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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, ... |
6 October 2008
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More information on the upcoming ATI Radeon HD 4830 graphics card has emerged to the Web. The latest leaked specifications are close to what we were expecting to see on AMD's new card and come with the “AMD Confidential” mark on them. The new graphics solution is set for launch on October 21 and is s... |
26 September 2008
03:52 GMT |
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Santa Clara-based graphics manufacturer NVIDIA has just announced a strategic partnership with MotionDSP, a relatively small company that specializes in video software applications and is a new NVIDIA CUDA ecosystem partner. MotionDSP is said to be making a real use of NVIDIA's CUDA technology, in order to accel... |
25 September 2008
10:27 GMT |
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We all know how successful netbooks have recently become but, even so, we have to admit that when it comes to graphics, these small-sized, low-power computer devices are simply not able to deliver the level of performance required by some portable computer users out there. That is, however, about to change, as S3 Gra... |
24 September 2008
14:31 GMT |
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The graphics solution manufacturer Nvidia has been through a rough period lately, with lawsuits filed against it on the earlier reported card failures that affected notebook users. Also, the growing competition with AMD/ATI made Nvidia cut the prices for its products, which resulted in lower quarterly revenue. Even s... |
24 September 2008
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Although it’s been quite a while that NVIDIA's faulty chips issues made all the headlines, more details on them have just recently emerged. This time around, it’s the company's upcoming chips that are getting all the media attention, in regard to the same issues that have also caused some of the... |
17 September 2008
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According to the most recent details regarding NVIDIA's upcoming graphics products, the Santa Clara-based chip maker is planning to release its very first 40nm GPUs, even before competitor AMD has a chance of delivering its own 40nm-based solutions. Apparently, NVIDIA will step up to the next-generation TSMC (Ta... |
26 August 2008
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Those of you that have taken a keener interest in technology-related news these days must know of NVIDIA's NVISION event, which is currently taking place in San Jose, California, and will end tomorrow. It is here that the green company is expected to announce a number of technologies and discuss future projects,... |
26 August 2008
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Today is the first day of NVIDIA's NVISION 08 show, held in San Jose, California. As we mentioned in several of our previous articles, it is here that NVIDIA is expected to release a number of new products, and to discuss future technologies and projects. With AMD's graphics subsidiary, ATI, reclaiming the ... |
25 August 2008
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As most of you remember, one of the main reasons for NVIDIA's low financial results for last quarter was the reported issue it had with some of its graphics chips designed for notebooks. The issue has been highly mediated and, up to this moment, a number of Dell, HP and even Apple MacBook Pro users have reported... |
19 August 2008
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As you have probably heard - or even read in some of our previous posts - HP, Lenovo and Dell have recently announced the release of a number of business-oriented notebooks. Some of these have one thing in common, namely that they come equipped with an NVIDIA Quadro FX mobile GPU. On that note, the Santa-Clara based ... |
13 August 2008
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There is not one thing that can point to a bright future lying ahead for the Santa Clara-based graphics manufacturer, NVIDIA. After AMD finally unveiled its dual-GPU GeForce "destroyer," the Radeon HD 4870 X2, the green company announced that its business had not been doing all that well - and it all shows in the Q2 ... |
13 August 2008
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It looks like AMD is working hard on the introduction of Havok on GPU. The company wants to make it run faster than Physics on a GPU, at least that is what AMD's Physics department seems to have told news site Fudzilla. While Ageia's PhysX was able to leverage the physics in original Ghost Recon Advanced Wa... |
8 August 2008
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At long last, after months of speculation, Microsoft has revealed a few details regarding its upcoming DirectX 11. The company promises that, following the somewhat icy reception that the Vista only DirectX 10 has had, it will create a gaming graphics API that will improve the looks and the performance of AAA game ti... |
23 July 2008
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What with the abundance of rumors surrounding Intel's upcoming discrete graphics card, the Larrabee, it's only understandable if some of you have already grown a bit weary of it, especially as none has revealed, so far, an estimated release date and all we had to make do with was pure speculation. Today bri... |
18 July 2008
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Intel is undoubtedly the worldwide leading chip manufacturer and, as NVIDIA is disputing AMD for the highest-performance graphics card crown, the company might be planning to change the graphics scene altogether. Development for the upcoming Larrabee processor is currently underway and it is precisely it that got peo... |
17 July 2008
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Last Friday we reported that all of NVIDIA's G84 and G86 chips were believed to be faulty. Our piece came in the aftermath of NVIDIA's announcement regarding the fact that a number of its previous generation chips had been found to be defective. The fast-spreading news had a serious impact on the company�... |
16 July 2008
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This week seems to be rather a gray one for Nvidia, as the latest stock changes show that the company has received a powerful hit, and its stocks went down with about 25% when news about its defective graphics card began spreading around. The blow came after the company announced its investors that "significant quant... |
3 July 2008
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Intel is trying to make it clear to us that it is working on a way to improve today's graphics, thus to offer a visual experience better than competitors like AMD or NVIDIA can achieve. With all the news that has kept popping up regarding Intel's Larrabee chip, we can only hope that the product will literal... |
12 June 2008
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Yesterday, at a meeting with some journalists, Intel stated that CPUs realize video encoding, as that is a task designed for them and that the future would not bring any changes. According to Intel representatives, the CPU is used by DivX for dynamical adjustments of details across scenes. The processor is the only p... |
5 June 2008
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Recently, there has been so much talk about NVIDIA's upcoming next-generation graphics cards that we almost forgot that there was also a notebook GPU lineup we should have paid attention to. A product lineup which, as of today, has received new members, with the release of GeForce 9M Series of graphics processor... |
3 June 2008
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A tech demo held by Adobe's Senior Product Manager John Nack over at Nvidia's headquarters in Santa Clara is creating quite a stir these days as a lot of sites are delivering bogus information on future installments of Photoshop and other apps included in the Creative suite.Apparently, the spark originated ... |
26 May 2008
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Nvidia's allegations that the CPU industry had no future seem to have upset Intel. World's number one semiconductor manufacturer felt that it was about time to reply Nvidia in the same manner and released a PowerPoint slideshow claiming that powerful GPUs don't bring any benefits to non-gaming computer... |
13 May 2008
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Nvidia is reportedly placing massive orders for both 65- and 55-nanometer GT-200 chips at its foundry partners. The chip designer is getting ready for a massive launch and early estimations claim that the card will hit the shelves in mid-June.Nvidia's decision to go with both 65- and 55-nanometer chips is just a... |
13 May 2008
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Rumor has it that Nvidia will push forward the introduction of its upcoming GeForce 9900 series of graphics cards to some date in July. This move was expected, as the graphics specialist has to face the upcoming threat called Radeon 4800.The first two graphics card models to come to the rescue will be the 9900 GTX an... |
25 April 2008
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AMD is reportedly making the final adjustments to its RV770-powered Radeon 4800-series of graphics cards. The chip manufacturer will introduce next month a new generation of graphics products, including the 4850, 4870 and 4870 X2 versions.Initially slated for later release, AMD pushed the dates forward in an attempt ... |
24 April 2008
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Integrating graphics cores inside CPUs has triggered yet another competition between Intel and AMD. The latter company has been working on its Fusion chip for quite some time now, and it seems that the company's need for producing graphics cores has pushed it into buying the Canada-based ATI.AMD's upcoming ... |
14 March 2008
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Nvidia has recently released a new version of its CUDA programming tools, this time for developers using Mac OS X. CUDA tools will help them use the graphics processing units, or GPUs, on newer Nvidia graphics hardware as parallel processing engines, according to Yahoo News.CUDA basically lets programmers offload dat... |
28 February 2008
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Graphics expert Nvidia has announced its first processor targeted at cellphone applications. The chip will power the cellphones' displays and will be able to handle resolutions up to 720 pixels, extremely close to what nowadays' sub-notebooks are currently capable of. The processor is built using the older,... |
11 February 2008
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MSI (Micro-Star International) announced the release of three ATI based GPUs that aim to the top and one of them is a Radeon HD 3870 X2. This graphics card seems to be designed for the ultimate gaming. It doubles the video power of your computer and enables you to experience all the power of HD with 3D processing. Wi... |
31 January 2008
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Advanced Micro Devices has serious intentions of merging the function of three vital chips, the graphics processing unit, the core logic and the CPU into a single chip, called "Swift", company officials revealed today. The chip is due to emerge in the second half of the next year and is part of the "Accelerated Compu... |
14 December 2007
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Nvidia have announced that the MCP78S chipset will give the user the possibility to switch between GPU cores. The new chipset incorporates a GeForce 8-class DirectX 10, Shader Model 4.0 graphics engine, but also has the capability of controlling a PCI Express 2.0 graphics card connected via the chipset's 16 PCIe... |
23 November 2007
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Computer gaming is more than classy graphics and excellent storyline. The digital television impacted over the gamers' brain, who now demand detail depth and realistic physics. Of course, these features get reflected in complicated mathematic calculations, necessary for particle rendering accuracy. If you experi... |
22 November 2007
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Although their main purpose is to deliver stunning graphics in the next-gen PC games, graphic processing units (or GPUs) also have another great quality: a large, untapped parallel processing power. And in order to take advantage of the respective resources, the people over at AMD have developed a highly innovative s... |
8 November 2007
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The long awaited AMD GPU using the 55 nm technology, the RV670, has just been tagged with a November 19th stamp on its back according to American Technology Research's Doug Freedman. According to some sources, the GPU that will be launched will wear the ATI Radeon HD 3800 moniker, while others name it the ATI Ra... |
31 October 2007
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GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) have a new utility lately, and it's not video games. A brand new technique for cracking computer passwords has been developed by the software company Elcomsoft, based in Moscow, Russia, which has filed a patent for it in the US. This has been possible once Nvidia released in Febr... |
26 October 2007
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Nvidia is going to soon launch another graphics processing unit for the middle to high end performance market segment and while this new GPU is due to hit the retailers on the 29th of October, in just two weeks it is really improbable that many such cards will be available from the start.The GeForce 8800 GT will be a... |
15 October 2007
10:29 GMT |
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There are both good and bad news coming from the hardware manufacturing companies which are active on the graphics processing units market segment. The good news is that both companies that count, Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia, are preparing a whole new line of products as the holiday shopping season approaches. ... |
10 October 2007
03:57 GMT |
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Traditionally a graphics card comes with a single graphics processing unit and in some case users needing extra performance in games and other 3D intensive applications can join up two or more such cards in order to form multiple setups like CrossFire for AMD/ATI cards and SLI for cards based on Nvidia made processor... |
6 October 2007
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Currently gamers and computer power users have only two realistic choices when it comes to high performance graphics cards and those two choices are linked with the AMD Radeon HD 2900 XT and the Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra, both graphics processing units being on almost the same performance level and with not very diff... |
3 October 2007
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Advanced Micro Devices announced some time ago that the ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro graphics processing units will have a short life and will only be available in limited numbers, but now it seems that graphics cards centered around those chips will be very hard to come by as the chips manufacturing company will reportedl... |
2 October 2007
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Last night, Nvidia released a new version of its video driver for the Linux operating system. Besides the fact that this release contains support for some interesting GPUs, it also comes with improved GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap out-of-memory handling for every Linux customer that uses Compiz Fusion or Beryl on his/h... |
19 September 2007
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S3 Graphics, a low-end graphics processing unit developing outfit and a subsidiary of Via Technologies talks about the release of a line of products compatible with the latest graphics API from Microsoft, the DirectX 10. The incoming chips are named Chrome 4 and they are expected to hit the market by the year's ... |
30 August 2007
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AMD looks forward to the integration and merging of the two most complex computer parts, the central processing unit and the graphics processor, as this step would bring better graphics quality and capabilities, while presenting end users with the ability to run more parallel centered software applications that are b... |
23 August 2007
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For some time now, there have been rumors all over the Web about the general technical specifications of the new generation of Nvidia graphics processing units. According to most hardware websites and related forums like Hyped Hardware, the next generation of Nvidia GPUs will hit the market during November which is n... |
15 August 2007
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NVIDIA Corporation announced the release of a new graphics server that is intended to process remote graphics applications and offer extended support for complex rendering of 3D scenes. The NVIDIA Quadro Plex Visual Computing System ( VCS for short) Model S4 is a graphics server that will slowly but surely gain more ... |
9 August 2007
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Intel is preparing a new chipset to go with the new generation of processors for quite some time now. This new chipset, named X38, will feature some interesting technologies, sadly some of them are aimed exclusively at the enthusiast market, so expect really high prices. According to several motherboard manufacturers... |
7 August 2007
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Those who own a Wii surely know about their WiiConnect24 feature and probably use it on a daily basis. If you think about it, why did Nintendo call the feature WiiConnect24? Where does that 24 come from? The TV series? No, probably from '24 hours a day.' The thing is it has been recently acknowledged that y... |
19 July 2007
10:09 GMT |
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Maybe AMD didn't do the right thing with the ATI acquisition. The new Radeon HD X2000 family can hardly compete with the 6 months old NVIDIA 8800 cards, but now the Canadians are trying to come up with some ace up their sleeves. In a nutshell, ATI wants to give new meaning to the word 'multi'. And how ... |
29 May 2007
11:22 GMT |
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NVIDIA has recently unveiled some spicy info on their latest G92 developments. This is the successor of the current G80 GPU and according to Michael Hara, vice president of the "green" company, the chip will be ready by Christmas 2007. This means that NVIDIA will try to update their high-end graphics card sector eve... |
24 May 2007
09:57 GMT |
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