Last week, Nvidia released its “sweet-spot” $169 GeForce GTX 550 Ti BOOST 2GB based on its “GK106″ 28nm Kepler DX11.1 architecture. Nvidia’s partners have also begin shipping a $149 1GB GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST to compete on price directly with the 1GB HD 7790. We evaluated the GTX 650 Ti BOOST’s performance in our Preview where [...]
At the International Symposium on Computer Architecture in Saint-Malo, France, Intel presented a technical paper where they showed that application kernels run up to 2.5 times faster overall on a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 as compared with an Intel Core i7 960. The .pdf which can be downloaded from the above link is very technical [...]
We have learned that the proposed competition from Nvidia to counter ATI’s Radeon HD 4890, may likely come in the form of the GeForce GTX 275. Both products are slated for a showdown release and rumour has it that they will be launched on the same day. The leaked date is April 6th. There haven’t [...]