GTA 6 release date, latest news and story info

Grand Theft Auto 5 has been around since September 2013, but is still insanely popular thanks to the continued GTA Online updates. Still, that doesn’t mean fans aren’t eager to find out news of a potential GTA 6.

With Red Dead Redemption 2 launching in Spring 2018 the chances of seeing a new Grand Theft Auto any time soon on are slim.

GTA 5 remains the fastest selling title in videogame history, earning a staggering $1 billion in its first 24 hours of release. Rockstar’s latest entry has gone on to sell 60 million copies worldwide across all platforms, this includes the recent ports for PS4 and Xbox One.

We know almost nothing about GTA 6, but reports suggest it’s already entered pre-production. A recent leak seemed to suggest an actor had listed GTA 6 motion capture work on their resume, but this later turned out to be a hoax, much to the dismay of fans. Now, we remain back at square one, with much speculation and little concrete information.

 

GTA 6 Release Date – When is it coming out?

We currently have no details on when GTA 6 will release, and with Red Dead Redemption 2 launching in 2018 it won’t be for at least another year, most likely much longer.

GTA 6 News – What’s being said about it?

The first official whiff of information about GTA 6 came from Rockstar President Leslie Benzies, who teased that the game is in very early stages of development.

“We don’t know what GTA 6 will be, but we’ve got some ideas”, said Benzies in an interview with Develop.

Although it’s far from concrete confirmation of what development stage the game is at, Benzies did give us a few insights into how the idea process starts.

“It comes from the idea first. Where it is going to be set is the first question. Then that defines the missions; you’re doing different things in LA than in New York or Miami. The map and story get worked up together, and the story is a basic flow of how it works out so you can layer the mission in.”

It’s also worth remembering that by the end of GTA 4’s lifecycle, Rockstar had already conceived some broad ideas about what GTA 5 would be. The game started life around 5 years ago, but was only in full production for three of those.

“We’ve got about 45 years’ worth of ideas we want to do. GTA Online is the focus right now. There ain’t no rest between finishing 5 and then Online. Plus we have some things  – stuff, DLC, I don’t know how to describe it exactly – that we’d like to do, and we’ll pick the right ones.”

The latest GTA 6 gossip though is about the sheer size of the GTA 6 map. According to a new rumour, Rockstar Games could be trying to recreate the entire of the US with GTA 6, rather than just a single city.

With the rumoured release date tipped to lie somewhere in 2020 (we know, that feels like a million years away), apparently Rockstar is using that time to recreate the entire country.

We’d advise that you take this with a large pinch of salt though, as we doubt you need to take that 100 per cent literally. We reckon GTA 6 might just feature multiple US locations with the distances between each one cut down considerably.

It could be like how The Crew managed to cover the entire US and turned it into a navigable map that takes an hour and a half in real time to drive from one end to the other.

Could this be what’s in store for us in GTA 6? We can only hope.

GTA 6 Story – What’s it about?

As GTA 6 is most likely at least three years away, we understandably know absolutely nothing about the game’s storyline or gameplay features.

 

 

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Nvidia GTX 1090 Ti & AMD R9 495X Benchmarked & Reviewed – Pascal & Polaris Put To The Test

Today’s a special day as we gracefully welcome two new flagships from Nvidia and AMD. The GTX 1090 Ti 8GB and the R9 495X 8GB, both benchmarked and reviewed. So strap in folks, this is going to be a hell of a ride.

We’ve been waiting for this day for so long and it has finally arrived, bringing with it the fastest graphics cards to ever grace our footsteps. Both featuring the world’s most advanced FinFET Graphics Processing Units boasting the highest levels of performance we’ve seen yet.

Nvidia GTX 1090 Ti And AMD R9 495X Benchmarked and Reviewed

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1090 Ti 8GB

First off we have the GTX 1090 Ti, Nvidia’s latest Pascal flagship. Featuring a full fledged GP102 GPU with 30 SPMs, Streaming Pascal Multiprocessors, for a total of 3840 CUDA cores. In addition to a 256bit GDDR5X memory interface, with 8GB of 12Ghz GDDR5 memory for a total of 384GB/s of memory bandwidth.

The GTX 1090 Ti operates at base clock of 1212Mhz and a boost clock of 1372Mhz. Making this is by far the highest clocked graphics card Nvidia has ever introduced. The GP102 GPU is the most complex chip the company has ever made packing more than 10 billion transistors.  Nvidia is positioning this card as a direct replacement to the GTX 980 Ti. However, thanks to the next generation FinFET process the GP102 GPU is significantly smaller than GM200 and significantly more power efficient. Additionally, thanks to its smaller size Nvidia can price it more aggressively. Which brings us to the most exciting part about this new product and that is its price,. At $499 the 1090 Ti is not only faster, more power efficient and smaller but also cheaper.

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1090 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GPU Architecture	Maxwell	Pascal	Maxwell	Maxwell	Maxwell
GPU Name	GM200	GP102	GM204	GM204	GM206
Die Size	601mm2	346mm²	398mm2	398mm2	228mm2
CUDA Cores	3072	So Many	2048	1664	1024
Texture Units	192	A Lot Of Those	128	104	64
Raster Devices	96	Those Too	64	64	32
Clock Speed	1002 MHz	REALLY HIGH	1126 MHz	1051 MHz	1126 MHz
Boost Clock	1089 MHz	EVEN HIGHER	1216 MHz	1178 MHz	1178 MHz
VRAM	12 GB GDDR5	So Many GBs	4 GB GDDR5	4 GB GDDR5	2 GB GDDR5
Memory Bus	384-bit	Oh Yeah!	256-bit	256-bit	128-bit
Bandwidth	336GB/S	So Many GBs/S	224GB/S	224GB/S	112GB/S
Memory Clock	7.0 GHz	12.0 GHz Baby!	7.0 GHz	7.0 GHz	7.0 GHz

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1090 Ti

Moving on to the physical aspects of the GTX 1090 Ti, Nvidia has decided to go with its standard blower style cooler but with the brushed aluminum finish similar to the 980 Ti. Although looks can be deceiving as Nvidia has told us that the GTX 1090 Ti features an updated vapor-chamber that will be deployed across the company’s new NVTM heatsinks. This next generation vapor-chamber heatsink was developer by Cooler Master in collaboration with Nvidia and it was developed specifically for Pascal.

he new patented design is dubbed VaporWorks™ and it delivers 21% better thermal performance than its predecessor. In addition to VaporWorks™ Nvidia has also updated the blower fan with new hydraulic motors that use less power and generate fewer decibels of noise.

AMD Radeon R9 495X 8GB

AMD Radeon R9 495X

Moving on to the Red Team. This is the first time that we’ve ever got to see the R9 495X. This is the company’s flagship single GPU 400 series Polaris based. It Features a Polaris GPU that we haven’t heard of before today, called Polaris 12. Polaris 12 features 5120 GCN 4.0 cores and 256bit wide GDDR5X memory interface feeding 8GB of 12.0Ghz GDDR5X memory chips. The result is 384GB/s of memory bandwidth, exactly the same as Nvidia’s GTX 1090 Ti. So it seems both company’s decided to opt for smaller memory interfaces for their high-end designed, off-set by the significantly faster GDDR5X memory from Micron.

The R9 495X features a Polaris 12 XT GPU which is the fully unlocked variant of the chip. The graphics card runs at a boost frequency of 1170mhz, making it the highest clocked graphics card every introduced by AMD. Once again thanks to the FinFET manufacturing process technology we’re seeing much higher clock speeds than before. At 312mm² Polaris 12 is only slightly smaller than GP102, primarily because while Polaris 12 is based on the 14LPP manufacturing process from Samsung, Nvidia’s GP102 is made using TSMC’s 16FF process.

Just like the GTX 1090 Ti, the R9 495X is priced at $499.

	AMD Radeon R9 495X	AMD Radeon R9 Fury X	AMD Radeon R9 290X
GPU Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 1.3	GCN 1.2
GPU Name	Polaris 12 XT	Fiji	Hawaii XT
Die Size	312mm2	596mm2	438mm2
Stream Processors	An Army Of GCN Cores	4096	1664
Texture Units	A Lot of Those	256	176
Render Output Units	& A Bunch of These	64	64
Clock Speed	REALLY HIGH	1000 MHz	727 MHz
Clock Speed	EVEN HIGHER!	1050 MHz	1000 MHz
VRAM	So Many GBs	4GB HBN	4GB GDDR5
Memory Bus	Oh Yeah!	4096-bit	512-bit
Bandwidth	So Many GBs/S	512GB/S	320GB/S
Memory Clock	12.0Ghz Baby!	1.0 GHz	5.0 GHz

So let’s take a quick look at the brand new cooling solution AMD is bringing to market with its latest single GPU flagship graphics card.

AMD Radeon R9 495X 

Aesthetically speaking this is undoubtedly the best looking exterior design we have seen yet from AMD. The black metal exoskeleton really shines thanks to a beautiful contrast of red , led-lit, accents and AMD logo as well as a beautiful zinc mirror finish. It’s not just all about looks either. The carved gills on the side are actually open and work to exhaust heat outside of the exoskeleton with the help of the peripherally placed 85mm blower fan. This design which AMD dubs WraithShark™ is 37% quieter and 23% cooler than AMD’s standard design.

As you have probably noticed by now the R9 495X features a black metal mesh that covers the blower fans. This removable tight black mesh works as a dust filter that protects the fan and the internals of the card. To prevent the tight mesh from adding to the acoustic footprint of the fan, the fan has been moved 4mm in and the mesh has been curved outwardly by 5mm. The end result is a very elegant and simple solution that prompts us to beg the question why hasn’t this been thought of before?

Game Benchmarks

With the specs finally out of the way let’s see how these beasts actually perform in the latest and greatest titles. Our benchmarking suite only consists of the most demanding games out there right now running at the highest possible settings. at maximum settings and torturous resolutions.

Let’s start off with the brand new Solitaire VR. With all the graphics settings cranked up to the max, the game looks absolutely gorgeous. It transports the player to a a virtual reality presence that’s borderline indistinguishable from, you guessed it, actual reality. The R9 495X and the GTX 1090 Ti both were able to provide a wonderfully immersive experience here with over four thousand FPS.

Let’s move on to one of the more demanding games out there, the infamous Minesweeper. This game continues to be a PC buster, you need a really capable gaming rig to enjoy this game at a resolution as high as 360×240. Thankfully, the latest Polaris & Pascal graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia did not disappoint. Running the game with all the settings maxed out at 360×240 the GTX 1090Ti and the R9 495X average just over three thousand FPS. While three thousand FPS isn’t as high as we were hoping, it’s just enough to deliver a playable and relatively smooth overall gaming experience.

Now let’s look at how the cards perform when we present them with a real challenge. We’re not only going to be cranking up the resolution to 640×360, otherwise known as 31.7K for no apparent reason, but we’re also going to test one of the most demanding applications out there, Microsoft Word. This will really put these cards to the test and show us whether these gaming grade products can also be put to use in a demanding real-world professional workload.

Unfortunately both cards ran out of memory at 31.7K , as 8GB is simply nowhere near enough for this type of workload at 640×360. The result is a rather poor framerate of two thousand frames per second. The application felt rather choppy throughout and we found it quite hard to actually do any work on our document under such a low framerate.

ropping down the resolution to a more reasonable 360×240 improves things quite a bit. The cards no longer run out of memory and the framerate jumps to over three thousand FPS.

For our thermal and acoustic testing we used a Corsair C90 case with two intake fans and one exhaust fan. We tortured both graphics cards using the most intensive workload o the bunch, Microsoft Word at 640×360.

As we’ve already established this is really a very demanding workload. Both cards reached temperatures in excess of 30c. Which at first might seem worryingly high, however this is very much an extreme case scenario as we don’t expect that too many people out there would even consider running word at such a high resolution. Not a whole lot of gamers are interested in heavy professional workloads nor  will the cards reach temperatures as high as this while the GPU is idling. So I really wouldn’t worry too much about it.

Moving on to the noise test, again inside the same C90 case. The same case without either GPU installed produces 27dB of noise.

The GTX 1090 Ti registers 4 decibels lower than the R9 495X, however both cards are practically silent. The noise levels aren’t as low as last year’s GTX 990 Ti and the R9 395×2 both of which featured active noise cancelling technologies,ThermX™ from Nvidia and FreeFlow™. The notable absence of both technologies we’re told were the very tight engineering tolerances associated with such implementations. Which rendered them very expensive, and as both the R9 495X and the GTX 1090 Ti are $499 graphics cards rather than $1999, a more traditional approach makes a lot more sense.

Conclusion

Finally, after four years of waiting the first FinFET GPUs are here and they are every bit as good as everyone expected them to be. Both cards from Nvidia and AMD put on a good show today and played an instrumental part in giving us a glimpse into the future. Things that were once thought impossible like playing Solitaire in virtual reality or even running Minesweeper at a playable framerate were proven to be within reach.

EVGA’s 2200W power supply provides enough juice for seven GTX 1080 Ti cards

If you thought your 1,000W power supply was boss, check this out—EVGA is showing off its new Supernova 2200 P2, which as it name implies is a monster PSU that delivers 2,200 watts of 80 Plus Platinum power.

Wondering what the hell could require so much juice? EVGA has been telling CES attendees that its new PSU can power up to seven GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics cards. Forget Crysis, with proper SLI scaling, you could run whatever you damn well please at 8K off of seven GeForce GTX 1080 Tis.

[Note: Someone said seven GTX 1070 cards initially, but that seems way off, as those are only 150W TDP for the stock 1070 FE. You could run at least 12, possibly as many as 14, 1070 cards with 2200W, particularly if you drop the max power level a bit. Seven 1080 Ti cards would be 1750W TDP at stock, which seems the more likely target here. We’ve asked EVGA for clarification on the number of PCIe connectors as well. There are nine sockets on the PSU, and potentially two 8-pin connectors per socket. While that would exceed the output if fully loaded, using a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin connectors would work.]

Gaming is the not the target audience here, though. EVGA is clearly taking aim at cryptocurrency miners with this one. Those users will find that the all-important +12V rail provides a staggering 183.3 amps, which is exactly 100a more than EVGA’s 1000W model.

Pulling that much power out of a typical 110V US household outlet is a problem. To run this beast, the side label indicates 200-240V is required.

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The Supernova 1200 P2 is also fully modular, though if you’re connecting half a dozen graphics cards (or more) to this thing, good luck keeping things neat and tidy.

As As Legit Reviews notes, the 220V outlet requirement prevented EVGA from demonstrating its new PSU at CES, so we’ll have to wait for information on noise and heat output. Same goes with pricing and availability—EVGA hasn’t mentioned either. As a point of reference, EVGA’s Supernova 1600 T2 carries a 375€ MSRP.