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...
AMD Demonstrates "FreeSync", Free G-Sync Alternative, at CES 2014
AMD has been relatively silent on the topic of NVIDIA’s variable refresh rate G-Sync technology since its announcement last year. At this year’s CES however, AMD gave me a...
82 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/6/2014Imagination Technologies Announces PowerVR Series6XT Architecture & GPUs
With CES taking place this week a number of mobile announcements are in the pipeline. And in what has become something of a tradition for Imagination Technologies, they are...
22 by Ryan Smith on 1/6/2014Imagination Technologies Announces Entry-Level PowerVR Series6XE GPU Family
Going hand-in-hand with Imagination’s announcement of their new PowerVR Series6XT architecture and GPUs, Imagination is also announcing a new family of entry-level GPUs to further complement the Series6 family...
0 by Ryan Smith on 1/6/2014NVIDIA Tegra K1 Preview & Architecture Analysis
NVIDIA has taken to using CES as its platform for launching members of its Tegra mobile SoC family. This year was no different as it shifted branding a bit...
88 by Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/6/2014MSI GPUs at CES 2014: Massive R9 290X Lightning and More
Along with notebooks and all-in-ones, MSI had quite a few large GPUs on display. The past month saw a massive shortage of AMD GPUs, thanks in no small part...
8 by Jarred Walton on 1/6/2014Battlefield 4 Mantle Update Delayed Until January
AMD and Electronic Arts send word this afternoon that the Mantle update for Battlefield 4 has been delayed until next month. The update was previously scheduled for late December...
66 by Ryan Smith on 12/30/2013Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X OC Review: Our First Custom Cooled 290
Ever since the 290 review there has been a lot of chatter and questions about when we’d see the first customized cards show up, and the answer is that...
119 by Ryan Smith on 12/24/2013AMD Catalyst 13.12 WHQL Drivers Now Available
After 9.5 betas, AMD has finally released a WHQL certified driver from their latest driver branch (13.25x) in the form of Catalyst 13.12. First introduced as the launch driver for...
27 by Ryan Smith on 12/19/2013GeForce Experience Twitch.tv Update Released
Back in October alongside the release of the first ShadowPlay beta, NVIDIA announced that ShadowPlay would be getting support for an additional video encoding mode: Twitch.tv video uploading. At...
11 by Ryan Smith on 12/18/2013AMD Announces Radeon R7 260; Shipping Mid-January
Squeezing in one final product announcement before the end of the year, today AMD is announcing the latest addition to the Radeon R7 family and the counterpart to the...
35 by Ryan Smith on 12/17/2013NVIDIA G-Sync Review
With ATI and AMD fully integrated, and Intel finally taking graphics (somewhat) seriously, NVIDIA needs to do a lot more to remain relevant (and dominant) in the industry going...
193 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/12/2013An Update on AMD’s Crossfire Eyefinity Frame Pacing Driver
In the last week several of you have emailed us about AMD’s Crossfire Eyefinity frame pacing driver – their so-called “phase 2” frame pacing driver – looking for a...
30 by Ryan Smith on 12/11/2013MSI Launch mini-ITX Gaming Platform: the Z87I Gaming AC and GTX 760 Gaming
Even though we already let in on a sneak preview during our Holiday Guides, today marks the official launch of MSI’s mini-ITX Gaming Platform. The platform has two...
38 by Ian Cutress on 12/4/2013Best Desktop Video Cards - Holiday 2013
Continuing our series of Holiday Buyer’s Guides, today we’ll be taking a look at desktop video cards. Cyber Monday kicks off today, and while video cards neither have the...
44 by Ryan Smith on 12/2/2013Fall 2013 Supercomputer Rankings Released; Achieving Max Efficiency With Oil
Turning our eyes back towards SC13 and supercomputers one more time this week, we have the biannual supercomputer rankings, which are released every spring and every fall. These rankings...
29 by Ryan Smith on 11/22/2013The Xbox One - Mini Review & Comparison to Xbox 360/PS4
Earlier this morning Microsoft lifted the embargo on press reviews of the Xbox One. I’ve been playing with final hardware and near final software for a few days now...
286 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/20/2013NVIDIA 331.82 Game Ready WHQL Drivers Available
Just in time for the release of Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag and Need for Speed: Rivals, NVIDIA has an updated driver available. The 331.82 driver builds on the...
14 by Jarred Walton on 11/19/2013IBM and NVIDIA Announce Data Analytics & Supercomputer Partnership
Our other piece of significant NVIDIA news to coincide with the start of SC13 comes via a joint announcement from NVIDIA and IBM. Together the two are announcing a...
12 by Ryan Smith on 11/18/2013NVIDIA Launches Tesla K40
Kicking off today is the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, better known as SC. For NVIDIA, next to their annual GPU Technology Conference...
9 by Ryan Smith on 11/18/2013Update: AMD Announces New Game Bundles For Radeon R7 260X & Above
Coinciding with today’s launch of the Radeon R9 270, AMD is announcing that they are putting up new video game bundles for their 200 series cards, the first such...
37 by Ryan Smith on 11/15/2013