Beyond3D Featured ContentDiving into Anti-Aliasing
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?
AMD just announced that its upcoming Catalyst 7.9 drivers for Linux
will not only finally provide support to HD X2000 series on the OS, but
it is also claimed to host the most significant series of enhancements
ever for Linux users. As far as AMD graphics drivers are concerned,
that…
An unannounced update for the PlayStation 3 was made available
yesterday. This update, which takes the PlayStation 3 firmware from
1.90 to 1.92, is only affecting the backward compatibility with
PlayStation 1 and 2 games feature of the console.
Linux.com have published an interesting piece on Nouveau, an open source GNU/Linux graphics driver for NVIDIA graphics hardware.
ArcSoft, creators of the Digital Theatre video player software for Windows, have announced that version 2 will support NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology.
HotHardware have the scoop on an upcoming AIB release by Diamond Multimedia that pairs AMD R600 with 2GiB of GDDR4 for the professional workstation market.
GeCube have announced that their one-PCB Crossfire HD 2600 XT design is now shipping to the channel.
While not promising the release of a PlayStation phone anytime soon,
Peter Ahnegard - head of Sony Ericsson’s gaming unit - entertained
the idea of a PlayStation branded gaming phone being
an idea that is being seriously considered by the company at present.
Citing sources at graphics card makers, Digitimes are reporting that an NVIDIA GPU by the name of G92 is set to launch on November 12th.
Yes, we are aware that it's not just NVIDIA and ATI/AMD that's made discrete video solutions in recent years. To prove it, we haul out from our vaults three examples now returned to publication.
Not Crime Scene Investigation, as much as I'd like it to be, but Common System Interface, Intel's next generation system interconnect technology.
ARM, the microprocessor intellectual property (IP) company, specialising in RISC processors and system-on-a-chip (SoC), had made available OpenMAX DL API libraries for the decoding of AAC audio format and H.264 video format. These libraries are optimised to take advantage of the SIMD instruction set…
Ubisoft, French publisher of Rayman, Tom Clancy’s game series' and Far Cry amongst other titles, has decided -- without any form of publicity on its website -- to make available ad-supported version of three games from its portfolio, at no cost to the user other than the download.
Digitimes are reporting, via their usual sources at graphics card makers, that NVIDIA are set to deploy a new revision of the BR02 PCI Express-to-AGP bridge IC, to get GeForce 8-series products on AGP.
Hot on the heels of the GeCube dual HD 2600 XT announcement last Friday, Sapphire are set to announce a similar product very shortly today.
IBM announced earlier this week the introduction of the BladeCenter QS21, the newest iteration of the Cell-based QS20 blade server released last year.
AMIMON, an Israeli technology startup, just announced the availability of its WHDI transmitter (AMN2110) and receiver (AMN2210) chipsets. These chipsets allow wireless streaming of uncompressed HD video and audio beyond 30 meters (100 Feet) through walls.
After far too long, we've (finally!) finished our investigation into
the image quality offered by AMD's R6xx products. More than that, we
look at the theory behind the custom filter antialiasing and its
benefits and drawbacks.
AMD today announced a new extension of the SSE SIMD instruction set in the form of SSE5, a fairly radical upgrade that will arrive in 2009 with the "Bulldozer" core.
Jon and his crew of merry analysts have crunched the Q2 numbers and come up with a summary. Q1 might have just been a blip on the radar.
One of the rare negatives brought up by gamers during discussion about BioShock, the latest game from Irrational Games, now 2K Boston and 2K Australia, was its quite draconian online activation system. Acknowledging this outcry from their customers and fans, 2K games decided to raise the number of authorised…