All the stories tagged with: graphics
NVIDIA 196.75 graphic drivers crash and burn your precious cards
03/05/2010, Word has it that NVIDIA’s 196.75 graphic drivers is the main reason behind computers and graphic cards dying while someone is playing StarCraft II Beta. When contacted, a Blizzard Entertainment tech support representative did confirm that these drivers were the [...]
NVIDIA Ion, The Next-Generation
03/01/2010, NVIDIA has just made its next-generation Ion graphics processors official. You might have heard that Ion-Next was slower than the first generation Ion… well this is wrong. In fact, there are two versions of Ion, a 16-core and an 8-core [...]
NVIDIA considers external graphics accelerators
02/08/2010, For years, NVIDIA has kept eye on the potential of external graphics accelerators, although nothing concrete is mentioned just yet. Many questions still need to be answered including whether the size of its target market is large enough to make [...]
MSI R5870-PM2D1G achieves highest 3DMark Vantage P-Score
12/04/2009, The MSI R5870-PM2D1G is one GPU that you really should take a look at if you’re a serious gamer – after all, it is the current record holder when it comes to highest 3DMark Vantage P-Score of 24416 ever recorded [...]
NVIDIA iRay, RealityServer
10/20/2009, NVIDIA has just announced a 3D cloud infrastructure initiative this morning. The idea is to render incredibly realistic graphics for a number of applications (home design, architecture, product design….) in the cloud and send the images back as a movie [...]
The ATI Radeon HD 5800 is the fastest GPU in town
09/23/2009, The Next generation AMD GPU has arrived: The ATI Radeon HD 5870 should have been called Radeon 2X: when compared to the Radeon HD 4890, It has twice the number of stream processors, twice the transistors, twice the texture and [...]
MSI N260GTX Batman: Arkham Asylum
09/19/2009, Batman fans that are looking forward to the Batman: Arkham Asylum game will certainly welcome MSI’s N260GTX-T2D896 Batman: Arkham Asylum Edition. The card features a Harley Quinn image on the card, and more importantly, the game itself. Sporting the NVIDIA [...]
Crysis on iPhone
09/14/2009, Just how powerful are AMD’s next generation GPUs? Strong enough to run Crysis-level graphics on the iPhone – as demonstrated by AMD using their next-gen platform’s 2.5 teraFLOPS of floating-point power and DirectX 11 abilities. Does this signal the death [...]
AMD chip drives 6 displays, might be useful for 10 people on the planet
09/11/2009, This morning, AMD demonstrated in grand fanfare its new chip’s ability to drive 6 displays. And because you can pack four graphics cards in a (big) PC, that’s a total of 24 screens at once, driven by a single computer. [...]
Tim Sweeney: The End of The GPU Roadmap
08/11/2009, Epic Games founder and 3D engine architect Tim Sweeney has presented what he calls “The end of the GPU roadmap”, where he essentially says that GPU as we know them are too limited, and predicts that by 2020 developers will [...]
OpenGL jumps to 3.2 at SIGGRAPH
08/03/2009, The Khronos Group has announced OpenGL 3.2! The new version of the graphics API has new core features that were previously accessible via OpenGL Extensions. The support for anti-aliased render targets or better cubemap filtering will improve image quality, while [...]
iPhone SDK 3.1 Beta 3 available with augmented-reality friendly API
07/27/2009, Apple has made its SDK 3.1b3 available to developers. Today’s news is that Apple is making a video API available so that developers can retrieve the video feed from the internal camera to build augmented reality apps. The last time we checked, AcrossAir is [...]
