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| Qimonda Confident of GDDR5 Future |  | As most of you already know by now, AMD is the first graphics card manufacturer to introduce a GDDR5-enabled card. However, the one thing that might have gone by unknown in this is that AMD succeeded this by partnering with memory chip maker Qimonda, which, back in May, announced that it had started shipping GDDR5 memory chips to the Sunnyvale company.
On that note, the company has recently announced that it feels confident ab ... [read more >>] | | 10 July 2008, 06:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel's Pat Gelsinger Puts Intel Inside Everything |  | Pat Gelsinger, a senior vice president and co-general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group held a meeting with a number of journalists this week. The VP used this opportunity to present its predictions in regard to Intel's future, making four assumptions that set Intel as part of every segment of computing.
Gelsinger also presented four of Intel's milestones which were: the introduction of 32-bit technology with th ... [read more >>] | | 03 July 2008, 10:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Havok Will Not Support GPU Acceleration |  | NVIDIA is trying to convince us that its PhysX technology is the best way for handling in-game physics, although its technology isn't much supported by current games. In fact, Havok, NVIDIA's competitor in the physics department, is doing quite well, especially since it has support for almost 300 games and the number keeps growing.
This is rather unfortunate for NVIDIA, as the company's graphics card lineup is s ... [read more >>] | | 03 July 2008, 05:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| HyperShot (v1.5) 3D Rendering App Improves Performance |  | Bunkspeed’s HyperShot 3D rendering application for Mac delivers revolutionary, interactive rendering in real time, even on laptop, the company claims. Currently at version 1.5 the software performs faster, sports improved rendering and translator and more. The company has also changed the product licensing ... [read more >>] | | 03 July 2008, 05:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| NASA Creates the World's Highest Resolution Visualization System |  | NASA unveiled last week the world's highest resolution visualization system, dubbed Hyperwall-2, an event that took place at the Ames Research Center. The new system isn't meant for commercial use and will serve the scientists over at NASA who need to study small details and specs featured in the very large datasets produced by the agency’s supercomputers.
The system has been developed by scientists and engineers in ... [read more >>] | | 30 June 2008, 05:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Houdini 9.5 (Graphics Tool) Whooshes onto Mac |  | Side Effects Software Inc has decided Macs should be introduced to its professional 3D software, Houdini. The 9.5 beta for OS X (but also for Windows and Linux) "brings the 3D industry's first node-based workflow to the Mac ensuring that 3D artists can collaborate seamlessly in a multi-pl ... [read more >>] | | 17 June 2008, 05:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Beta - Three Adobe CS 3 Apps up for Grabs |  | Adobe Labs has released three apps from its upcoming Creative Suite installment, as betas, for the public to try out and report bugs, if any. Buyers of Adobe's graphic design suite of apps can download Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Soundbooth for free, and even keep them for longer than 48 hours. Non-users can also download free of charge but will only be able to use the software fo ... [read more >>] | | 28 May 2008, 03:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| EMotion FX Now Available for Mac |  | Mystic Game Development has officially released the Mac version of EMotion FX. The realtime game animation middleware is something that hotshot developers have been using for quite some time now, in hit games such as SimCity Societies, Warhammer Online, and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, Mystic GD claims.
EMotion FX has been designed to be plugged into 3D engines, games and other products. The realtime character ... [read more >>] | | 22 May 2008, 07:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nvidia's GT-200 to Hit the Shelves on June 18, Branded as GeForce GTX 280 |  | Nvidia will reportedly launch its next generation of graphics cards on June 18. Apart from the many architecture changes involving one billion transistors per die and the return of the NVIO chip, the graphics specialist is also cooking up a rebranding strategy. The new cards will be marketed as GeForce GTX 280 and 260, thus putting an end to the long-lasting 9xxx series.
At first the GT-200 graphics solutions will hit the mark ... [read more >>] | | 16 May 2008, 06:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| GeForce 9900 GTX Stock Heatsink Spotted in the Wild |  | The upcoming generation of graphics cards in the GeForce 9900 family from Nvidia gets detailed piece by piece once again, with some leaked information regarding the GTX heatsink. The metal structure has been pictured by tech website PCOnline and its solid layout seems to confirm the fact that the new cards will run prett ... [read more >>] | | 14 May 2008, 04:49GMT | (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 |
| Opacity 1.1 Allows Vector Graphics for Web Page Crafting |  | Opacity, exclusively crafted website imagery and desktop software (such as launch icons), has been updated to version 1.1, adding support for SVG, which allows web vector illustration. The software relies on both Quartz and Core Animation technology, and has vector, layer, and filtering tools. A downloadable ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2008, 19:11GMT | (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 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 |
| 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 |
| Intel Confirms Rasterisation Capabilities for its Multi-Core Larrabee |  | As of the spring edition of Intel Developer Forum, the chip manufacturer started touting its raytracing revolution, but it forgot about another important feature of the chip: rasterisation. Just as the industry started to think that rasterisation would be hammered down in the final version of the Larrabee silicon, Intel came up with additional news about the feature.
According to Tom Forsyth, one of Intel's software engin ... [read more >>] | | 24 April 2008, 04:21GMT | (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 |
| Asustek Unveils Dual-GPU HD 3850 Graphics Card |  | Taiwanese computer manufacturer Asustek has just unveiled its newest HD 3850 X2 graphics card with 1GB of memory. The dual-chip behemoth has shifted from pure rumors to silicon and metal in less than a week.
The new HD 3850 X2 graphics card uses the same ... [read more >>] | | 04 April 2008, 11:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel: Multi-Core CPU's Will Get Your Graphics Card Killed |  | The future of the dedicated graphics card might be coming to an end, as the multi-processor architectures are blooming. Ron Fosner, an Intel Graphics and Gaming Technologist, claims that there will "probably be no need" in purchasing a dedicated graphics card in a short while.
The news was broken while demonstrating the "Smoke" application during the Intel Developer Forum. The software ran on a test rig e ... [read more >>] | | 04 April 2008, 09:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel's Larrabee Multi-Core Chip Will Rock on Games |  | Intel's multi-core graphics chip, also known as Larrabee will be capable of running games. The chip is one of the boldest graphics projects in the world and will reportedly offer full compatibility with Microsoft's DirectX technology, as well as with the OpenGL API.
As previously reported, the Larrabee graphics chip will come with no less than ... [read more >>] | | 28 March 2008, 11:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Graphics Wars: AMD Axes Radeon HD 3000 Prices |  | AMD is reportedly preparing to cut down prices for the Radeon HD 3000-series with the advent of Nvidia's GeForce 9600 GT graphics card. Worldwide retailers claim that the graphics card manufacturer is pushing another price drop below the previous estimations released a few weeks ago.
The price slash seems to be closely related to Nvidia having released its first card in the next generation GeForce 9 series, and AMD's ... [read more >>] | | 21 March 2008, 07:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel's Larrabee Gets Detailed at the Pre-IDF Briefing |  | Intel has started packing up its gear for the upcoming Spring Developer Forum, that will take place next month is Shanghai, China. As usually, the pre-briefing conference revealed further details about the upcoming products, including a new Itanium processor and six other MP Xeon chips, and this is not all, as the main guest stars of the event seem to be the next-gen Nehalem micro architecture and the FP accelerator known as the ... [read more >>] | | 18 March 2008, 04:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD's Thunder to Take Nvidia By Storm |  | Chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices is rumored to prepare a new market strategy codenamed "Thunder". Despite the fact that it is not a physical product or a technology, the codename might turn things upside down on the graphics market and bring AMD back into the competition.
The Thunder codename has been brought to the general attention via Mike Magee's webblog, and is touted as a "shock treatment for ... [read more >>] | | 14 March 2008, 12:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Multi-Chip Graphics Processors to Power Aircraft Simulators |  | The most important graphics solutions providers ATI and Nvidia have started shipping multi-GPU configurations. These pieces of hardware are mostly important for the gaming industry, but their scope ranges farther than rendering heroes and fantastic explosions.
The multi-GPU cards have started to gain ground in industrial applications also, such as the "glass cockpits" - planes and helicopters flying around the world ... [read more >>] | | 07 March 2008, 06:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel Buys Out Gaming 'Project Offset', Gears Up for the Multicore Larrabee |  | Project Offset's founder, Sam McGrath announced yesterday that the company had been acquired by chip manufacturer Intel. The buyout announcement may be a hint that Intel is becoming more and more concerned with promoting its own graphics division.
"Today we have some major news to announce. Intel has acquired Offset Software. Yes, you read it correctly! Project Offset is going strong and we are excited about things ... [read more >>] | | 21 February 2008, 06:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nvidia Starts Producing Cellphone Graphics Chips |  | 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, 65-nanometer production node and comes with a 750 MHz ARM 11 with 256 KB of L2 cache, energy-efficient graphic ... [read more >>] | | 11 February 2008, 02:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD Lay Their Cards on the Deck: They Will Not Buy Ageia |  | The rumors we have already been talking about seem to have reached the target. It is very likely that simple words, once laid down even digitally, get a contractual value. This might have been a little scary for the AMD monster who quickly decided to dra ... [read more >>] | | 23 November 2007, 08:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Following the Laws of PhysX, AMD Considers Buying Ageia |  | The chess game played by Intel and AMD has extended not only over the x86 processor market, but also in the video and gaming sectors. Back in September, Intel finished the Havok takeover, fisting the entire gaming industry under the belt. AMD considered that it would be time to send the heavy artillery back on the battlefield, and made public the intention of taking over Ageia.
Ageia is the main competitor for Havok in physic ... [read more >>] | | 22 November 2007, 06:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Next Generation Radeon Will Come on The 15th of November |  | 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 reporting that the preparations for the launch of the next generation of Radeon discrete graphics units are right on track.
... [read more >>] | | 15 October 2007, 12:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| GeForce 8800 GT Cards to Come in Two Weeks |  | 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 aimed at the ''performance while still budget minded'' type of customer that wants a pretty ... [read more >>] | | 15 October 2007, 10:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sapphire Ups Its Radeon HD 2900 Pro |  | 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 2900 Pro comes with no less than 700 million transistors while using a unified superscalar shader architecture and being Direc ... [read more >>] | | 15 October 2007, 09:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| SPARKLE Intros The Calibre P860 Turbo Graphics Card |  | SPARKLE Computer has announced the launch of a new middle level graphics card, the Calibre P860 Turbo, that is powered by a Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT graphics processing unit and which is capable of handling even the most demanding 3D games and applications while at the same time sporting an easy overclocking tool that lets users increase the core speed with a touch of a button.
Like all cards based on the Nvidia G84 hardware arc ... [read more >>] | | 15 October 2007, 08:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nvidia Claims the Lion's Share and Prepares for More |  | 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. The bad news is that, if you are looking through the eyes of the two companies, things are going to get mighty ... [read more >>] | | 10 October 2007, 03:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| A New GeForce 8800 GTS Ready to Roll |  | 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 different pricing schemes.
For users that do not feel that the absolute best in graphics performance is really neces ... [read more >>] | | 03 October 2007, 10:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Radeon HD 2950 Pro Coming Soon |  | Advanced Micro Devices is now preparing to launch another generation of graphics processing units and those GPUs are codenamed RV670 and they will be commercially available under the ''Radeon HD 2950 Pro'' name. This new generation of graphics processing units will be officially launched on the 19th of November and it is said that the manufacturing company, AMD, already started sending verification test (DVT) sample boa ... [read more >>] | | 03 October 2007, 03:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 3D Graphics from AMD Boosts Mobile Games Quality |  | AMD has plans for making mobile phone graphics look better than ever before, with a new technology. The main use for this solution will be in the gaming field, as developers will have the chance of producing much more visually appealing applications.
"AMD's graphics technology is based on years of high-quality graphics processing and expertise in the mobile market, enabling cutting-edge ... [read more >>] | | 02 October 2007, 09:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Leadtek Intros a 8600 GT Graphics Card Fully Loaded |  | Leadtek Research just announced the launch of a new graphics card that is aimed at the middle level consumer and average computer user. Available under the commercial designation of WinFast PX8600 GT TDH HDMI, this new graphics card is well equipped as it supports the latest high definition multimedia interface and it offers a great quality of image and sound without any compression or conversion.
This new Leadtek product is based on th ... [read more >>] | | 02 October 2007, 05:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Want a Radeon HD 2900 Pro or GT? Better Hurry! |  | 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 reportedly make only a few thousands of them.
Just like the Pro version of the Radeon HD 2900 chip, the GT model will to ... [read more >>] | | 02 October 2007, 03:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| A New AMD Mainstream Graphics Chip Is Ready |  | While DirectX 10.0 compliant hardware from Advanced Micro Devices' graphics division came a little too late to the party and missed most chances to dominate the market, the DirectX 10.1 supporting graphics processing units from the very same manufacturing company are coming in fast and they promise better performance and features at lower prices.
Codenamed ATI RV670, the new generation of graphics processing units from Ad ... [read more >>] | | 01 October 2007, 10:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Leadtek Launches One More Entry Level Graphics Card |  | High end graphics cards are the ones that bring fame and glory to the hardware manufacturing companies that are active into that market segment, but it is the entry and the middle level product offering that pack most revenues as the high end, performance centered cards are pretty expensive and useless without other state of the art hardware components.
It looks like Leadtek, a company well known and liked for its high and, to ... [read more >>] | | 01 October 2007, 04:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD and Sapphire to Supply The World Cyber Games 2007 |  | Advanced Micro Devices just announced that it, in collaboration with the graphics cards manufacturing company Sapphire Technology, they will supply much of the hardware needed by the World Cyber Games, WCG for short, and the two companies will also host a demonstration of the next generation technologies that are now under development.
According to an Advanced Micro Devices press release concerning this event, Sapphire's ... [read more >>] | | 28 September 2007, 06:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD Prepares The Radeon 2900 GT |  | 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 it looks like yet another lower performance version of the 2900 GPU is in the making.
This new graphics processing[ADMARK ... [read more >>] | | 27 September 2007, 05:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asus EN8600GT, 40% More Overclocking Potential |  | Asus just announced yet another graphics card based on a Nvidia graphics processing units that is aimed at overclockers, the EN8600GT TOP/HTDP/256M, that continues the line of products initiated with the launch of the OC Gear card and accessories. The new Asus graphics card comes from the factory with faster stream processing units as well as upgraded memory modules and thanks to these features users may achieve up to 40 percent improvemen ... [read more >>] | | 27 September 2007, 03:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Top of The Line Club 3D Graphics Card Announced |  | 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 of 600MHz while providing enough performance for the high end market segment.
Thanks to its new R600 GPU this Cl ... [read more >>] | | 25 September 2007, 10:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD's RV670 Based Graphics Cards Approaching |  | 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 fans that are waiting for the next generation graphics processing units from AMD there are a few good news bas ... [read more >>] | | 22 September 2007, 06:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Graphics Cards Made by Nvidia And Display Port Compatible |  | There is a new computer display related standard floating around the graphics cards and monitors manufacturing industry and its name is Display Port, its mission, to replace the currently used HDMI standard while offering higher output quality and multiple connecting options as well as ease of installation and use. The new standard is expected to appear in 2008 and users wanting to enjoy the advantages that come with it will hav ... [read more >>] | | 22 September 2007, 06:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| GeCube's HOT Radeon HD 2900 Pro Is Out Now |  | As Advanced Micro Devices announced the limited availability of the ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro graphics processing units that are offering comparable levels of gaming performance with the 2900 XT model while keeping the price tag more affordable, a number of manufacturing companies that are active in the graphics cards market segment started preparations for a new generation of products based on the new GPU. Among the first companies to launch ... [read more >>] | | 21 September 2007, 03:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel Develops Its Own Fusion-like Chip |  | Advanced Micro Devices plans to integrate at some point or another the central and the graphics processing units into a single package, a move that should allow the hardware manufacturing company to offer a much more performance centered integrated graphics platform, while at the same time, the ''Fusion'' as the project is called, should provide a big boost while dealing with parallel algorithms that are not graphics [A ... [read more >>] | | 20 September 2007, 10:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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