We’re not far away from going ‘out with the old and in with the new’ as the launch of the 4k series of AMD graphics card close in upon us. This month, looking through the release notes for the latest incarnation of Catalyst drivers we see that a few performance increases have been promised.
Maybe AMD [...]
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ATI Catalyst 8.5 Analysis - XP & Vista
Posted by Cabro in May 30th 2008
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Add to technoratiMore Hi-Def Bang for Your Buck with S3 Graphics’ Chrome 440 GTX
Posted by Cabro in May 30th 2008
Chrome 440 GTX graphics card offers improved gaming performance and Dual-Stream Hi-Def video with the latest GDDR3 memory for under $70
Fremont, California, May 30, 2008 - S3 Graphics, a leading provider of graphics and visualization technologies, today announced its latest S3 Graphics Chrome 440 GTX desktop cards. Boards are now available at online retail affiliate [...]
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Attack of the Blacks: XFX GeForce 9800 GTX/GX2 Black Edition
Posted by Cabro in May 30th 2008
Although it has been less than two months since the launch of NVIDIA’s G92-based GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB and GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB cards, the retail market has been flooded with competitively priced stock GeForce 9800 GTX and GeForce 9800 GX2, as well as overclocked editions of both cards as various manufacturers attempt to out-do [...]
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BFG announces GeForce 9800 GTX H2OC 512MB Video Card Featuring Thermointelligence Water Cooling
Posted by Cabro in May 30th 2008
Lake Forest, IL – (May 28, 2008) – BFG Technologies®, Inc., the leading North American and European supplier of advanced NVIDIA-based 3D graphics cards, power supplies, and other PC enthusiast products, announced today the BFG NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800 GTX H2OC 512MB graphics card featuring a ThermoIntelligence® custom copper water block co-developed by BFG and Danger [...]
SuperPi on GPU, were going CUDA
Posted by Cabro in May 28th 2008
The first steps were taken to port Superpi to CUDA so we should see working software in less than 30 days.
What is CUDA?
“The CUDA™ Toolkit is a C language development environment for CUDA-enabled GPUs.”
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_learn.html
CUDA will enable SuperPi to run on the GPU.
We will soon be able to bench on hundreds of cores inside our GPU’s [...]
Radeon HD 4807X2 in mid-Q3, costs less than GTX280 *corrected*
Posted by Cabro in May 28th 2008
Radeon HD 4870X2 is the next high-end card from ATI (although we might regret saying that when you see the performance of Radeon HD 4870 alone). Like the high-end of the preceding family, ATI has bridged two chips on one PCB. The card is highly dependent on the drivers as it uses ATI’s multi-GPU solution [...]
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AMD Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 will compete against GeForce 9800 series
Posted by Cabro in May 28th 2008
The Chinese edition of Tom’s Hardware Guide got their hands on some marketing slides of AMD’s upcoming graphics cards. One of the things these slides reveal is that the Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon HD 4870 graphics cards won’t compete against NVIDIA’s upcoming GeForce GTX 260 or 280 graphics cards. Performance wise the upcoming RV770 [...]
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Nvidia changes GT200 NDA date
Posted by Cabro in May 28th 2008
NVIDIA SURE KNOWS how to screw the press, they are masters at it. Thanks to several memos that tipped up, you too can know how they operate.
These are from Philip Scholz, Consumer Marketing Specialist at Nvidia and are of very ‘high’ importance. Phil is a new one in the Memogate series, so hi Phil, welcome [...]
Chaintech Announces Limited Gaming Edition bundling Overclocking Graphics Card
Posted by Cabro in May 28th 2008
Walton Chaintech, the world’s renowned memory module and graphics card manufacturer, will proudly display its latest products at 2008 Taipei Computex. Walton Chaintech is about to showcase excellent product portfolio including APOGEE overclocking memory modules and CHAINTECH gaming graphics cards embraced by the theme of Gaming with Passion at TWTC Nangang Hall Stand J306 in [...]
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XFX 9800GTX Black Edition Review
Posted by Cabro in May 26th 2008
Motherboards.org takes a look at the XFX 9800GTX Black Edition.
XFX has become a household name in the PC industry and they have taken major strides to become a worldwide player in the VGA and motherboard game. They have market shares just about everywhere and have begun to really expand their sales across the globe. XFX [...]