Taking place next week is the National Association of Broadcasters’ annual trade show, NAB 2013. Though most of the announcements coming out of NAB are for highly specialized products – rackmount video encoders, broadcast-quality software, etc – there are usually a few announcements applicable to the wider world. And Adobe and AMD are getting the jump on one of them with an early announcement of OpenCL support for Premiere Pro. Premiere Pro is Adobe’s popular non-linear video editor (NLE), which in version CS5 (2010) added support for a collection of GPU-accelerated effects with Adobe’s Mercury Playback Engine. However at the time support was limited to NVIDIA cards due to the use of CUDA, leaving AMD out in the cold, due in part to the fact...
AMD Shows Off Mobility Radeon HD 7000
Thanks X-bit labs for the image Intel's Developer Forum and Microsoft's BUILD conference are both underway but to not make this week any quieter, AMD is also having their own...
8 by Kristian Vättö on 9/14/2011
IDF 2011: Lucid Announces Virtu Universal MVP Featuring HyperFormance Technology (Update)
At the start of 2011 Lucid announced their Virtu software to go with Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs. With Virtu users would be able to use a discrete GPU and...
14 by Ryan Smith on 9/14/2011
And Now: Ivy Bridge GPU Architectures Detailed
We just finished going over the GPU portion of Ivy Bridge in Intel's IVB tech session. If you're interested, the slides are below.
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2011
AMD's First Dual-Core Llano APUs: A4-3400 & A4-3300 Launched
Today AMD introduced its first dual-core Llano APUs: the A4-3400 and A4-3300. These APUs have only 758M active transistors, a bit over half of the transistors in the bigger...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/7/2011
AMD Releases Catalyst 11.8 Drivers
AMD today released version 11.8 of its Calalyst driver package for Windows. As with previous releases, version 11.8 is available for all 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP...
14 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/17/2011
SIGGRAPH 2011: NVIDIA’s Upcoming Workstation Technologies - Project Maximus & Monterey Technology
SIGGRAPH tends to be an interesting mix of announcements and demonstrations. Major vendors like NVIDIA like to make their announcements at their own trade shows – or at the...
12 by Ryan Smith on 8/12/2011
OpenGL 4.2 Specification Released
Coenciding with the start of SIGGRAPH 2011, Khronos has released version 4.2 of the OpenGL specification. Khronos routinely updates the OpenGL specification to add new features to the API...
6 by Ryan Smith on 8/8/2011
Update: Kepler GPUs Shipping This Year? NVIDIA Says No
Although we're barely into August, both AMD and NVIDIA are already making their first moves for their next generation products due at the end of this year and into...
13 by Ryan Smith on 8/3/2011
Village Instruments CEO Promises Graphics Card Enclosure for Thunderbolt
Village Instruments CEO Hubert Chen wrote an open letter to Facebook last week, attempting to gague customer interest in an external PCI Express graphics card enclosure for Thunderbolt. He...
19 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/3/2011
28nm Radeon Chips This Year? AMD Says Yes
During its Q2 2011 earnings conference, AMD’s interim-CEO Thomas Seifert revealed that AMD already has working samples of GPUs using a 28nm fabrication process. AMD claims it is on...
17 by Saumitra Bhagwat on 7/28/2011
Nintendo 3DS Gets $80 Price Cut on August 12
Those of you on the fence about Nintendo's 3DS, your wait may soon be over: Starting August 12, the price of the system will fall from its current $249.99...
10 by Andrew Cunningham on 7/28/2011
AMD Raises the Mobile Performance Bar with Radeon HD 6990M
AMD’s last update to their mobile GPU lineup is now over six months old, which means we’re about due for another new part. Right on cue, and not long...
34 by Jarred Walton on 7/12/2011
AnandTech Mobile Graphics Guide, Summer 2011
If desktop graphics hardware can be more than a little confusing, deciphering performance of mobile graphics parts can be (and has historically been) an absolute nightmare. Way back in...
83 by Dustin Sklavos on 7/5/2011
AMD A8-3850 : An HTPC Perspective
Today is all about Lynx, the desktop version of the Llano platform from AMD. Anand is reviewing the A8-3850 from a generic PC perspective, and Ian is covering its...
107 by Ganesh T S on 6/30/2011
The AMD A8-3850 Review: Llano on the Desktop
Ever since the arrival of Conroe back in 2006, we've only really recommended AMD for its (sometimes incredible) value. Recommending AMD for those looking for absolute performance pretty much...
100 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/30/2011
Sony Updates Vaio Z: Light Peak and An External GPU
Sony has announced an updated Vaio Z lineup today. Vaio Z is Sony’s premium 13” laptop series which essentially packs performance of a 15” laptop into a smaller form...
99 by Kristian Vättö on 6/28/2011
Optimus Top to Bottom: NVIDIA Releases the GeForce GTX 570M and 580M
While our recent review of the Alienware M17x R3 proved you could have a gaming notebook that was still capable of halfway decent battery life, the hybrid solution found...
27 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/28/2011
Discrete HTPC GPU Shootout
The popularity of Intel's HD Graphics amongst HTPC enthusiasts and the success of the AMD APUs seem to indicate that the days of the discrete HTPC GPU are numbered...
70 by Ganesh T S on 6/12/2011
Computex 2011: Silent and Single Slot GPUs
In general, we see a trend in the market preference for quieter, smaller, cheaper, and more powerful GPUs. In reality, we might see two or three of these...
26 by Ian Cutress on 6/7/2011
Computex 2011: AMD Bulldozer, Llano, Trinity, & New VISION Branding
AMD’s Computex 2011 conference just wrapped up. Computex is not AMD’s traditional grounds for major new announcements – they’d rather have their own events for that – but alongside...
26 by Ryan Smith on 6/1/2011