JP Morgan – cautious optimism about the nVidia

Kwiecień 28th, 2009

Analysts around the world well-known U.S. financial institution JP Morgan published their assessment of the near future for NVIDIA. The analysis shows that the "Greens" in the second quarter of 2009 enters its performance at the beginning of the year, resulting in higher revenues and profits. This will contribute to the strong position of the company's chipsets, graphics cards offer stability and good sales of graphics workstations. >

ATI presents Havok Cloth – multiplatform physics engine

Kwiecień 16th, 2009

Havok (owned by Intel), together with ATI presented the first part of the new physics engine multiplatformowego. It is the Havok Cloth. The engine allows for realistic behavior of the presentation materials (clothes) and hair. It is part of an open standard OpenCL, which will be supported by graphics cards from different manufacturers. Today, Havok Cloth can use the possibility of ATI Radeon graphics cards by ATI Technologies Stream. In the future, support will be added to the nVidia card (CUDA-enabled), ...>

ATI Radeon 5870X2 Specification

Marzec 26th, 2009

Softpedia.com - Early last month, NVIDIA launched its highest-performance graphics cards to date, the 55nm-based GTX 285 and GTX 295, coming as a response to AMD's dual-GPU HD 4870 X2. Soon after the release of NVIDIA's latest GeForce cards, speculations emerged on the possibility of an upcoming Radeon graphics card, as a response to its latest offering. On that note, it now appears that the rumor mill keeps on turning and specifications of an alleged Radeon HD 5870 X2 have ...>

Caustic announces Raytracing accelerator

Marzec 19th, 2009

Not every day you can get to the start-up graphics in the activities of announcing a new product, and although the team seems to be caustic for the graphics are more than able to bring something new to the table, you have to wonder if they will be released by some more established names of the company. The product is called CausticOne and can only be seen as a photo card that can be found below, this is not a graphics ...>

Nvidia to invest in GPU startups

Marzec 19th, 2009

In recent years, Nvidia has brought forth a number of parallel efforts to accelerate and expand its share in the semiconductor-related industry, which allegedly questioned the efforts of Intel and AMD income sophistication. It goes without saying that the success of these investments is difficult to measure, but the concept continues to develop in parallel with the rapid pace in the industry. >

Radeon HD 4870X2 Mobility coming soon

Luty 24th, 2009

Soon the market will welcome most efficient video card for mobile computers. Estimated date of the emergence of the first products equipped with this system to 23 March, since then it ASUSTeK announces market introduction of its top model of W90, which is to have such a graphics card. A user with nickname "Kinc" on XtremeSystems forum has published data on the performance graphics Mobility HD 4870 X2. The system was installed in the notebook ASUS W90-based intel X38 platform and ...>

AMD Catalyst™ 9.1 Drivers

Styczeń 30th, 2009

On the AMD appeared on a new ATI Catalyst driver package for graphics cards and motherboards with Radeon series processors. Marked a new version number 9.1 The most important changes: - Support OpenGL programming interface - To improve the playback of films - Amendment of the Catalyst Control Center Drivers can be downloaded from the official site of the manufacturer. >

S3 Graphics lets a quarter of its U.S. workforce go

Styczeń 27th, 2009

S3 Graphics, once a major player in the graphics industry, is planning to shed a quarter of its U.S. based workers, according to techpowerup. Since it was taken over by VIA, S3 showed signs of recovery, as its IGPs are used in VIA based machines, but the company never recovered from its feud with Intel. It also hasn't managed to create a competitive discrete solution in years, although it latest low-end parts show promise. It's unclear how many will be let go, ...>

Styczeń 27th, 2009

Fudzilla.com - Although Nvidia has been slated for its GPU rebranding more than once, we've been informed by our sources that the company is now working on an entirely new range of graphics cards which are very different to the products currently in the market. From what we've been told, the new cards are going to look very different and for those that were around a few years ago, this is meant to be something of a blast from the past. ...>

Intel has plans with Lucid

Styczeń 27th, 2009

Fudzilla.com - Sources close to Intel have told us that Intel is working together with Lucid on some secret project. If Lucid can pull of its promised close to linear performance out of two chips, more GPUs could mean even more performance virtually linear so to say. Last week when we meet companies President and VP of Business development Mr. Offir Remez, and he confirmed that more chips means more linear performance. They don’t have to stop at three or four ...>