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AMD Zacate teased: 18W AMD Fusion APU processor for budget PCs

Chris Davies, Sep 10th 2010 Discuss [0]

AMD are teasing a preview of their upcoming AMD Fusion APU - codenamed Zacate - which the company promises will pull high-end media and DirectX 11 capabilities into mainstream computers. Zacate is a dual-core, 18W TDP processor with a separate on-die GPU, and while priced to suit budget notebooks and desktops is nonetheless able to stream Full HD video and delivery an accelerated browsing experience. Read The Full Story

AMD ATI FirePro V9800 4GB gets official: $3,499 of pro graphics

Chris Davies, Sep 9th 2010 Discuss [3]

AMD has outed its latest professional graphics card, the ATI FirePro V9800, with a full 1,600 stream processors and whopping 4GB of GDDR5 memory. The FirePro V9800 has six Mini DisplayPort outputs - using ATI EyeFinity to drive the half-dozen displays - and supports DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.0, ATI CrossFire Pro and a 256-bit memory interface. Read The Full Story

AMD Retiring ATI Brand

Ben Bajarin, Aug 30th 2010 Discuss [0]

Today AMD announced that they are retiring the ATI brand entirely from their branding and marketing. This is a move that I have been expecting for some time now since it has been one of the more prominent discussions at the last few AMD Analyst Summits I have attended. It has become blatantly clear over the past few years that the “speeds and feeds” marketing by manufacturers of personal computers was becoming less relevant to the decision making process of mainstream consumers. This is why both AMD and Intel are taking very different approaches with their partners on how to position and market to consumers. Read The Full Story

AMD rebrand revealed: ATI ditched as consumers wise-up

Chris Davies, Aug 30th 2010 Discuss [0]

AMD has confirmed it intends to axe its separate ATI graphics card branding, telling The Tech Report that it will instead be bringing them under the AMD umbrella. Intended to accommodate the new breed of combined CPU/GPU Fusion chipsets that will kick off with the Bobcat before the end of 2010, the move also follows AMD's research which discovered potential buyers were three times more likely to pick an ATI-branded card when they were told AMD were behind it. Read The Full Story

Fujitsu LIFEBOOK AH530 GFX notebook packs external HD550v 1GB graphics

Chris Davies, Aug 27th 2010 Discuss [0]

Fujitsu's latest external-graphics notebook has been revealed, the LIFEBOOK AH530 GFX, offloading its ATI Mobility Radeon HD550v 1GB video card to make for a more portable main unit. Based on May's original AH530, complete with optional Core i3, i5 or i7 processors, Blu ray or DVD drives, up to 8GB of RAM and up to 500GB HDD, the AH530 GFX gives desktop users an alternative to the standard notebook's Intel HD GPU. Read The Full Story

Xbox 360′s Vejle SoC gets detailed: so good they artificially hobbled it

Chris Davies, Aug 24th 2010 Discuss [0]

Microsoft has come clean on the new SoC powering their refreshed Xbox 360 console, and the Vejle CPU/GPU combo is certainly worth a second glance. Produced for Microsoft by IBM and GlobalFoundries, using 45nm processes and designs from the company's own engineers, Vejle is in fact so efficient that an artificially-limiting FSB was added to scale performance down to previous 360 levels. Read The Full Story

AMD takes market lead in discrete GPUs from NVIDIA

Shane McGlaun, Jul 30th 2010 Discuss [0]

AMD and NVIDIA are the only two companies who are in the consumer discrete graphics card market in a big way. There are some other much smaller companies but these are the two leaders. For a long time now, NVIDIA has held the lead in discrete GPUs. Read The Full Story

ASUS MARS II dual-GTX 480 video card leaks

Chris Davies, Jul 16th 2010 Discuss [6]

ASUS is working on a dual-GPU graphics card codenamed the ASUS MARS II, pairing two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 chips. The MARS II follows the first MARS card of 2009, which packaged a pair of GTX 295 GPUs, but updates things with a couple of NVIDIA Fermi chips. Read The Full Story

Asus Ares video card is world’s fastest single graphics card

Shane McGlaun, Jul 14th 2010 Discuss [0]

I am a sucker for high-end computer hardware and video cards. Asus pulled the wraps off a video card yesterday called the ARES that the company claims to be the fastest single video card on the planet. The cool looking card packs in dual ATI 5870 GPUs. Read The Full Story

Thermaltake Element V Unveiled

Evan Selleck, Jul 2nd 2010 Discuss [0]

When it comes to cases, there's plenty of options. And Thermaltake is definitely no stranger to the market. But with this latest piece of hardware, the company can put a notch on their belt of "firsts." This particular model, called the Element V, is actually the very first full tower chassis to be completely certified by NVIDIA. And for good reason -- it has plenty of features tucked away in here that anyone interested would probably love to get their hands on one. Read The Full Story

Qualcomm Snapdragon open-source efforts prove frustrating

Chris Davies, Jul 2nd 2010 Discuss [0]

Qualcomm has found itself unwittingly annoying the open-source community by posting the source code for OpenGL ES 2D/3D Linux kernel driver for its Snapdragon chipset, as found in the Nexus One, Dell Streak and many other devices. However, while the kernel driver is open-source, Qualcomm's user-space driver remains closed; that prompted David Airlie, who maintains the DRM for the Linux kernel at Red Hat, to tell Qualcomm - and anyone else considering doing the same half-hearted thing - "If you aren't going to create an open userspace driver (either MIT or LGPL) then don't waste time submitting a kernel driver to me." Read The Full Story

Intel says GPUs are only 14x faster than CPUs

Shane McGlaun, Jun 24th 2010 Discuss [1]

When NVIDIA pulled CUDA out of the shadows and turned the GPU into a parallel processor that was capable of running software not just accelerating 3D graphics the war between the GPU and CPU makers started in earnest. NVIDIA started to cite developers claiming they saw 100x improvements in performance on some apps compared to the apps run on a CPU. Read The Full Story