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Back at the beginning of December when AMD first started talking to journalists about their new graphics architecture the focus was very much on the 7970, although the 7950 was mentioned also. It seemed like AMD were on course to launch both cards at the same time, in early January but some last minute changes [...]

Lenovo has released new IdeaPad model with Radeon HD 7690. This card is actually a rebranded Radeon HD 6770 with overclocked memory clock by 100MHz. IDEAPAD Y470: High-performance mobile multimedia magic. Up to Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium OS. Up to 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i7 processor. Fun is clever technology that helps you enjoy, [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

According to Bright Side of News, AMD did not hide any additional cores in their Tahiti XT graphics core. The rumor spread out when some Sapphire documents, regarding new graphics cards models, leaked out. Document suggested that Sapphire is preparing graphics cards based on Tahiti core with 2304 processing units. (…) BSN: Given that AMD [...]

Until now, any site that has reviewed the Radeon HD 7970 has done so, using the sample AMD provided. There are very few CrossFire reviews out there, because it’s simply too hard to get more than one AMD sample. 3-way and 4-way CrossFire reviews could be even rare, if such reviews even exist to begin [...]

Thanks to recognized Chiphell member BigPao007, we can see how Radeon HD 7770 looks in detail, yet again. Radeon HD 7770 is based on Cape Verde XT core which is 164 square millimeters in size. It features 896 stream processors and 56 texture units. It also has 16 raster operating units. It is build to [...]

It is going to be an exciting 2012. Both AMD and NVIDIA are going to be bringing gamers entirely new GPU architectures, Intel has Ivy Bridge up its sleeve and the CPU side of AMD is looking forward to the introduction of the Piledriver lineup. Today though we end 2011 with the official introduction of [...]

While PNY is not a name we have talked about when it comes to graphic cards since 2001, these guys are still around. For the most part there is nothing special about its cards, but today we have something that is special from PNY, an out-of-the box water cooled GTX 580. Let’s see what it [...]

The launch of the new GTX 560 Ti 448 today I think is a prime example of why NVIDIA does so well in the video card market. You just have to look at the current release schedule of games, or the games that have just recently been released and know that we’re going to have [...]

In August, we got a first glimpse of AMD Radeon-branded DDR3 memory modules sold at select stores in Japan. At the time, AMD denied plans of directly selling AMD-branded memory to customers, and that it was determining if the sale of AMD Radeon-branded memory through channel partners is a viable opportunity. Today there is concrete [...]

NVIDIA today announced that, for the second year in a row, the world’s most energy efficient petaflop-class supercomputer is powered by NVIDIA Tesla GPUs. The Tsubame 2.0 system at the Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Global Scientific Information Center (GSIC) ranks as the greenest petaflop-class supercomputer on the recently released Green500 list. Published twice annually, the [...]

We know that Kitguru readers love video cards with enhanced cooling, so today’s product review will certainly get the juices flowing. We are going to be testing two of the latest KFA2 Geforce GTX580 ‘Anarchy Edition’ cards in SLI. These cards feature the excellent Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus with tri fan cooling solution. Nvidia’s [...]

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 [...]

Seen up and running last month, AMD’s Trinity mobile APUs (accelerated processing unit) are set to go into volume production as soon as January 2012 so as to be ready for a Q2 launch. It’s still unclear when the chips will launch but it seems they’ll be able to debut close to Intel’s Ivy Bridge. [...]

We already wrote about this back in September and after asking around, AMD partners are still telling the same story, “there will be no Radeon HD 7000 series dekstop graphics card this year”. There have been some rumours floating around that AMD might launch 28nm GPUs in December but some partners are still telling us [...]

It used to be the case that your CPU was top priority when it came to water-cooling your PC. However, with the latest super-quiet high-end air coolers such as Be Quiet’s Dark Rock Advanced able to tame the likes of Intel’s Core i5-2500K, even when it’s overclocked to 5GHz, it’s not surprising that the focus [...]

SAN FRANCISCO: Nvidia Corp, known for its processors that render graphics in PCs, is outlining a novel feature of a new chip for mobile devices. The chip has essentially grown another arm. The new chip, code-named Project Kal-El, was previously known to have four processing “cores,” or engines for performing computing tasks. The abundance of [...]

Besides the launch of AMD Bulldozer and Intel Sandy Bridge-E we are eagerly awaiting the first graphics cards with GPUs built on the new 28nm node. NVIDIA has already confirmed that its first graphics cards built on 28nm will come in 2012 and we can now confirm that the same applies to AMD. The reason [...]

Asustek Computer, on September 8, announced that the company has finished establishing the largest ever GPU supercomputer in Taiwan with cooperation from the Taiwan government-backed National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC). Asustek will also send the new supercomputer to be rated in the global Top500 and Green500 supercomputer rankings at the end of 2011. The [...]