While PC shipments went up just 2.6% in Q2, Jon Peddie Research is reporting that graphics chips (GPUs, chipsets and CPUs with integrated graphics, APUs) enjoyed a higher than expected growth this past quarter, with unit sales being up 6.3% compared to Q1. This less than normal Q2 (which suggests either an inventory build-up or [...]

With no new GPUs in the works by either of the two main manufacturers, AMD and NVIDIA, this year’s Computex event isn’t going to be a very big exhibition of graphics cards. Instead, Intel’s LGA2011 and AMD’s AM3+ platforms are going to steal the show. It does leave graphics card manufacturers some attention, if they [...]

NVIDIA’s Optimus multi-GPU technology now works under Linux. Well, at least for some notebooks, it’s been hacked together by an open-source developer and in fact is working to use both Intel and NVIDIA graphics processors simultaneously with the respective drivers. This is the best Linux implementation we’ve seen yet with NVIDIA Corp still not announcing [...]

AMD’s new Radeon HD 6900 series occupies the top position in their single-GPU product hierarchy. The two models, the HD 6950 and HD 6970 are very much like the HD 5850 and HD 5870 that they replace. The xx50 cards generally run at a lower clock rate and have a few sections of the GPU [...]

Sandy Bridge processors made a significant step forward in terms of computational performance compared with the previous generation products. However, they boast one more peculiarity, which we haven’t touched upon so far – the new integrated graphics core from Intel HD Graphics family. Our today’s article will dwell on the performance of this unit and [...]

Sometimes in this industry you see products that ooze innovation. Now by any given standard that does not always mean brilliant ideas, but yeah … innovation and differentiation is always downright interesting at the very least. One innovative product that dropped like a bomb into the market a couple of weeks ago is the KFA2/Galaxy [...]

NVIDIA and Intel making nice? Hard to believe, but it’s true. These two companies have been bickering and fighting for years now. There has been a rivalry nearly as intense as Microsoft vs. Apple, with NVIDIA and Intel executives making public remarks against each other quite often. But now, it looks like the war that [...]

In the wake of its ARM related announcements, NVIDIA has also introduced its new mobile lineup, including the Geforce GTX 500M series and the Geforce GTX 485M, the fastest mobile solution from NVIDIA. The Geforce GTX 485M features 384 CUDA cores and works at 575MHz for the GPU, 1150MHz for Shaders while the GDDR5 memory [...]

Intel and NVIDIA are in discussions to try and settle their dispute over system chipsets in a move that could give a major boost to Apple. Most of the details are still secret, but NVIDIA is pressing to get back rights to make system chipsets for Intel processors with integrated memory controllers. A fight between [...]

It’s been a long time coming, but gamers can finally relax… AMD’s Radeon HD 6800 graphics cards are finally here. They may still be built upon a 40nm process, but AMD has brought a lot to the table here. We set out to see how the HD 6850 and HD 6870 compare to their closest [...]

Water cooling has been a long time favorite way of keeping my CPU’s nice and cool. Back since the day I built my first Intel Q6600 I have had my system under water. Despite the risks involved, I do prefer it to traditional air coolers. Even after I sprung a leak in my reservoir, I [...]

Google translation of 3DCenter article [HERE] . The latest rumors about NVIDIA’s GF110 chip mentions now 512 shader units and 128 texture units on a 512-bit DDR memory interface. This is somewhat surprising, as this against the GF100-chip (512 shader units, 64 TMUs and 384-bit DDR memory interface)  gain in computing power wouldn’t be very [...]

I have recently gotten an overwhelming amount of e-mail from readers since I posted my launch day review on the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 video cards asking why I didn’t compare a pair of GeForce GTS 450 video cards in SLI to a couple of ATI Radeon HD 5770 video cards running in CrossFire. The [...]

Algorithms & Numerical Techniques A02 – Accelerating Symbolic Computations on NVIDIA Fermi We present the first implementation of a complete modular resultant algorithm on the graphics hardware. Our recent developments taking advantage of new NVidia Fermi GPU architecture and instruction set allowed us to achieve about 150x speed-up over a modular resultant algorithm from Maple [...]

At the GPU Technology Conference (GTC), an annual event hosted by NVIDIA, the company named the next two succeeding GPU architectures to Fermi (the current generation architecture on which are based GeForce 400 series GPUs). NVIDIA’s next major GPU design change will come in the form of “Kepler”, probably named after the German mathematician Johannes [...]

According to the August 2010 Steam hardware survey, PC gamers prefer NVIDIA GeForce desktop video cards nearly 80% more than AMD/ATI counterparts. Great products have come from both GeForce and Radeon brands, yet based on this survey NVIDIA owns almost 60% of the entire graphics market compared to AMD’s 33%. Gamers might rely on NVIDIA’s [...]

DisplayLink Corp., the market share leader with more than three million USB graphics users worldwide, today provided a glimpse at its new SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) chip platform for next generation displays, docking stations and other integrated devices to be showcased next week at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, California, in booth #948. [...]

eVGA Classified SR2 motherboardThe overclockers, pro-users and enthusiast hardware scene has been growing for many years now, in fact it has become an interesting market for ODM’s and manufacturers to address. Hence all the overclock products names, tags and optimizations on hardware and let’s not forget all the competitions. There is however an extreme overclockers [...]

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 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 [...]