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.
Expreview has got their hands on die shots from NVIDIA and AMD's upcoming low-end chips, and while that isn't particularly interesting in itself, they managed to break tradition and leak the chips' dimensions at the same time.
AMD has released an update to their Catalyst software suite, bringing the oft-updated package up to version 7.11.
After nearly 6 months of delays, the RV670 has fi... Oh snap! Let's try that again, shall we? Originally scheduled for a January launch, the RV670 has arrived two months early, and is now available in stores. We look at what makes it tough in today's piece,…
Sony Computer Entertainment released firmware version 2.0 for the
Playstation 3 yesterday, introducing playlists for music and pictures,
custom themes, RSS feed, and remote wake-on LAN functionality via the
PSP.
Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars (ETQW) is the latest game using the DOOM 3 engine, or as id Software rechristened it, the id Tech 4 engine. Now that the game is in stores it's time to delve a little deeper into the new features on the improved DOOM 3 engine that…
After Q2 2007 being stronger than historical seasonality, few were expecting Q3 to be up sequentially by more than single-digits. Well, it looks like the skeptics were wrong, as the GPU market is up no less than 20.2% overall, according to JPR. This represents a larger jump than even the…
The newest kid on the GPU block, NVIDIA's G92, made its debut today powering 8800GT SKUs. Performance-wise, a cross section of reviews suggest slotting between the current 8800GTS and 8800GTX products. NVIDIA reports price expectations in the $199-$249 range, but early checking at such retailers who actually have the board…
Sony has announced earnings of ~$645.5 million (73.7 billion yen)
for the quarter ended September 30th.
AMD has just released its quarterly earnings report, and it turned out to be slightly better than expected by both analysts and yours truly: revenue came in at $1.63B and the non-GAAP operating loss decrease substantially, from $363M in Q2 to $148M in Q3.
Despite that, net…
Despite that, net…
With Intel making noise about acceleration of real-time ray tracing in
recent months, especially where it concerns future hardware they're
working on, DeanoC found himself a little puzzled as to why.
Shock, horror: after many months of wishful thinking, reality is starting to sink in as the industry realizes that DRAM prices, which have dropped about 80% year-to-date, are unlikely to recover in the near-term. And if you believe us, they're unlikely to recover at all.
AMD finally release the first few quad-core Phenoms a couple of days ago to a more than lukewarm reception, aggressive execution and pricing by Intel taking the wind out of the X4 sails.
Professor Vijay Pande, director of Stanford's Folding@home project, has blogged that his team is demoing a new GUI and new GPU client at SuperComputing 2007.
AMD has announced the RV670-based FireStream 9170 GPGPU processor as well as the FireStream SDK. Notable are 2GB of RAM, a 775-800 MHz core clock, 500 GFLOP/s, and Brook+ (based on Brook, obviously!) as the official high-level language.
After two months of speculation, the OpenGL ARB has finally announced an official delay in the release of the OpenGL 3 specification due to some last-minute changes.
It still feels like yesterday - but no, Intel's launch of Conroe was actually 472 days ago. Following this reign of domination, however, it was finally time for Conroe to retire and leave the top spot for its younger brother, Penryn.
AMD released Catalyst 7.10 for Linux today, with various goodies therein. These include support for Accelerated Indirect Rendering (AIGLX), a new 3D user interface, and official support for Radeons older than the HD 2xxx series.
In a move confirming previous reports, Sony announced yesterday that a deal has been struck with Toshiba for the transfer of Playstation-related fabrication facilities to Toshiba's control by March of '08.
Epic have released a beta demo of Unreal Tournament 3 for the PC. Powered by Unreal Engine 3, the game has been hotly anticipated for some time and looks set to push the visual envelope.
AMD has released version 7.10 of their Catalyst driver package, which offers significant gains in D3D10 applications, especially with CrossFire configurations.