JPR forecasts 20 million PC Gamers could defect to TV Gaming platforms
PC Gaming Hardware Market forecast to cool down as TV and Cloud Gaming Markets Heat Up
The Lisa Su effect
When Lisa Su took over the presidency of AMD in October 2014, the company was at an all-time low, and its share price was $2.80. At that same time, Intel’s share price was $32.80, and Nvidia was at $19.21, things didn’t look for AMD or Su, and several people asked, why would anyone want to run AMD? Two years later … Read more
EVG GTX1660—great price-performance
EVGA and Nvidia fill out the AIB products line
If you want to know about ray tracing, there’s two things you need to know about
One, JPR has just released the definitive report on the ray tracing market and its 70 software and three hardware providers: The Global Market for Ray Tracing Software Two, Nvidia will be presenting 21 sessions on ray tracing at their GTC conference in San Jose from the 18th to the 22nd of March, 2019: GPU Technology Conference Ray tracing and the advent … Read more
Jon Peddie Research releases its Q4, 2018 add-in board report
Due to the collapse of Crypto-mining Q4 2018 goes down as worst fourth quarter for add-in boards in over 10 years
Jon Peddie Research’s Market Watch reports GPU shipments down in Q4’18 from last quarter
The PC GPU market decreased year-to-year by (3.3)%, sequentially GPU shipments decreased (2.6)%
Nvidia has a new winner — GTX 1660 Ti
We tested the EVGA GTX 1660 Ti and were impressed.
JPR Releases Report on WW Ray Tracing Market
Ray Tracing is invaluable to modeling products – will dominate rendering market by 2023
The Radeon VII: AMD squeezes its transistors to re-enter high end
New 7nm GPU falls short in price/performance
AMD squeezes its transistors to re-enter high end
AMD has released its latest Vega 20 GPU and Radeon AIB implementation the Radeon VII, a 3840 shader (60 Vega compute units) with 16 GB of HBM2 RAM, for $699. The new AIB uses 300 watts which is 40% more than the RTX 2080 and goes a long way towards explaining why it has three fans compared to RTX’s two. … Read more
AMD Q4 2018 results
AMD reported its quarterly results for calendar Q4 2018, revenues and operating income were up year-over-year as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits. “We delivered our second straight year of significant revenue growth, market share gains, expanded gross margin and improved profitability based on our high-performance products. Importantly, we more than doubled our EPYC processor shipments … Read more
Benchmarking ray tracing
Ray tracing, as everyone knows, is a simple algorithm that can totally consume a processor. But how much a given processor is consumed is an unanswerable question because it depends upon the scene and of course the processor itself. So, approximations have to be made, and parameters fixed to get a consistent comparison. Then it’s left to the buyer to … Read more