NVIDIA LAUNCHES TWO NEW GPU's FOR LAPTOPS💻

NVIDIA recently published details about their latest GPUs in the GeForce MX Lineup – the GeForce MX250 and the GeForce MX230, on their official website. The GeForce MX lineup is an entry-level laptop GPU series and is meant for basic games and 3D acceleration and will mostly be found in thin and compact laptops that can’t accommodate large cooling mechanisms.

The GeForce MX230 and MX250 are set to replace their older gen GPUs MX130 and MX150 respectively. These GPUs are intended to deliver better graphics power than the current integrated GPUs offered by Intel, but the performance will still lag behind the GeForce GTX 1050 and GeForce GTX 1050Ti gaming GPUs. Both GPUs work seamlessly with NVIDIA’s Optimus technology to provide the perfect balance between long battery life and performance.

The GeForce MX250 and GeForce MX230 are based on NVIDIA’s previous-gen Pascal architecture, which underpins the GeForce GTX-10 series of desktop and mobile GPUs. Both make use of the NVIDIA’s CUDA technology to tackle demanding tasks like video transcoding, physics simulation, and ray tracing much faster than with traditional CPUs.

NVIDIA GeForce MX250

The NVIDIA GeForce MX250 will provide up to 3.5X faster performance over integrated graphics for photo and video-editing applications, as well as faster, and smoother gaming experience.

GeForce MX250

      

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

Similar to the faster MX250, the MX230 is based on the GP108 chip. The NVIDIA GeForce MX250 provides up to 3.5X faster performance over integrated graphics 2.6, according to the company.

GeForce MX230

The new GeForce MX250 and GeForce MX230 will compete against AMD’s integrated Radeon Vega GPUs, which also provide the same level of performance powerful enough for basic gaming.

                                                                         

METRO EXODUS GRAPHICS QUALITY:- PASS OR FAIL?

Metro Exodus launched with a slew of NVIDIA’s propitiatory technologies- hairworks, GPU accelerated PhysX and of course the much-purported raytracing (RTX) and DLSS scaling algorithm. However, the initial tests put DLSS in a bad light as it really took a toll on the image quality, degrading the textures and making them look subpar. Now, NVIDIA and 4A Games have released a 4GB patch that tries to improve DLSS quality and in this post, we see if it actually does that or not.

Pre and Post-Patch Performance
We also decided to check the pre and post-patch performance of Metro Exodus with DLSS enabled to note any changes in performance. And to be honest, it was a pleasant surprise. Although with raytracing turned off, DLSS performance remains the same as before the patch, with RTX on, it grants a performance boost of more than 10%. Our frame rates with a GeForce RTX 2080 jumped from 51 FPS to 58 FPS on applying the patch and that is a welcome increment in performance.

Metro Exodus Post-Patch DLSS Quality
Now, onto the real matter. Let’s compare the pre and post-patch screenshots with DLSS enabled and see what kind of improvements have been made:

METRO EXODUS

These are all 4K shots and as you can see there’s a massive improvement in visual quality, so much so that in some scenes it’s hard to differentiate between the two. DLSS seems to be even more effective than TAA when implemented properly with little to no blurring and most of the textures retaining their sharpness.

To make it more dramatic, we won’t be telling you which ones are DLSS enabled and which ones aren’t. Go knock yourself out.

                             Screenshots

DLSS is a promising technology that is sure to allow raytracing at higher resolutions even with mid-range cards in the future. It is much better than Sony and AMD’s checkerbox rendering used in the current gen consoles and we’d love to see more developers leverage DLSS in their games.

ACER NITRO 5 REVIEW:- IS IT WORTH FOR YOU?

When we unboxed the Acer Nitro 5 we knew not to expect RGB-lit packaging or a fancy carrying case. This is a budget gaming laptop, and it squeezes every penny of value out of its ₹53000.

Start with the CPU: It's an Intel 8th-gen Core i5-8300H, a Coffee Lake CPU with 4 cores and a new bonus: Hyper Threading, which takes advantage of unused CPU resources to boost performance. The CPU comes with 8GB of RAM, and there's another 4GB of memory with the Nvidie GeForce GTX 1050 discrete GPU.

The 1TB SATA HDD is a tough call: Lots of capacity, far less speed than you'd get from an SSD. If you have the extra cash you can pony up for its ₹60000 sibling, which comes with a 256GB SSD and has the space to add another drive.
The rest of the specs include a 15.6-inch, 1920x1080 IPS display, a backlit keyboard, a good selection of ports including USB-C, full HDMI, and even RJ-45 ethernet (using a dropjaw design to fit into the chassis). The laptop is neither small nor light, and its battery lasts just 5.5 hours, but for 50K it checks off a fair number of boxes. Keep an eye out for our full review.

NVIDIA'S 1660TI LAUNCHED

NVIDIA launches GTX 1660 Ti desktop graphics card, starts at $279 22February2019.
After months of leaks, NVIDIA has finally launched the GTX 1660 Ti desktop graphics card. Priced at $279, this is NVIDIA's latest mid-range offering that will replace the aging 1060 6GB while offering 1070 performance.

The GTX 1660 Ti is based on NVIDIA's latest Turing architecture that we previously saw on the RTX series of graphics card. However, as the name implies, the GTX 1660 Ti does not have the RTX feature set of its more expensive brethren. This means no ray tracing or DLSS, although some features like variable rate shading will be present.

The GTX 1660 Ti is based on a brand new TU116 processor, which is similar to the more powerful Turing chips but without the RT and Tensor cores. It's built on 12nm architecture and has 24 shader modules and 1536 CUDA cores. It features 6.6 billion transistors, 50% more than the GTX 1060. Incidentally, NVIDIA's performance improvement claim over the 1060 is also about 50%. It comes with 12Gbps 6GB GDDR6 memory with 192-bit bus width and 288GB/s memory bandwidth.

According to initial reviews, the GTX 1660 Ti easily blows past the GTX 1060 6GB as well as the Radeon RX 590, while trading blows with the more expensive GTX 1070 and RX Vega 56. AMD even momentarily dropped the Vega 56 price to $279 but those seem to have disappeared almost instantly (not to mention they were the basic blower-style models).
For gamers wanting to build a new gaming machine that would give excellent 1080p 144Hz performance in games like Fortnite and Apex Legends or respectable 1080p 60Hz performance in games like Metro Exodus, Resident Evil 2 and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the GTX 1660 Ti is the card to get right now.

Prices start at $279 for the base models, with the fancier overclocked models coming in closer to $300. There is no Founders Edition card this time, so you only have the OEM options, of which there are plenty at launch, including from ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision 3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac.