NVIDIA has been impressive lately with their latest generation of graphics cards with the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070, as well as the budget GTX 1060. Pushing the envelope to the maximum, they have announced the new NVIDIA Titan X today. Its specs are maxed out (though I'm sure the next generation will prove me wrong): 11 TFLOPS FP32 44 TOPS INT8 (new deep learning … [Read more...]
NVIDIA announces the GeForce 1000 series of video cards
With a special event last night, NVIDIA introduced the 1000 series of GeForce graphics cards. The series will start with the GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070. The GTX 1080 will hit the market on March 27th at $599 MSRP and the GTX 1070 will land on June 10th at $379. The technical details of the GTX 1070 are unknown but can be considered the next step down from the GTX … [Read more...]
Highlights from the GPU Technology Conference 2016 keynote
The seventh annual GTC kicked off in Silicon Valley today. NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang gave the opening keynote for a variety of topics. GPUs have become increasingly significant from video games to Bitcoin mining to supercomputers to VR. Developers NVIDIA's focus for years might have been hardware but now they are emphasizing software to get the most out of their hardware. … [Read more...]
Move over OpenGL and Direct3D, Vulkan is here
Vulkan is a new low-level API that developers can use to access the GPU. This can be used instead of OpenGL or Direct3D. It is essentially the successor to OpenGL as the standard is created by the Khronos Group, a standards organization. Khronos created Vulkan to be an open standard royalty-free. Developers are able to take advantage of Vulkan's reduced CPU overhead and … [Read more...]