Video Cards

By Hilbert Hagedoorn @ GURU3D

That is correct, 12 GB! Familiarize yourself to the GeForce RTX 3080 Sumprim X 12GB and revel in the stillness. Join us as we examine the all-new GeForce RTX 3080, a refresh model that features increased memory and even faster-rendering performance. We put MSI’s Suprim X revision to the test. And you’re aware of what that entails: complete silence and enthusiast performance levels. NVIDIA’s refresh RTX 3080 graphics cards include increased graphics RAM and memory bus width. Additionally, the number of shader cores has been increased to 8960, up from 8704 on the RTX 3080 10GB. The GA-102 chip will remain the GPU of choice for the card. A 384-bit memory bus width increase gives the card 912 GB/s of bandwidth, which is comparable to the RTX 3080 Ti (which had 760 GB/s). The GeForce RTX 3080 12GB will have a thermal design power of 340-350W, which is similar to the thermal design power of the RTX 3080 Ti despite having more cores but the same memory configuration.

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AMD released the year’s first Radeon Software Adrenalin software update. Version 22.1.1 comes with optimization for “Monster Hunter Rise,” and “God of War,” with up to 7% performance increase measured at 4K Ultra settings with the RX 6900 XT, compared to the previous 21.12.1 drivers. A handful issues were also fixed. To begin with, high idle memory clocks noticed on machines with multiple high-resolution monitors, has been fixed. Power Tuning components of a saved tuning profile not correctly loading following a Radeon Software update, has been fixed. Visual corruption noticed with “Halo Infinite” when zoomed-in, on machines with products such as the RX 5600 XT, has been fixed. Flickering noticed in “Fortnite” with RX 6000 series graphics cards in DirectX 12 mode with Radeon Boost enabled, as been fixed.

The Radeon Software Adrenalin 22.1.1 drivers are available online at the AMD driver download page.

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NVIDIA today released the latest version of GeForce driver software. Version 511.17 debuts the 510-series version numbering for the software. This driver introduces support for the GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB graphics card the company stealthily launched today. The drivers also fix a bug with “Detroit: Become Human,” where random stuttering was observed in the game; flickering text in Windows with 12-bpc color enabled; and the mouse pointer getting frozen when toggling HDR from within Windows Control Panel, after enabling G-SYNC from NVIDIA Control Panel.

You can download the GeForce 511.17 Game Ready drivers via GeForce.com.

By Hilbert Hagedoorn @ GURU3D

Enjoy the silence, who doesn’t remember that song from the 80′ties. Join us as we evaluate a GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC variant, which has been introduced onto the market recently. You can argue its looks and design, but the card does deliver as expected, it’s very silent.

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NVIDIA has released the latest version of GeForce Game Ready drivers. Version 497.29 WHQL comes game-ready for “GTFO,” and optimization for “Horizon Zero Dawn” with the added DLSS feature. Among the bugs fixed include a crash-to-desktop and visual artifacts with Microsoft Flight Simulator; a performance drop noticed with “Supreme Command:Forged Alliance/Supreme Commander 2,” a stutter noticed with Windows Desktop when the mouse is moved after an extended period of time; and some localization issues in NVIDIA Control Panel.

You can download the GeForce 497.29 Game Ready drivers via GeForce.com.

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NVIDIA has released the GeForce 497.09 Game Ready drivers. These introduce launch-day optimization for “Icarus,” including support for NVIDIA DLSS, and RTX ray-traced global illumination (RTX-GI). The drivers also add optimization for “Chorus,” including DLSS support; and “Halo Infinite.” Six new displays receive NVIDIA G-SYNC support. Among the fixes released with these drivers are TDR or system crashes with “DOOM Eternal” and RDR2, a display corruption with ye olde “DOOM 3 BFG Edition,” extreme gamma/contrast issues with YouTube on hardware-accelerated web-browsers; NVIDIA Image Scaling resolutions not correctly appearing in-game after a driver update; and incompatibilities between Adaptive Sync and G-SYNC.

A curious addition with these drivers is support for the GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB graphics card. We’ve been hearing reports of NVIDIA resurrecting the RTX 2060 “Turing” with 12 GB of GDDR6 memory to target the 1080p gaming crowd; and these drivers confirm it. The 12 GB SKU could be achieved by pairing the “TU106″ GPU with 12 GB of memory across its 192-bit wide memory interface.

You can download the GeForce 497.09 Game Ready drivers via GeForce.com.

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AMD has released the latest version of Radeon Software. Version 21.11.3 beta comes with optimization for Microsoft Flight Simulator: GOTY Edition, and Farming Simulator 22. Additional extensions of the Vulkan API are added. The drivers also fix driver-timeouts or game crashes noticed with “Battlefield 2042″ on graphics cards such as the RX 6900 XT. Stuttering or poor performance with “DayZ” on RX 5700 XT was fixed. Also fixed is elevated disk usage by the Multimedia Athena dumps folder.

The Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.11.3 drivers are available online at the AMD driver download page.

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AMD has released Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.11.2 drivers, which come just in time for the Early Access release of “Battlefield 2042″ later today. The game’s general release is slated for November 19. Tested at 4K UHD with Ultra settings, the new drivers up to 14% higher performance over previous drivers for the RX 6900 XT, up to 15% higher performance for the RX 6800 XT, and up to 11% higher for the RX 6700 XT. The company did not put out any bug-fixes with this release.

The Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.11.2 drivers are available online at the AMD driver download page.

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NVIDIA has released the latest version of GeForce Game Ready software. Version 496.76 WHQL comes with optimization for “Battlefield 2042,” including support for DLSS and Reflex. The drivers also enable DLSS support for “Assetto Corsa Competizione,” “Bright Memory: Infinite,” “Farming Simulator 22,” “Hot Wheels Unleashed,” and “Myth of Empires.” Also released with these drivers is official support for NVIDIA Image Scaling.

Among the issues fixed are a game crash at launch with “WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship,” a texture flickering bug with “Ghost Recon Breakpoint,” a crash-to-desktop at launch with “Transport Fever,” a null pointer error with “Transport Fever 2,” over “blooming” with “Quake II RTX,” a game crash with “FarCry 6″ in DirectX 12 mode with RTX 3070 Ti, random freezes with “Detroit: Become Human,” a TDR crash with “Red Dead Redemption 2,” and random crashes with “Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.”

You can download the GeForce 496.76 WHQL Game Ready drivers via GeForce.com.

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AMD has put out the first Radeon Software release for the month of November 2021, with the Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.11.1 beta. These drivers add optimization for “Call of Duty: Vanguard,” and “Forza Horizon 5.” For the latter, the drivers provide a massive 23% performance gain at 4K with “extreme” settings over the previous driver, as tested on a machine with an RX 6800 XT graphics card. A couple of issues have been fixed. Samsung Odyssey G9 C49G95T monitors were showing up display corruption with their resolution set at 5120 x 1440 @ 240 Hz, which has been fixed. Certain visual artifacts in the menu screen of “Call of Duty: Warzone,” have been fixed.

The Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.11.1 drivers are available online at the AMD driver download page.