Tag Archives: geforce

Windows 7: the end is nigh

Posted on December 10, 2022 by Scali

Windows 7, originally released on October 22, 2009. It’s had a good run of over 13 years so far. At its introduction, I wrote a somewhat cynical piece, given that people were so negative about Windows Vista, and so positive … Continue reading →

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FutureMark’s Time Spy: some people still don’t get it

Posted on August 4, 2016 by Scali

Today I read a review of AMD’s new Radeon RX470 on Tweakers.net, by Jelle Stuip. He used Time Spy as a benchmark, and added the following description: About 3DMark Time Spy has recently been some controversy, because it is found … Continue reading →

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GeForce GTX1060: nVidia brings Pascal to the masses

Posted on July 20, 2016 by Scali

Right, we can be short about the GTX1060… It does exactly what you’d expect: it scales down Pascal as we know it from the GTX1080 and GTX1070 to a smaller, cheaper chip, aiming at the mainstream market. The card is … Continue reading →

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AMD’s Polaris debuts in Radeon RX480: I told you so

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Scali

In a recent blogpost, after dealing with the nasty antics of a deluded AMD fanboy, I already discussed what we should and should not expect from AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX480. Today, the NDA was lifted, and reviews appear everywhere on the … Continue reading →

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nVidia’s GeForce GTX 1080, and the enigma that is DirectX 12

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Scali

As you are probably aware by now, nVidia has released its new Pascal architecture, in the form of the GTX 1080, the ‘mainstream’ version of the architecture, codenamed GP104. nVidia had already presented the Tesla-varation of the high-end version earlier, … Continue reading →

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No DX12_1 for upcoming Radeon 3xx and Fury series?

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Scali

A few days ago it was confirmed that none of AMD’s current GPUs are capable of supporting the new rendering features in DirectX 12 level 12_1, namely Conservative Rasterization and Rasterizer Ordered Views. I already mentioned that back when Maxwell … Continue reading →

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Direct3D 11.3 (and nVidia’s Maxwell Mark 2)

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Scali

A few days ago, nVidia introduced the new GTX970 and GTX980, based on the Maxwell architecture. A bit of a surprise however, is that this is a ‘Mark 2’ version of the Maxwell architecture, which has some new features that … Continue reading →

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Who was first, DirectX 12 or Mantle? nVidia or AMD?

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Scali

There has been quite a bit of speculation on which API and/or which vendor was first… I will just list a number of facts, and then everyone can decide for themselves. Microsoft’s first demonstrations of working DX12 software (3DMark and … Continue reading →

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nVidia stability issues on GeForce 400/500 series

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Scali

I am still using the trusty old GeForce GTX460 in one of my machines. When I upgraded my drivers to version 320.18, I started having problems. Every now and then, the driver would reset, and in some cases it would … Continue reading →

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The return of Larrabee, and Kepler’s true form

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Scali

A little over a year ago, Intel announced their future plans for the Larrabee project, their attempt at a massively parallel architecture, much like nVidia’s and AMD’s GPGPU architectures. Initially Larrabee was also supposed to power a graphics card. However, … Continue reading →

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