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GPU shipments fall Q1 '08: GPU shipments fall Q1 '08Because, frankly, nVidia leads in performance , , ,ATI may look better in some artificial benchmarks, but it seems nVidia does better in real world tests. You recently whined about how your crossfire configuration with ATI only got about 25 frames/second with Crysis set to "high"...; Tags: Games, NVidia Corp., ATI Technologies Inc., game, GPU; Discussion threads 2008-05-03
GPU shipments fall Q1 '08: According to Jon Peddie Research, GPU shipments this quarter fell by levels not seen since 2005. The report shows that GPU shipments fell by 5.6% compared to Q4 07. However, on a positive note, shipments are up 20% compared to Q1 07. ...; Tags: Shipment, GPU, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-05-02
Apple bumps top iMac to 3.06GHz: Apple usually announces things on Tuesdays, but instead today announced new speed-bumped iMacs. The new all-in-one Macs feature up to 3.06GHz processors, more RAM, larger hard drives and more powerful graphics processors. The top-of-the-line 24-inch model gets a 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM...; Tags: Hard Drive, ATI Radeon, Apple iMac, Apple Inc., ATI Technologies Inc., Intel Core 2 Duo, GPU, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-04-28
New high-def S3 graphics processor announced: ESC 2008 seems hot this year, and S3 Graphics just announced its 65-nanometer 4300E graphics processor this morning. The company claims that the 4300E outperforms its competition by as much as 30 percent, and is the only discrete high-performance HD video and graphics processor designed specifically to...; Tags: S3 Inc., Processor, Multimedia, Video, Graphics, GPU, ESC 2008, 4300E, Connectability, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-04-16
PhysX coming to GeForce 8/9 owners soon: PhysX coming to GeForce 8/9 owners soonThis is my second time nVidia cost me; this time $220Adriver overwrite took out the RUN.DLL on my NEW! XP O/S with 150GB Hard drive. It all works fine with ATi Technologies; brfore and I guess when I need to fix it. Gasoline prices...; Tags: NVidia Corp., GPU, Nvidia GeForce; Discussion threads 2008-04-15

PhysX coming to GeForce 8/9 owners soon: When nVIDIA bought Ageia Technologies in February of this year it was clear what nVIDIA had in mind - to make the PhysX API independent of separate hardware and instead offload the work to the GPU. Well, only two months on and nVIDIA have announced that the conversion of the...; Tags: Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., Graphics, Intel Corp., GPU, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-04-15
From two to three GPUs with CrossfireX Quad: There was a reason that I was excited about AMD/ATi releasing the Catalyst 8.3 drivers yesterday - and that's because I had waiting in the wings a dual-GPU Sapphire Radeon 3870 X2 dual GPU graphics card which I wanted to fit into my main system along with a Radeon 3870...; Tags: Card, GPU, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-03-06
Forget AMD, Intel should buy Nvidia: Forget AMD, Intel should buy NvidiaAre you trying to twist...the knife AMD already has in their gut?consolidation of the tech industry is not in best interest of consumer. (nt:).RE: Forget AMD, Intel should buy NvidiaOddly enough when I build systems for my gaming clients ATI cards seem better paired with...; Tags: Strategy, GPU, NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-02-25
GeForce 8 users to get software PhysX support ... someday: nVIDIA is moving fast with their acquisition of AGEIA - during the fourth-quarter financial results conference call, the graphics giant announced that the company was planning to bring software PhysX support to the GeForce 8 GPU. nVIDIA's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed that the plan was to take...; Tags: Software, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., Ageia, Graphics, GPU, PhysX, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-02-15
SciMark Graphics (exe): GPU, another major component for today's cinematic and reality computing. SciMark Standard Edition Graphics is a software pack which can measure the ability of GPU within certain environments. It measures power of GPU and the combination power of GPU and CPU as in everyday applications. It is implemented by OpenGL...; Tags: GPU, SciMark Standard Edition Graphics; Software downloads 2008-02-13
The battle for the soul of your smartphone: The battle for the soul of your smartphoneI hope cell phone companies are upset enoughI really hope cell phone companies are getting upset enough to change their slavery, er, subscription plans. Frankly, cell phone "contracts" are some of the worst contracts in the business. I don't know of any other...; Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, INTERNET, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Google Inc., ARM, soul, cell phone, smart phone, cell network, PLEASE MAKE, camera, phone, GPU, mile copper; Discussion threads 2008-02-12
Nvidia posts details of new laptop GPUs: It seems Nvidia has "soft-launched" its new graphics processing units GPUs for laptops. Though the company hasn't officially announced the GeForce 9M series, several sites including TGDaily.com noticed that the basic specs and other information now appear on Nvidia's site. The mainstream GeForce 9300M G has 16...; Tags: Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., Acer Inc., Graphics, Laptop Computer, GPU, GeForce 9M Series, John Morris; Blog posts 2008-02-10
Hands-on with the AMD Spider - Phenom 9700, 790 chipset and Radeon 3850 graphics: Hands-on with the AMD Spider - Phenom 9700, 790 chipset and Radeon 3850 graphicsOh, that's right. I did forget. Thanks Adrian! ;)How come such a 'slow' drive? What? Only 10,000 rpm? ;)Seriously, spin that puppy up. Rock and Roll.I'll be waiting for a 65w Quad-Core...; Tags: Chipsets, Semiconductors, Games, Processors, 64-bit, Network technology, 64-bit computing, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Phenom 9700, GPU, Radeon 3850, Hands-On, Radeon, chipset, graphics; Discussion threads 2008-01-08
Real-Time Mesh Simplification Using the GPU: Recent advances in real-time rendering have allowed the GPU implementation of traditionally CPU-restricted algorithms, often with performance increases of an order of magnitude or greater. Such gains are achieved by leveraging the large-scale parallelism of the GPU towards applications that are well-suited for these streaming architectures. By contrast, mesh simplification...; Tags: Simplification, GPU; White papers 2008-01-01
GPU-Z: GPU-Z application was designed to be a lightweight tool that will give you all information about your video card and GPU. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: GPU, Video Cards, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Hardware, Components, Marketing; Software downloads 2007-12-26
GPU (950_full): GPU is a Gnutella client that allows users to share CPU-resources. GPU allows the creation of computer alliances. The CPU-time sharing system does not recognize privileges between users. Each person agrees to provide network resources as needed and in return is able to get CPU-cycles from other clients on the...; Tags: Search Engine, GPU; Software downloads 2007-12-19
First look at the ATI Radeon HD 3870: Yesterday I received a nice surprise in the mail - a box from ATI containing a Radeon HD 3870. Unfortunately, I was in the grips of a nasty bout of stomach flu and not even the prospect of better frames per second couldn't convince me that it was a good...; Tags: Card, ATI Radeon, ATI Technologies Inc., GPU, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2007-12-05
UberFlow: A GPU-Based Particle Engine: This paper presents a system for real-time animation and rendering of large particle sets using GPU computation and memory objects in OpenGL. Memory objects can be used both as containers for geometry data stored on the graphics card and as render targets, providing an effective means for the manipulation and...; Tags: GPU, Particle Engine; White papers 2007-12-01
Optimising Data Movement Rates for Parallel Processing Applications on Graphics Processors: Graphics Processing UnitsGPUs are starting to play an increasingly important role in non-graphical applications which are highly parallelisable. With the latest graphics cards boasting a theoretical 165GFlops and 54GB/s memory bandwidth spread across 48 ALUs it is easy to see why. The GPU architecture is particularly suited to the parallel...; Tags: Processor, Parallel Processing, Graphics, GPU, Trinity College Dublin, Graphics Processing Unit Architecture; White papers 2007-12-01
AMD lets Spider platform out for holiday season: AMD lets Spider platform out for holiday seasonWhat a waste of slots for having four video cards...Try fitting 4 dual-slot video cards as you'll need ThermalTake Armor+ for that. It comes with 10 expansion slots.AMD is putting all their eggs on ATISeems like AMD's CPUs aren't making many waves and...; Tags: Video cards, Corporate communications, Games, radiosity, card, video card, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., GPU, video, game; Discussion threads 2007-11-19