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Pascal Secrets: What Makes Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 so Fast?

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However, DX12 titles face another battle altogether, and that is delivering a great gaming experience. These days, game developers work hand in hand with both AMD and Nvidia in order to extract as much performance out of DirectX 12 as possible, which is needed for challenging VR environments. 3999 Quadro M6000 12GB.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

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Currently VR First is boasting more than 50 projects in development at the labs, and not just games. In fact, games only account for 35% of projects underway, as the rest are focused on fields like psychology and neuroscience (12%), education (7%), tourism (7% ), and architecture and real estate (6%). Ilia State University, Georgia.

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