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.
Last week during Sony's quarter-end earnings call, CFO Takao Yuhara
provided new insight into upcoming cost-cutting measures for the
PlayStation 3, including a move already underway towards 65nm
production for Cell.
Digitimes is reporting
that AMD is indeed on track to deliver the 690 Series chipset family by
the end of February. As expected, it is a two-chip solution, with the
SB600 complementing the northbridge. We talked about the various
northbridge SKUs in a previous news piece.
Not satisfied with just one release of drivers for their flagship
GeForce 8800 line during Vista launch week, NVIDIA have thrown down
with a second set today. These are the 100.59 ForceWare, for both x86 and x64. They appear to have a few improvements mentioned in…
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.
Just a quick one to say that Microsoft have stuck to their bi-monthly release schedule for DirectX updates with the usual set of downloads.
If you're a developer, the SDK…
If you're a developer, the SDK…
Continuing the theme in recent weeks of increasing signs and portents of an impending launch of AMD's new DX10 flagship GPU, R600, Tom's Hardware Guide (THG) is reporting that AMD has set a date for the inevitable "Tech Day"…
DRAMeXchange has just published their report on the motherboard chipset market for…
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…
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