Beyond3D Featured ContentNVIDIA Fermi GPU and Architecture Analysis
The timing could barely be better! ATI launch a new line of graphics processors and what do we do? We finally get round to looking at Fermi. Alex was at the controls again for this one, beating GF100 in GeForce GTX 470 form up with a new suite of software and a very deep, in-depth analysis of how the majority of the chip and architecture work. It's the de-facto public analysis and a must read.
As expected, NVIDIA officially released ForceWare version 100.54 for
Vista for the 8800 GTX and 8800 GTS. NVIDIA's download page still
points to 97.46 as the driver of choice for any earlier cards under
Vista, so while 100.54 supports the GeForce 6 and 7 series, it might
not be a…
Dailytech and Hexus
both have a bunch of new mini-facts on Penryn today, among which what
they claim is the first official die shot of 'Penryn'. Apparently, most
of the extra transistors (410M vs 298M for Conroe) will be used for
extra cache (6MiB vs 4MiB),…
AMD held their 4th quarter 2006 financial results conference call
on Tuesday. In answer to a question about the timing of their next
generation R600 GPU, AMD's Henri Richard, Executive Vice President of
Worldwide Marketing and Sales, replied: "We're still planning to bring
to market the R600 product…
Six weeks ago, job descriptions for Intel's Larrabee Development Group caused widespread speculation
that the chip giant would be re-entering the discrete graphics
marketplace. These speculations have now been confirmed with Intel actively recruiting
for its Visual Computing Group, the official name for the Larrabee
project.…
According to VR-Zone,
the rumours that the GeForce 8600 (G84) will be using a 256-bit bus are
incorrect; instead the chip will still be using a 128-bit bus, like its
mid-range predecessor (G73), a configuration which matches what we have
heard. They further claim there will be two…
LaptopVideo2Go have their
hands on a Forceware 100-series driver for G80 and Windows Vista. Cue
the rejoicing (at least from us), despite obvious pre-release and
unofficial status.
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.
In a keynote yesterday at DesignCon and as reported by EE Times, AMD reiterated their goal to have Fusion available in the notebook market by early 2009. At initial announcement of ATI's acquisition…
Released yesterday, Sony's latest firmware update for the Playstation 3
has succeeded in correcting one of the more frustrating aspects of the
console's launch; horizontal scaling issues resulting in degraded
visuals across a number of legacy game titles.
Well, after a fashion. The Hexites have scored a partial screenie of AMD's luscious femme la graphique here. Could it be we're starting to see some of the real milestones one would expect to see once the snowball starts down…
According to Digitimes, AMD and NVIDIA are about to increase their orders at TSMC for 65nm and 80nm, as they prepare to introduce RV610/RV630 (65nm) and G84/G86 (80nm). We can confirm that those are indeed the process…
Since our previous report last November, the RV570-based ATI Mobility Radeon X1900 has decided to come out of the closet, with AMD's website recently
A quick look at NVIDIA's website will reveal that they are currently looking for eDRAM engineers. It's worth noting that they have never shipped any such design, and it seems extremely unlikely to…
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…
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