A special white paper by Jon Peddie Research on Nvidia's Omniverse. In May 2020, Nvidia announced USD would be the foundation for its Omniverse, a live collaborative platform that connects a wide variety of content creation tools to each other and to the company’s real-time Nvidia RTX ray tracer. Nvidia says it has expanded upon USD by developing new tools, integrating … [Read more...] about Nvidia Omniverse—A new way to create
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AMD continues its rise with Q4 2020 results
Revenue for the quarter was up 52.3% from last year to $3.2 billion, GAAP profit was $1.8 billion, 948% from last year. AMD announced its Q4’20 revenue hit $3.24 billion, with an operating income of $570 million, and a net income of $1.78 billion. For the year 2020, the company reported revenue of $9.76 billion, operating income of $1.37 billion, and net income of $2.49 … [Read more...] about AMD continues its rise with Q4 2020 results
Nvidia’s RTX 3060
Little brother to 3060 Ti Nvidia cites gamers playing Watch Dogs 2 with high settings realizing 60 fps with a GeForce GTX 1060, but with Watch Dogs: Legion (released last October), they only get 24 fps. And with ray tracing turned on, the game becomes unplayable on the GTX 1060. The GTX 1060 also lacks the latest enhancements and features of newer GPUs.Nvidia’s GeForce … [Read more...] about Nvidia’s RTX 3060
Nvidia’s Q3 FY21 results
$4.7 billion in sales, $1.3 billion profit—up 115% from last quarter. Nvidia reported record revenue for the third quarter ended 31 October, 2020, of $4.7 billion, up 57% from $3 billion a year earlier, and up 22% from $3.9 billion in the previous quarter. The company’s Graphics business revenue was $2.8 billion, up 34% from last quarter and up 25% from last … [Read more...] about Nvidia’s Q3 FY21 results
Nvidia’s Q2 FY21 results
$3.8 billion in sales, $622 million profit—down 32% from last quarter. Nvidia reported revenue, for the second quarter ended July 26, 2020, of $3.87 billion, up 50% from $2.58 billion a year earlier, and up 26% from $3.08 billion in the previous quarter. Nvidia closed its acquisition of Mellanox Technologies Ltd. on April 27, 2020. The company’s graphics business revenue … [Read more...] about Nvidia’s Q2 FY21 results
Dr. Peddie to speak at the Real-Time Ray Tracing Summit on June 17th
Dr. Jon Peddie will be joining industry leaders in speaking at the Real-Time Ray Tracing Summit on Wednesday, June 17th. M2 Insights is hosting a 1/2 day online event focused on the latest tools, resources, and techniques used to develop real-time ray tracing for games. DATE: June 17, 2020 TIME: 11am - 4pm PDT The Real-Time Ray Tracing Summit covers topics such: … [Read more...] about Dr. Peddie to speak at the Real-Time Ray Tracing Summit on June 17th
Nvidia’s Q1 FY21 results
$3.08 billion in sales, $917 million profit-down 0.8% from last quarter. Nvidia beat Wall Street’s expectations with their financial report and saw increases from all reporting segments. Revenue for the first quarter was $3.08 billion, up 39% from $2.22 billion a year earlier, and down 1% from $3.11 billion in the previous quarter. The company’s Graphics business … [Read more...] about Nvidia’s Q1 FY21 results
Nvidia’s Ampere 2020 signals a new era for Nvidia
The successor to Volta and Turing ushers in a new architecture. Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in 2020 didn’t proceed like any before it. Originally scheduled for what turned out to coincide COVID-19 onslaught of March, Nvidia early on reworked the conference to an online event. And rather than scheduling talks and sessions live and packed over four days, the company … [Read more...] about Nvidia’s Ampere 2020 signals a new era for Nvidia
Nvidia recommends GPUs for recommendation systems
Well yes, of course they do but the company says they have Merlin on their side. Recommendation systems can look at which items a person examines or buys, and then make a suggestion as to something similar they might like. For example, if someone ordered bread on-line, the system might suggest also getting some butter. However, such systems can easily accumulate hordes … [Read more...] about Nvidia recommends GPUs for recommendation systems
OEMs launch 100+ laptop designs with GeForce GPUs
Working at home demands good tools. Nvidia, Intel, and over 100 notebook OEMs introduce new, powerful, and affordable devices just in time to support the work-at-home mandates of the COVID-19 crisis. Intel announced the long-anticipated 10th gen H Core i7 mobile CPU with improved power management and 5G capability. Nvidia introduced the GeForce RTX 2080 Super and … [Read more...] about OEMs launch 100+ laptop designs with GeForce GPUs