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.
Recently we reported that the PCI-SIG has finalized a standard for external PCIe connections, and the likely implications for graphics. Now comes word that the folks at HEXUS have scored a picture
of an early engineering sample of AMD's "Lasso" implementation of the
concept. We…
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 talk a little turkey publicly regarding
their recently delayed R600 GPU. Taking advantage of press presence,
AMD publicly demoed two R600s…
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 Engine has been removed, the graphics chip (Graphic…
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 first hardware revision to feature a
greater reliance on software emulation for achieving…
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…
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…
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 "Visual Computing Group". Now, courtesy of a couple…
Talking yesterday to reporters,
Yutaka Nakagawa, Executive Deputy President of Sony's semiconductor and
component device businesses, revealed their ambition to reduce
significantly the company’s semiconductor related expenses. He didn’t
predict any specific number, but stressed the costs related to Sony's
semiconductor operations would be much lower than the…
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…
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 (which in this case seems to be May). To further
enforce their…
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 Research most…
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 myriad…
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…
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…
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 the time of writing, also…
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…
Nab the 64-bit version of Forceware 100.65…
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
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…
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.
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