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“Apparently we’re all fighting about how to pronounce ‘GIF’ again on Twitter,” writes technology columnist Mike Melanson:
I personally find the argument of web designer Aaron Bazinet, who managed to secure the domain howtoreallypronouncegif.com, rather… Continue reading What’s The Correct Way to Pronounce ‘GIF’?
dryriver writes: Crytek has published a video showing an ordinary AMD Vega 56 GPU — which has no raytracing specific circuitry and only costs around $450 — real-time ray tracing a complex 3D city environment at 4K 30 FPS. Crytek says that the technol… Continue reading Crytek Shows 4K 30 FPS Ray Tracing On Non-RTX AMD and NVIDIA GPUs
NVIDIA’s older GeForce GTX 10-series cards will be getting the company’s new ray-tracing tech in April. The technology, which is currently only available on its new RTX cards, “will work on GPUs from the 1060 and up, albeit with some serious caveats,” … Continue reading NVIDIA’s Ray Tracing Tech Will Soon Run On Older GTX Cards
MojoKid writes: NVIDIA took the wraps off yet another lower cost Turing-based graphics card today, dubbed the GeForce GTX 1660. For a $219 MSRP, the card offers a cut-down NVIDIA TU116 GPU comprised of 1408 CUDA cores with a 1785MHz boost clock and 6GB… Continue reading NVIDIA Launches New $219 Turing-Powered GeForce GTX 1660
Microsoft has announced a form of DirectX 12 that will support Windows 7. “Now before you get too excited, this is currently only enabled for World of Warcraft; and indeed it’s not slated to be a general-purpose solution like DX12 on Win10,” reports An… Continue reading Windows Brings DirectX 12 To Windows 7
Microsoft has announced a form of DirectX 12 that will support Windows 7. “Now before you get too excited, this is currently only enabled for World of Warcraft; and indeed it’s not slated to be a general-purpose solution like DX12 on Win10,” reports An… Continue reading Microsoft Brings DirectX 12 To Windows 7
ToorCamp is a five-day open air tech camping event held every two years somewhere around the northwest corner of Washington state. Think of it as something like Burning Man, except you can survive for three hours without water, there aren’t a whole bunch of scenesters and Instagram celebs flying in …read more
Continue reading Zach Archer: Live Coding 500 Watts For ToorCamp
MojoKid writes: NVIDIA has launched yet another graphics card today based on the company’s new Turing GPU. This latest GPU, however, doesn’t support NVIDIA’s RTX ray-tracing technology or its DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) image quality tech. The … Continue reading NVIDIA Turing-Based GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Launched At $279
MojoKid writes: AMD officially launched its new Radeon VII flagship graphics card today, based on the company’s 7nm second-generation Vega architecture. In addition to core GPU optimizations, Radeon VII provides 2X the graphics memory at 16GB and 2.1X … Continue reading AMD Radeon VII Graphics Card Launched, Benchmarks Versus NVIDIA GeForce RTX
MojoKid writes: Dell just unveiled its latest desktop-replacement class notebook, the new Alienware Area-51m. Unlike most other notebooks, however, the Area-51m is actually packing an array of desktop-class hardware. Intel’s Core i9-9900K is an availab… Continue reading Dell Alienware Area-51m Packs Desktop Hardware Into Powerful, Upgradeable Laptop