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Seagatehas announced in a letter to its major customers that it will be raising prices, effectively immediately, across its suite of hard drive products. The move comes in response to competitorWestern Digitalsending a nearly identical letterto its customers a week before Seagate. Seagate is now joining the rest of the computer storage industry, where prices are risingacross the board. In a letter dated April 18th, Seagate outlines a return to previous demand highs, low manufacturing capacity, and a generally inflated state across the world market as being major factors in its decision to raise prices....

Nvidia is finally addressing a perceived deficiency in implementingG-Syncin thebest gaming monitors. This morning, the company announced a partnership with MediaTek that will bring G-Sync to MediaTek’s upcoming scaler chips, thus eliminating the need for a separate (and costly) Nvidia-spec G-Sync Ultimate module. Nvidia G-Sync, likeAMD FreeSync, allows a monitor’s refresh rate to sync with the rate at which a graphics card can render each individual frame in a game. Depending on the game, the frame rate can vary wildly (particularly during viewing intense, complex scenes), so technologies likeFreeSync and G-Syncensure that the monitor and graphics card are in lockstep to eliminate tearing artifacts that can occur....

Nvidia announced new specifications for GeForce graphics cards and PC cases today atComputex 2024that should make small form factor PC enthusiasts rejoice. It’s something that has sort of existed already, but now Nvidia has defined certain size and spacing requirements for “SFF-ready enthusiast GPUs” — with a list of both graphics cards and cases that meet the requirements. If you’ve ever wanted one of thebest graphics cardsbut have also wanted to put together a mini-ITX system, this should make things somewhat easier....

25 years ago today, Nvidia released its first-ever GeForce GPU, the Nvidia GeForce 256. Despite the existence of other video cards at the time, this was the first desktop card to be advertised as a “GPU” — a graphics processing unit. Not that it really changed what the video cards were doing, though there were a few new features forDirectX7, but the marketing move certainly caught on. At the time, there were a lot of different companies making video card hardware, but many have since been acquired by AMD or Nvidia (R....

The official release notes forNvidia’s CUDA 12.9 Toolkitexplicitly indicate that the next major release will no longer support Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta-based GPUs. Note that this deprecation is only limited to the compute side, as these GPUs will likely continue receiving normal GeForce drivers for the time being. That being said, this is likely the last SDK version that can be used to develop CUDA applications targeting the aforementioned architectures....

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in an interview with CNBC that Nvidia plans to sell its Blackwell GPU for AI and HPC workloads for $30,000 to $40,000. However, that is an approximate price since Nvidia is more inclined to sell the whole stack of datacenter building blocks, not just an accelerator itself. Meanwhile, a Raymond James analyst believes it costs around $6,000 to build one B200 accelerator (via@firstadopter). The performance of Nvidia’s Blackwell-based B200 accelerator with 192 GB of HBM3E memory certainly impresses, but those numbers are enabled by a dual-chipset design that packs as many as 204 billion transistors in total (104 billion per die)....

Nvidia announced many new innovations in its 90 minute longCESkeynote/victory lap, but the intriguing closer was its Project Digits AI supercomputer. Arriving in May, Project Digits (name apparently subject to change) will bring 1 PFLOPS of FP4 floating point performance in a form factor which fits snugly in the hands of Nvidia boss Jensen Huang. Project Digits was conceptualized with the same concept as Nvidia’s DGX 100 servers; to bring a ready-made AI supercomputer solution to end users without the infrastructural concerns of a full supercluster solution....

Nvidia’s upcoming N1X SoC has made a fresh appearance—this time in FurMark’s benchmark database—offering a first look at the chip’s performance running natively onWindows 11. While the numbers will certainly not grab headlines, they provide valuable insight into where the chip currently stands in its development cycle. Identified as “JMJWOA” by FurMark, the N1X reportedly scored 4,286 points in the 720p stress test, averaging 71 FPS. That’s not even as good as some RTX 2060 scores, despite the N1Xreportedly featuring 6,144 CUDA cores, more than the RTX 5070....

Why you’re able to trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you.Find out more about how we test. Benchmarks and Conclusion CPU Thermal results without power limits Without power limits enforced on Intel’s i7-14700K, the CPU will hit its peak temperature (TJ Max) and thermally throttle with even the strongest of air coolers and even most liquid coolers on the market....

OneXPlayer is no stranger to handhelds; they’re one of the pioneers of the portable gaming handheld market that really took off with the release of the Steam Deck. Now, the company is back with its latest release, the OneXSugar — a crazy new device that runs Android but embodies some of Nintendo’s best consoles ever. Today’s update brings a much-needed first look at the device in action. The OneXSugar is a dual-screen handheld with various rotary mechanisms that allow it to transform from a Nintendo Switch-like body to a Nintendo 3DS with full top and bottom panels....

For anyone looking to put together a new PC or upgrade their old case, today’s deal is an absolute bargain. I’m a fan of Be Quiet! cases - I’ve used the Be Quiet! Silent Base 802 for the last couple years, and it’s been nothing but a pleasure to build in and keep clean. Today’s deal is on one of the 802s stable mates - the Shadow Base 800 DX. Somewhat similar in looks, the Shadow Base 800 DX also sports an airflow-inspired design and stylish looks with a distinct lack of RGB....

Gainward and Palit have released their respective Small Form Factor Ready RTX 40 series, adhering toNvidia’s definitionof an SFF-friendly form factor for GPUs and PC cases. Palit classifies its SFF variation within the ‘Infinity 3’ series and Gainward introduces it under ‘Python-III’ branding. The cards on offer are analogous, which shouldn’t be surprising as the respective brands belong to the same parent company- Palit Group. While having multiple brands for the same AIC partner isn’t exclusive only to this group, it’s rare to see both brands use the same design and specifications, including clock speed....

Plans are afoot to create a massive new data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, that would consume more power than every home in the state combined, a staggering milestone in the ongoing race to meet the excruciating power requirements of AI. The project is expected to kick off with a 1.8 gigawatt facility that would be scalable to 10 gigawatts in the future, as reported byAP. As the report about this colossal investment in AI computing notes, generally, a single gigawatt is enough to power as many as a million homes, but the population of Wyoming, the least populous state in the U....