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.
AMD released the 55nm HD3450, HD3470, and HD3650 yesterday. These releases are an evolutionary step, as they're simply shrinks of the HD2400 and HD2600 with support for D3D10.1, DisplayPort and Hybrid Crossfire. Performance has improved slightly through higher efficiency and slightly higher clock rates for some SKUs.
According to Japan-based Enterbrain, Nintendo's current home console Wii
has - as of January 20 - sold more than 5 million units in Japan alone.
Real World Tech just published a great new article on the upcoming process technologies from several companies including Intel, TSMC and Fujitsu. It is based on presentations given at IEDM 2007 in December, and also includes a very noteworthy comparison table with processes from days past.
The red team has made their monthly delivery of WHQL'ed Catalyst goodness, in this case version 8.1. Several recent games such as Bioshock, F.E.A.R., World in Conflict, and others are called out in the release notes for improvements.
Intel released its quarterly results yesterday and while both revenues and profits reached record levels ($10.7B and $0.38/share respectively), they were still below expectations. Intel's stock dropped 14% in after-hours trading, and dragged other semiconductors along. But it turns out that reaction is most likely a massive misinterpretation of the…
Microsoft has announced that it will be expanding the video offerings
available through the XBox Live Marketplace to include content from
newly signed partners ABC/Disney Channel and MGM studios.
Consumer electronics manufacturers have announced the arrival of several new Blu-ray players across a range of prices and capabilities.
A couple of superstars in their own spaces have made professional newsworthy leaps. GPGPU pioneer and attractive hire for both companies we're about to mention, Mike Houston, and long-time (Direct)3D heavyweight, Tom Forsyth, have both taken up key positions at two 3D graphics giants.
Coming forty-eight hours before they were scheduled to participate in an HD DVD press event at the Wynn resort in Las Vegas, Warner Bros shook the industry Friday by announcing that as of late May, they will become an exclusive backer of the Blu-ray high-def optical format.
The Tech Report are reporting that Sparkle have announced a DisplayPort-equipped GeForce 8800 GT.
In the last few days, AMD has unveiled a number of products aimed at the embedded market, all of them offered through the AMD Longevity Program which offers components for up to five years.
When a rumour started spreading down the Internet tubes about Assassin's Creed requiring 2GB of system ram, seemingly everyone jeered. Well, now it's official. Move over Crysis, you don't look so tough anymore.
AMD's stock was up more than 5% in after-hours trading last night as the company beat expectations by reporting a non-GAAP operating loss of only $9M, versus $148M in Q3. The main upsides were quarterly seasonality and sales of 400K Barcelona units (2:1 desktop-server ratio).
When Doug Freedman asked Paul Otellini about Larrabee, we didn't think much would come out of it. But boy were we wrong: Otellini gave an incredibly to-the-point update on the project's timeframe. Rather than try to summarize, we'll just quote what Otellini had to say here.
Playing the latest DX10 Windows games on PlayStation 3 is now a reality
with StreamMyGame. Obviously, there is a catch accompanying this claim...
Hopeless graphics geeks that we are, it's always a red-letter day around the office when an upgraded version of a graphics diagnostic tool hits the street.
Sony has announced that coming late January via firmware update, owners of the redesigned PSP-2000 will gain access to the Skype IP telephony service on their portable consoles.
Today at CES in Las Vegas, AMD announced their DX 10.1 graphics cores have gone mobile and are currently shipping in ASUS laptops.
Phoronix are reporting that AMD have released the next round of GPU spec docs for the open source community to use to develop truly open source display drivers for Radeon graphics processors.
Hardspell has obtained some 3DMark05, 3DMark06 and Crysis numbers for NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce 8800GS 384MiB. The card is basically a 192-bit G92 with only 6 clusters and 12 ROPs, and it will be primarily aimed at OEMs but Hardspell claims board manufacturers are also planning to sell it in retail.…