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Radeon HD 5770 Custom-Cooled by MSI

MSI has redesigned the original Radeon HD 5770 graphics card into a new version, which, although it has the same product number as the initial model (that it will probably replace altogether) sports a design that looks simpler and easy to manufacture, as well as a new, custom cooler to keep the Core temperatures unde...

27 November 2009
08:28 GMT

Latest ATI Chips Lack Sideport Technology

The HD 4870 X2, a graphics adapter introduced by ATI back in 2008, had a special feature compared with previous ATI products, namely the Sideport technology, which was supposedly able to boost the performance of the multi-GPU setup of the X2 (the HD 4870 X2 used two Radeon HD 4870 GPUs). The technology was supposed t...

27 November 2009
03:44 GMT

Axle's Radeon HD 5970 Delivers over Four teraFLOPS

Although it came somewhat later than the official release of AMD's Radeon HD 5970 graphics card, Axle's version seems to have made up for the wait with the high-end performance offered by the very powerful Axle HD 5970. Capable of reaching virtually unparalleled computing speeds, even the most heavy computi...

23 November 2009
05:57 GMT

ATI Radeon HD 5700 and 5800 Series Won't Be in Short Supply Much Longer

Not much time after being released, the ATI Radeon HD 5700 and ATI Radeon HD 5800 series was revealed to be in relative short supply, due to, said AMD representative Chris Hook, Advanced Micro Devices' relative short supply of high-end and mainstream DirectX 11 products. This shortage of components is mostly gen...

21 November 2009
05:57 GMT

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 in Single-Display Scenarios

Although still not available, enough information about the soon-to-be latest in the HD 5000 series, the HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition, has made its way to the Internet. Considering the approaching winter holidays, there are undoubtedly those who would consider this flagship product an option for a Christmas system upgr...

9 November 2009
06:36 GMT

Microsoft Will Continue to Use the ATI GPU for Future Consoles

If Nvidia is not the best producer of video cards for the PC, it is certainly the most popular. Most games carry the “The way it's meant to be played” catch phrase and are pretty much optimized for this particular chipset. But consoles run on a different track, so it's no wonder they have differ...

15 October 2009
04:52 GMT

Dell's Zino HD Nettop Specifications Leaked

Round Rock, Texas-based Dell, one of the world's leading vendors of personal computer systems, is expected to announce a new line of Inspiron models that will reportedly be launched as the new Dell Zino HD family of personal computer systems. Spotted on the Internet a while back, one of said machines seems to ha...

5 October 2009
07:09 GMT

AMD's ATI 5750 Makes an Early Appearance

Now that the Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker has finally announced the official debut of its new generation of Radeon graphics cards, users can start upgrading their desktop PCs with the latest solutions. However, the two high-performance cards, the HD 5870 and the Radeon HD 5950, have been designed mostly for...

5 October 2009
06:07 GMT

ATI Linux Video Driver 9.8 Supports Ubuntu 9.04

Advanced Micro Devices announced last night (August 17th) a new version of its versatile ATI Catalyst proprietary Linux display driver, for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. The ATI Catalyst 9.8 suite updates the software to version 8.64 and brings support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 and Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jac...

18 August 2009
13:34 GMT

Graphics Sales to Pick Up in 2010, According to Jon Peddie Report

The computer graphics industry is expected to bounce back next year, after it will see the worst ever year-over-year drop in shipments at the end of 2009, according to a recently released report from Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry's research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia. According to ...

29 July 2009
10:46 GMT

Globalfoundries Aims to Rival World's Leading Chipmakers

Sunnyvale, California-based Globalfoundries, Advanced Micro Devices' spinoff, will announce this Friday that it is ready to enter the market, in a head-to-head competition with the world's largest chipmakers. The company will use the opportunity created by the groundbreaking ceremony held this Friday at Mal...

20 July 2009
06:17 GMT

10.5.7 and VMware Fusion Don't Play Nice on ATI-Enabled Macs

It has been revealed that Mac OS X 10.5.7 breaks VMware Fusion's 3D acceleration in Windows virtual machines. VMware Fusion is the most popular virtualization solution for Mac OS X, allowing Mac owners to run x86 operating systems on their machines, inside artificial environments called “virtual machines.&...

15 May 2009
05:44 GMT

AMD and ATI Become One

Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices announced on Wednesday having completed the final stage of its acquisition of graphics chip maker ATI. Following this stage, the company has decided to take a series of measures to optimize its operations in order to deliver industry-leading performance on the graphi...

7 May 2009
11:05 GMT

Download ATI WHQL-Certified Graphics Driver 8.612 for Windows 7

Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has recently announced the availability of a new set of WHQL-certified drivers for its line of Radeon graphics cards, coming to support the recent public release of Microsoft's next-generation Windows 7 RC1 operating system. The new drivers are available for dow...

6 May 2009
02:58 GMT

AMD DirectX 11 Graphics Cards in H2 2009

AMD plans to introduce new graphics cards with support for DirectX 11 in the second half of 2009. In fact, speculation points out that the move is planned to happen sooner than latter with the chip maker reportedly looking to have the first DirectX 11-capable graphics cards on the market as soon as July or August. AM...

22 April 2009
14:10 GMT

Download ATI Catalyst 8.583 Graphics Drivers for ATI FirePro

Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has recently announced a new series of ATI FirePro drivers that have been designed to provide users with support for OpenGL 3.0 graphics API, confirming the chip maker's commitment to the aforementioned Application Programming Interface. In addition, AMD also an...

9 April 2009
04:51 GMT

Download ATI Catalyst Suite 9.4 with New Overdrive Utility

After having released its highly anticipated Radeon HD 4890 graphics card, Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices rolled out today a new version of its ATI Catalyst driver suite. The new release has been designed to provide users with a number of performance increases, remove some of the known issues for ...

9 April 2009
02:40 GMT

ATI Radeon 4890 (RV790) Gets Stripped Down, Pictured

Sunnyvale, California-based AMD is expected to launch a new high-end graphics card, dubbed Radeon HD 4890, which will be powered by the new RV790 graphics processing unit. The card has recently surfaced the Internet on a number of occasions, providing us with a couple of details regarding its technical specifications...

20 March 2009
04:08 GMT

ATI Catalyst 9.3 Suite Adds Windows 7 Support, Performance Boost

Sunnyvale, California-based AMD announced yesterday the release of its latest pack of graphics drivers with the introduction of the new Catalyst Software Suite 9.3. With the new release the chip maker decided to catch up with its competitor, NVIDIA and release its own support for Microsoft's next-generation oper...

19 March 2009
04:25 GMT

AMD Radeon HD 4890 Listed for €259,95

AMD's upcoming Radeon HD 4890 graphics card, which has been making an appearance on the Internet as a Sapphire-made model, has recently been listed by a Netherlands-based website with a price tag of under €259,95. There are few details on when the card will become available, but the current listing points t...

17 March 2009
09:48 GMT

CeBIT 2009: Gainward Showcases 3DVision Products

At the ceBIT show in Hanover, Germany, graphics card maker Gainward was proud to demonstrate some of its latest products based on either NVIDIA or AMD GPUs. However, one of the more impressive aspects at the company's booth was the live demos of the 3DVision products, enabled by NVIDIA, and also a 3D demonstrati...

6 March 2009
09:37 GMT

Download ATI Catalyst Display Driver 9.2

If your desktop computer system is built using one of those Radeon graphics cards on the market, you should know that AMD has just updated its driver support by introducing a new Catalyst software suite. Version 9.2 is now available for download and brings a number of changes, some of which will provide Radeon graphi...

23 February 2009
09:44 GMT

AMD Said to Be Preparing Radeon HD4890 for April Debut

AMD has certainly seen some good days with the launch of its Radeon 4000 series graphics processing units, but the company is yet to provide a product that will seriously threaten NVIDIA's position in the graphics card market, especially since NVIDIA's latest cards have claimed the number one spot in the hi...

16 February 2009
08:39 GMT

AMD RV740 GPU Listed on the Company's Website

There have been a series of rumors and speculations regarding AMD's upcoming 40nm-based products, but it now appears that we have the very first leaked details that are somewhat official. That is because of a listing on the company's own website, where the chip maker details the products that are supported ...

10 February 2009
03:29 GMT

Rumor Mill: Radeon HD 5870X2 Listed for 677 EUR

Early last month, NVIDIA launched its highest-performance graphics cards to date, the 55nm-based GTX 285 and GTX 295, coming as a response to AMD's dual-GPU HD 4870 X2. Soon after the release of NVIDIA's latest GeForce cards, speculations emerged on the possibility of an upcoming Radeon graphics card, as a ...

3 February 2009
10:19 GMT

Graphics Cards Will Accelerate AI in Games

Technology is progressing at an amazing pace these days, with engineers working to develop new things and to use existing hardware to fulfill new tasks. Such is the case with graphics boards, which, although at the beginning handled only graphics, as their name implies, have begun to fulfill a greater role, with Nvid...

22 January 2009
03:33 GMT

XFX to Start Selling ATI Cards

Ever since NVIDIA first announced that some of its mobile GPUs were subject to possible failure under certain conditions, the series of bad news just kept coming for the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker. At some point it was rumored that some of its major partners, including EVGA, XFX, and BFG, were consideri...

12 December 2008
11:17 GMT

AMD Talks About the PC Game Market

The PC game market isn't doing so great these days, largely because publishers are a bit more hesitant in bringing their games onto the PC, citing the fact that the piracy phenomenon is so big. They also claim that the profit won't be as big as launching a game on a console in today's market.Although s...

1 December 2008
07:01 GMT

Nvidia and ATI Release New Video Drivers for Linux

On November 12th, Nvidia and ATI/AMD, the two major companies specialized in programmable graphics processor technologies, released new versions of their video drivers for Linux-based operating systems. While the 177.82 Nvidia graphics driver introduces support for a few Quadro FX GPUs and fixes three important bugs,...

14 November 2008
03:12 GMT

AMD Intros New FireStream 9270 Graphics Solution

Aside from unveiling its latest Opteron processors, designed on a 45nm manufacturing process, AMD has also introduced today a new graphics card, part of its FireStream family of high-end graphics products. The just launched FireStream 9270 comes with the company's latest ATI Stream Software Development Kit (SDK)...

13 November 2008
11:36 GMT

ATI to Counter NVIDIA's G200b with RV770 Refresh

This year, AMD's graphics subsidiary, ATI, succeeded in finally introducing the world to a new graphics card capable of being a serious competitor for NVIDIA's latest GeForce lineup. In addition, the company also managed to steal the performance crown from the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker, with ...

10 November 2008
10:51 GMT

AMD Aiming at the Workstation Market Too

It is a well known fact that NVIDIA is currently leading the workstation segment of the graphics cards market. NVIDIA's Quadro products are the leaders in that market, and the green company sees more than 60 percent margin. Other big industry players, including Intel and AMD, are planning to gain some market sha...

10 November 2008
06:30 GMT

PowerColor Equips Radeon HD 4850 with GDDR4 Memory

This is probably the best moment to be an ATI board partner, as the company continues to regain the ground it lost to competitor NVIDIA, with its Radeon HD 4000-series graphics cards. It is because of these cards' performance potential and relatively affordable price range that most graphics card manufacturers d...

10 November 2008
03:12 GMT

Gainward to Also Release Tri-Slot HD 4870 X2 Graphics Monster

We still find it hard to get our minds off that graphics monster, the Radeon HD 4870 X2 card from Palit. However, it looks like users are bound to get the exact same graphics card from two of ATI's partners, namely Palit and the ex-NVIDIA exclusive Gainward. That's right, pictures of a tri-slot Gainwar...

5 November 2008
10:36 GMT

Leaked: 40nm Radeon HD 5870 to Peak 1.5 TFLOPS

AMD's graphics division ATI has been expected to move to RV870 in a few quarters, and some interesting details on this new GPU have surfaced the Web today. A few weeks ago, ATI already unveiled some details on its objectives for 2009, and we've already learned that the company plans to launch 40nm chips nex...

29 October 2008
05:21 GMT

Leaked Pictures of HIS Radeon HD 4830 Surface

If current rumors are correct, AMD should announce the new Radeon HD 4830 graphics card sometime tomorrow. The Radeon HD 4000-series graphics card has already been spotted on the Internet on several occasions, with some websites even suggesting that tomorrow, the Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker will officially...

22 October 2008
10:17 GMT

Some 32nm ATI GPUs Made by The Foundry Company

Advanced Micro Devices' chief executive officer announced that the firm had plans to use the manufacturing capacities of The Foundry Company to produce some of ATI’s graphics processing units (GPUs). The Foundry Company is a joint venture founded by AMD and Advanced Technology Investment Company for chip m...

20 October 2008
04:35 GMT

Radeon HD 4830 Almost Here, Pictures Unveiled

It seems that only next week we will be able to get our hands on ATI's new graphics card, the Radeon HD 4830. According to the latest news on the web, the card is almost ready and will be heading to the market shortly. The Radeon HD 4830 will come as a direct competitor to Geforce 9800GT-based products, and it i...

18 October 2008
05:10 GMT

DirectX 11, 40nm GPUs, GPGPU and More to Come from ATI in 2009

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
04:40 GMT

NVIDIA, ATI to Pay Almost $2 Million in Price Fixing Legal Dispute

It appears that the legal dispute against two of the largest graphics card manufacturers, AMD's subsidiary ATI and the Santa-Clara, California-based NVIDIA, regarding price fixing, has finally come to an end. Both companies have agreed to pay approximately $2 million in order to settle the antitrust lawsuit rega...

1 October 2008
11:03 GMT

Diamond Resolves the Defective ATI-Based GPU Issue

Recently, on-line media was alerted about the news that ATI based graphics chips were reported failing on the field at higher than expected rates. While some were probably expecting the situation to escalate, less than a week since we learned about the issue, the company involved seems to have already solved the prob...

26 September 2008
05:42 GMT

Running Crysis WarHead on 14 Graphics Cards

The world of high demanding games widens every day. While the level of realism of games rises at a constant rate, graphics card manufacturers have to keep up with providing the powerful hardware support which can enable users to fully enjoy the game play. Both game developers and graphics solution makers have difficu...

26 September 2008
04:49 GMT

ATI Radeon 3870 Cards Reported Failing

Nvidia's failing cards made it to the headlines for a good period of time, and its competitors couldn't have been happier. Yet, things seem to take a sudden turn, as some ATI based cards have been reported to be failing at higher than expected rates as well. The graphics boards in discussion here are 3870, ...

24 September 2008
07:47 GMT

ATI Radeon HD 4830 Comes in October

There is little time left until we see the new Radeon HD 4830 card on display, as ATI seems determined to have it released at the beginning of October. The new card is built on the well known RV770 chip and comes with a 256-bit memory interface. Voices over the web say that the new graphics card will actually be mad...

23 September 2008
05:34 GMT

ATI/AMD 8.9 Display Driver Is Out

A new version of AMD's proprietary Linux driver has been launched, bringing new support for some of the latest operating systems, along with many resolved features as well as certain know issues.    New features in this release:· Support for Red Flag Desktop 6 service pack 1· Support...

18 September 2008
05:05 GMT

MSI EX710 Is Multimedia All the Way

Recently, we have been seeing countless new portable computer systems being released, thus confirming an increasing demand for notebooks in the worldwide PC market. However, despite their considerable number, most of these notebooks have one thing in common, namely that they are designed to take advantage of Intel�...

11 September 2008
05:54 GMT

ATI Radeon HD 4670 Listed at Retailers

The first Radeon HD 4670 already made its appearance on retailers' sites. The card was spotted for the first time at the Dutch retailer Komplett.nl, and it is an HIS model, featuring HIS' IceQ cooling, which seems to be a factory overclocked graphics solution, as it has the "Turbo" label on it. The board co...

6 September 2008
03:56 GMT

Current Bargains on the Cheap Graphics Market

The second half of 2008 promises to bring several new products on the graphics cards market, as both ATI and Nvidia have new cards set for launch, starting with the back to school season. Consequently, for many users, this is a good time to upgrade their computers. Offerings for Nvidia's GTX200 are now wider and...

5 September 2008
03:25 GMT

ATI to Show Linux Some Love

According to recent reports, AMD's graphics subsidiary is set on becoming more Linux-friendly. The company plans to release new Catalyst drivers for Linux-based operating systems, which will allow playback of protected high-definition content on a Linux OS. The new drivers should become available sometime i...

3 September 2008
11:40 GMT


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