Double the impact: 12VHPWR connector «killed» NVIDIA RTX 4090 and power supply at the same time
The troubles with the 16-pin 12VHPWR power connector for video cards continue. NVIDIA RTX 4090 owner shares on Korean forum Quasar Zone a horrifying story about how melted connector «has dragged» to the grave not only the video card but also the power supply.
Intel said that motherboard manufacturers are overclocking processors by default and asked them not to do so
Intel has officially responded to the the problem of compatibility of proprietary processors with NVIDIA video cards. Igor Vallossek from the site Igor’s Lab has published a message from Intel to motherboard developers confirming that most of the blame for the situation lies with them. As a reminder, we are talking about video memory errors and…
Linux games get a performance boost with new NVIDIA NVK Vulkan graphics card driver
The NVIDIA NVK Vulkan driver for Linux has received a significant update that will significantly improve gaming performance by implementing implicit pipeline caching. This optimization method allows the video card to reuse rendered content and pipeline configurations. This eliminates the need for pipeline reprogramming and improves performance.
Selected NVIDIA — MSI Radeon RX graphics cards disappear
MSI Radeon RX 7000 series video cards are mysteriously disappearing from stores around the world Australia, USA and Germany. The company recognizes this fact and commented on it for the website Hardware Luxx:
NVIDIA graphics cards vs Intel processors: the hardware conflict is resolved by motherboard manufacturers
Motherboard manufacturers offer solutions compatibility issues between NVIDIA graphics cards and Intel processors 13 and 14 generations from the K-series. As expected, they changed the processor profiles and lowered the TDP limits that were too high. As a reminder, we are talking about video memory errors and stability issues when compiling shaders…
NVIDIA CEO worked as a courier — Jensen Huang delivered the first DGX H200 AI accelerator to Sam Altman of OpenAI
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang personally delivered the world’s first DGX H200 artificial intelligence accelerator to Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of OpenAI. The trio shared a photo on Twitter as a souvenir.
Nvidia’s history: from children’s video games to world domination
Let’s talk about a successful company that has gone through a thorny path from a small electronics designer to the largest semiconductor technology empire — the story of Nvidia is a success story and an exemplary gold mine for shareholders. How did it all start, what is the GPU revolution, why are video games not […]
Not everyone at NVIDIA is a millionaire — shares have to be sold, says a programmer with a salary of $250 thousand per year
An NVIDIA employee who earns $250,000 dollars a year said that the earnings of the company’s employees «are not as rosy» as some might think. He told us anonymously Business Insiderthat while some NVIDIA employees may have to be lucky enough to become millionairesThis is not always the case. The publication checked the identity and wealth…
NVIDIA develops SFF Enthusiast GeForce — the standard for compact gaming PCs and components
NVIDIA is working with partners to create a new ecosystem of small gaming PCs (SFF, Small Form Factor) with a compact SFF Enthusiast GeForce graphics card. As part of its new initiative. NVIDIA wants to help designers of compact PCs choose the best components. While there are many ways to build a compact PC yourself, there is no specific list of…
«Pension Fund» NVIDIA: how the company’s shares make its employees millionaires
The wealth that can be gained by helping to develop a successful company is vividly illustrated by the example of NVIDIA employees. One of them, an employee «middle management» has accumulated a fortune of $62 million by receiving shares in the company. This option can be a great incentive for employees. However, another NVIDIA employee made a…
NVIDIA graphics cards conflict with Intel Core 13 and 14 K-series processors, but motherboard manufacturers are to blame
NVIDIA has acknowledged the issues that Intel Core 13 and 14 K-series processors have with its graphics cards. These are usually stability issues or video memory errors that occur when compiling shaders in a game. But on the page dedicated to changes in the NVIDIA driver version 552.12 advises users should not contact it, but Intel, which has…
The global PC and laptop market has returned to growth after a two-year decline. The leader is still Lenovo
PC market, as expectedlast quarter returned to growth after a two-year decline, as evidenced by reports from leading analytical agencies IDC and Canalys: in the first quarter of 2024, about 60 million computers were sold worldwide (1.5% more than a year ago).
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 is the dominant video card among Steam users, and the Ukrainian language ranks 14th
A March survey of Steam users showed a significant increase in the number of owners of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards. Despite the fact that this model is about 3 years old, it currently dominates the discrete video cards with an indicator of 6.92%. Compared to the previous month, its share increased by 0.75%. The second place was taken by…
All on AI. How NVIDIA’s revenue structure has changed over the past 5 years (infographic)
Following the AI boom, the key revenue drivers of the largest US chipmaker have changed dramatically.
Zuckerberg was photographed wearing Jensen Huang’s new leather jacket and compared him to «Taylor Swift in the world of technology»
It seems that Zuckerberg likes Huang’s style, but the Nvidia boss looks a bit embarrassed in the picture, as he had to try on Mark’s sheepskin coat instead.
RTX 3050 6GB video card is wildly popular in China — NVIDIA has already raised the recommended price
Despite its extremely «trimmed» configuration, the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB graphics card has become very popular in China. With the discontinuation of the GTX 1650 and GTX 1050, it seems to be a good budget option. NVIDIA’s partner in the country, AIB, is considering raising the price.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang promises fully AI-generated games in 10 years
In recent years, artificial intelligence has learned to quickly create high-quality images and short videos. However, when it comes to our games, most innovations are limited to improving and expanding of content created by people. This may change in the next decade if Jensen Huang’s latest predictions come true. The NVIDIA CEO believes that…
Accelerator with Blackwell GPU will cost $30-40 thousand, but the company wants to sell entire servers for millions of dollars – Jensen Huang
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that the company plans to sell its Blackwell GPU accelerator for artificial intelligence and HPC workloads at $30-40 thousand. However, this is an approximate price, as Nvidia is more inclined to sell the entire stack of data center components, not just the GPU accelerator itself.
NVIDIA and Ubisoft are working on NEO NPCs – AI characters that can react to the actions of players and the environment
NVIDIA has been working on adding generative AI to non-player characters (NPCs) for some time now. During the Game Developers Conference, it showedhow developers can use its artificial intelligence «digital human» tools to voice, animate, and create dialogues for video game characters.
Nvidia AI can turn game characters into chatbots – NPCs with «unique» interaction
During the Game Developers Conference, Nvidia showed how developers can use its artificial intelligence tools «digital human» to voice, animate, and create dialogues for video game characters.
Nvidia launches «digital twin» Omniverse technology on Apple Vision Pro
Omniverse — is Nvidia’s enterprise platform that allows programmers to create digital copies of objects and places and analyze how they would look or behave in the real world.
Nvidia launches platform with generative AI to create humanoid robots
Generative AI will help robots perform actions based on input — a combination of text and speech, video, «human demonstrations» and previous experience.
NVIDIA unveiled the Blackwell architecture, B200 GPUs, NVLINK 7.2T interface, B200 NVL72 servers, and supercomputers based on it
At the GTC March 2024 Keynote event, NVIDIA introduced the Blackwell chip architecture and B200 GPUs based on it. The new GPUs with AI capabilities will replace the retiring H100 and H200 in data centers. Grace Blackwell GB200 chips will combine the Grace architecture with Blackwell.
Startup Aethero aims to become Intel or Nvidia in the space industry
Satellite sensors collect an incredible amount of data, but the limitations of on-orbit computing prevent operators from processing it in space. Aethero, founded a year ago, plans to change that.
Seasonic releases 600W power cables for NVIDIA RTX graphics cards
Seasonic has introduced updated 600W graphics card cables for its power supplies, now offering an H++ connector compatible with the PCIe Gen5/ATX3 standard. This connector, also known as 12V-2×6, replaces the original H+ connector (12VHWPR).
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 graphics cards are credited with GDDR7 memory with a speed of 28 Gbps and 512-bit bus
Insider Kopite7kimi has shared some new details about the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards. Earlier, he claimed that the flagship of this line would receive a 512-bit memory bus, but a few months later this information was denied in favor of information about a 384-bit bus. Now Kopite7kimi is talking about the 512-bit variant…
Microsoft releases Work Graphs API that enables advanced GPU-based rendering
Microsoft has released a new Agility Software Development Kit that provides new features. Agility SDK 1.613 includes Shader Model 6.8 and support for Work Graphs API. The latter is an important feature that will facilitate the use of rendering on GPU drivers, offloading the CPU. GPUs will be able to generate work for themselves «on the fly». This…
Three writers to sue Nvidia for illegal use of their books for AI training
The class action lawsuit, filed Friday night in a San Francisco federal court, says Nvidia used the copyrighted books to train its new NeMo platform, created by the chipmaker as a «fast and affordable way to implement generative AI».
GDDR7 graphics memory standard specifications released — bandwidth up to 192 GB/s
JEDEC has published the specifications for the GDDR7 memory standard. GDDR7 is expected to become the memory of choice for high-end RDNA 4 and Blackwell GPUs, which are rumored to be released next year and will compete for a place on our list of the best graphics cards.
An era has passed: NVIDIA discontinues GeForce GTX 16 series GPUs – the last GTX chips
NVIDIA has discontinued the production of GeForce GTX 16 series GPUs. This was reported by Chinese sources citing the latest roadmap.
Alan Wake 2 patch should improve performance with Nvidia GTX 10 graphics cards (GTX 1080 Ti may double the number of frames)
Alan Wake 2 is about to receive an important patch that will improve the compatibility of the game’s engine with older GPU architectures that did not have Mesh Shading support. When the game was released last year, it required Mesh Shading support to run at the desired performance level. In fact, this resulted in older cards, such as the GTX…
Nvidia CEO believes that artificial intelligence will be able to pass human tests in 5 years
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that artificial general intelligence could appear in five years. It will be able to pass human tests.
NVIDIA B200 Blackwell Accelerator to be released in 2025 and usher in the era of 1000W GPUs – Dell
Dell executives partially disclosed NVIDIA’s plans to release new devices. It turned out that in 2025, NVIDIA intends to release a new B200 accelerator with high power consumption.
Figure 01 humanoid robot developer valued at $2.6 billion — after investments from Bezos, OpenAI and Nvidia
Figure AI has raised $675 million in another round of funding and plans to use the funds to accelerate the development of its humanoid robot Figure 01. Investors include Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Microsoft, CNBC reports.
Microsoft is working with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel to improve upscaling in PC games. The joint project is called DirectSR
Microsoft has introduced a new Windows API designed to enable game developers to seamlessly integrate AI-powered ultra-high-resolution scaling features from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel.
Intel’s new plan — to be inside 100 million AI PCs by next year
First Microsoft has confidently called 2024 the year of AI PCs, and now it’s time for a «astrology» session from Intel, which is targeting 100 million AI computers in two years.
Huang is on a roll. The NVIDIA CEO gained $9.6 billion in one day and is about to enter the top 20 richest people
Together with capitalization of NVIDIA the unstoppable growth of the capital of the permanent captain of the «green» chipmaker and the most influential people — 61-year-old Jensen Huang with 3.5% of NVIDIA shares and a fortune of almost $70 billion is preparing to enter the top 20 richest according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Nvidia App is a new all-in-one program that combines the GeForce Experience with the Control Panel
Nvidia has announced the release of a new program called Nvidia App. It combines the control panel, GeForce Experience, and RTX app into a single user-friendly interface.
The demand for Nvidia chips is so high that Jensen Huang had to assure analysts that the company distributes them «fairly».
The demand for AI chips from Nvidia is so high that co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang had to assure that the company distributes them «fairly».
Nvidia’s financial report — fantastic growth across the board amid the artificial intelligence boom. Profit grew by 265% and net income — by 769%.
Nvidia reported on the results of the fourth fiscal quarter, which exceeded Wall Street’s forecasts for profits and sales, and said that revenues in the current quarter would be better than expected, even despite increased expectations for massive growth. Nvidia shares rose by about 10%.
Legendary processor architect Jim Keller criticizes Nvidia’s CUDA parallel computing architecture
Jim Keller, a legendary processor architect who worked on x86, Arm, MISC, and RISC-V processors, this weekend criticized the architecture of CUDA and the Nvidia software stack and compared it to x86, calling it a swamp. He noted that even Nvidia itself has several specialized software packages that rely on open source frameworks for performance…
NVIDIA to introduce 12VHPWR socket for all RTX 5000 graphics cards, no plans for other manufacturers — Moore’s Law Is Dead
According to the sources of the Youtube channel Moore’s Law Is Dead NVIDIA plans to use a new 16-pin power connector on all Blackwell graphics cards. This is the same connector that powers older NVIDIA RTX 4000 desktop graphics cards. The first version of the connector had problems due to melting connectors and video card failure.