Nvidia testing game key distribution through GeForce Experience
Are you the lucky owner of a GeForce Titan X? Nvidia wants to hook you up with a game code for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in exchange for a little help. The company is testing the distribution of game codes through the GeForce Experience client, and it's holding an exclusive beta for Titan X owners to give the feature a shakedown run.
To redeem the code, you obviously need to own a Titan X, but the rest of the process looks pretty easy. A new "Rewards" icon will appear in GeForce Experience once ...
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The 5K iMac now starts at $1999
Apple's 27" Retina iMac features an eye-popping 5K (or 5120x2880) display. Those pixels used to reside in a machine starting at $2499, but Apple has now made 5K goodness a little more affordable with a $1999 configuration. The new base model features a 3.3GHz Intel Core i5 CPU (probably the Core i5-4590), 8GB of RAM, a 1TB mechanical hard drive, and AMD R9 M290 graphics with 2GB of RAM.
That's all well and good, aside from one thing: the omission of solid-state storage in a $2k PC seems questionable in this era of computing. ...
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15" MacBook Pro gets Force Touch, faster graphics and storage
Apple breathed fresh life into its highest-end notebook this morning. The 15" MacBook Pro now features the Force Touch trackpad that was introduced with the 12" MacBook. In the variant with discrete graphics, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 750M from the old version has been traded for an AMD Radeon R9 M370X. The new MacBook Pro also features a PCIe-based SSD that's claimed to be up to two times faster than the storage in the older model.
The Radeon R9 M370X might be the most interesting upgrade on the list. AMD doesn't list the specs for this product on its website, and Apple only goes so far as to say that ...
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Gigabyte's new dual-socket Xeon board supports CrossFire and SLI
Looking for a beefy workstation board to host a couple of Haswell-EP processors? Gigabyte's MW70-3S0 might be just the ticket. This monster squeezes dual LGA-2011v3 sockets, 16 DIMM slots, six PCIe slots, and a boatload of storage into an Extended ATX form factor.
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AMD's high-bandwidth memory explained
For years now, AMD has taken on the responsibility of defining new types of memory to be used in graphics cards, standards that have eventually come to be used by the entire industry. Typically, being first out of the gate with a new graphics-oriented memory technology has given AMD a competitive advantage in that first generation of products. For instance, the introduction of GDDR5 allowed the Radeon HD 4870 to capture the performance crown back in the day.
Trouble is, GDDR5 is still the standard memory type for graphics processors to this day, seven years after the ...
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Reverse engineering exposes Deus Ex rendering process
A couple months ago, we covered an Nvidia blog post that followed a triangle through the GPU rendering pipeline. The post described the progression from initial draw call to final pixel, providing insight on how GeForce hardware handles the work involved. Now, there's a new, entirely separate article that tackles things from another angle. Software engineer Adrian Courrèges has put together an intriguing blog post that steps through the process of how frames are rendered in Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
The post is based on information gleaned from reverse-engineering Human Revolution with graphics debugging tool RenderDoc. It starts with creating the normal map and ends with rendering the HUD, stopping along the way to cover ...
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