Intel: Powerful GPUs Are Useless, You'd Better Upgrade Your CPU
	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 ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 10:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD to Showcase GDDR5 RV770XT Graphics Cards at Computex
	AMD will premiere its upcoming generation of RV770 XT and RV770 PRO graphics cards during the Computex show in Taipei. According to industry rumors, the graphics specialist has been shipping sampling units of its RV770XT chips for some time now, as the new GPUs are extremely stable. Moreover, the new cards will start shipping sometime in the last week of June, as previously planned. Unlike its arch-rival Nvidia, AMD did not h ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 08:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia Plans the GT-200 in Both 65 and 55-Nanometer Architectures
	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&# ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 05:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia's Roy Taylor: Nobody Cares About ATI
	Graphics specialist Nvidia seems to be working under increased stress as the new generation of graphics cards are slated for release. Right after its take on chip giant Intel, Nvidia's next target seems to be its arch-rival ATI, AMD's graphics subsidiary and Nvidia's fiercest competitor. In a recent interview carried by tech website Tech Radar, Nvidia's vice president of content business development, Roy Ta ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 03:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Multi-Core Computing Gets Software Boost
	Multi-core computing is a growing concern, as both Intel and AMD are gearing up to deliver the next generation of processors, featuring multiple processing cores. For instance, AMD's upcoming Nehalem chips, slated for release during the fourth quarter of the year, will pack no less than eight cores with simultaneous threading technology. However, the existing software cannot take full advantage of all the CPU power when running on ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 09:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD: Intel and Nvidia Hardware Play Blu-Ray Streams as Slideshows
	Advanced Micro Devices claims that Intel and Nvidia cannot currently provide viable HD technologies for Blu-Ray movie playbacks. According to the company, the two chip manufacturers are not ready to deliver integrated graphics solutions able to hardware decode a high-definition stream. AMD also claims that Nvidia and Intel graphics can only play movies back as slideshows because they lack hardware-decoding capabilities. For instance, ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 05:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia - VIA Alliance, Denied by Company's CEO
	Nvidia's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang vehemently slashed the rumors about a possible Nvidia – VIA merger and said that his company had no interest in either investing in or buying the low-voltage CPU manufacturer. The buyout rumors first emerged in early March ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 04:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia 9900GTS and 9900GTX Drawings, Spotted in the Wild
	Two of Nvidia's upcoming graphics cards in the GeForce 9900 series got pictured yesterday. It's true that the images show an engineering drawing on the products rather than the functional unit, but they bring extra details about a series of products kept under the deepest secrecy. According to a forum post at ... [read more >>]
	10 May 2008, 06:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia to Adopt Simple Names for the GeForce Line-up
	Nvidia could change the naming scheme in its GeForce graphics card line-up, as it reached the conclusion that the current approach may mislead the customer in terms of graphics performance. Although the change is highly unlikely to happen in the near future, the graphics specialist is munching on the idea of bringing order amongst its large GeForce family. "It's a challenge that we're looking at right now" ... [read more >>]
	08 May 2008, 06:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A GPU War Expected to Burst by the End of the Year
	Although the beginning of this year announced a deep falling for ATI, it seems that the company prepares a strong revolutionary comeback as it unveils a new weapon in the war for the all-game-graphics supremacy, the 7xx series of graphics cards. While Nvidia was celebrating its early victory on the graphics field, being all over the first pages lately, ATI quietly planned its revenge with the launch of the 7xx series. By the e ... [read more >>]
	06 May 2008, 11:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Analysts Slap Nvidia for Having Jumped at Intel's Neck
	Capital Group analyst Ashok Kumar has issued a note claiming that Nvidia's recent take on its arch-rival Intel was a foolish action that could end up bad. According to Kumar, Nvidia's graphics technology is far superior as compared to Intel's integ ... [read more >>]
	06 May 2008, 09:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia's New Driver Takes Gaming on the 3D Stage
	Nvidia is reportedly working on a new driver for its already existing and upcoming graphics card offerings that will unleash 3D features even for 2D games. The new feature is expected to arrive in June or July this year but will only be available for Nvidia graphics card owners. In short, once the 3D driver is installed, any PC equipped with an Nvidia graphics card will be able to run the game either in 2D mode or in 3D, witho ... [read more >>]
	30 April 2008, 10:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New iMacs Available
	Last week, women-oriented tech website GeekSugar claimed it had been tipped off on the upcoming release of upgraded iMacs. The new computers, sporting speedier processors and more storage space, were said to become available as soon as the following week. Well, ru ... [read more >>]
	29 April 2008, 03:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia Trumpets Death of the CPU
	The recent conflict between Intel and Nvidia moved from the market to the personal arena, where the two competitors are throwing offenses at will. The latest hit comes from one of Nvidia's vice-presidents, in a private e-mail message claiming that the CPU is dead and has long since run out of steam. The private mail message was intercepted by tech website Inquirer, and holds Roy Tayler's opinions regarding Intel' ... [read more >>]
	26 April 2008, 03:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

First Nvidia GeForce 9600GSO Cards Popping up
	Nvidia is reportedly ready to introduce its new GeForce 9600 GSO graphics cards in order to fight AMD's upcoming graphics cards in the Radeon 4800 series. The soon-to arrive GeForce 9600 GSO will be a direct competitor to AMD's unreleased Radeon HD 3830 graphics card and is alleged to fill the gap between the already existing 9600 GT and the upcoming 9600 GS. According to Nvidia's manufacturing partners, the fir ... [read more >>]
	25 April 2008, 10:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia Rushes GT-200 Introduction, Goes Online in July
	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 ... [read more >>]
	25 April 2008, 09:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Leaked: AMD's 4800-Series GPU Sports 800+ Million Transistors
	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 ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2008, 06:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia to Introduce Monolithic Chipset for Intel Mobile Processors
	Nvidia is reportedly planning to introduce a new series of single-chip mobile chipsets for Intel's processors. If all the mobile solutions based on Intel's CPUs were paired with its home-brewed Northbridge and Southbridge chips, things are about to change with the advent of Nvidia's monolithic MCP79 chipset. The upcoming Centrino 2 platform is pitched as an important sales channel for Intel's own series of ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2008, 05:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia's 9400/9500 Cards, Postponed by the 8600GTs
	Chip manufacturer Nvidia is reportedly planning to introduce its upcoming 9400 and 9500 series of graphics chips in early June. Although the new 9-series graphics cards are performing well and samples are already available to Nvidia's selected OEM partnerts, the company will push back their release until it gets rid of the old stock. According to a report published by ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2008, 05:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD, Ready to Ship its Radeon 4800 GPU Series
	Advanced Micro Devices is reportedly pushing forward the release date for its upcoming RV770 series of graphics cards. Although the company posted $8 million loss during the first quarter of 2008, the company is not facing any technology and development challenges. The graphics specialist is making the final adjustments to the next generation of its graphics cards. According to Dirk Meyer, the company's chief operating o ... [read more >>]
	21 April 2008, 05:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Confirmed: Nvidia's nForce 790i SLI Chipset Causes Data Corruption
	Intel’s long-awaited G45 chipset with integrated hardware decoding technology has just tripped and fell over a hardware design flaw and it seems that it won't be able to make it in due time with all the announced features. Just as Nvidia's engineers ... [read more >>]
	18 April 2008, 04:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia's Upcoming GT-200 GPU Aims At AMD's Neck
	The recent financial analyst meeting called by Nvidia last week unveiled more juicy details about the company's roadmap and even managed to pull some new pieces of information regarding the upcoming GT-200 graphics processor. The company kept a dee ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2008, 08:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

First-Gen Mac Pros Have a Go for NVIDIA's 8800 GT
	Mac Pro owners bought their powerful machines for many reasons. One of them primes though: visuals. You gotta have that best-of-breed as a Mac Pro owner. Early Mac Pro adopters have a reason to smile now as ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2008, 06:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvida's SLI Technology Gets No Love From Intel's Nehalems
	Rumor has it that the next-generation CPU micro-architecture from Intel will not come with support for Nvidia's SLI enthusiast technology. Shortly put, Intel has stripped SLI support from the Nehalem Bloomfield-ready chipsets. The rumor comes right after Nvidia directly engaged Intel ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2008, 04:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

PhysX, Running in a GeForce Card Near You
	Nvidia's acquisition of Ageia earlier this year was a smart move aimed at bring particle acceleration in its mid-range / high-end graphics cards. Nvidia now plans to make the PhysX API available independently of another acceleration hardware card. As previously reported, the graphics specialist announced that ... [read more >>]
	16 April 2008, 05:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia Confirms its 1 Billion-Transistor GT-200 GPU
	Nvidia has officially gone public with its upcoming GT-200 graphics processor, after a long series of rumors. The company planned to talk about its new technology earlier this month during a press conference held in Munich (April 10), but the announcement would have arrived too close to the introduction of its Quadro professional series of graphics cards. The GT-200 series of graphics cores will follow the G92-based chips and ... [read more >>]
	15 April 2008, 11:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia, Close to Complete the Ageia-to-CUDA Conversion
	Nvidia announced that it has almost completed the conversion of the Ageia physics engine to CUDA. The graphics expert even managed to run a particle demo that is somewhat similar to the fire test Intel ran on a Nehalem test shuttle earlier this month ... [read more >>]
	14 April 2008, 06:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

PNY to Unveil Quadro FX 5600 SDI Graphics Card at NAB 2008
	PNY Technologies has just announced two new graphics card offerings, targeted at professional products. The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 SDI and the Quadro FX 4600 SDI come with a record amount of memory of 1.5 GB and deliver increased performance in graphics intensive applications. The new cards will be premiered during the NAB 2008 show and expo in Las Vegas. PNY's offerings are HD-SDI solutions, based on NVIDIA’s unified GPU ... [read more >>]
	12 April 2008, 06:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia Announces Few More GPUs, AMD Remains Way Behind
	Nvidia announced the release of GeForce 9800 GX2, GeForce 9800 GTX, and GeForce 9600 GT GPUs, as well as the nForce 790i Ultra SLI MCP chipset. According to Nvidia, the new devices are intended to enable users to optimize their systems for the most demanding games and graphic applications. On the other hand, the launch of these graphics processing units and media and communications processors by the Santa Clara-based company may lead us to ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2008, 11:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia - VIA Alliance Confirmed: Intel, Beware!
	Nvidia's strategic alliance with VIA on the ultra-mobile PC market has been confirmed during yesterday's financial meeting held by the graphics specialist. The two companies will march together on the extremely appealing ultra-low-cost ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2008, 10:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sparkle's 9600 GT Graphics Card Comes in Dual-Cooling Flavors
	Graphics card manufacturer Sparkle has just announced a new offering built around Nvidia's Geforce 9 chipset. The GeForce 9600 GT 1GB comes with a whole gigabyte of GDDR3 onboard memory and is fully compatible with Microsoft's DirectX technology, and is alleged to be able to play Crysis at a decent framerate. Nvidia's next-gen graphics chipset is built on the 65-nanometer processing node and supports Shader Mode ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2008, 10:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia Starts the War on the Integrated Graphics Market
	During yesterday's financial meeting with the market analysts, Nvidia's chief executive officer Jen-Hsun Huang promised that the graphics card specialist would start the rebellion against Intel on the integrated graphics market. For years, the two companies have been involved in a supremacy war, but few details were uncovered to the press. Most of the clashes took place between closed doors, with slide shows of the ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2008, 05:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

VIA - Nvidia Alliance, A Joint Effort to Sabotage Intel's Atom
	Taiwanese manufacturer VIA teamed up with the graphics specialist Nvidia in a joint effort of capping Intel's upcoming Atom processor. The strategic pact could give birth to a whole new series of hardware parts, such as processors and integrated chipsets to deliver increased performance when paired. While Intel competes with VIA on the low-energy processor market, the chip manufacturer is leading a tight battle against N ... [read more >>]
	10 April 2008, 09:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Asustek Unveils New Graphics Cards From AMD and Nvidia
	Asustek has unveiled a new series of graphics cards based on both AMD and Nvidia graphics processing units. The three new additions to Asustek's graphics cards portfolio are the EN9800GTX/HTDP/512M, EAH3850X2/HTDI/1G and the EAH3650 SILENT/HTDI/1G models. The EN9800GTX graphics offering is based on Nvidia's GeForce 9800GTX graphics core. The new card comes with HybridPower technology and the company claims that it of ... [read more >>]
	09 April 2008, 05:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fix Included: Nvidia's SATA Drivers Give Windows Users the Chills
	Nvidia's SATA driver is reportedly giving Windows users a hard time since enabling the so-called "performance" driver leads to multiple system crashes that fall out of any logic. The issue has been reported even on Nvidia's support forums, but the chip giant never felt like replying. One of the complaining users claim that he installed Windows XP, added the necessary drivers, then went back to his mundane c ... [read more >>]
	05 April 2008, 06:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

GDDR5 to Bring Back the Graphics Performance
	The single-GPU graphics cards market has been progressing at a small pace during the last years, as the more and more intricate graphics chips are hard to design and manufacture. The advent of the dual-GPU solutions did nothing but take another approach at the existing problem, however they are more expensive and come with higher power requirements. The most important obstacle in delivering higher performance on the single-GPU ... [read more >>]
	05 April 2008, 04:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Drivers Spill the Beans Over Nvidia's Upcoming 9M Mobile Chips
	Nvidia's upcoming replacements for the GeForce 9M notebook graphics products have now gone public with the advent of the latest beta ForceWare driver package. Some initial versions of the graphics cores aimed at mobile computers are already listed by Asustek and the other top-tier graphics cards manufacturers. However, the new driver package unveils the fact that some of the new models will replace the older 8M series of ... [read more >>]
	04 April 2008, 10:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Asustek Reportedly Working on ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2
	Taiwanese manufacturer Asustek is reportedly working on a new edition of ATI Radeon HD 3850, that will come with two graphics cores. Following the immediate success of the company's Radeon 3870 X2 dual-GPU behemoth, the Taiwanese manufacturer will pitch the new offering at the performance-mainstream graphics enthusiasts. According to tech website VR-Zone, the company plans to introduce its own design based on AMD's ... [read more >>]
	02 April 2008, 06:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD's Failure Makes Nvidia Bleed Chipset Market Share
	Nvidia is reportedly having serious issues with the market share in its chipset business. The problems that led to this situation are multiple, but all the signs point to AMD, the company's arch-rival on the graphics sector. Nvidia's sales on the chipset market are seriously affected by the fact that AMD's processors did not manage to sell as expected, which led to a drop in demand for Nvidia's chipsets bui ... [read more >>]
	01 April 2008, 12:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia Is Secretly Working on a New Family of Graphics Cards
	Nvidia has unveiled its highest-end GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics cards earlier in March, and rumors of a new breed of graphics cards already started to kick in. The new cards are codenamed GT200 and will be commercially known as the 9900GX2. According to a some industry sources quoted by the tech site ... [read more >>]
	01 April 2008, 06:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Loses the CPU Game, Rules on the GPU Market
	Chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices has recently introduced its Phenom X4 line of processors, but this did not change much on the CPU market. Although they are the highest offering in the AMD camp, the X4 chips do not stand a chance to Intel's powerhorses. For instance, while the Phenom X4 9850 quad-core processor costs about $10 less than its counterpart from Intel, it cannot even closely match the latter in terms o ... [read more >>]
	31 March 2008, 03:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

DirectX 10 (In)Compatible Hardware Brought a World of Pain on Vista Users
	Windows Vista was launched for businesses in November 2006 and to the general consumers in January 2007. It took Microsoft well over a year to produce the first service pack for the operating system, thus delivering a comprehensive sign that the platform has reached a level of maturity that recommends it even to the hardcore Windows XP users. And in this regard, SP1 could mean the end of Microsoft sabotaging its own Windows Vista ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 16:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia Unveils New Products to Compensate for Delays
	Chip manufacturer Nvidia faced extensive delays this year, including the very popular GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics card, that has been postponed several times. Other products slated for release, such as the new GeForce 9800GTX graphics cards and the nForce 780a chipset have been pushed forward for the next week. In order to compensate for the products that should have already hit the retailers' shelves, the company rushed th ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2008, 09:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

DDR3 with EPP 2.0 and XMP Support is Possible, Less Probable
	While it's true that nobody can appreciate the value of DDR3 memory better than a hardcore overclocker, keeping average users from reaching dazzling memory speeds might be regarded as an injustice. Fine tuning memory modules is not an easy to achieve task, and less experienced users who try to squeeze the last bit of performance usually manage to get their memory modules belly up. The advent of the EMP and XMP technologi ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2008, 09:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sparkle's Calibre P960: the GeForce 9600 GT Dual-Fan Behemoth
	Graphics manufacturer Sparkle has just introduced its Calibre P960 Graphics Card, an overclocked version of GeForce 9600 GT with company's proprietary adjustable Dual Fly Cooling System. The graphics card comes overclocked out of box, but its interesting cooling solution can be adjusted to dissipate large amounts of residual heat. Calibre P960's graphics processor is clocked at a core speed of 700 MHz, with 1850 MHz ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2008, 07:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia Ends the Discrete Chipset Era
	Nvidia is reportedly phasing out its discrete chipset offerings in order to focus on designing chipsets with integrated graphics only. The company's nForce 790i Ultra SLI and SLI chipsets will be the last products of their kind that will arrive without an integrated graphics core. According to Bryan Del Rizzo, Nvidia's PR manager for platform products, the graphics manufacturer will introduce by default graphics core ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2008, 05:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Zotac Unveils AMD-Oriented Motherboard Based on Nvidia's 750a Chipset
	Hong-Kong-based graphics card manufacturer Zotac pre-announced a new motherboard based on Nvidia's nForce 750 chipset. The new offering is extremely important, as the 750a is the first Nvidia chipset for AMD systems since 2006, when the graphics expert introduced the nForce 590 series. The 750a delivers Nvidia's newest graphics technologies, such as Hybrid SLI, Hybrid Power and GeForce Boost for the AMD platform. The ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2008, 04:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia to Produce Graphics Chipsets for VIA Processors
	Graphics expert Nvidia will reportedly be producing graphic chipsets for VIA's current and upcoming processors, including the 64-bit Isaiah chip, slated to be released soon. Sources close to the processor manufacturer claimed that agreement between the two parts was inked a while ago, but the event was misreported as a buyout attempt. It is true that VIA has its own low-end graphics business called S3 graphics, but its ow ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2008, 12:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

No Hybrid SLI from Nvidia for Now
	Nvidia is reportedly delaying the introduction of the Hybrid SLI technology, as the drives to support it are not finished yet. If you are hardly waiting to pair your GeForce 8200 with another GPU, you'd better shift your attention to something else until the drivers are officially released. According to reports, Nvidia officials have sent a note to its manufacturing partners earlier this week, that announces the delay of ... [read more >>]
	22 March 2008, 08:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia