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.
NVIDIA launched a new Quadro Plex VCS 1000 yesterday at SIGGRAPH. The Model S4 is effectively just the
Tesla S870 GPU Computing Server repurposed for Quadro-led apps.
AMD have released an emulation environment for developers to start creating OpenGL ES 2.0 applications using the PC, before their supporting hardware in the handheld space starts to ship.
Scan are selling 1GiB Radeon HD 2900 XTs for £269 inc VAT, today only, down from their usual price of £288 inc. That's a good chunk less than the other online retailers we know of in the UK that are selling the 1GiB boards.
Microsoft have licensed unknown graphics intellectual property to Weta Digital, the guys behind the digital effects of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong movies, among others.
NVIDIA today announced the release of the third volume in its GPU Gems series of books, which contains new articles from developers with Crytek, Havok and many more.
Toshiba today announced its third-generation of standalone players for
the HD DVD optical format. Continuing with the naming scheme
established thus far, the entry-level model will be the HD-A3,
with the mid-range carrying the moniker HD-A30, and the top-end named
the HD-A35.
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…
MAXON, the guys behind Cinema 4D, a 3D DCC app commonly used in film and TV, have released version R10 of their popular Cinebench application.
Autodesk, software company behind the likes of 3ds Max, Maya and Inventor, announced on Monday that they'd acquired Skymatter Inc, creators of Mudbox. Mudbox is a brush-based modeling tool primarily aimed at those looking to create high-resolution meshes.
Imagination Technologies are celebrating their PowerVR Insider program at SIGGRAPH this year, with its success since its launch last year a high point for the Kings Langley-based company.
After using NVIDIA's G84 chips in its MacBook Pro, Apple announced a new version of its iMac today, which will be powered by AMD Radeon HD 2400 and 2600 GPUs.
As expected, Microsoft announced that it has reduced the price of its Xbox 360 console by $50 on August 8, bringing the system's price to $349.
AMD have announced new FireGL workstation graphics products at SIGGRAPH today, based on their R600 and RV630 ASICs currently used in desktop graphics products.
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.