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All your questions about the great nemesis of graphics, and some of its cures, answered in one fell swoop. Would you kindly jump right in?
The Valve presentation at NPAR (Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering) 2007, part of SIGGRAPH, on Team Fortress 2 and its renderer and art style has popped up on Shacknews.
BFG have launched new ThermoIntelligence-equipped GeForce 8600 GT models, aimed at the user who wants to improve on the better-than-reference cooler as equipped to most of the competition offerings.
Microsoft has announced XNA Game Studio 2.0, designed to let developers easily create games for the PC and Xbox 360, and due for release later this year.
AMD have released another Athlon 64 X2 processor for Socket AM2 systems at the top of the range, eclipsing the Athlon 64 X2 6000+.
Following the news about the removal of the PlayStation Portable's MHz cap,
which finally gave developers a free reign of the clock frequency of
the CPU, Beyond3D was able to get some more details from its sources.
Yes, yes, we know we started this feature ages ago and it had a successful run of, wait for it, one, but it's back! Weekly Forum Follies is the Friday afternoon bit of Beyond3D where we round up what's happened on the forums in the last 7 days.
Onkyo USA has announced the DV-HD805 HD DVD player, marking Onkyo's
first foray into the high-definition optical format war. Coming as
something of a counterpoint to Denon's own recent announcement of Blu-ray
support, Onkyo's HD805 will provide consumers with a more upscale
option for HD DVD playback relative to the…
Formerly known as Longs Peak, the OpenGL Architecture Review Board officially announced OpenGL 3 at SIGGRAPH yesterday during the OpenGL Birds of a Feather session! Sweet!
With the current AMD R6 and NVIDIA G8x architectures released, analysed and mostly understood, attention is starting to turn to what the two biggest graphics IHVs will release next.
The DirectX Bad Boy, Sam Glassenberg, introduced D3D10.1 to the assembled 3D masses at SIGGRAPH yesterday, in a short but sweet portion of the D3D10 presentations now available for download from Microsoft.
Gainward have announced a GeForce 8600 GT with 1024MiB of framebuffer memory. "For what reason?", we hear you ask. Well, erm........
Late last week an intriguing Radeon HD 2600 XT turned up from Sapphire, arguably AMD's biggest graphics AIB partner. Passively cooled and still at 800MHz, the promise of high video and 3D performance with no noise was a big one. We took an early look to see if it stood up under initial testing.
AMD has released version 7.8 of its Catalyst drivers, which brings more performance improvements to the R6xx series of chips.
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Hardware.fr have published an analysis of NVIDIA CUDA, looking at the architecture of the first hardware, the software side, performance versus x86 processors running the same application on GPU and CPU, the role AMD plays in the GPU computing space and more.
Our spies on the SIGGRAPH show floor have spotted the rear end of an AMD FireGL V5600. Hark back to the very recent launch announcement at the same show and you'll remember the V5600 sounded like a clone of a Radeon HD 2600 XT 512MiB. How right that is.
Ho hum. Another quarter, and more record results for NVIDIA. In what is typically a seasonally down quarter, the graphics maker obliterated pre-announcement consenus results of $860M in revenue by throwing down with $935.3 million instead.
The PCI Special Interest Group, which controls the PCI Express specification, looks set to draft the 3.0 revision of the interconnect by the end of 2007, for review process and refinement in 2008, with devices and hosts appearing in 2009.
With some of the updates in the two patches relating to graphics, it's worth letting folks know about a pair of pre-SP1 official updates from Microsoft that fix some issues in Windows Vista.
Hot on the heels of the $50 price cut, Microsoft confirmed that its $349 Xbox 360 console now includes an HDMI port, suggesting it could be the much-anticipated 65nm "Falcon" revision.