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.
At the tail end of the Develop Expo and Conference this year, AMD held
their Tech Day to talk about D3D10 graphics development, multi-GPU,
multi-core CPU programming and more. Designed to educate games
developers so they get the most out of AMD GPUs and CPUs, it's one of
the only…
AMD announced that VESA has qualified one of its upcoming GPUs as the
first from any manufacturer to natively support the DisplayPort 1.1 standard.
Parallel Processing Corporation has filed suit against Sony in Texas' infamous Eastern District Court on claims that the patent for the Cell Broadband Engine architecture infringes on 'Synchronized parallel processing with shared memory,' issued originally to International Parallel Machines in 1991.
Since the GDC beta releases of PerfKit and FX Composer earlier in the year, NVIDIA have been hard at work finishing what are arguably its most important ISV tools. The tools enable developers to not only author shader effects to run on the GPU, but also to profile and debug…
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.
The porting gnomes have returned from summer hols and are getting back up to speed.
For this edition, we have a series of reviews that, quite by accident, tell something of a story --the story of the fall and rise of GeForce.
For this edition, we have a series of reviews that, quite by accident, tell something of a story --the story of the fall and rise of GeForce.
NVIDIA have released new display drivers for Windows Vista and Windows XP, improving performance for DX10 SLI under Vista for certain GPU combinations, and fixing a slew of issues, performance hurdles and compatibility problems under XP and Vista both.
Microsoft released the August 2007 DirectX SDK revision on Monday, bringing with it a technology preview of DirectX 10.1, an update to the release schedule for future SDKs and a beta of XAudio2, among other juicy morsels.
NVIDIA are up healthily in terms of year-on-year market share for Q2, a quarter which is traditionally slow.
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…