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1. AMD promises huge speed gains with new graphics driver package

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   AMD has released Catalyst 7.10 yesterday, which, according to the company, will speed up the gaming performance of some its graphics card configurations by up to 80%. HD 2400 and HD 2600 cards get Crossfire ...

2. New AMD catalyst driver adds DX10 support for Radeon HD 2900 XT graphic cards

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... the ATI DirectX 10 driver for single-card and Crossfire configurations of the Radeon HD 2900 XT. DX10 will work in 32-bit and 64-bit Windows versions for a single-card system, but only in 32-bit in Crossfire ...

3. Quad-core PCs starting to play with mainstream market

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   ... firm’s enthusiast-aimed FX series, Best Buy has begun selling the FX8020 system that comes with Intel’s Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor, a 512MB ATI Radeon X1950 Crossfire video card, 2 GB memory, ...

4. Samsung accelerates graphics memory to 2000 MHz

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   ... a 66% speed boost for high end graphics memory, which is expected to debut in enthusiast graphics cards later this year. The new GDDR4 memory, a memory type that so far has only been in use in ATI's ...

5. AMD raises graphics performance with second-gen Vista driver

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... its first final driver for the new operating system. Markham (ON) – AMD today released its second Catalyst graphics driver for Windows Vista, promising performance gains between 21% and  48% ...

6. AMD releases Windows Vista graphics driver for ATI cards

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   ATI has posted the final version of its first Windows Vista certified graphics driver on its website. Catalyst 7.1 promises a broad range of features supporting the new Vista Driver Model. Markham (ON) ...

7. Shuttle rolls out high-end hand-painted gaming PC

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... ATI Radeon X1950s in Crossfire mode should provide enough graphics for the most intense games, while the CoolIT liquid-cooling system should keep temperatures low. The SDXi comes with two fast-spinning ...

8. Nvidia scores dramatic gain in graphics chip market share

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... gained shares in virtually all of the markets it competes in - mainly at the expense of ATI, which suffered heavy losses across the board. Tiburon (CA) - Despite its recent accounting woes, Nvidia may ...

9. Catalyst 6.11 driver for Radeon graphics cards released

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   AMD's graphics division, formerly known as ATI, has released its November graphics driver update. Version 6.11 brings a few performance enhancements, especially for Call of Duty 2. AMD's graphics division, ...

10. Microsoft targets 15 million shipped Xbox 360 consoles by June 2007

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... fiscal year. The Xbox 360 will officially enter the next-generation video game console battle when the PS3 and Wii are launched this month, on the 17th and 19th respectively. With nearly one year of post-release ...

11. New Catalyst driver accelerates Intel 965 Crossfire configurations

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    ATI today released version 6.10 of its Catalyst driver package for Radeon graphics cards. The company claims that the tenth installment of this year has received Crossfire D3D driver improvements and ...

12. Gateway introduces factory over-clocked desktop computer

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    Gateway is trying to take all the guesswork out of over-clocking with its new factory over-clocked FX530 desktop PC. The computer will come with Intel Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Extreme processors and ATI x1900 ...

13. ATI releases new mainstream card into the gaming arena

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    ATI today heated up the battle in the midrange of the graphics field, offering a new contender for Nvidia 7900 GS graphics cards. The manufacturer claims that the new Radeon X1950 Pro will offer 10 to ...

14. GPUs to increase Folding@Home processing power up to 500x

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    Stanford University's Folding@Home project today announced a new software that will enable the use of graphics cards within the distributed computing project. Project leaders will tap into the floating ...

15. ATI graphics driver gets Vista certification

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    ATI has won the race to get the graphics industry's first Windows Hardware Quality Lab (WHQL) certification for the upcoming Windows Vista operating system. ATI has won the race to get the graphics industry's ...

16. The hidden potential in your graphics card: A supercomputer?

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    ... can be accelerated by a factor of 20x. Compared to graphics processors, main system processors have developed much slower in providing an increase in floating point performance. For example, a Pentium ...

17. Tul launches PowerColor X1950 graphics cards for enthusiasts

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      Tul, a Taiwan-based provider of ATI-based graphic cards, on August 24 introduced its PowerColor X1950 XTX and CrossFire graphic cards that support HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection). ...

18. A closer look at ATI's current price/performance lead over Nvidia

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    ... cards are priced fairly, from both Nvidia and ATI. So why did we declare ATI the price/performance leader? The data tells the story. Markham (Ontario) - As we reported yesterday, in the first test results ...

19. ATI releases first GDDR4 memory graphics card

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    ATI today announced two new high-end and two entry-level graphics cards. The Radeon X1950 series carries the firm's brand-new R580 graphics chip and introduces GDDR4 graphics memory running at 2 GHz to ...