The Oculus Quest 2 is the latest result of years of collaboration between Qualcomm and Facebook to offer an immersive self-contained gaming VR device for consumers. Qualcomm’s contribution is its Snapdragon XR2 Platform and the company claims its latest version offers staggering improvements. The company says these improvements include, twice the CPU and GPU performance compared to its predecessor [the … Read more
With ray tracing becoming increasingly important for a wide range of graphics applications, Imagination Technologies has developed a Ray Tracing Level System to give developers and OEMs an insight into the capability of solutions for ray tracing acceleration available now and in the future. The System identifies increasingly advanced stages of ray tracing acceleration, across a range of architectures, not just … Read more
Microsoft is buying Bethesda
New silicon solutions expected
A Wonderful New Look—back to the future
Amazing performance improvement; better price than the RTX 2080 Super
In 2009 rumors started about the possibility of Nvidia acquiring AMD to give Nvidia a CPU capability. In 2011 Jensen Huang settled the subject decisively when he said, Arm is our CPU. Nine years later he put the period on that statement when he announced the acquisition of Arm for $40 billion. The rumor that Nvidia might acquire Arm has … Read more
Nvidia’s RTX3080 in box presentation PC Benchmarking got started back in the mid-to-late 1980s when PC clones became abundant. Of course, they weren’t perfect clones, they had their own variations and features and to the new PC's fidelity and ability to run programs compared to a genuine IBM PC, we used the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2.0. Today, the landscape is even … Read more
When 3D graphics controllers were just immerging in the late 1990s, one company in particular, 3Dfx, experimented with ways to scale up the performance of accelerating the 3D gameplay. Their idea was scan-line interleave (SLI), introduced in 1998 as part of their second-generation chip introduction, Voodoo2 (or Voodoo2). In SLI mode, two Voodoo2 add-in-boards (AIBs) could run in parallel, with … Read more
AI to better match technology with human needs
The biggest PC GPU company, now becomes the biggest everything company
The term Pixel is really quite old and very well defined.
