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There is a new version for GPU-Z available and it adds support for new hardware, but it also takes care of some issues that affected the functionality of the program.
GPU-Z 0.5.9 can now retrieve information about AMD Radeon HD 7750 and HD 7770 graphics cards and adds voltage monitoring for HD 7950 and HD 7970 hardw... |
14 February 2012
10:05 GMT |
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April may still be a while off, but that is not about to stop EVGA, NVIDIA and GearBox software from showing how at least one of its features works.
Kepler is the codename given to NVIDIA's upcoming series of graphics processing units (GPUs) based on the 28nm manufacturing process.
EVGA, Gearbox Software and... |
13 February 2012
07:38 GMT |
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Despite all the marketing that NVIDIA has done for its products, it looks like at least one analyst group thinks that the company doesn't quite cut it.
Up until a few days ago, NVIDIA was one of the companies on Sterne Agee's “Catalyst Driven Idea List”.
This is no longer the case, the 111-y... |
11 February 2012
05:44 GMT |
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Many leaks, rumors and other sorts of reports on NVIDIA's upcoming GPU series are roaming the Internet, but the latest one may be somewhat more relevant than the rest. The folks at TechPowerUp claim that some “reliable sources” provided them with previously unknown details about the NVIDIA Kepler G... |
10 February 2012
02:29 GMT |
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It appears that the management changes at Advanced Micro Devices are far from over, with yet another company executive taking his leave.
In a rather short announcement, Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has let the world know that Emilio Ghilardi is departing.
The man had held the position of sen... |
8 February 2012
08:01 GMT |
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If anyone was afraid that AMD would pull the plug on any of its video products, they can rest easy knowing that in this field, at least, the company intends to put all the effort it can muster, instead of canceling plans and letting things stagnate.
Today is AMD's Financial Analyst Day (February 3, 2012), when... |
3 February 2012
19:41 GMT |
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While Advanced Micro Devices has published its financial results for the past quarter, NVIDIA revised its expectations for the one that will end on January 29, 2012.
That is to say, NVIDIA does not yet have financial numbers to hand out, but it can still paint a picture of what one may expect.
Apparently, the San... |
25 January 2012
03:07 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices has finally completed all the calculations regarding its sales and expenses for 2011, so it released the results for everyone to see.
It appears that AMD did reasonably well over the course of the fourth quarter, 2011, as well as the year as a whole.
That isn't to say that it actually ... |
25 January 2012
02:24 GMT |
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NVIDIA may be trying to make up for how underwhelming the GeForce 400 series of graphics cards were, or at least this is what a certain leak implies.
A report has revealed the alleged performance numbers, or some of them, of the NVIDIA GK104 GPU (graphics processing unit).
This is the chip that will power the Sant... |
20 January 2012
02:37 GMT |
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NVIDIA did not demo the Kepler at CES, but it looks like there might be a good reason for that.
We already know that, despite initial intention to showcase Kepler at CES 2012, NVIDIA chose not to do so.
This only served to deepen the mystery of what the graphics solutions would be able to do when they finally arr... |
14 January 2012
05:58 GMT |
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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 |
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January 9 2012 has come and passed, but AMD’s Radeon HD 7970 hasn’t been joined by the cheaper HD 7950 as some of us have hoped for, but fortunately it seems like we won’t have all that much to wait until the graphics card makes its appearance.According to some recent rumors, less than a month separ... |
11 January 2012
16:21 GMT |
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When Imagination Technologies announced the first licensees for the next-generation Series6 family in June 2011, Apple was not mentioned, though it was later revealed that the Cupertino company was indeed a partner.
The iPhone maker currently utilizes Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR SGX543MP2 in their A5 sys... |
11 January 2012
07:21 GMT |
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AMD releases the latest display driver for their embedded systems. This Catalyst driver has now reached version 8.93.
The embedded technology seems to spread quite a lot, no matter whether we're thinking about medical equipment, casino gaming, industrial control or telecommunications. Since the data flow increa... |
11 January 2012
03:07 GMT |
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Looks like Advanced Micro Devices finally found someone the new CEO (Rory Read) deemed worthy of being handed the mantle of senior VP and Chief Strategy Officer.
The man who will fill the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at AMD from now on is Rajan Naik.
Previously a Partner in McKinsey... |
9 January 2012
10:09 GMT |
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Even though the Southern Islands collection of graphics processing units has only now begun to trickle out, the rumor mill is already producing murmurs about the series set to follow it.
Rumors have the habit of occasionally being born in the most unlikely places, real and virtual alike.
All it takes is for the a... |
3 January 2012
02:46 GMT |
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The second Trust Across America annual study has been completed and the list of most trusted companies narrowed down to ten.
As it happens, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) ended up on the fifth spot, which is really quite the feat.
The FACTS method was used for the classification and, for some reason or another, Int... |
20 December 2011
07:38 GMT |
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Many suppositions regarding Nvidia’s next-generation Kepler GPUs have come our way during this last week, but now an even more startling rumor has started circulating on the Web.According to this, Nvidia’s upcoming solutions will be released into the GTX 700-series and, the top part, named the GTX 780, wi... |
15 December 2011
19:01 GMT |
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NVIDIA continues to be serious about getting every possible application to take advantage of GPU computing, and its latest success has now been made known.
The Santa Clara, California-based company just announced that MSC Software Corporation launched a GPU-accelerated version of the MSC Nastran 2012, Finite Elemen... |
15 December 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices hasn't said anything much about its upcoming collection of graphics cards, but it did reveal a few things about some other matters.
Among other things, the Sunnyvale, California-based company has spoken its mind in regards to GPGPU computing.
In supercomputers, while x86 CPUs do much o... |
12 December 2011
16:11 GMT |
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Just like AMD who announced just a bit earlier its “new” series of Radeon HD 7000M notebook GPUs, Nvidia has also refreshed its entry-level and midrange mobile graphics cores lineup with new GeForce 600M parts that are nothing more than a rebrand of the 500-series GPUs.Nvidia was actually the first of the... |
7 December 2011
04:34 GMT |
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NVIDIA is defying the layoff trends imposed by the economic recession and hiring some people instead, not in too small a number either.
Some might not have thought to ask about it if there hadn't been so many management and personnel changes on the IT front lately.
Still, VR-Zone snooped around a bit and lea... |
5 December 2011
02:44 GMT |
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One would think that, being focused on such things, NVIDIA would control most of the GPU market, but that is not the case at all.
In fact, the overall share is at 15% now, having dropped by 2% (from 17%) over the past 18 months.
This is due to how central processing units (CPUs) with integrated graphics ended up h... |
29 November 2011
07:45 GMT |
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We have been waiting for quite some time for the first graphics cores built on the 28nm process technology to arrive, and now it seems like AMD is finally getting ready for the introduction of its Radeon HD 7000-series GPUs which are reportedly scheduled to make their entrance on December 5.
The announcement is supp... |
29 November 2011
02:41 GMT |
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As the time for launching next-generation GPUs draws near, NVIDIA can't seem to hide the information on them, with bits and pieces making their way to the web, this time regarding the DirectX support.
The GeForce GTS 400 and 500 series served their buyers well, with their support for pretty much everything, inc... |
28 November 2011
03:37 GMT |
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Leaks and rumors about what NVIDIA has in store have not been absent, but one has finally arisen that provides the exact plans of the company in regards to the 28nm manufacturing process. 28nm is the technology that both Advanced Micro Devices and NVIDIA rely on for their new series of graphics processing units (GP... |
26 November 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Using NVIDIA Tesla graphics processing units (GPU), a collaboration of Chinese experts were recently able to create the most complex model of the H1N1 influenza virus. Their computer simulation revealed that microorganism in atomic-level resolution.
The achievement marks a significant step forward in the fight again... |
12 November 2011
06:39 GMT |
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With its latest Tegra out and about, NVIDIA is now getting ready to release its newest collection of GPUs, the so-called Kepler, which will, apparently, enter mass production shortly. The Kepler graphics processing units have been spoken of before, but they are only now turning into a physical reality. They aren&... |
12 November 2011
04:01 GMT |
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NVIDIA will either release a new set of GPUs next month or, more likely, rebrand existing ones as GeForce 610M, GeForce GT 630M and GeForce GT 635M.
It is reported that NVIDIA will release some new mobile graphics processing units on December 6, 2011.
Whether or not they will be totally new SKUs or rebrands is unc... |
11 November 2011
03:43 GMT |
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Leading chip maker ARM has just announced the release of a new GPU for mobile devices, namely the Mali-T658, a silicone that promises far better performance capabilities that previous products from the company.
According to the company, due to a doubling in the number of GPU cores, the new chip is capable of provi... |
10 November 2011
17:41 GMT |
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There is little doubt that many on the IT market are waiting eagerly, or anxiously, for Advanced Micro Devices to reveal its new method of tackling the CPU/GPU segment where it operates, but this hasn't happened and won't happen for a while yet.
Even though it was previously reported that the so-called &#... |
10 November 2011
02:36 GMT |
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Nvidia has just unveiled a ton of details on their quad-core Tegra 3 application processor for mobile devices, and also delivered some demonstrations of its capabilities, noting that users will benefit from a great experience when playing games of phones or tablets that are powered by this chip.
In the video embedd... |
9 November 2011
06:11 GMT |
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NVIDIA's Tesla line of GPU compute accelerators are definitely showing that supercomputing likes parallel processing, this time through the actions of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that RAS is showing, through use of Tesla M2090, that yes, GPUs are favored i... |
8 November 2011
10:39 GMT |
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Ilija Hadzic is a developer that proposed an interesting idea, with the help of some of his coleagues.More precisely, the GPU driver can have an arbitrary number of CRTCs (configurable by user), instead of only those CRTCs that represent real hardware.In principle, virtual CRTCs can be attached to a CTD device (Compr... |
8 November 2011
05:50 GMT |
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Despite how many times TSMC and Globalfoundries come forward to assure everyone that they don't expect problems with the 28nm technology, rumors and reports are emerging about it anyway. In fact, the latest such report says that yield issues and defect densities are already being run into. This doesn't ... |
5 November 2011
17:31 GMT |
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Since TSMC has begun to manufacture 28nm chips, people interested in what future GPUs will accomplish might be interested in learning of the most recent report regarding the 28HP.
28HP is the first process that TSMC will make with the High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) technology, instead of the silicon oxynitride (SiON) tha... |
4 November 2011
11:32 GMT |
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Nvidia has launched a patch series for the Linux kernel which adds support for the new Tegra 3 chipset that will be launched in November. The new Tegra 3, codenamed Kal-El, is an architecture which integrates both a CPU and a GPU in the same chip. Nvidia is planning on launching this new generation of chips in Novemb... |
28 October 2011
06:35 GMT |
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Colorful, a Chinese hardware maker well known for its custom graphics card designs, has just revealed a series of new images depicting one of the company's upcoming GeForce GTX 560 Ti solutions targeting the enthusiast market.The name of the card wasn't revealed, but the pictures provided give us an idea ab... |
27 October 2011
05:37 GMT |
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AMD is making the news for something somewhat less unfortunate now, as rumors appear about the likelihood that some new graphics processing units will show up before this year's end.
Recent rumors involving Advanced Micro Devices say that December 6 or December 9 is when a new GPUs is expected to show up.
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15 October 2011
04:48 GMT |
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While it is busy promoting consumer graphics, NVIDIA has also snared a deal on the supercomputing front, where it has sealed a contract through which the “Titan” will use its Tesla accelerators.
GPU computing modules have gained a role in supercomputing thanks to their immense parallel processing capa... |
11 October 2011
08:05 GMT |
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The approach of NVIDIA's Kepler GPU is something that has been spoken of quite extensively, but the generation may have finally debuted, in sample form, if new rumors are to be trusted.
NVIDIA's Kepler is the next graphics processing unit that NVIDIA plans to unveil and marks the company's advance ... |
29 September 2011
03:04 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices makes a point of having the more versatile multi-display technology, shown in how it implemented something of the sort in the latest embedded, entry-level GPU.
While low-end graphics processing units, like those used in HTPCs and the embedded market, aren't expected to have powerful sp... |
26 September 2011
03:14 GMT |
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Nvidia is getting ready for the introduction of its first graphics cards based on the 28nm Kepler architecture and the company has recently taped out its first SKUs to be based on this design, according to a recent report to hit the Web.The two cores are known under the code names of GK117 and GK107, and SemiAccurate... |
21 September 2011
16:11 GMT |
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NVIDIA has been holding GTC issues for quite a while time already, each one meant to promote its products and attract prospective researchers and programmers, so it is no real shock to learn that the outfit is already preparing for the December edition.NVIDIA's international series of GPU Technology Conference ... |
30 August 2011
03:20 GMT |
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Seeking to expand the usability of its GPU computing modules, NVIDIA has entered a partnership with Gaussian, Inc. for adding Tesla support to its quantum chemistry application.GPU computing modules have definitely gained a reputation in supercomputing, thanks to their high parallel processing power.Unfortunately, t... |
29 August 2011
10:11 GMT |
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Having already said that it plans to make sure the 28nm product roadmap arrives as smoothly as possible, NVIDIA appears to have chosen the more or less exact times of arrival for the next generation of GPUs. That NVIDIA was going to release a new line of graphics products, sooner or later, was obvious, but only now ... |
24 August 2011
03:27 GMT |
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That Advanced Micro Devices was going to release a new batch of accelerated processing units was known for a while, from multiple reports, and the great event has finally come to pass. Advanced Micro Devices officially launched the newest accelerated processing units, built on the 40nm manufacturing process. Their ... |
22 August 2011
02:37 GMT |
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Reports concerning AMD's future series of graphics adapters have emerged in the past, but a recent one appears to contradict them, at least as far as the estimated time of arrival is concerned.As end-users must be aware, Advanced Micro Devices, like NVIDIA, has been working on its next range of graphics adapter... |
19 August 2011
07:29 GMT |
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Security researchers from Symantec have identified a new trojan that uses the graphic card resources of infected computers to mine Bitcoins on behalf of its authors.Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer cash-like virtual currency that can be exchanged by users without the need of a central bank or payment processing service.Beca... |
18 August 2011
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When building an all-in-one PC, companies often use GPUs normally found in laptops, unless they make do with CPUs with integrated circuitry, but AMD decided it was time AiOs had their own range of graphics components.Lacking the usual fanfare that accompanies products from high-tier IT companies, a number of video s... |
17 August 2011
10:25 GMT |
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