Attention mini-ITX PC builders: Gigabyte has the world’s smallest Nvidia GTX 1080

Bigger has typically meant better when it comes to graphics cards. But as the success of products like AMD’s R9 Nano or Asus’ Nvidia GTX 970 Mini have shown, there’s a growing demand for powerful graphics cards that don’t require a oversized tower to house them. Until recently, the most powerful card in the smallest […]

Gigabyte made the tiniest GeForce GTX 1080 card yet

NVIDIA has been shrinking gaming laptops with its Max-Q graphics initiative, but what about desktop users who want high-end graphics in a discreet, portable case? Gigabyte has come up with the GeForce GTX 1080 Mini ITX 8G, an unwieldy name for the world’s smallest GTX 1080 graphics card. At just 16.9 cm (6.7 inches), it’s […]

An external 1080 Ti can quadruple a MacBook Pro’s graphics power

Right now the external GPU market is a bit of a mess, full of hacks, incompatibilities, half-adhered-to standards, and artificial limitations from the likes of Apple. The folks over at eGPU.io are putting in some solid work to make sense of it all (as spotted by AppleInsider), and they’ve just had a surprisingly great result […]

The new GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is Nvidia’s fastest graphics card ever

Nvidia has announced its next monster graphics card: the $ 699 GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveiled the new card on stage at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, where he promised that the GTX 1080 Ti not only offered “35 percent more performance” than its predecessor (the base GTX 1080), […]

Nvidia drops GTX 1080 to $499, introduces GTX 1080 Ti with 11GB of video memory

Nvidia started its GDC 2017 conference with a bang, immediately dropping the price of the GTX 1080 to $ 499. That represents a price cut of about $ 100, on average, compared to what a basic GTX 1080 sold for prior to the show. But that, of course, wasn’t all. After a brief lull, the company […]