Now available, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 costs $1200.

Now available, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 costs $1200.

The GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card, NVIDIA’s second-fastest product from the GeForce “Ada Lovelace” generation, was officially unveiled today. The card is $400 less expensive than the RTX 4090 flagship, with a starting price of USD $1,200. It is technically intended to replace the RTX 3080 12 GB, whereas the...

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Release of AMD Software Adrenalin 22.11.1

Release of AMD Software Adrenalin 22.11.1

The most recent version of the AMD Software Adrenalin drivers was released by AMD today. “Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales” and “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II” have been optimized for version 22.11.1 beta. Additionally, the drivers fix a few problems. Fixed: Prediction lines in “World of Warships” that were missing...

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Detailed PCB and Cooler Design for AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Detailed PCB and Cooler Design for AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Instead of a first-party product with limited availability like the NVIDIA Founders Edition, AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XTX reference-design is a traditional reference-design that is marketed by AMD’s add-in board partners under their brand (without sticking their own labels on the product). Internally, reference-design cards are referred to as “MBA...

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AMD Confirms RTX 4080 Direct Competition, Radeon RX 7900 Series Clocks

AMD Confirms RTX 4080 Direct Competition, Radeon RX 7900 Series Clocks

The reference clock speeds of the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT RDNA3 graphics cards were confirmed by AMD in their technical presentation. The RTX 4080 (16 GB) from the GeForce RTX 40-series “Ada” was also mentioned for the first time by the manufacturer. This product will debut...

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Release of NVIDIA GeForce 526.86 WHQL Game Ready Drivers

Release of NVIDIA GeForce 526.86 WHQL Game Ready Drivers

Today, NVIDIA made the GeForce 526.86 WHQL drivers available. These fix various image corruption issues and errors with DLSS and Reflex, delivering a more consistent gaming experience with “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II” than the prior Game Ready drivers did. The drivers also address a BSOD with VTube Studio...

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Leaked Benchmarks Show that NVIDIA RTX 4080 Outperforms RTX 3090 Ti Despite Being 20–30% Slower than RTX 4090.

Leaked Benchmarks Show that NVIDIA RTX 4080 Outperforms RTX 3090 Ti Despite Being 20–30% Slower than RTX 4090.

As the leaky taps in the Asian tech forumscape know no bounds, benchmarks of NVIDIA’s upcoming GeForce RTX 4080 (formerly known as the RTX 4080 16 GB) are already available. On the ChipHell forums, someone with access to an RTX 4080 sample and drivers put it through a series of...

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Most Expensive Custom RTX 4080 MicroCenter Pricing Leak: RTX 4090 MSRP is Just $50 Away

Most Expensive Custom RTX 4080 MicroCenter Pricing Leak: RTX 4090 MSRP is Just $50 Away

A pricing leak of custom-design NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 cards on well-known PC components supplier MicroCenter indicates that the most costly model will cost $1,550, which is just $50 less than the $1,600 baseline MSRP of the far faster RTX 4090. The most intriguing conclusion to be drawn from this...

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Rebadged as RTX 4070 Ti, the canceled NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12GB was scheduled to arrive in January.

Rebadged as RTX 4070 Ti, the canceled NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12GB was scheduled to arrive in January.

NVIDIA had initially intended to release both the GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB and the now-cancelled RTX 4080 12 GB in mid-November, but after receiving harsh criticism from the media and social media for the confusion the “RTX 4080 12 GB” branding would cause due to a significantly different hardware...

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Pictured is the PCB for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition, revealing AD103 Silicon.

Pictured is the PCB for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition, revealing AD103 Silicon.

The rectangular die and fiberglass substrate of the AD103 silicon are similar in size to those of earlier NVIDIA GPUs with 256-bit wide memory interfaces, such the GA104. The smaller AD104 GPU is likely pin-compatible with the AD103 GPU, at least in terms of substrate size, hence the RTX 4080’s...

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Performance claims for the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX have been extrapolated; it competes favorably with the RTX 4090.

Performance claims for the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX have been extrapolated; it competes favorably with the RTX 4090.

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT RDNA3 graphics cards were introduced by AMD on Thursday. With these, the company asserts that it has once again increased performance per Watt by more than 50% compared to the previous generation, a feat that allowed the RX 6000-series to compete...

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