made to their GeForce website last night, NVIDIA has announced that they have delayed the launch of the upcoming GeForce RTX 3070 video card...
105 by Ryan Smith on 10/2/2020Oracle Announces Upcoming Cloud Compute Instances: Ice Lake and Milan, A100 and Altra
When the name “Oracle” is thrown around, hardware isn’t typically the first thing that comes to mind for most people. But, like other large tech companies that originally made...
18 by Ryan Smith on 9/22/2020NVIDIA Announces the GeForce RTX 30 Series: Ampere For Gaming, Starting With RTX 3080 & RTX 3090
With much anticipation and more than a few leaks, NVIDIA this morning is announcing the next generation of video cards, the GeForce RTX 30 series. Based upon the gaming...
410 by Ryan Smith on 9/1/2020The NVIDIA GeForce Special Event 2020 Live Blog (Starts at 9:00 PT/16:00 UTC)
With much anticipation and more than a few leaks, today is NVIDIA's 2020 GeForce Special event. We're expecting the announcement of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 30 series of cards, based...
51 by Ryan Smith on 9/1/2020NVIDIA Confirms 12-pin GPU Power Connector
Today as part of a video showcasing NVIDIA’s mechanical and industrial design of its GPUs, and how it gets a large GPU to dissipate heat, the company went into...
80 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/26/2020Micron Spills on GDDR6X: PAM4 Signaling For Higher Rates, Coming to NVIDIA’s RTX 3090
It would seem that Micron this morning has accidentally spilled the beans on the future of graphics card memory technologies – and outed one of NVIDIA’s next-generation RTX video...
68 by Ryan Smith on 8/20/2020Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: NVIDIA A100 Performance (5:00pm PT)
Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...
10 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/17/2020Update: NVIDIA Teases GeForce Presentation For September 1st - Ampere Inbound?
Update 8/11: A day later, NVIDIA has published a bit more information, clarifying their product teasing and announcement plans. It looks like NVIDIA's Twitter feed jumped the gun a...
49 by Ryan Smith on 8/11/2020