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.
NVIDIA dropped us a line to say that they'd be releasing a new Vista
driver in the next few days that adds SLI support for GeForce 6 and 7
hardware, including 7950 GX2. The driver also supposedly offers OpenGL
performance improvements, improved 8-series SLI performance at high
resolutions, and a…
Since its introduction, CrossFire, the multi-GPU platform from AMD
(formerly ATI), has only been available on certain AMD core logic,
along with Intel i975X and P965. HKEPC is now reporting that AMD may open CrossFire to
any
chipset with two 16x PCI Express slots, including those…
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.
Multiple reports hit the net tonight reporting that at today's San Francisco launch of their new 690G chipset AMD decided it was also time to
In another twist of events, Sony has further clarified the situation concerning the lack of hardware emulation for the PAL version of its PS3, scheduled to launch in Europe on March 23rd, on its unofficial blog threespeech: While the Emotion…
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…
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