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...
Intel MIC: 22nm, 50+ Cores, Larrabee for HPC Announced
Last week Intel announced the scrapping of its plans to bring Larrabee to a discrete graphics card. While the announcement was open ended enough to allow for the restart...
5 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2010
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 465: Cheaper Isn’t Always Better
Hot off the heels of launch of the GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470, NVIDIA is launching the next card in the Fermi family. Based on the same GF100...
71 by Ryan Smith on 5/31/2010NVIDIA Forceware 257 & Heterogeneous GPU PhysX: It's a Bug, Not a Feature
Our inbox quickly lit up this morning when we received notice about this NGOHQ article, discussing how NVIDIA had removed the heterogeneous GPU restriction on PhysX in their latest...
54 by Ryan Smith on 5/28/2010
NVIDIA Announces GTX 480M: Mobile Fermi Coming Soon
Today NVIDIA announced their latest mobile GPU, the GTX 480M. Based on the GF100 (Fermi) architecture, this will be a fully featured mobile counterpart rather than the "outdated" architectures...
50 by Jarred Walton on 5/25/2010
Intel Kills Larrabee GPU, Will Not Bring a Discrete Graphics Product to Market
Bill Kircos, Intel’s Director of Product & Technology PR, just posted a blog on Intel’s site entitled “An Update on our Graphics-Related Programs”. In the blog Bill addresses future...
57 by Ryan Smith on 5/25/2010Futuremark Announces 3DMark11: Gentlemen, Start your ORBgines!
Futuremark has announced the latest version of their popular benchmark software for gaming PCs, 3DMark11. New to 3DMark11 will be the ability to benchmark DirectX 11 capable hardware like...
10 by Balraj Sandhu on 5/25/2010
NVIDIA Beta 256 Drivers: Optimus Included
Last month we mentioned NVIDIA's plans for their upcoming drivers: the 256 series of drivers (don't ask us why they jumped from 197 to 256). Today, NVIDIA has released...
22 by Jarred Walton on 5/24/2010
Overclocked: Our Custom Radeon HD 5870 Roundup
Fans of custom video cards have undoubtedly found themselves a bit disappointed with the Radeon HD 5800 series. Due to a perfect storm of low GPU yields from TSMC...
45 by Ryan Smith on 5/19/2010
Update: Mac OS X Portal Performance
Update 5/15/2010: Valve released a new patch for Portal on the 13th which resolved the blurriness issue. Please see our update for more details. It’s been a while since anyone...
178 by Ryan Smith on 5/13/2010
Inno3D announce triple slot GTX 470 Hawk
The Fermi cards have now been out (and only just available) for the just over a month. Like the AMD 5xxx series, the first cards used reference PCBs...
24 by Ian Cutress on 5/7/2010
Galaxy GTX 470 GC - The world's first non-reference Fermi
Galaxy have pleasantly surprised us, and the folks at vr-zone. To the table, they bring their GTX 470 GC, a 100% non-reference design graphics card utilising an NVIDIA...
22 by Ian Cutress on 5/7/2010
Zotac ZBOX HD-ID11 Review: Next Gen ION is Better & Worse than ION1
The nForce 2 was one of the best chipsets to come out of NVIDIA. It was NVIDIA’s second attempt at a desktop chipset yet it cemented NVIDIA’s position as...
44 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/6/2010
This Just In: Zotac's ZBOX HD-ID11 Next Gen ION
Two months ago NVIDIA unveiled its next-generation ION GPU. Sporting either 8 or 16 SPs (or CUDA cores if you bleed green), the next-generation ION is strictly a GPU...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/30/2010
Sapphire announces the passive HD 5550 Ultimate
Today, Sapphire have announced the latest in their lineup of ATI 5xxx series graphics cards - the passively cooled HD 5550, dubbed the 'Ultimate'. The party piece of...
12 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/30/2010
Adobe Enables Flash GPU Acceleration in OS X, We Test It
Brandon Hill, Editor in Chief of DailyTech, IMed me an hour ago with this: "OK, stop laying on the couch with your iPad and do some OS X benchmarking"...
38 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/28/2010
Update: NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 400 Series Shows Up Early
Now that the week of the 12th is upon us, let's see how a quick stock check at the usual suspects turns out. April 2010 Video Card Prices Video Card Original MSRP Available...
62 by Ryan Smith on 4/12/2010
Quick Look: Thermalright Spitfire & VRM-R5
Today we have something a bit different for you from the GPU world: aftermarket cooling. Thermalright sent over a complete aftermarket GPU cooling kit for our Radeon 5870 containing...
63 by Ryan Smith on 4/6/2010
AMD's Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition Reviewed
Last September when AMD unveiled its new DirectX 11 GPUs, we were promised the ability to drive a minimum of 3 or a maximum of 6 displays off of...
78 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/31/2010
NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470: 6 Months Late, Was It Worth the Wait?
The 6 month wait for Fermi is finally over. Today NVIDIA is launching their first two Fermi family products: The GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470. Based on...
196 by Ryan Smith on 3/26/2010
AMD’s Radeon HD 5830: A Filler Card at the Wrong Price
To close the 5850/5770 gap, today AMD is introducing the 5830, a further cut-down Cypress. Today we'll see why this card embodies the idea that there is no such...
149 by Ryan Smith on 2/24/2010
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