All the stories tagged with gpu
GeForce GTX 680 shows up, with quasi-official specs
03/14/2012, As a GPU enthusiast, you are probably waiting for the release of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680, which is based on a new architecture codenamed Kepler. Although it has already received its fair share of leaks, a real-life photo of [...]
Gigabyte U2442V and U2442N Ultrabooks – Hands-on
03/07/2012, [CeBIT 2012] We reported about the two new powerful ultrabooks launched at ceBIT by Gigabytes, and I took the time to check out the devices at the Gigabyte booth. The key feature of the new laptops is to deliver good [...]
AMD Radeon HD 7870 and 7850 GPUs Launched
03/05/2012, AMD has just announced its new Radeon HD 7870 and Radeon HD 7850 graphics cards. The overall performance is very good, and we were particularly impressed by how well the Radeon HD 7870 performs in games like BattleField 3: it [...]
Mac OS X 10.7.3 beta drivers point towards possible Mac Pro refresh
12/05/2011, The Mac Pro is currently about 15 months old since its last refresh. Unlike its other Mac siblings, the iMac, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, the Mac Pro has yet to see a refresh in 2011 and many are wondering [...]
NVIDIA Quad SLI with Intel X79 Chipset
11/14/2011, NVIDIA is taking advantage of the new Intel X79 chipset to provide what the company calls a “significantly” faster SLI* experience. With X79, 3-way SLI is up to 29% faster (according to NVIDIA) but gamers who can afford it can [...]
ARM Mali-T658 10X Faster than Today’s ARM Mali 400MP GPU
11/10/2011, GPU launch season is open! NVIDIA has just revealed its Tegra 3 system on a chip (SoC), which comes equipped with a graphics processor that is theoretically 3X faster than Tegra 2. Today, ARM announces its Mali-T658 GPU, a new [...]
Cheap graphics cards help crack passwords
10/05/2011, Do you happen to be in possession of some rather nifty hacking knowledge, and also a £30 graphics card lying around the basement somewhere? If you answered “Yes” on both accounts, then good – chances are you are already equipped [...]
Arduino based CPU temperature sensor
10/04/2011, There are times when our computers overheat for a good many variety of reasons. In the case of Taylor Niver who just bought a new graphics card for his computer, the GPU started overheating due to his power supply not [...]
iPhone 5 prototype switch GPUs?
09/28/2011, October 4th has seen many historical events happen – Napoleon’s rise to national prominence by using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (hmmm, nothing’s much changed in world governments these days albeit the mode of force [...]
NVIDIA GPUs Accelerate Financial Computations by 40X
08/04/2011, JP Morgan and NVIDIA have announced that NVIDIA’s (graphics) processors have been used successfully to accelerate derivative-focused risk computations by about 40X, when compared to running solely on classic processors (CPUs). Right now, JP Morgan computational center runs with a [...]
AMD introduces Radeon HD 6990M mobile GPU
07/12/2011, For those who started gaming later on, it might seem as though it has been time immemorial since AMD and NVIDIA started slugging it out (with the former under the guise of ATI, of course) when it comes to conquering [...]
NVIDIA GPUs power projectors in the California Academy of Science
06/22/2011, San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences building in Golden Gate Park has one of the world’s largest digital projection systems: six projectors working together to project a 4096 x 4096 pixel image that seems to extend beyond your peripheral vision. [...]
New Xbox 360 SoC reduces its power consumption, keeps it cooler (Updated)
06/13/2011, In a rather quiet move, Microsoft announced that new Xbox 360 (slim) consoles will come with a new System on a Chip that will bundle the CPU, GPU, system memory and I/O logic on a single slice of silicon. The [...]
