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.
Jon Peddie Research has released their Q1 2007 PC GPU Shipment numbers a few days ago, with the press release available on our very own JPR portal - in addition, Digitimes has posted an extra snippet not available in the press release regarding desktop IGP market share. It looks like…
Darryl Still, Director of Content at NVIDIA, has announced that he will be leaving the graphics company to take a position with Russian software publisher 1C. A desire to spend more time with his wife and family is also cited, and both sides insist that the separation is on…
Resurrecting a SKU descriptor they last rolled out over three years ago with NV40 and GeForce 6800 Ultra, NVIDIA have announced the pending availability of the GeForce 8800 Ultra. With the same PCB, memory arrangement and GPU setup as GeForce 8800 GTX, the Ultra bests GTX in clocks and cooler…
Nintendo announced last week their fiscal results, for this yearly occasion Stefan Salzl, our never-afraid-of-statistics reporter, decided to take a close look at these said results. The outcome is an in-depth review of the last year market performance of the Kyoto based company.
One of the most obvious accessories that missed the PlayStation 3
launch was the EyeToy, the USB camera. Sony Computer Entertainment
Europe (SCEE) corrected that situation when they announced yesterday
the arrival of their PS3 USB camera dubbed PlayStation Eye.
Andrew Lauritzen (aka AndyTX on our forums) posted an interesting update to his shadowing demo yesterday, porting the renderer from D3D9 to D3D10 and adding support for the combination of parallel-split (aka Cascaded) Shadow Maps and Variance Shadow Mapping (VSM). The results are quite impressive to say the least, although…
AMD has announced plans to offer up to $2.2 billion in convertible notes to raise capital. The debt will have a 'B' rating, given that the company was downgraded by Standard & Poor's on Monday, which should imply quite high interest rates. At least $500M of that will have to…
Now that we are releasing our second roundup you can actually start calling this a regular feature. This week's summary includes such gems as the updated backwards compatability on Xbox 360, yet another PS3 firmware update, more Linux support for PS3, a survey about Japanese Wii buyers, Valve being hacked…
IBM formally introduced the HPC-targeted version of the Cell Broadband
Engine processor at this years recently concluded Hot Chips conference
in Tokyo, featuring greatly expanded dual-precision FLOPS performance
and the ability to address 16GB of DDR-2. To be used in Los Alamos
National Laboratory's Roadrunner supercomputing project - expected to…
According to Digitimes, the market share numbers for the GPU industry released by Mercury Research are stable compared to Q4's, with NVIDIA and AMD moving from 29.1% and 24.3% to 29% and 24.1% respectively. Intel, however, managed to capture 38.7% of the market compared to 37.8% in Q4.
In a recent interview with eWeek, Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment & Devices Division of Microsoft, talked about the public reception to XNA, the problems MS is facing in process of creating a viable publishing channel for the games created with XNA. Bach also talks about his business…
JPR's Kathleen Maher expounds on the state of OpenGL application performance under Microsoft Windows Vista in our latest JPR @ Beyond3D editorial. There's been more than a little confusion about how much of a first class citizen OpenGL is under Microsoft's latest operating system, so Kathleen takes…
In this week’s edition, we have lots of good stuff: earnings reports from console manufacturers like Microsoft and Nintendo to publishers like Ubisoft, Sony’s retiree Ken Kutaragi, the successor of the EyeToy camera and its new sibling for the PSP and last but not least news about the…
Microsoft has reported record profits for the financial quarter ended March 31st, with net income rising 63% relative to the year-ago period to $4.9 billion today. Revenues were up sharply as well, reaching $14.4 billion compared to $10.9 billion in Q3 of '06. Both results were driven primarily by the…
Sony announced Thursday (April 26) that Ken Kutaragi, the creator of the PlayStation and chairman and group chief executive officer at Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., will step back from his current position and will now serve as Honorary Chairman of SCEI and senior technology…
NVIDIA has released the Quadro Plex VCS model IV today, which they had hinted at earlier this year during the launch of the Quadro FX 4600 and 5600, both based on the G80 architecture. Unsurprisingly, the new Quadro Plex model is actually two FX 5600 GPUs in a standalone box, and will be sold for…
As has been expected for a while, Intel is now following in the footsteps of AMD's April 9th price cuts. The complete list of old and new prices is available at DigiTimes, with cuts from 6% to 40%. New models are also being introduced today: the Core 2 Duo E6420, E6320 and E4400.
DDR2 memory, which is the current mainstream PC memory standard and also widely used by low-end GPUs, is facing significant pricing pressure and the dynamics at play seem unlikely to be changing anytime soon. Between this, the NAND Flash collapse and the plummeting microprocessor prices, it should come…
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AMD today reported a net loss of $611M, primarily due to an operating loss of more than $320M in the Computing Solutions group while former-ATI operations also incurred losses of about $40M. Non-GAAP gross margins were down to 31%, and exceptional charges of $113M further darkened the picture.
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