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.
Sony has reported first quarter earnings of ~$540 million, doubling net income over the year-ago period and beating analyst expectations. Operating income in the core electronics division
increased by 77% to ~$684 million, aided primarily by increased sales
of Sony Cyber-shot cameras, Handycam camcorders, semiconductor sales to
the gaming division,…
After reporting impressive quarterly results earlier this week, Nintendo has ridden a rise in its share price that has seen it become the fifth most valuable company in Japan, with a market capitalization now hovering around $72 billion. The company's meteoric share rise in recent months sees Nintendo surpass industry…
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Microsoft is lowering the price of their console, the Xbox 360, by $50 USD on August 8th.
Denon Electronics made public today its first foray into the heated high-definition media battle with the announcement of the DVD-3800BDCI, a top-of-the-line Blu-ray disc player expected to launch sometime this fall. Set to retail for the normal-for-Denon price-point of $1,999, the 3800BDCI is the first Blu-ray player yet announced to…
NVIDIA has just released the first public beta of PerfHUD 5, its performance profiling tool for Windows.
Originally expected to start shipping by October, the latest
chipset from NVIDIA, MCP78, will finally take off by November.
Amongst the three chipsets from the MCP78 family scheduled to launch
this November, only two support integrated graphics capabilities.
Intel just announced the details pertaining to the San Francisco Intel
Developer Forum, taking place 18-20 September of this year. Other than
its theme, “multiply your innovations,†Intel also issued the listing
of the company keynoters.
Microsoft yesterday released fourth-quarter and year-end numbers for the fiscal year ended June 30th, 2007, reporting just over $3 billion in earnings for the quarter on the back of $13.37 billion in revenues. For the year, total revenues were up 15% to $51.12 billion, with net income up roughly $1.47…
AMD reported their 2Q results yesterday evening at the close of business. They include elements in which both optimists and cynics will find support for their views.
Silicon Knights, developer of the upcoming Xbox 360 game Too Human, has filed suit against Epic Games over alleged flaws in Unreal Engine 3.0.
Microsoft has announced a price drop to $179 for its HD DVD player accessory for the Xbox 360 in the US on August 1.
Yesterday, hardware.fr published a news report indicating pre-consumer revisions of RV610 were shipped to OEM customers in the Far East.
Another monthly update on the sales numbers in North America and a few
weeks worth of Japanese sales.
Sony Computer Entertainment has made firmware 1.9 available for the PS3, bringing several usability enhancements to the console. Most basic among these, users are now able to set a custom background as a replacement for the default gossamer animation. Additional XMB-related improvements include the…
In an interview with the magazine Develop, Joshua Williams, lead developer at Carbonated Games, says that his company and the XNA team are currently developing a toolset for XNA. This toolset main goal is simply the creation of games targeted to the Xbox Live Arcade platform.
AMD’s current high-end offering in the desktop space, the Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (Windsor core, 90nm, 3GHz, 2MB L2 cache), is expected to hand over its flagship title to a new variant of the Athlon 64 X2 family, the Athlon X2 6400+. This new part has the mission to take on the new high-end dual-core…
NVIDIA has released FX Composer 2 RC1, which includes various bug fixes and minor improvements over the previous beta.
The Leipzig GC Developers Conference (GCDC) organisers released yesterday the list of the speakers confirmed for this year’s event. Taking place in Leipzig, Germany, this August 20-22, this GCDC will be the fifth edition of what has become one of the most important game developers gatherings…
Just a quick one to say we're rejigging things in our cab in the datacenter tomorrow, which might result in some minor downtime. Shouldn't be much more than half an hour for a couple of spots in the day, but we'll keep you posted.
AMD have released Catalyst 7.7, their July monthly display driver release for this year. There's a round of fixes and improvements as usual, with the big addition being edge detect AA support for all chips in the new family. Finally I can finish testing the bloody things.