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Components manufacturer Nvidia has spoken in revolutionary terms about Nintendo’s in-development Switch console. Nvidia is supplying the innards for the machine, which currently has a global release date of March. We’ve worked with them now for almost two years. Several hundred engineering years have gone into the development of this …
Read More »Nvidia working with Nintendo on new Nintendo Switch console
Hybrid console will use a new Tegra processor, might not have touchscreen
Read More »Nvidia promises true desktop power in new laptop range
Desktop-level gaming in the convenience of a laptop – that’s the pitch of a new line of Nvidia components than can now be found in a range of manufacturer laptops. Ars Technica reports that companies such as MSI, Lenovo, Asus, Razer and Alienware have begun to offer hardware that now …
Read More »How To: Implement Hybrid Frustum Traced Shadows
Nvidia senior developer technology engineer Jon Story explains the method behind the graphics specialist’s new shadow technique and reveals how devs can make use of it in their own games
Read More »Nvidia shines spotlight on smaller devs with new Indie Spotlight programme
Graphics card maker pledges ‘no catch’ support for lesser-known games by exposing them to its community
Read More »Nvidia settles GTX 970 marketing lawsuits
The GeForce 970 was not quite the card it was made out to be, and Nvidia has agreed to pay out as a result. While the 970 was legitimately for a time the best bang-for-buck high-end graphics card on the market, the internal specs didn’t quite match up to the …
Read More »Nvidia reveals new $1,200 Titan X graphics card
There’s a new powerhouse in the PC graphics card market. The new GeForce Titan X is based on the company’s recent GP102 architecture and packs some serious visual muscle. 11 teraflops of computing power is the headline, powered by 12bn transistors and a record-breaking 3,584 CUDA cores clocked at 1.53GHz. …
Read More »Unreal Engine and Unity to add Simultaneous Multi-Projection support
Nvidia tech allows devs to render multiple views with a single geometry pass, reportedly tripling VR performance
Read More »GTX 1060 promises GTX 980 performance for $250
Nvidia has lifted the lid on its third card in its new 10XX GeForce graphics card series. The GTX 1060 positions itself as a direct competitor to AMD’s recently revealed RX 480. While not targeted by name, Nvidia states that its new card is on average 15 per cent faster …
Read More »Rumours point to three new Nvidia GTX cards in June
With Nvidia’s tech conference having been and gone without word of any new GPU models, now rumours suggest a June release for Nvidia’s next-gen graphic card line up. PC Gamer reports on word that three SKUs housing the Pascal tech that was demoed at the conference are currently prepping for …
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