Tencent launches supercomputing cluster
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Uses Nvidia's latest generation H800 GPU

Tencent, China’s gaming and social giant, launched a new High-Performance Computing Cluster (HCC) to address the computational bottleneck faced in large-scale model training in China.

Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070 is now available at retail/e-tail
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Plenty of stock, even at MSRP

Nvidia has officially launched its new Geforce RTX 4070 graphics card, and while first reviews of RTX 4070 graphics cards launching at MSRP were up yesterday, the company has also lifted the NDA for factory-overclocked and more expensive custom graphics cards today. It also appears that availability for the Geforce RTX 4070 is great and there are plenty of graphics cards available, even at the $599.99 MSRP.

Nvidia releases Geforce 531.61 WHQL driver
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Support for RTX 4070 and a couple of fixes

Nvidia has released its latest Geforce 531.61 WHQL driver, mainly to bring support for the launched Geforce RTX 4070 graphics card, but it also comes with a few fixes.

AMD mocks Nvidia’s memory size
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Have you been swimming?

AMD issued a blog post yesterday, right before the launch of the RTX 4070 mocking NVIDIA’s “lackluster” GDDR6 and GDDR6X memory sizes on its RTX 30/40 series graphics cards.

Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070 reviews are out
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First MSRP reviews are out

The NDA for Nvidia's new Geforce RTX 4070 has been lifted today, allowing fellow IT journalists to publish the first batch of reviews for those RTX 4070 graphics cards that will launch at $600 MSRP. The reviews for overclocked Geforce RTX 4070 graphics cards should show up tomorrow, which is also the date for global retail availability.

Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070 official performance leaks
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RTX 4070 Founders Edition pictured

Just a few days before the official launch, scheduled for April 13th, the first Nvidia official performance numbers for the GeForce RTX 4070 have leaked online, showing it to be on par with the RTX 3080, at least with DLSS 3. It also appears that Nvidia will also launch an RTX 4070 Founders Edition (FE), which would make it the third FE graphics card in the RTX 40 series.

Google claims its AI supercomputers are greener than Nvidia-based systems
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Greener than Nvidia

Alphabet's Google details about the supercomputers it uses to train its artificial intelligence models, claim that the system is faster and more power-efficient than comparable systems from Nvidia.

Nvidia shows Cyberpunk 2077 RT: Overdrive Mode
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Path Tracing renamed as Full Ray Tracing by Nvidia

CD Projekt Red's upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 update, launching on April 11th, will bring the technology preview of the Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode, one with path tracing, or as Nvidia now calls it, "full ray tracing". Nvidia has now released a few new screenshots and a trailer, showing some of those impressive new effects.

Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070 could end up priced at $599.99
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Give a lot more room for more expensive custom cards

According to the latest info, Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070 could launch at $599.99, making it a good $200 less expensive than the RTX 4070 Ti.

Possible RTX 4060 Ti and the 4050 launch date rumored
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Coming in May and June

It appears that the Nvidia machine is gearing up for several launches in the next few months, starting with the RTX 4070 which should launch on April 13th, the RTX 4060 Ti coming at end of May, and the 4050 in June.