Category: NVIDIA

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 announced starting at $249, available in India from July 19

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060

NVIDIA has announced GeForce GTX 1060, the company’s latest affordable gaming graphics card that promises GTX 980-level performance and twice the energy efficiency in VR. It is based on the company’s new Pascal architecture and is built on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET process, similar to the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 GPUs.  It has support for DirectX 12, Vulkan graphics APIs, consumers just 120 watts of power and delivers the performance required for immersive VR. Continue reading “NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 announced starting at $249, available in India from July 19”

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 launched in India starting from Rs. 40800

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

NVIDIA introduced GeForce GTX 1070, along with the flagship GTX 1080 last month. The Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 went on sale in India a couple weeks back, today the Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition is now available for purchase in India through several retailers. It is based on new Pascal architecture and is built on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET process. Continue reading “NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 launched in India starting from Rs. 40800”

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 launched in India starting from Rs. 63250

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

NVIDIA introduced GeForce GTX 1080, the company’s top-end gaming graphics card earlier this month. Now the Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition is now available for purchase in India through several retailers. It is based on new Pascal architecture and is built on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET process. It has support for DirectX 12, Vulkan graphics APIs and is designed to drive display devices beyond 5K including HDR as well as delivering the performance required for immersive VR.

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NVIDIA Shield tablet starts receiving Android 6.0.1 update

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NVIDIA has started rolling out Android 6.0.1 update for its Shield tablet. The latest update comes following the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update in February.

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NVIDIA readying next gen SHIELD tablet – Shows up at FCC

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It seems that NVIDIA is working on a new generation SHIELD tablet to succeed the current one that was introduced back in 2014. The new tablet has just passed through the FCC in USA and we have a few details about the same.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 announced, Whatsapp video calling, NFC tags leak – FoneArena Daily

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 announced, 2 times faster than GTX TITAN X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

NVIDIA has announced GeForce GTX 1080, the company’s top-end gaming graphics card that claims to deliver 2x the performance and 3x the efficiency of TITAN X. It is based on the company’s new Pascal architecture and is built on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET process.  It has support for DirectX 12, Vulkan graphics APIs and is designed to drive display devices beyond 5K including HDR as well as delivering the performance required for immersive VR. Continue reading “NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 announced, 2 times faster than GTX TITAN X”

NVIDIA DGX-1 deep learning supercomputer announced

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NVIDIA has announced DGX-1 deep learning supercomputer at the company’s 2016 GPU Technology Conference.  The NVIDIA DGX-1 deep learning system is built on NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs, based on the new NVIDIA Pascal GPU architecture.

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NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV Unboxing

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NVIDIA introduced its SHIELD Android TV at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) last year. We finally managed to the 16GB version from France for 199.99 Euros that also comes with bundled remote worth 54.99 Euros as a limited period offer. Check out the unboxing below. Continue reading “NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV Unboxing”

Original NVIDIA Shield Tablet gets updated to Android 6.0 Marshmallow

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NVIDIA was quick on its heels to roll out the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update for the K1 Shield tablet. However, the original Shield tablet didn’t get any Marshmallow goodness until now.

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NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2 AI supercomputer for self-driving cars announced

NVIDIA Drive PX 2

NVIDIA today at its CES 2016 event, introduced DRIVE PX 2, world’s first in-car Artificial Intelligence (AI) supercomputer. It utilizes deep learning on NVIDIA’s GPUs for 360-degree situational awareness around the car, to determine precisely where the car is and to compute a safe, comfortable trajectory. It has two next-gen Tegra processors or 12 CPUs cores, capable of 8 teraflops of processing power and 24 teraflops of deep processing operations, two next-gen discrete GPUs, based on the Pascal architecture that deliver up to 24 trillion deep learning operations per second. It also supports liquid cooling. Continue reading “NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2 AI supercomputer for self-driving cars announced”

Nvidia Shield tablet K1 starts receiving Android 6.0 Marshmallow update

Nvidia had promised that Shield Tablet K1 will receive Android 6.0 Marshmallow update by the end of this year and the company is keeping its promise. The latest Software Upgrade version 1.0 is the first major update since its introduction last month.

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NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet X1 with Tegra X1 SoC, 3GB RAM surfaces in benchmarks

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NVIDIA introduced the SHIELD tablet K1 last week at a cheaper price of $199. Now the SHIELD tablet X1 has surfaced in GFXBench benchmarks revealing a similar 8-inch Full HD display, but this will be powered by the latest NVIDIA Tegra X1 Octa-Core (4x ARM Cortex A57 + 4x ARM Cortex A53) 20nm processor with 256-core Maxwell GPU. The listing shows it wrongly as a quad-core SoC. Continue reading “NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet X1 with Tegra X1 SoC, 3GB RAM surfaces in benchmarks”

NVIDIA introduces SHIELD tablet K1 with 8-inch Full HD display, Tegra K1 SoC for $199

NVIDIA SHIELD tablet K1

NVIDIA introduced SHIELD tablet last year starting at $299, but it went out of stock on NVIDIA ‘s website shortly after the company recalled some units in late July this year for posing a fire hazard due to overheating batteries. Today it has released an updated version of the tablet as SHIELD tablet K1 with minor changes that includes, silicon grips that will make it easier to hold and of course a new battery, just in time for the holidays. Continue reading “NVIDIA introduces SHIELD tablet K1 with 8-inch Full HD display, Tegra K1 SoC for $199”

Nvidia unveils Jetson TX1 module to bring AI to drones and robots

Nvidia has launched a new module that is dubbed as Jetson TX1 in a bid to bring Artificial Intelligence to new generation of autonomous robots and drones.

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