GPUs
SK hynix and TSMC announced early on Friday that they had signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on developing the next-generation HBM4 memory and advanced packaging technology. The initiative is designed to speed up the adoption of HBM4 memory and solidify SK hynix's and TSMC's leading positions in high-bandwidth memory and advanced processor applications. The primary focus of SK hynix's and TSMC's initial efforts will be to enhance the performance of the HBM4 stack's base die, which (if we put it very simply) acts like an ultra-wide interface between memory devices and host processors. With HBM4, SK hynix plans to use one of TSMC's advanced logic process technologies to build base dies to pack additional features and I/O pins within the confines of existing...
Origin Genesis Review: Triple Titan Terror
At long last we're taking an in-depth look at Origin's latest generation Genesis desktop system. Backed by a heavily overclocked Core i7 processor and no less than 3 GeForce...
63 by Ryan Smith on 4/23/2013
The King is Back: Raja Koduri Leaves Apple, Returns to AMD
I remember back when AMD’s CTO of the Graphics Product Group, Raja Koduri, first quietly left the company for Apple. This was hot on the heels of Apple’s hiring...
72 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/19/2013
NVIDIA’s Spring GeForce Game Bundle Announced - Metro: Last Light
NVIDIA sends word this evening that they’re launching a new GeForce video card game bundle for the spring timeframe. Their latest bundle, replacing their recently expired $150 February free-to-play...
21 by Ryan Smith on 4/16/2013
AMD Expands Never Settle Reloaded Bundle; Adds Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon & Radeon HD 7770
Word comes from AMD this afternoon that as of today they’re going to be expanding their Never Settle Reloaded bundle. The bundle, which launched a bit over two months...
19 by Ryan Smith on 4/11/2013
Intel Releases OpenCL 1.2 Driver and Tools Update for Ivy Bridge and Haswell
Intel has released an updated OpenCL driver for their 3rd Generation Core (Ivy Bridge) and 4th Generation Core (which we can safely call as Haswell) products that brings OpenCL...
22 by Rahul Garg on 4/9/2013
OpenCL Support Coming To Adobe Premiere Pro for Windows
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...
23 by Ryan Smith on 4/5/2013
The Great Equalizer 3: How Fast is Your Smartphone/Tablet in PC GPU Terms
For the past several days I've been playing around with Futuremark's new 3DMark for Android, as well as Kishonti's GL and DXBenchmark 2.7. All of these tests are scheduled...
128 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/4/2013
3DMark for Android: Performance Preview
As I mentioned in our coverage of GL/DXBenchmark 2.7, with the arrival of Windows RT/8 we'd finally see our first truly cross-platform benchmarks. Kishonti was first out of the...
56 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 4/2/2013
The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 18
We are back with the first half of our return to podcasting. While Brian finishes up his review of the One, Ryan and I took some time to recap...
23 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/1/2013
NVIDIA’s GeForce 700M Family: Full Details and Specs
With spring now well under way and the pending launch of Intel’s Haswell chips, OEMs always like to have “new” parts across the board, and so once more we’re...
91 by Jarred Walton on 4/1/2013
Unreal Engine 4 Infiltrator Demo from GDC [video]
The folks at Kotaku spotted a video of Epic's Unreal Engine 4 demo from GDC on YouTube. The video is really a tech demo of Epic's UE4 technology and...
22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/29/2013
AMD Teases Official Radeon HD 7990
Continuing our AMD GDC 2013 coverage, the other bit of major AMD news coming out of GDC 2013 involves a consumer product after all. But not strictly as a...
19 by Ryan Smith on 3/29/2013
AMD Announces "Radeon Sky" Family of Server-Cloud Video Cards
Catching up on announcements from GDC 2013, we’ll kick things off with AMD. Though AMD doesn’t use traditionally GDC to formally launch consumer products since it’s not a consumer...
3 by Ryan Smith on 3/29/2013
HandBrake to Get QuickSync Support
The latest version of Intel's Media SDK open sourced a key component of the QuickSync pipeline that would allow the open source community to begin to integrate QuickSync into...
32 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/27/2013
Intel's PixelSync & InstantAccess: Two New DirectX Extensions for Haswell
As Intel continues its march towards performance relevancy in the graphics space with Haswell, it should come as no surprise that we're hearing more GPU related announcements from the...
9 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/27/2013
FCAT: The Evolution of Frame Interval Benchmarking, Part 1
In the last year stuttering, micro-stuttering, and frame interval benchmarking have become a very big deal in the world of GPUs, and for good reason. Through the hard work...
88 by Ryan Smith on 3/27/2013
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost Review: Bringing Balance To The Force
Launching today is NVIDIA's answer to AMD's Radeon HD 7790 and 7850, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost. The GTX 650 Ti Boost is based on the same GK106...
78 by Ryan Smith on 3/26/2013
AMD Comments on GPU Stuttering, Offers Driver Roadmap & Perspective on Benchmarking
AMD remained curiously quiet as to exactly why its hardware and drivers were so adversely impacted by new FRAPS based GPU testing methods. While our own foray into evolving...
105 by Ryan Smith on 3/26/2013
AMD Radeon HD 7790 Review Feat. Sapphire: The First Desktop Sea Islands
Launching today is AMD’s second new GPU for 2013 and the first GPU to make it to the retail desktop market: Bonaire. Bonaire in turn will be powering AMD’s...
107 by Ryan Smith on 3/22/2013
NVIDIA Updates GPU Roadmap; Announces Volta Family For Beyond 2014
As we covered briefly in our live blog of this morning’s keynote, NVIDIA has publically updated their roadmap with the announcement of the GPU family that will follow 2014’s...
17 by Ryan Smith on 3/19/2013
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