Smart Access Memory or SAM if you prefer, was a feature AMD touted heavily as it marketed both its Radeon RX 6000 series of graphics cards, and the Ryzen 5000 series processors. This feature AMD claimed, offered a nice bump in performance, and came with no real downsides, and their announcement of SAM prompted.

The launch of next-generation consoles is always an exciting time, with the speculation of what these new beasts will be capable of, and how they will bring richer, more immersive worlds. Both Sony’s Playstation 5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X will be on store shelves by the run-up to Christmas, sporting a plethora of.

In graphics, 2020 has started in a similar fashion to how virtually all of 2019 played out – with AMD offering competitive solutions in the mid and low-range, but failing to have any real answer for the top-end Nvidia GeForce RTX 20 series SKUs. AMD’s Radeon VII had been a viable option for the.

If you’ve been following AMD’s GPU plans for any length of time, you’ll know that the current latest line of graphics cards from the company is based on the first generation of RDNA architecture, with the highest-end graphics card in the Navi being the RX 5700 XT, which outputs roughly the same level of.

At the end of next year, we’ll see the introduction of the next-generation consoles from both Sony and Microsoft. For Sony, the company has drip-fed PS5 information in a series of interviews and a couple of slides, while Microsoft revealed a lot of information at 2019’s E3 event, and a few subtle hints regarding Xbox Scarlett.

A rather interesting leak has occurred for Nvidia’s upcoming mid-range graphics card, the GeForce RTX 2060 which tells us both the performance of the card and also provides a key insight into Nvidia’s plans for their future GPUs. Let’s get to that first, shall we? You’ll notice that the card is indeed called RTX.

Given Nvidia’s decisions before GamesCom to show off Ray Tracing with the Volta architecture, it was clear that the company were betting big on the new technology. During the show, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was keen to stress that Turing was the biggest leap in GPUs since their Tesla series, debuting back in late.

The early part of next year for gamer’s is going to be incredibly exciting, not least of which because we see the release of Metro Exodus, the post-apocalyptic FPS being developed over at 4A Games. 4A Games and Nvidia have always had a good relationship, with earlier the Metro games supporting Nvidia’s PhysX technology.

Nvidia’s Turing lineup isn’t due for release until mid September, so until the cards are closer to launch performance details will continue to trickle out. Nvidia tout the GeForce RTX 20 series as ‘graphics reinvented’ – keen to make much of the Ray Tracing ability of the new cards, along with the Deep Learning.

If you’ve not had your fill of Nvidia Turing leaks, then good news everyone; there’s been a goldmine of information discovered by a leak from PNY,  and we have now confirmation on clock speeds, CUDA core count, memory bandwidth and more for both the RTX 2080 and the RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards. There’s.

A few days ahead of the official announcement of both the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti, leaks have confirmed the final specifications of both the cards and the results are a combination of both the expected and unexpected. Starting things out first with the GeForce RTX 2080, the GPU is indeed outfitted with.

In several days, we’ll know a lot more about Nvidia’s plans for the GeForce RTX 2080 (along with the other cards in the GeForce 20 series lineup), but as of right now, the Turing architecture is a very impressive jump in performance. Ray Tracing has been a lofty goal in computer graphics for years,.

2014 seems a very long time ago, but that’s when Microsoft first unveiled news that it was working on releasing DirectX 12, to serve as the companies answer to developers asking for a low level API. DX12 was designed from the ground up to tackle the issues and constraints plaguing PC game development at.