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NVIDIA SLI multi-GPU coming to AMD Bulldozer motherboards

Chris Davies, Apr 29th 2011 Discuss [2]

AMD may have its own Radeon graphics card range, but that doesn't stop many gamers wanting to use NVIDIA's GeForce cards in SLI configuration. Now, NVIDIA has announced that it is reintroducing SLI support for AMD motherboards, with ASUS, Gigabyte, ASRock and MSI all among the first wave of manufacturers who will be including the technology on their 990FX, 990X and 970 based 'boards. Read The Full Story

Sunix VGA2788 USB 3.0 to HDMI adapter supports Full HD

Chris Davies, Mar 31st 2011 Discuss [1]

DisplayLink's USB graphics technology has made adding multiple screens to notebooks straightforward, but there's always a limit on performance thanks to the throughput potential of USB 2.0. Unsurprisingly, then, the latest breed of USB display adapters, such as Sunix's imminent VGA2788, turn to USB 3.0 to allow for Full HD 1080p support. Read The Full Story

AMD Radeon HD 6790 tipped to bring mid-range battle to GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Chris Davies, Mar 29th 2011 Discuss [0]

AMD may have got a spanking with NVIDIA's GTX 590 - on paper at least - eclipsing their own Radeon HD 6990, but the company isn't wasting time weeping and applying cooling balm. Instead it's apparently readying the AMD Radeon HD 6790, according to NordicHardware, set to take on NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 550 Ti in the lucrative mid-range segment, with a Barts LE core based on the GPUs used in the Radeon HD 6800 series. Read The Full Story

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 official, attempts to wear world’s fastest and quietest crowns

Chris Davies, Mar 24th 2011 Discuss [3]

Poor old AMD; the company got to hold on to the "world's fastest graphics card" title for all of two weeks with the Radeon HD 6990, and now here comes NVIDIA to try to snatch it away. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 is finally official, and as we expected it's a dual-GPU masterpiece of CUDA grunt folded into a super-quiet chassis. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

AMD 2012 mobile GPU roadmap leaks: 28nm Radeon HD 7000M

Chris Davies, Mar 16th 2011 Discuss [1]

Details of AMD's 28nm mobile GPU roadmap have leaked, with four families of Radeon HD 7000M graphics chips specified for 2012. According to the document, passed to Turkish site Donanimhaber, AMD is readying mainstream, performance and gaming chips for notebook use: Thames, Chelsea, Heathrow and Wimbledon. Read The Full Story

Asus launches new GTX550 Ti DirectCU graphics cards

Shane McGlaun, Mar 16th 2011 Discuss [0]

Asus has announced that it is now shipping some new video cards that use the NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti GPU inside. The cards support HD Blu-ray playback and 3D content as well. The GTX550 Ti DirectCU has 192 CUDA cores and a design that is tweaked for increased performance while running color and with less noise production than older card versions. Read The Full Story

Beastly NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 release dated

Chris Davies, Mar 9th 2011 Discuss [8]

AMD was originally tipped to be waiting on NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 590 to arrive before launching the Radeon HD 6990, but the company pulled the trigger on the "world's fastest graphics card" earlier this week. That leaves the coast clear for the GTX 590, which according to Expreview is scheduled to arrive on March 22 2011. Read The Full Story

AMD Radeon HD 6990 official: World’s fastest graphics card

Chris Davies, Mar 8th 2011 Discuss [4]

We've been tracking AMD's beastly Radeon HD 6990 for a few months now, and the company has finally seen fit to make it official. Billed as the world's fastest graphics card, the AMD Radeon HD 6990 packs 3,072 Stream Processors, 64 ROPs and 4GB of GDDR5 memory, together good for a borderline-ridiculous 11,865 score in 3DMark11. Read The Full Story

Fujitsu Semiconductor pick up ARM chips: Cortex A15, Mali GPUs, more

Chris Davies, Feb 28th 2011 Discuss [0]

Fujitsu Semiconductor has become the latest company to sign up to ARM's Cortex A15 cores, following Texas Instruments and others in creating the next-generation of SoCs. Although exact products haven't been confirmed yet, the deal will give Fujitsu access not only to ARM's processors but to GPUs like Mali. Read The Full Story

AMD Radeon HD 6990 officially pictured

Chris Davies, Feb 28th 2011 Discuss [0]

AMD's beastly Radeon HD 6990 video card has officially broken cover, with the company seeding shots of the dual-GPU monster ahead of its expected launch in early Q2 2011. Hexus was handed a trio of official pics of the HD 6990, and while exact specifications are still unknown, we can deduce a little from the shots. Read The Full Story

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 in March and AMD Radeon HD 6990 in April as high-end graphics heat up

Chris Davies, Feb 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 590 video card is expected to arrive in mid-March 2011, followed a month later by AMD's new Radeon HD 6990, with the staggered launch supposedly an intentional strategy AMD is adopting. According to DigiTimes' sources at graphics card manufacturers, AMD has decided to delay the HD 6990's commercial release so that NVIDIA can't review it and subsequently change its GTX 590 design. Read The Full Story

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New MacBook Pro: Dumped NVIDIA is the Biggest News

Vincent Nguyen, Feb 24th 2011 Discuss [6]

The new MacBook Pro range certainly doesn’t hold back when it comes to specifications, but in some respects it’s what’s missing from the updated notebooks that’s more interesting than what made the cut. I met with Apple this morning for a hands-on briefing with the new MacBook Pro line-up – stand by for some first impressions of the maxed-out 15-inch model – and one of the most conspicuous changes is the shift to AMD Radeon HD graphics on the 15- and 17-inchers.