And makes do with a Core CPU—pro machines continue to evolve. Asus showed a lineup of Nvidia-powered notebooks at IFA. It was a clean sweep and something of a coup for Nvidia in that three of the five units had Quadro workstation GPUs in them, while the other two had consumer-grade RTX GPUs. Based on the Nvidia ACE concept design, and keying off of Nvidia’s Studio … [Read more...] about Asus squeezes 24 GB and a Quadro in a laptop
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AMD total GPU market share exceeds Nvidia
…but Nvidia still dominant discrete GPU supplier. The dynamics of the market still have the power to surprise. Our Market Watch report for the second quarter of 2019 raised eyebrows when it revealed that AMD had reached a new milestone by selling more GPUs than Nvidia. AMD's achievement is significant and has been hard-won, but it’s not exactly the harbinger of a new world … [Read more...] about AMD total GPU market share exceeds Nvidia
Nvidia speeds up the game with smart pre-rendering
Click the mouse, see something happen. Nvidia revamps pre-rendering scheme to keep up with AMD's similar feature and improve game play. Back in 2015 or earlier, Nvidia introduced a nice feature to help keep frame rates up with the users’ expectations. They called it Maximum Pre-Rendered Frames, also known as Max Frames to Render Ahead. It controls the number of frames the … [Read more...] about Nvidia speeds up the game with smart pre-rendering
Nvidia’s Q2 FY20 results
$2.58 billion in sales, $552 million profit, up 40% from last quarter. Nvidia reported revenue from all platforms up for the quarter. The company’s GPU business revenue was $2.1 billion, up 4% from last quarter, but down 21% from last year. “We achieved sequential growth across our platforms,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia. “Realtime ray tracing is the most … [Read more...] about Nvidia’s Q2 FY20 results
AMD and Samsung announce GPU strategic partnership
Samsung to integrate custom AMD Radeon graphics IP into future SoCs for mobile applications. Back in 2009, AMD, after recently acquiring ATI, decided to get out of the mobile phone GPU business and sold the IP and other assets to Qualcomm (for $65 million). Qualcomm hired most of AMD’s group in Finland (that came out of Bitboys) and shortly thereafter introduced the Snapdragon … [Read more...] about AMD and Samsung announce GPU strategic partnership