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NVIDIA's Kepler-based GeForce GTX 680 may be stealing most of the attention of end-users, but other products are getting their share as well, like Inno3D's GeForce GTX 560 SE.
Some folks at Expreview managed to get a hold of some product photos of the Inno3D video controller, though they couldn't pro... |
14 March 2012
05:17 GMT |
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We tend to be skeptical about marketing slides, especially those made by a company in order to promote their new products, but the one NVIDIA leaked recently still deserves a once-over. The slide in the picture appeared on the NGF Community forums and is basically a comparison chart between the upcoming NVIDIA boar... |
14 March 2012
04:15 GMT |
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Since we covered the new driver for the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems, it goes without saying that we would draw attention to the Windows 8 version as well. Microsoft's latest OS may not be totally ready yet, but that demo of it is floating around the world. Knowing this, NVIDIA d... |
13 March 2012
09:30 GMT |
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It wasn't too long ago that we wrote about the new AMD Catalyst graphics driver and, now, NVIDIA has finally finished its own latest software package, called GeForce 296.10 WHQL. Since that time of the month is upon us, NVIDIA has released the newest version of the software meant to go hand in hand with its Ge... |
13 March 2012
09:09 GMT |
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Just as people think NVIDIA was all set to leave everyone slack-jawed, we stumble upon a tidbit of information that may make it hard for them to pick those jaws from the floor.
If what 3DCenter.org says is true, the Santa Clara, California-based company is getting ready to launch not just a high-end Kepler board,... |
13 March 2012
06:57 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices has decided to play a more active role in the game industry, so it entered an agreement with Softmax, a company based on Korea.
The Sunnyvale, California-based company didn't directly establish the collaboration. Its Korean branch did.
Still, the move is a part of AMD's Gaming Evol... |
12 March 2012
05:08 GMT |
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Showing that it hasn't decided to slack off, Spire has officially announced the SkyMax VGA cooler, one that should already be available, in China at least.
Graphics cards have their own coolers, but some people want to change them anyway, to make their models run more silently or just get ventilated better.
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9 March 2012
08:36 GMT |
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It was about time NVIDIA finally caved and joined the Linux Foundation, seeing as how the open-source operating system really is thriving. The three other companies that joined the consortium at the same time as the Sunnyvale corporation are Fluendo, Lineo and Mocana. "NVIDIA is strongly committed to enabling world... |
8 March 2012
11:16 GMT |
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People may not remember the folks at Walton-Chaintech, but the company was actually a well-known name some years back.
Their motherboards were pretty good and their graphics products were not too shabby either.
One thing led to another though, and they ended up backing out of both segments in 2006.
Fortunately, it... |
8 March 2012
10:38 GMT |
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You know how we spotted a supposed photo of NVIDIA's First Kepler card not long ago? The one with an apparently unusual logo? It turns out that the Santa Clara, California-based company really is determined to start a new page in its history. That is to say, its GeForce graphics logo has gone through a trans... |
8 March 2012
09:59 GMT |
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After hearing and reading so much about the NVIDIA Kepler GPU and whatever video cards will be based on it, we have finally found a picture.
Granted, it wasn't us that initially came upon this photo of what may or may not be the first card based on the GK104 graphics processing unit (GPU).
It was a user on t... |
8 March 2012
09:08 GMT |
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Apple released the third generation iPad tablet not long ago and, during its launch event, it showed a slide where the A5X graphics were said to be four times better than NVIDIA's Tegra 3.
Apple did not follow through on its boast in the way that people would be inclined to expect after such a bold statement. ... |
8 March 2012
04:56 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices has finished its latest, full and stable version of the software suite meant to enable support for its AMD GPUs, APUs and chipset integrated graphics.
Interestingly enough, this Catalyst 12.2 is the first WHQL driver to add official support for the Radeon HD 7900 and HD 7700 series.
That on... |
8 March 2012
02:37 GMT |
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Even though Intel’s 22nm Ivy Bridge processors aren’t expected to be officially released until the end of April 2012, a preview of the Core i7-3770K CPU was recently posted online detailing, among others, the graphics performance of the chip when compared with AMD and Nvidia entry-level GPUs. The Core i7... |
7 March 2012
20:51 GMT |
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Just when we thought we had nothing to worry about as far as NVIDIA Kepler was concerned, except the potential TDP, the world has stumbled upon something, simply put, strange. There appear to be some very strange power connectors on the reference design of the first Kepler-based graphics adapter. When we learned ... |
2 March 2012
08:42 GMT |
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NVIDIA has been conveying bits and pieces of information about Kepler, directly or indirectly for months now, so we aren't overly surprised to hear of another ambitious claim.
Going by what the Santa Clara, California-based company has been saying about its next-generation graphics platform, Kepler is supposed... |
2 March 2012
02:43 GMT |
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NVIDIA should be able to launch its next-generation card line in April, which means that bits and pieces of info on it will only leak to the net faster.
It is thermal design power that has managed to raise some questions most recently, due to the power distribution diagram.
Normally, a reference high-end board sh... |
27 February 2012
02:35 GMT |
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Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has published its findings in regards to the evolution of the graphics market during the fourth quarter of last year, 2011.
There were some changes in terms of market shares, the most notable of which was NVIDIA's continued decline.
During the same period of 2010, NVIDIA held 22.5% o... |
23 February 2012
09:52 GMT |
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We have recently seen the arrival of the newest GeForce driver, released for consumer graphics cards, the one that supposedly makes Skyrim run 45% better. Now we are witnessing the completion and release of the latest Quadro/Tesla software.
The Santa Clara, California-based company finished the WHQL version of the ... |
23 February 2012
02:36 GMT |
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We've seen the latest news on the Cedar Trail processing platform and, now, we get to see some early benchmarking results for the much more hyped up Ivy Bridge CPU line.
As has been said repeatedly before, the Ivy Bridge series will have better graphics than the Sandy Bridge CPUs.
Just how much better was ha... |
22 February 2012
03:28 GMT |
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NVIDIA has completed its latest version of the GeForce graphics driver, one that claims to bring dramatic performance improvements in some of the most popular games of our time. People who own one of NVIDIA's graphics adapters, especially the GeForce 400 and 500 series, will definitely want to download this ... |
21 February 2012
07:23 GMT |
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We've seen the upper performance-level GK104 GPU and the strongest card it will spawn, but now we are treated to the sight of what qualifies, more or less, as the opposite side of the spectrum. The graphics processing unit, from NVIDIA's Kepler collection, that will lie at the heart of entry-level graphic... |
21 February 2012
04:40 GMT |
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AMD's Radeon HD 7970 video adapter is very powerful even in its base form, but PowerColor decided to make it stronger and tougher, by giving it a special cooling mechanism.
The adapter easily stands apart from most of its peers primarily by virtue of its cooling module, rather than the clock rates.
Where the ... |
21 February 2012
02:50 GMT |
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The recent arrival of AMD's newest Radeon HD 7000 cards was enough to persuade NVIDIA that the situation called for a new video card, even if it wasn’t a coveted Kepler model.
According to VR-Zone, the Santa Clara, California-based company will soon release the GeForce GTX 560 SE.
This product will cover the... |
17 February 2012
04:30 GMT |
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Yet another staff change has come upon Advanced Micro Devices, though this time the news is not about an executive leaving but a new one being chosen.
According to the latest announcement on the part of the Sunnyvale, California-based company, there is a new senior vice president and general manager of Global Accou... |
17 February 2012
03:46 GMT |
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After weeks of rumors and leaks, and Verdetrol pills, Advanced Micro Devices has finally reached the point where it is ready to formally release its latest graphics card from the Radeon HD 7000 series. The new adapter bears the name of Radeon HD 7770 and is aimed at gamers that don't necessarily have a fortune... |
15 February 2012
02:29 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices has decided to use a rather unusual marketing tactic in order to raise awareness about its upcoming Cape Verde GPU and the Radeon HD 77xx video cards. As this special website will be all too eager to show, the Sunnyvale, California-based company has begun sending pills to Internet websites. ... |
10 February 2012
05:47 GMT |
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We've seen the unique traits of the NVIDIA Kepler GPUs that will power the GeForce 600 line of graphics cards and, now, the specifications of the AMD Radeon HD 7750 and 7770 graphics cards have been uncovered as well.
The Cape Verde graphics processing unit (GPU) is the chip that will act as the heart of these... |
10 February 2012
05:17 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 has not been overly long since the release of the GeForce Display Driver 295.51 Beta, but the company has another driver ready, albeit for a different collection of graphics adapters.
The new software package that NVIDIA has released is aimed at PCs and workstations powered by Quadro and Tesla graphics adapters,... |
9 February 2012
10:08 GMT |
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Anyone who owns a desktop personal computer or laptop powered by an Intel Core i3, Core i5 or Core i7 central processing unit (CPU) may want to get the latest graphics driver. The GMA HD component of these chips isn't exactly all that powerful, especially compared to notebook discrete cards and desktop add-in ... |
8 February 2012
02:59 GMT |
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With the Financial Analyst Day out of the way, Advanced Micro Devices has gone back to work, and it looks like the professional graphics card market is getting served first.
AMD has announced the FirePro V3900 graphics adapter, an entry-level product that claims to deliver “up to 95% better application perform... |
7 February 2012
02:37 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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If anyone was looking forward to AMD kicking things into high gear on the high-end CPU market, they will have to live with the disappointment of learning that nothing of the sort is going to happen.
That is not to say that the Sunnyvale, California-based company will completely stop making high-end CPUs (central pr... |
3 February 2012
08:06 GMT |
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Graphics for high-profile video games have been steadily improving in the last few years, but at least one important designer believes that their importance might have been overstated.
Speaking to GameInformer, Sid Meier, now leading developer Firaxis and creator of the legendary Civilization franchise, has said, &l... |
1 February 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Matrox has been quite busy lately, licensing M-Series Multi-Display Drive source code and getting the Mura MPX HDCP-certified, but the company isn't done yet.
What Matrox also did, as revealed by yet another press release, was secure a partnership with Wyse Technology.
Through this deal, the latter's Wy... |
1 February 2012
11:17 GMT |
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Yesterday, January 31, was the day when AMD's latest graphics card got launched, so today is the day the world reacts, starting with developers of gaming desktops, like Maingear.
As it did for more or less every other powerful graphics card released by NVIDIA or Advanced Micro Devices, Maingear has adopted the... |
1 February 2012
04:05 GMT |
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Since Advanced Micro Devices finally made the official introduction of the Radeon HD 7950, PowerColor decided to reveal its own two cards.
We have already seen the video controllers prepared by VTX3D and Micro-Star International (with and without Twin Frozr III cooling).
Now, we are looking at PowerColor, otherwi... |
31 January 2012
10:21 GMT |
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It wasn't long ago that we drew attention to the new AMD Catalyst driver, and now NVIDIA has taken its turn at launching new software for its consumer-oriented graphics cards.
NVIDIA has released drivers for both desktops and mobile personal computers, like it does each and every month.
The desktop driver ad... |
31 January 2012
09:29 GMT |
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Micro-Star International seems to have been one of the first companies to unleash its custom-built Radeon HD 7950 graphics adapters, as part of two series.
Two of the graphics cards that MSI has revealed are called R7950-2PMD3GD5 and R7950-2PMD3GD5/OC.
As their names imply, the first one sticks to the reference s... |
31 January 2012
08:01 GMT |
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As some may have learned by now, AMD's partners have started releasing their respective versions of the Radeon HD 7950 graphics adapter. It was known from a while back that Advanced Micro Devices would unleash the Radeon HD 7950 graphics card on January 31, 2012. Sure enough, the release has taken place, so ... |
31 January 2012
06:51 GMT |
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January 31, 2012 is finally here, so Advanced Micro Devices stepped up and made the genuine introduction of the second board from its Radeon HD 7000 series. The Radeon HD 7950 graphics adapter is powered by the same graphics processing unit as the HD 7970 (the GPU codename is Tahiti). Based on the 28nm manufacturi... |
31 January 2012
02:09 GMT |
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If anyone was wondering whether or not any of AMD's partners were gunning for people with less cash on their hands, Sapphire seems to be it. The AMD Radeon HD 7950 family will truly be extensive once the official launch happens on January 31, this year (2012). There have already been a fair number of leaks, ... |
30 January 2012
07:42 GMT |
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People interested in buying a mobile personal computer with more graphics performance than the average laptop may want to look at the BTO GSN721GW TYPE-GX.
PC specialist Lesance has unveiled a reference notebook with a screen size of 17 inches and intended to work as a portable substitute for desktops.
In other wo... |
27 January 2012
08:30 GMT |
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Looks like people who were hoping for a cheaper, albeit more roundabout, way of getting an AMD Radeon HD 7970 will be disappointed. Until today, it was believed that the Radeon HD 7970 and Radeon HD 7950 graphics cards would share a similar PCB design. In other words, since the GPU was basically the same, many we... |
26 January 2012
08:21 GMT |
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The Radeon HD 7950 graphics card from Advanced Micro Devices has yet to be made official, but listings are cropping up online already. It has just been discovered that the second video board in AMD's Radeon DH 7900 line is just about ready to start shipping in Europe. That means that there won't be any ... |
26 January 2012
07:59 GMT |
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It is that time of the month again, when Advanced Micro Devices walks forth and releases a new driver for its consumer graphics solutions. AMD has unleashed the Catalyst software suite 12.1, which includes the AMD display driver version 8.93 and a few other things. The AMD Catalyst Control Center version 8.93 / A... |
26 January 2012
03:09 GMT |
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We've been keeping an eye out for the Raspberry Pi credit card-sized computer for a while now, and it looks like the small critter is not out to disappoint anyone.
One might argue that “critter” is definitely a demeaning word now that we know what the thing can do. According to reports, the device ... |
25 January 2012
11:20 GMT |
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Imagination Technologies is about to launch a PC graphics card, of sorts, even though it hasn't actually done anything in this field for many years.The company is building on a bet it made last year, when it bought Caustic Graphics.Caustic actually managed to design FPGA chips that they used for the creation of ... |
24 January 2012
11:15 GMT |
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