The big January story in the graphics card world was, of course, the introduction of the Radeon 3870 X2 Compare Prices on Radeon 3870 X2 Video Cards. With two Radeon 3870 GPUs working in unison on a single PCB, the X2 is, on average, the fastest single videocard that money can buy. Note that caveat,...

NVIDIA's Drivers Page offers new WHQL-certified version 174.53 Windows drivers, while the Advanced Driver Downloads Page features beta version 174.74 drivers offering "numerous game and application compatibility fixes." Thanks FiringSquad. ...

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New beta version 175.16 drivers are now available for NVIDIA graphics cards (thanks Voodoo Extreme). There are new drivers for Windows XP, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP x64, Server 2003 x64, Windows Vista 32-bit, and Windows Vista 64-bit. ...

New WHQL-certified version 175.16 ForceWare reference drivers are now available for NVIDIA GeForce accelerators ((thanks Voodoo Extreme)., offering performance and compatibility improvements. There are new drivers for Windows XP, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP x64, Server 2...

NVIDIA's Roy Taylor Interview on Eurogamer talks with the NVIDIA VP of Content Business Development in a conversation where he opines that the heyday of PC exclusive game development is coming to a close: I think that we're going to see more digital authentication, and we're going to see mor...

The NVIDIA Drivers have some WHQL-certified drivers that were released last week (thanks Voodoo Extreme). The new version 177.35 drivers for GeForce 6, 7, 8, and 9 series GPUs offer performance improvements, beta folding@home support, and more. ...

NVIDIA has responded to a report from this morning saying that they were exiting from the business of developing chipsets for computer motherboards. Though that original article claims that "silence" was the response from NVIDIA to queries about this, but The Tech Report met with ...

NVIDIA plans on launching patches on August 12 to enable its GeForce 8-series and later graphics cards to run PhysX physics modeling on the GPU. Presumably an NDA about this expired today, as there are new previews of this new PhysX support on several sites, offering background, hands-on impre...

NVIDIA's Force Within Downloads Page now offers the promised release of their PhysX GeForce "power pack" for Unreal Tournament 3 along with the newer version 177.83 GeForce graphics drivers that enable PhysX physics processing on 8-series and later GPUs. The bundle includes the new...

The NVIDIA Driver Downloads Page leads the way to new beta version 177.92 ForceWare reference drivers for NVIDIA GeForce 6-series, 7-series, 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs. The new drivers include PhysX support, SLI enhancements, a number of performance improvements, and more. Thank...

ComputerWorld reports that NVIDIA has been hit with a class-action lawsuit over defects in it's GPU line, the suit alleging the company knowingly concealed information about the problem from its investors. The suit is seeking unspecified damages. Here's a bit: "Highlighting the seriousn...

New WHQL-certified version 178.13 ForceWare reference drivers are now available for NVIDIA GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, and GTX 200 graphics accelerators, offering performance and compatibility improvements. There are new drivers for Windows XP 32-Bit, Windows XP 64-Bit, Windows Vista 32-Bit, and ...

NVIDIA now offers another set of beta ForceWare drivers, which are now up to version 180.43, enabling NVIDIA SLI on Intel X58-based motherboards and offering further improvements in Far Cry 2 performance as described in the accompanying quote from Ubisoft's Louis-Pierre Pharand: "Since we...

It’s soon time to upgrade the drivers again! The ForceWare 180 – AKA ‘Big Bang II’ details are coming out now – here is what we’ve got. The Big Bang II will bring four major changes: performance increases in games, support for multiple displays in SLI multi-GPU mode, ability to dedicat...

Nvidia has announced that that ASUS, EVGA, MSI, Gigabyte, and DFI have all licensed Nvidia SLI technology for their new lines of boards designed around the Intel X58 chipset. Adding SLI to these boards (and adoption by major OEMs such as Dell) means that consumers will be able to use the power of S...

Been looking for a good Mini-ITX solution for a project? Home Theatre PC? Zotac has packed Nvidia power onto one of its new Mini-ITX boards, along with semi-built in Wi-Fi. The Zotac nForce 630i-ITX WiFi is part of the company’s expansion on their Mini-ITX lineup. Featuring GeForce 7100 graphics ...

Not playing games, but rather, doing some seriously intense CAD or DCC work? Medical Imaging? Nvidia has just unveiled its latest addition to the Quadro line of cards with the FX 5800 – claiming the world’s most powerful graphics card – outside of playing games. First off, the Quadro FX line...

Nvidia has announced two new professional graphics solutions; the Nvidia Quadro FX 370 Low Profile GPU and the Quadro FX 470 integrated motherboard GPU. Attempting to further capture market share in the professional graphics segment, Nvidia’s newest professional graphics solutions take on the ent...

The Tegra – Nvidia’s addition to the mobile device market, could be in the hands of consumers as early as April of 2009 – directly competing with Intel and Apple’s low-powered mobile processor solutions. The new Tegra chip will have an ARM based processor core, high-definition video decode...

Desktop supercomputers became a reality today as Nvidia announced the release of its new GPU-based Tesla personal supercomputer. Nvidia and its partners have announced today the availability of the new GPU-based Tesla personal supercomputer. The Tesla personal supercomputer is claimed to offer up ...

New WHQL-certified version 180.48 reference drivers are now available for GeForce 200-series, 9-series, and 8800-series desktop GPUs. This official release of their "Big Bang II" drivers claim impressive performance improvements for a variety of games. There are drivers for Windows ...

Did you hear that? Nvidia has just released its ForceWare 180.48 drivers, aka ‘Big Bang II’. The new ForceWare set is required to enable SLI on ‘some’ new and upcoming Intel X58 Express based boards. We covered a bit regarding the ‘Big Bang II’ release, and beta release a while back, an...

S3 Graphics is the Rodney Dangerfield of the graphics industry. The company’s Chrome GPUs just don’t get much respect. But the latest model, the Chrome 530 GT, it has a feature none of ATI’s nor Nvidia’s discrete GPUs can match: Support for Microsoft’s Protected Audio Path for passing the...