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Imagination Intros PowerVR Series6 'Rogue' DirectX 11 GPU

Imagination Technologies has officially announced the PowerVR Series6 graphics processing unit technology, codenamed “Rogue.” NVIDIA may have succeeded in getting tablet vendors to adopt its Tegra series of SoCs, but it might have a hard time extending its reach. This is because Imagination Technologie...

12 January 2012
12:01 GMT

CES 2012: Fake Intel DirectX 11 'Live' Demo Raises Questions

Intel really wanted to persuade people that ultrabooks were going to support DirectX 11, but the method it chose to achieve that goal was rather underhanded. Being the IT giant that it is, Intel obviously secured a large space at the 2012 CES trade show. Its goal was to outline the strategy for the promotion of t...

10 January 2012
03:57 GMT

Download New Batman: Arkham City PC Patch to Fix DirectX 11 Issues via Steam

Batman: Arkham City has just received a brand new PC patch that fixes some of the variety of DirectX 11 issues that appeared once the game was released a couple of weeks ago for that platform.Arkham City delighted millions of gamers that owned a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 back in October and, after a couple of delays,...

7 December 2011
04:39 GMT

Club 3D GeForce GTX 560TI 2GB Graphics Card Debuts

An already considerable collection of graphics cards has increased by one, Courtesy of Club 3D, whose labs just spawned the GeForce GTX 560TI CoolStream adapter. The GeForce GTX 560TI graphics card from NVIDIA could be said to possess all the features a good video board could need, and then some. Though not precis...

7 December 2011
02:55 GMT

Batman: Arkham City's PhysX and DirectX 11 Features on PC Showcased by Nvidia

Graphics card manufacturer Nvidia has decided to showcase through a batch of screenshots and a video the impressive effects in the upcoming Batman: Arkham City video game created through a partnership between its engineers and the development team at Rocksteady Studios.Batman: Arkham City has just received a concrete...

19 October 2011
17:21 GMT

Windows 8 DirectX Feature Evolution

Windows 8 will not bring to the table an evolution of the underlying graphics platform of the same magnitude as the move from DirectX 10 to DirectX 11, as in fact, the OS still features DirectX 11. But this doesn’t mean that there aren’t improvements to speak of, because this is not the case. In f...

14 October 2011
20:01 GMT

Windows 8 Stereoscopic 3D Can Be Enabled on DirectX 11 and 10 Hardware

Provided that it’s installed on top of the right hardware, Windows 8 is capable of delivering next-generation entertainment experiences, such as Stereoscopic 3D gaming and video playback. According to Microsoft, users will need to own graphics cards designed to play nice with DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 in or...

11 October 2011
06:51 GMT

AMD Officially Launches A8-3850 and A6-3650 APUs

The past few months have not been lacking in the leaks department, but it seems two products from Advanced Micro Devices have finally become official, putting an end to most speculations.The A-Series of accelerated processing units, codenamed Llano, Are AMD's main force on the mainstream segment.With good proce...

2 September 2011
03:15 GMT

Metro: Last Light Has Impressive Graphics, Works on Low-End PCs

The developers working on the upcoming first-person shooter Metro: Last Light have stated that they are aiming to deliver the same impressive visuals seen in the first game in the series while further optimizing the code of their game to make sure that it works on lower-end PCs. Huw Beynon, who is one of the develop...

1 August 2011
15:01 GMT

Download Crysis 2 Patch 1.9, DirectX 11 and High Resolution Textures Updates Now

Crysis 2 has just received a brand new patch, taking it to version 1.9, as well as two major updates that bring support for the DirectX 11 rendering software and a high-resolution texture pack. Crysis 2 impressed a lot of people back in March when Crytek, its developer, together with Electronic Arts, its publisher...

28 June 2011
02:20 GMT

Crysis 2 Gets DirectX 11 and High Resolution Texture Patches Next Week

Crysis 2 will finally receive support for DirectX 11 as well as for high resolution textures, as Crytek, the developer of the first person shooter, has pinned a concrete release date on the free updates that include these features.Crysis 2 was a stunning game in terms of graphics, showcasing the power of the new CryE...

23 June 2011
04:00 GMT

NVIDIA Makes New Dual-GPU Graphics Card

NVIDIA may not have made much of an impression with the dual-GPU Fermi card, but it looks like the outfit wants to make up for things by delivering a new model, although only rumors about this exist at this point. Back in March is when the GeForce GTX 590 dual-GPU graphics card from NVIDIA got officially released...

16 May 2011
02:32 GMT

PC Deus Ex Has DirectX 11, 3D and Multiple Monitor Support

The development team at Eidos Montreal has announced that the upcoming Deus Ex: Human Revolution will have a dedicated PC version which will come complete with full support for DirectX 11, the ability to play the game in three dimensions and support for play on more than one monitor. Julien Bouvrais, who is direct...

6 May 2011
07:51 GMT

EVGA Completes GeForce GTX 560 Ti DS SuperClocked

It seems that Gigabyte is not the only company with new graphics adapters up its sleeve, as EVGA has made some silent releases of its own, with one model being a new version of NVIDIA's GTX 560 mainstream card.The thing with graphics adapters is that they are more appealing to consumers the newer they are, like...

6 May 2011
03:08 GMT

Intel Ivy Bridge On-Die GPU Gets Detailed

Intel upcoming Ivy Bridge processors will bring a series of improvements to the Sandy Bridge on-die graphics core, but the slowest GPUs will still feature only six EUs, just as it’s the case with the current HD 2000 integrated video processor. Intel's Ivy Bridge processors are a die 22nm shrink of the Sandy B...

3 May 2011
15:31 GMT

AMD Finally Makes the Official Introduction of Its Low-End Graphics

The AMD Radeon HD 6670, 6570 and 6450 have been selling for about a week already, but it looks like their makers has only now gotten around to actually making the official introduction.There might not be much to say on the newest video cards form AMD, since they have been introduced and customized already.Still, the...

27 April 2011
05:08 GMT

Elder Scrolls V Will Use Some DirectX 11 Features, Not All of Them

One of the biggest releases of the year is the Bethesda created The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, which is set to arrive in November, and the development team has worked hard to reassure gamers that they will be pushing forward the experience both in terms of mechanics and in terms of visuals. But it seems that even th...

20 April 2011
04:55 GMT

Crysis 2 DirectX 11 Patch to Be Released Soon

Crytek, the developer behind the most recent Crysis 2, has announced that it will be launching a special patch for the game that will give it support for the new DirectX 11 technology. Crysis 2 was eagerly awaited by a huge amount of fans, who couldn't wait to see what the German developer could do, especiall...

11 April 2011
04:20 GMT

Gigabyte Delivers Radeon HD 6970 Video Card with WindForce Cooler

AMD's dual-GPU HD 6990 video controller may have been released not long ago, but it seems it isn't the only graphics card getting attention, as shown clearly by the most recent product revealed by Gigabyte. One might say that the graphics adapter market is one that has been supplied by a steady stream o...

9 March 2011
02:37 GMT

Dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 6990 Graphics Card Officially Pictured

It would appear that the long-awaited moment when Advanced Micro Devices unleashes its most powerful graphics adapter yet is not far off, as the official press photos of the card have been released. AMD and NVIDIA have been involved in a fairly tight game of meet and raise the stakes on the graphics cards market....

28 February 2011
02:29 GMT

Download AMD Catalyst 11.2 Graphics Driver

AMD periodically updates its video software, fixing issues and implementing features that enhance performance and image quality, and it seems that the outfit just released its newest version of the Catalyst graphics driver. The newest release of the Catalyst graphics driver features several elements, including up...

17 February 2011
00:57 GMT

Overclocked MSI GeForce GTX 580 HydroGen Uses Water Cooling

Micro-Star International seems quite eager to make sure the consumer base has as many reasons as possible to peruse its extensive product lineup, so it put together a new iteration of NVIDIA's currently strongest board.The thing about the 500 Series of GeForce graphics cards from NVIDIA is that it is drasticall...

3 February 2011
03:06 GMT

Zotac Releases Two GeForce GT 440-Based Graphics Cards

Following Nvidia's stealthy introduction of the GT 440 graphics cards, Zotac has announced two new solutions based on this new GPU, the main difference between the two cards being the amount of video buffer memory installed on board. The GeForce GT 440 GPU was designed in order to be installed in entry-level ...

2 February 2011
03:39 GMT

Palit Brings DirectX 11 to HTPCs with GeForce GT 440

It appears that NVIDIA's partners have had their fill of new 500 series releases, which means that other cards can now come out, like Palit's newest model for HTPCs, a GT 440 adapter.While the 500 series of NVIDIA boards has already established itself as the best that its maker has to offer for the high-en...

1 February 2011
09:19 GMT

AMD Radeon HD 6970 Overclocked by PowerColor

With all the announcements about NVIDA's GTX 560 Ti, AMD's own partners resolved not to go by unnoticed, so PowerColor, for one, figured the time was ripe for the release of a certain, factory overcloked iteration.AMD's Radeon HD 6900 series may have already been around for a while, but that doesn...

27 January 2011
06:56 GMT

MSI GT680R Is a Sandy Bridge Gaming Laptop with NVIDIA Graphics

Since Intel released its newest collection of processors and matching chipsets, MSI figured it wouldn't waste much time in putting it to good use, so it created the GT680R gaming notebook. Micro-Star International placed high-end hardware in a case fitted with orange LEDs around the touchpad, keyboard and th...

27 January 2011
02:33 GMT

NVIDIA GTX 560 Not Official but Already Selling, Courtesy of Gigabyte

Apparently, and not altogether surprisingly, a custom version of NVIDIA's not yet released mainstream 500 series video card has made it to Europe, complete with its very own dose of factory overclocking.As end-users know, today (January 25, 2011) is the day when NVIDIA is set to officially launch the GeForce GT...

25 January 2011
05:32 GMT

Intel Ivy Bridge to Feature DirectX 11 Integrated Graphics

With the release of the Sandy Bridge core, Intel started an entirely new era for integrated graphics, managing to deliver a performance level that is up to par with entry-level discrete GPUs, but the company won't rest here, recent reports suggesting that Ivy Bridge will get a DirectX 11 compatible graphics core...

10 January 2011
16:01 GMT

Gainward Enters New Year with New GTX 580 Video Card

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 high-end graphics adapter has just been released under a special guise by Gainward, whose labs gave it the GOOD brand (Gainward Optimized Own Design).Considering that the new year has just begun, it is expected that any and all hardware makers would want to get some attention, maybe stir s...

4 January 2011
04:53 GMT

28nm High-End AMD Mobile GPU Detailed, Comes in 2012

Even though AMD has barely started to seriously promote its latest mobile graphics processing units, there seem to already be reports dealing with the GPU set to come after it, one based on a more advanced manufacturing process.Since TSMC decided to skip over some manufacturing process nodes, NVIDIA and AMD had to s...

30 December 2010
06:24 GMT

Windows 8 Gaming Evolution Needs to Be More Than Just About DirectX vNext

A recent report indicates that Microsoft regards the advent of Windows 8 as the perfect chance for a new push into PC gaming. The Redmond company has yet to offer official confirmation of this, but it’s expected of the software giant to at least overhaul the graphics core of Windows 7’s successor, thus c...

27 December 2010
10:49 GMT

Download New DirectX Release

A new DirectX release is now available for download from Microsoft, offered by the Redmond giant just ahead of December 2010. The fresh version of the DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer can be grabbed from the Microsoft Download Center, providing updates to 9.0c and previous versions of DirectX, according to the...

3 December 2010
11:41 GMT

NVIDIA Waits for AMD's Antilles, Delays Its Own Dual-GPU Card

It seems that AMD is not the only company that is delaying one or more of its highly anticipated products, with NVIDIA having supposedly decided to push back the launch of a certain adapter of its own.As end-users know, both NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices are working on their own new dual-GPU graphics cards.Grant...

19 November 2010
09:36 GMT

NVIDIA Releases High-End GeForce GTX 580 Graphics Card

NVIDIA has finally come forth and released its latest video board, a high-end graphics card known as GeForce GTX 580 and powered by the Fermi architecture, the company's GPU technology that supports DirectX 11 graphics.The GeForce GTX 580 is based on the GF110 graphics processing unit (GPU), the Santa Clara, Ca...

9 November 2010
09:01 GMT

NVIDIA Devising Weaker GeForce GTX 460 With 288 Cores

Apparently, NVIDIA has decided that it is time for the unveiling of a new graphics adapter, namely a modified version of the GeForce GTX 460, which has a different number of CUDA cores and modified frequencies.It seems that the Santa Clara, California-based video card maker is aiming for the same performance level a...

5 November 2010
03:32 GMT

AMD HD 6970 Has 2GB of GDDR5 Memory

While the HD 6870 and HD 6850 have already made their official appearance, the HD 6970 is still on its way, and there seems to be little information on it, save for what a few recent rumors can offer.The existing Radeon HD 6000 series adapters are already battling the GeForce GTX 460 from NVIDIA on the mainstream ma...

4 November 2010
11:11 GMT

AMD Releases Next-Generation Radeon HD 6870 and 6850

Advanced Micro Devices has finally reached the point where it is ready to grace the video card market with its next-generation Radeon HD 6000 Series video boards, which are powered by the Barts graphics processing unit.The new line of video cards is, for now, represented by just two models, the HD 6870 and the HD 68...

21 October 2010
22:01 GMT

APUs and GPUs Will Complement Each Other, AMD Says

With the impending arrival of the Intel Sandy Bridge processors and AMD Fusion APUs, questions naturally arose as to what will happen to the GPU market, and it seems that, and it seems that AMD sees a bright future for both types of chips.Both Sandy Bridge and Fusion processors have graphics capabilities integrated ...

20 October 2010
11:03 GMT

PCB of Upcoming AMD HD 6850 Exposed

With all the hype surrounding the rapidly approaching Radeon HD 6000 cards, it is no surprise to hear that some new leak has arisen concerning them, and the latest one has a photo of the Radeon HD 6850 without its cooler.For those interested in a reminder, the Radeon HD 6000 line that Advanced Micro Devices is worki...

20 October 2010
10:27 GMT

AMD HD 6000 Cards Come on October 22, Press Shots Released

The long-awaited AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series video cards are almost here, and the official press shots of the HD 6870 and HD 6850, both high-end models, have now made it to the web.As end-users will have likely learned by now, the Radeon HD 6000 series of graphics adapters will be released in a few days.This means tha...

19 October 2010
03:35 GMT

AMD Fusion Llano APU Runs Alien vs Predator

With the official launch of its next-generation processors approaching little by little, AMD decided it was time to offer the public something concrete, so it demonstrated part of the Llano's capabilities, the APU set to address the mainstream market.Advanced Micro Devices attended the Technical Forum & Exhibit...

19 October 2010
02:26 GMT

New Lesance Gaming Laptop Boasts NVIDIA GTX 480M

Lesance decided it would make good use of all powerful hardware that was released over the past year in its effort to create a truly powerful gaming laptop which, while not especially noteworthy on the aesthetics front, packs top-grade Intel, AMD and/or NVIDIA parts.The new gaming-oriented mobile PC that Lesance rev...

16 October 2010
05:28 GMT

NVIDIA to Counter AMD HD 6000 with GeForce GTX 580

With AMD's HD 6000 series of video cards closing in, one would expect NVIDIA to also be preparing a suitable counter measure, and it seems that the company actually may be doing just that with a certain supposedly upcoming high-end Fermi card.As some may remember, the GeForce GTX 480 actually came out with a lo...

15 October 2010
05:17 GMT

NVIDIA Officially Introduces the GeForce GT 430

Even though it took a while, and despite how some of its partners have already launched their own versions, NVIDIA has finally made the formal introduction of the GeForce GT 430, its low-end Fermi video controller.As end-users likely know, the entire 400 series of video cards from NVIDIA is based on the Fermi archit...

11 October 2010
10:42 GMT

Leak Reveals Supposed Picture of AMD Radeon HD 6850

While NVIDIA may be preparing to release its entry-level video card, Advanced Micro Devices is not slacking off either, being close to releasing the whole HD 6000 line, of which the HD 6850 has now been allegedly pictured.The Radeon HD 6000 series of video controllers is based on the same manufacturing process, 40nm...

11 October 2010
03:24 GMT

First Press Photo of AMD's Radeon HD 6870 Leaked

Since AMD is just a short while away from releasing its HD 6000 series of graphics adapters, the web is, of course, on the lookout for any leaks regarding them, and it seems that one has finally provided a photo of the HD 6870.As some end-users may know, Advanced Micro Devices has been preparing the stage for the ar...

8 October 2010
04:19 GMT

Gigabyte Pushes the GeForce GTS 450 to 930MHz

Though it already has a pair of GeForce GTS 450 cards on the loose, Gigabyte has now come out and begun shipping a third model, one which uses a special cooler in order to enable high factory overclocking that few other iterations of the same card can claim to match.The GeForce GTS 450 is the Fermi-based video board...

6 October 2010
04:52 GMT

MSI GT663 Expands Gaming Series Laptop Line

Since new memory and, especially, graphics products were unveiled just a more or less short time ago, it is not surprising to hear of new mobile PCs, and MSI has just released its latest one, the GT663, based on an Intel Core CPU.The GT663 has its configuration centered around a high-end Intel Core i7 central proces...

1 October 2010
03:38 GMT

Origin PC EON17 Gaming Laptop Streams 3D and Uses a Six-Core CPU

Origin PC decided it was time to cause some large ripples on the gaming front, so it prepared the EON17, the third EON laptop and one which combines several major assets, such as high-end CPUs, DirectX 11 graphics and 3D streaming via HDMI.Origin's EON series of mobile computers is made up of high-end laptops, ...

28 September 2010
09:00 GMT

LG Preps 3D Laptop with DirectX 11 and a Near-Full HD Display

Coming to say its piece on the 3D market, LG has put together the A510, a mobile PC with a 3D panel of 15.6 inches and powered by an Intel central processing unit, paired with one of NVIDIA's latest discrete graphics cards.The Calpella CPU that lies at the heart of the configuration is an Intel Core i7, the exa...

28 September 2010
03:37 GMT


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