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ATI Radeon HD 5970 5 TeraFLOP graphics card debuts

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Nov 18th 2009 No Comments

You can’t doubt AMD’s commitment to marketing speech: the company is describing their new ATI Radeon HD 5970 as the “fastest graphics card in the world”, and from glancing at the specifications it certainly looks potent.  The Radeon HD 5970 – which we saw leaked in recent weeks – packs DirectX 11 support, dual Cypress graphics processors for up to 5 TeraFLOPS of power, and the potential for twice that if you hook up twin HD 5970 cards using CrossFireX.  A single card can, thanks to Eyefinity, create a 7,680 x 1,600 workspace across three displays.

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NVIDIA Ion LE DirectX 10 hack suggests purposefully crippled features

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 29th 2009 1 Comment

NVIDIA’s Ion LE promises to deliver the same 1080p HD playback as its regular Ion sibling, but at a cheaper price; to do that, it drops DirectX 10 support in favor of solely accommodating DX9.  It turns out that the limitation is, in fact, an arbitrary one and that the Ion LE seems to have been artificially crippled by NVIDIA themselves; MyHPMini forum member runawayprisoner found that by slightly modifying HP’s own Ion drivers he could get them to install for the Ion LE.

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Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 and G210 retail cards announced

By Chris Davies on Monday, Oct 12th 2009 No Comments

Been waiting for some of that sweet NVIDIA 40nm GPU action, but aren’t keen on buying a new PC with an OEM card installed?  You’ll be pleased to hear that the first retail versions of NVIDIA’s GeForce GT 220 and G210 video cards have emerged, initially courtesy of Gigabyte, and both carrying prices well under the $100 mark.

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ATI Radeon 5700 desktop & 5000 notebook GPUs tipped for Q4

By Chris Davies on Monday, Sep 14th 2009 No Comments

ati radeon logoNews of several graphics cards and notebook GPUs from AMD have leaked, courtesy of the usual shadowy DigiTimes sources.  According to the insiders, AMD plan to launch their ATI Radeon HD 5700 series desktop GPUs in October, in the shape of the Radeon HD 5770 and 5750, followed by the Radeon 5870 X2 (R800) in November.

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Lenovo USB to DVI adapter promises 1080p external displays

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 28th 2009 No Comments

Lenovo have quietly launched a USB to DVI monitor adapter based on DisplayLink’s virtual video card technology, that promises up to 1,920 x 1,200 WUXGA output – supporting 1080p High-Definition video – via a single USB connection.  Up to six of the adapters can be used on a single computer (three if you have a ThinkPad with switchable graphics) in addition to the machines’ native video outputs.

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ATI DirectX 11 video card live images leak

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 21st 2009 No Comments

AMD made a big song and dance of their new ATI DirectX 11 video card last week, showing it off for the first time at QuakeCon and putting on some heady demonstrations of its indecently high performance.  Well, we say “showing it off”, but actually AMD kept a tight lid on the physical design of the new card; unfortunately not tight enough to avoid Chiphell getting their hands on some leaked images.

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BFG GeForce GTX 295 and 285 self-contained liquid-cooling video cards

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Aug 4th 2009 No Comments

BFG Technologies have announced their latest liquid-cooling system, this time for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 and GeForce GTX 295, promising maintenance-free performance cooling.  The two cards come pre-fitted with BFG’s ThermoIntelligence advanced cooling systems, with the company claiming running temperatures of up to 30-degrees centigrade cooler than standard air-cooled models.

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NVIDIA Ion LE 1080p GPU confirmed: cheaper, drops DirectX 10

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Aug 4th 2009 No Comments

nvidia ion logoNVIDIA have released a second graphics product in their Ion range, the Ion LE, intended for entry-level devices such as netbooks and nettops.  Ion LE is apparently exactly the same as the existing Ion – which boosts netbook video performance to handle 1080p high-definition – aside from it lacks DirectX 10 support.

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ATI FirePro V8750 flagship 3D video card with CrossFire Pro [Video]

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jul 28th 2009 No Comments

AMD have announced the latest in its high-end professional 3D video cards, the ATI FirePro V8750 3D workstation accelerator, promising four times the processing power over rival systems.  The FirePro V8750 boasts 2GB of memory with range-topping 115.2GB/sec bandwidth, together with 800 shader processing units, full 30-bit display pipeline and stream computing compatibility.

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MSI R4890 Cyclone SOC video card

By Ewdison Then on Tuesday, Jul 14th 2009 No Comments

MSI have announced a new video card, the R4890 Cyclone SOC, which brings together ATI’s 1GHz HD 4890 core with 800 stream processors and 1GB of GDDR5 256-bit memory.  Since cooling all that takes some effort, there’s also a huge 10cm fan with four 8mm heatpipes.  That makes for the biggest fan on an HD 4890-based video card to date, and a setup which MSI claim is far quieter than rival systems.

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