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A Disconnect in Gaming and Graphics

by Bob Raikes

I’m just on my way back from the annual German consumer product festival that is IFA and by the end I thought that something was distinctly missing. A couple of weeks ago at the …

Tags:Consoles| Game Playing| GPUs| IFA 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 34

Jon Peddie Research Releases GPU Market Report for 2018 Q2

by Andrew Fenn

Jon Peddie Research has released its quarterly Market Watch report. This is the latest report from JPR on the GPUs used in PCs, featuring the results of GPU shipments worldwide during the second quarter …

Tags:GPUs| Jon Peddie Research (JPR)| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 34

Is IFA a Little Quieter? What’s Next?

by Bob Raikes

We managed to get this week’s issues done, despite the distraction of IFA, where press events started on Wednesday – thanks to the team for their help with this. So far, there is not …

Tags:Automotive| Editorial| Game Playing| GPUs| IFA 2018| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 25 - Issue 33

Asus Expands Use of ScreenPad

by Bob Raikes

Asus had plenty to show us and the company, this year, was back in the Messe after being just in the centre of Berlin for some years. We were pleased, as it is hard …

Tags:Asus| Game Playing| GPUs| IFA 2018| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 25 - Issue 34| WiGIG

Ray Tracing Explained

by Bob Raikes

Over the last couple of weeks, since the announcement of the Turing GPU at Siggraph and Gamescon, we have talked to a number of people that really didn’t know what we meant by ray …

Tags:Back Panel| GPUs| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| ray tracing| Vol 25 - Issue 33

IFA and IBC Beckon….

by Bob Raikes

I have a brief moment of pausing for breath on the news side today, as I have finished the Siggraph report and IFA is still six days away, although the number of meeting requests, …

Tags:Editorial| GPUs| IBC 2018| IFA 2018| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 25 - Issue 32

Nvidia Changes the Game in Ray Tracing

by Bob Raikes

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang gave a long talk at the Siggraph show and after showing a great set of images from computer games and PC renderings over the years, he pointed out that this year …

Tags:3D Object-based Audio| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| ray tracing| Siggraph 2018| Simulation| Vol 25 - Issue 32

Acer Announces Gaming Desktop Range with New Nvidia GPUs

by Andrew Fenn

Acer has announced that its latest Predator Orion-series gaming desktops feature Nvidia GeForce RTX GPUs. (Nvidia Changes the Game in Ray Tracing) A spokesperson said, “The new Nvidia GeForce RTX GPUs have reinvented graphics …

Tags:Acer| Game Playing| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| PCs| Vol 25 - Issue 32

Nvidia Brings RTX to GeForce Range

by Bob Raikes

At Siggraph, Nvidia announced its RTX cards for professional content creators, based on the new Turing GPU architecture. (Nvidia Changes the Game in Ray Tracing) Now it has released three versions for consumers and …

Tags:Game Playing| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 25 - Issue 32

Siggraph Opens My Ears to VR

by Bob Raikes

I’ve been in Vancouver most of this week and we’ll have the report on the Siggraph event for you next week. It was interesting and was a first attendence at the event for me. …

Tags:audio| CAD-CAM-CAE| Editorial| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 25 - Issue 31

AMD Looks to Value and Stability for Professional GPUs

by Bob Raikes

AMD, which was somewhat overshadowed by the Nvidia RTX announcement, launched its new Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX processors which have 32 cores and 64 threads and are claimed to be the most powerful desktop processors. …

Tags:AMD| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Siggraph 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 32

Samsung Developing “Breakthrough” Proprietary Smartphone GPU

by Andrew Fenn

Samsung’s next flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S10, will apparently feature a “breakthrough” GPU, developed in-house. According to EE Times, the new processor groups multiple instructions together so they can be executed in a single …

Tags:GPUs| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 25 - Issue 28