Earlier today NVIDIA announced that it would begin licensing its Kepler GPU architecture to 3rd parties. This is a sensible next step for NVIDIA, but an unprecedented one among the two remaining discrete PC GPU suppliers. Note that what NVIDIA is announcing today is contrary to AMD’s semi-custom approach to SoC production. AMD is offering to build (semi) custom tailored silicon to customer needs, while NVIDIA is taking a more ARM-like approach and offering its GPU IP to 3rd parties for integration on their own. In other words, NVIDIA is looking to compete with ARM and Imagination Technologies rather than AMD or Qualcomm. In addition to its GPU architecture, NVIDIA is now also open to licensing its visual computing patents to 3rd parties. The visual computing...
Green500 Supercomputer List Released: Intel Takes Top Spot, Followed By AMD, NVIDIA
Coinciding with the publication of the Top500 supercomputer list earlier this week, the Top500’s sister list, the Green500, was published earlier this morning. The Green500 is essentially to power...
11 by Ryan Smith on 11/14/2012
Titan Takes #1 Spot on Top500 List with 17.59 Petaflops in LINPACK
Last month I took a tour of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and visited the final stages of the assembly of the Titan supercomputer. Titan brings together 18,688 compute nodes...
20 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/12/2012
NVIDIA Launches Tesla K20 & K20X: GK110 Arrives At Last
Continuing our SC12 related coverage today, while AMD was the first GPU announcement of the day they are not the only one. NVIDIA is also using the venue to...
73 by Ryan Smith on 11/12/2012
AMD Announces FirePro S10000
Kicking off this week is the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, better known by its shortened name: SC. This year’s conference takes place...
14 by Ryan Smith on 11/12/2012
iPad 4 GPU Performance Analyzed: PowerVR SGX 554MP4 Under the Hood
As always, our good friends over at Kishonti managed to have the first GPU performance results for the new 4th generation iPad. Although the new iPad retains its 2048...
114 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/2/2012
Inside the Titan Supercomputer: 299K AMD x86 Cores and 18.6K NVIDIA GPUs
Earlier this month I drove out to Oak Ridge, Tennessee to pay a visit to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). I'd never been to a national lab before...
129 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/31/2012
NVIDIA Releases 310.33 Beta Drivers; GeForce 6 & 7 Series Moved To Legacy Status
It would appear that on top of everything else going on this week, this is also a big week for video drivers. Following AMD’s major release of Catalyst 12.11...
34 by Ryan Smith on 10/24/2012
AMD's Holiday Plans: Catalyst 12.11 Performance Driver & New Holiday Game Bundle
Update: Catalyst 12.11 hss been releasd (Release Notes) As October winds to a close, the consumer electronics industry is making its final preparations for the holiday shopping season. Among events...
65 by Ryan Smith on 10/22/2012
AMD Q3 2012 Earnings: $157M Loss; 15% of Workforce To Be Cut
Picking up from where we left off with Intel, earnings week has continued to roll along with most of the major tech companies having reported their Q3 earnings. As...
59 by Ryan Smith on 10/18/2012
Diamond Multimedia Launches DV100 USB3.0/2.0 Dual Head Display Adapter
In recent years Diamond Multimedia has been carving out their niche in the world with an increasingly vast array of video periphials, including video capture devices, Android based media...
11 by Ryan Smith on 10/16/2012
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Launch Recap
Earlier this week we reviewed NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 650 Ti. As this was a hard launch many of NVIDIA’s partners have had their cards available for purchase from day-one...
7 by Chris Hansen on 10/11/2012
NVIDIA 306.97 WHQL Drivers Available
Continuing their 304 Series drivers, NVIDIA has just released their 306.97 driver update for desktops and laptops. Along with updated SLI and 3D Vision profiles for a few games...
17 by Jarred Walton on 10/10/2012
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Review, Feat. Gigabyte, Zotac, & EVGA
At a pace just shy of a card a month, NVIDIA has been launching the GeForce 600 series part by part for over the last half year now. What...
90 by Ryan Smith on 10/9/2012Radeon HD 7850 Prices Fall Again
Update 10/07: AMD sent us a clarification this morning stating that they were not the ones responsible for the recent reduction in 7850 prices, bur rather that it was...
52 by Ryan Smith on 10/5/2012
AMD A10-5800K & A8-5600K Review: Trinity on the Desktop, Part 2
Last week we took a look at the GPU side of the desktop Trinity APUs. We looked at the top end 384-core Radeon HD 7660D configuration as well as...
174 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/2/2012
AMD's Trinity : An HTPC Perspective
Intel started the trend of integrating a GPU along with the CPU in the processor package with Clarkdale / Arrandale. The GPU moved to the die itself in Sandy...
49 by Ganesh T S on 9/27/2012
AMD A10-5800K & A8-5600K Review: Trinity on the Desktop, Part 1
After years of waiting, AMD finally unveiled its Llano APU platform fifteen months ago. The APU promise was a new world where CPUs and GPUs would live in harmony...
139 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/27/2012
NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 650: GK107 With GDDR5
Alongside today’s launch of the GK106-based GeForce GTX 660, NVIDIA is also launching one other card: the GeForce GTX 650. In a nutshell, the GTX 650 is the long-awaited...
22 by Ryan Smith on 9/13/2012
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Review: GK106 Fills Out The Kepler Family
It's been nearly 6 months since the launch of the first Kepler GPUs, and due to 28nm production difficulties NVIDIA has spent the last 6 months with a sizable...
147 by Ryan Smith on 9/13/2012
AMD’s Enduro Switchable Graphics Levels Up
A couple weeks back, I contacted AMD to let them know I was working on a notebook review—a Clevo P170EM from AVADirect with HD 7970M graphics. Much to my...
200 by Jarred Walton on 9/6/2012