GPUs
VESA this morning is taking the wraps off of the next iteration of its DisplayHDR monitor certification standard, DisplayHDR 1.2. Designed to raise the bar on display quality, the updated DisplayHDR conformance test suite imposes new luminance, color gamut, and color accuracy requirements that extend across the entire spectrum of DisplayHDR tiers – including the entry-level DisplayHDR 400 tier. With vendors able to begin certifying displays for the new standard immediately, the display technology group is aiming to address the advancements in the display technology market over the last several years, while enticing display manufacturers to make use of them to deliver better desktop and laptop displays than before. Altogether, the DisplayHDR 1.2 is easily the biggest update to the standard since it launched in...
JEDEC Publishes HBM2 Specification as Samsung Begins Mass Production of Chips
The high-bandwidth memory (HBM) technology solves two key problems related to modern DRAM: it substantially increases bandwidth available to computing devices (e.g., GPUs) and reduces power consumption. The first-generation...
42 by Anton Shilov on 1/20/2016
AMD Reports Q4 2015 Results And FY 2015 Earnings
Today AMD released their quarterly earnings for Q4 of Fiscal Year 2015. AMD continues to struggle financially, and for Q4 they had revenues of $958 million, down 10% from...
69 by Brett Howse on 1/19/2016
ASUS Booth Tour at CES 2016: 10G Switches, External GPU Dock, USB-C Monitor and more
When ASUS emailed a couple of weeks before CES announcing that they had cancelled their press event for the show, we had a few question marks. Previous shows involve...
50 by Ian Cutress on 1/19/2016
Intel: For Mainstream Gamers, Our IGPs Are Equivalent to Discrete GPUs
Intel’s integrated graphics processors (iGPUs) are the most widespread PC-class graphics adapters on the planet. Enthusiasts of high-performance personal computers do not use Intel’s iGPUs, but the world’s largest...
96 by Anton Shilov on 1/14/2016
CES 2016: MSI’s 27-inch 4K Gaming AIO with Full Sized Discrete GPU, the 27XT 6QE
Back at Computex in 2015 we saw and reported on MSI’s first design ideas surrounding an all-in-one computer (where the PC is essentially in the frame of the monitor...
13 by Ian Cutress on 1/14/2016
AMD Releases Crimson 16.1 Hotfix Drivers
This week AMD has pushed out their first video driver release of the year, Crimson 16.1 Hotfix. Between this latest hotfix and their previous Crimson update, AMD is making...
35 by Daniel Williams on 1/12/2016
AMD Cuts Price of Radeon R9 Nano to $499
Word comes from AMD via a press release this morning that they are giving the Radeon R9 Nano a price cut. AMD’s diminutive flagship, which launched in September 2015...
74 by Ryan Smith on 1/11/2016
NVIDIA Anounces Rise of the Tomb Raider GeForce GTX Bundle
Tomb Raider is a classic series now running for nearly 20 years. While the original titles are beyond dated graphically, Rise of the Tomb Raider looks to not only...
12 by Daniel Williams on 1/9/2016
Oculus VR Reveals Retail Price of Its Virtual Reality Headset: $599
Oculus VR on Wednesday revealed the price of its Oculus Rift virtual reality headset as well as its launch date. The price of the VR hardware appears to be...
75 by Anton Shilov on 1/7/2016
Imagination Announces PowerVR Series7XT Plus Family - Rogue Gets Improved Compute
A regular sight at CES at most years is a new PowerVR graphics announcement from the crew over at Imagination, and this year is no exception. Shortly before CES...
35 by Ryan Smith on 1/6/2016
NVIDIA Announces DRIVE PX 2 - Pascal Power For Self-Driving Cars
As has become tradition at CES, the first major press conference of the show belongs to NVIDIA. In previous years their press conference would be dedicated to consumer mobile...
34 by Ryan Smith on 1/5/2016
AMD Reveals Polaris GPU Architecture: 4th Gen GCN to Arrive In Mid-2016
For much of the last month we have been discussing bits and pieces of AMD’s GPU plans for 2016. As part of the Radeon Technology Group’s formation last year...
153 by Ryan Smith on 1/4/2016
NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX VR Ready Program
With CES 2016 quickly ramping up ahead of Wednesday’s official opening, NVIDIA is hitting the ground running. While the company will be holding their traditional CES press conference this...
6 by Ryan Smith on 1/4/2016
US ITC Finds NVIDIA Guilty of Infringing Three Samsung Patents
An administrative law judge from the U.S. International Trade Commission on Tuesday found that NVIDIA Corp. infringed several patents of Samsung Electronics. The judge ruled that NVIDIA’s graphics processing...
35 by Anton Shilov on 12/23/2015
AMD Dual-Fiji “Gemini” Video Card Delayed To 2016, Aligned With VR Headset Launches
I’m going to start off this post a little differently tonight. Since our DX12 Ashes of the Singularity article back in October, I have been looking for an opportunity...
43 by Ryan Smith on 12/22/2015
NVIDIA Releases 361.43 WHQL Game Ready Driver
The holiday season is fast approaching a climax, and this season the stream of driver updates isn’t ready to quit. With that NVIDIA has brought us a stocking loaded...
11 by Daniel Williams on 12/22/2015
AMD Releases Crimson 15.12 WHQL Drivers
Just last month we saw the release of AMDs new Radeon Software Crimson Edition. This release included the brand new Radeon Settings and promised a new commitment to more...
33 by Daniel Williams on 12/18/2015
Sapphire Readies Nitro R9 Fury: Custom Design and Enhanced Performance
Sapphire Technology is preparing to release its new graphics card — the Nitro R9 Fury — based on AMD’s Fiji graphics processing unit that features its own custom printed...
25 by Anton Shilov on 12/17/2015
AMD's 2016 Linux Driver Plans & GPUOpen Family of Dev Tools: Investing In Open Source
Earlier this month AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group held an event to brief the press of their plans for 2016. Part of a larger shift for RTG as they work...
49 by Ryan Smith on 12/15/2015
AMD Discusses 2016 Radeon Visual Technologies Roadmap
This is something that initially caught me off-guard when I first realized it, but AMD historically hasn’t liked to talk about their GPU plans much in advance. On the...
99 by Ryan Smith on 12/8/2015
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