At SXSW Microsoft unveiled Internet Explorer 9 to enable a host of new web browsing features. One of the more important features, especially to home town firm AMD, is GPU hardware acceleration. By off loading tasks from the CPU to the GPU, IE 9 can deliver a more visual and immersive Web experience. AMD Supports […]
NVIDIA’s second-generation Fermi graphics has now entered into the budget class with the launch of the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. The card costs just $150 and drops below the $250 of the GTX 560 Ti by cutting back on its parallelism. The 550 Ti uses 192 processing cores versus the higher-end chipset’s 384, a reduced […]
Today AMD had a low-profile launch for three new mid-range Radeon HD desktop video cards destined for computer builders. The Radeon HD 6450, 6570 and 6670 have the same DirectX 11 (OpenGL 4) features and GDDR5 memory support as their larger counterparts but have been trimmed back to reduce the cost and fit in tighter […]
NVIDIA today brought its second-generation Fermi hardware into the true mid-range while resurrecting the Ti badge not used since the GeForce 3 and 4 days. The GeForce GTX 560 Ti directly replaces the GTX 460 and is about a third faster, owing both to 384 visual effects cores (up from 332) as well as a […]
Lenovo has a new IdeaCentre desktop targeted at gamers and other high-end users. The K330 will use up to quad Core i7 processors, likely based on Intel’s Sandy Bridge, and will use the matching Turbo Boost 2.0 to toggle between speed grades on the fly. A switch will let users range from a throttled-down ‘green’ […]
NVIDIA today confirmed its second-ever GeForce 500 series chipset video card. The GTX 570 has the exact same 480 cores as the old GTX 480 but, through the refined architecture, runs at a higher 732MHz main clock speed, 1.46GHz clock for each core and a 1.9GHz memory clock. It uses a narrower 320-bit memory interface […]
NVIDIA, with out much fanfare, brought out its first 500-series GeForce notebook graphics. The GeForce GT 540M like the GTX 580 is primarily a clock speed increase with an increase in its main and effects core clock speeds to 672MHz and 1.34GHz each. It shares the GeForce GT 435M’s 96 cores and 128-bit memory bandwidth. […]
MSI upgraded its mid-range performance notebooks this weekend. The 15-inch FX603 trades up to a GeForce GT 425M that should give it DirectX 11 graphics and a speed up. Owners can option up to as much as a 2.53GHz Core i5 and have an option up to 640GB of disk space. The system starts out […]
NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 580 has been previewed again with clues that the cooling will be as important as the performance. The official video below shows the “unreleased GPU” having vapor chamber cooling, which carries the heat away from the graphics chipset through constantly circling water that evaporates and condenses as it reaches the heat sinks. […]
AMD last night launched a new graphics core generation by launching the Radeon HD 6850 and 6870. The designs are roughly on par with the performance of the outgoing 5850, but due to a new architecture, are considerably cheaper at $179 (6850) and $239 (6870) while still being more power efficient. Boards will be shipping […]
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