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.
Valve’s online content delivery platform continues to steam ahead of its competitors. The latest publisher to jump aboard the Steam bandwagon is THQ. Publisher of Relic Entertainment games, amongst many others, the American company decided to bring some of its catalogue offering to Steam.
The multi million seller Xbox 360 shooter from Epic games, Gears of War, was announced at E3 to be on its way to the PC. This title published by Microsoft Games Studio, unlike Shadowrun and Halo 2, will be Windows Vista and XP compatible right out of the box. What…
In a surprise announcement today, Peter Moore stepped down from his position as corporate vice president of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business (IEB). He is to be replaced by Don Mattrick, former president of the Worldwide Studios at Electronic Arts (EA).
With widespread adoption of GDDR4 on graphics products yet to happen,
it's a little surprising to see GDDR5 engineering efforts get press
coverage this soon. Qimonda have recently announced they're skipping
GDDR4 engineering and production altogether, and now it's Samsung's
turn to quietly announce their GDDR5 intentions on new roadmaps.
Our Hexian compatriots were there on launch yesterday with analysis of a couple of Intel's new processor offerings, both riding Intel's latest bump of AGTL+.
A year after the introduction of its successful Core processors line, Intel announced today the availability of a new high-end mobile CPU, the Core 2 Extreme X7800 mobile. Following the nomenclature established for Intel’s bleeding edge desktop processors, this new mobile dual-core runs at 2.6 GHz, has 4MB of L2…
In an interview with IGN, Tim Willits, co-owner of id Software, developer of some of the most famous and advanced for their time 3D engines, says that his company’s latest engine was not created with the goal to make latest PC graphics cards beg for mercy. This time, the engine…
We're doing some server and tools work here today, which include DNS updates to the domain. Access to the site and forums might be a little wonky while that happens, so bear with us while the changes propagate and everything settles down.
AMD has issued a press release announcing that Dave Orton, former CEO of ATI, is leaving the company as one of its executive VPs at the end of this month.
Dean Takahashi, journalist and author of “Opening the Xbox†and “The
Xbox 360 Uncloaked,†reveals in his blog that Microsoft is preparing to move the chips powering its Xbox 360 console to a 65nm process. This new hardware revision is known under
the codename “Falcon.â€
Speaking on the SquadXP podcast, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Xbox Live group product manager Aaron Greenberg confirmed that there will not be any real X07 event held in Europe this year. This news does not come off as a surprise since Microsoft hasn't made any announcement with regards of the X07…
Intel announced quarterly revenues of nearly US$9B yesterday, with net income of US$1.35B, despite fighting AMD very aggressively in the consumer microprocessor market in recent quarters.
Yesterday the good folks at The Tech Report reported on an issue affecting a good chunk of GeForce 8800 users, where 3D graphics performance would fall into the toilet at random and wouldn't come back until you restarted the game or tabbed out and back in.
Taking a look at JPR's recent post-Computex analysis last week, one story caught our eye. SiS are ramping up for Intel Penryn, and their Mirage 4 D3D10 IGP is core to supporting that effort. With VIA arguably out of the way, SiS's positioning as an Intel partner could be key to their financial health.
In a common press release issued today, Intel announced its new laptop high-end CPU, the Core 2 Extreme X7800, but also new desktop parts. These desktop parts include the new company flagship, the Core 2 Extreme QX6850 quad-core processor.
NVIDIA has announced the release of a sample CUDA plug-in for Matlab that accelerates single-precision FFTs by up to 14x.
Yesterday was a rather strange day for driver releases from NVIDIA with the release of two sets of Vista Forceware beta drivers, versions 162.22 and 163.11.
With the fire in Damage Labs extinguished and good time spent with the boards, The Tech Report have published their analysis on Radeon HD 2400 and Radeon HD 2600.
Sony has announced that effective immediately, the price of the 60GB Playstation 3 has dropped to $499 in the United States; Canada has received a drop as well, taking the system to $549 in that country. Though officially denied by Sony just days ago, the cat was let out of the bag when a recent Circuit…
It's been a good while since Beyond3D last tried its hand at graphics AIB analysis, so to shake off the cobwebs and get our collective asses back in the saddle, we pestered Galaxy for one of their customised GeForce 8600 boards when…