The current leading manufacturer of high-performance graphics cards, AMD, is expected to transition to Microsoft's next-generation API, DirectX 11, sometime in 2009. In addition, the company is also said to be planning its very first 40nm-based graphics chips, which could also hit the market sometime next year, thus thrusting yet another dagger in NVIDIA's back. Details are rather scarce for the time being, as we are still about 12 to 14 months away from such a product coming out, but it appears that AMD's graphics subsidiary plans to consolidate its position as a leading graphics card market, especially since NVIDIA is ... [read more >>] Advanced Micro Devices announced today the introduction of the ATI Radeon HD 4550 and ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics cards, the latest ATI Radeon HD 4000 series graphics line up additions. The new cards are meant for the mainstream market level, and they are able to provide considerable gaming and HD multimedia performance at low prices. The new cards feature the same technology as the ATI Radeon HD 4800 series, including DirectX10.1 support. “The ATI Radeon HD 4550 and ATI Radeon 4350 graphics cards are the final pieces of the puzzle in rounding out the highly successful ATI Radeon HD 4000 series family,” said Rick Bergman, senior... [read more >>] After much anticipation and countless rumors, the Sunnyvale-based Advanced Micro and its graphics subsidiary, ATI, have finally unleashed the latest addition to the Radeon graphics cards, with the new ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series. Designed to provide an impressive graphics quality for mainstream desktop computer users, the newly announced cards will be available in two flavors, namely HD 4670 and HD 4650. Either of these has been build taking advantage of the company's successful technology featured on its HD 4800-series, which was released earlier this year. With AMD having claimed the performance crown from NVIDIA, it also had a ch... [read more >>] 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 >>] | 
RSS
