by Andrew Yoon, Mar 22, 2012 7:15am PDT
At GDC earlier this month, we saw Unreal Engine's impressive Samaritan tech demo running on a single GPU for the first time. Epic Games' Mark Rein told us that the demo was being powered by a new Nvidia card, simply codenamed Kepler. While we were able to see the hardware, the graphics card manufacturer was keeping quiet about the card's specs.
Well, until today. The GeForce GTX 680 represents the beginning of Nvidia's next generation GPU architecture. "With Kepler we wanted not only to build the world's fastest GPU, but also the world's most power efficient," Nvidia said in the announcement.
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by Steve Watts, Nov 11, 2011 10:15am PST
Despite all the naysayers, the PC platform is hitting an upswing. At least, according to GPU manufacturer Nvidia and their strong profits in their last fiscal quarter. The company claims it is seeing a greater demand for high-end PC gaming, but notes that this is part of the natural push and pull of PCs and consoles. For the moment, PCs are "dramatically better" than consoles.
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Posted Nov 22, 2011 11:43am PST - 36,963 views
Nvidia shows off the PhysX particle effects in the PC edition of Batman: Arkham City.
"The relay delay between loading the resources and the increase in performance does lead to some ..."
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