Beyond3D Featured ContentIt's Dead Jim - a debate about the future of the graphics API
Love them or hate them, standardised IHV agnostic(-ish) graphics APIs have changed the landscape in a mostly positive way. Yet some bear them ill will. We set out for the truth about their future fate, hoping that we can handle it.
At the just completed CES, NotebookReview found two MSI laptops, the
ER710 and the GX710, that share an interesting characteristic. Both are
powered by the "ATI X2600 Graphic Solution", which is presumably a
midrange DX10 GPU.
NVIDIA have released a WHQL ForceWare just for GeForce 8800 GTX and
8800 GTS under 32-bit Windows XP and Windows XP Media Center Edition.
You get the usual game and app compatibility fixes and improvements
(which are more visible in the release notes),
PureVideo technology that lets the boards…
Imagination Technologies' PowerVR division has just issued two press releases (1 & 2),
announcing new members of the SGX family and the display of working
silicon at CES 2007, respectively. If this doesn't make your heart beat
fast enough already, it might also be worth mentioning…
The Consumer Electronics Show has kicked off in Las Vegas, and the
Press Releases will be coming thick and fast. We will putting as many
of them as seem relevant in the PR forum, and pointing at those on the
front page which we find particularly interesting.
Sony announced yesterday
the creation of 'x.v.Color,' a branding methodology with associated
logo whose purpose is to provide consumers with a simplified means of
identifying xvYCC-compliant displays in anticipation of retail
availability later this year.
AMD had its analyst day just a few hours ago, with replay webcasts
now available on their website. It's also full of rather shocking
strategic details, and bullish in terms of financial data. If AMD
manages to deliver, they definitely might be about to give a much
tougher…
After a raft of similar stories this past August, Intel's shadowy Larrabee Development Group (LDG) has surfaced again
in the job ads. This time for a "Graphics System Architect" for a
project described as "working on the next generation of leading-edge
graphics technologies". The Register…
Anandtech has a fairly extensive CES writeup, containing comments from many of the major players at the show. ATI demonstrated their latest TV tuner, the Open Cable Unidirectional Receiver, or OCUR. The OCUR's major…
It's a new month so that means a new Catalyst driver release from AMD. Catalyst release 7.1 includes the expected array of bug fixes, updates to Catalyst Control Center, and performance improvements in some games such as Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, which AMD claims runs up to 12% faster on all…
The U.S.-based National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has given their prestigious 58th annual Technology & Engineering Emmy awards for 2006 at Las Vegas, on the first night of CES. Included was a group Emmy awarded to Microsoft, AMD, and NVIDIA. The citation is for
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DailyTech are reporting that ASUS have developed a product that lets you use desktop PCI Express graphics hardware on any system that sports an ExpressCard slot. With ExpressCard a conduit for PCI Express, the XG Station (eXternal Graphics…
NVIDIA has just released the (non-G80) 97.46 driver set, for both Vista x86 and x64 (RTM/Build 6000 and above only). It's not exactly…
For the chicken-entrail stirring graphics geek, a new update of the PCI Express Integrators List is always appreciated. It's often the case that unannounced products get unmasked here as imminent before other places. We've noticed that the
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