Gigabyte’s upcoming GeForce GTX Titan WindForce 3x has been spotted by the folks over at HardwareZone. You might remember that we reported last month that Gigabyte may possibly be preparing a non-reference variant of the GeForce GTX Titan? Well this seems to be it.

Gigabyte GeForce GTX Titan WindForce 3X GPU In Works!

The GeForce GTX Titan WindForce 3x as the name suggests adopts Gigabyte’s famous WindForce 3x cooling solution, though not the flagship WindForce 5x featured on Superoverclock models. While AIB’s have already offered liquid cooled versions of the GeForce GTX Titan, the Gigabyte GeForce GTX Titan WindForce 3x is the first model to use a custom cooling solutions.

The WindForce 3x cooler on the GeForce GTX Titan is a robust new design which features three PWM controlled fans which push air towards a large central aluminum fin heatsink. Actually, if you look a bit closer, you would notice that there are two heatsink blocks, one on the GK110 GPU core and the other near the VRM and power phases. Both heatsinks are connected through a series of copper heat pipes that dissipate heat from one end to another allowing the fans to push the hot air out of the exhaust vents.

A few weeks ago, it was reported that NVIDIA could possibly be working on a second variant of their GeForce GTX Titan GPU or a cut down version to be precise. Sweclockers managed to find out the codename of this new GPU through HWInfo’s newly added database entries which is to be called GeForce GTX Titan LE.

NVIDIA Readies Cheaper GeForce GTX Titan LE GPU

As speculated earlier, the GeForce GTX Titan LE would be a cheaper variant to the original GeForce GTX Titan. However, it would feature cut down specifications such as 13 SMX units enabled on the GK110 GPU which would give 2496 cores which is still much higher than the GeForce GTX 680′s 1536 cores but lower than the GeForce GTX Titan’s 2688 Cores. The GeForce GTX Titan LE  would feature a 5 GB GDDR5 memory running across a 320-bit interface compared to 6 GB GDDR5 (384-bit) on the faster GeForce GTX Titan.

NVIDIA is expected to launch the GeForce GTX Titan LE with its cut down version of the GK110 GPU in Q3 2013 possibly in July or August. The price factor would be a major decision with this part since while the original GeForce GTX Titan was without a doubt a great card, its cost angered many consumers yet was still able to sell like hot cakes. If NVIDIA can manage a price point of around $649-$749 than the LE model could definitely become a bigger hit than its bigger brother. Moreover,with a little overclock can end up users with performance on par with the GTX Titan as GTX 670 users got almost the same level of performance as the GTX 680 with small overclocks.

The first performance results of AMD’s upcoming Richland A10-6700 GPU have been exposed by Expreview.com (Via Coolaler). It should be noted that AMD plans to launch their Richland APU lineup including the flagship A10-6800K within this quarter.

AMD A10-6700 GPU Performance Results Exposed – Mighty Fast Than Intel’s HD 4000 iGP

The AMD A10-6700 is part of their Richland APU lineup which is based on the 32nm Piledriver core architecture and a highly improved VLIW4 based HD 8000 series iGP which as per today’s results is quiet an improvement over Trinity APU’s iGPU. The AMD A10-6700 APU is a Quad core with four threads and is clocked at 3.7 GHz (base) and 4.3 GHz Boost frequency. The AMD A10-6700 APU is equipped with an HD 8670D iGP that operates at 844 MHz, come with 4 MB L3 Cache and features a TDP of 65W. The complete Richland APU lineup is listed below:

Model	Cores / Threads	CPU clock	Boost Frequency	L2 cache	Graphics	TDP
AMD A10-6800K	4/4	4.1 GHz	4.4 GHz	4 MB	HD 8670D(844MHz)	100W
AMD A10-6700	4/4	3.7 GHz	4.3 GHz	4 MB	HD 8670D(844MHz)	65W
AMD A10-6600K	4/4	3.9 GHz	4.2 GHz	4 MB	HD 8570D(844MHz)	100W
AMD A8-6500	4/4	3.5 GHz	4.1 GHz	4 MB	HD 8570D(800MHz)	65W
AMD A6-6400K	2/2	3.9 GHz	4.1 GHz	1 MB	HD 8470D(844MHz)	65W
AMD A4-6300	2/2	3.7 GHz	3.9 GHz	1 MB	HD 8370D(760MHz)	65W

According to a report from Theinquirer, AMD is planning to equip their upcoming CPUs with GDDR memory as prices fall down on the memory chips.

AMD Bringing GDDR Memory Architecture to CPU/APUs?

It was already reported that AMD could be preparing a cut down version of the Jaguar APU that was featured on the PlayStation 4. Not the difference between the regular APUs and the PS4 version of the APU was that it is said to use 8 GB of GDDR5 memory which would be shared across the system and GPU Vram. A few days later after that report, it was leaked through an internal AMD document that the company might actually be preparing their Kaveri line of APUs for the use of either GDDR5 “Unified Memory” architecture or DDR4.

“Everybody is looking to use that extra speed memory in combination with the lower cost memory, just like you do with all memory tiers. It’s a new tier of memory. A long time ago in HPC you always wanted to have static RAM right next to the processors and the DRAM far away and we’re back to that situation again.”

Its known that the GDDR and DDR4 memory types offer high bandwidth ranges to the APU. The CPU part may not benefit from the extra bandwidth much but the memory starved GPU core located on that APU definitely could make use of the extra bandwidth. AMD has been equipping their APUs with high performance IGPs since some time now which almost reach the performance level of entry level discrete parts, furthermore they can be Crossfire’d with discrete graphics solution for more performance. However, due to lower bandwidth of DDR3 memory, these chips are starved out.

NVIDIA, today officially introduced their new GeForce 700M Series graphics processing units which are based on the Kepler GK 107/106 architecture. The new GeForce 700M series GPUs combine GPU Boost 2.0, GeForce Experience, and NVIDIA Optimus technology to deliver greater and seamless performance to notebook users.

The NVIDIA GeForce 700M Series GPU Lineup

NVIDIA has launched a total of four new GeForce 700M series parts, all of which are currently entry level models and that could be noted since they are being compared against an Intel HD 4000 IGP, however this gives a clear hint that NVIDIA would be launching the faster GeForce GTX 780M and GTX 770M in the near future. Details and specifications are mentioned below:

	GeForce GT 750M	GeForce GT 745M	GeForce GT 740M
GPU Core	28nm GK107 or GK106	28nm GK107	28nm GK107
CUDA Cores	384	384	384
GPU Clock	967MHz plus Boost	837MHz plus Boost	980MHz plus Boost
Memory Clock	Up to 5.0GHz	Up to 5.0GHz	Up to 5.0GHz
Memory Bus	Up to 128-bit	Up to 128-bit	Up to 128-bit
Memory Bandwidth	Up to 80GB/s	Up to 80GB/s	Up to 80GB/s
VRAM	Up to 2GB GDDR5 or DDR3	Up to 2GB GDDR5 or DDR3	Up to 2GB GDDR5 or DDR3

At this years GDC, NVIDIA and EPIC games partnered up to showcase their latest Unreal Engine 4 demo known as “infiltrator” on the GeForce GTX 680 GPU.

Unreal Engine 4 Powered Infiltrator Demo Runs on Single GeForce GTX 680

NVIDIA and EPIC games have been partnering up since GDC 2011 to showcase the power of their latest Unreal Engines on GeForce GPUs from green team. As you all may remember, it was a PC powered by three Fermi GTX 580 GPUs that ran the real-time demonstration of EPIC games Unreal Engine 3 based “Samaritan demo” back in 2011. The highlights of the demo was the use of dynamic facial tessellation, point light reflections, bokeh depth of field, subsurface scattering which wow’d us and the PC gaming community back at that time.

A year later, the same demo was ran on not three flagship GPUs but a single Kepler GeForce GTX 680 which delivered the same level of visual quality and 60 FPS in the Samaritan demo. However, the demo wasn’t the only thing NVIDIA showcased their new (at the time) GPU with. At the same time, EPIC games and NVIDIA gave their audience a first look of the Unreal Engine 4 based “Elemental demo” which introduced an intesne level of next-generation real-time Global Illumination lighting and a massive amount of dynamic particles. Following is the real-time video of the Unreal Engine 4 based Elemental demo running off a single GeForce GTX 680 GPU. In a later comparison, it was revealed that the Elemental demo showcased on the PC was still far more impressive than the console version shown during the PS4 announcement event as seen from the direct feed screen shot below:

It was indicated back in January 2013 that AMD was working on new mobile GPUs based on the upcoming Sea Islands GCN 2.0 architecture codenamed “Solar Series”. AMD’s Radeon HD 8970M, part of the new mobile GPU lineup has been leaked in performance slides of MSI’s upcoming GX70 G-Series notebook by GDM.or.jp. (Via Videocardz)

AMD Radeon HD 8970M “Neptune” Performance Previewed in MSI GX70 Slides

According to the information, the Radeon HD 8970M is codenamed “Neptune” and would ship with the MSI’s GX70 high-performance notebook that also incorporates an flagship A10-5750M Richland mobile APU which were introduced recently. While the Richland A10-5750M APU features its own Radeon HD 8650G integrated graphics processor, the notebook also comes with the latest discrete mobile graphics solution from AMD – Radeon HD 8970M which is the fastest single chip mobile GPU in offering by AMD’s mobile Sea Island lineup.

The performance slides pit the Radeon HD 8970M “Neptune” against the GTX 680M against which the AMD part is almost 7.5% faster in average in 3DMark 11 performance mode. The performance slide also includes other Sea Islands based mobile GPUs such as the performance oriented Saturn XT and Saturn Pro, Mainstream Venus XTX chips which are 10-20% on average faster than the GTX 675M GPU from NVIDIA. AMD or MSI didn’t went into the specifics of any of these GPUs but looking at how MSI gets to advertise them early with their upcoming G-Series notebooks, their launch cannot be much far away. Its worth noting that MSI kept the faster GTX 680MX and GTX 675MX parts out of the comparison list but its possible that the Radeon HD 8970M would end up being a bit faster than them.

EA showcased a 17 minute demonstration trailer of DICE’s next generation Battlefield 4 FPS which was powered by their latest Frostbite 3 technology. As we all noted, Battlefield 4 went off to show some very amazing visuals in the single player section that was showcased and the same is expected from the multiplayer section.

Battlefield 4 Demonstrated on PC powered by AMD Radeon HD 7990

Although earlier rumors said that DICE would show off their game running on next gen console parts but in return, Legitreviews have got the conformation that Battlefield 4 was demonstrated on its lead platform AKA PC. But what was powering the PC that ran Battlefield 4? The solution was AMD’s world fastest Radeon HD 7990 GPU that was also previewed by AMD at GDC 2013 earlier yesterday. EA had announced AMD as their hardware partner and has further strengthened AMD’s Gaming evolved initiative. Here’s the press report from AMD:

AMD and EA DICE are proud partners in gaming, with a recent history that includes the award-winning Battlefield 3 in 2011. That relationship continues today with the world’s first public demonstration of Battlefield 4, powered by the AMD Radeon HD 7990—the world’s fastest graphics card! Today’s unveiling not only demonstrates the commitment EA DICE makes to state-of-the-art PC graphics, it stands as further proof that the critically-acclaimed Graphics Core Next architecture in the AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series is the best choice for truly advanced PC games. AMD

At GDC 2013, AMD has unveiled their latest and upcoming Radeon HD 7990 GPU which is built of the GCN architecture.

AMD Radeon HD 7990 – The Reference Dual Chip GPU from AMD

AMD did not went into specifics of the GPU but it has been known for a while that the Radeon HD 7990 from AMD would be codenamed Malta and feature Dual Tahiti GPU cores clocked around 1000 – 1100 MHz and would feature a 6 GB (3 GB per GPU) VRAM running across a 384 bit x2 interface. You may notice how AMD has labeled the slide as a preview of the upcoming product which means that its launch (previously reported around Q2 2013) might not be far away.

AMD is also said to be preparing a new tech demo based on CryEngine 3 which would be showcased on the Radeon HD 7990 launch.

The card is powered through dual 8-Pin connectors which puts the power draw to around 375W and comes with an impressive three fan cooling design in the much awesome red and black color theme of AMD Radeon GPUs. Display connectivity on the Radeon HD 7990 include five Mini Display and a single DVI connector. It is expected to launch in Q2 at a price almost around the $1000 mark.

AMD, today announced at the GDC 2013 (Game Developers Conference) their new Radeon Sky series server class graphics card built entirely for one purpose – Cloud gaming. With the Graphics Core Next architecture, AMD’s Radeon Sky series aims to stream games off the cloud while being rendered on these new GPUs from a server.

AMD Radeon Sky Series GCN GPUs For Cloud Gaming

With cloud gaming through Radeon Sky series, users would be able to play the latest games on any computing devices such as PC, TV, Smartphones, Tablets, Notebooks, etc. This is achieved with AMD’s latest Rapid Fire technology which has been designed to support multiple stream GPUs and optimized for low latency providing seamless HD playback without any hickups. AMD has launched three new GPUs under their Radeon Sky series brand built exclusively for cloud gaming purposes. They are listed below:

• AMD Radeon Sky 900
• AMD Radeon Sky 700
• AMD Radeon Sky 500