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Following the release of its latest Radeon graphics card, the mainstream-oriented HD 5670 model, the Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices announced today the release of a new set of Catalyst graphics drivers. Already leaked on the Internet late last week, release 10.1 is expected to add support for new ... |
28 January 2010
06:51 GMT |
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Installing Windows 7 on some computers is not a simple task, especially if compatibility and support problems exist. According to Microsoft, Windows 7 fails to play nice with machines that have an AMD/ATI Radeon graphics processing unit (GPU) leveraging the embedded DisplayPort (eDP) technology. Customers that attemp... |
22 January 2010
11:00 GMT |
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In the same interview in which AMD accused NVIDIA of deliberately removing multi-core optimizations from the PhysX technology, AMD’s Worldwide Developer Relations Manager, Richard Huddy, also stated that the chip maker expected to lead the high-end graphics market for the most part of 2010. Considering the Ferm... |
22 January 2010
06:29 GMT |
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AMD has been collaborating with ALT Software, a supplier of advanced 2D and 3D graphics, on a standard-based parallel processing API. This device is meant as an alternative to custom programming and enables performance improvements for embedded computing systems by leveraging the capabilities of the graphics processi... |
22 January 2010
04:41 GMT |
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Quite some time has already passed since Advanced Micro Devices introduced its high-end Radeon HD 5970 graphics card. This adapter got the name of the world's fastest graphics adapter as soon as it came out and has since been the company's top DirectX 11 card. Now that the company is also covering the mains... |
14 January 2010
06:17 GMT |
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The ATI Radeon HD 5670 has been in the works for quite a while and, now, an early review seemed more than ready to get budget-conscious users planning. However, it looks like AMD might be planning to soon release another card, known as the Radeon HD 5830, that will supposedly fill the gap between the Radeon HD 5770 a... |
13 January 2010
05:41 GMT |
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The Radeon HD 5670 was rumored to be in development even back in early December. More recently, however, Advanced Micro Devices was reported to be planning on launching this new, more budget-oriented graphics solution sometime this week. Whatever doubts end-users may have had concerning the validity of those claims h... |
13 January 2010
04:28 GMT |
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While notebook PCs are generally strong enough to match some of the high-end desktop systems, they have little to no performance upgradeability. Desktop users can enhance their systems with new components in order to play new games, which gives such systems a generally longer life cycle. Notebooks, on the other hand,... |
12 January 2010
04:45 GMT |
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NVIDIA and ATI (business unit of AMD) are the two main developers of graphics processing units (GPUs), with all hardware makers being capable, more often than not, of only redesigning the original cards with special features. One of the latest customized cards is the Radeon HD 5770, and the hardware manufacturer that... |
11 January 2010
09:47 GMT |
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Following our story last week on the alleged release of Sapphire's Radeon HD 5670 graphics card, new reports on the Internet indicate that the Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices is preparing to launch a new series of mainstream cards. Designed to enable DirectX 11-support for the masses, the new ... |
11 January 2010
06:24 GMT |
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Here is yet another news article about a fresh product that a company is said to be making, using a supposedly new chip, and which will allegedly come out soon enough for consumers not to completely forget about its alleged existence. What may come as a surprise, however, is the fact that the laptop which, according ... |
22 December 2009
09:26 GMT |
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During the past months, most news articles that revolved around graphics products usually made at least a passing note that ATI (a business unit of AMD) was the only developer offering DirectX 11-capable graphics processing units. Still, even though it hasn't managed to introduce its own Fermi products, NVIDIA r... |
18 December 2009
02:57 GMT |
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Even though ATI didn't even have a whole year to sell its DirectX 11-capable graphics products, it seems that chances are rather high for total sales to amount to one whole million by the end of 2009. This is quite noteworthy considering the rather large prices of said chips and products based on it. The cheapes... |
15 December 2009
12:12 GMT |
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Even though custom-cooled versions of the Radeon HD 5770 have already been introduced, ASUS didn't seem to mind being fashionably late in showcasing its own modified model of the powerful graphics adapter, namely the EAH5770 CuCore/2DI/1GD5 . However, unlike the Radeon HD 5770 Vapor-X from Sapphire and the Radeo... |
14 December 2009
09:37 GMT |
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The new, ultrathin laptop from MSI hasn't received a price tag or a launch date yet, but the official specifications have already made it on the official site. The laptop focuses, as all ultrathin laptops must, on power efficiency, but still packs quite a few performance capabilities in its slim, black frame, wh... |
10 December 2009
04:41 GMT |
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High-end graphics cards from AMD and NVIDIA can stay cool now that they know just what to choose in order to shrug off that extra heat. The latest cooler from Scythe, dubbed Setsugen (Snow Field in English), is the second product with this name released by the company and adopts the fin structure of the famous Mugen ... |
10 December 2009
04:05 GMT |
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As it has become rather customary, when one hardware manufacturer releases a slightly customized version of a reference product, other rivaling companies would quickly follow suite. In this case, the Radeon HD 5770 graphics adapter from AMD (ATI) was released at a very short interval by not only Sapphire, but also by... |
8 December 2009
10:12 GMT |
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As always, after the official introduction of the stock model of a graphics adapter, or of any product, for that matter, hardware manufacturers always start releasing modified, custom-cooled or aesthetically improved versions of the same product in order to somehow differentiate their item from the similar offers mad... |
7 December 2009
10:22 GMT |
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For those who want more than the decent graphics mid- to high-end performance capabilities of the regular Radeon HD 5770, the Radeon HD 5770 Vapor-X from Sapphire not only provides a greater headroom for overclocking, but it even boasts a higher quality cooling mechanism, which keeps the card about nine degrees Celsi... |
7 December 2009
09:38 GMT |
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For quite a few months now, various manufacturing-related issues have been reported concerning TSMC's total yields of the 40nm process. Back in late October, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company stated that the issues related to the 40nm process manufacture would be resolved by the end of December. Now... |
4 December 2009
03:56 GMT |
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Sometime earlier, a community member of the [H]ardOCP HardForum posted pictures and test results of a graphics card that was, allegedly, a prototype of the ATI Radeon HD 5670, a low-end graphics card, which has not yet been officially announced. If the report is genuine, the card should be launched sometime in Q1 201... |
2 December 2009
09:56 GMT |
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MSI isn't the only one that released its own custom-cooled version of the Radeon HD 5770. Sporting a cooler with similar shape but different imprint, Sapphire's Radeon HD 5770 only has as new feature the different cooling mechanism. Still, this development warrants a reminder of the general features of this... |
30 November 2009
11:02 GMT |
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MSI has redesigned the original Radeon HD 5770 graphics card into a new version, which, although it has the same product number as the initial model (that it will probably replace altogether) sports a design that looks simpler and easy to manufacture, as well as a new, custom cooler to keep the Core temperatures unde... |
27 November 2009
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The HD 4870 X2, a graphics adapter introduced by ATI back in 2008, had a special feature compared with previous ATI products, namely the Sideport technology, which was supposedly able to boost the performance of the multi-GPU setup of the X2 (the HD 4870 X2 used two Radeon HD 4870 GPUs). The technology was supposed t... |
27 November 2009
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Although it came somewhat later than the official release of AMD's Radeon HD 5970 graphics card, Axle's version seems to have made up for the wait with the high-end performance offered by the very powerful Axle HD 5970. Capable of reaching virtually unparalleled computing speeds, even the most heavy computi... |
23 November 2009
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Not much time after being released, the ATI Radeon HD 5700 and ATI Radeon HD 5800 series was revealed to be in relative short supply, due to, said AMD representative Chris Hook, Advanced Micro Devices' relative short supply of high-end and mainstream DirectX 11 products. This shortage of components is mostly gen... |
21 November 2009
05:57 GMT |
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Although still not available, enough information about the soon-to-be latest in the HD 5000 series, the HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition, has made its way to the Internet. Considering the approaching winter holidays, there are undoubtedly those who would consider this flagship product an option for a Christmas system upgr... |
9 November 2009
06:36 GMT |
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If Nvidia is not the best producer of video cards for the PC, it is certainly the most popular. Most games carry the “The way it's meant to be played” catch phrase and are pretty much optimized for this particular chipset. But consoles run on a different track, so it's no wonder they have differ... |
15 October 2009
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Round Rock, Texas-based Dell, one of the world's leading vendors of personal computer systems, is expected to announce a new line of Inspiron models that will reportedly be launched as the new Dell Zino HD family of personal computer systems. Spotted on the Internet a while back, one of said machines seems to ha... |
5 October 2009
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Now that the Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker has finally announced the official debut of its new generation of Radeon graphics cards, users can start upgrading their desktop PCs with the latest solutions. However, the two high-performance cards, the HD 5870 and the Radeon HD 5950, have been designed mostly for... |
5 October 2009
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Advanced Micro Devices announced last night (August 17th) a new version of its versatile ATI Catalyst proprietary Linux display driver, for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. The ATI Catalyst 9.8 suite updates the software to version 8.64 and brings support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 and Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jac... |
18 August 2009
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The computer graphics industry is expected to bounce back next year, after it will see the worst ever year-over-year drop in shipments at the end of 2009, according to a recently released report from Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry's research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia. According to ... |
29 July 2009
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Sunnyvale, California-based Globalfoundries, Advanced Micro Devices' spinoff, will announce this Friday that it is ready to enter the market, in a head-to-head competition with the world's largest chipmakers. The company will use the opportunity created by the groundbreaking ceremony held this Friday at Mal... |
20 July 2009
06:17 GMT |
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It has been revealed that Mac OS X 10.5.7 breaks VMware Fusion's 3D acceleration in Windows virtual machines. VMware Fusion is the most popular virtualization solution for Mac OS X, allowing Mac owners to run x86 operating systems on their machines, inside artificial environments called “virtual machines.&... |
15 May 2009
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Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices announced on Wednesday having completed the final stage of its acquisition of graphics chip maker ATI. Following this stage, the company has decided to take a series of measures to optimize its operations in order to deliver industry-leading performance on the graphi... |
7 May 2009
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Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has recently announced the availability of a new set of WHQL-certified drivers for its line of Radeon graphics cards, coming to support the recent public release of Microsoft's next-generation Windows 7 RC1 operating system. The new drivers are available for dow... |
6 May 2009
02:58 GMT |
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AMD plans to introduce new graphics cards with support for DirectX 11 in the second half of 2009. In fact, speculation points out that the move is planned to happen sooner than latter with the chip maker reportedly looking to have the first DirectX 11-capable graphics cards on the market as soon as July or August. AM... |
22 April 2009
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Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has recently announced a new series of ATI FirePro drivers that have been designed to provide users with support for OpenGL 3.0 graphics API, confirming the chip maker's commitment to the aforementioned Application Programming Interface. In addition, AMD also an... |
9 April 2009
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After having released its highly anticipated Radeon HD 4890 graphics card, Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices rolled out today a new version of its ATI Catalyst driver suite. The new release has been designed to provide users with a number of performance increases, remove some of the known issues for ... |
9 April 2009
02:40 GMT |
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Sunnyvale, California-based AMD is expected to launch a new high-end graphics card, dubbed Radeon HD 4890, which will be powered by the new RV790 graphics processing unit. The card has recently surfaced the Internet on a number of occasions, providing us with a couple of details regarding its technical specifications... |
20 March 2009
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Sunnyvale, California-based AMD announced yesterday the release of its latest pack of graphics drivers with the introduction of the new Catalyst Software Suite 9.3. With the new release the chip maker decided to catch up with its competitor, NVIDIA and release its own support for Microsoft's next-generation oper... |
19 March 2009
04:25 GMT |
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AMD's upcoming Radeon HD 4890 graphics card, which has been making an appearance on the Internet as a Sapphire-made model, has recently been listed by a Netherlands-based website with a price tag of under €259,95. There are few details on when the card will become available, but the current listing points t... |
17 March 2009
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At the ceBIT show in Hanover, Germany, graphics card maker Gainward was proud to demonstrate some of its latest products based on either NVIDIA or AMD GPUs. However, one of the more impressive aspects at the company's booth was the live demos of the 3DVision products, enabled by NVIDIA, and also a 3D demonstrati... |
6 March 2009
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If your desktop computer system is built using one of those Radeon graphics cards on the market, you should know that AMD has just updated its driver support by introducing a new Catalyst software suite. Version 9.2 is now available for download and brings a number of changes, some of which will provide Radeon graphi... |
23 February 2009
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AMD has certainly seen some good days with the launch of its Radeon 4000 series graphics processing units, but the company is yet to provide a product that will seriously threaten NVIDIA's position in the graphics card market, especially since NVIDIA's latest cards have claimed the number one spot in the hi... |
16 February 2009
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There have been a series of rumors and speculations regarding AMD's upcoming 40nm-based products, but it now appears that we have the very first leaked details that are somewhat official. That is because of a listing on the company's own website, where the chip maker details the products that are supported ... |
10 February 2009
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Early last month, NVIDIA launched its highest-performance graphics cards to date, the 55nm-based GTX 285 and GTX 295, coming as a response to AMD's dual-GPU HD 4870 X2. Soon after the release of NVIDIA's latest GeForce cards, speculations emerged on the possibility of an upcoming Radeon graphics card, as a ... |
3 February 2009
10:19 GMT |
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Technology is progressing at an amazing pace these days, with engineers working to develop new things and to use existing hardware to fulfill new tasks. Such is the case with graphics boards, which, although at the beginning handled only graphics, as their name implies, have begun to fulfill a greater role, with Nvid... |
22 January 2009
03:33 GMT |
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Ever since NVIDIA first announced that some of its mobile GPUs were subject to possible failure under certain conditions, the series of bad news just kept coming for the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker. At some point it was rumored that some of its major partners, including EVGA, XFX, and BFG, were consideri... |
12 December 2008
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The PC game market isn't doing so great these days, largely because publishers are a bit more hesitant in bringing their games onto the PC, citing the fact that the piracy phenomenon is so big. They also claim that the profit won't be as big as launching a game on a console in today's market.Although s... |
1 December 2008
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