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Hardware giant Nvidia will stage more events in a bid to win over UK gamers. It follows the firm’s recent event at Currys/PC World Gaming Bunker, which it held in collaboration with Ubisoft and Deep Silver. Gamers were able to attend and play Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Metro: Last Light and …
Read More »Nvidia reveal ‘current-gen beating’ Keplar mobile GPU
Epic Games gave a tech demo at SIGGRAPH today that showed what it called desktop PC game content” running on Nvidia’s Logan” mobile processor. The Unreal Engine 4 powered demonstration took advantage of Nvidia’s new support for OpenGL 4.3, which allows developers access to high-end graphics on mobile devices. The …
Read More »Kepler GPU and OpenGL 4.3 arrive on mobile
Epic and Nvidia team up for SIGGRAPH tech demo
Read More »Nvidia to bring Kepler to mobile; promises 3x better performance than iPad 4
Project Logan, Nvidia’s next-generation mobile GPU, will feature Kepler architecture, which the company says can outperform the PS3 and Xbox 360, with 3x better performance than the iPad 4. Through Kepler, mobile devices can now take advantage of graphics technologies such as OpenGL 4.4, OpenGL ES 3.0 and DirectX 11, …
Read More »Nvidia Shield dated for late July
Hardware manufacturer fixes issues just in time to meet its delayed summer launch
Read More »Nvidia’s Shield gets new release date
Android and PC streaming gaming handheld Shield has been given a new release date by Nvidia. The $300 device will now launch on July 31st. We want to thank you for your patience and for sticking with us through the shipment delay of your Shield,” a statement read. Our goal …
Read More »Free Splinter Cell Blacklist for Nvidia graphics card buyers
PC gamers are able to get a free copy of Splinter Cell Blacklist if they buy certain Nvidia GPUs. Anyone who purchases either a GeForce GTX 660, 660 Ti, 670, 680, 760, 770, or 780 from a participating retailer is eligible and will receive a code prior to the game’s …
Read More »Nvidia delays Shield launch
A mechanical issue with an internal third party component pushes retail launch back a month
Read More »Nvidia Shield delayed on eve of launch due to ‘mechanical issue’
The Nvidia Shield console won’t be hitting shelves this month as originally planned, thanks to a mechanical issue in the eleventh hour. Nvidia’s Jason Paul posted on the company’s official blog, revealing that the Android-powered handheld device will miss its retail launch today and won’t be out until sometime in …
Read More »AMD launches all-out attack on GPU rival Nvidia
The graphics card war looks like it’s getting ugly. AMD has responded to Nvidia’s recent launch of the GTX 700 series not by releasing new cards of its own but instead by embarking on a PR assault against its rival. A report from the company talking about GPU trends for …
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