With Nvidia having showcased their latest and greatest Turing architecture GPUs in Cologne (Germany), OEMs are wasting no time incorporating the GPU in their custom Grapics Card design.

GIGABYTE has launched 5 graphics cards – Geforce RTX 2080 Ti GAMING OC 11G, Geforce RTX 2080 Ti WINDFORCE OC 11G, Geforce RTX2080 GAMING OC 8G, Geforce RTX 2080 WINDFORCE OC 8G, and Geforce RTX 2070 GAMING OC 8G on August 20th, 2018 in Taipei (Taiwan). All these cards feature GIGABYTE WINDFORCE 3X cooling system with alternate spinning fans, RGB fusion, protection metal back plate, GIGABYTE certified ultra-durable materials and one-click overclocking.

The “WINDFORCE 3x cooling system” is equipped with 3 unique blade fans, High-efficiency pure copper composite heat-pipes directly touching the GPU and a semi-passive fan function. The middle fan spins in reverse to optimize airflow for heat dissipation. These together ensure that the graphics card temps remain at an acceptable level, resulting in a more stable performance. The graphics cards use multi-phase power supply design with Ultra Durable certified chokes and capacitors to provide excellent performance and longer system life. The one-click overclocking function provides 3 preset modes, and the user can easily switch settings according to their requirement. The back of the graphics card has a metal back plate that not only strengthens the overall structure, but also prevents the PCB from bending or falling parts. In addition, the Graphics cards also possess RGB LEDs for aesthetic appeal. The users can adjust the color of the lights and various lighting effects through AORUS Engine.

GIGABYTE will also be launching more AORUS series graphics cards for enthusiasts in the near future, including air-cooled and water-cooled designs, allowing gamers to have more choice to build an ultimate gaming machine.

Source: GIGABYTE

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Companies

Despite the multitude of gaming hardware companies, one of the most prominent rivalries is largely agreed to exist between Nvidia and AMD (Advanced Micro Devices Inc.). Nvidia was founded 34 years ago, in 1993, by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem. The company has partnered with numerous others over the years – such as SGS-Thompson in 1994 and TSMC in 1998 – as well as made many acquisitions (including Graphics Pioneer 3DFX and Media Q) – in order to deliver products at the cutting edge of the industry market. They were named America’s fastest growing company in 2002, while 2007 saw Nvidia being proclaimed by Forbes as company of the year. It was in 1999, however, that the company invented its first GPU, named the “GeForce 256”. In recent years, although Nvidia has begun to delve into the newest technological markets, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, the company still persist in making new models of graphics processing units.

Nvidia’s competitor AMD, on the other hand, was first established in 1969, with Jerry Sanders becoming the first president and CEO. The company started by making logic chips, then RAM chips in 1975, in 1985 was listed for the first time in the Fortune 500, then in 2006 merged with ATI Technologies. By 2016 we can see just how far the company has evolved, with their popular new CPU releases, acquisition of software company HiAlgo Inc. and development of a graphics card designed especially with VR users in mind.

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Products

Each of these companies has, among their wide array of GPUs, some that are the most optimal for gaming computers.

The versions within the 10th GeForce series from Nvidia range massively in price, memory size, power, and just about every other key aspect that you can think of. While the GTX 1050 possesses CUDA cores at 640, memory size of 2GB, power of 75W and recommended PSU of 300W, the newest model, the GTX 1080 Ti has CUDA cores of 3584, memory size of 11GB, power of 250W and PSU of 600W. The newest model is based on the company’s Pascal architecture and is their flagship gaming GPU, with next-gen GDDR5X memory and 11 GB frame buffer. The price difference makes the earlier model, the GTX 1050, more affordable than the GTX 1080 Ti, the former coming in at upwards of $120.58, whereas the latter totals at $909.79.

Furthermore, professional eSports players have been known to use Nvidia’s graphics cards in their gaming PCs: an earlier model introduced by Nvidia in 2013, the GTX 780 Ti, was used by Team SoloMid’s sponsors, Origin PC. Additionally, teams competing in The International have, for the last four years, used Nvidia GPUs – this year, the GTX 1080 was the graphics processor of choice. It is no wonder, then, that there is speculation that one of Nvidia’s newest GPUs may be used by teams at the Epicenter tournament for video game CS:GO. With CS:GO betting sites predicting odds of 31/20 in the first half and 9/20 in the second between NRG vs Optic, Epicenter looks to be host to an interesting series of battles, concluding in October 2017, and the perfect opportunity for pro players who have not had the chance yet to test out a new GTX GPUs.

Meanwhile, AMD is pitching their Radeon RX 480 graphics card on the basis of its enhancement of VR graphics, and is their first model that is based on the company’s 14nm FinFET Polaris architecture. AMD pledges low-latency gaming and incorporates gating and clocking technologies. The graphics card boasts 150 board power, boost clock speeds of 1266 MHz and base clock speeds of 1120 MHz.

Nvidia’s GTX graphics card series may often be a little more expensive than AMD’s cards, yet many feel that the investment is worth it, in part for the fact that Nvidia’s cards naturally support their graphical technologies like Nvidia “HairWorks” (such as that used in The Witcher 3 on Geralt) and “Physx”.

Why Might You Need a New Graphics Card?

Graphics cards may age more rapidly than the other components within PCs, such as motherboards, cases, RAM and hard drive docks. Therefore, it may be the case that it is just the graphics card that requires replacement. Alternatively, graphics cards will also need to be purchased along with all the others if attempting to build an entire PC from scratch. In this scenario, there is far more freedom to almost build the PC around the graphics card if you so wish, instead of having to carefully ensure that the graphics card corresponds to specifications of the other components.

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After Asus,Sapphire is second in race to announce their version of r9 295X2.
their version would ship in the original metal suitcase whihc AMD used to send to reviewers; although this ones would have sapphires robotic advertisements and technical jargon printed all over it.

Apart form that the card would feature a dual-GPU “CrossFire on a stick” solution based on two 28 nm “Hawaii” GPUs in the same core configuration as the Radeon R9 290X, the R9 295X2 features a factory-fitted closed-loop cooling solution, and clock speeds of 1018 MHz core, and 5.00 GHz memory. The card is expected to be priced at US $1,499.

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German E-tailer Cyberport.de posted pre-order links of two variants from Asus and Powercolor.

both variants are priced at 1399 Euro.

The original links were removed but you can check out the screenshots

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Asus just released some information about the availability and specifications of the new Matrix R9 290X and GTX 780 Ti GPU’s.

Both the cards come loaded with Asus standard fare stuff on both hardware and software side like the DIGI+ 14 phase VRM,single push bios change,LN2 jumper and Asus GPU tweak.

Prices are stated at 54K for the 290x and 60K for the 780Ti for now.

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Just got a heads up from our friends over in ocaholic that AMD is going to release Catalyst 14.2 Beta in a few hours.

This one is mainly for the new Thief game,which is a part of the AMD gaming evolved lineup.Although the mantle and True Audio might not be available in this patch for Thief.

Apart form that this version will feature complex shadowing system,compute shader accelerated DOF,silhouette-enhancing tessellation and SSAA for Thief only.
Apart form that we will be seeing more frame pacing updates for battlefield series among other things.

Stay tuned for more updates.

EDIT: the drivers are out.Download them here : Link

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AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta drivers with support for Mantle is now available on AMD website.
This update brings support for mantle on all supported Radeon graphics cards (for now the R7 260X,R9 290,R9 290X).
Download it from here

• AMD Catalyst™ 14.1 Beta

The feature highlights if anyone is interested.

Support for the following new AMD Desktop APU (Accelerated Processors) products:

• AMD A10-7850K
• AMD A10-7700K

Mantle Beta driver

• AMD’s Mantle is a groundbreaking graphics API that promises to transform the world of game development to help bring better, faster games to the PC
• Performance gain of up to 45%(versus the DirectX version) for Battlefield 4 on the R9 290 Series
• Performance gain of up to 200% (versus the DirectX version) for Star Swarm on the R9 290 Series

• AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta must be used in conjunction with versions of these applications that support Mantle
• It is expected that these applications will have future updates to support additional AMD Mantle features

• AMD Mantle Beta driver is currently supported on:
  • AMD Radeon™ R9 Series GPUs
  • AMD Radeon™ R7 Series GPUs
  • AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series GPUs
  • AMD Radeon™ HD 8000 Series GPUs
  • AMD A10-7000 Series and AMD A8-7000 Series APUs
• ​​​​​For additional details please see the AMD Mantle Technology FAQ on amd.com​

• Enhanced AMD CrossFire frame pacing – Support for 4K panel and Eyefinity non-XDMA CrossFire solutions (including the AMD Radeon R9 280, 270 Series, 7900 Series,  7800 Series) and Dual Graphics configurations​
  • ​​​Frame pacing ensures that frames rendered across multiple GPUs in an AMD CrossFire configuration will be displayed at an even and regular pace
  • Supported on 4K panels and Eyefinity configurations
  • Supported on AMD Dual Graphics configurations
  • Supported on DirectX® 10 and DirectX 11 applications​​​

Resolved issue highlights of AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta​​

• Resolves ground texture flickering seen in Total War: Rome 2 with high settings (and below) set in game
• Resolves flickering texture corruption when playing Call of Duty: Ghosts (multi-player) in the space station level

Read more here

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There has been reports of awful performances in Battlefield 4 from Windows 8 users. there were reports of the game being utterly unplayable. A new driver update from AMD should fix that; at-least for the Windows 8 users. The Catalyst 13.11 Beta8 drivers, should fix some crashing issues in windows 8 along with adding support for R9 290 and R9 290X graphics cards.

the Direct links are here :

• AMD Catalyst™ 13.11 Beta8 for Windows®​​
• AMD Mobility Catalyst 13.11 Beta8 for Windows (64-bit)​
• AMD Mobility Catalyst 13.11 Beta8 for Windows (32-bit)

We would love to know if the problems are fixed on your end.

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AMD’s been headlining about their Titan killer r9 290X for a the past few weeks.In an weird turn of event Nvidia announced a few new things of their own including a new “flagship”card : GTX 780 Ti.
in essence its the same GTX 780 with a few tweaked specs. So far nothing was revealed by nvidia about the specifications but one user from chiphell has manged to publish one gpu-z screenshot of the card.

we can see its the same GK 110 core used in the Titan and the GTX 780. The main difference with GTX 780 lies in the fact that where 780 has 2304 Stream processors the 780ti has 2496 stream processors and 204 texture units(TU’s) in place of 780’s 192 TU’s.
Other than that we see an increase in core clock (902 MHz in 780Ti vs 863 MHz in 780) and boost clock(954 MHz in 780Ti vs 900 MHz in 780).
Other than this everything seems all same.
with an expected price tag of $650 its clear that Nvidia wants this one to compete with the r9 290x from AMD.

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Presenting the Asus GeForce GTX 780 DirectCU II OC

While the 780 in itself is a bit of downer for me(expected more and got less), the card we have is a piece of engineering.
ASUS as always tried to out do themsleves…and they did.
How they did is what we will see in the review

Over the next few pages we would go through a quick look at the features and specs,a little showcase and then dive into numbers…aight?

next page please.

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