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NVIDIA has rolled out their latest GeForce Game Ready Driver (555.99 WHQL) which will ensure players are ready for the biggest releases of June, including Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, Pax Dei, and Still Wakes the Deep. The update also offers support for a lineup of new G-Sync-compatible gaming displays.
The benefits of AI can be debated. But one thing we're all sure about is that massive server farms packed full of hundreds or thousands of high-end AI GPUs, each consuming hundreds of watts, soak up a lot of power. Right?
In a Q&A session at this year's Computex event, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang was asked whether AI will be used to generate games' graphics directly, helping the traditional rasterizing method. After pointing out that neural graphics were already in use, through the likes of frame generation, Huang went on to state that AI would go on to infuse games and PCs, creating high-resolution objects, textures, and characters.
Qualcomm's CEO, Cristiano Amon has doubled down on his keynote statement about the proliferation of the Snapdragon X Elite CPUs across «every PC form factor» and has even gone as far as to say that includes desktop. I've still not been able to get any firm answer on whether that includes the sort of desktops we're traditionally talking about on PC Gamer, but I've seen things in the existing X Elite BIOS that suggests they're ready to get up and running with discrete graphics cards.
This Noctua power supply is really something. It's an optimised and improved version of Seasonic's Prime TX-1600. It now comes in brown, of course, including the cables, and includes a single NF-A12x25 fan and redesigned grill.
At Computex 2024, Inworld AI and NVIDIA have presented an updated version of the Covert Protocol demo (previously seen at GDC 2024) that runs partially on local devices rather than via cloud.
Intel's next graphics architecture, Xe2, will be more widely compatible with games and less clunky, says Intel Fellow Tom Petersen. The improvements announced so far for Xe2 include many specifically designed to correct issues widely reported with current Arc discrete graphics cards. But they're also designed to and put it in line with the more popular architecture of the day.
Battlemage is coming. At least that's what Intel says at an event dedicated to its new mobile processors, Lunar Lake. These new mobile chips give us a good idea of what to expect with Intel's second graphics card generation—Lunar Lake and the upcoming Battlemage graphics cards share the same GPU architecture.