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NVIDIA is aiming to lower the price of its GeForce RTX 3060 in China to 1,999 Yuan, roughly the equivalent of $280 in American USD, and these GPUs are set to last at least through the first quarter of 2024. That price would undercut even the cheapest GeForce RTX 3060 12GB by $10 in the US, if this price cut carries...
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The results are in for the most recent Steam survey and according to the numbers, NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 is now the most widely-represented GPU on the world's most popular digital distribution platform for games. To get there, it had to leapfrog the GeForce GTX 1650, a budget friendly graphics card released more...
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With less than a week to go before the official launch of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, the PR machine has kicked into action with a new blog post. The moderately lengthy post has a number of interesting charts and comparisons showcasing the RTX 4060's abilities vs the RTX 3060, RTX 2060 and GTX 1060, so it is well...
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A Japanese tech site recently published a review of the NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada graphics card. The NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF is a pleasingly compact and low-power card, which doesn't even need an auxiliary power connector (due to its 70W TDP). However, this doesn't mean that the RTX 4000 SFF graphics card has no teeth. The...
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Some enterprising modders have successfully transformed an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB into a model with 12GB of VRAM (review). Moreover, with the increased memory capacity, the memory bus width has been proportionately boosted. Thus, the modders have proven an upgrade with two beneficial effects, and in early...
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As much as we all lust over a top-tier graphics card like the GeForce RTX 4090 or Radeon RX 7900 XTX, the majority of gamers don't end up buying a flagship GPU. Pesky things like rent and food disrupt the allotted budget for toys and thrills. That's why the aging GeForce GTX 1650 was, for a time, the most popular GPU...
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NVIDIA may soon welcome another sibling to the GeForce RTX 3060 family. A graphics card cataloging source on Twitter highlighted that a new version of the popular Ampere architecture RTX 3060 has caused a blip on the radar. This could be the best RTX 3060 yet, with 12GB of GDDR6X VRAM delivering over 456GB/s of...
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You may recall that we reported back in October on an official revision of the GeForce RTX 3060. Far from a rumor, NVIDIA's website was quietly updated to list an 8GB model of the lower-mid-range GPU. Well, Australian tech-tubers Hardware Unboxed (HWUB) managed to snag one of the 8GB RTX 3060 cards and put it through...
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When NVIDIA announced the Ada Lovelace-based GeForce RTX 4000 family, it was very clear about the fact that GeForce RTX 3000 cards based on its Ampere architecture aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Those cards are over two years old now, and while their performance still holds up, they could face stiff competition...
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Intel has formally introduced its upcoming Arc A750 desktop graphics card, and with the introduction comes an initial set of internally run benchmarks comparing performance to NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 in a handful of games. As you might imagine, the selected benchmarks shine a positive light on the A750 as a capable...
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It's not enough that gamers have to compete with cryptocurrency miners for an insufficient supply of desktop graphics cards, now laptop GPUs could become hot commodities for larger scale mining operations too. Providing a path to that potential outcome, a seller in China is hawking modified desktop GeForce RTX 3060...
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We can see the shiny tips of the pitchforks and the glow of torches already, so let's begin by saying this—we're fully aware people aren't lining up to buy Apple's new MacBook Pro laptops strictly to play games (if at all). Be that as it may, Apple chose to compare its revamped MacBook Pro models to PC gaming laptops...
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With the global chip shortage putting the entire consumer electronics and PC industry on edge, tech companies are looking for additional ways to get more product into the hands of consumers. One sector that has faced incredible demand and lagging supply for the past year is PC GPUs, but NVIDIA is switching gears to...
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As difficult as it might be to believe at this point in time, the graphics card shortage will not last forever. Honestly. Or...hopefully? No seriously, this can't be a forever situation, right? We sure hope not. Unfortunately, though, things might get even worse before they get better, at least as it pertains to a...
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AMD is on the cusp of expanding its Radeon RX 6000 series with the Radeon RX 6600 XT and Radeon RX 6600, both of which have been the subject of multiple leaks and rumors over the past several weeks. One of the big question marks is pricing. It seems there is some good news on that front—if the latest gossip is to be...
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We were really impressed with Intel's latest high-performance notebook CPUs from the Tiger Lake-H family when we got to try them out in a test platform. Intel arguably produced the single fastest x86 notebook CPU on the planet, with blistering single-threaded speed and heavy multi-threaded prowess. However, we were itching to get our hands...
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Over the past few weeks, there have been various reports that the GPU crunch is starting to subside across Europe, with a resultant decrease in currently astronomical street prices. Although we haven't seen significant price erosion here in the United States, a new report suggests that NVIDIA is poised to ramp...
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AMD is looking to make a splash in the mobile gaming market with its recently introduced Radeon RX 6000M lineup for laptops. Based on the same second generation Radeon DNA (RDNA 2) architecture as its desktops Radeon RX 6000 series, the mobile GPUs look promising on paper. How do they perform in the real world...
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NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 was the first Ampere graphics card to introduced a cryptocurrency limiter. In early testing, the limiter gradually reduced the hash rate of the GPU arm around 41 MH/s to 26 MH/s or lower, in the hopes of making them less attractive to Ethereum miners. However, enthusiasts quickly found...
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Just over a week ago, NVIDIA officially announced the [impending] launch of Lite Hash Rate (LHR) versions of its popular GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards. The LHR Series aims to improve the availability of gaming cards for enthusiasts by making them less appealing to cryptocurrency miners.
In this case, LHR cards...
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Gigabyte today made its new Lite Hash Rate (LHR) GeForce RTX 3060 cards official. We've heard about upcoming GPU revisions for the GeForce RTX 30 Series with a second-generation Ethereum limiter onboard, but Gigabyte is among the first to post actual product pages confirming the change.
NVIDIA's GeForce 466.24 driver...
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In recent days, we've heard increasing rumors that NVIDIA will release a new revision GeForce RTX 30 Series "GAxx2" GPUs that feature an enhanced cryptocurrency mining limiter. Today with the release of the GeForce 466.24 driver, NVIDIA confirmed those rumors surrounding a mid-May launch.
If you look at the release...
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