Collaborate Disseminate
Nvidia has throttled the performance of its GeForce RTX 4090 GPU by roughly 11%, allowing it to comply with U.S. sanctions and be sold in China. The Register reports: Dubbed the RTX 4090D, the device appeared on Nvidia’s Chinese-market website Thursday… Continue reading Nvidia Slowed RTX 4090 GPU By 11 Percent, To Make It 100 Percent Legal For Export In China
Alex Williams reports via The New York Times: Vera Molnar, a Hungarian-born artist who has been called the godmother of generative art for her pioneering digital work, which started with the hulking computers of the 1960s and evolved through the curren… Continue reading Vera Molnar, Pioneer of Computer Art, Dies At 99
Michael Larabel reports via Phoronix: For those making use of GPU-accelerated AV1 video encoding with the latest AMD Radeon graphics hardware on Linux, the upcoming Mesa 23.3 release will support the high-quality AV1 preset for offering higher quality … Continue reading Higher Quality AV1 Video Encoding Now Available For Radeon Graphics On Linux
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: Burkey Belser, a graphic designer who created the ubiquitous nutrition facts label — a stark rectangle listing calories, fat, sodium and other content information — that adorns the packagi… Continue reading Burkey Belser, Designer of Ubiquitous Nutrition Facts Label, Dies At 76
Mark Tyson writes via Tom’s Hardware: A future version of [Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology] is likely to include full neural rendering, hinted Bryan Catanzaro, a Nvidia VP of Applied Deep Learning Research. In a round table discussion or… Continue reading Nvidia Hints At Replacing Rasterization and Ray Tracing With Full Neural Rendering
Earlier this year, Singapore-based embedded security researcher yeokm1 built a ChatGPT client for MS-DOS.
Now they’re back with a new project:
HDMI is a relatively modern video connector we take for granted on modern PCs and monitors. Now vintage PCs … Continue reading Hobbyist Builds HDMI ISA Graphics Card For Vintage PCs By Improving Graphics Gremlin
Can you really save energy by carefully choosing the colors displayed on a TV screen? Under some conditions, yes. Or at least that’s the conclusion of a team at the …read more Continue reading Black Graphics On Your TV, For A Greener World?
For those who have played Quake extensively, adding portals seems unnecessary, as teleporters are already a core part of the game mechanics. What [Matthew Earl] accomplishes is more of the …read more Continue reading Adding Portals To Quake
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Games today use highly-detailed textures that can quickly fill the frame buffer on many graphics cards, leading to stuttering and game crashes in recent AAA titles for many gamers… … Continue reading Nvidia Details ‘Neural Texture Compression’, Claims Significant Improvements
A new set of patches have been released for the Intel Linux graphics driver that “can provide 10-15% better performance when operating in the tuned mode,” reports Phoronix. From the report: The set of Intel i915 Linux kernel graphics driver patches are… Continue reading New Intel Linux Graphics Driver Patches Released, Up To 10-15% Better Performance