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Advanced Micro Devices's graphics division, the formerly the independent computer hardware manufacturing company ATI, is not really know among the computer users as the most timing inclined and abiding outfit in the industry, but it looks like things are a little different right now as a number of sources are re... |
15 October 2007
12:35 GMT |
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Sapphire has announced the launch of a graphics card that is powered by the Advanced Micro Devices built Radeon HD 2900 Pro graphics processing unit but which comes with 1GB of dedicated video memory that works at a higher clock speed than previous models. Based on the 80 nanometer fabrication process the Radeon HD 2... |
15 October 2007
09:20 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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After the graphics division from Advanced Micro Devices quietly announced the launch of the downgraded version of the Radeon HD 2900 XT graphics processing chip that will be available under the name of Radeon HD 2900 Pro and serve as a bridge across the performance gap that spans between the 2600 and 2900 series, now... |
27 September 2007
05:28 GMT |
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After much discussion and many rumors flying around on the World Wide Web, Advanced Micro Devices finally announced the official launch of the Radeon HD 2900 Pro range of products that are intended to be used as a bridge between the performance and the mainstream market segments. While these graphics cards are packin... |
26 September 2007
05:49 GMT |
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Club 3D just announced the launch of a new high end discrete graphics card aimed at gamers and computer enthusiasts and this brand new product is based on the ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro graphics processing unit. This new card is the implementation of the AMD/ATI R600 graphics processing unit that comes with a core clock ... |
25 September 2007
10:01 GMT |
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Intel presented a lot of interesting products and features at this year's Intel Developer Forum and the first place was taken by the upcoming generation of central processing units, just like it was expected. Right after that, Intel also presented a number of innovative technologies and even some portions of its... |
24 September 2007
12:04 GMT |
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Sometimes it looks as if the entire computer hardware manufacturing industry is floating on a huge sea of rumors and half formed opinions as there are so many hearsays about some many deployed or yet to be launched components that is practically impossible to keep track with all of them.For those die hard AMD and ATI... |
22 September 2007
06:53 GMT |
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HIS announced today the launch of another graphics card based on the AMD/ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro GPU which is aimed somewhere between the middle end and high level market segments because, while the graphics chip that powers it is better suited for middle level applications, its fast clock settings are approaching tho... |
20 September 2007
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The RadeonHD driver has been released yesterday and it's being hosted on FreeDesktop.org. This new driver is the result of AMD's cooperation with Novell, supporting the Radeon HD 2000 (R600) group. Although it has a lot of improvements, there's still much work to be done.The RadeonHD driver is mainly w... |
18 September 2007
04:37 GMT |
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The R600 graphics processing unit together with several of its variations is found on the latest AMD family of graphics cards which are available under the commercial name of Radeon HD 2xxx. This product line, ranging from the entry level Radeon HD 2000 to the extreme performance Radeon HD 2900XT, was created as a re... |
17 September 2007
02:21 GMT |
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Most graphics cards are coming nowadays with active cooling solutions that are cleverly designed and offer a wide range of features that will help them do their job better: keep your hot graphics processing unit cool. While there will always be cards equipped with passive cooling systems that rely solely on their hea... |
14 September 2007
09:04 GMT |
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A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. This release is a bit special, as it is recommended to be used exclusively on ATI Radeon HD 2000 family. Moreover, AMD suggests to distributors to use the previous version (8.40.4) for distribution packages. N... |
13 September 2007
02:36 GMT |
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Congratulations for clicking on this headline. In a few moments you'll be playing Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, as we've finally made available the free downloadable demo of the game right HERE, on Softpedia. Below, you have your basic system requirements, a little stuff on the demo's main features and ... |
11 September 2007
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There is a veritable flood of ATI Radeon graphics card updates available from Microsoft. In fact, the volume of driver updates designed to address both 32-bit and 64-bit copies of Windows Vista running on systems also using ATI Radeon graphics cards is close to 40,000, as Microsoft explained. In the recent period, Wi... |
10 September 2007
10:36 GMT |
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While the new Microsoft graphics API, DirectX 10.1, created a lot of unhappiness among gamers that recently purchased high level graphics cards, for computer hardware manufacturers like Nvidia and AMD's graphics division the new DirectX versions means an opportunity to tout their technologies and launch a new li... |
10 September 2007
09:00 GMT |
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Microsoft seems to be in need of some education related to its Windows Update practices and Symantec seems more than happy to oblige it. The issue is related to the 64-bit editions of Windows Vista and the mandatory driver signing mitigation introduced by Microsoft in order to safeguard the operating system's co... |
7 September 2007
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Benchmarking is one of the most widely used methods of testing out the relative performance of one or another hardware component and establishing which company makes the best products from a given price and functionality range. Or at least that's how it is supposed to be as there were a number of flawed benchmar... |
5 September 2007
10:43 GMT |
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Graphics cards arranged in multiple units setups are not something out of the ordinary but 'traditional' configurations like Nvidia's SLI or ATI's CrossFire technologies have a number of bad parts like the need to buy two or more graphics cards ( a very big money sucking trend), lots of power need... |
5 September 2007
10:18 GMT |
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Graphics cards can be easily split into two large categories: discrete and integrated into the chipset cards. While until very recently discrete graphics cards were the incontestable kings of performance and efficiency and they were having a field day, now as the mobile computing systems are starting to sell better t... |
5 September 2007
09:42 GMT |
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As I said yesterday, in order to obtain best results from Google Earth you need to have at least a 32 MB graphics card. But somehow, even if you own a more powerful hardware device, you encounter problems with the mapping tool. So, how can we fix them if we currently have an ATI graphic card? Well, according to the M... |
5 September 2007
04:47 GMT |
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Diamond Multimedia is a well-known and liked hardware manufacturing company in the United States which focuses itself on high-end graphics cards targeted at gamers and related multimedia products. After years of developing both gaming and professional graphics cards, the company retired from the professional market a... |
3 September 2007
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Integrating dual graphics processing units on the very same video card is not really hot news as the technology to do this and much more has already been around for a number of years. This approach of integrating two graphics processing units on the same card comes with some advantages over the more traditional multi... |
1 September 2007
04:16 GMT |
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In a world dominated by PCI Express graphics cards and multi graphics setups like the Nvidia's SLI or AMD/ ATI's CrossFire it looks as if there is still a quite strong demand for AGP based video cards. Nvidia, the green goblin of the graphics market, announced a long time ago that it dropped the AGP standar... |
31 August 2007
11:15 GMT |
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HIS announced the launch of an ATI based graphics card, the Radeon HD 2600XT iSilenceIII, which features a Zalman cooling solution with heatpipes and DDR3 video memory modules. Because of the completely noiseless cooling solution employed by the manufacturing company, the Radeon HD 2600XT iSilenceIII is perfect as a ... |
28 August 2007
05:33 GMT |
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The graphics cards market is almost entirely dominated by Nvidia, the green goblin of the computer industry, at least on the high-end segment. While ATI cards were never far behind and on some occasions, they were taking the lead in the performance and image quality departments, overall, Nvidia is the most important ... |
24 August 2007
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In a world centered on increased performance, at least in the computer hardware department, it looks as if old standards for hardware components die and are buried in a rather speedy manner. Or some stay around as a niche market long after the replacement standard which features massive improvements, has arrived. Thi... |
17 August 2007
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Asus announced the launch of two new high-end graphics cards, the EAH2600PRO/HTDI/256M based on an AMD chip and the EN8600GT/HTDI/256M card that is based on an Nvidia graphics processing unit. Both of these graphics cards are featuring high quality bundled HDMI adapters that are certified by HDMI Licensing. Asus incl... |
17 August 2007
04:58 GMT |
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A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. This release brings new features such as: TV Out Functionality and Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition. The TV out functionality was made available under Linux OS for all ATI video cards that support TV Out ... |
14 August 2007
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Rumors surfaced on many news web sites about a batch of defective Radeon video chips that AMD's graphics division (formerly the ATI company) shipped to several hardware manufacturers. The rumors spoke about a defect in the BIOS chip of several thousands Radeon HD 2600 and HD 2400 graphics chips due to a faulty f... |
9 August 2007
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The entire computer manufacturing industry floats on an almost endless sea of acronyms that users learned to embrace and use when talking about various technologies and hardware parts. One of the latest acronyms to surface is the GPGPU and before too long users will meet it on an every day basis as it reflects the cu... |
7 August 2007
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AMD announced the release of five high-end professional ATI FireGL video cards designed for workstation use in CAD, DCC and medical imaging applications. The ATI FireGL V8650, FireGL V8600, FireGL V7600, FireGL V5600, and FireGL V3600 graphics accelerators are based on the new graphics processing unit developed by AM... |
6 August 2007
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (better known as TSMC to the world) is a company that contracts the manufacturing of different computer hardware parts from their original designers that have not enough production facilities. This works great for both parties involved, as the original manufacturers can brin... |
6 August 2007
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Gamers like to have the latest and the best hardware parts they can get their hands on, money permitting, of course. So the latest survey from the game producer Valve comes as a really big hit as most Steam users reported that they are still using single core processors for all their gaming needs. The survey took pla... |
6 August 2007
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Faulty drivers from ATI and Nvidia are the right way to a complete takeover of 64-bit Windows Vista by circumventing the operating system's additional security mitigations designed to prevent unsigned code being loaded into the platform's core. This scenario was demonstrated at Black Hat 2007 in Las Vegas b... |
3 August 2007
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The Radeon HD 2900 family of graphics processors will soon expand from only one current official chip to at least one more member in a short time. The original plan that AMD's graphics division presented called for no less then four different video cards in that product line. They should have come with several m... |
1 August 2007
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According to some rumors circulating through the back channels of the graphics card market, AMD may have let slipped to system integrators a number of video cards with a busted BIOS chip. This happened because the company's official graphics card diagnostic and validation software was discovered to have a bug th... |
1 August 2007
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As the AMD revealed roadmap says, there will be a soon to come next generation chipset codenamed RS780 that is aimed by AMD to target the consumer and the commercial desktop platforms. This chipset was designed by engineers working with ATI's chipset division, but since the merging of the two companies, it is al... |
31 July 2007
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AMD looks like it is having a really, really bad year both on the processor and on the graphics markets. First of all, on the processor market it lost ground and market shares to the giant Intel and as the price wars become fiercer, it lost a bunch of money too. On the graphics chips market, AMD must battle another w... |
30 July 2007
12:19 GMT |
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According to AMD's chairman and CEO, Hector Ruiz, all important computer manufacturers are now using his company's chips in their products. He considers this to be a sign that the system integrators and the customers want that the small semiconductor supplier to succeed in its battle with rival Intel."The s... |
23 July 2007
04:15 GMT |
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AMD reported its financial results for the quarter that ended on 30th of July. While the company's revenues rose well over a billion dollars, which is 13% higher than revenues from the same period last year, its total financial balance is negative, as AMD lost $600 million. This loss includes the sum of $130 mil... |
20 July 2007
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A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was just released a few minutes ago for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. I think many users have been waiting for this, as this new version brings back support for the Fedora 7 Linux distribution! Here is a guide on how to install the ATI video drivers on Fedora 7. Issu... |
19 July 2007
13:31 GMT |
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The graphics cards segment is one of the most dynamic places of the entire computer hardware manufacturing business. While there are many graphics cards producers (some very good, most simply good, and a few that don't even deserve to be called producers at all), there is only a handful of graphics chips manufac... |
19 July 2007
08:44 GMT |
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If you want an easy method to install the drivers for your Nvidia or ATI/AMD graphics card, then this guide is for you. The guide uses the Livna Nvidia and ATI/AMD drivers because they are especially designed for Fedora 7 systems and it will come with a small python script, which works as an extension to system-confi... |
14 July 2007
21:20 GMT |
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AMD's 580 and 480 chipsets are getting kind of old, being beaten by the latest Nvidia chipset with quite a wide margin. Even 580X with Crossfire support and two PCI-Ex lanes for AM2 processors, a chipset with very good overclocking potential, good stability and top performance is showing its age, so AMD decided ... |
12 July 2007
04:26 GMT |
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Dave Orton, former president and CEO at the video chip maker ATI, has resigned as executive vice president of AMD just nine months after the two companies combined. AMD completed the merging with ATI in October last year and Dave Orton was given the position of executive vice president of AMD, as part of the merging ... |
11 July 2007
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AMD released on July 9, 2007 two new multimedia solutions that offer both high-definition television( HDTV) and digital video recording( DVR), available for laptop and desktop PCs alike. These solutions came as external or internal plug-and-play add-on cards, connectable by USB or PCIe. They feature an advanced 3D co... |
10 July 2007
05:22 GMT |
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AMD has the nasty habit of fighting battles they know they can't win. And if you look at the recent history of CPUs you will notice that they lost too many fights to be taken seriously, most of them related to the price of CPUs. And as it turns out the fact that they acquired Ati didn't help. Because they&#... |
29 June 2007
09:26 GMT |
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Just two weeks after the original release of the Catalyst 7.5 series, AMD thought of renewing its driver series with a new one capable of delivering even more performance than the 7.5. The new Catalyst dubbed 7.6 (of course...) introduces, among other features and improvements, full support for video capture with the... |
27 June 2007
02:46 GMT |
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The ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. This release introduces support for RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 operating systems.Issues resolved in this release:￭ Moving a video window between two monitors in a big desktop configuration no longer crashes the Xserver;... |
26 June 2007
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