AMD Radeon HD 7950 Review Feat. Sapphire & XFX: Sewing Up The High-End Market
Announced late last month and shipping 3 weeks ago, AMD kicked off the 28nm generation with a bang with their Radeon HD 7970. Combining TSMC’s new 28nm HKMG process...
259 by on 1/31/2012
The Radeon HD 7970 Reprise: PCIe Bandwidth, Overclocking, & The State Of Anti-Aliasing
With the release of AMD’s Radeon HD 7970 it’s clear that AMD has once again regained the single-GPU performance crown. But while the 7970’s place in the current GPU...
47 by on 1/27/2012AMD Q4’11 & FY 2011 Earnings Report: 1.69B Revenue For Q4, 6.57B Revenue For 2011
Late yesterday AMD released their earnings report for Q4 2011 and the entirety of 2011. 2011 was an important year for AMD as they finally shipped their first APUs...
13 by on 1/25/2012
Imagination's PowerVR Series 6 “Rogue” GPUs Released To Licensing, G6200 & G6400 First Out The Door
With the emphasis on smartphones and tablets at this year’s CES, it should come as no surprise that the various SoC IP developers are focusing their announcements around the...
20 by on 1/10/2012
CES 2012: Windows 8 Beta In Late February
There has been some speculation over the last few months over when to expect the beta release of Windows 8. During Microsoft's final CES keynote tonight, Microsoft put that...
20 by on 1/9/2012
XFX’s Radeon HD 7970 Black Edition Double Dissipation: The First Semi-Custom 7970
Traditionally the launch of a next-generation high-end video card has been a staggered process. In the name of getting cards out as soon as possible the first cards are...
94 by on 1/9/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7970 Now For Sale
Although they're not officially supposed to go on sale until tomorrow, Newegg already has their selection of 7970s up for sale this evening. Newegg has cards from all of...
12 by on 1/8/2012Update: AMD Quietly Releases The OEM-Only Radeon HD 7000 Series: VLIW5 Rides Again
Earlier today one of our news editors, Andrew Cunningham, came to me with an interesting problem. HP was launching their gaming-oriented Phoenix desktop, and the spec sheet listed a...
33 by on 1/5/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7970 Review: 28nm And Graphics Core Next, Together As One
At AMD’s Fusion Developer Summit 2011 AMD announced Graphics Core Next, their next-generation GPU architecture. GCN would be AMD’s Fermi moment, where AMD got serious about GPU computing and...
292 by on 12/22/2011
AMD's Graphics Core Next Preview: AMD's New GPU, Architected For Compute
Update: This article was originally posted on June 17, 2011. We are pushing it back up to the top as a quick refresher before upcoming articles... We’ve just returned from...
83 by on 12/21/2011
NVIDIA Releases CUDA 4.1: CUDA Goes LLVM and Open Source (Kind Of)
Since starting their GPU Technology Conference in 2010, NVIDIA has expanded into several events so that they can hold events in Europe and Asia. The next flagship GTC will...
12 by on 12/14/2011
AMD Releases Catalyst 12.1 Preview – Custom Application Profiles, HD3D CrossFire, & More
Later today AMD will be releasing the first preview for their Catalyst 12.1 driver set. AMD has been going through preview/beta drivers at a rapid pace in the last...
62 by on 12/13/2011
Hard Drive Shortage Hits Intel: Q4'11 Earning Estimates Revised Down By $1B
It has been expected for some time now that the fallout from Thailand’s well publicized flooding and resulting hard drive shortage would have wider ramifications than just impacting the...
26 by on 12/12/2011
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 560 Ti w/448 Cores: GTX 570 On A Budget
A little more than a year ago NVIDIA introduced the GF110 GPU, the power-optimized version of their Fermi patriarch, GF100. The first product was their flagship GTX 580, followed...
80 by on 11/29/2011
Rambus Loses Major Antitrust Case Against Hynix & Micron
There are few companies in the tech world as infamous as Rambus, an IP-only RAM development firm. For the better part of 10 years now they have been engaged...
29 by on 11/16/2011
NVIDIA’s Maximus Technology: Quadro + Tesla, Launching Today
Back at SIGGRAPH 2011 NVIDIA announced Project Maximus, an interesting technology initiative to allow customers to combine Tesla and Quadro products together in a single workstation and to use...
29 by on 11/14/2011
EVGA's GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2Win: The Raw Power Of Two GPUs
Back at CES 2011 EVGA showed off an interesting concept card featuring 2 GF104 GPUs on a single board. The resulting product was the EVGA GeForce GTX 460 2Win...
56 by on 11/4/2011
AMD Announces Turks Based FirePro V4900
For the last couple of years AMD has been pretty consistent about cascading their GPUs through their entire product line. Nowhere is this more evident than their professional graphics...
7 by on 11/1/2011AMD Q3 2011 Results: $97mil Profit On Strong Llano Sales
AMD held their Q3 2011 conference call this afternoon to announce their financial results for the quarter. Previously, AMD had issued a warning for this quarter based on production...
23 by on 10/27/2011NVIDIA/EA Posts Battlefield 3 Graphics Tech Talk
At GeForce LAN 6, DICE's senior software architect Johan Andersson gave a fantastic talk about the technical aspects of the graphics renderer in DICE's Frostbite 2 engine, which is...
7 by on 10/25/2011
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