Video Cards

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NVIDIA has released the latest version of GeForce software. Version 516.40 WHQL comes Game Ready for “Fall Guys: Free for All,” NVIDIA Reflex support for “ICARUS,” and RTX ray tracing support for “Jurassic Wold Evoluion 2,” “Resident Evil 2,” “Resident Evil 3,” and “Resident Evil 7.” Among the handful issues fixed with this release include shadows not rendering correctly in “Enscape,” brightness settings are not getting applied correctly on certain Lenovo notebooks with Advanced Optimus enabled; and Club 3D CAC-1085 dongle being limited to 4K-60 Hz display-mode.

You can download the GeForce 516.40 WHQL Game Ready drivers via GeForce.com.

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NVIDIA has released the GeForce 512.95 WHQL Game Ready drivers. These come with optimization for the RTX and DLSS support for “Hitman 3,” “Sniper Elite 5,” and “My Time as Sandrock.” A handful of issued were addressed with this release. Flags and banners flickering in Racedriver: Grid 2019, is fixed. Direct3D-related crashes in Adobe Premiere Pro were fixed. You can now adjust image-sharpening for Adobe Premiere Pro in the NVIDIA Control Panel.

You can download the GeForce 512.95 WHQL Game Ready drivers via GeForce.com.

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AMD released the Software Adrenalin 22.5.2 beta drivers. These come with optimization for “Sniper Elite 5,” the latest Year Two update of “Hitman 3″ that adds real-time ray tracing, and a handful new Vulkan API extensions. The drivers also extend Radeon Super Resolution (RSR) to the Ryzen 6000 series processors with Radeon 600M-series iGPUs based on the RDNA2 graphics architecture. RSR gets a new feature that lets you adjust sharpness using a slider. AMD also introduced several under-the-hood optimizations for DirectX 11 for the RDNA2 architecture, which means up to 8 percent performance increase across the board on Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs in all DirectX 11 games.

With this release, AMD also introduced Privacy View, a feature that tracks your eyes using your web-camera, and only reveals those portions of the screen with clarity, which you’re looking at. The company also introduced additional optimizations for “Watch Dogs: Legion,” for Smart Access Memory (Resizable BAR), adding anywhere between 6 percent to 24 percent higher frame-rates, depending on the GPU.

The Radeon Software Adrenalin 22.5.2 drivers are available online at the AMD driver download page.

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NVIDIA has released the latest version of the GeForce Game Ready drivers. These come with optimization for “Evil Dead: The Game,” “Dolmen,” and “Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong.” Intermittent DirectX related application crashes with Adobe Premiere Pro, have been fixed. The company also identified a handful new issues.

You can download the GeForce 512.77 WHQL Game Ready drivers via GeForce.com.

AMD has announced the launching of the new Radeon RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT, and RX 6650 XT series of video cards. AMD has lifted the embargo on reviews for a large number of new graphics cards from various manufactures. We have gathered a number of reviews from various websites and have listed their respective hardware review pages below.

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• GURU3D
• ETEKNIX

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AMD released the latest version of AMD Software Adrenalin. Version 22.5.1 WHQL adds support for the new Radeon RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT, and RX 6650 XT graphics cards launching today. Besides support for the new GPUs, AMD only addressed one issue with this release—the DWM Aero transparancy effect not correctly rendering in Windows 10.

The Radeon Software Adrenalin 22.5.1 drivers are available online at the AMD driver download page.

NVIDIA has launched its new Geforce RTX 3050 graphics card. The review embargo has been lifted, and we have gathered together a number of reviews on various custom cards from different manufactures. Here’s a bit from NVIDIA:

The GeForce RTX™ 3050 is built with the powerful graphics performance of the NVIDIA Ampere architecture. It offers dedicated 2nd gen RT Cores and 3rd gen Tensor Cores, new streaming multiprocessors, and high-speed G6 memory to tackle the latest games.

Check out the reviews via the links listed below.

• TECHPOWERUP! - ASUS GeForce RTX 3050 STRIX OC
• HOT HARDWARE - EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC Black
• ETEKNIX - Inno3D RTX 3050 Twin X2 OC 8GB
• GURU3D - Palit GeForce RTX 3050 DUAL OC
• TECHPOWERUP! - Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3050 Gaming OC
• WCCFTECH - MSI GeForce RTX 3050 Gaming X 8 GB
• ETEKNIX - Zotac RTX 3050 Twin Edge 8GB
• TECHPOWERUP! - Palit GeForce RTX 3050 StormX OC

AMD is formally launching the entry-level member of its Radeon RX 6000 series of video cards today: the Radeon RX 6500 XT.  AMD has lifted the embargo on reviews of this new video card. We have gathered a number of reviews from various websites and have listed them below.

• ETEKNIX - Sapphire Pulse Radeon 6500 XT 4GB
• GURU3D -   Powercolor Fighter RX 6500 XT 4GB
• HOT HARDWARE – GIGABYTE Eagle RX  6500 XT 4G
• TOM’S HARDWARE - XFX Radeon RX 6500 XT QICK 210
• TECHPOWERUP! - ASUS Radeon RX 6500 XT TUF Gaming

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AMD released the latest version of Radeon Software Adrenalin drivers. Version 22.1.2 beta comes with optimization for “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction,” and support for new graphics cards launching today, including the Radeon RX 6500 XT, RX 6400, RX 6500M, and RX 6300M. The only issue fixed with this release addresses longer-than-expected load times for “Borderlands 3″ in DirectX 12 mode with Radeon Boost enabled, on certain RDNA2-series GPUs.

The Radeon Software Adrenalin 22.1.2 drivers are available online at the AMD driver download page.

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NVIDIA has released the GeForce 511.23 WHQL drivers. These drivers introduce support for Windows 11 Dynamic Refresh Rate feature, and formally debut NVIDIA Deep Learning Dynamic Super Resolution (DLDSR). This is an interesting new feature that’s an inverse of DLSS, and works to improve eye-candy of older games. Your game is rendered at a higher resolution than your display head, and the render is intelligently scaled down to enhance detail. Such a feature already existed with DSR, but DLDSR adds certain “smarts” by adjusting the higher render resolution on-the-fly, to improve performance. The drivers also add support for CUDA 11.6, even more OpenCL extensions, and a handful more Vulkan extensions, besides support for even more G-SYNC compatible displays.

As a Game Ready driver, version 511.23 adds optimization for “God of War,” including support for DLSS and Reflex; and “The Anacrusis.” The fixes and known-issues list of this driver appears identical to that of the GeForce 511.17 drivers released earlier last week.

You can download the GeForce 511.23 WHQL Game Ready drivers via GeForce.com.