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 […]
NVIDIA today released an entry level video chipset, the GeForce GT 430. The design is targeted at home theater computers where video playback support is more important than raw 3D performance. With that focus, the chipset now supports HDMI with passthrough audio. It can output HDMI 1.4a for full 3D video along with Dolby TrueHD […]
NVIDIA today released its current-generation Fermi graphics to less expensive workstation cards through two models, the Quadro 2000 and Quadro 600. The two have been pared back to 192 cores and 96 cores respectively but promise more performance than past models they replace. The Quadro 2000 is said to be about 50 percent faster in […]
NVIDIA chief Jen-Hsun Huang today at its GPU Technology Conference said his company would bring its CUDA general-purpose computing language directly to x86 chips. The approach developed with the Portland Group will let systems without NVIDIA cards handle the code. It will work best with multi-core processors and is being aim at the server market.. […]
NVIDIA today began shipping its long promised Fermi-based Quadro workstation graphics cards. They share the same, DirectX 11-capable and OpenGL 4.1 cores as the GeForce 400 series and are claimed to be up to five times faster than the models they replace. The top of line Quadro 6000 has a large 6GB of GDDR5 video […]
The Khronos Group today published the first specification for OpenGL 4.1 in what’s considered a coup for desktop graphics. The standard catches up to DirectX 11 in visual features and overtakes it in integration with other standards: it can now sync graphics with OpenCL to take advantage of video hardware’s general-purpose math features. Mobile app […]
AMD today announced that the world renowned ATI Radeon HD 4800 series, now found in some of the highest performance iMac and Mac Pro configurations, complements Snow Leopard’s fully compliant OpenCL Version 1.0 implementation. As an open standard specification, OpenCL is a key enabler of ATI Stream technology, which allows developers to create highly efficient […]
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