AMD Radeon R9 295X2 aims for enthusiast GPU glory

This week AMD plays their biggest GPU hand to date with the Radeon R9 295X2. This is a highest-end Dual GPU running with 28nm process technology and 12.4 billion transistors. … Continue reading

Unreal Engine 4 demoed with NVIDIA GeForce Titan Z to dazzle

This week it was announced that NVIDIA will be working closely with Unreal Engine 4 to make full use of the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Z. This next-generation graphics … Continue reading

NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Z official for real-time magic

NVIDIA has revealed its latest video card, the GeForce GTX Titan Z, its new flagship with two Kepler GPUs for a total of 5,760 processing cores. Succeeding the Titan Black, … Continue reading

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti Review

With the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 and 750 Ti comes the company’s first implementation of their 1st generation Maxwell GPU architecture. Maxwell brings what NVIDIA suggests is the most efficient … Continue reading

Intel Labs paper to reveal details of energy efficient graphics chip

Intel may still have a throne over at the PC world, but in the mobile land it still has to conquer its own territory. Part of Intel’s problems lie with … Continue reading

iBuyPower: Steam Machines will battle consoles, not PCs

Each Steam Machine coming to the market later this year will be unique – that’s the message we’re getting from groups like iBuyPower and Falcon Northwest here in the first … Continue reading

MSI GTX 780 eyes-on: R9 270X Hawk, 280X Gaming, 290X Lightning appear

There’s a new set of graphics cards being shown off this week at CES 2014 by the folks at MSI, starting with the GTX 780 Lightening, a beast with three … Continue reading

Litecoin mining, GPU sales spike following Bitcoin value drop-off

Litecoin mining has quietly undergone a sharp rise in popularity in recent days. The cryptocurrency is an alternative to Bitcoin, which recently saw a meteoric rise in value to about $1200 before dropping off and settling in at the mid-$800 range. Litecoin’s sudden breakout has resulted in a worldwide run on graphics cards used in […]

NVIDIA G-Sync first-impressions

Today we’re letting loose our first-impressions of the technology called G-Sync, NVIDIA’s newest in new graphics enhancement for the gaming universe. What we’re looking at here is one of the first NVIDIA G-Sync monitors in the world outside of NVIDIA headquarters, here rolling with ASUS as a technology preview unit. Before you go any further, […]

SlashGear 101: What is NVIDIA G-Sync?

We’ve got one of the first NVIDIA G-Sync monitors in the world sitting on our desk this week, and though we’re not quite to production level preview time as of yet, the impression we’re getting already is one of a whole new era in gaming graphics. Aside from that, if there’s one thing we can […]