VIA Technologies company S3 Graphics has announced its next generation Chrome 500 graphics graphics processors, which can support Blu-ray playback, streaming HD video, DirectX 10.1, and OpenGL 3
Friday, November 21, 2008 10:09
Ok, we admit it, there are ways to get Half-Life for free, you may even
have a copy in a graphics card box in your closet (at least I do in the
box of the original ATI Radeon AIW), but we fel
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 16:02
...er visual experience is more important, compared to only 37% of females. And 59% of 18-24 yr olds said that graphics quality is a factor when purchasing a notebook, with 80% of all respondents saying ...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 08:24
...ne of the most important Internet software platforms today, enabling the display of interactive animations, graphics , and multimedia within a browser. Adobe claims that 98% of desktop computers curren...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 00:21
...esult in PCs with a price tag of slightly below $10,000. If you are into numbers, such a PC would have 960 graphics cores and a combined performance rating of about 3.6 to 4 TFlops in single-precisio...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 00:25
...a GPU. That argument is substantially weakend with the arrival of Core i7, since the platform supports dual-graphics solutions from Nvidia and AMD/ATI. Down the road, we will see Nehalem processors wi...
Monday, November 17, 2008 16:58
...olver tool and 1024 columns in Calc, native table support in Impress, and effective handling of poster-size graphics in Draw, one of the most significant new feature is built-in support for Microsoft ...
Monday, November 17, 2008 14:23
...und was Gateway’s FX6800-01e, which includes a 750 GB HDD, 3 GB of memory, a 920 CPU, an ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics card, a DVD burner and Windows Vista Premium 64-bit for $1250. The company also off...
Monday, November 17, 2008 13:07
...ugh to run Windows Vista. The problem was that especially because Intel held a 40%+ market share of the PC graphics market with its IGCs at the beginning of 2006, less than 30% of PCs at the time wer...
Monday, November 17, 2008 00:14
Several motherboard and graphics card makers saw serious overstock problems in the second half this year and started to cut prices several months ago in order to clear their inventory due to fal
Friday, November 14, 2008 09:15
With AMD making gains in the discrete graphics card market – rising to around 40% in third-quarter 2008 according to a recent report from Jon Peddie Research (JPR) – Nvidia is planning to cut it
Friday, November 14, 2008 09:14
...ache (6 MB shared L3, 512 KB L2 per core), support for DDR2 and DDR3 memory. Dragon will provide a range of graphics options from low-end to a "terascale graphics engine," overdrive CPU control and a ...
Friday, November 14, 2008 06:10
..., saw a much
more upbeat AMD than last year. The first 45 nm CPU is out of the gate,
there is a fantastic graphics chip lineup, a new and compelling stream
computing agenda and a thoroughly updated...
Friday, November 14, 2008 00:11
...ed in 2009. The first 32 nm mobile processor from AMD will be “Ontario”, also built with integrated graphics following the original Fusion concept. The CPU will have two cores, 1 MB of cache a...
Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:32
...at 40 nm ATI Radeon GPUs “are just around the corner” and set for a mid-2009 refresh for the firm’s current graphics product line. ...
Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:57
...driver update that
promises showcase the floating point horsepower that is
currently hidden in the firm’s graphics cards. There is also a new
Avivo video converter that will convert videos 17 times...
Thursday, November 13, 2008 07:00
...he Deneb processor, which will officially be called as well as a 700 Series chipsets and ATI Radeon HD 4000 graphics products. ...
Thursday, November 13, 2008 00:01
...lows Parallels to load balance processes between the Mac OS and whatever is running on the Virtual Machine. Graphics performance has been improved, adding support for DirectX 9, DirectX Pixel Shader 2...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 11:07
Nvidia today announced what the company calls “most powerful
professional graphics card in graphics history”, which may be true if 4
GB of memory is any indication of the capabilities of the
Monday, November 10, 2008 16:37
...idia products that incorporate DDR, DDR2, DDR3, LPDDR, GDDR, GDDR2, and GDDR3 memory controllers, including graphics processors, and media and communications processors (chipsets).
More here at Di...
Monday, November 10, 2008 09:13
...nces in abilities continue so do advances in desired workloads. To gage this easily, consider the primitive graphics in movies like Tron and The Last Starfighter, compared to the graphics in today's C...
Friday, November 07, 2008 10:50
...70, the first integrated professional motherboard GPU, and Quadro FX 370 Low Profile, an entry-level Quadro graphics boards for small form factor (SFF) systems. Increasing performance and reliability ...
Friday, November 07, 2008 09:43
According to sources in Taiwan's graphics card industry, Nvidia has outsourced the manufacturing of its GeForce 3D stereo glasses to EMS provider Flextronics, and the product has passed design v
Thursday, November 06, 2008 10:47
Palit today announced a new flagship for its Radeon graphics card
series. Based on AMD’s dual-GPU ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 design, the
graphics card comes with two massive fans and two heat pipe
Wednesday, November 05, 2008 17:15
...urprising since there isn’t a lot of new core hardware the iMacs could benefit from. More memory, different graphics and more hard drive space and that would be about it. However, refreshed iMacs have...
Tuesday, November 04, 2008 10:28
Gaming notebook manufacturer Alienware is putting two ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3800-series graphics processors in the Alienware M17 notebook PC. The Alienware M17 is the world's first notebook from
Tuesday, November 04, 2008 10:02
...ate its iMac desktop system on
November 10, which may include several hardware upgrades, including
Nvidia graphics chips as well as a DisplayPort interface. Chicago (IL) – Apple is reportedly planni...
Monday, November 03, 2008 10:44
...our opinion.
On every benchmark that is CPU-intensive and not externally compute-limited, such as the 3D graphics card being the limiting factor, Intel's Core i7 not only dominates, but actually ma...
Monday, November 03, 2008 09:51
...at can be equipped with a 6x Blu-ray disc burner. Additionally, Psystar also offered Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT graphics card as an option. The basic Psystar desktop PC with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard pre-ins...
Friday, October 31, 2008 20:28
...o the 1.6 GHz, 15-watt processor, the system includes 1 GB of memory as well as integrated ATI Radeon x1200 graphics , which uses a shared memory approach and will use the system memory for its frame b...
Friday, October 31, 2008 19:48
... (Q8200), hard drives with capacities between 320 and 750 GB, 4 GB of memory and an Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT graphics chip. The system is available in midnight gray or pure white, which represents the ...
Thursday, October 30, 2008 13:04
...arted 17 months ago. As only major “details” released, the company said that the game will use “immersive” graphics that will allow the gamer to “explore” The Beatles from the very beginning in an “i...
Thursday, October 30, 2008 10:13
...er will support the Direct3D 10.1 API. The company claims that this transition will enable it to reduce the graphics memory footprint by about 50%. Industry sources who requested to remain anonymous...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 14:13
... suggest that the new Air models are now shipping. The notebooks received upgrades such as the Nvidia 9400M graphics system, options for 120 GB HDD and 128 GB SSD drives, the addition of a mini Displa...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:27
AMD’s latest graphics chip series looked good on paper and good in
benchmarks and it appears that it is returning good sales numbers as
well. Nvidia is still dominating the list of the ten be
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 15:10
...sion, wrapped in a nicely package that takes advantage of the multi-touch interface Google Earth is a very graphics intensive application, but we can confirm that the software shines on the iPhone, w...
Monday, October 27, 2008 14:55
In addition to Apple's new MacBook and MacBook Pro, several global first-tier notebook vendors including Asustek Computer, Acer, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell are all planning to launch MCP79-base
Monday, October 27, 2008 10:25
...ulti-touch Applications In Windows 7 (introduction of new multi-touch gesture APIs) Windows 7: New Text and Graphics APIs (no details available) Windows 7: New Shell User Experience APIs (no details ...
Monday, October 27, 2008 00:56
...sp; 1. iMac/Mac Pro Extreme Let’s be honest. As much as Steve Jobs likes to highlight the processing and graphics capabilities of Macs, if you are really looking for consumer-focused computing perf...
Friday, October 24, 2008 14:22
With rumors circulating recently that Nvidia is planning to cut off supply of graphics processing units (GPU) to second-tier makers, Nvidia has officially refuted the rumor saying the relationsh
Thursday, October 23, 2008 09:43
...4 TB of HDD space, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, up to 8 GB of DDR3 memory, up to three Nvidia GeForce GTX280 graphics cards as well as a liquid cooling system. The power supply supports of to 2 KW. Pr...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 12:25
...nd previously unavailable network and telephony layers. It contains core components such as the bootloader, graphics and speech-recognition libraries and media codecs as well as applications and can b...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:44
...e a Core 2 Extreme QX9300 processor, 4 GB of memory, a 128 GB SSD and a 320 GB hard drive as well as an SLI graphics configuration consisting of the Nvidia 9400M IGC and a discrete 9800M GTS graphics ...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:23
...g product for many more markets. It is a SoC that includes the 45 nm Lincroft processor, memory controller, graphics capability for and video encoding/decoding as well as and an I/O hub codenamed "Lan...
Monday, October 20, 2008 11:16
...ng on an accelerated operating system that will take advantage of heterogeneous CPUs (with multiple CPU and graphics cores) and GPUs as well, but this new OS, according to our sources, will not be rea...
Monday, October 20, 2008 10:02
...U, a 750 GB hard drive, a DVD burner and Windows Vista Premium 64-bit. The compromise is an ATI Radeon 3200 graphics card, which however, can be easily replaced with a more capable card and you still ...
Monday, October 20, 2008 00:01
Nvidia announced what it describes as “the accelerator for Adobe
Creative Suite 4” – a graphics card that is marketed to users that
primarily use Adobe applications that support GPGPU acceler
Friday, October 17, 2008 09:23
...In terms of product sales, the former ATI group had its best quarter under AMD’s roof yet - $385 million in graphics sales and an operating profit of $47 million. AMD’s CPU business brought in $1.39 b...
Thursday, October 16, 2008 16:17
... plug-in is still lightweight, compact and under 2 MB in size (download it here). It delivers color-managed graphics and interactive sound, in addition to print-quality typography and performance opti...
Thursday, October 16, 2008 12:45
...g machine and it’s hard to argue with that kind of success. Their best recent move was to take Nvidia graphics across their laptop line, which finally brings Apple laptop graphics performance in...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 14:09