Nvidia has revealed that it will apply cryptocurrency mining restrictions to any newly manufactured RTX GPUs. The announcement follows Nvidia’s existing cryptocurrency mining restrictions, first introduced with the RTX 3060 GPU earlier in 2021. The world’s leading graphics card manufacturer wants to put more new GPUs into the hands of gamers at a time when […]
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External graphics processing units (eGPUs) sound great. You can get desktop-quality graphics on a laptop, which means you only need one computer for portability and high-level gaming. But do they stand up against internal GPUs? Is it worth dropping a few hundred bucks on a dock? How much performance can you really expect? Unfortunately, expectations […]
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External graphics processing units (eGPUs) sound great. You can get desktop-quality graphics on a laptop, which means you only need one computer for portability and high-level gaming. But do they stand up against internal GPUs? Is it worth dropping a few hundred bucks on a dock? How much performance can you really expect? Unfortunately, expectations […]
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When it comes to choosing a fast graphics card, there are two main options: AMD and Nvidia. There are a number of factors that set them apart, and this is doubly so on Linux. On Windows, speed is the only thing that matters — Nvidia GPUs (graphical processing unit) tend to be faster than AMD. […]
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A graphics processing unit (GPU) offers increased graphical horsepower over integrated graphics. While most people use GPUs for gaming they remain useful for data processing as well as tasks such as video editing. So why do they cost a fortune now? Because of cryptocurrency mining’s popularity, the demand for graphics cards skyrocketed. Find out if […]
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