http://news.softpedia.com Softpedia News - Video Softpedia News en-us 2001 - 2012 Softpedia. All rights reserved. Tue, 29 May 2012 05:36:48 GMT Tue, 29 May 2012 05:36:48 GMT News http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 10 http://news.softpedia.com/base_img/softpedia_logo.gif http://news.softpedia.com http://news.softpedia.com/news/Power-Color-Reveals-the-Radeon-HD-7970-x2-Devil-13-Dual-GPU-Monster-272230.shtml AMD’s first “Graphics Core Next” (GCN) generation of cards have proved to be very powerful and highly overclockable. Power Color is reportedly taking advantage of AMD’s superior architecture and is preparing to introduce a huge dual GPU monster card using two fully active “Tahiti” HD Radeon 7... (read more)]]> Tue, 29 May 2012 01:41:01 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/Power-Color-Reveals-the-Radeon-HD-7970-x2-Devil-13-Dual-GPU-Monster-272230.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/Power-Color-Reveals-the-Radeon-HD-7970-x2-Devil-13-Dual-GPU-Monster-272230.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/First-DisplayPort-to-DVI-MST-Converter-Could-Soon-Appear-271982.shtml For some reason or other, no IT company has made a DisplayPort to DVI Multi-Stream Transport (MST) adapter, and the folks at WSGF want to do something about it.

Wide·screen gam·ing fo·rum is an online community that strives to provide all the game fixes, game support and hardware its members need. This h... (read more)]]> Mon, 28 May 2012 06:55:00 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/First-DisplayPort-to-DVI-MST-Converter-Could-Soon-Appear-271982.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/First-DisplayPort-to-DVI-MST-Converter-Could-Soon-Appear-271982.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Spare-Your-Viewers-from-Commercials-and-You-ll-Get-Sued-271819.shtml The world really is a strange place, even without all the hacking scandals and conspiracy theorists pointing this way and that.

The latest piece of evidence to support this assumption lies in how Dish Network got sued because it dared to offer its customers the option to skip commercials.

The Auto Hop feature is ... (read more)]]> Fri, 25 May 2012 14:50:00 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/Spare-Your-Viewers-from-Commercials-and-You-ll-Get-Sued-271819.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/Spare-Your-Viewers-from-Commercials-and-You-ll-Get-Sued-271819.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Prepares-GeForce-GTX-660-Graphics-Card-271742.shtml If you were wondering when you'd get a mainstream graphics cards from NVIDIA, you might not have to wait much longer.

Swedish website SweClockers claims to have discovered when the GeForce GTX 660 video controller will be formally launched.

No precise day was mentioned, but the report did say that we should be looking at l... (read more)]]> Fri, 25 May 2012 12:18:00 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Prepares-GeForce-GTX-660-Graphics-Card-271742.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Prepares-GeForce-GTX-660-Graphics-Card-271742.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Dual-GPU-HD-7970-X2-In-the-Making-271688.shtml You'd think that AMD's Radeon HD 7990 would be the end-all of all dual-chip graphics card efforts, but this does not seem to be the case if recent reports are to be believed.

The folks at DonanimHaber may have just stumbled upon the most queer of information pieces this year has seen so far.

Apparently, AMD's graphics card manufactur... (read more)]]> Fri, 25 May 2012 09:27:00 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/Dual-GPU-HD-7970-X2-In-the-Making-271688.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/Dual-GPU-HD-7970-X2-In-the-Making-271688.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/First-Radeon-HD-7700-Card-with-Overvoltage-Support-and-TransThermal-Design-271513.shtml Taiwanese mainboard manufacturer MSI, also known for its powerful notebooks and video cards, has recently announced the R7770 Power Edition 1GD5/OC video card, on its official website. This is a unique model with special cooling and overclocking features.

MSI’s new Radeon HD 7770 video card comes with ... (read more)]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 12:51:00 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/First-Radeon-HD-7700-Card-with-Overvoltage-Support-and-TransThermal-Design-271513.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/First-Radeon-HD-7700-Card-with-Overvoltage-Support-and-TransThermal-Design-271513.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Radeon-HD-7970-Much-Better-than-Kepler-in-OpenCL-270895.shtml AMD’s top single GPU video card, the Radeon HD 7970 reportedly shows considerably better performance in single- and double-precision floating point computing using OpenCL.

We got this impression the first time we saw AMD's GCN architecture GPU compute benchmarks, but we thought it was some AMD-specific estimation or lac... (read more)]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 23:41:00 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Radeon-HD-7970-Much-Better-than-Kepler-in-OpenCL-270895.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Radeon-HD-7970-Much-Better-than-Kepler-in-OpenCL-270895.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nvidia-Admits-Threre-is-a-Problem-With-GeForce-600-Kepler-Cards-270575.shtml Video card IC designer Nvidia reportedly admits there is a problem with their new series of cards, the GeForce GTX 670, GTX 680 and GTX 690. They’ve identified it as being v-sync related and asks its customers to disable the feature.

It is quite strange to buy a 1000 USD video card and then discover that it is no... (read more)]]> Sat, 19 May 2012 09:11:00 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nvidia-Admits-Threre-is-a-Problem-With-GeForce-600-Kepler-Cards-270575.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nvidia-Admits-Threre-is-a-Problem-With-GeForce-600-Kepler-Cards-270575.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-680M-Set-for-Computex-June-Launch-270160.shtml By the dawn of next month, NVIDIA will finally have a mobile graphics processing unit capable of standing up to AMD's Radeon HD 7970M.

You'd have thought that NVIDIA would have launched its Kepler high-end mobile GPU by now, but that is not, in fact, the case.

The 600M series has only just begun to surface and they... (read more)]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 11:46:00 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-680M-Set-for-Computex-June-Launch-270160.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-680M-Set-for-Computex-June-Launch-270160.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Sapphire-Launches-Radeon-HD-7770-Vapor-X-Pre-overclocked-Video-Card-270135.shtml Well-known graphics card expert Sapphire is launching today the Sapphire HD 7770 Vapor-X OC Edition video card, on its official website. This is a fast pre-overclocked video adapter that comes with an efficient cooling system.

The card is built around AMD’s “Cape Verde XT” graphics processing unit... (read more)]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 10:14:00 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/Sapphire-Launches-Radeon-HD-7770-Vapor-X-Pre-overclocked-Video-Card-270135.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/Sapphire-Launches-Radeon-HD-7770-Vapor-X-Pre-overclocked-Video-Card-270135.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nvidia-s-GK110-to-Enable-24-GB-GDDR5-Configurations-270028.shtml The most complex processor in the semiconductor history will reportedly have 7.1 billion transistors and will be complemented by up to an amazing 24 GB of GDDR5 video memory.

Nvidia’s Co-Founder and CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang recently confirmed that the GK110 would actually have just a “little” bit more than 7 billion t... (read more)]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 22:01:00 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nvidia-s-GK110-to-Enable-24-GB-GDDR5-Configurations-270028.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nvidia-s-GK110-to-Enable-24-GB-GDDR5-Configurations-270028.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nvidia-Officially-Intros-GK110-GPU-and-Presents-the-TESLA-K10-and-K20-269819.shtml California-based graphics IC design company Nvidia has just unveiled details about the most anticipated GPU of this year, on its official website. We are, of course, talking about the huge GK110 graphics processing unit (GPU).

The initial presentation took place yesterday at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC).
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When talking about the online-stored and run software, companies usually think about enterprise-class products and services, but NVIDIA wants to turn the c... (read more)]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 07:14:00 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-GeForce-GRID-Play-Console-PC-Games-Without-Owning-One-269778.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-GeForce-GRID-Play-Console-PC-Games-Without-Owning-One-269778.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Sparkle-Launches-GTX-680-Calls-It-Inferno-For-Some-Reason-269598.shtml Back when NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 680, pretty much every OEM also released versions that were little more than the exact same product, only bearing a different brand and sticker.

Sure, there were a bunch of custom boards, with special coolers and, more often than not, factory overclocking to the GPU and memory.
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The card is built on AMD’s “Cape Verde XT” graphics processing unit that comes with a very small 123 square millimeters die size, containing 1.... (read more)]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 15:21:02 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/HiS-Prepares-Fanless-AMD-Radeon-HD-7750-Video-Card-269709.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/HiS-Prepares-Fanless-AMD-Radeon-HD-7750-Video-Card-269709.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Currently-Nvidia-s-GeForce-GTX-670-Does-Not-Support-Quad-SLI-269392.shtml It seems that when veteran experts like the guys from amdmb.com (now pcperspective.com) talk, Nvidia listens, and when they ask questions the IC design company answers. Nvidia reportedly left out the driver support for Quad-SLI for its GeForce GTX 670 video cards.

The cards do feature the obvious dual SLI connectors and the... (read more)]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 14:11:02 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/Currently-Nvidia-s-GeForce-GTX-670-Does-Not-Support-Quad-SLI-269392.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/Currently-Nvidia-s-GeForce-GTX-670-Does-Not-Support-Quad-SLI-269392.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gigabyte-GeForce-GTX-680-WindForce-5X-Complete-Details-Unveiled-269369.shtml Well-known motherboard manufacturer, Taiwanese company Gigabyte was reportedly scoured by nosy enthusiasts who managed to unveil the complete details about the company’s most powerful GTX 680 card.

The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 WindForce 5X video card comes with a very special custom PCB (printed circuit board) th... (read more)]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 12:15:00 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gigabyte-GeForce-GTX-680-WindForce-5X-Complete-Details-Unveiled-269369.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gigabyte-GeForce-GTX-680-WindForce-5X-Complete-Details-Unveiled-269369.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Changes-Its-Tune-Laments-TSMC-28nm-Production-269149.shtml During the first quarter of this year (2012), NVIDIA said, multiple times, that the 28nm manufacturing process wasn't going through the same yield issues as the 40nm technology.

In fact, the Santa Clara, California-based company was fairly optimistic about the whole thing, and TSMC itself said the process was doing better than e... (read more)]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 07:49:00 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Changes-Its-Tune-Laments-TSMC-28nm-Production-269149.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Changes-Its-Tune-Laments-TSMC-28nm-Production-269149.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Releases-GeForce-405M-GPU-268960.shtml NVIDIA has been weaving a nice spell over the past few months, releasing the GeForce GTX 680 and, more recently, the GTX 670, so it is with great bemusement that we report on the company's newest action.

To its credit, the company knew it would leave people confused, if not baffled, when it sent out the newest GPU, so it kept things more or less qu... (read more)]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 21:01:02 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Releases-GeForce-405M-GPU-268960.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Releases-GeForce-405M-GPU-268960.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Profit-Down-47-9-269026.shtml NVIDIA has just published the financial results for the first quarter of its latest Fiscal Year, which happens to be FY 2013. Anyone expecting record figures will be disappointed.

Due to the slowdown following last year's winter holiday season, as well as the decrease in entry-level and even mainstream graphics card sales, owed to CPUs and APUs with integra... (read more)]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 12:26:00 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Profit-Down-47-9-269026.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Profit-Down-47-9-269026.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Palit-Announces-GeForce-GTX-670-JetStream-Pre-Overclocked-Video-Card-268985.shtml Twenty-four-year-old Taipei-based company Palit has just announced the GeForce GTX 670 JetStream custom video card, on its official website. Just like many other GTX 670 cards launched this week, the GeForce GTX 670 JetStream custom video card comes with original cooling system and higher working frequencies.

Pali... (read more)]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 10:02:00 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/Palit-Announces-GeForce-GTX-670-JetStream-Pre-Overclocked-Video-Card-268985.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/Palit-Announces-GeForce-GTX-670-JetStream-Pre-Overclocked-Video-Card-268985.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/EVGA-Brings-Out-2-GB-and-4-GB-GTX-670-Cards-268877.shtml We've seen the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670, we've written about the ASUS GTX 670 DirectCU II and DirectCU II TOP and now we are doing the same for EVGA's own boards.

EVGA has, or will soon have, five versions of the GTX 670 graphics cards up for sale. One might also say that there are only three boards available.

The number ... (read more)]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 23:21:01 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/EVGA-Brings-Out-2-GB-and-4-GB-GTX-670-Cards-268877.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/EVGA-Brings-Out-2-GB-and-4-GB-GTX-670-Cards-268877.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Asus-GeForce-GTX-670-DirectCU-II-Stomps-In-268852.shtml NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 670 was meant to be a more affordable alternative to the GeForce GTX 680, but ASUS didn't see any problem with increasing the tag a little, not it if meant it could heavily overclock the GPU and toss a beast of a cooler on top of it.

For those who haven't read our article on the original GeForce GTX 670, the card is p... (read more)]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 21:01:01 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/Asus-GeForce-GTX-670-DirectCU-II-Stomps-In-268852.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/Asus-GeForce-GTX-670-DirectCU-II-Stomps-In-268852.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/ZOTAC-s-GeForce-GTX-670-AMP-Edition-Is-Official-268843.shtml Popular video card manufacturer Zotac has just launched the GeForce GTX 670 AMP! Edition custom Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 Kepler-based design, on its official website. It comes with a very powerful VRM and custom cooling system.

Zotac’s custom video cards have always impressed the PC enthusiast gamers, but the company’s GeFor... (read more)]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 14:23:00 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/ZOTAC-s-GeForce-GTX-670-AMP-Edition-Is-Official-268843.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/ZOTAC-s-GeForce-GTX-670-AMP-Edition-Is-Official-268843.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Launches-GeForce-GTX-670-Graphics-Card-268833.shtml After weeks of leaks and reports, NVIDIA has finally made the formal introduction of the GeForce GTX 670 graphics adapter, powered by the GK104 graphics processing unit.

The GK104 GPU is the same chip used in the making of the GTX 680 and the dual-chip GTX 690, constructed on the 28nm Kepler architecture.

In the new video... (read more)]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 13:56:00 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Launches-GeForce-GTX-670-Graphics-Card-268833.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Launches-GeForce-GTX-670-Graphics-Card-268833.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-CUDA-Goes-Open-Source-268577.shtml NVIDIA's GPUs have high parallel processing capabilities, but those capabilities are useless if programs and systems don't have support for them, which means that NVIDIA has had to negotiate special deals and strike partnerships with builders of supercomputers and software makers.

From now on, though, it will be easier to implement GPU Acceleration in ... (read more)]]> Wed, 9 May 2012 13:51:00 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-CUDA-Goes-Open-Source-268577.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-CUDA-Goes-Open-Source-268577.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/EVGA-Presents-Two-GeForce-GTX-680-FTW-Video-Cards-268405.shtml Quality video card manufacturer EVGA has just launched its GeForce GTX 680 FTW Edition graphics cards, on its official website. FTW is short for “for the win,” and it seems to be a statement from the manufacturer that the boards are different from the plain GTX 680 cards out now.

The series includes two variants, a 2 GB ... (read more)]]> Wed, 9 May 2012 06:35:00 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/EVGA-Presents-Two-GeForce-GTX-680-FTW-Video-Cards-268405.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/EVGA-Presents-Two-GeForce-GTX-680-FTW-Video-Cards-268405.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/ZOTAC-Presents-Impressive-Custom-GTX-680-Video-Cards-268283.shtml Macau-headquartered video card company Zotac has reportedly just announced the GeForce GTX 680 AMP! Edition and the GeForce GTX 680 OC 4GB Edition. With these cards, just as usual, Zotac tries its best to differentiate themselves from the other similar products on the market.

As with most of their products, the company is very su... (read more)]]> Tue, 8 May 2012 15:21:02 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/ZOTAC-Presents-Impressive-Custom-GTX-680-Video-Cards-268283.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/ZOTAC-Presents-Impressive-Custom-GTX-680-Video-Cards-268283.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Constantin Murariu) http://news.softpedia.com/news/KFA2-Launches-Overclocked-GTX-680-Graphics-Cards-268296.shtml Two more versions of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 graphics card have appeared, although it might be more accurate to say that two existing cards have gained new names.

KFA2 is the one making the news, having introduced the GeForce GTX 680 EX OC Series, and the GTX 680 Limited Edition OC.

Given that KFA2 is Galaxy's Europe... (read more)]]> Tue, 8 May 2012 12:34:00 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/KFA2-Launches-Overclocked-GTX-680-Graphics-Cards-268296.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/KFA2-Launches-Overclocked-GTX-680-Graphics-Cards-268296.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/MSI-Also-Intros-a-GeForce-GTX-690-Card-267724.shtml There was no way Micro-Star International would somehow fail to launch its own version of a new NVIDIA graphics card, especially when said graphics card is the best there is.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 dual-GPU graphics adapter was formally introduced a few days ago, with all the expected pomp.

Since then, it has been adopted by vari... (read more)]]> Fri, 4 May 2012 09:57:00 GMT Softpedia News - Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/MSI-Also-Intros-a-GeForce-GTX-690-Card-267724.shtml Video http://news.softpedia.com/news/MSI-Also-Intros-a-GeForce-GTX-690-Card-267724.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop)