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Nvidia : le siège du géant américain perquisitionné par l’antitrust français
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · 3 days ago - 12:00
Cette visite ne préjuge en rien de la responsabilité de Nvidia dans la grande enquête de l'Autorité de la Concurrence sur le cloud, mais le géant vert demeure un acteur majeur de ce dossier.
Nvidia : le siège du géant américain perquisitionné par l’antitrust français
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Microsoft overhauls its pricey Surface Laptop Studio with new CPU, GPU, and RAM
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 21 September - 17:07 · 1 minute
Enlarge / The Surface Laptop Studio 2. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)
NEW YORK—Two years after announcing the original, Microsoft has announced a much-needed refresh of the Surface Laptop Studio , the company's convertible touchscreen laptop that also serves as its most powerful notebook for people playing games or doing any kind of 3D rendering or GPU-accelerated AI work. The new Laptop Studio 2 will start at $1,999.99 and is available for preorder now; it will ship on October 3.
The Laptop Studio 2 is a substantial internal overhaul, swapping out a quad-core 11th-generation Intel Core CPU and a GeForce 3050 Ti for a 13th-generation CPU and GeForce RTX 4050 and 4060 options (with an RTX 2000 also available for people who need a "pro" GPU). Microsoft continues to refresh Surface devices toward the end of Intel's product cycles, and next-generation Meteor Lake Core processors should be coming soon, but this is still a welcome upgrade over the old model. It's also the first x86 Surface that Microsoft sells with an NPU for accelerating AI and machine learning workloads, specifically an Intel Gen 3 Intel Movidius 3700VC .
New ports and updated internals are nice, but the price tag is tough to swallow. [credit: Microsoft ]
Unfortunately, the base $2,000 version gets you very few of those perks. It includes an i7-13700H with six P-cores, eight E-cores, and 16GB of RAM, but it only comes with integrated graphics and a 512GB SSD.
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Starfield jouable en streaming sur GeForce Now
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Saturday, 16 September - 15:00
Starfield est désormais disponible sur GeForce Now de Nvidia. Une étape cruciale pour le cloud gaming, et aussi et surtout pour Nvidia dont le service offre une expérience optimisée grâce à son réseau de serveurs et ses technologies cloud.
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Sur Amazon, le prix de la NVIDIA Shield se fait massacrer pour la rentrée !
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Monday, 11 September - 16:15
C'est le moment de craquer pour une NVIDIA Shield, Amazon brade le prix des deux modèles avec jusqu'à -26% de réduction.
Sur Amazon, le prix de la NVIDIA Shield se fait massacrer pour la rentrée !
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Nvidia Shield : les box Android pour votre TV sont en promotion
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Monday, 11 September - 08:56
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Ars system mini-guide: Summer GPU refresh edition, aka “can it run Starfield”?
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 8 September - 14:38
Enlarge / The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT, 7800 XT, and 7600. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)
Two big things have happened since we last updated our PC build guide in the spring . First, we got a batch of late-spring and summer midrange GPU launches, including AMD's Radeon RX 7600 , 7700 XT, and 7800 XT , plus Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti . Second, Bethesda's Starfield finally dropped , prompting a whole bunch of people to ask "can my PC run Starfield ?"
Starfield isn't an exceptionally demanding PC game, at least not by the standards set by buggy PC ports like The Last of Us . But it will give any PC more than 3 or 4 years old a serious workout, and it should serve as a decent yardstick for building a PC that can run this console generation's games fairly well.
This guide will focus on just minor tweaks to our spring PC builds, since other component pricing hasn't changed much and there haven't been major CPU introductions since then (Intel's don't-call-them-14th-generation Core processors may be out within a few months, but on the desktop they'll be a mild refresh of 13th-gen, which was already a mild refresh of 12th-gen).
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Review: AMD’s Radeon RX 7700 XT and 7800 XT are almost great
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 6 September - 13:00
Enlarge / AMD's Radeon RX 7800 XT. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)
Nearly a year ago, Nvidia kicked off this GPU generation with its GeForce RTX 4090 . The 4090 offers unparalleled performance but at an unparalleled price of $1,600 (prices have not fallen). It's not for everybody, but it's a nice halo card that shows what the Ada Lovelace architecture is capable of. Fine, I guess.
The RTX 4080 soon followed, along with AMD's Radeon RX 7900 XTX and XT . These cards also generally offered better performance than anything you could get from a previous-generation GPU, but at still-too-high-for-most-people prices that ranged from between $900 and $1,200 (though all of those prices have fallen by a bit). Fine, I guess.
By the time we got the 4070 Ti launch in May, we were getting down to the level of performance that had been available from previous-generation cards. These GPUs offered a decent generational jump over their predecessors (the 4070 Ti performs kind of like a 3090, and the 4070 performs kind of like a 3080). But those cards also got big price bumps that took them closer to the pricing levels of the last-gen cards they performed like. Fine, I guess.
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Starfield’s missing Nvidia DLSS support has been added by a free mod
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 5 September - 19:22 · 1 minute
A video from modder PureDark shows off the performance benefits of DLSS3 in the Patreon-only version of his mod.
Nvidia graphics card owners can rest easy; Starfield modders have already added support for Nvidia's Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS) technology (alongside the game's official support for AMD's FSR2 upscaling). But unlocking the full power of that mod will require either paying for a Patreon subscription or using cracks to get around some controversial DRM protecting the most full-featured version of the mod.
Since its initial release on Friday, the "Starfield Upscaler" is currently the most popular Starfield mod listed on clearinghouse NexusMods. That should be welcome news to a significant portion of the PC gaming community running a newer Nvidia GPU that supports the frame-rate-enhancing upscaling technology. That's especially true for the Nvidia owners who were outraged when Bethesda announced an official Starfield partnership with AMD this summer.
In practice, though, the practical effect of that DLSS support might be hard to notice for many players. In Ars' testing on a GTX 2080 Ti gaming rig (running at 2560×1440 resolution, Ultra quality, and 50 percent render resolution), we were able to hit 35 frames per second using both the DLSS mod and the game's built-in AMD FSR2 support (which also works on Nvidia cards). Neither upscaling technology had an apparent performance edge, even as both improved significantly on the ~25 fps frame rate when running at full resolution without any upscaling (and even as DLSS has shown superior visual quality in other tests ).
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Les États-Unis restreignent l’exportation de puces IA au Moyen-Orient
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Saturday, 2 September - 14:00
Nvidia et AMD font face à de nouvelles restrictions d'exportation de puces destinées aux opérations d'intelligence artificielle. Après la Chine et la Russie, plusieurs pays du Moyen-Orient sont concernés par les limitations imposées par la Maison Blanche.
Les États-Unis restreignent l’exportation de puces IA au Moyen-Orient
