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NVIDIA launches GeForce GTX 670, Zotac’s AMP! Reviewed

Purveyor of graphics chips NVIDIA has followed up on the launch of its GeForce GTX 680 with the second card in the 6-series, the GeForce GTX 670. On the face of it, the two cards are almost identical:...

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Will cloud-based gaming kill off gaming PCs? We ask Gaikai’s David Perry

David Perry is a cloud-based gaming evangelist, as well as the man behind MDK, Earthworm Jim and Enter the Matrix. Sony are big fans too; they just bought his cloud-based gaming service, Gaikai, for a...

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Nvidia releases new tech demo to show off Kepler-based GPUs

Ten years ago Nvidia released Dawn, a GeForce FX tech demo featuring a fairy gymnast as seen through the tunnel vision of someone who’s been eating unidentified fungi. It was impressive, but in the...

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GeForce GTX 660Ti early review spotted

Hardware review site Tweaktown appears to have got its hands on an early sample of NVIDIA’s forthcoming GeForce GTX 660Ti, and put it through its paces for a full review. The 660 Ti is perhaps the...

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Khronos releases OpenGL 4.3

As if to reinforce all the recent talk that there may be another way for PC gaming, open source steering group Khronos has announced the latest update to OpenGL. Release 4.3 brings the cross platform...

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Nvidia launches GTX 660Ti, EVGA Superclocked Edition tested

Graphics card manufacturer NVIDIA has launched its mid-range Kepler chips, henceforth to be known as GeForce GTX 660Ti. Variations at different clockspeeds will be on sale from all the usual board...

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GeForce GTX 660 specs released

Graphics chip maker NVIDIA has detailed the specs for a forthcoming GeForce GTX 660 card over on its website, surprising some of us with the news that the follow up to the GTX 660Ti will be OEM only....

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GeForce GTX 660 and 650 launch: Nvidia’s sub £200/$250 Kepler polygon pushers...

It’s been an interminably long time coming, but Nvidia has finally launched the sub-£200 graphics based on its new Kepler chip architecture. Today’s announcement sees a brace of polygon pushers out...

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New Nvidia and AMD drivers boost frame rates

I promised earlier in the week to give you a run down of what exactly the driver improvements touted by AMD for its ‘Never Settle’ driver release of Catalyst 12.11. Not to be outdone on the driver...

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Nvidia 310.54 drivers boost Black Ops 2, show off changes with Commander...

As is its wont, Nvidia have released a new set of beta graphics drivers, hot on the heels of the 310.33 release a couple of weeks back. This is being called an “essential upgrade for all GeForce GTX...

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World’s new fastest supercomputer powered by gaming tech

The TITAN system based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has usurped IBM’s sequoia to become the fastest supercomputer in the world, the Economist report. It took three years to build 200 cabinet...

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GeForce Experience beta launches: Help Nvidia help you optimize your graphics...

Back in April at the unveiling of the GeForce GTX 690 in Shanghai, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang also announced an ambitious project intended to make PC gaming as simple and streamlined as possible for...

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Nvidia giving out free Metro 2033 keys on Facebook

Happy bleak post-apocalyptic holidays! Hardware giant Nvidia is giving away free digital copies of Metro 2033 in exchange for hitting the “Like” button on its Facebook page. The promotion lasts until...

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GeForce Experience: hands-on with Nvidia’s optimisation tool-kit

GeForce Experience is an application that recommends the optimal settings for any game in its database for your exact configuration of hardware. I’ve been chasing Nvidia for months trying to secure...

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Next-gen consoles will struggle to beat PC, say industry insiders

A number of industry insiders have suggested that the hardware underpinning the next generation of consoles is already some way behind that of the PC gaming rigs of today. And with the likes of...

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NVIDIA’s Project Shield: an Android-based handheld with Steam Big Picture...

The tech world has gotten itself into a lather over the bombardment of announcements coming out of Consumer Electronics Show. Here’s one that’s relevant to us, though: NVIDIA’s Project Shield. While...

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Nvidia’s GeForce Experience is now open to all, green-hued gamers rejoice

If you’ve got an Nvidia graphics card then get over to their website now and download the open beta for the GeForce Experience. It’s been in closed beta since before Christmas and now Nvidia has now...

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Nvidia 313.95 beta drivers improve performance for Crysis 3 beta, Assassin’s...

On the cusp of an open multiplayer beta for Crytek’s maximally lustrous Crysis 3, Nvidia released an early version of its GeForce 313.95 drivers today. The GPU giant claims the drivers boost SLI...

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Asus GTX 650-E unveiled – a graphics card for the low-wattage generation

This is the new Asus GTX 650-E, a low-power graphics card that takes all the juice it needs from your motherboard, without the need for a secondary power connector from the PSU itself. That means even...

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3DMark wars: Nvidia and AMD go head-to-head on our test rig. Who wins?

The new version of Futuremark’s 3DMark has just been released, offering us all ways to benchmark our graphics cards and PCs by using Matrix-esque squid robots. And who wouldn’t want to be able to do...

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13 years of PC graphics benchmarks in one video

PC graphics have come a long way since the year 2000, when Deus Ex was our Game of the Year, people were emerging from panic about the breakdown of Western society, and the Lord of the Rings was still...

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Planetside 2 official PhysX support incoming, can be enabled now with simple...

PhysX, Nvidia’s fancy-pants physics engine, is due to be added into Planetside 2 at some point in the future. The middleware – often used to add pretty, if largely pointless, physics-based visual...

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Nvidia and AMD go head-to-head in the bundle wars. Do you want triple-A...

Nvidia have hit back in the great bundle wars earlier this week with their own $150 F2P content giveaway. That’s around £100 in ‘real’ money. If the lure of having a brand new performance pixel-pusher...

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Nvidia unveil the GTX Titan. An elegant weapon for a more civilised age.

Anyone remember Cray unveiling their new Titan supercomputer at the tail-end of last year? Y’know, that vast data-munching machine housing 18688 of Nvidia’s Tesla K20 graphics cards, each of which go...

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Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan review

When I first saw the Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan a couple weeks before launch Nvidia’s Tom Petersen explained that it was their “love story to gamers. It looks great, it sounds great and it has great...

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Resident Evil 6 benchmarking tool prepares your PC for the coming horror

Whether you want to play Resident Evil 6 is a matter best left to reviews. Whether you can play it is something we can answer right now. Nvidia and Capcom have teamed up to create a benchmark app for...

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PC Gamer US Podcast #345 – Does PS4 Even Lift?

This week, Tyler, Omri, and roguish host/space cowboy T.J. discuss whether or not Sony’s PS4 announcement is relevant to PC gamers. And if it is, how relevant is it, really? Also, Nvidia’s GTX Titan...

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Tomb Raider’s GeForce performance issues being looked at by Nvidia and...

Wait, does the wolf get fancy TressFX hair too? Nvidia released a new beta version of their GeForce driver this week, once again squeezing more incremental improvements from a bunch of games, both new...

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Is Tomb Raider’s performance trouble the herald of things to come for...

Lara’s locks are proving a problem for Nvidia customers, whose graphics cards are struggling to handle the AMD-developed hair-rendering technology. Given that Nvidia owns two thirds of the GPU market,...

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Tomb Raider patch provides hair care for Nvidia users

Think of this latest Tomb Raider patch as the conditioner for AMD’s fancy hair tech TressFX. Owners of Nvidia cards had been experiencing extreme optimisation issues when choosing to let Lara’s hair...

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Nvidia unveils Face Works – video capture tech accurate to a tenth of a...

It seems like you can’t claim to be in the business of next-gen technology these days until you’ve wheeled out a giant floating man-face. David Cage summoned the disembodied head of Max von Sydow to...

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Warframe jacks into open beta with a PhysX trailer

Digital Extremes isn’t just working on naked space dinos. It’s also busy with bringing us armored space cyborg ninjas in Warframe, its co-op third-person shooter showing up later this year. It hit...

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Nvidia GeForce 314.22 drivers boost BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider performance

As it typically does for a major game launch, Nvidia has updated its GeForce card drivers to 314.22 for boosts in performance and stability. It claims recent titans BioShock Infinite and Tomb Raider...

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GDC 2013: Nvidia tech demo shows massive real-time destruction

If this was a movie, the end of this video would pull back to reveal a round-table of world leaders staring dumbfounded. Then, Nvidia’s PhysX SDK Research Lead Matthias Müller-Fischer, would appear on...

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GDC 2013: Hawken “destruction demo level” brings down the house

GDC may be over, but there’s still the clean up operation to be performed. Discarded bits of news lay strewn across the show’s floor, waiting for us to scoop them up and put them on their digital...

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Asus GTX 670 DirectCU Mini: pint-sized without compromise?

Asus have unveiled their latest effort to squeeze performance components into a miniscule form factor. The diminutive GTX 670 DirectCU Mini has just landed on my desk and what they say is true; size...

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Asus GTX 670 DirectCU Mini review

I really, really want to love this diminutive new card from Asus. It’s fantastically well engineered and at once quicker, quieter and cooler than the reference design card from Nvidia itself. It also...

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SLI remarks: two Nvidia GTX 650 Ti Boosts are faster and cheaper than a GTX 670

As a techie person and all-round good egg, people often ask me for advice and assistance putting gaming systems together. And more often than you might think I get asked specifically about building...

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Win StarCraft II goodies and a GeForce GTX 670 in PC Gamer UK 252

It’s finally summer – or something like it – and that means its time to find brilliant reasons to stay inside and order tiny spacemen about. That’s why we’re giving away a bundle of StarCraft II...

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Download NVIDIA’s new uncanny valley-thwarting face rendering demo

Getting faces across the uncanny valley is one of the loftier challenges facing modern day graphics folk, but they’re slowly getting there. Shirking the age old tradition of using wrinkly old men in...

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Nvidia surprised the Titan outsold the year-old GTX 690 in just 3 months....

Nvidia’s dual-GPU behemoth, the GeForce GTX 690, has been out in the wild for over a year now, but the equally freakishly expensive GTX Titan has outsold it in less than three months. Now either the...

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 review

Just as we were warming up for Intel’s Haswell CPU, Nvidia go and drop a whole new generation of graphics cards on our laps, with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 at the vanguard. Well, when I say “whole...

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Nvidia court Youtubers with ShadowPlay recording feature: “like Sky Plus for...

Nvidia have just launched their latest high-end graphics card, the GeForce GTX 780, and an impressively quick, but expensive card it is too. Alongside that we’ll also be getting some interesting...

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E3 2013: The impact on the PC

The new consoles have the spotlight at E3 2013 this year, but what will the expo’s many reveals, demos, hardware rollouts, and buzzwords mean for the PC? Is this even a show for us at all, with the...

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Nvidia heralds PC as the “best gaming experience” in E3 press conference

Nvidia did some well-deserved strutting at E3 yesterday, showing off the superiority of the PC as a gaming platform. With charts and graphs and maybe just a teeny tiny hint of bitterness that AMD...

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How AMD’s hardware in next-gen consoles will affect PC gamers

We’ve known AMD are the go-to guys for next-gen console silicon for a good while now. The tech press has been speculating since the consoles’ specs were first announced as to how the PC could benefit...

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 review

Component manufacturers love the bombastic use of military speak and the double whammy of GTX 700 series releases from Nvidia certainly have something of the shock-and-awe about them. This latest...

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EVGA GeForce GTX 760 Superclocked review

Nvidia upped the clocks on its cut down GK 104 and EVGA decided to go one better with the GTX 760 Superclocked. But with the reference card’s GPU already hauling as much gaming load as its silicon can...

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Nvidia CloudLight: using cloud computing to deliver faster lighting

Remember Microsoft making some noises about the Xbox One’s cloud-rendering power? To somewhat offset the fact they’re jamming a weaker GPU into their gaming slab than Sony is with the PlayStation 4,...

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Watch Dogs PC version getting some Nvidia treats

Nvidia wrote a little blog post announcing Nvidia and Ubisoft have joined forces to pretty up the PC versions of a few upcoming titles, including the surveillance pipe dream known as Watch Dogs. While...

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