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.
Digitimes is reporting AMD
"Fusion" tea leaves that appear to be worth stirring around. This would
be fourth hand reporting, as Goldman Sachs told a Chinese newspaper
which was picked up by Digitimes and is now analysed to within an inch
of its life by us. At any…
Our sources confirm that AMD's next generation R600 GPU has been
further delayed to Q2 2007 and, sadly, they didn't mention April 1st as
the likely ETA. In fact, our understanding is that we're likely looking
at late April as a minimum here. Other reports on the net, as of…
Making good on a prior promise for WHQL-certified Windows Vista drivers for their G80-based products, NVIDIA have them available for both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of said OS.
Nab the 64-bit version of Forceware 100.65 here (direct) and the 32-bit installer here (
Nab the 64-bit version of Forceware 100.65 here (direct) and the 32-bit installer here (
The guys and gals of the NVIDIA demo team have released a DX10 demo,
and those of you with Vista, a GeForce 8800, and the newest 100.64
drivers can have a go here. At a svelte 168MB, we hope you have broadband as well.
Yesterday NVIDIA released an updated set of ForceWare drivers for
Geforce 8800 users who jumped on the Vista bandwagon. The drivers
primarily add support for the 8800 GTS 320MB, but also feature a few
game and control panel fixes, among other things.
While Larrabee is likely what many graphics enthusiasts and engineers
are pondering upon right now, it is hardly the only FP-rich project
going on at Intel. Further details have emerged today on Intel's
Terascale chips, also known as Polaris. Anandtech has a full article on the subject, and…
PCI-SIG announced yesterday
that the PCI Express External Cabling Specification had been completed.
The spec is compatible with PCIe 1.1 and will be available in link
widths up to 16x. However, it is not compatible with the recently-completed PCIe 2.0 spec (PDF).
Having to endure a lot of unfamiliar criticism recently thrown their
way due to shoddy Vista drivers for their graphics hardware, NVIDIA has
made an encouraging announcement in a short piece on PC Perspective.
HKEPC is reporting
that SiS is planning to release DX10-compliant IGPs as early as Q3 of
this year, slated towards both Intel and AMD motherboards. The graphics
part of the chip will be marketed as the "Mirage 4", but no further
specifications are available. The overall platforms support…
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 will be of interest, as will the symbol files. End users will want …
If you're a developer, the SDK will be of interest, as will the symbol files. End users will want …
In a surprise press release made by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe earlier today, it was revealed that the European version of the PlayStation 3 - set to launch March 23rd - would also be the…
Just moments ago AMD released this months update to the ATI Catalyst drivers, bringing the Radeon powering software up to version 7.2.
Along with the usual bug fixes, ATI has reported significant performance improvements for OpenGL under Vista for X1K family users with gains of up to 25%…
Along with the usual bug fixes, ATI has reported significant performance improvements for OpenGL under Vista for X1K family users with gains of up to 25%…
The graphics world has been atwitter in recent months over swirling rumors and indications of a re-entry by Intel into high-end graphics. Speculation has centered around the so-called "Larrabee group", which recently was identified on Intel's own pages as their
Talking yesterday to reporters, Yutaka Nakagawa, Executive Deputy President of Sony's semiconductor and component device businesses, revealed…
Way back in the spring of 2005, Dave Orton noted that it would be a year of investment for his company (then known as ATI), while 2006 would be the year of benefiting from that investment. At the time, observers took him to mean that the considerable effort that went into designing
Clearly NVIDIA has gotten the message that the community is sincerely irked about the state of Vista drivers. As we reported yesterday, they have committed to monthly releases of ForceWare for at least the foreseeable future…
About a week ago, we published a news piece on DRAMeXchange's market share numbers for Q406, but noted that we found some of these figures suspicious because they didn't match those previously provided by Mercury Research. We contacted DRAMeXchange, and got a good explanation on this discrepancy: Mercury…
DailyTech claims to have some new information on the MCP72, NVIDIA's next-generation mid-range and high-end chipset for AMD platforms. It will be NVIDIA's first chipset supporting HyperTransport 3.0…
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…
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