Half-Life 2 and Portal now on Nvidia Shield
Half-Life 2 and Portal are now available natively on Nvidia Shield, the company announced today.
READ MORE >"Sorry, I knew that was a fuckup as I posted it. Controller isn't "best" for third person but ..."
see all 30 commentsWatch Dogs video shows off PC version running Nvidia tech
A new video from Ubisoft shows off the PC version in action, and it highlights some of the exclusive features coming to Nvidia cards.
READ MORE >"The lightning is the only part that looks off to me the rest looks pretty damn good. "
see all 14 commentsNVIDIA competes with Mantle with its latest drivers
The new GeForce 337.50 Beta Performance Drivers promise optimizations of up to 71%, according to NVIDIA's own benchmarks. The performance gains come from being "laser-focused" on DirectX efficiency. Specifically, the new driver aims at reducing CPU overhead and increasing GP...
READ MORE >"These optimizations have very little to do with the GPU they are CPU optimizations."
see all 47 commentsNvidia's next-generation GPU is Pascal, planned for 2016
Named for the 17th century French mathematician Blaise Pascal, the new generation of Nvidia GPUs promises to innovate with what the company is calling "3D Memory."
READ MORE >"Maxwell isn't fully out yet. I'd wait for the higher end parts of that before getting something"
see all 3 commentsGeForce GTX TITAN Z features 5,760 processing cores, will cost $3000
Nvidia's newest graphics card is not for everyone. In fact, it will cost $3000. But, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang would argue that it's a terrific deal, given that it's about 50 cents per processor.
READ MORE >"maybe 500w given that the 2k is not only for the 3 cards but also the overheads from the rest of ..."
see all 29 commentsNvidia Shield's April update includes remote streaming
Nvidia Shield will receive a major update on April 2, updating its OS to Android 4.4.2 KitKat and introducing the ability to stream games from outside a user's home.
READ MORE >"This is cool shit. Honestly though I'd rather Nvidia just made a really nice controller that ..."
see all 2 commentsNvidia Shield update brings GameStream out of beta
Nvidia's Shield is receiving a major software update that brings their GameStream feature out of beta, allowing Shield owners to directly stream their PC titles to their Shield at 60fps.
READ MORE >"If the Shield 2 (S2?) is just around the corner then ya, no one is going to buy this. But, ..."
see all 4 commentsAssassin's Creed 4 trailer shows off PC graphics bits
We've already seen fancy graphical whizzbangs in the next-generation console versions of Assassin's Creed IV, but the PC has a few extra tricks up its sleeve. A new trailer from Nvidia shows off a few effects the graphics card company has worked with Ubisoft exclusively for ...
READ MORE >"Nvidia should just drop TXAA, and find another way to remove motion jaggies. Yes it removes ..."
see all 14 commentsGrand Theft Auto 5 PC namedropped by Nvidia
PC gamers should be quite thrilled to hear that Nvidia--a major PC gaming partner--namedropped a PC release of GTA5 for this fall.
READ MORE >"You sire, are a pooper of partys and hopes. Thanks for runing my day."
see all 20 commentsNvidia claims Shield sales are 'great,' planning to 'ramp production'
Shield, Nvidia's Android-based portable gaming console, has been a success. Well, according to Nvidia, at least.
READ MORE >"I'm going to just refer to then as "Hand Blaster 3D", now. ...better come with some cleaning ..."
see all 83 commentsNvidia Shield OS goes open-source
Nvidia's Shield already offers the ability to play Android games and stream games from your PC, but Nvidia's also adding the ability to hack right into your device.
READ MORE >"No, it's got an ARM processor in it and Windows requires x86. Except Windows RT, but that's not ..."
see all 10 commentsNvidia CloudLight tech demo shows off cloud-rendered lighting
Internet-connected devices will theoretically be able to offload graphical computation onto the cloud. But what would that actually look like?
READ MORE >"Yep. But it would require that the application opt into this mode, and it's unlikely they'd do ..."
see all 30 commentsNvidia Logan brings Kepler technology to mobile
Nvidia's 'Project Logan' is the company's next-generation mobile processor. And the GPU embedded in the chip is based on the Kepler architecture found on PC. That means upcoming mobile devices can support the same features that high-end desktop cards can: OpenGL 4.4, DirectX...
READ MORE >"Ah, okay. Yeah, I'm wrong. Hadn't seen the roadmap stuff that said Logan was the next Tegra. ..."
see all 6 commentsNvidia Shield coming July 31
Nvidia Shield is finally coming out at the end of the month.
READ MORE >"And lets say you play a PC fps multiplayer where other PC users are using a keyboard and mouse, ..."
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"Nope. K1 crushes everything. Next-generation snapdragons won't be out until 2015 sometime."
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