The Radeon RX 7000 has been blocked from one of the most effective alternative overclocking methods

AMD has banned the use of Power Play Table (PPTable) in the Windows registry on its Radeon RX 7000 graphics cards.
This limits the overclocking capabilities of the graphics cards and, in particular, prevents fine-tuning GPU power and frequency curves outside of their official specifications.
This has been pointed out by well-known enthusiast Buildzoid.Image source: AMDThe Power Play tables are an alternative method of changing GPU clock frequency, power and voltage via the Windows registry instead of modifying or replacing the BIOS.
At the same time, it is the safest method of running GPUs outside of their official specifications, as it prevents any risk that may arise from BIOS re-flashing.Setting up Power Play tables or changing the BIOS has several advantages over traditional AMD overclocking methods and features offered by Radeon Software Adrenalin.
First, users can bypass GPU hardware limitations associated with the firmware and overclock the graphics card as much as possible.
Secondly, Power Play tables allow for fine-tuning of the voltage/frequency curve to improve the power efficiency of the graphics card.
In other words, this method allows you to fine tune the video card's GPU behavior in more detail, which is not possible with AMD's usual overclocking software.Last generation Radeon RX 6000 video cards do not have the ability to fine tune power via Power Play tables blocked.
Why AMD decided to prohibit access to it on Radeon RX 7000 video cards is unknown.
However, one AMD engineer on the Reddit forum in a thread discussing power consumption issues with Radeon RX 7000 graphics cards reported that \"architecturally RDNA3 has some changes in how to manipulate the power tables.\"

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti graphics card already mentioned on NVIDIA website

It is generally believed that NVIDIA will introduce the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti desktop graphics card during its January 3 broadcast from CES 2023, whose path to the shelves has been quite thorny.
Initially refusing to launch it in the fall under the name \"GeForce RTX 4080 12GB\", the company now hopes to start selling under the \"sign\" GeForce RTX 4070 Ti on January 5.Image source: NVIDIAOne of the Japanese bloggers noticed that the system requirements section of the application NVIDIA Omniverse View graphics card GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is already openly mentioned on the developer's website.
Its presence is the recommended option of computer equipment, which is to be used to run this application.
To recap, GeForce RTX 4070 Ti will be based on the GPU AD104-400 with 35.8 billion transistors and 295 mm2 chip area, the novelty will boast the presence of 7680 cores CUDA and 12 GB of memory type GDDR6X with 192-bit bus, and the frequency of the GPU can reach 2.6 GHz.
There have been some instances of this model showing up on store shelves this month, but prices have ranged from $1000 to $1350.
There is no information about the official recommended price of GeForce RTX 4070 Ti yet.

Sapphire introduced Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT graphics cards in NITRO+ and PULSE versions - all with factory overclocking

Sapphire officially introduced Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT graphics cards in their signature NITRO+ and PULSE versions.
About the appearance of these new products previously reported.
Now the manufacturer has disclosed their specifications.
Radeon RX 7900 XTX NITRO+.
Image source: ShopheerGraphic processor Navi 31 with 6144 cores in the Radeon RX 7900 XTX NITRO+ in gaming mode runs at 2510 MHz, and in Boost mode - at 2680 MHz.
In both cases we are talking about factory overclocking.
Game frequency manufacturer has increased by 210 MHz, and Boost frequency - by 180 MHz.For a cut down Navi 31 GPU with 5376 cores model Radeon RX 7900 XT NITRO+ company says gaming frequency of 2220 MHz and Boost-frequency of 2560 MHz.
Thus, compared to the reference values the gain in the first case is 220 MHz, and in the second - 160 MHz.Both video cards NITRO+ series have a massive cooling system with three fans.
This is the first non-standard version of the new series of graphics cards Radeon RX 7900, in the cooling system which uses an evaporation chamber.
In this case Sapphire has applied its proprietary evaporation chamber technology Vapor-X.
In addition, new items are equipped with three cooling fans with a special shape of the blades, which can reduce the noise level by 10% compared to fans of the previous generation.
The company notes that fans can be easily removed for cleaning or replacement.Video cards are equipped with ARGB-backlit, and also have RGB-connectors on boards, allowing you to synchronize their backlight with the backlight of other system components.
Lighting can be adjusted in the proprietary Sapphire TriXX.For Radeon RX 7900 XTX Sapphire specifies power consumption of 420 watts.
This is 65 watts higher than the benchmark value.
The Radeon RX 7900 XT has a power consumption value of 368W - 53W higher than the benchmark.
Both graphics cards received three 8-pin connectors each for additional power.
For both models, the manufacturer recommends to use power supply unit with power of 800 watts and more.
Both novelties are equipped with dual BIOS system.
The dimensions of Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XTX NITRO+ and Radeon RX 7900 XT NITRO+ graphics cards are 320 × 135.75 × 71.6 mm.
They require 3.5 free expansion slots in the PC chassis for installation.The Radeon RX 7900 XT PULSE model GPU runs at 2075 MHz in gaming mode, which is 75 MHz above the reference value.
For Boost mode the claimed value is 2450 MHz.
This is 50 MHz above the benchmark.The flagship Radeon RX 7900 XTX PULSE has gaming and Boost mode frequencies of 2330 and 2525 MHz respectively.
In the first case it is 30 MHz above the benchmark and in the second case it is 25 MHz above the benchmark.PULSE series graphics cards are equipped with a simpler but also very large cooling system.
It includes three fans with a special shape of the blades.
The manufacturer notes that the fan blades with angular velocity provides two layers of downward air pressure, which along with the air pressure on the outer ring of the fan leads to an increase in downward air pressure by 44% and increased air flow by 19% for better cooling while reducing noise compared to the previous generation of fans.PULSE series graphics cards thickness is 2.7 expansion slots.
Dimensions of video cards are 313 × 133.75 × 52.67 mm.
For the senior model, the power consumption indicator of 370 W is declared, which is 15 W higher than the reference value.
The novelty has three 8-pin connectors for additional power.
The junior model has a power consumption figure of 331W, which is 16W higher than the benchmark.
The card has two 8-pin connectors for additional power.
The manufacturer recommends to use 800W power supply in both cases.

Sales of Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT graphics cards have started - they will appear in Russia by the end of December

AMD Company has started official sales of Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT graphics cards on the new RDNA 3 graphics architecture.
Graphics gas pedals appeared in stores as a reference version, as well as in non-reference versions from AMD partners.Image source: VideoCardzAMD decided to start a new series of graphics cards Radeon RX 7000 with the release of only the older models.
At the core of the flagship Radeon RX 7900 XTX uses full-size graphics processor Navi 31 with 6144 cores.
AMD claims a frequency range of 2.3 to 2.5 GHz for it, but independent reviews show that under load its frequency can actually be much higher - almost 3 GHz.
This GPU claims a theoretical performance of 61 Tflops.Radeon RX 7900 XTX has 24 GB of GDDR6 memory at 20 Gbit/s per pin, with 384 bit bus support and a bandwidth of 960 GB/s.
In the reference version, the gas pedal is equipped with two 8-pin power connectors.
However, partner versions are also available with three of these power connectors.
AMD recommends to use 800 watt or more power unit with the reference version of the graphics card.
Claimed TDP value of the novelty is 355 W.Image source: AMDThe Radeon RX 7900 XT uses a cut down version of Navi 31 processor with 5376 cores.
AMD declares its operating frequency range from 2.0 to 2.4 GHz.
Tests show that the chip is capable of running above 2.9 GHz under load.
The card got 20 GB of GDDR6 memory with the same 20 Gb/s per pin, 320 bit bus support and 800 Gb/s bandwidth.
For the Radeon RX 7900 XT a theoretical performance of 52 Tflops is claimed.
At the last minute AMD increased TDP value from 300 to 315W.
The card has two 8-pin power connectors.
It is recommended to use power supply unit with 750 W power rating.
Image source: Mindfactory.eThe older model AMD has priced at $999, the younger - at $899.
Novelties in reference and non-reference versions have already appeared at some US and European retailers.
Some non-reference versions of video cards are offered at recommended prices, while others are priced higher.
Source image: NeweggThe Russian electronics retail chain DNS reports that the graphics cards will appear on the shelves of Russian stores closer to the end of this month.Find out what the Western press thinks about Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT here.

Bloggers and media showed unboxing Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT - reviews will appear on December 12

AMD allowed core media and tech bloggers to publish materials with unboxing of the latest graphics cards Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT, reports VideoCardz.
However, reviewers can not publish information about their performance or reviews - it will have to wait until next week.Image source: VideoCardzThe majority of reviewers got their hands on a reference version of the Radeon RX 7900 XT and Radeon RX 7900 XTX.
While at first glance the two cards don't seem to differ from each other, a closer look reveals that this is not the case.
The flagship Radeon RX 7900 XTX is slightly taller and longer than the Radeon RX 7900 XT.
In addition, the video cards have a different RGB backlight configuration.
However, both benchmark gas pedals have the same thickness of two expansion slots.
In addition, both video cards received two 8-pin connectors for additional power.
Image source: Overclock3DIt is also known that Radeon RX 7900 XT and Radeon RX 7900 XTX use different circuit boards.
The flagship model has a wider one.
The older version uses a board marked D704, the younger one uses a board marked D702.
It is obvious that apart from the size of the circuit boards the graphics cards also differ in their VRM power subsystems.
However, more detailed information on this will be known after the novelties will be available for disassembly.
Image source: TechPowerUpDirect comparison shows that the next-generation Radeon graphics cards are much more compact than the reference models GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4080, which themselves are considered compact solutions in the new series of NVIDIA gas pedals compared to non-reference versions.
Image source: ComputerBaseIt is curious that among the media only one source has received a non-reference model of AMD graphics cards on the RDNA 3 architecture.
British publication Overclock3D has shared a picture of XFX Radeon RX 7900 XTX MERC 310, images of which flashed quite recently.
Source image: Overclock3DThe German edition HardwareLUXX, full independent reviews of the Radeon RX 7900 XT and Radeon RX 7900 XTX will begin to appear on December 12, the day before the actual start of new products.Recall that in the benchmark flagship Radeon RX 7900 XTX estimated at $ 999, the junior Radeon RX 7900 XT has a price tag of $ 899.
The first uses a full-fledged GPU Navi 31 with 6144 stream processors and is equipped with 24 GB of GDDR6 memory.
The second one is based on a \"cut down\" Navi 31 GPU with 5376 stream processors and 20 GB of GDDR6 memory.

NVIDIA - about burnt-out RTX 4090 connectors: 50 known cases, users' fault, but the case is under warranty

NVIDIA finally issued an official statement regarding the problem with melting 12VHPWR power connectors plugged into GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards.
After weeks of investigation, the company said the source of the problem was mating connectors improperly.NVIDIA said it knows of about 50 cases of melted connectors around the world.
To date, the company has concluded that the common cause of the problem is that \"the connector was not fully inserted into the video card.\" In fact, similar conclusions were reached the other day by the experts of the YouTube channel GamersNexus, who conducted their own independent investigation.Above - incompletely inserted connector, below - fully inserted connectorThe company noted that it is studying different approaches that would allow users to make sure that the connector is connected correctly before turning on the video card.
So far, NVIDIA recommends first plugging the power connector into the graphics card, making sure it is fully inserted and has no gaps, and then plugging the graphics card into a PCIe slot on the motherboard.NVIDIA also noted that it is committed to supporting customers and providing a fast warranty process for graphics cards, \"regardless of the cable or card used.
\"NVIDIA is still reviewing reports of melted connectors and looking for ways to ensure the card is properly connected to the power supply.
At the same time, the company did not specify whether the latter would entail changes to the existing design or some other drastic measures.
Also note that NVIDIA's statement about 50 cases indicates that the problem is not that widespread, given that NVIDIA and its partners have clearly sold tens, if not hundreds of thousands of GeForce RTX 4090s worldwide.

NVIDIA to unveil new GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards Jan.3

At yesterday's quarterly event, NVIDIA management admitted to being quite pleased with the market debut of the first two members of the Ada Lovelace gaming architecture in the form of GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4080 graphics cards, but is soon going to introduce new models in the family.
Now we found out that the next NVIDIA presentation will be held on January 3, at CES 2023.Source image: NVIDIAOn the eve of NVIDIA sent out the invitations to the press at a virtual event, which will be held during CES 2023 in Las Vegas, reports news resource PCMag.
The presentation will be broadcasted on January 3 at 8 am local time.
The only thing mentioned is NVIDIA's willingness to share information about \"cutting-edge innovations made possible by accelerated computing\".
You can watch the broadcast directly on the official NVIDIA website.It is possible that the event in early January, among other things, will allow NVIDIA to bring back the relevance of GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card with 12 GB of memory, whose announcement was hastily canceled earlier.
Most likely, this graphics solution will debut under another name, because earlier NVIDIA employees acknowledged the mistake of using the designation \"GeForce RTX 4080\" for two different graphics cards.
It is assumed that the said graphics card with 12 GB of memory can go under the name GeForce RTX 4070 Ti with a price lower than the initially planned $ 899.
The launch of AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX ($999) and Radeon RX 7900 XT ($899) next month forces NVIDIA to think about countermeasures, which would not undermine profitability of GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4080.
The appearance of a third video card in the family could well restore the balance of power.

NVIDIA says huge demand for RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 - the company is preparing many new GeForce RTX 40-series products

CFO Colette Kress took the opening remarks at the quarterly reporting conference NVIDIA called the past stages of debut of graphics cards with GPUs based on Ada Lovelace architecture extremely successful.
GeForce RTX 4090 has been sold out in many markets since mid-October, the GeForce RTX 4080 is already on sale, and in general, NVIDIA is ready to offer \"many new products\" with this gaming architecture.Image source: NVIDIAThe last promise was made by the founder and permanent head of NVIDIA Jensen Huang (Jensen Huang).
He stressed that now Ada Lovelace architecture carriers are positioned in the upper price segment.
GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards were released in large quantities, but this did not prevent customers from buying out their first batch in just minutes, as stated by the CEO of NVIDIA.
The market, he said, has received both the GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4080 very favorably, and therefore management is very enthusiastic about this debut.
In addition, it proves the strength, resilience and transparency of the gaming segment of the market, as summarized by the company's founder.In the third quarter of the current fiscal year, as explained by NVIDIA management in response to a related question from analysts at the quarterly event, the value equivalent of product inventory increased by $560 million sequentially.According to the company's CFO, this increase was only partly due to the need to accumulate a certain inventory of new architecture media: Ada Lovelace in the gaming segment and Hopper in c The networking segment, which is chiefly served by Mellanox products, also had a significant impact on the stock growth.
The company had to write off $702 mn of stocks, but the bulk of these losses were accounted for by A100 computing gas pedals.
Recall, the latter were intended for use in server systems by Chinese customers, but in the third quarter, after the new U.S.
sanctions the company hastily offered them a replacement in the form of a chip A800, whose performance is limited at the hardware level, and therefore avoids the U.S.
sanctions.
As a result, demand from Chinese customers switched to new \"alternative solutions\" and part of the stock of old A100s had to be written off.
As noted by NVIDIA executives at the quarterly event, the negative impact of sanctions in the third quarter was largely offset by the introduction of gas pedals A800 to the Chinese market, clearly adapted to the new U.S.
export control requirements.

NVIDIA gaming revenue collapsed by more than half, but server revenue grew by 31%--the company's net income fell by 72%

NVIDIA's long-awaited quarterly report was not a complete disappointment for analysts, as revenue of $5.93 billion slightly exceeded their expectations, and only earnings per share of $0.27 missed forecasts.
On the other hand, NVIDIA expects revenue in the fourth quarter not to exceed $6 billion, while investors were expecting a little more at $6.09 billion.
Only the server and automotive segments maintained positive year-over-year revenue dynamics.Source image: NVIDIAIn this area NVIDIA's revenue in the third quarter rose by 31% compared to the same period last year to $3.833 billion.
In fact, about 65% of all revenue in the last quarter the company received exactly from sales of components for data centers, and the presence of positive Consistent growth was hampered by weak demand in China, but even so, revenue increased by 1%.
As for the impact of U.S.
sanctions on the supply of calculator gas pedals in China, NVIDIA managed to largely offset it by the supply of alternative solutions to the PRC market - we are talking about recently introduced A800.The total revenue of the company at the same time decreased by 17% year-on-year, to $5.931 billion.
Consistent decline reached 12 %.
In the gaming segment, the company generated only $1.574 billion in revenue, down 51% from the same quarter last year, and down 23% from the second fiscal quarter.
By the way, the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023 is already on the NVIDIA calendar, so the captions in the table may be confusing to the uninformed reader.Image source: NVIDIAAccording to NVIDIA representatives, the dynamics of gaming revenue in the third quarter reflected the decline in supply of GPUs to its partners, who had to find ways to reduce accumulated inventory as quickly as possible.
Demand for graphics cards was undermined by both macroeconomic problems and the impact of lockdowns in China.
While a 51 percent year-over-year decline in gaming revenue was blamed on declines in both desktop and mobile graphics chip sales, the 23 percent sequential decline was primarily driven by mobile graphics solutions.There were few comments from the CFO about the impact of the cryptocurrency sector on NVIDIA's business.
According to Colette Kress, the transition of Ethereum to a new mathematical model reduced the degree of suitability of video cards for cryptocurrency mining.
In turn, this contributed to the influx of used graphics cards in the secondary market and reduced the demand for new graphics cards in some regions of the world, especially in its budget part, according to NVIDIA.In the direction of professional visualization NVIDIA's revenue decreased by 60% to $ 200 million, in annual comparison, the decline reached 65%.
In contrast, the automotive segment increased 86 percent to $251 million in year-over-year revenue and 14 percent in sequential revenue - primarily due to demand for autopilot systems.
For OEM and other, NVIDIA revenue decreased 69% year-over-year to $73 million and sequential revenue decreased 48%.
Sequential decrease in NVIDIA explain the decline in demand for Jetson platforms and components for notebooks, and revenue from sales of CMP gas pedals for cryptocurrency mining in the past quarter was negligible, although a year ago, reached $ 105 million.
Operating expenses of NVIDIA in the third quarter rose by 7% sequentially to $ 2.576 billion and by 31% year on year.
Operating income increased 20% sequentially to $601 million, but was down 77% year over year.
Net income rose 4 percent sequentially to $680 million, but was down 72 percent year over year.
NVIDIA's revenue per share also fell proportionally, from $0.97 last year to $0.27 this year.
It is noteworthy that NVIDIA's overall revenue in the segment of computing and network solutions grew by 27% year over year to $3.816 billion, although as you can guess in this case, the company helped the server segment.
Graphics sales alone were 24 percent less than the previous quarter, and 48 percent less than the year before - only $2.115 billion.
As a side note, NVIDIA was forced to write off $702 million in the third quarter due to a backlog in its inventory, but it was mainly due to problems with its server component A100 sales in China.
The breakdown was as follows: $354 million was for products that were already in stock, while $34 million was for products that were out of stock.

Intel has hired an executive to promote Arc graphics cards that has turned ASUS into a leading PC gaming brand

Intel has gained a valuable executive with a wealth of experience.
Vivian Lien announced that she has already joined Intel's graphics division as vice president and general manager.
\"I can't wait to get into building the Intel Arc graphics graphics graphics graphics adapter business,\" she wrote on Linked In, and promised that \"there's more to come.
\"Image source: Vivian LienLien is expected to play an important role in promoting the next generation Intel Arc Battlemage discrete graphics cards as well as attracting Intel's PC-ready partners to incorporate these products into their systems.
Intel Arc Battlemage is expected to be the next evolution of Alchemist to compete with AMD and NVIDIA products.Image source: Vivian LienThe appointment of Lien to a senior position at Intel suggests that the company needs her expertise and extensive partner relationships in the gaming PC business.
Lien was at Corsair by the middle of the decade before last, but made her name and reputation with a successful career spanning years at ASUS in PC and component marketing.
In fact, she was instrumental in ASUS becoming one of the premier suppliers of gaming PCs and components.
For the past few years, Lien has been Dell's VP of Alienware and Dell Gaming.
So this is someone with a wealth of experience in promoting gaming PCs and components.Image source: IntelIf Intel really wants to succeed in commercializing its discrete graphics cards, appointing someone who has been in PC and component sales to this position looks like a good choice.
And beyond that, Vivien's appointment is the nail in the coffin of persistent rumors about scaling back development or cutting back Intel's discrete graphics Arc business.

AMD explained why its Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT are better than the GeForce RTX 4080

Two days before the launch of the GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card, AMD has decided to try and divert the attention of its potential customers and turn it towards its newly introduced Radeon RX 7900 series graphics cards based on the new RDNA 3 architecture.
AMD noted the details, which should, in its opinion, should convince PC owners to opt for its gas pedals.Image source: AMDI AMD had already confirmed earlier that the main competitor of graphics cards Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT will be just the model GeForce RTX 4080.
Thus, the GeForce RTX 4090 will remain the fastest gaming graphics card, at least for the foreseeable future.
Radeon RX 7900 XTX, RX 7900 XT and GeForce RTX 4080 specificationsThe Radeon RX 7900 XTX has a VRM power subsystem with 20 phases, three more than the GeForce RTX 4080 in the Founders Edition benchmark.
The AMD Radeon RX 7900AMD graphics card board also draws attention to the fact that its new graphics cards are more compact than its competitor.
They are shorter and thinner than the GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition.
In addition, unlike GeForce RTX 40-series cards, Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT gas pedals are equipped with DisplayPort 2.1 and USB Type-C connectors.
AMD once again reminds that unlike the competitor its new graphics cards do not require any adapters and new power connectors.
They are equipped with two regular 8-pin PCIe power connectors, making them fully compatible with most power supplies.It is also fair to say that in the $900-1200 price range AMD graphics cards will offer more video memory.
The Radeon RX 7900 XTX gets 24GB of GDDR6 and the Radeon RX 7900 XT gets 20GB of GDDR6.
The flagship GeForce RTX 4090 has 24 GB of faster GDDR6X memory on board, but its recommended price is $1600.
The GeForce RTX 4080, on the other hand, has \"only\" 16 GB of GDDR6X at a recommended price of $1200.
Unfortunately, neither AMD nor NVIDIA are yet ready to directly compare the performance of their gas pedals against each other.
Since the GeForce RTX 4080 is not yet available, AMD is comparing its RDNA 3 architecture-based graphics cards against its own flagship Radeon RX 6950 XT gas pedal from last generation.
Raster performance of the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XTThe company has shared two graphics.
According to them, the raster performance of new generation graphics cards in games when using 4K resolution is up to 67% higher than the Radeon RX 6950 XT, and the performance of the light tracing technology in the new graphics cards up to 82% higher than the Radeon flagship on the RDNA 2 architecture.
Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT ray tracing performanceTill the launch of Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Radeon RX 7900 XT are still a month away.
Their release is scheduled for December 13.

NVIDIA just now stopped production of GeForce RTX 2060 Super and RTX 2060

NVIDIA has stopped production of GeForce RTX 2060 Super and GeForce RTX 2060 12GB graphics cards on the Turing architecture generation before last.
This is reported by the Chinese media, citing its sources.Image source: NVIDIAThe GeForce RTX 2060 video card with 6 GB of memory was introduced in early 2019.
During this time, NVIDIA managed to release two more variants of the gas pedal - GeForce RTX 2060 Super in mid-2019 and GeForce RTX 2060 model with 12 GB.
The company introduced the latter in December 2021.
The decision was made against a backdrop of significant remaining stock of Turing generation GPUs, and as a response to the peak chip shortage that left video card manufacturers struggling to produce more advanced GeForce RTX 30-series models.During its existence, the GeForce RTX 2060 managed to become the second most popular graphics card on Steam gaming platform.
Model GeForce RTX 2060 Super did not win such interest, but was still in high demand among gamers around the world because of its relatively low cost.
Source image: SteamAccording to the Chinese media, NVIDIA has stopped shipping GPUs for the GeForce RTX 2060 and GeForce RTX 2060 Super.
The company also asked its partners to reduce the amount of production of these graphics cards by the end of this month.At the time of release GeForce RTX 2060 was the most affordable graphics card with NVIDIA support for hardware ray tracing.
Among current models, this title belongs to the GeForce RTX 3050.
However, if you believe the leaks, NVIDIA is already in development of a model GeForce RTX 4050 as part of a new generation of gas pedals Ada Lovelace.
The GeForce RTX 4050 package was spotted at the Galax event on GeForce RTX 40-series in October.
Image source: TheBloodNinja/Reddit GeForce RTX 2060 graphics cards can still be found on sale.
However, amid recent announcements, their stock could be depleted quite quickly.

Gigabyte introduced six versions of GeForce RTX 4080 with different cooling systems

Gigabyte has introduced six versions of its own Aorus GeForce RTX 4080 Xtreme Waterforce WB, Aorus RTX 4080 Xtreme Waterforce, Aorus RTX 4080 Master, RTX 4080 Gaming, RTX 4080 Aero and RTX 4080 Eagle graphics cards at once.
Image source: GigabyteThe Aorus GeForce RTX 4080 Xtreme Waterforce WB version is designed for those who are going to use graphics cards in a PC with a custom liquid cooling system.
The gas pedal is equipped with a full-coverage waterblock, which allows you to connect the video card to the circuit of liquid cooling.For the GPU of this version is specified factory GPU overclocking to 2565 MHz.
Recall that the reference maximum frequency of the graphics chip in GeForce RTX 4080 is 2505 MHz.
The dimensions of the Aorus GeForce RTX 4080 Xtreme Waterforce WB version are 235 × 169 × 29 mm.The key feature of the Aorus GeForce RTX 4080 Xtreme Waterforce is a maintenance-free liquid cooling system with an external radiator of 360 mm.
It is cooled by three 120mm fans with ARGB illumination.
The length of the hoses connecting the liquid cooler to the radiator is 460mm.
Like the Aorus GeForce RTX 4080 Xtreme Waterforce WB model, the Aorus GeForce RTX 4080 Xtreme Waterforce GPU runs at 2565 MHz.
Dimensions of the gas pedal (excluding the radiator) - 236 × 146 × 40 mm.Model Aorus GeForce RTX 4080 Master is equipped with a massive air cooling system with three fans with a diameter of 110 mm.
The size of the gas pedal is 357 × 163 × 75 mm.
The new graphics processor has been factory overclocked and runs at a frequency of 2550 MHz.
The graphics card has a small LCD, which displays various information about the state of the graphics card.
In addition, it can display various animated images.The size of the RTX 4080 Gaming OC version is 342 × 150 × 75 mm.
The graphics chip of the novelty works at a frequency of up to 2535 MHz.
The gas pedal is equipped with a slightly simpler air cooling system.
However, it is still very massive, and it includes three fans.
The latter have the function of full stop when there is no load on the graphics subsystem.
The company notes that the fans use a lubricant based on graphene nanoparticles, which doubles their lifespan.GeForce RTX 4080 Aero variant is very similar to the Gaming OC model, but there is nothing extra and pretentious in its appearance.
In minimalistic design the only thing that stands out is RGB backlighting, and the video card itself is made in white.
The cooling system is similar to the previous model.
The size of Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4080 Aero graphics card is 342 × 150 × 75 mm.
The graphics processor runs at a frequency of 2535 MHz, which is 30 MHz higher than the reference value.The GeForce RTX 4080 Eagle will be available with a small factory overclock and without it.
In the first case, the maximum GPU frequency is claimed to be 2520 MHz.
The graphics card has got the most simple cooling system.
The size of the gas pedal is 342 × 150 × 70 mm.The company notes that all novelties are equipped with a dual BIOS, and their set of external connectors include three DisplayPort 1.4a and one HDMI 2.1.
For all of the presented graphics cards manufacturer recommends using power supply unit with a capacity of 850 watts.
Each video card comes with a power adapter from four 8-pin connectors to one 12+4-pin connector.

AMD explained the structure of graphics processor Navi 31 and clarified the number of stream processors in its composition

At the disposal of VideoCardz portal appeared the image block diagram of AMD Navi 31 graphics processor, which formed the basis of the new graphics cards Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT.Image source: AMDThe AMD Navi 31 graphics processor uses a chiplet design.
In the center of the chip is a large GCD (Graphics Compute Die) crystal based on the 5-nm process, which includes all the GPU compute blocks and other necessary elements.
Around it are six cache memory crystals (MCD).
They are built using the 6nm process.
Each MCD chip includes a dual 32-bit memory controller combined with L3 cache memory.To date, AMD has only confirmed that the full-size Navi 31 GPU contains 96 MB of L3 cache memory (Infinity Cache), but the manufacturer did not specify the size of L0, L1 and L2 cache memory.
This information is clarified by a presentation slide which appeared to VideoCardz and to all appearances was shown to journalists at the presentation behind closed doors.
It says that L0 cache memory is 3 Mbytes, which is almost 2.5 times larger than in Navi 21.
L1 cache memory is three times larger and is equal to 3 Mbytes.
L2 cache memory is up 50% to 6 Mbytes.
L3 memory (Infinity Cache) is 96 MB, 32 MB less than that of Navi 21.
Image source: VideoCardz / AMDThe diagram above shows Navi 31 with six shader engines using eight pairs of Compute Units.
The Radeon RX 7900 XTX was originally supposed to have 12,288 stream processors.
However, if you turn to the company's website, we can note the indication of the presence of 6144 stream processors, that is half as many.
The reason for this is that RDNA 3 architecture is based on Dual Issue design, which means that it can execute two FP32 arithmetic instructions simultaneously, so we can talk about 12,288 FP32 blocks or thread processors.
Meanwhile, the Navi 31 has upped its performance in single precision floating point operations (FP32) to 61 Tflops, more than doubling over the previous generation.The slide also mentions that the RDNA3 architecture is designed to operate at 3 GHz.
The same information comes from journalists who visited the presentation of new graphics cards and discussed this issue with AMD representatives on the sidelines.
However, it should be noted that the maximum Boost frequency of the reference Radeon RX 7900 XTX is claimed to be 2.5 GHz.
That's what it says on AMD's website.
How the company is going to implement the 3 GHz support in its RDNA 3 graphics cards is not known yet.
Image source: Twitter / @Locuza_ Above you can see an actual photo of the Navi 31 processor with annotations of each chip block added on top, provided by one Twitter user.

AMD called Radeon RX 7900 XTX a competitor to GeForce RTX 4080, and announced FSR 3.0 compatibility with older graphics cards

PCWorld reporters managed to talk to Frank Azor, AMD chief gaming and marketing architect, and get some details about the Radeon RX 7000 graphics cards on the new RDNA 3 architecture.
AMD's representative said why at the time of the presentation of graphics cards Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT novelties were not compared to models NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40-series.Image source: VideoCardzAccording to Mr.
Azor, AMD is positioning flagship gas pedal Radeon RX 7900 XTX as a competitor to the GeForce RTX 4080.
Since NVIDIA has not yet released the card, AMD had no information about the performance of the gas pedal to add to its comparison charts.\"[The Radeon RX 7900 XTX] is designed to compete with the RTX 4080.
We have no information about its performance.
This is the main reason why you didn't see any comparisons with NVIDIA solutions \u003C...> the $999 card can't be a competitor to the RTX 4090, which is rated 60% more expensive.
[The Radeon RX 7900 XTX's] competitor is the RTX 4080,\" Azor said.He also commented on the announcement of FSR 3.0 image scaling technology and noted that the decision to introduce a new version of FSR was not spontaneous.
According to him, FSR 3.0 will not only be supported by RDNA 3-based graphics cards.
\"Our decision to announce FSR 3.0 is not some kind of backlash or a desire to quickly introduce a competitor to NVIDIA DLSS 3.
We have been developing this technology for some time.
Why will it be available later than many would expect? The main thing is to remember the key philosophy behind FSR technology.
After all, FSR 1.0 and FSR 2.0 do not only work on RDNA and RDNA 2 graphics cards.
They are supported by other generations of AMD graphics gas pedals.
They are also supported by our competitors' graphics cards.
This is much more difficult to implement than if we just added FSR 3.0 support only for RDNA 3 graphics cards.
We really want FSR 3.0 to work on other graphics cards as well,\" Azor commented.Hinting at DLSS 3, which is only supported by GeForce RTX 40-series gas pedals, Azor added that support for just one architecture is much easier to implement.
However, AMD has made a promise that FSR will be supported by multiple graphics architectures.
But it takes time to implement this.
The company is not yet sure it can 100% keep that promise, but it will \"try very hard.\"

ASUS announced Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT in TUF Gaming version

ASUS announced graphics cards Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT in their own version TUF Gaming.
The company is not ready to share the specs of new products, but the manufacturer has revealed some details about them.Image source: ASUSBoth gas pedals will get a massive cooling system, equipped with three fans.
The thickness of video cards will be three expansion slots.
Both will get a dual BIOS system with quiet and performance modes.
Unlike the reference versions Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT, variants from ASUS have got not two, but three 8-pin connectors of additional power.
In addition, new items will be the first gaming cards from ASUS, which will support DisplayPort 2.1 interface.
Graphics card Radeon RX 7900 XTX has a graphics processor with 12,288 stream processors, the reference gaming frequency is 2.3 GHz.
The card has 24 GB of GDDR6 memory with 384-bit bus support.
The Radeon RX 7900 XT model is based on a GPU with 10,752 cores and has a reference frequency of 2 GHz.
This gas pedal has received 20 GB of memory GDDR6 with support for 320-bit bus.ASUS has not reported with what frequencies will run GPUs in its video cards.
Also unknown is the price of announced Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT TUF Gaming models.
However, most of the prices for these graphics cards are close to the recommended ones, which are $999 and $899 respectively.
The company only confirmed that the novelties will be on sale in December this year.

Chinese Moore Threads has unveiled the MTT S80 gaming graphics card with PCIe 5.0 support - not even the RTX 4090

Chinese startup Moore Threads, founded only in 2020 but very active in the design and production of innovative graphics processors, introduced two new graphics gas pedals - MTT S80 and MTT S3000.
The first is a gaming, the second is designed for specialized tasks related to AI and machine learning algorithms in the workstation.Image Source: Moore TagsThe MTT S80 and MTT S3000 are the successor models MTT S60 and MTT S2000, which the company released in March this year.
At the heart of each of the new products is a graphics processor MUSA-Chunxiao, based on an advanced architecture MT Unified System Architecture (MUSA).
The GPU contains 22 billion transistors.
The MTT S80 graphics card chip features 4,960 graphics cores and has a clock speed of up to 1.8 GHz.
Moore Threads promises single precision performance of up to 14.4 Tflops.
Thus, its performance is theoretically somewhere between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070.
The company notes that by optimizing the MUSA architecture, the performance of new graphics cards with popular graphical APIs has been increased.
Thus, in tasks with DirectX, performance has been increased by up to 3.4 times and in tasks with OpenGL API - up to five times.
Moore Threads also claims up to four times faster performance in encoding tasks and twice as fast in video decoding.
Moore Threads MTT S80 The MTT S80 gaming graphics card uses 16GB of GDDR6 memory at 14Gbps per pin, which is connected via a 256-bit bus.
The maximum memory bandwidth is specified at 448 GB/s.
This gas pedal has four external video connectors - three DisplayPort 1.4a and one HDMI 2.1.
A three-fan cooling system with two expansion slots is responsible for video card cooling.
The most interesting detail of MTT S80 is the PCIe 5.0 x16 interface support.
Technically this is the first gaming graphics card with such interface.
For example, the GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards do not support this interface - they have PCIe 4.0.
During the presentation of the novelty Moore Threads also reported a list of games that are supported by this gas pedal.
Next year Moore Threads is planning to further optimize the performance of its MUSA graphics architecture for DirectX APIs.
During the presentation of the graphics card, the company demonstrated its performance in games such as League of Legends and Need For Speed.
Moore Threads MTT S3000With its MTT S80 gaming graphics card, the Chinese company introduced the MTT S3000 specialized compute gas pedal with a passive cooling system for server racks.
It uses the same GPU with the same number of graphic cores as the S80 model, but has doubled the amount of video memory in the professional card.
It is 32 GB.
The MTT S3000 graphics chip runs at a frequency of 1.9 GHz, due to which up to 15.2 Tflops has increased its performance in single precision operations.
Unusual for a server-class gas pedal is the presence of external video connectors - the model has two DisplayPort 1.4a.
According to the manufacturer, a gaming model of MTT S80 graphics card will go on sale on November 11.
The company did not disclose its price.

AMD Navi 31 flagship multi-chip GPU showed up in photos ahead of the announcement

A photo of AMD Navi 31 GPU based on RDNA 3 architecture, which will form the basis of higher-end Radeon RX 7000 graphics cards appeared at Angstronomics' disposal.
Recall that the official announcement of the latter will be held this evening.Image source: AMDThe presented photo of Navi 31 GPU confirms the use of chiplet design.
In the photo you can note the main graphics chip Graphics Chiplet Die (GCD) in the center and six auxiliary crystals Memory Chiplet Dies (MCD).Image source: AngstronomicsThe same source previously reported the alleged specifications of the Navi 31 GPU.
So, the main GCD chip with an area of about 308 mm2 contains 48 WGP (Workgroup Processors) blocks.
Each WGP has two Compute Units (CUs).
Thus, the total number of CUs in the chip is 96.
And the total number of Arithmetic Logic Units (ALUs or Area Stream Processors) within the 96 CU's would be equal to 12,288 units.The area of one MCD chip, in turn, is about 37.5 mm2.
The total area of the GCD with all the MCD chips is approximately 533 mm2.
The area of the entire GPU package is 2612 mm2 (dimensions 55 × 47.5 mm).
Each MCD contains 16 Mbytes of AMD Infinity Cache.
Thus, Navi 31 GPU will get 96 MB of Infinity Cache, which is less than the same Navi 21 (128 MB) that powers Radeon RX 6900 XT/6950 XT.It is also reported that Navi 31 GPU supports 384-bit memory bus with up to 24 GB of GDDR6 memory at 20 Gbit/s per pin.
This chip is expected to be the core of the Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics gas pedal.
Expected specifications of AMD Navi 31, Navi 32 and Navi 33 graphics processors.
Image source: VideoCardzIt is expected that during today's presentation AMD will present only the senior models of Radeon RX 7000 gas pedals based on Navi 31.
Models based on Navi 32 and Navi 33 GPUs will probably be announced later.
However, we will be able to find out the exact information in a few hours.

MSI's GeForce RTX 4080 in Suprim X, Gaming X Trio and Ventus 3X versions showed in images

TechPowerUp has got images of GeForce RTX 4080 graphics cards from MSI.
The manufacturer is going to release at least three versions, each in two variants with different frequencies: GeForce RTX 4080 Suprim X and Suprim, GeForce RTX 4080 Gaming X and Gaming, as well as GeForce RTX 4080 Ventus 3X OC and Ventus 3X.
A total of six models.Image source: MSI / TechPowerUpThe GeForce RTX 4080 Ventus 3X gas pedal will adhere to the stated reference GPU frequencies of NVIDIA itself, according to TechPowerUp.
The RTX 4080 Ventus 3X OC model will receive a slight factory overclocking of the GPU.
The flagship GeForce RTX 4080 Suprim X will offer the most significant factory GPU overclocking.
The GPU of the GeForce RTX 4080 Gaming X version will be overclocked to the level of the Suprim variant.
The GeForce RTX 4080 Gaming version, in turn, will run at frequencies higher than the Ventus 3X OC version.
At the same time, the card will offer a significantly more efficient cooling system.MSI GeForce RTX 4080 Suprim X/SuprimThe GeForce RTX 4080 Suprim X and Suprim cards look very similar to the GeForce RTX 4090 in the same design.
This means that their cooling systems are 4 expansion slots thick.
Despite the lack of flashy design, these new products will offer the most advanced technical equipment.
The mid-range GeForce RTX 4080 Gaming X and Gaming variants will also offer powerful cooling systems and plenty of RGB lighting.MSI GeForce RTX 4080 Gaming X/GamingThe GeForce RTX 4080 Ventus 3X OC and Ventus 3X are designed with practicality in mind.
In terms of technical characteristics and performance cards will be closest to the reference version of the GeForce RTX 4080.
And the main difference between them will be only in cooling systems.MSI GeForce RTX 4080 Ventus 3X OC/Ventus 3XWe should remind you that the GeForce RTX 4080 is scheduled to launch on November 16.
NVIDIA has priced the graphics card at $1199.

NVIDIA unveiled an improved GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with GDDR6X memory and a degraded GeForce RTX 3060 with 8GB GDDR6

NVIDIA officially unveiled an improved GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with GDDR6X memory as well as a degraded GeForce RTX 3060 with a reduced to 8GB GDDR6 memory.
Characteristics of the cards appeared on the company's website.
Some partners NVIDIA, such as Manli, ASUS and Colorful, have previously provided their versions of these gas pedals.Image source: NVIDIA \"To diversify the choice of gamers and creators of digital content, we present some new options from our network of partners around the world.
They will be available in November.
In addition to the regular GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with GDDR6 memory we are introducing the faster GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with GDDR6X memory.
The second gas pedal is the GeForce RTX 3060 with 8GB of GDDR6 memory.
Support for both products are included in the new version of the graphics driver Game Ready Driver\" - says NVIDIA.
Model GeForce RTX 3060 8GB - this is actually a copy of the original GeForce RTX 3060 with 12 GB of memory, but with reduced to 8 GB of memory GDDR6 and cut to 128 bits memory bus.
As a consequence, the memory bandwidth of this gas pedal decreased from 360 to 240 GB/s.
This could have a negative impact on gaming performance.
At the basis of a new version of the gas pedal is used the former Ampere GA106 graphics processor with 3584 CUDA cores.
The use of faster GDDR6X memory in the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, in turn, should have a positive impact on the performance of the graphics card in games.
The faster memory provides a higher bandwidth at 608 GB/s.
Recall that the original version of the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has a GDDR6 memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s.
The new version of the gas pedal has only changed the standard of memory used.
The volume of 8 GB and support for 256-bit memory bus is preserved.
At the basis of this graphics card is used the former GA104 graphics processor with 4864 CUDA cores.