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.
The folks at Tech Report have noticed that Crytek's highly anticipated upcoming Crysis game will have both an open beta for 20,000 lucky first-come-first-served users, and that Crytek has committed to both single player and multi-player demos near the time of launch.
John and his team have fired over their latest TechWatch preview, covering MarketWatch, their Workstation and AIB reports and their movements at 3GSM, GDC and SXSW. The event coverage is notable in its observations about the contrasts between event, who attends and what gets done there.
JPR have sent along short summaries covering Q4 2006 for the professional workstation graphics and add-in-board markets. Highlights include commentary on the migration of 8-series GeForce technology down from the high-end into the mid-range, and HP gaining ground on Dell's dominance in the professional workstation market.
Following the success of ShaderX 5, Wolfgang Engel, editor of the ShaderX series of graphics programming tomes, is soliciting help and contributions to the next in the series, ShaderX 6 , to see publishing in early 2008.
Samsung have their brand new SyncMaster XL30 on display here at CeBIT. A 30 inch, 2560x1600 PC display like many others on the market, this one differentiates itself by being the first to have an all LED backlight, rather than the multi-lamp solutions its competitors carry.
Looking for a low-profile performant graphics card that supports HDMI and has the power to game at decent IQ and performance levels, for your media center PC?
Second up in our Galaxy story trio is their GeForce 7900 GS, which they claim is the fastest 7900 GS ever released. Clocked at 600/800, the 256MiB board isn't too far away from a full 7900 GTX in terms of clock rates, and should cost much much less.
Seems that MCP68 has broken cover at CeBIT, via ECS's unveiling of a GeForce 7050SE plus nForce 630a mainboard called MCP68M-M.
One of the biggest things at this year's hilariously quiet CeBIT is the introduction of DDR3-supporting mainboards. Intel are bringing support for the new memory standard this year with their upcoming Bearlake core logic, and a few vendors have boards on display.
ATI RV610 isn't the only new graphics chip from AMD to steal R600's thunder here at CeBIT. We've got snaps of the mid-range RV630 too, set to power products from $149 upwards until R600-based hardware takes over at the upper end of the pricing scale.
JPR were at the 2007 Internation Solid State Circuits Conference, and one class of processing definitely caught their eye. The guys cover GPU-based stream computing, Stream Processing, Inc. (SPI) and the market in general, comparing SPI's Storm-1 to fixed function devices that do the same job, to see…
Futuremark, authors of the world famous 3DMark series of performance measurement tools (among a raft of others) has launched YouGamers, a site dedicated to game analysis across hardware configurations on the PC. The aim is to let you know how well a game will do on a PC similar to yours, as well as…
Ruby's back, somewhat prematurely we should add, in the technology demonstration for AMD's upcoming next-gen graphics architecture. Grabbed by the HEXUS.tv folks, Whiteout has Ruby up to her usual dangerous and unbelievable antics in a snow-laden environment.
It wouldn't be an IT tradeshow without the display big guns showing off their biggest wares. Panasonic wield 103 inches of plasma doom, while Sharp laugh massively at their feeble attempt with a 108 inch LCD display.
While Intel 940G is a deeply unsexy IGP, it still has its uses in sexy little devices. Tucked away in Samsung's Q1 Ultra ultra-mobile PC, it pushes the device's 1024x600 pixels and happily runs Vista Aero.
While walking to a meeting with what we thought was the least well known NVIDIA board partner on the planet, we wandered past these guys. Seems we were wrong.
In the first of a triplet of stories about NVIDIA AIB partner Galaxy, we bring you a look at their PCI Express x1 GeForce 7300 GT.
ASUS's external ExpressCard graphics solution is at CeBIT, with ASUS claiming it's now fully production ready and should be available standalone for around $100 USD.
If you're into getting the most out of your graphics card purchase via overclocking, ASUS have a hardware extra for their graphics boards that lets you do it without software.
We mentioned yesterday that we thought there was a sneaky R600 running around CeBIT somewhere and that we might get pics today. And indeed there is a board, which we duly sat down to look at this morning in person. It's big.