AMD today launched the AMD FirePro V4900, which delivers unequaled performance for Digital Content Creation (DCC) and Computer Aided Design (CAD) professionals at an entry-level price point. By leveraging AMD’s most advanced graphics technology, including AMD Eyefinity technology, the AMD FirePro V4900 significantly improves application performance and drives efficiency in the workplace. In fact, the [...]

Following the currently worldwide trend, EVGA is going batty for Rocksteady’s action game Batman Arkham City, so batty that it released a special edition GeForce GTX 580 Superclocked card that has the Dark Knight all over (and probably includes a voucher for the game). Available at Newegg, the GeForce GTX 580 Superclocked Batman Arkham City [...]

Next to Galaxy, KFA2 now Inno3D is putting money on a customized GeForce GTX 570 as well. The card will be known as the GTX 570 Jericho and it relies on a single 92mm fan and on a massive aluminum haetsink with five heatpieps in order to dissipate the heat produced when running. This fan [...]

Asian graphics card vendor Colorful is at it again with its innovative board designs. This time, the company is after a GeForce GTX 560 Ti (GF114-based) graphics card that boasts of very strong power delivery, and a few mysterious expansion options. Colorful’s emphasis has always been on PCB design and choice of high-grade components. This [...]

KFA2, a company known for its quite innovative Nvidia based graphics cards is preparing a new card based on the GTX 570 design, the KFA2 GTX 570 MDT (Multi Display Technology). The card is scheduled to launch next month, but we managed to score some early details and specs. Since we are talking about MDT [...]

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 [...]

Celebrating the launch of the much anticipated Battlefield 3 game, SAPPHIRE Technology is introducing the SAPPHIRE HD 6970 BF3 Special Edition – featuring two SAPPHIRE exclusive technologies, SAPPHIRE FleX and Vapor-X cooling as well as performance enhancing options for the enthusiast and access to a FREE copy of the full game! The SAPPHIRE HD 6970 [...]

HoloDesk is a novel interactive system combining an optical see through display and Kinect camera to create the illusion that users are directly interacting with 3D graphics. A virtual image of a 3D scene is rendered through a half silvered mirror and spatially aligned with the real-world for the viewer. Users easily reach into an [...]

Square-Enix have been demonstrating their new graphics engine, called ‘Luminous’ at a press conference in Japan. The video below shows off some impressive technology, virtually indistinguishable from the real location. Shame they chose such a boring place. The video above is rendered, not recorded video footage. Square Enix is aiming to have advanced artificial intelligence [...]

Palit unveiled a new limited-edition GeForce GTX 560 Ti based non-reference design graphics card, the Palit GTX 560 Ti Twin Light Turbo. The card’s design is based on a black colored PCB (Palit uses a red-colored one on its regular GTX 560 Ti cards), and a unique GPU Cooler design. The heatsink follows essentially the [...]

HIS released its latest mainstream graphics card, the HIS HD 6670 iSilence4. As the name suggests, this is a silent (fanless) graphics card based on the Radeon HD 6670 graphics processor. The card’s design is based around Zalman’s VNF100 GPU heatsink that provides passive cooling to the GPU, the DDR3 memory and simple FET configuration [...]

Qualcomm has released a white paper detailing the improvements due in the second generation of its popular Snapdragon ARM-based system-on-chip design, and for those who’ve read Nvidia’s work some things will seem remarkably familiar. The broad details of the Snapdragon ‘Krait’ S4 series were already well known, as outlined to us by product management veep [...]

Buyer’s guide for October 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 1GB GDDR5, GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5, [...]

Long-time Nvidia partner Elsa is currently preparing to release in Japan a new, graphics card powered by the 40nm GF114 GPU, a model called Gladiac GTX 560 Ti mini which makes use of a custom PCB 59mm shorter than that of reference GTX 560 Tis. Suited for compact systems (but not slim PCs since it’s [...]

Battlefield 3 is going to raise the bar in terms of graphical quality. Since you can’t create something out of nothing, the game demands very fast graphics cards. Time for an upgrade? We’ve done comprehensive benchmarking to give you answers. The system requirements for the Battlefield 3 beta are high. For pleasing gameplay EA and [...]

HIS today launched new 6970 EyeFinity Ready-to-See graphics cards, the perfect solution to enable AMD’s EyeFinity game play on up to three screens! The HIS 6970 RTS uses innovative technology to enable AMD’s EyeFinity via HDMI. Gamers no longer have to connect the DisplayPort output or use the active DisplayPort adapter in order to perform [...]

It was an exciting day at PC Perspective yesterday with much our time dedicated to finding, installing and playing the new Battlefield 3 public beta. Released on the morning of the 26th to those of you who had pre-ordered BF3 on Origin or those of you who had purchased Medal of Honor prior to July [...]

ZOTAC International, a leading innovator and channel manufacturer, today expands the value GeForce GT 520 lineup with new PCI and PCI Express x1 form factors for users with pre-built systems that have limited expansion capabilities. The new ZOTAC GeForce GT 520 PCI and PCI Express x1 graphics cards breathe new life into older systems by [...]

Just like other technology sectors, processor market too is undergoing some significant changes. The trend towards more accessible and mainstream computing devices, with greater reliance on audio and visual interface, is slowly impacting the way semiconductor companies do business. In the short run, the beneficiaries of these changes have been AMD and Nvidia, who have [...]