GPUs
With NVIDIA’s Turing architecture turning six years old this year, the company has been retiring many of the remaining Turing products from its video card lineup. And today that spirit of spring cleaning is coming to the entry-level segment of NVIDIA’s professional visualization lineup, where NVIDIA is introducing a pair of new desktop cards based on their low-end Ampere hardware. The new RTX A1000 and RTX A400 cards will be replacing the T1000/T600/T400 lineup, which was released three years ago in 2021. The new cards slot into the same entry-level category and finally finish fleshing out the RTX A series of proviz cards, offering NVIDIA’s Ampere-generation professional graphics technologies in the lowest-power, lowest-performance, lowest-cost configuration possible. Notably, since the entry-level T-series were based on NVIDIA’s feature-limited...
The AMD Trinity Review (A10-4600M): A New Hope
AMD’s microprocessor history goes way back, predating even the now venerable x86 architecture. Their first foray into x86 territory came as a subcontractor to Intel, and from there AMD...
272 by Jarred Walton on 5/15/2012
Ask the Experts: Heterogeneous and GPU Compute with AMD’s Manju Hegde
AMD’s Manju Hegde is one of the rare folks I get to interact with who has an extensive background working at both AMD and NVIDIA. He was one of...
101 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/14/2012
NVIDIA Q1 FY2013 Earnings Report: $924M Revenue, $60M Net Income
As earning season wraps up NVIDIA has released their earnings report for Q1 Fiscal Year 2013 (Feb-April 2012). For the first quarter of FY2013 NVIDIA booked $924M in revenue, with...
19 by Ryan Smith on 5/11/2012
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 Review Feat. EVGA: Bringing GK104 Down To $400
In a typical high-end GPU launch we’ll see the process take place in phases over a couple of months if not longer. The new GPU will be launched in...
414 by Ryan Smith on 5/10/2012
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 Review: Ultra Expensive, Ultra Rare, Ultra Fast
In an unusual move, NVIDIA took the opportunity earlier this week to announce a new 600 series video card before they would be shipping it. Based on a pair...
200 by Ryan Smith on 5/3/2012
The Prybar: GeForce GTX 690 Arrives
If there was any doubt after Saturday night as to what NVIDIA's prybar was for, this should put it to rest. FedEx just dropped off the prybar's companion, the...
68 by Ryan Smith on 4/30/2012
NVIDIA Unveils GeForce GTX 690: Dual GK104 Flagship Launching May 3rd
As we mentioned back on Monday, NVIDIA was going to be making some kind of GeForce announcement this evening at the NVIDA Gaming Festival 2012 in Shanghai, China. NVIDIA’s...
109 by Ryan Smith on 4/28/2012
Capsule Review: Sapphire's Radeon HD 7870 Overclock Edition
As AMD’s 28nm allocation has improved so has the selection of cards available on the market. We’re still in the first phase of the Radeon HD 7000 series rollout...
37 by Ryan Smith on 4/28/2012
NVIDIA Updates GeForce 600 OEM Desktop Lineup, Adds GT 645, GT 640, GT 630
While NVIDIA doesn’t publically announce most of their OEM desktop graphics cards, they do update their website with the specifications of these cards, which is how we usually find...
29 by Ryan Smith on 4/25/2012
AMD Launches Radeon 7700M, 7800M, and 7900M Mobile GPUs
Late last year, we covered the first part of AMD’s HD 7000M product lineup, the 7400M, 7500M, and 7600M. Today, the other shoe drops as we get the high-end...
53 by Jarred Walton on 4/24/2012
Of Crowbars and Countdowns
It’s not often that we cover marketing teasers, but then it’s not often that we get crowbars in the mail either… Earlier this afternoon the following crowbar unexpectedly showed up...
32 by Ryan Smith on 4/24/2012
AMD Radeon HD 2000, HD 3000, & HD 4000 Video Cards Being Moved To Legacy Status In May
Late last week word began circulating that AMD would be dropping driver support for their DX10 generation GPUS – HD 2000, HD 3000, and HD 4000 – based on...
38 by Ryan Smith on 4/23/2012
AMD Q1’12 Earnings Report: $1.59B Revenue, $590M Net Loss
It’s the middle of April and that means it’s once again earnings season for the prior quarter. Late yesterday AMD released their earnings report for Q1 2012, and it turned...
27 by Ryan Smith on 4/20/2012
AMD's Godfrey Cheng Joins Rick Bergman at Synaptics
A couple of weeks ago one of my oldest friends in the industry, Godfrey Cheng, announced his resignation from AMD. Godfrey came over from the ATI side of the...
11 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/17/2012
Radeon HD 7000 Series Price Cuts & Promos Announced
For those of you in the market for a new video card, some price relief is on its way. Earlier today AMD sent out an announcement that they’ll be...
53 by Ryan Smith on 4/16/2012
AMD Partners With PTC for Creo Parametric 2.0
A few months ago during the Radeon HD 7970 launch we discussed how AMD would be revising their Independent Software Vendor (ISV) relations. While their efforts with ISVs in...
9 by Ryan Smith on 4/13/2012
AMD Releases Catalyst 12.3 Drivers, Adds 7800 Series Support
AMD has released the latest version of its Catalyst graphics driver package for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, and 7. This version of the drivers introduces...
25 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/29/2012
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Launch Recap
If the numbers are true, then most of you have already read our Kepler review, and you know that the card has made quite a splash - it's the...
29 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/24/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7870 Launch Recap
It has been a couple of weeks since we reviewed the Radeon HD 7800 series, but as we mentioned earlier this week and in our 7850 recap, that was...
7 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/24/2012
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