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ATI Radeon HD 4830 announced by AMD

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, Oct 23rd 2008 No Comments

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While we got some leaked information on it on Tuesday, the ATI Radeon HD 4830 graphics card was officially announced yesterday and it provides consumers with a cheaper option that still carries great specs.

Features for the 4830 graphics card include many that are included in the higher-end models. They are simply cut back a bit here. For instance, there are 640 stream processors instead of 800. However, the 256-bit memory bus remains, as does full screen anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering.

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NVIDIA Quadro CX: Adobe CS4-specific GPU

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 17th 2008 No Comments

Heavy users of Adobe Creative Suite 4 will know that the only thing worse than a hangover for slowing the design process is a computer unable to keep up. CS4 feasts on processor cycles like supermodels crave bacon; thankfully here’s NVIDIA to the rescue with their Quadro CX, a PCI-E card dedicated to giving the graphics software all the grunt it needs.

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NVIDIA demo GPU-based Interactive Ray Tracing

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 15th 2008 1 Comment

NVIDIA is demonstrating its latest efforts in interactive ray tracing at SIGGRAPH 2008, using four next-generation Quadro GPUs in an NVIDIA Quadro Plex 2100 D4 Visual Computing System to show linear scaling during rendering of a complex, two-million polygon, anti-aliased automotive styling application. The images here are taken from the demo, which managed 30fps 1920 x 1080 High Definition video for an image-based lighting paint shader, ray traced shadows, reflections and refractions.

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Next week’s driver update brings PhysX to GeForce GPUs

By Chris Scott Barr on Friday, Aug 8th 2008 No Comments

I generally try to stay on top of things when it comes to the components in my gaming rig. I usually try to buy a new graphics card once, maybe twice a year, and generally don’t go for the top-of-the-line card. Despite generally being up-to-date, I really haven’t considered purchasing a separate physics card, even though they have been available for some time. It’s a good thing too, since now many GeForce cards will soon have the same hardware physics capabilities as a standalone card.

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Intel Larrabee multicore graphics & co-processing chip set for 2009

By Chris Davies on Monday, Aug 4th 2008 1 Comment

Intel has announced details of their upcoming Larrabee chip, an multi-core x86-based processor that, according to senior principle engineer Larry Seiler, “combines the full programmability of the CPU with the kinds of parallelism and other special capabilities of graphics processors.” Based on multiple Pentium CPUs with 64-bit instructions and multi-threading, Larrabee will offer high-performance graphics crunching – it is compatible with Microsoft’s DirectX and Apple’s Open CL – but also be suited to workstations.

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NVIDIA rumored to exit chipset business

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 1st 2008 No Comments

NVIDIA logo NVIDIA are preparing to pull out of the motherboard business, according to a report by DigiTimes. Citing “sources close to the situation”, it’s claimed that NVIDIA called a meeting with manufacturing partners earlier this week to examine what degree of support their ongoing chipset development would receive; the partners’ response was apparently poor enough to prompt the company to cut its losses.

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ECS announces GeForce 9800 GTX+ Hydra Pack

By Chris Scott Barr on Tuesday, Jul 29th 2008 No Comments

Low Crysis framerates got you down? There’s a good chance that your graphics card needs an update, and while some of the newer cards are finally able to play on “High” settings, you may want to consider a dual-GPU configuration. Elitegroup Computer Systems has just announced their GeForce 9800 GTX+ Hydra Pack which looks to smash the competition.

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MIT grads build PC with 16 GPUs

By Chris Scott Barr on Tuesday, Jul 29th 2008 1 Comment

I remember back when I first installed a second graphics card in my gaming rig. I thought that I had achieved greatness. Of course these days it’s not all that uncommon to find multiple GPUs in a gaming system (be it on a single card, or separate ones), however, I can’t say that I’ve ever heard of 16 GPUs running in a single system. That is until I heard about a few MIT grads that decided to do just that.

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SlashGear Review – VisionTek Radeon HD 4850

By Chris Scott Barr on Friday, Jul 4th 2008 2 Comments

ATI’s latest cards are out, and they are getting some major attention. These are supposed to be the cards that really put ATI back on the map in the GPU race. Personally I thought that the 38xx series were pretty good, however, I’ve got the new 4850, so we’ll see how it stacks up against the previous generation.

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SlashGear Review – VisionTek Radeon HD 3870 X2 Overclocked

By Chris Scott Barr on Friday, Jun 27th 2008 No Comments

I was impressed when I had a chance to check out VisionTek’s Radeon HD 3870, as it really performed quite well. Now I’ve gotten ahold of its big brother, the Radeon HD 3870 X2. This card also comes from VisionTek, and is the Overclocked Edition, which promises to get a little extra power over the stock version.

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