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Nvidia GeForce GTX 780: Titanic Power at a Less Ludicrous Price

Hot on the heels of the all-powerful Titan’s release just a few months ago, Nvidia is now plowing forward into its 700 series with the sweet new GTX 780. It’s a Titan-esque bad-boy that’s a little bit cheaper. https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-a-massive-gpu-that-might-be-u-5985291 The 780 is starting that final push of 700-series cards that will take Kepler to its…

Turns out Nvidia’s Shield is available for pre-order today instead of May 20th as originally announced. Still $350 though.

You Can Pre-Order NVIDIA’s Project Shield on May 20 for $350

NVIDIA says Project Shield will be available for pre-order starting May 20 for $350. The open platform portable gaming console will begin shipping in June. https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-project-shield-hands-on-a-little-less-weird-tha-5974239 The device is a little bit of everything at once—phone, tablet, and console. Shield runs Android Jelly Bean and has high-fidelity audio, 2GB RAM, 16GB flash storage, and 720p…

These Incredibly Realistic Human Face Computer Graphics Will Obviously Be Used for Porn

We’ve seen how impressive Nvidia’s new Titan GPU can be, but this is kind of nuts. Face rendering that is pretty darn close to bridging the uncanny valley. It’s remarkable. And also? This is obviously going to be used for porn. https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-a-massive-gpu-that-might-be-u-5985291 Everything is used for porn. And this, especially, should be put right to…

Benchmarks Are In: Nvidia’s Tegra 4 Really Cooks

When Nvida announced the Tegra 4 back at CES, they laid down the claim it was the world’s fastest mobile processor. Now Nvidia’s got some prototype devices at Mobile World Congress, the benchmarks are coming in and there’s no questioning it. The Tegra 4 is a total speed-demon. A generation better than the Tegra 3…

Nvidia’s New Headquarters Is Going to Look More Alien Than Apple’s Spaceship

If Apple’s upcoming campus is a spaceship, then NVIDIA’s planned headquarters must be the alien planet that it lands on. Celebrating its 20th year birthday, NVIDIA has announced plans to build a building that looks if not completely alien than at the very least reptilian. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-high-resolution-renders-of-apples-next-campus-a-5830633 The new headquarters was designed by Hao Ko of…

Nvidia Tegra 4i: Quad-Core Processing and LTE For Mobile Awesome

Just over a month after announcing the Tegra 4 processor, Nvidia’s back with another mobile chipset, the Tegra T4i, which comes with an integrated LTE modem. It’s designed specifically for use with smartphones. Where the Tegra 4 is all about raw power for big phones and tablets, the Tegra 4i is a marvel of tiny…

Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan: A Massive GPU That Might Be Unbeatable

Today Nvidia is pulling the wraps off the GK110-based GeForce GTX Titan, a single-GPU card that is expected to easily capture the title of Baddest Ass GPU in the world when benchmarks are released this Thursday, February 21st. The Titan is Nvidia’s “Big Kepler” GPU, and has double the transistors and almost double the CUDA…

AMD claims that four of its former execs stole over 100,000 secret documents before joining Nvidia. Ouch. [Ars Technica]

NVIDIA Project Shield Hands On: A Little Less Weird Than It Looks

Nvidia’s Project Shield is a curious little device, attempting to toss its hat into a bunch of rings at once. It’s taking shots at handheld gaming, console gaming, tablets, and phones. For the most part, it’s holding under the strain, but it’s hard to imagine going out of your way to use it versus any…

First Hands-On with a Tegra 4 Tablet

Vizio’s got a nice surprise at CES this year: one of the only tablets with a Tegra 4 processor inside you can find anywhere in the world, outside of some death vault at Nvidia headquarters. We used it. The 10.1-inch slate—just a prototype for now—boasts an eye-pleasing 2560 x 1600 resolution, and was terrifically light…

Kaboom: Nvidia Is Making Its Own Gaming System

Before today, Nvidia made parts to put inside gadgets other people build. Today, it has its own gaming device: a Tegra 4-powered handheld system with both an integrated controller and screen. It does 4k. But what the hell is it, exactly? Nvidia says the device, nicknamed “Project Shield,” will pack a 10-hour battery life, audio…

The Tegra 4 Is Here

Here it is: the next biggest, baddest mobile processor, the silicon monster that’ll power your next coveted super-smartphone. It packs 72 GPU cores, 4 A15 CPU cores, and a built-in LTE. In a (somewhat simulated) head to head test between a Nexus 10 tablet and and a Tegra 4 mystery machine, the latter loaded 25…

Nvidia Just Built Its Own Gaming Supercomputer: The Grid

Nvidia wants to make a Netflix of gaming—perfectly smooth, perfectly simple, superbly rendered PC games steamed to your system as if you owned an expensive rig. And so, here’s a GPU tower that the company says just that, combining 700 Xbox 360s in one tall box. Each Grid rack contains 240 Nvidia GPUs that stream…

NVIDIA’s Tegra 4: Six Times as Powerful as Tegra 3, 1080p at 120Hz and 4K Video?

A leaked slide, published by Chip Hell, purports to show the specs of NVIDIA’s next high-power mobile processors—and if the leak’s accurate, it looks like NVIDIA is more than catching up with the competition. The leak details the 4th generation of NVIDIA’s Tegra processor, currently codenamed Wayne. It apparently uses 28 nanometer processing across a…

Nvidia’s GeForce Experience Fixes Your Graphics Settings for You

Nvidia is no stranger to trying to make your video games look good, but this is a different take. Nvidia’s doing software now, and its GeForce Experience wants to optimize your graphics settings. GeForce Experience’s flagship feature is the ability to optimize visual settings for PC games with one click. If you’re not into guess-and-check…

HTC One X+ Hands-On: Really Good Is Getting Better

We really liked the HTC One X, and from our brief encounter with the One X+ tonight, we’re going to like it even more. On the outside, it looks essentially the same—same gorgeous screen, same solid build—but its insides are nicely ramped up. https://gizmodo.com/htc-one-x-review-the-best-android-phone-right-now-upd-5907529 This will be the first phone hitting the States with Nvidia’s…

GeForce GTX 660 Ti: Nvidia’s Awesome Kepler Graphics Cards Are Finally Affordable

Nvidia’s GTX 600 series has finally hit the $300 mark, putting it in the acceptable price range of everyone who doesn’t have permanent WASD impressions stuck to their hands. The GeForce GTX 660 Ti is out today, and will also come with a free copy of Borderlands 2. The GTX 660 should perform about twice…

Nvidia’s Fastest GPU Cooled in Total Silence

The Nvidia GTX 680 is a beast of a graphics chomper, delivering some of the fastest speeds you can possibly get from a single processor. But video cards are often loud as hell. Fans! Ugh! Not this one. It’s simple physics: video cards suck down a lot of electricity, create a lot of heat, and…

Here’s What the Creator of Linux Thinks of NVIDIA

Why is Linus Torvalds, father of the open source Linux operating system, so angry? It’s the years of neglect that his baby has suffered at the hands of NVIDIA, apparently. Speaking at Aalto University in Finland, Torvalds called NVIDIA “the single worst company [the Linux Foundation] ever dealt with (watch his response here). As Ubergizmo…