Beyond3D Featured ContentIt's Dead Jim - a debate about the future of the graphics API
Love them or hate them, standardised IHV agnostic(-ish) graphics APIs have changed the landscape in a mostly positive way. Yet some bear them ill will. We set out for the truth about their future fate, hoping that we can handle it.
NVIDIA have released certified OpenCL drivers for Windows and Linux, after passing conformance tests at Khronos in June. Apple's choke hold is serious business, it seems.
ATI launched its Radeon HD 5870 this morning, marking the generational debut of DX11-class silicon via a brand new GPU, codenamed Cypress or RV870 depending on whether you like letters or numbers.
NVIDIA recently posted a quarterly loss of $105.3M against a rising revenue figure and middling gross margins. The company attributes the loss to charges taken over the packaging issues with some of its GPUs.
ATI have unveiled a new high-end Radeon aimed at the performance crowd, powered by an improved GPU and available at a seriously keen price.
Advanced discussions of computer architecture are often still constrained to generic processors and serial computations. And yet, there is so much more. This article hopes to serve as a primer to help explore both classic and exotic architectures in the coming months, right here on Beyond3D.
Mazatech have released the next major build of their OpenVG libraries, adding support for OpenVG 1.1 in the process as they consolidate the codebase. Software and OpenGL-based versions are available for a wide range of regular and embedded platforms, making it highly portable.
Ahead announced support for NVIDIA's CUDA in Nero's Move it application today at CeBIT. The encoder is targetted at people wanting to create AV for mobile devices like the PSP, iPhone and T-Mobile G1, and for low-def online use on places like YouTube, but it can also do Full HD…
NVIDIA have taken their 55nm G92b graphics chip and repurposed it for notebook use, creating GeForce GTX 280M and GeForce GTX 260M in the process.
Intel and TSMC announced yesterday that they were joining forces, with TSMC integrating Intel Atom technology into its product offering.
NVIDIA release GeForce GTS 250 at CeBIT today, reworking GeForce 9800 GTX+ to create something with a name that invokes the heady performance heights of recent GeForce GTXs, without using GT200 as the GPU under the hood.
After too long a hiatus, we're back with a new GPU and architecture analysis! ATI's 40nm marvel, RV740, is under Alex's microscope in Radeon HD 4770 form. Bringing almost everything that made RV770 (and now RV870) great to the lower end of the market, does RV740 ultimately impress?
Tech Report recently had the opportunity to interview Neil Trevett, Khronos Group President and VP of Embedded Content at NVIDIA, where they talked about OpenCL, DX Compute Shader and more.
ATI's launch of Radeon HD 4890 was countered with NVIDIA hurredly launching a new SKU at $250 to compete.
NVIDIA introduced a number of new Quadro products today, along with SLI Multi-OS which, amazingly enough, allows for full 3D acceleration in guest OSes for virtualization. A beta version of their CUDA raytracing solution has also shipped to their partners in early March.
VIA have announced the VX855, a single chip system processor designed to be paired with one of the company's x86 CPUs in small form factors. Notably, VIA claim the integrated Chrome 9 HCM graphics core is capable of high bitrate 1080p video acceleration, including H.264.
Not sure about the ALL CAPS myself, but AMD, ATIC and MDC's joint venture finally got its final name, logo and presence on the Internet.
Everyone seems to have their own interpretation of the Intel-TSMC deal, with some viewing it primarily as an outsourcing announcement, and others focusing on the IP aspect. But from our perspective, it also seems much more complex than that and Intel's statements are far from straightforward.
Spotted over at The Tech Report, the Graphics Products Group at AMD have taken wraps off the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and HD 4830.
AMD, the Advanced Technology Investment Company, and Mubadala Development Company have put final ink on paper to create The Foundry Company
Users of the Windows 7 beta whose PCs sport NVIDIA GPUs will be pleased to hear that the company has released new drivers. 18x.xx series code, the new 181.71 drivers support CUDA, SLI and PhysX where the hardware is capable, along with WDDM 1.1 support for G80 and up.