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Buyer’s guide for February 2012. Updated with newest AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce cards. Which is the best graphics cards for money this month? We have included the newest AMD card – Radeon HD 7970 and 7950, which have taken GeForce GTX 580 and ASUS MARS II position. $110 €80 Radeon HD 6770 1GB GDDR5 [...]

Japanese company Lesance has relesed the first notebook with GeForce 600 Series card. Before you start wondering why there was no information about GeForce 600 Series relase it is worth mentioning that GeForce GT 630M is actually refreshed GeForce GT 540M. Notebook Lesance BTO GSN721GW TYPE-GX features 17 inch monitor supported with GeForce GT 630M. [...]

According to HardwareCanucks XFX is to discontinue double lifetime warranty for new Radeon cards. techPowerUP:With the introduction of its Radeon HD 7970 graphics cards, XFX silently discontinued its famous “double-lifetime” product warranty policy, which made XFX graphics cards a worthy buy for overclockers. This warranty policy also added to the resale value of these cards. [...]

SemiAccurate have leaked yet another information. This time we learn how expensive would GeForce GK-104 based card cost. According to Charlie’s Demerjian sources, GeForce GTX 660 (Ti) would cost $299. GK-104, a Kepler graphics processing unit is a replacement for GTX 560 Ti. Naming is yet unknown, but we think that NVIDIA will name it [...]

Futuremark® today announced the winners of its latest overclocking contest, sponsored by MSI, Kingston, Enermax and Cougar. Singapore overclocker Spyboy48 emerged with the best score that is now the official world record for 3DMark 11 Physics score. The new record score, 19 090, set with an Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition processor and MSI X79A-GD65 [...]

DonanimHaber revealed actual clocks of Radeon HD 7950. This is the second card to be released this year, which is build in 28 nm process. Tahiti Pro card features 3072 MB of memory (1536 MB variant is expected later this year), which is clocked at 1250 MHz (5GHz effectively) by default. Radeon HD 7950 has [...]

According to Fudzilla, Radeon HD 7950 will be officialy released on January 31st. First cards should be available as of that week. Next cards from the lineup will follow in February. Radeon HD 7950 is based on Tahiti Pro core. It features 1792 stream processors. Cards is equipped with 3GB of GDDR5 memory running on [...]

ASUS-branded reference design graphics cards are often looked forward to by enthusiasts because they feature minimalist AIB-branding stickers. ASUS’ Radeon HD 7970 3 GB graphics card launched today (model: HD7970-3GD5) is no exception to that, except it features a red-colored PCB. It otherwise sticks to AMD-reference PCB and cooler design, as well as AMD reference [...]

Earlier this month, we learned that Korean PC cooling solutions expert Zalman was entering the graphics card market. At the time we could only see AMD Radeon graphics cards, those too, re-branded HIS Radeon graphics cards. We’re now seeing the first true Zalman graphics cards, that implement Zalman’s generations of expertise with VGA cooling. Pictured [...]

Buyer’s guide for December 2011. Updated with newest AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce cards. Which is the best graphics cards for money this month? Radeon HD 5670 512MB GDDR3, Radeon HD 6770 1GB GDDR5, Radeon HD 6790 1GB GDDR5, Radeon HD 6850 1GB GDDR5, GeForce GTX 560 Ti (384) 1GB GDDR5, GeForce GTX 560 Ti [...]

While we’re still on hold for the first actual PCI Express 3.0 graphics cards and CPUs to release, PCI-SIG has already cooked up the PCI Express 4.0 draft specification. This new standard will enable a bandwidth of 16 gigatransfers per second (GT/s), twice as much as PCI Express 3.0. The final PCIe 4.0 specification is [...]

In an effort to make it easier for programmers to take advantage of parallel computing, NVIDIA, Cray Inc., the Portland Group (PGI), and CAPS enterprise announced today a new parallel-programming standard, known as OpenACC. Initially developed by PGI, Cray, and NVIDIA, with support from CAPS, OpenACC is a new open parallel programming standard designed to [...]

November 15th 2011 – SC11 – Seattle, WA – The Khronos™ Group today announced the ratification and public release of the OpenCL™ 1.2 specification, the latest update to the open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform, parallel programming of modern processors. Released eighteen months after OpenCL 1.1, this new version provides enhanced performance and functionality for parallel [...]

Battlefield 3 (BF3) takes massive online warfare to a whole new level of immersion. Those of you familiar with Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will notice the similarities, however BF3 turns the formula back towards the wider mix of infantry and vehicle warfare that was in Battlefield 2. Fighter aircraft take to the skies again, there [...]

No doubt feeling the heat from Nvidia with their announcement of the beastly quad-core Tegra 3 processor, ARM decided to make a little announcement of their own in the form of the upcoming Mali-T658 GPU. The new T658 boasts 4 times the power of the the T604 which happens to be still in production and [...]

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is the world’s largest semiconductor foundry, and as such is constantly under pressure from its customers and competitors. The company recently announced that its newest 28nm process has entered mass production. Smaller process geometries typically mean that a faster, smaller, and cheaper processor will be available. Two of TSMC’s biggest [...]

ASUS began bundling copies of Battlefield 3 (not Limited Edition) and an ASUS-Battlefield 3 themed Lanyard with GeForce GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II TOP graphics card and Xonar D2X PCI-Express 7.1 channel sound card. You can buy either of those and get a Battlefield 3 coupon that can be redeemed on Origin. The GeForce GTX [...]

According to a report compiled by Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the global graphics market (which includes GPUs, IGPs and CPU+GPU combo chips aka APUs) has returned to a more predictable path in Q3, with shipments growing by 16.7% sequentially and by 18.4% compared to the same period of 2011. Thanks to continuous success of its [...]

Battlefield 3 for PC is technology maxed out: the possibilities of DirectX 11 are used consistently not only to offer great Fps but also to offer graphics you haven’t seen before in PC gaming. We have measured up to 30 percent Fps increase from DX10 to DX11 – with the same graphics quality! If you [...]

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Monday announced that its 28nm process is in volume production and production wafers have been shipped to customers, including AMD, Altera, Nvidia, Qualcomm and Xilinx. TSMC is the first contract maker of semiconductors to achieve volume production at 28nm node. “Being the first to 28nm volume production demonstrates TSMC’s leadership [...]