Various kinds of small form-factor PCs are on a roll these days. Mini-ITX systems have been offering performance of full-size desktops for several years now and even smaller systems are catching up in terms of performance. ZOTAC this week said that it had developed an SFF PC with NVIDIA’s mobile GeForce GTX 980 inside. The new system will be showcased at CeBIT and GDC trade-shows this month and will be available later in 2016.

The ZOTAC ZBOX MAGNUS EN980 is based on an unnamed Intel Core i-series processor based on the Skylake micro-architecture as well as NVIDIA’s mobile GeForce GTX 980 graphics adapter. The card boasts with a fully-fledged GM204 GPU with 2048 stream processors, 128 texture units, 64 raster operations pipelines as well as a 256-bit memory interface. Performance of the mobile GeForce GTX 980 (which is not a card, but an MXM module) is similar to that of a desktop graphics board with the same brand name. It is unknown whether the version of the mobile GTX 980 is equipped with 4 GB or 8 GB of GDDR5 memory.

The TDP of the mobile GeForce GTX 980 is 145 W, which is lower compared to a desktop GeForce GTX 980 (which dissipates up to 165 W), but is still very high. In a bid to cool-down the system with a 145 W GPU inside, ZOTAC had to invent a new liquid-cooling solution with multiple liquid channels and heat pipes. The company does not say a lot about its cooler right now and also does not show the final design of the PC. The only thing that ZOTAC officially demonstrated so far is the picture of the top cover of the system. Based on design pattern (which looks like comb, a pattern that is known to be efficient in dissipation of heat), it seems that heat dissipation was among ZOTAC’s primary concerns about this system. Another thing to worry about was acoustics: it is not easy to cool-down an SFF PC that dissipates over 160 W of power (even in case ZOTAC sticks to an ULV CPU, it will still have TDP of at least 15 W) without using high-speed/high-pressure fans. According to the company, it has managed to solve the problem thanks to its liquid cooling system and the PC is “whisper quiet”. The upcoming ZBOX MAGNUS EN980 packs a lot of processing horsepower and uses sophisticated cooling, but not at the cost of elegant appearance. The overall design of the ZBOX MAGNUS EN980 should look rather stylish thanks to grey metal with aquamarine inlays.

ZOTAC yet has to announce all the details about its ZBOX MAGNUS EN980. At present, the company only says that apart from an Intel Skylake CPU and the GeForce GTX 980 GPU, the system features two Gigabit Ethernet controllers, one IEEE 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless module, a USB 3.1 controller with at least one type-C connector and so on. Keeping in mind rather advanced expansion capabilities of the ZBOX MAGNUS EN970, expect the new system to feature an M.2 SSD, one or two 2.5” HDD, multiple HDMI 2.0 outputs, an SD card reader and so on.

ZOTAC positions its new ZBOX MAGNUS as a small form-factor PC for VR gaming. The minimum graphics cards recommended for virtual reality by Oculus VR is AMD Radeon R9 290 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970. The MAGNUS EN980 can beat both of those graphics cards, so, there will be even a slight performance headroom in terms of graphics processing horsepower. What remains to be seen is which processor ZOTAC plans to use for its premium SFF desktop. Oculus VR recommends quad-core Intel Core i5-4590 (3.30 – 3.70 GHz, 6 MB cache) microprocessor (or equivalent) for VR Ready systems. Therefore, if ZOTAC wants to meet the guidelines, it will have to install a rather powerful quad-core CPU into its MAGNUS EN980.

ZOTAC ZBOX MAGNUS EN980 Specifications
Processor	Intel Core CPU based on the Skylake micro-architecture
Memory	DDR3L or DDR4 SO-DIMMs
Graphics	Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
Storage	M.2 SSD, one or two 2.5" SSDs/HDDs
Networking	2x Gigabit Ethernet IEEE 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
Audio	Capable of 5.1/7.1 digital output with HD audio bitstreaming (HDMI)
I/O	USB 3.0, USB 3.1, SD card reader
Operating System	Compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10

The ZOTAC ZBOX MAGNUS EN980 will be demonstrated at CeBIT and GDC trade-shows in the coming weeks. The manufacturer does not reveal anything about the price at the moment, but given extensive usage of high-end mobile components, do not expect the desktop to be affordable.

Hot off AMD’s Capsaicin GDC 2016 event, the company has just unveiled Vega & Navi its next generation post Polaris Radeon graphics architectures. Coming in 2017 and 2018 Respectively. Featuring HBM2 vertically stacked memory technology. nextgen post-HBM2 memory and very significant power efficiency jumps every year.

AMD’s Raja Koduri, head of Radeon Technologies Group, just revealed the company’s future GPU architectures all of which will be named after stars, star systems and galaxies. The company’s head of the newly founded Radeon Technologies Group explained that the team is heading towards a new direction with a fresh look on all things graphics and there was a need to reflect this change of winds.

AMD Radeon Technologies Group Bids A Somber Farewell To Island Code Names And Begins Its “Journey Into Space”

One of the most exciting things about AMD’s next generation Polaris graphics architecture is the highly anticipated move to the revolutionary FinFET process technology. Which is accompanied by a considerable engineering focus to push innovations on architectural efficiency.

 

AMD has consistently said that the Polaris graphics architecture will deliver a “historic” leap in performance per watt. This unprecedented improvement in performance per watt is where the naming convention stems from. This is because stars are the most efficient photon generators in the universe,. Which explains why folks at AMD found it only fitting to call their most power efficient graphics architecture to date “Polaris” after the brightest star that can be seen from earth’s surface.

Excerpt from AMD’s Official Polaris Press Release :
AMD’s Polaris architecture-based 14nm FinFET GPUs deliver a remarkable generational jump in power efficiency. Polaris-based GPUs are designed for fluid frame rates in graphics, gaming, VR and multimedia applications running on compelling small form-factor thin and light computer designs.

“Our new Polaris architecture showcases significant advances in performance, power efficiency and features,” said Lisa Su, president and CEO, AMD. “2016 will be a very exciting year for Radeon fans driven by our Polaris architecture, Radeon Software Crimson Edition and a host of other innovations in the pipeline from our Radeon Technologies Group.”

Raja Koduri, vice president at AMD and chief architect of the Radeon Technologies Group explained before that he holds a very ambitious goal of powering 90% of the world’s pixels. To achieve that efficiency goal is key and just as stars are the world’s most efficient photon generators, Koduri wants AMD graphics technology to be the world’s most efficient pixel generators.

One of the more notable changes that the Radeon Technologies Group is doing is giving its next gen graphics architectures unifying code names. Something the company hasn’t done consistently in the past, not in any official capacity anyway. Raja explained earlier in the year that this change will make things easier for everyone involved. Whether it be internally at AMD, journalists or even consumers. Raja confirmed that of AMD’s future graphics architectures will be given astronomical code names. Polaris being the first that will begin Radeon Technologies Group’s re-invigorated journey into space.

Raja Koduri, Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Radeon Technologies Group, speaking with Venturebeat.com :

We have some exciting hardware announcements as well. This is designed for FinFET. Our guiding principle for the Polaris architecture was power efficiency. We have the new naming scheme for our architectures. It’ll be based on galaxies, star systems, and stars. You’ll see more of this coming in the future. Polaris is the beginning of our journey through space.

VB: Does the Polaris brand supplant the Radeon brand?

Koduri: It’s an architecture codename. It’ll still be Radeon something something on the box. But we didn’t have a consistent architecture name like our competitors do. It was hard, because for people, including yourselves and some of the press and enthusiasts—This family of chips has this architecture and a similar class of features. You can group them easily together.

[Exclusive] AMD’s Greenland Has Been Known As “Vega 10” Internally For Some Time

Two months ago we published an exclusive story explaining what Vega 10 was and what had happened to AMD’s flagship Greenland GPU. Today at Capsiacin – GDC 2016 – AMD has confirmed exactly what we had conveyed to you in that report.

Vega is the brightest star in the Lyra constellation and the second brightest star in the northern hemisphere. Vega along with Arcturus and Sirius, is one of the most luminous stars close to our earth’s own sun. Vega has been extensively studied by astronomers and as such was described as “arguably the next most important star in the sky after the Sun”. Furthermore, it was the northern pole star around 12,000 BCE.

Vega was the first star other than the Sun to be photographed and the first to have its spectrum recorded. But perhaps the most significant fact of all about Vega is that it served as the baseline for calibrating the photometric brightness scale, and was one of the stars used to define the mean values for the UBV photometric system.

This preface is important in underlining why the Vega code name bears a special meaning for AMD and why AMD has chosen to dedicate it to its most power 14nm GPU to date. Greenland / Vega 10 will be the first GPU from the company to feature HBM2 – High Bandwidth Memory – Technology. All of this is part of AMD’s strategy to deploy this extremely power efficient and innovative memory standard in its high-end graphics products first and eventually into mainstream GPUs and even APUs.

AMD To Introduce Vega With HBM2 in 2017

The Fiji GPU powering the R9 Fury series is AMD’s largest ever graphics processing unit. It’s also the world’s only and first to feature the 3D structured, 2.5D stacked High Bandwidth Memory, . This standard was co-invented by AMD and SK Hynix, one of the world’s largest memory makers. The advantages of vertically stacking dies are many. One of which is the enablement of significantly greater densities versus GDDR5. Also because HBM cubes occupy a lot less space than GDDR5 engineers can achieve tremendous area savings on the printed circuit board of any HBM graphics card. This allowed for the creation of world’s fastest SFF six inch graphics card, the 8 teraflops R9 Nano.

There are also other innovations that HBM leverages. One of which is packaging. Because it sits next to the GPU on an interposer, a very short distance away,  it allows engineers to create immensely wider memory busses with reduced latency and very low power requirements. The end result translates to a memory standard that’s very power efficient, very area efficient and very scalable and very fast.

Earlier this year AMD confirmed to us that while it is still committed to the High Bandwidth Memory technology it co-invented with SK Hynix and brought to the market last year, Polaris was designed to be compatible with both HBM/HBM2 and GDDR5 memory standards. Technical marketing lead at AMD Robert Hallock explained that the company has the flexibility to use either technology as needs arise. This means that either memory technology can be employed where it makes sense.

AMD helped lead the development of HBM, was the first to bring HBM to market in GPUs, and plans to implement HBM/HBM2 in future graphics solutions.

At this time we have only publicly demonstrated a GDDR5 configuration of the Polaris architecture.It’s important to understand that HBM isn’t (currently) suitable for all GPU segments due to the current HBM cost structure. In the mainstream GPU segment, GDDR5 remains an extremely cost-effective, efficient and viable memory technology.

It’s now clear that AMD’s plan is to introduce HBM2 technology with it’s upcoming Vega graphics architecture, which will be launching next year. HBM2 is the second generation of the vertically stacked High Bandwidth Memory standard that AMD introduced last year with its flagship Radeon R9 Fury X graphics card, the R9 Fury and the R9 Nano.

Second generation High Bandwidth Memory is not only faster than the first generation but it also scales to capacities 8 times larger than HBM1. HBM2 feature 1GB per die and up to 8 Hi stacks for 8GB per cube. Which is eight times more than the highest capacity currently available per cube on HBM1. Additionally, HBM2 operates at twice the speed of HBM1 for double the memory bandwidth.

This means that AMD can equip its flagship Vega 10 GPU with up to 32GB of super high speed HBM2 memory for a total of terabyte/s of memory bandwidth. However we’ll have to wait until 2017 for the 14nm process technology and the HBM2 technology to mature enough for such a monstrous chip. Polaris graphics cards on the other hand are coming out this summer, before the back to school season, on both desktops and gaming notebooks.

WCCFTech	Year	Process	Flagship GPU	Product	Transistors In Billions	Memory	Bandwidth
Southern Islands	2012	28nm	Tahiti	HD 7970	4.3	3GB GDDR5	264GB/s
Volcanic Islands	2013	28nm	Hawaii	R9 290X	6.2	4GB GDDR5	320GB/s
Pirate/Caribbean Islands	2015	28nm	Fiji	R9 Fury X	8.9	4GB HBM1	512GB/s
Arctic Islands/Polaris	2016	14nm	Polaris	TBA	Up To 18	GDDR5/HBM1	512 GB/s
Next Gen GPU Family	2017	14nm	Vega	TBA	TBA	HBM2	1 TB/s
Next Gen GPU Family	2018	TBA	Navi	TBA	TBA	Nextgen Memory	TBA

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AMD has just announced their next generation Vega and Navi GPUs at Capsaicin 2016 event which will arrive in 2017 and 2018, respectively. The next generation GPUs will be offered in the flagship space and will be scalable down to several SKUs. The Vega GPU has also been in several headlines before as we were the first to report the GPU existed and today the GPU is finally confirmed along with its successor, the Navi GPU.

AMD’s Next Gen Vega With HBM2 Launches in 2017, Navi GPU With Next Gen Memory and Extremely Scalable Architecture in 2018

So we know that AMD don’t just have Polaris planned for 2016 and beyond. In fact, there are two Polaris GPUs, the Polaris 10 and Polaris 11 which are the main attraction of today’s event but the major announcement was revealed as a part of a roadmap which talked about AMD’s next gen GPUs. In 2016, AMD will bring Polaris GPU which is based on the FinFET process and delivers up to 2.5x performance efficiency. Polaris will adopt a brand new GCN architecture that’s going to be called GCN 4.0 as already announced by AMD and will be AMD’s bet at the delivering an efficient GPU architecture.

AMD’s Chief Technology Officer, Mark Papermaster, confirmed last year that AMD will be leveraging 14nm FinFET technology across its CPU, APU and GPU products. These will include both Polaris and Vega GPUs while Navi is not yet confirmed whether it will use a new process or the current iteration of FinFET node.

FinFET technology is expected to play a critical foundational role across multiple AMD product lines, starting in 2016, GLOBALFOUNDRIES has worked tirelessly to reach this key milestone on its 14LPP process. We look forward to GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ continued progress towards full production readiness and expect to leverage the advanced 14LPP  process technology across a broad set of our CPU, APU, and GPU products. – Press Release

AMD’s First HBM2 GPU is Vega – Arrives in 2017 For High-Performance Radeon Gaming and Compute Demanding Firepro Markets

We have already talked a lot about Polaris 10 and Polaris 11 but AMD is in a good mood and they are already showing what they plan to bring in the years ahead. First up, we have the Vega GPU which is said to be known as Greenland internally by AMD before they switched to their new naming scheme.

The Vega GPU from AMD is the next generation architecture from AMD that utilizes the 14nm FinFET process node but enhances the architecture in every possible way to deliver the best compute capabilities and gaming performance to users. Vega GPU has already been speculated and alleged to be part of the HPC APUs which are under development by AMD. This makes us believe that not only will Vega be aimed at enthusiast gamers but also the FirePro market which needs serious amount of compute performance. AMD also wants to deploy a new interconnect fabric during the same time as Opteron Zen and Vega FirePro products are introduced to keep up in the HPC space against the likes of Intel and NVIDIA who are quite dominant in this sector.

The GPUs arriving in 2017 will also be the first to deploy HBM2 memory which means that current GPUs will have to stick with either GDDR5/GDDR5X or HBM1 solutions. Knowing that one of the two Polaris GPUs uses GDDR5 memory, it is possible that AMD is reserving HBM2 for their compute oriented cards and makes sense since their collaborative partner, SK Hynix, also plans to begin HBM2 memory production in Q3 2016. NVIDIA on the other hand is expected to release their Pascal GPUs for the supercomputer and HPC market with HBM2 in 2016 since they are said to partner with Samsung to deploy HBM2 memory on their GPUs. Samsung initiated mass production of their 4 GB HBM2 chips in early Q1 2016.

Navi GPU Is AMD’s True Next-Gen Core – Arrives in 2018 and Features Next Gen Memory With Extremely Scalable Design

The true next gen product that the AMD showed on its roadmap has to be Navi which is a GPU totally unheard of but can now be confirmed as AMD’s 2018 flagship offering. Little details of the Navi GPU were released by AMD but the two enabling technologies it should feature include support for next-generation memory and a fully scalable design which means the GPU architecture will be able to scale down to entry level, low-power solutions and all the way top to the beefiest compute and performance oriented offerings.

Scalability is a big factor in offering better efficiency across different SKUs based on the same chip architecture. Having just one GPU scaling down or upward to several designs will save AMD a lot of R&D and still deliver a great GPU architecture which won’t require the development of several different GPUs for different types of platforms.

AMD’s Fury X was the first graphics card to deploy HBM

What’s more interesting about Navi GPU is that it will deploy a completely new memory standard which AMD refers to as Nextgen memory. There are no hints to what this memory type would be but just like AMD, NVIDIA also believes that HBM2 is not here to stay for much long. As bandwidth demand increases in the professional and HPC market where Vega and Navi are definitely being pointed towards, there exists a looming memory crisis which was discussed by NVIDIA at SC15.

On further explaining the next generation GPU architectures and efficiency, Stephen pointed out that HBM is a great memory architecture which will be implemented across next generation GPUs including Pascal, Volta and Vega but those chips have max bandwidth of 1.2 TB/s (Volta GPU). Moving forward, there exists a looming memory power crisis. HBM2 at 1.2 TB/s sure is great but it adds 60W to the power envelope on a standard GPU. The current implementation of HBM1 on Fiji chips adds around 25W to the chip. Moving onwards, chips with access of 2 TB/s bandwidth will increase the overall power limit on chips which will go from worse to breaking point. A chip with 2.5 TB/s HBM (2nd generation) memory will reach a 120W TDP for the memory architecture alone, a 1.5 times efficient HBM 2 architecture that outputs over 3 TB/s bandwidth will need 160W to feed the memory alone.

This is not the power of the whole chip mentioned but just the memory layout, typically, these chips will be considered non-efficient for the consumer and HPC sectors but NVIDIA is trying to change that and is exploring new means to solve the memory power crisis that exists ahead with HBM and higher bandwidth. In the near future, Pascal and Volta don’t see a major consumption increase from HBM but moving onward in 2020, when NVIDIA’s next gen architecture is expected to arrive, we will probably see a new memory architecture being introduced to solve the increased power needs.

It is possible that both AMD and NVIDIA will try to get memory manufacturer’s to develop a new memory standard to cope with this problem. We might refer to this memory type as HBM3 which will be the third generation of the memory standard but right now we know nothing more than the fact that next iteration graphics cards will indeed be deploying new memory types. There’s a lot of good stuff coming ahead and performance in graphics processors is expected to increase ten folds with next generation designs that offer better performance and efficiency.

WCCFTech	Year	Process	Flagship GPU	Product	Transistors In Billions	Memory	Bandwidth
Southern Islands	2012	28nm	Tahiti	HD 7970	4.3	3GB GDDR5	264GB/s
Volcanic Islands	2013	28nm	Hawaii	R9 290X	6.2	4GB GDDR5	320GB/s
Pirate/Caribbean Islands	2015	28nm	Fiji	R9 Fury X	8.9	4GB HBM1	512GB/s
Arctic Islands/Polaris	2016	14nm	Polaris	TBA	Up To 18	GDDR5/HBM1	512 GB/s
Next Gen GPU Family	2017	14nm	Vega	TBA	TBA	HBM2	1 TB/s
Next Gen GPU Family	2018	TBA	Navi	TBA	TBA	Nextgen Memory	TBA

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The ASUS MG24UQ 4K monitor that the company showcased earlier this year is now on sale. The monitor features a 23.6-inch 4K UHD 3840 x 2160 resolution IPS panel with a low 4ms response time, 100% sRGB color gamut coverage, maximum brightness of 300 nits, a flicker-free backlight, and 16.7 million colors. Since it isn’t...

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Die GeForce GTX 950 ist ein Paradebeispiel für die hohe Energieeffizienz der Maxwell-Architektur. Dies unterstreicht Asus mit einem Modell, das erstmals ohne zusätzliche Stromversorgung auskommt. Die Grafikkarte GTX950-2G bezieht den Strom allein aus dem PCIe-Slot, der nach Richtlinien bis zu 75 Watt liefert.

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NVIDIA and AMD GPU market shares for the fourth quarter of 2016 have been posted by Jon Peddie Research. Just a few days ago, the publication posted the overall market shipments in the GPU business which saw a tiny 2.4% increase compared to the last quarter due to a sluggish PC market at the current moment and the other the fact that next-gen, FinFET based GPUs are on the verge of arrival hence in their anticipation, most users are holding off their purchases.

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AMD and NVIDIA GPU Market Share Q4 2015 Results – Radeon Grows, GeForce Declines

The discrete graphics market GPU includes two major vendors, AMD and NVIDIA. 2015 in general saw total of 50 million AIBs (Add in boards) being sold compared to 44 million in 2014. Out of the total 50 million AIBs sold, 5.9 million AIBs are reported to be enthusiast level products which represents $299 US+ graphics cards. Figure of 5.9 million enthusiast level cards is quite an astonishing increase from 2014 which reported only halve the sales of enthusiast level cards compared to 2015 (5.9 million vs 2.9 million). This clearly shows that the Gaming PCs market is moving rapidly towards high-end and enthusiast level cards which offer superb performance in AAA titles on the highest resolutions and settings possible.

Hardware such as the GeForce GTX 980 Ti and Radeon R9 Fury X has really proved that price is not a matter for PC gamers if the hardware they use offers great gaming performance and the AAA titles leverage by using the new graphics features incorporated in the current and next generation of graphics cards. Regardless of the PC market, the PC Gaming and DIY market remains strong as ever which has led AMD and NVIDIA to see increased shipments even with current generation hardware that was introduced in early 2015. The holiday season deals, price cuts and gaming bundles did really entice gamers to by GCN and Maxwell powered cards.

AMD Market Share Rises to 21.1% in Q4 2015 From 18.8% in Previous Quarter

Coming to the exact market share figures, Q4 2015 saw AMD gaining quite a bit market share compared to previous quarters. Their market share rose to 21.1% compared to 18.8% in the previous quarter which was mainly driven by aggressive price cuts on their Radeon R9 Fury and Radeon R9 Nano graphics cards. Holiday season deals also made up for a good increase in their Radeon R9 390X and R9 390 user base.

The desktop discrete Radeon graphics cards saw a 6.69% increase in shipments from previous quarter due to the highly competitive price cuts for their cards in the holiday season along with improved driver support in the form of Radeon Software Crimson drivers. AMD’s notebook discrete GPU shipments witnessed another major blow in Q4 as they didn’t introduce any new mobility Radeon graphics card for the platform leading to a 1.3% decline in shipments.

NVIDIA Loses Desktop Discrete Market Share in Q4 2015 – Share Declines To 78.8% But Still in Lead

In the GPU shipment report, NVIDIA’s shipments for discrete GPUs fell 7.56% compared to the Q3 2015. NVIDIA had captured a good chunk of discrete GPU market with their GPUs on the desktop front so their shipments are expected to fall as demand lowers. On the notebook side, NVIDIA launched a couple of new chips along with the industry’s fastest mobility GPU, the GeForce GTX 980. These new Maxwell powered chips led to the total notebook discrete GPU shipments to see a rise of 34.2%.

NVIDIA’s market share peaked out in Q3 2015 by bagging 81.1% of the discrete / AIB market but it fell down to 78.8% in Q4 2015 since AMD managed to snatch away some of their share. It’s highly likely that users utilizing the older Kepler based cards which still amounts to a large NVIDIA user base upgraded to Radeon cards due to better price to performance ratio set by AMD. Overall, NVIDIA’s GPU shipments for Q4 2015 were reported 8.4% higher than the previous quarter.

Talking about the industry as a whole, the total AIBs shipments decreased 4.9% compared to previous quarter and 7.9% compared to previous year. In 2013, AIBs managed to ship a total of 65 million discrete graphics cards while the peak was reported back in 1999 when the industry shipped 114 million units. 50 million shipments is still a good figure considering that the industry has been stuck with an older (28nm) process for a while and the FinFET based solutions are being eyed at by gamers that will launch in mid of 2016. Expect both GPU makers (AMD and NVIDIA) to report vast increase in shipments later this year when Pascal and Polaris hit the market shelves in full swing.

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NVIDIA has announced that they will not offer Vulkan API support for Fermi based graphics cards. The NVIDIA Fermi GPUs were launched back in 2010 and NVIDIA has decided that they will not be reviving support of the recently released Vulkan API. NVIDIA has cited a very valid reason to why they are not bringing support for the API on their past generation graphics cards.

NVIDIA’s GeForce 400 and GeForce 500 Series Cards Not Recieving Vulkan API Support

During a webinar hosted by Khronos Group, NVIDIA was questioned whether they will add GeForce 500 series to support list for the Vulkan API. NVIDIA’s Engineer, Jeff Bolz stated that they are not planning to bring Vulkan support to their Fermi cards which is not due to an engineering issue but rather an install base issue. The quote is posted below:

“We are currently not planning to support for 4-5 (Fermi) class GPUs. It is not an engineering issue, it’s an install base issue. So if that causes you pain, please contact your local NVIDIA representative and let me know.”

While NVIDIA is openly stated that they are not planning to support GeForce 400 and GeForce 500 series cards with Vulkan API, that still doesn’t mean that the GPUs are designed to run Vulkan. In fact, NVIDIA has long been stating that Vulkan GPU support is offered on their Fermi cards but it seems like the issue is not with how these graphics chips were designed but rather with their install base. We know that NVIDIA captured a large market share with their Maxwell graphics cards and they had a large chunk of users who were Fermi owners upgrade to either Kepler or Maxwell. It should be noted that Fermi GPUs are already as much as 6 years old. The NVIDIA GeForce 400 series launched back in 2010 and was followed by the GeForce 500 series just a year later.

The Fermi owners are long overdue for an upgrade and most of the users have already switched to a better graphics card. Considering how a GeForce GTX 950 performs better and more efficient than the flagship Fermi (GTX 580) graphics cards, that would have given users enough reason to upgrade from their older graphics cards. Still there could be a good sum of users who are running Fermi based graphics cards in their PCs. Our own pal “Usman Pirzada” is running a GeForce GTX 580 in his rig although he expects to upgrade it to either Polaris or Pascal later this year.

Still it would have been nice to see Vulkan API support on legacy graphics cards even with a smaller user base but development and support comes at a cost and given the tiny user base, that doesn’t seem like a viable option for NVIDIA to opt for. AMD on the other hand will be offering similar Vulkan support that will be available on all of their GCN based graphics cards starting the Radeon HD 7000 series cards. Everything pre-GCN is not supported in the Vulkan framework. Both the Kepler and GCN based cards were launched back in 2012 and still have a decent user base since the generation of cards lasted up till 2014.

“The Vulkan API enables developers to get the best from NVIDIA GPUs, and we are proud of our role in its development,” says Tony Tamasi, senior vice president of content and technology, NVIDIA. “We are making Vulkan drivers available for Windows, Linux, and Android platforms, on the same day as the specification launch, and we’ll continue our work within Khronos to ensure Vulkan evolves to meet industry needs.”

For Kepler and Maxwell, NVIDIA has shown full support on both Windows and Linux based operating systems. Their launch drivers of Vulkan API are available for the GeForce 600, GeForce 700 and GeForce 900 cards on Windows, Linux and SteamOS.

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Új szolgáltatást vezet be palettájára március elején a Magyar Telekom: a legnagyobb hazai telkónál is jön az ingyenes (belföldi) Wi-Fi szolgáltatás, melyet az előfizetőknél kihelyezett, a szolgáltató tulajdonában álló hotspotokon keresztül nyújt majd a cég. A rendszer külföldön is használható lesz, a Fon hálózatán, de ezért már fizetni kell majd.

Senior XDA member Gorgtech performed a hard modification to his warranty-less Nexus 5 and 7 so decided to do the same to his Nexus 6P whose warranty was voided as well. An XDA thread shows the tedious and difficult disassembly of the Nexus 6P, starting with carefully heating and removing the camera glass, which takes a steady hand and lots of patience. Gorgtech then removes the entire rear panel which looks even more difficult than the camera hump's glass. Once the more problematic parts were out of the way, screws and clips hold the boards in place. The post shows you where to add thermal paste to improve the cooling ability of the Nexus 6P, ultimately reducing the amount of thermal throttling of the roaring Snapdragon 810 chip. Head over to the XDA thread if you're feeling indubitably adventurous. I've repaired and ruined a bunch of devices in my day, but I will not likely try such a modification. Maybe if I still have the phone after my factory warranty expires, I MIGHT consider it. Source |...

A Mercedes kedden is maratoni távot teljesített

Last year the Carmageddon driving game which originally launched back in 1997 and inspired by the cult classic movie Death Race 2000 that starred Sylvester Stallone. Launched again in the form of Reincarnation thanks to a Kickstarter campaign that successfully raised over $600,000 in the process to help create a reboot of the franchise. This […] (Read More ...)

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Another day, another celebrity feud for businessman, media personality and shocking Republican Presidential front-runner Donald Trump. After Barack Obama, Rosie O’Donnell, Martha Stewart, Megyn Kelly and even Pope Francis himself, the ultimate winner of the South Carolina primary election predictably found fault with Tim Cook’s unyielding stance on mobile device encryption.Apple’s CEO publicly stated only a few days ago his behemoth of a tech company will

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Autójáról és motorjáról is közzétett fotókat a címvédő csapat

With over 1.55 billion active users, Facebook is undoubtedly the largest social network in the world. However, the story is a bit different in Japan, where a rival social network is more popular than Facebook. The rival we're talking about is Twitter. The company revealed last week that it had 35 million monthly active users in the Asian country, compared to Facebook's 25 million. In Japan, "we've seen more than a five-fold growth in usage in a really short time," said Shailesh Rao, Twitter's vice president of Asia-Pacific, Latin America and emerging markets. The figure stood at 7 million in 2011. It is, however, not yet known whether Japan is the only country where Twitter is bigger than Facebook. The micro-blogging company also revealed that globally it now has over 320 million monthly active users. In its home country of the US, however, the number dropped from 66 million to 65 million last...

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Die indische Import-Export-Datenbank Zauba verrät zwar nie viel, einige kleine Details über zukünftige Grafikkarten konnte man dort aber schon immer erfahren. Auch dieses Mal gibt sie etwas über AMDs Next-Gen-Generation Polaris preis. Genauer gesagt zu der GPU mit dem Codenamen „Baffin“ und deren Speicherausstattung.

A Far Cry Primal - Legend of the Mammoth exkluzív előrendelői DLC lesz, melyben egy mamut bőrét ölthetjük magunkra.

Kompakt kijelzővel, ám méretes kávákkal próbál szerencsét a Siswoo mutatós nyolcmagosa a prémium küllemű középkategóriások között, és nem spórol a hardveres komponensekkel.

India's Ringing Bells has unveiled what is being touted as the country's most affordable smartphone. Dubbed Freedom 251, the Android-powered device carries a price tag of INR 251, which translates into just under $4 at current exchange rates. For that much, you get a handset that is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor, and sports a 4-inch qHD IPS display. It comes with 1GB RAM and 8GB internal memory, which can be expanded up to 32GB via microSD card. In terms of camera, the Freedom 251 features a 3.2MP rear unit and a 0.3MP front shooter. The phone runs Android 5.1 (Lollipop), and packs in a 1,450mAh battery. Connectivity options include 3G, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth, and GPS, while color options include white. Ringing Bells says the phone is in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision for "empowering India to the last person, transforming India's growth story." It will be available to order from a dedicated website (Source link below) starting 6:00 AM tomorrow (February 18). India's Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar will officially launch it later today. Source |...

Naponta átlagosan 86 percet Facebookozik egy magyar felhasználó, a legintenzívebb felhasználók körében felülreprezentáltak a nők, az alacsonyabb iskolai végzettségűek és a 30 év alattiak.