Inno3D is preparing a new iChill GeForce GTX Titan graphics card which would feature their triple fan HerculeZ 3000 cooling solution. In addition to this, Inno3D also launched their iChill GeForce GTX Titan black series which feature ARCTIC’s Accelero Hybrid liquid cooler.

Inno3D Equips iChill GeForce GTX Titan With HerculeZ 3000 Cooler

The iChill GeForce GTX Titan features the impressive GK110 core architecture which boasts 2688 cores, 48 ROPs, 224 TMUs and a 6 GB GDDR5 memory which operates along a 384-bit interface. The iChill GeForce GTX Titan is an factory overclocked variant with core clock of 927 MHz, boost clock is unknown and the memory is configured at the reference 6008 MHz (6.0 GHz Effective) speed. The GPU pumps out an 288.38 GB/s bandiwidth as like other reference GTX Titan variants.

The card uses a reference PCB but comes with Inno3D’s mighty HerculeZ 3000 cooler. The shroud of the cooler is colored orange while the internal heatsink seems to be a revision of the older variant making use of five high-Q copper heatpipes which run through a dense aluminum fin array. The block has a copper contact base that is used to convey heat to the heatsink which is cooled down by the triple PWM controlled fans. The hot air is then blown out of the exhaust vents. Display connectors include Dual Link DVI, HDMI and a single Display port while the card supports Quad-Way SLI however best runs with Tri-Way SLI as seen in the reviews.

NVIDIA is said to offer Metro: Last Light Bundle promotion with their current GeForce 600 series GPUs. Currently, NVIDIA offers their “Free2Play” Bundle promotion which offers $150 of value to GeForce 600 users but rival AMD has upped their own “Never Settle” promotion over the last few months by adding some of the most anticipated titles such as Bioshock: Infinite, Crysis 3, Tomb Raider and the recently added Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon promotion leaving NVIDIA quiet behind in the game bundle wars.

NVIDIA GeForce 600 Series Get Metro: Last Light Bundle

Well, NVIDIA seems to have given the answer by announcing that from April 16th (Tuesday; Next Week), they would be bundling A4 games upcoming Metro: Last light titles which is the sequel to the highly acclaimed Metro: 2033 that pushed PC graphics to new boundaries. The same is expected this year with Metro: Last Light that would once again pit us as Artyom who would explorer the subway networks of a post apocalyptic Moscow.

Game bundle wars between NVIDIA and AMD have been a one-sided contest in favor of the latter, with AMD bundling the hottest AAA titles with its Radeon hardware, compared to NVIDIA offering in-game currency on popular free-to-play games. Following news of AMD stepping up its “Never Settle Reloaded” with Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon on all GPUs upwards of Radeon HD 7750, we’ve learned that NVIDIA is frantically responding by preparing to give away Metro: Last Light with all GeForce GPUs upwards of the $200 GTX 660. The bundle will go live from April 16th.TechpowerUp

Note: Before reading this article, we would like to advise our readers that the news below is a rumor based on a tip from an anonymous tipster hence should be taken with a grain of salt.

We heard news about NVIDIA preparing another GK110 GPU for release in summer known as GeForce GTX Titan LE. Today, we received a tip from an anonymous user who seems to got his hands on a sample of the upcoming graphic card.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan LE Possibly Spotted?

The information we received came with a backside PCB shot and a few technical details of the upcoming GeForce GTX Titan LE GPU. As you can note, the PCB is remarkably similar to the original GeForce GTX Titan minus a few memory chips. In total, there are 20 memory chips (10 on back, 10 on front) which amounts to a 5 GB GDDR5 memory buffer across a 320-bit interface. Given NVIDIA’s Titan and 600 series specifications, the GTX Titan LE would have its memory clocked at 6008 MHz effective frequency. We can’t see anything else new on the board. The power scheme remains the same which includes 8+6 Pin PCI-e connectors, 2 SLI Gold fingers, DVI-DL, HDMI and Display port for display connectivity.

It is also seen that the GTX Titan LE uses the same cooler as the GTX Titan so the overall design would be very similar. The only thing that would be changed is the GK110 with reduced core count around 2304-2496 and a 5 GB GDDR5 (384-bit) memory. Hopefully, we would be looking at a lower price range around $659-$759.

It has been reported by PHK over at Expreview forums that AMD would be launching their upcoming Radeon HD 7990 “Malta” GPU on 22nd April 2013. AMD has been preparing their reference Radeon HD 7990 card since a while and was only showcased recently at GDC 2013 (Games Developer Conference).

AMD Possibly Launching Radeon HD 7990 Malta on 22nd April

The AMD Radeon HD 7990 reference dual-chip beast, previously known as New Zealand is codenamed Malta. It was showcased at GDC 2013 which revealed that it still carried the triple fan cooling solution shown over a year ago. It was also mentioned that the Radeon HD 7990 powered the 17 minute gameplay trailer of Battlefield 4 which is being developed by DICE. A few days ago, a reddit user who was later revealed to be a developer on the Frostbite 3 engine posted a picture of his test setup that was running the Radeon HD 7990 in CrossFireX mode.

AMD has been quiet till now and haven’t released any concrete information on the specifications. The Radeon HD 7990 is supposedly carrying dual Tahiti cores however the could be new cores based on the GCN 2.0 architecture too. Its a possibility since last month, AMD released their Radeon HD 7790 GPU which carried the Bonaire XT GPU. The Bonaire XT GPU itself falls as a GCN 2.0 part which would fully be unleashed in Q4 2013 with the arrival of HD 8000 series discrete GPUs. Another thing to note is that, while the custom AIBs built HD 7990 GPUs require three 8 Pin connectors, the AMD reference “Malta” design only requires two 8 Pin connectors which points at a power draw of 375W. At the same time, the Radeon HD 7990 GPU is rumored to be faster than the custom built boards from their AIB partners. One thing is for sure that given the time AMD has spend developing there reference solution, their might be some super secret tech their hiding from us, one which would only be made clear on launch.

At this years IDF 2013, Intel detailed their upcoming Haswell microarchitecture for upcoming desktop and mobile platforms. Being a ‘Tock’ in Intel’s Tick-Tock development model, Haswell aims to improve the IPC performance of the core along with a drastic increase in graphics performance in a much efficient 22nm design.

Intel’s 4th Generation Haswell Microarchitecture

Haswell is expected to bring exactly at around 10-15% percent core improvements over Ivy Bridge and delivers even more parallelism than previous core processors. Haswell microarchitecutre is based around a 22nm process which features 3D transistors technology and includes new instruction sets such as AVX2 (256-bit integer vectors) and FMA that help drive faster computing performance, rich video and audio transcoding along with faster game performance.

Haswell also delivers improved Level 1 and Level 2 unified caches and enhances the bandwidth while latency remains the same as Sandy bridge architecture. It should be noted that Haswell delivers an highly efficient design without compromising on performance.

Image courtesy of VR-Zone!

At IDF 2013, VR-Zone managed to spot an upcoming Intel Haswell chip built for high-performance notebooks. As known earlier, the Intel Haswell chips that ship with high performance notebooks come with a GT3 GPU which is the flagship Intel HD graphics chip along with an on-package eDRAM module.

Intel Haswell GT3e GPU has Crystalwell eDRAM Package Onboard

As you can note from the picture, the chip is soldered “BGA” to a motherboard right next to the Lynx point 8-Series PCH. The Intel Haswell chip has quite some room dedicated to the onboard eDRAM package which is indeed lager than the Ivy Bridge “BGA” chip we saw back on the NUC system from Intel. The L4 cache memory codenamed ‘Crystalwell’ would significantly boost the iGPU performance on Haswell equipped Notebooks by delivering increased bandwidth to the iGPU.

Image Courtesy of Reddit!

Update: The Reddit user is a developer of Frosbite engine at DICE studios. His name is Johan Andersson!

A user on Reddit who goes by the name of Repilur has posted an image of AMD’s upcoming Radeon HD 7990 GPUs running in CrossFireX. While AIB partners of AMD had already released their custom Radeon HD 7990 graphic cards, it was revealed last month that AMD themselves were also working on a reference board.

AMD Radeon HD 7990 “Malta” in CrossFireX

Codenamed “Malta”, the upcoming Radeon HD 7990 reference GPU from AMD was previewed and displayed by AMD at GDC 2013. To everyone’s surprise, AMD revealed that the same GPU was the one that powered DICE’s Battlefield 4 17 minutes of gameplay. The Radeon HD 7990 delivered 60 FPS throughout the 17 minutes long trailer and was also mentioned to be running the game at 3K resolution (3072×1620).

The Radeon HD 7990 was spotted in 2-Way CrossFireX mode so that’s a total of 4 GPUs running in the rig there. There were no benchmarks or other details posted yet but it should be noted that the Radeon HD 7990 is expected to launch this month and if current rumors hold any truth, then AMD may be bundling the GPU with a copy of Battlefield 4. This would be a nice invective by the AMD since the card is expected to come around the $1000 mark.

Colorful, a Chinese graphic card manufacturer renowned for their iGame series of GPUs are preparing yet another beast, the GeForce GTX Titan iGame.

Colorful Back in the Game with GeForce GTX Titan iGame

Unlike previous air cooled iGame GPU versions such as the triple slot iGame GTX 680 Kudan or the four slot fanless  GTX 680 which without a doubt looked amazing, the new GeForce GTX TItan iGame would feature a liquid cooled design. Colorful is readying the new card currently and has given users the option to select from four various design schemes that are given below.

As for the card itself, it is not known whether the card would use a customized PCB but from the looks of it and given Colorful’s history, they would probably add a more powerful VRM design and layout to the board, the core clock is said to be set beyond 1 GHz which is amazing since the card at stock frequency operates at 836 MHz. It should be noted that being a liquid cooled GPU, the card won’t take more than 2 slots and the GPU you are looking at in those custom design shots are not of the GeForce GTX Titan itself. That is easily pointed out by looking at the display connectors.

NVIDIA might possibly be delaying their upcoming GeForce 700 series till 2014, as reported by Game-Debate. Reports about NVIDIA and AMD delaying their next-generation GPUs to Q4 2013 surfaced a couple of months ago which mentioned that neither the GeForce 700 series or the upcoming Radeon HD 8000 series discrete GPUs would appear until Q4 2013.

NVIDIA GeForce 700 Series Delayed Till 2014?

While it has been almost confirmed that AMD would be launching their top-to-bottom “Radeon HD 8000” series lineup in Q4 2013, NVIDIA might go ahead and delay their Kepler refresh “GeForce 700 series” the reason for which most are mentioning as NVIDIA’s focus towards mobile and server market as indicated by their GeForce Grid and Tegra based GeForce Shield announcements at CES 2013 while releasing cut down GK110 parts such as the upcoming GeForce GTX Titan LE for consumers.

Do keep in mind that most people are referring the GTX Titan LE part as the GTX 780 which it is not. The same happened a few months ago early to the original GeForce GTX Titan launch when a few sites started calling the card as the GeForce GTX 780 falling under the Kepler refresh series however it wasn’t. In the end, it was just referred to as the GeForce GTX Titan and the new part would similarly be refereed to as the GeForce GTX Titan LE.

A day earlier, reports surfaced that NVIDIA could be preparing a cut down version of their recently launched GeForce GTX Titan GPU which would launch in Q3 2013. The new GPU is supposed to be codenamed GeForce GTX Titan LE and the first alleged GPU-z screenshot of the card has been leaked by Chiphell forums.

NVIDIA GK110′s Little Brother – GeForce GTX Titan LE

As you can note from the GPU-z specifications, the GeForce GTX Titan LE features quite a slimmed down version of the GK110 core with 12 SMX units enabled compared to 14 SMX on the GTX Titan. The GeForce GTX Titan LE comes with 2304 Cores, 192 TMUs, 40 ROPs. The total VRAM has been adjusted down to 5 GB which runs across a 320-bit interface rather than a 384-bit interface pumping out 240.3 GB/s bandwidth. The clock speeds come as a surprise as they run on the same level as the GeForce GTX Titan, 837 MHz for core and 876 MHz Boost while the memory remains clocked at the reference 6008 MHz effective frequency.