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...
AT Bench Update: Now with Mobile, Smartphone, and GPU 2011 Results!
Since starting our Bench results databases, they've grown by leaps and bounds. Bench is a central place where you can compare products based on the variety of tests and...
36 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/1/2011
AMD’s GTX 560 Ti Counter-Offensive: Radeon HD 6950 1GB & XFX’s Radeon HD 6870 Black Edition
Today was originally supposed to be about the newly released GeForce GTX 560 Ti – NVIDIA’s new GF114-based $250 video card. Much as was the case with the launch...
111 by Ryan Smith on 1/25/2011
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 560 Ti: Upsetting The $250 Market
Late last year we saw GF110, the first of the revised Fermi family. Utilizing a new low-level transistor design intended to minimize transistor leakage, GF110 brought with it GTX...
88 by Ryan Smith on 1/25/2011
AMD Launches The Radeon HD 6950 1GB
Good morning everyone. Today AMD is launching the long-awaited 1GB version of the Radeon HD 6950. For reasons we can't really delve in to, the NDA for the 6950 is...
22 by Ryan Smith on 1/25/2011
Intel Settles With NVIDIA: More Money, Fewer Problems, No x86
NVIDIA and Intel just released their respective PR announcements a bit ago, but after much rumor mongering it’s official: Intel and NVIDIA are the latest duo to bury the...
29 by Ryan Smith on 1/10/2011
Updated: The License Agreement: Intel to Pay NVIDIA $1.5 Billion
Update 2: Our full analysis of the agreement is now available here: Intel Settles With NVIDIA: More Money, Fewer Problems, No x86 In about 30 minutes NVIDIA will host a...
32 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/10/2011
AMD and GlobalFoundries, CES 2011
The entities formerly known as AMD—namely, AMD and GlobalFoundries—are both here in Vegas for CES, and we had an opportunity to stop by and discuss their current and future...
73 by Jarred Walton on 1/7/2011
AMD's Radeon HD 6970 & Radeon HD 6950: Paving The Future For AMD
In 2009 AMD launched the highly successful Radeon HD 5800 series to great fanfare and even greater shortages. With a 6 month lead on NVIDIA, AMD had the high-end...
193 by Ryan Smith on 12/15/2010
AMD Previews New Catalyst Control Center Interface
Back on December 2nd AMD’s Catalyst Product Manager, Terry Makedon, posted an interesting if cryptic note on his Twitter feed: “Catalyst 10.12 is going to be HUGE”. Since then...
80 by Ryan Smith on 12/13/2010
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 570: Filling In The Gaps
NVIDIA can be a very predictable company at times. It’s almost unheard of for them to release only a single product based on a high-end GPU, so when they...
55 by Ryan Smith on 12/7/2010
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 580: The SLI Update
Picking up immediately from where we left off yesterday with our review of NVIDIA’s new GeForce GTX 580, we have a second GTX 580 in house courtesy of Asus...
83 by Ryan Smith on 11/10/2010
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 580: Fermi Refined
There's little doubt in our minds that the GF100/GTX 480 launch wasn't quite what NVIDIA was hoping for. It did end up being the fastest single GPU card on...
163 by Ryan Smith on 11/9/2010
AMD Radeon HD 6850 Overclocking Roundup: Asus, XFX, & MSI
With an all-custom launch for the Radeon HD 6850, the door was immediately opened to a variety of 6850 cards with a wide variety of performance characteristics. In fact...
93 by Ryan Smith on 11/8/2010
Your Feedback On The Use of EVGA's GeForce GTX 460 FTW in Last Night's Review
Last night we published our Radeon HD 6870 and 6850 review. In it we made a decision to include a factory overclocked GeForce GTX 460 from EVGA (the EVGA...
620 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/22/2010
AMD’s Radeon HD 6870 & 6850: Renewing Competition in the Mid-Range Market
All things considered, the Radeon HD 5000 series has gone very well for AMD. When they launched it just over a year ago, they beat NVIDIA to the punch...
205 by Ryan Smith on 10/21/2010
NVIDIA Launches 3DTV Play, Bringing 3D Vision to the Big Screen
After announcing it earlier this year, NVIDIA has finally released their 3DTV Play software add-on for 3D TV owners. 3DTV Play enables consumers to take full advantage of the...
28 by Ganesh T S on 10/21/2010
AMD’s Radeon HD 6800 Series & Llano “Fusion” APU: A Story in Pictures
We happen to have the AMD Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon HD 6850 in-house for testing at the moment. We wanted to play Show & Tell, but the nice...
54 by Ryan Smith on 10/19/2010
AMD Quietly Reveals Next Radeon Series, Launches Next Week
The cat is out of the bag, so to speak, after today's earnings conference call for AMD. One of the things that ended up being discussed by AMD CEO...
85 by Ryan Smith on 10/15/2010
NVIDIA's GeForce GT 430: The Next HTPC King?
It’s been 7 months since the launch of the first Fermi cards, and at long last we’re here: we’ve reached the end of the road on the Fermi launch...
121 by Ryan Smith & Ganesh T S on 10/11/2010
NVIDIA GTC 2010 Wrapup
Today we’re wrapping up our coverage of last month’s NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, including the show’s exhibit hall. We came to GTC to get a better grasp on...
20 by Ryan Smith on 10/10/2010