Nvidia announced yesterday the release of a new series of drivers, a beta version, which comes with support for the recently unveiled OpenGL 3.0 standard from the Khronos Group. The new drivers are meant to implement the OpenGL 3.0 API and the GLSL 1.30 shading language for both Windows XP and Windows Vista, and work for selected GeForce and Quadro graphics boards. The capabilities of the new cross-platform and 3D graphics standard can now be explored by any developer. Nvidia also announced that production drivers for the new OpenGL 3.0 standard will be released as part of its regular driver development program. Software developers are prov... [read more >>] After rumors of AMD's dual-GPU Radeon HD 4870 X2 have filled hundreds of pages in the media, the Sunnyvale company has finally rolled out its latest flagship high-performance card. Furthermore, it looks like AMD is set on releasing a second dual-GPU card, based on the performance-range HD 4850 graphics processor, namely the HD 4850 X2.It is generally said that computer enthusiasts don't care that much about the power consumption of their PC, and this is probably why both NVIDIA and AMD are confident in their recently released GTX 280 and HD 4870 X2, respectively. Both cards provide ridiculous power levels, with NVIDIA's GTX 2... [read more >>] Late last month, Gainward was reported to have started offering graphics cards based on AMD's latest graphics processors. Based on this and on the fact that Intel was said to be in the final stages of completing the Larrabee project, a rumor has begun to spread. Apparently, two of NVIDIA's best partners are considering or have already decided to leave the Santa Clara graphics manufacturer.Back when we brought the news about Gainward, we pointed out that this graphics card manufacturer was an exclusive NVIDIA partner. Nevertheless, that changed when AMD introduced the new HD 4000-series of cards which, despite not being as fast as ... [read more >>] This past Friday, we told you about certain rumors surrounding a possible release of a 2GB Radeon graphics card, coming from PowerColor. According to the rumors, which only surfaced once a set of photos with the card were posted on the ExpreView website, PowerColor was allegedly preparing for the release of a 2GB version of its HD 4850 card. Well, it appears that there's rarely smoke without a fire as everything turned out to be true, and PowerColor has indeed rolled out the world's first 2GB graphics card.The new card was announced today, literally making PowerColor the very first manufacturer to have released a 2GB graphics card... [read more >>] As mentioned in one of yesterday's articles, these past few days have been extremely busy and tumultuous on the graphics card market, both major players in this particular segment (ATI/AMD and NVIDIA) launching a couple of very interesting products, some of them targeting the exact same specific price points. And in order to capitalize on the momentum created by the release of the HD 4850 and HD 4870 models, AMD has decided to let yet another little wonder out of the bag: the ATI All-In-Wonder HD. Practically, the new hardware component combines ATI Radeon Premium graphics and ATI TV Wonder HD tuner technology card in one PCI Express 2... [read more >>] Now, this should be a bit shocking even for the biggest NVIDIA fans: the Santa Clara-based graphics manufacturer will be announcing today the release of its new graphics card lineup. By doing so, NVIDIA is going to beat AMD to being the first to release its next-generation video cards. As with all other new NVIDIA cards, after the official announcement, the company's channel partner will also announce its new GeForce lineup.As we said before, the new GTX 280 and GTX 260 cards are among the most anticipated releases of this year. By now, we have already gotten familiar with the specs and the details of the cards, and all we have been wa... [read more >>] The recent conflict between Intel and Nvidia moved from the market to the personal arena, where the two competitors are throwing offenses at will. The latest hit comes from one of Nvidia's vice-presidents, in a private e-mail message claiming that the CPU is dead and has long since run out of steam.The private mail message was intercepted by tech website Inquirer, and holds Roy Tayler's opinions regarding Intel's central processors. The letter is dated April 10, but the final recipient is currently unknown."Basically the CPU is dead. Yes, that processor you see advertised everywhere from Intel. It's run out of steam. The... [read more >>] Asustek is reportedly working on a new graphics card offering in the EAH3850 series. Codenamed "Trinity", the new solution will pack three graphics processors in the ATI RV670 family and promises to take over Nvidia's GeForce 9800 GX2 highest-end offering.According to Finnish tech site Plaza, the card will come with three graphics core produced by Nvidia's arch-rival AMD. The company's graphics engineers managed to pull together the three 55-nanometer RV670 GPUs using MXM graphics modules from notebooks, linked by the graphics manufacturer's CrossFireX technology. Each of the three MXM modules will host a single RV670 gr... [read more >>] Advanced processing performances at affordable price points seems to be the latest trend among the most important video card chipset manufacturers, as the competition on the market is increasingly tougher and high-end, uber-expensive models are not exactly very successful. And following this trend, AMD has just revealed the ATI Radeon HD 3800 series of graphics processing units (GPUs), which are, according to the company, the world's first series of graphics processors to deliver Microsoft's DirectX 10.1 support, 55nm process technology and tri and quad multi-GPU support with ATI CrossFireX. One of the most important features prov... [read more >>] Upgrading one's computer in order to be able to cope with the requirements of the latest-gen games (DirectX 10) is on every gamer's mind these days. However, there aren't too many users out there who can actually afford spending a hefty amount of money on a top-range graphics card, and this is the reason why NVIDIA has just announced the release of the GeForce 8800 GT model, which provides advanced video processing functions at a very attractive price point, at least as far as mainstream gamers are concerned. Thus, in addition to 112 stream processors, each individually clocked at 1. 5GHz, and a 256-bit memory interface runni... [read more >>] | 
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