GPU
New AMD Fusion Rumors point to RV710 GPU Core
AMD has been talking about the AMD Fusion since 2006. The AMD Fusion will have both the CPU and GPU on the same die, but in different cores.
Rumors have been circulating for a while now on the details of the CPU and GPU chip. A new rumor appeared in Asia on HKEPC claiming that the AMD Fusion codename Shift will be featuring a RV710 architecture.
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Posted on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:21:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
New NVIDIA Quadro Fx Notebook GPUs announced
NVIDIA announces the introduction of a new series of NVIDIA Quadro FX mobile GPUs, featuring an NVIDIA CUDA Parallel Computing Processor.
Workstation manufacturers such as Dell, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP and Lenovo are now offering the new series of Quadro FX mobile GPUs across a wide range of professional notebook workstations.
Highlighting the flagship product of the series is the Quadro FX 3700M, with 128 CUDA Parallel Computing Processor cores, which offers an unprecedented 1 GB of dedicated graphics memory for graphics-performance hungry industries such as oil and gas exploration, mechanical design and digital content creation.
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Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:39:34 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
NVIDIA informs about faulty GPUs, takes one-time Charge from $150m to $200m
NVIDIA announced a new financial outlook that includes information about issues with previous generation GPU and MCP products in notebooks.
The issues are big enough that NVIDIA plans to take a one-time charge from $150 million to $200 million to cover anticipated warranty, repair, return, replacement and other costs and expenses.
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Posted on Thu, 3 Jul 2008 01:02:39 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series is World's first TeraFLOPS GPU
Today AMD officially announced the new HD 4800 series GPUs. The new HD 4850 and HD 4870 were already revealed this week, when Diamond apparently unveiled their 4800 series card too early.
AMD says the ATI Radeon HD 4850 is the first TeraFLOPS graphics card available. Additionally the HD 4870 based cards feature GDDR5 memory.
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Posted on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
NVIDIA Sneaks a new 9800 GTX+ GPU into the Mix
NVIDIA announced a new GPU today called the GeForce 9800 GTX+ that promise a new price/performance bar in the GeForce family. The 9800 GTX+ uses the G92-based 9800 GTX and offers more value for gamers. The 9800 GTX+ will sell for $229 and the original 9800 GTX will move to $199.
The GTX+ will have a processor clock of 1836MHz and a graphics clock of 738 MHz. The card will also support PhysX, CUDA, and Folding@Home. Both 2-way and 3-way SLI are supported. NVIDIA says that the driver to enable PhysX on GeForce cards is coming in July. Read more
Posted on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:40:02 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
NVIDIA GTX 200 Series GPUs Introduced
Today NVIDIA has launched its latest video cards based on the new GTX 200 series GPUs. The two cards announced are the GTX 260 and the GTX 280. The GTX 280 is the new NVIDIA flagship processor and powers the fastest video card to ever wear the NVIDIA brand.
Features of the GTX 280 and GTX 260 GPUs include second generation unified architecture to deliver 50% performance gains over the previous 8800 Ultra GPU with 240 enhanced processor cores. Both the GTX 280 and GTX 260 cards are capable of 3-way SLI. The cards also feature PureVideo HD technology and NVIDIA’s CUDA technology. Read more
Posted on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:09:34 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
ARM Announces Mali-400 Mobile GPU
NVIDIA isn’t the only company announcing new mobile GPUs today. ARM has announced its new Mali-400 mobile GPU. ARM says its new GPU will be used in mobile phones and other devices like 1080p-based iDTVs.
The Mali-400 MP solution can scale from 300 million to over 1 billion pixels per second. ARM says that the new Mali-400 GPU can scale for different performance needs and to meet different price points. Despite no hard specifications being available at this time, ARM says the Mali-400 is available for licensing today. Read more
Posted on Mon, 2 Jun 2008 11:32:15 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
ASUS EAH3850 X2 1GB Dual GPU Video Card Review
ThinkComputer published a review of the ASUS EAH3850 X2 1GB Dual GPU Video Card.
Quote from the review: "Recently, ASUS was among the first companies to put a pair of ATI HD 3850s on a single graphics card, for a more affordable dual-GPU experience. I reviewed a Radeon HD 3850 (single GPU) earlier this year, and was very impressed with it.performance just shy of an 8800GT at $100 less.
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Posted on Fri, 30 May 2008 15:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
CS Next Photoshop to get GPU Acceleration
The next version of Adobe Photoshop is supporting hardware acceleration.
TG Daily reports about a Photoshop presentation with GPU support that sounds very promising. Quote:" We saw the presenter playing with a 2 GB, 442 megapixel image like it was a 5 megapixel image on an 8-core Skulltrail system. Changes made through image zoom and through a new rotate canvas tool were applied almost instantly. Another impressive feature was the import of a 3D model into Photoshop, adding text and paint on a 3D surface and having that surface directly rendered with the 3D models' reflection map."
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Posted on Sat, 24 May 2008 13:10:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Xbox 360 Jasper with 65nm GPU coming
A report from Taiwanese CENS indicates that Microsoft has started production on yet another Xbox 360 hardware redesign dubbed Jasper. We first reported about Jasper back in October 2007.
Apparently TSMC has been chosen to make the 65nm graphics chips and north-bridge chips for the Xbox 360 Jasper version. The new Xbox 360 consoles are expected to ship in August.
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Posted on Fri, 9 May 2008 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
GPU Market Sees Largest Q1 Growth in 6 Years
According to Jon Peddie Research the overall GPU market was up 4% in Q1 2008. Traditionally the first quarter of the year sees negative or flat growth as the market rebounds from the holiday shopping season of Q4.
Q1 2008 marked the first quarter to quarter growth in the GPU industry in 6 years according to JPR and the quarter was up 32% year to year. Intel and VIA were the biggest gainers for the quarter. Read more
Posted on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:01:12 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
NVIDIA Gets Aggressive, Dismisses CPU-GPU Fusio
HotHardware reports about about NVIDIA Financial Analyst Day that took place this week.
Quote: "NVIDIA held a Financial Analyst Day yesterday, where representatives spoke about the company's strengths, market share, technology, and direction. There was a lot of discussion regarding current products and competition, which seemed to get NVIDIA's CEO Jen-Sun Huang fired up in a way that's not often seen publicly.
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Posted on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Opinion: Quad GPUs are not the Future
TweakTown posted a piece about Quad GPUs and there viability as future for graphics performance.
Quote: "We’ve tested it, and now it’s time to voice our thoughts on it. The problem that I have with Dual-GPU graphics card solutions is that it seems to be the lazy mans advancement in graphics card technology.
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Posted on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
GECUBE Dual GPU Gemini 3
Quote from the report: "Remember the Gemini 3 from GECUBE? If not, let us refresh your memory. The Gemini 3 is the second dual GPU card from GECUBE, the previous one was the Gemini 2 and it was based on a pair of Radeon X1650 XTs. The Gemini 3 features a pair of Radeon HD 2600 XT GPUs and they’re clocked at 800MHz. Each GPU is paired with 256MB of 500MHz DDR2 memory (1GHz effectively).
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Posted on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
NVIDIA Tesla GPU Computing
NVIDIA has been talking up their new Tesla GPU Computing solutions for HPC this week. NVIDIA has taken their 8800 series graphics cards and positioned them for use by scientists.
NVIDIA has taken three different directions with the Tesla products, the C870 GPU computing processor that can provide over 500 gigaflops of floating point performance. The Tesla S870 GPU computing server designed to fit into enterprise rack mount environments. Read more
Posted on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:14:46 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Pixelmator, World's First GPU Image Editing Program
Mac users are getting the World’s first GPU-Powered image editor that brings all a Mac head needs to create, edit, and enhance still images. Pixelmator (Like Tuh-mator, without the Tuh) was built from the ground up using open source and Mac OS X technologies.
"Finally, an innovative, fast, and easy-to-use image editor that brings the power of today's expensive image production tools to every Mac user at a very affordable price," said Saulius Dailide, Pixelmator Team. "We think all Mac people-home users as well as professionals-will find Pixelmator very useful and fun". Read more
Posted on Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:43:31 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
AMD Talks up Fusion of CPU & GPU
AMD had an analyst’s day conference call today and DailyTech is reporting that one of the topics of discussion was the new Fusion processor. Many expect that AMD will debut the new Fusion processor in late 2008 or early 2009.
The Fusion will have both the CPU and GPU on the same die, but in different cores. DT says that the CPU will have access to its on cache and the GPU will have access to its own buffers. Read more
Posted on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:36:02 CST | by Shane McGlaun
Will the ATI R700 use Multiple Small GPUs Rather than One Big GPU?
Even though the ATI R600 class GPUs are not yet on the market, there is already some talk of the ATI R700 successor to the ATI R600. It seems that perhaps in the R700 ATI will use multiple small GPUs on one graphics card rather than one large GPU for all tasks.
This would be like using a multiple CPU system for your computer vs a single CPU solution. I would assume you would be able to have one GPU handle physics, one handle shaders etc if you wanted. On the other hand, just make a whopping load of unified shaders to handle everything you might need. Read more
Posted on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:47:59 CST | by Shane McGlaun
Folding@Home Now Utilizes ATI GPUs
Folding@Home has been around for a long while now and is a software application that you download to your computer that allows you to donate your unused computer time to fantastically worthy causes like the search for cures to diseases like Alzheimer’s. Folding@Home has become very popular and several large websites support teams of folders.
To date all the donated computer time has centered on the CPU. However, in the newest beta version of the Folding@Home software you can now utilize processor time from ATI GPUs from the newest X1950 to the X1900 and X1800 GPUs. Read more
Posted on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Nvidia SLI GPU-teaming with GeForce 6600 GTs Review
The Techreport takes a look at SLI GPU-teaming with low-cost cards.
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"THE BIGGEST PROMISE of NVIDIA's new SLI GPU-teaming capability may be the ability to upgrade on an installment plan. By building an SLI-capable system with a single graphics card now, users give themselves the option of adding a second card later for nearly two times the rendering power. For most of us, the most realistic and affordable means of building such a system is NVIDIA's GeForce 6600 GT GPU. At around $200, the 6600 GT seems ideal for SLI.
But does a multi-GPU solution with $200 cards make sense in the age of killer $400 cards and eBay? Tough question. In order to answer it, we've tested a pair of Asus's sweet GeForce 6600 GT cards in SLI, and we've compared them to thirteen different competitors, ranging from a single GeForce 6600 GT to ATI's impressive new Radeon X800 XL. Keep reading to see what we found.
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Posted on Tue, 18 Jan 2005 01:05:50 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
ATI's Radeon X800 GPUs Review
Techreport reviews the new X800 from ATI -
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BACK IN THE DAY, graphics geeks would demonstrate a new effect using a model of a teapot. Nowadays, the object of our graphics demos is the sexpot. And if the sexpot demo is a measure of a graphics card, the new Radeon X800 series wins, hands down. The X800 is ATI's second generation of DirectX 9-class GPUs with the floating-point datatypes that have taken real-time graphics to a new plane, and the Ruby demo ATI has created to show off its new GPU is simply stunning.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. First, let's set the stage a bit. You're probably already aware that ATI has had a very good past couple of years, since the introduction of the Radeon 9700 GPU (code-named R300). ATI's arch-rival, NVIDIA, struggled mightily with its competing NV30-series of graphics chips, but just recently recovered quite nicely with the introduction of its NV40 chip, now better known as the GeForce 6800 series of GPUs.
You might do well to go read our GeForce 6800 Ultra review if you haven't already, but for the lazy among us, I'll sum things up. The GeForce 6800 Ultra is a massive chip with a sweet sixteen pixel pipelines and out-of-this-world performance several steps beyond ATI's previous top-end chip, the Radeon 9800 XT. I concluded my review of the 6800 Ultra by saying that NVIDIA had left ATI with no margin for error, and I meant it. Fortunately, it looks like ATI hasn't stumbled in the least, and the choice between graphics chips will come down to better versus best.
Read the Full Review.
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Posted on Tue, 4 May 2004 11:56:12 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
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