Radeon VII vs. RTX 2080 — which $700 GPU should you get? Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 12, 2019 5 min The very high end of the video card market has had no real competition for Nvidia in years. AMD has put its efforts instead... Continue Reading 5 min
AMD’s Q4 earnings of $87 million didn’t crater as feared Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 29, 2019 3 min Advanced Micro Devices met its reduced expectations for earnings and revenues in the fourth quarter, despite fears that it could be bad news. The... Continue Reading 3 min
Nvidia stock falls $14 billion on crypto-related earnings preannouncement Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 28, 2019 2 min Nvidia warned last November that the aftermath of the cryptocurrency bust would hurt its earnings, but now the company says weaker gaming and data center... Continue Reading 2 min
Machine learning is rescuing old game textures in Zelda and Final Fantasy Posted byby Jeff Grubb January 18, 2019 3 min The first generation of 3D video games are ugly. I think they are ugly in a charming way, but many people disagree with even... Continue Reading 3 min
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unplugged — The blockchain bubble and car autopilots Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 14, 2019 24 min Sitting in a press Q&A with Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, is like listening to a comedy routine. I appreciate that because so... Continue Reading 24 min
The DeanBeat: The best of CES 2019 Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 11, 2019 9 min I’ve finally finished my trip to CES 2019, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas. I walked more than 32.9 miles to scout for... Continue Reading 9 min
AMD’s speedy Radeon VII GPU is proving Nvidia’s point Posted byby Jeff Grubb January 9, 2019 4 min AMD announced its new Radeon VII video card today. It’s a $700 GPU that may have similar performance to Nvidia’s RTX 2080, which ranges... Continue Reading 4 min
Nvidia CEO: Rival AMD’s graphics chip performance is ‘underwhelming’ Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 9, 2019 1 min Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had a well-timed Q&A session at CES 2019, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas. It came on Wednesday... Continue Reading 1 min
Nvidia’s RTX 2060 is the RTX card you were waiting for Posted byby Jeff Grubb January 7, 2019 3 min Nvidia revealed the latest product in its new RTX line of video cards. The GeForce RTX 2060 is $350 and begins shipping January 15.... Continue Reading 3 min
Nvidia GPUs now support some FreeSync monitors Posted byby Jeff Grubb January 7, 2019 2 min Nvidia is crashing AMD’s FreeSync party. The company announced today at CES that it is testing every “adaptive sync” monitor to see if they... Continue Reading 2 min