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NVIDIA Planning GPU – Southbridge Chipset?
According to anonymous industry sources, NVIDIA is developing a chipset that combines the functions of a southbridge and a GPU. Now that would be interesting, wouldn’t it? Therefore, Nvidia is developing the new chipset to bypass Intel’s new Sandy Bridge architecture, which combines CPU and northbridge chipsets. Nvidia’s chipsets is expected to be US$10-15 less [...]
SPARKLE GeForce 210/GT220/GT240 PCI-E x1
SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd., the professional VGA card manufacturer and supplier, today unveils the SPARKLE GeForce 210/GT220/GT240 PCI Express x1 Graphics Cards, creating upgrade possibility for user’s generic PC, providing 1080p HD video acceleration, DX10.1 gaming and premium Windows 7 experience for ordinary users. With latest PCI Express technology, SPARKLE GeForce 210/GT220/GT240 PCI Express x1 [...]
Lucid UNITY Graphics Board Architecture – HYDRA Accessible to All
Today LucidLogix Technologies (Lucid) announced its arming video card manufacturers with the new Unity graphics board architecture for the HYDRALOGIX engine (previously known as HYDRA). Now graphics board vendors for the first time can combine a single HYDRALOGIX 200 real time distributed processor with any single NVIDIA or ATI GPU, creating an affordable, flexible multi-GPU-ready [...]
First benchmark of Radeon 6800 Series
A member of PCinLIFE has posted first screenshots of unconfirmed performance benchmarks results in 3DMark Vantage. It is believed that they are valid. No specification has been posted. Such a good benchmarks results are possible on Intel Core i7. However, graphics card is still slower than Radeon HD 5970. Leaked screenshots of GPU-Z confirms GPU [...]
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Nvidia – Our CPU strategy is ARM
Nvidia’s chief executive officer is emphatic that his company has a strategy for building processors beyond its mainstay graphics chips. During an interview with CNET, Jen-Hsun Huang addressed a longstanding issue with the company’s chips that has become a financial bruden, as well as speaking about ongoing Intel litigation and the resolution of its graphics [...]
AMD muscles NVIDIA with fanless GPU coprocessors
Keeping pace with Nvidia in the GPU wars, Advanced Micro Devices has not only launched its “Lisbon” Opteron 4100 processors but also released the embedded versions of its “Cypress” family of GPUs, a counterpunch to Nvidia’s “Fermi” chips used in its Tesla embedded GPUs. The Cypress GPUs already made their way into the ATI Radeon [...]
External Graphics by MSI
MSI has another interesting product up its sleeve and although it isn’t innovative it is still enough to draw some pretty good attention, the Graphics Upgrade Solution, aka GUS. MSI’s GUS is an external graphics card interface that connects to the notebook via Express card interface and has support for PCI-Express x16 graphics cards. According [...]
GeForce GTX 480 4-way SLI Review @ Guru3D
GeForce GTX 480 Quad SLIYou know, a couple of weeks ago I started to get the Guru itch, it happens so often really. In this case, the itch to achieve something remarkable with hardware. Reaching that x-factor with cool gear. Right at that time NVIDIA released a new driver for the GeForce GTX 480 cards, [...]
ATI Radeon Gigabyte, MSI, HIS HD 5870 Review @ HotHardware
Enthusiasts are passionate about their hardware. While mainstream consumers target products with the best price to performance ratio, there is still a strong market for computer components that hold nothing back. For proof, look no further than Intel’s latest Extreme Edition 980X processor, sporting six cores and twelve threads of pure awesome. Only a handful [...]
MSI allows AMD and Nvidia DX11 cards to coexist
MOTHERBOARD MAKER MSI has released what it claims is a major driver update to its range topping Big Bang-Fuzion board. The board features Lucid’s Hydra chip, which allows AMD and NVIDIA cards in multi-GPU configurations. The board was the first to incorporate the chip and while the firm did well to overcome some of the [...]
ASUS Radeon HD 5870 Sets GPU Speed Record of 1525 MHz (core)
In an overclocking feat by XtremeSystems community members Elmor and Kinc, an ASUS EAH5870 MATRIX Radeon HD 5870 graphics card was able to achieve a mind-boggling core speed of 1525 MHz (core) from its default speed of 894 MHz, and AMD reference speed of 850 MHz. This translates into 70% over default speeds, and 79% [...]
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Quad SLI Benchmarked
We found our EMAIL maiboxes a little toasty this morning, thanks to no less than four toasty GeForce GTX 480 graphics accelerators at the end of a 3DMark Vantage session. Results you see below are those generated from a system based around the Intel Core i7-950 CPU. Totalling 1920 CUDA Cores with PhysX enabled, CPU [...]
XFX Radeon 5830 Review @ OCClub
For any rig to be considered above entry level at this point, it has to have dedicated graphics. Sure there are the Intel solutions and the integrated solutions from ATI and nVidia, but when it comes down to performance numbers in both professional and enthusiast applications, graphics cards matter. In the past few years, the [...]
GIGABYTE Radeon HD5870 Eyefinty-6 Edition Graphics Card Unveiled
GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards today is pleased to launch the latest addition to its premium graphics cards selection. GIGABYTE’s GV-R5876P-2GD-B is built with ATI Radeon HD 5870 Series GPU ─ which is based on 40nm processor and advanced GDDR5 memory technology. The powerful GPUs provide for a [...]
GeForce GTX 480 PCI-Express Scaling
Thanks to the modular, scalable design of PCI-Express, consisting of independent data-paths called ‘lanes’, motherboard designers can control a limited PCI-Express lane budget, and offer multiple PCI-Express x16 slots. In mid-range motherboards, and particularly in most motherboards based on Intel’s newest P55 chipset, 16 PCI-Express lanes are used to drive two PCI-Express slots with bandwidths [...]
TechPowerUp GPU-Z 0.4.0 Released
TechPowerUp today introduced version 0.4.0 of GPU-Z, the popular graphics-subsystem information and monitoring utility. The release comes in the midst of a number of new graphics processors from various vendors, and hence adds support for most of them. To begin with GPU-Z now supports NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480, GeForce GTX 470 GPUs (launched today), it [...]
Tweak Your Graphics Card for Gaming @ PCWorld
Here’s how to make your games look gorgeous and run smoothly–using nothing but your AMD or nVidia graphics card control panel. If you fire up a game for the first time without checking your graphics settings beforehand, you’re not getting the most out of your graphics board. Whether your PC runs a discrete graphics card [...]
NVIDIA’s Fermi Launch Delayed Until March
TechGage – This news can be filed under “rumor”, because nothing is verified, but the word that’s spreading like wildfire is that NVIDIA’s first Fermi-based graphics cards are going to be delayed until March. As you may recall, Fermi was originally supposed to launch late this year, but was rumored to have been pushed back [...]
JP Morgan – cautious optimism about the nVidia
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 [...]