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Pokemon Go fans have been treated to a surprise new feature, as Niantic launches an 8-bit pixel graphics update. Hours after the launch of Pokemon Go’s brand new Research Quests, Niantic has released a new graphics update. Pokemon will now be displayed as 8-bit sprites in the newsfeed, menu screens, Pokedex and nearby Pokemon section. […]
Former BBC weatherman Bill previously worked at the Met Office where he lead a team of the BBC’s Broadcast Meteorologists from 1983 to 2000. Having worked as a weatherman for over fifteen years, Bill has been left disappointed with the broadcaster’s latest weather changes. The BBC recently changed their weather services from using information from […]
The Khronos Group, a consortium of hardware and software companies, has announced that the Vulkan graphics technology has been ported to Apple’s platforms, allowing games and apps to run at faster performance levels on Macs and iOS devices. That’s a small victory for open platforms, and it should make a lot of Apple consumers happy. […]
Enlarge / The dark block on the left is the four core Zen CCX. On the right is the GPU. (credit: AMD) Last year’s release of the Ryzen processors, built around AMD’s new Zen core, was a major event for the chip company: after years in the doldrums, AMD finally had processors that were credible […]
Qualcomm recently let journalists benchmark the upcoming Snapdragon 845 on its own reference smartphone, and the results look promising for the Galaxy S9 and other new devices. On the one hand, CPU improvements were merely incremental, despite a switch to new ARM Cortex designs. On the other, Qualcomm’s new Adreno 630 GPU performed impressively, especially […]
The market for high-end graphics cards used to work like the market for almost any other piece of computer gear. You’d go to your local electronics store, pick one up off the shelf, and pay an amount right around the manufacturer’s suggested retail price. But the rise of cryptocurrency mining has created an unprecedented global […]
You can start getting pumped about the next generation of graphics cards, as Samsung has announced that it’s building the first-ever 16-gigabit GDDR6 chips using its 10-nanometer class technology. The news isn’t a complete surprise, as Samsung previously said that GDDR6 was coming when it unveiled 8-gigabit DDR4 RAM chips last month and won a […]
Valentina Palladino Large, 15-inch two-in-ones can be unwieldy devices, but that isn’t stopping manufacturers from making them. Dell unveiled the new XPS 15 convertible at CES, complete with a design that resembles the original 15-inch XPS laptop while including upgraded processors and graphics chips. The new XPS also has a stylus that works with the […]
Unless you’re a hardcore PC gaming enthusiast, chances are your everyday conversation doesn’t involve graphics memory chips, such as the upcoming GDDR6. But the folks at Micron are gearing up to transition from the older generation of GDDR5 graphics memory, which is currently in production, to GDDR6, which is coming in the first half of […]
Enlarge (credit: Nvidia) Although Nvidia launched its 21 billion transistor Volta GPU architecture back in May, until now the chip has been used exclusively in compute cards—specifically, the Tesla V100 cards, which cost about $ 10,000 for the PCIe version. But now Volta GPU is available in a graphics card: at the 2017 Neural Information […]
