
Diving into Anti-Aliasing
All your questions about the great nemesis of graphics, and some of its cures, answered in one fell swoop. Would you kindly jump right in?
Information about the future successors of the RV610 and RV630, found
respectively in the Radeon HD 2400 and 2600, has been unearthed. The
always unable to keep a secret sources close to graphics card
manufacturers told DigiTimes that AMD's DirectX 10.1 entry-level and
mid-range graphics processor would be known under…
eWeek are reporting that Henri Richard has joined Freescale to head up the company's sales and marketing.
Linux.com have published an interesting piece on Nouveau, an open source GNU/Linux graphics driver for NVIDIA graphics hardware.
ArcSoft, creators of the Digital Theatre video player software for Windows, have announced that version 2 will support NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology.
GeCube have announced that their one-PCB Crossfire HD 2600 XT design is now shipping to the channel.
Citing sources at graphics card makers, Digitimes are reporting that an NVIDIA GPU by the name of G92 is set to launch on November 12th.
Referencing his company's online hardware survey, Newell says, "Microsoft made a terrible mistake", in limiting DirectX 10 to Vista, saying it should be available on Windows XP too.
The folks at CGSociety published a video late last week that looks at Ubisoft Montreal using Pixologic ZBrush 3.0 as part of their content pipe, looking at Assassin's Creed and Rainbow Six: Vegas in particular.
Not the most Earth shattering news ever, but something for a quiet Friday afternoon at least. Intel have made live their official G35 chipset specification page which shows the IGP supporting the promised DirectX Shader Model 4.0.
As noted in our previous news item, "it's Bioshock Day!" and the graphics IHVs are rushing to assist in the celebration. Not to be left out, AMD is contributing a Hotfix to the party, since the "beta" model favored by their competitors is not to their liking.
X-bit labs, via Newhua, have pictures of the next generation Ageia PhysX processor on PCI Express.
AMD just announced that its upcoming Catalyst 7.9 drivers for Linux will not only finally provide support to HD X2000 series on the OS, but it is also claimed to host the most significant series of enhancements ever for Linux users. As far as AMD graphics drivers are concerned, that is. AMD quite decided…
Digitimes are reporting, via their usual sources at graphics card makers, that NVIDIA are set to deploy a new revision of the BR02 PCI Express-to-AGP bridge IC, to get GeForce 8-series products on AGP.
Hot on the heels of the GeCube dual HD 2600 XT announcement last Friday, Sapphire are set to announce a similar product very shortly today.
After far too long, we've (finally!) finished our investigation into
the image quality offered by AMD's R6xx products. More than that, we
look at the theory behind the custom filter antialiasing and its
benefits and drawbacks.
Yes, we are aware that it's not just NVIDIA and ATI/AMD that's made discrete video solutions in recent years. To prove it, we haul out from our vaults three examples now returned to publication.
ExtremeTech have scored a podcast interview with AMD CTO Phil Hester. Phil talks about Fusion integration, Barcelona, power and thermals, custom logic and more, in a 30 minute chunk of the cast.
Taiwanese Add-In Board (AIB) manufacturer, MSI unveiled today two new GeForce 8600 graphics cards. The originality of these models comes from their tweaked video BIOS, making the G84 shader core run at a higher clock rate. Another novelty is the presence of a switch on the Twin Turbo model that lets…
HEXUS are reporting that Henri Richard, Executive VP and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, is to leave AMD on September 8th.
The hottest new game causing tongues to wag and WASD fingers to sweat is 2K Boston/2K Australia's Bioshock. And, as is so often the case, the IHVs are rushing to provide optimized drivers for the new hottie on the block.