The NVIDIA GeForce RTX-20 series graphics cards were just announced on Monday have some impressive looking new features. Without a doubt the exciting new feature that will change the way we play games is real-time ray tracing. NVIDIA is so excited about being able to launch a graphics card series with this capability that they …more
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang revealed a new family of Turing-based Geforce RTX graphics cards during an event today at Gamescon 2018 in Cologne, Germany. The new cards announced are part of the RTX 20-series and consist right now of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, RTX 2080 and the RTX 2070. We can’t remember a time that NVIDIA …more
If you are interested in cryptocurrencies and want to start mining alt coins you can do so without breaking the bank. Most all the coverage on mining focuses on high-end desktop discrete graphics cards since they turn the most profit. The only problem is that most all those cards are sold out and happen to …more
Legit Reviews finally managed to pick up an NVIDIA TITAN V graphics card and have been putting it through a number of tests in recent days. NVIDIA says that this $2,999 graphics card is capable of reaching 110 teraflops of compute performance from its 21.1 billion transistors, 5120 CUDA cores and 12GB of HBM2 memory. …more
AMD Radeon RX Vega graphics cards do very well on the CryptoNight proof-of-work algorithm and miners are using them to mine Monero, Electroneum, Sumokoin, Bytecoin and Karbo. This is because the profitability is better on those coins than Ethereum that uses the Ethash proof-of-work algorithm. It’s tough to find an AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 or AMD …more
We’ve talked about mining Ethereum extensively here on Legit Reviews, but there are over 1,300 different coins that you can have in your crypto portfolio. Bitcoin and Ethereum have become household names in recent weeks now that everyone is talking about the rise of cryptocurrency in general. When it comes to mining coins the options …more
Bitcoin’s recent amazing price increase has helped raise awareness of other ‘alt coins’ and that has helped push up the value of Ethereum, litecoin and cryptocurrencies. Ethereum, the world’s second-largest blockchain by market size, is something we’ve been covering on Legit Reviews since June 2017. Ethereum (known as Ether or ETH) crossed the $750 mark for the very first …more
Titan Xp – For Those That Want Nothing But The Best If you are looking for the most powerful desktop consumer graphics card for 2017 and entering the 2018 calendar year the folks over at NVIDIA have you covered with the Titan Xp. This $1,200 graphics card features the Pascal GP102 GPU with 3840 NVIDIA …more
Legit Reviews recently got the chance to swing by NVIDIA’s new campus at San Tomas Expressway and Walsh Avenue in Santa Clara, California and wanted to give you a glimpse inside. NVIDIA broke ground on the 500,000 square foot building in 2015 and just started moving employees into the building this fall. NVIDIA calls the new …more
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Arrives To Party NVIDIA recently released the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card at $449 and this card aims to fill the performance gap between the GeForce GTX 1070 ($349) and the GeForce GTX 1080 ($499) to better position the GeForce lineup against AMD’s Radeon RX Vega series. NVIDIA slipped this …more
Ethereum’s Byzantium Hard Fork is over and now the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card has been released. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is an interesting card for cryptocurrency fans as has 512 more CUDA cores than the GeForce GTX 1070 and still uses GDDR5 memory. When mining Ethereum the speed and latency …more
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) is a wildly popular ‘battle royale’ and really fun game to play, but recently the numbers of cheaters and hackers has gotten pretty bad. Just one week ago BattlEye, the third-party anti-cheat solution used by PUBG, announced that as of October 12th that 322,000 cheaters have been banned from PUBG and then followed …more
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card debuted yesterday and we got our NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Founders Edition graphics card today and have already begun testing with GeForce 388.09 drivers. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti will be available worldwide on November 2nd and pre-orders started happening yesterday at the $449 price point. Some folks …more
The Ethereum network began a planned hard fork at block number 4,370,000 yesterday and it appears that the Byzantium hard fork has been a smooth transition so far (check the status). Miners are having some fun as they are seeing that some blocks are being mined in as little as 1 second while others are taking almost a …more