GTX 1080 Ti

Nvidia Officially Reveals GTX 1080 Ti Graphics Card at GDC 2017

What we know about that 1080 Ti.

After several months of rumors and speculation, Nvidia officially announced the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti today at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, CA. Senior Vice President of GPU Engineering John Alben revealed the architecture and expected performance of the company’s new flagship graphics card, claiming an aggregate improvement of 35 percent over the GTX 1080.

The performance numbers are based on the company’s internal tests using several grades of anti-aliasing on both 1440p and 4K resolutions in games such as Battlefield 1, Crysis 3, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Doom, and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

Non-Ti vs. Ti versions of GTX cards.

Nvidia is touting this new graphics card with claims it exhibits the biggest jump in performance for a Ti-branded card. The previous GTX 780 to GTX 780 Ti and GTX 980 to GTX 980 Ti saw an approximate improvement of 18 percent and 25 percent, respectively.

Nvidia says that temperatures will also see a significant improvement by staying five degrees celsius cooler under the same noise levels as its non-Ti counterpart. For reference, if both cards are operating at the same temperature, the 1080 Ti will be 2.5 decibels quieter.

The board itself will consist of 12 billion transistors, 3584 CUDA cores, 28 geometry units, 224 texture units, 28 streaming multiprocessors (SMs); 128 cores each, and will use a 352-bit GDDR5x memory interface. The GTX 1080 Ti is based on the current Pascal architecture and is equipped with 11 GB of VRAM and a stock core clock of 1583 MHz. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang showed the card running overclocked slightly above 2000 MHz core clock speed during a stage demo, while staying around 66 degrees celsius on a stock cooler under load.

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang reveals GTX 1080 Ti price.

The GTX 1080 Ti is set to launch on the week of March 6th for $699 USD. The standard GTX 1080 received a price cut and is now available for $499.

In addition to the GTX 1080 Ti announcement, Nvidia revealed new SKUs for the GTX 1080 and GTX 1060, both versions will feature out-of-the-box memory overclocks. The GTX 1080 will be overclocked with 11 GB/s GDDR5x, and the GTX 1060 will be overclocked with 9 GB/s GDDR5.

The rise of artificial intelligence risks making us all redundant

The rise of artificial intelligence risks making us all redundant

 

At the start of a new year, what is there to look forward to? According to predictions from think tanks and tech experts, advances in automation and artificial intelligence will threaten the jobs of millions of workers. The CEO of one company, Capgemini, goes further, predicting that AI will be one of the key factors dividing society into the haves and have-nots, with highly skilled engineers at the one end of the spectrum and low-paid unqualified worker drones at the other, with nothing in between.
There will be massive redundancies, for sure. Is it time to rethink the welfare system and pay everyone a minimum living wage whether they work or not? That proposal, known as a "universal basic income" is being trialled in Finland but was rejected in a referendum in Switzerland last June.
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg is investing heavily in developing AI. He recently released a corny "seasonal message" featuring his latest project, a robot butler named Jarvis. We don’t see Jarvis, voiced by Morgan Freeman, but the message is absolutely plain: this is not a bit of fun, but the unveiling of a plan for our future, a future which tech companies are battling to capitalise on.

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Zuckerberg has spent more than 100 hours programming Jarvis so that it can switch on his household gadgets, his music system and even help his small daughter learn Mandarin. It responds to voice commands issued from a phone, even offering him a clean grey T-shirt in the morning. Jarvis is also a gatekeeper, deciding who may or may not enter the Zuckerberg home.
This cutesy video is surely designed to deflect attention from Facebook’s recent woes, including failing to curb fake news reports which critics reckon had a devastating impact on the result of the US presidential election. Facebook stands accused of failing to monitor the material it disseminates, consistently claiming freedom of speech by default, allowing lies and blatant propaganda the same platform as real news stories. Even the Pope has now decreed that publishing fake news is a sin.

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The development of a faceless, featureless robot is ominous; when his daughter Max wakes up, surely she would prefer a cuddle from a human being rather than a po-faced lesson from a non-person? By fostering the illusion that Jarvis is sociable and has a use beyond the purely functional in a small family unit, Zuckerberg is preparing the ground to present AI as something new and desirable, rather than the ultimate threat to our livelihoods. If he develops devices like Jarvis on a commercial basis, will it give his company direct access into our homes, whisking away what little privacy we may have left? And if this use of AI relies on programmes derived from our speech patterns, should we hand those over to a third party? And, given that we already spend far too long staring at screens, and the time we interact with other people is declining and loneliness increasing, can introducing robots into our personal lives be a good thing?
Google and Amazon are already selling devices which can perform simple tasks, as well as developing rival driverless cars. AI systems are being designed for supermarkets which allow customers to choose their shopping and exit without going to a checkout. Soon, robots will be stacking the shelves and running the entire show. No wonder unions are worried.
As for driverless cars, what are the ethics involved in deciding how they should respond to obstacles in their path? How do they differentiate a dead pheasant or a deer from a person who may have fallen down? And, if driverless cars are easily identifiable, will they spawn a new kind of road rage – one directed at trying to provoke a response from the robots taking over our lives?

Fans of AI say driverless cars will reduce deaths on the roads, and represent the biggest change in our lives since motor cars replaced horses a century ago. Really? Are we powerless to stop the rapid roll-out of AI?
One of my favourite films as a student was Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville, in which Paris shot in atmospheric black and white is Alphaville, a city controlled by a powerful computer dubbed Alpha 60. Emotion is forbidden and anyone who deviates from accepted behaviour is terminated by female assassins. Has a film ever seemed more prescient?
When Mark Zuckerberg tells us Jarvis is the start of something, be very scared. The only butler I want at chez JSP will have blood in his or her veins and be capable of questioning my more pretentious requests. To be honest, if I could have one gift for 2017, if would be a few hours a week from a real butler. Human beings make much better companions

 

 

ASUS ROG Strix GL553 gaming laptop launched in India, priced at Rs 94,990

Under its Republic of Gamers (ROG) series, Taiwanese company ASUS launched ROG Strix GL553 compact ultralight gaming laptop in India at a starting price of Rs 94,990. The 15.6-inch GL553 offers a gamer-friendly keyboard powered by ASUS Aura with four distinct lighting areas for good gaming experiences in the dark.

“The product is aimed at young professionals who enjoy regular-through-heavy gaming sessions and premium entertainment on the go,” Peter Chang, Regional Head-South Asia and Country Manager-System Business Group- ASUS India, said in a statement.  ”In order to ensure this, we included a powerful, yet efficient set of hardware into a highly portable device that is easy on the battery as well,” he added.
GL553 delivers powerful gaming performance accelerated by a 7th Generation Intel Core i7 processor with latest ‘Pascal’ generation of graphics cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050Ti/1050 graphics for gaming visuals.  The GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti are both clocked higher than their respective desktop products yet draw lower power.
The “Cooling Overboost” feature offers flexible fan speeds for custom control and better system stability.