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Late last week an intriguing Radeon HD 2600 XT turned up from Sapphire, arguably AMD's biggest graphics AIB partner. Passively cooled and still at 800MHz, the promise of high video and 3D performance with no noise was a big one. We took an early look to see if it stood up under initial testing.
Worried that Moore's Law will end at 22nm? Don't worry David Kanter has got you covered...
ATI have announced a new line of workstation-class graphics accelerators, which they're calling FirePro. ATI position FirePro underneath FireGL in terms of the relative levels of performance that the products offer, marking them as the company's entry level professional accelerators.
NVIDIA's design investment into new GPU architectures doesn't just apply to consumer products. The company, like AMD, have one eye on the professional space at engineering time, the result being a pro product line with almost as much depth as their consumer offerings. With Quadro FX 5600 and 4600 already…
IBM announced earlier this week the introduction of the BladeCenter QS21, the newest iteration of the Cell-based QS20 blade server released last year.
Our spies on the SIGGRAPH show floor have spotted the rear end of an AMD FireGL V5600. Hark back to the very recent launch announcement at the same show and you'll remember the V5600 sounded like a clone of a Radeon HD 2600 XT 512MiB. How right that is.
Microsoft have licensed unknown graphics intellectual property to Weta Digital, the guys behind the digital effects of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong movies, among others.
NVIDIA has announced the release of a sample CUDA plug-in for Matlab that accelerates single-precision FFTs by up to 14x.
NVIDIA has released version 1.0 of its CUDA programming framework, with a number of new features including asynchronous kernel calls and 64-bit Linux support.
Being able to witness the earnest birth of a new computing industry is a special thing. In the last few years, efforts to use programmable commodity graphics hardware for things other than graphics have gained pace, and now there's a legit multi-million dollar industry surrounding it.
Figures released by Jon Peddie Research for Q1 this year in the workstation market hold some surprises, not least that the share for 2P workstation by AMD Opteron has fallen to levels AMD last experienced back in Q3 and Q3 2005.
NVIDIA introduced a number of new Quadro products today, along with SLI Multi-OS which, amazingly enough, allows for full 3D acceleration in guest OSes for virtualization. A beta version of their CUDA raytracing solution has also shipped to their partners in early March.
AMD has announced the general availability of its latest FireGL professional graphics product, the V7700. Slotting in underneath the 1GiB and 2GiB R600-based V8600 and V8650, the 512MiB V7700 is based on their RV670 GPU.
HotHardware have the scoop on an upcoming AIB release by Diamond Multimedia that pairs AMD R600 with 2GiB of GDDR4 for the professional workstation market.
One of the rare negatives brought up by gamers during discussion about BioShock, the latest game from Irrational Games, now 2K Boston and 2K Australia, was its quite draconian online activation system. Acknowledging this outcry from their customers and fans, 2K games decided to raise the number of authorised online…
NVIDIA launched a new Quadro Plex VCS 1000 yesterday at SIGGRAPH. The Model S4 is effectively just the
Tesla S870 GPU Computing Server repurposed for Quadro-led apps.
AMD have announced new FireGL workstation graphics products at SIGGRAPH today, based on their R600 and RV630 ASICs currently used in desktop graphics products.
ZDNet's Technical Director, George Ou, has called the latest round of pre-release Barcelona performance data by AMD, blatantly deceptive, cherry-picked and simply wrong.
Semiconductor equipment and materials supplier organisation, SEMI, announced yesterday that orders for semiconductor equipment rose in May --about six percent greater than April and three percent better than May of last year.
This past week NVIDIA announced the availability of FX Composer 2 (Beta
3) for public download, marking the first time a beta revision of the
shader-authoring software has been made publicly available. Key feature
set highlights include cross-platform support for DirectX 9 and OpenGL,
as well as HLSL, COLLADA FX…
GPGPU middleware developer PeakStream has been acquired by Google, according to The Register. Where this leaves the GPGPU development platform is unclear, although it has stopped selling the product for the moment.