Back in the days when the Litecoin started to become more valuable and when it was still possible to mine those coins with graphics cards instead of specific ASIC - which are now used for that purpose - ocaholic was also actively working on securing it’s slice of the cake. These days, since the price of Ethereum simply exploded, there is another mining hype going on and on that background a ton of hardware enthusiasts decided to fire up their rigs again and buying all GPUs that are possibly available on the market.

These days, Bitcoin is experiencing another hype as currently the price for 1BTC skyrocketed to a whopping $2'290 US. That means the value of one Bitcoin tripled within just a few weeks. As it always is with Bitcoin mining there a big hype kicks in when the exchange rate explodes as it just did.

According to the latest GPU market share report, it appears that AMD has managed to gain some market share at the expense of Nvidia.

According to the latest report, the increased adoption of integrated GPUs will lead to an increase in global graphics processing unit (GPU) market, which is expected to surpass 67.61 million units during the 2016-2020 period.

Kickstarter is full of neat products but one that caught the attention lately is a Thunderbolt-based external GPU enclosure, designed to provide a bit more graphics power to Macbooks and other Thunderbolt-equipped notebooks, the Wolfe Thunderbolt GPU enclosure.

Yesterday AMD finally launched their RX 470 graphics cards, which feature a rather aggressive price tag yet perform decently. Today AMD's board partners have sent out their press releases showing pictures and specs of their custom versions which we're collecting in this post.

It appears that both MSI and ASUS (at least for now), have been sending review samples of GTX 1080 graphics cards that are actually clocked higher than those that can be found in retail.

Vulkan has officially been announced yesterday and meanwhile there are already the first benchmarks around. The guys over at Computerbase ran a few tests on Talos Principle, which appears to be the first game allowing you to select Vulkan as the graphics API.

The Khronos Group has finally finished their Vulkan API. Vulkan is a direct competitor to DirectX 12 and meanwhile AMD as well as NVIDIA already offer new beta drivers for download, which support the new standard.

While we already heard a lot about the second generation High Bandwidth Memory, JEDEC has now announced the official specification of the HBM2.

XSPC is following its competition closely as the company has announces its new Radeon R9 Fury X water blocks.

Nvidia is apparently dominating the PC graphics market and according to a recent graph, which shows all the GPU launches since Q3 2003, three out of four PC gamers own an Nvidia Geforce graphics card and AMD is currently at its low when it comes to PC graphics market.

Aqua Computer has announced no less than six different water block for the Nvidia GTX Titan X graphics card, the Aqua Computer kryographics for GTX Titan X.

ELSA has unveiled its newest custom-cooled Geforce GTX 960 graphics cards, the GTX 960 SAC (Silent Air-Cooling) and the GTX 960 SAC Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zero Edition.

While we have already seen early details regarding performance for the upcoming Nvidia GM200 GPU as well as the AMD Fiji XT and Bermuda XT GPUs, we now have first rumors regarding power consumption for both those GPUs as well as a bit more early details regarding AMD's Bermuda XT GPU.

Although the names of the upcoming AMD and Nvidia graphics cards are far from being confirmed, new leaked benchmarks shows the upcoming Nvidia Geforce GTX Titan II performance compared to the upcoming AMD Radeon R9 380X graphics card.

SK Hynix has now officially listed the new HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) memory for Graphics Cards in its official portfolio. While it is listed for Q1 2015, this also means that AMD and Nvidia should already have that type of memory for GPU testing and implementation, including rumored R9 390X based on Fiji GPU.

ELSA, a Japanese company, has unveiled their newest custom graphics card which will be based on Nvidia's Maxwell GM204 chip the, the ELSA GTX 980 S.A.C 4GB.

According to a fresh report, the announced estimated graphics add-in-board (AIB) shipments and suppliers market share for Q2 2014 has decreased by 17.5 percent, or 11.5 million units, compared to the last quarter.

Graphics card market is going through a rough moment. As far as sales are concerned, Q2 2014 has been really slow, and the projections are talking about a drop between 30 and 40% compared to Q1 2014.