Aside from the Hybrid CrossFire or Lucid Hydra multi-GPU coprocessor you don’t see many people delving into mis-matched graphics card pairs since they usually aren’t supported or they’re thought to be an inefficient usage of a high-end gamer’s time. Interestingly the ATI Radeon HD 5870 and 5850 seem to pair up quite nicely, given their [...]
Read more Radeon HD 5870 + 5850 CrossFireX pushes framerates quite nicely
by Rafael Hernandez on July 1, 2010
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GPGPU has been a bit slow on the uptake for a variety of reasons namely lack of performance and slow software development. With the amount of focus being placed on using graphics chips to do some heavy lifting it was only a matter of time until the current generation of consumer level chips made their [...]
Read more AMD FireStream 9370 and 9350 aim for the rackmounts
by Rafael Hernandez on June 24, 2010
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AMD has been very public with its Fusion plans for a few years now and it would seem that the first infused processors are closer to becoming reality. The company displayed a fully functioning “APU” (Accelerated Processing Unit) at Computex today offering a glimpse at what the future holds in store for end users. The [...]
Read more AMD Fusion APU steps into the spotlight
by Rafael Hernandez on June 2, 2010
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NVIDIA’s GPGPU initiative has been one of the more well-rounded approaches when it comes to exposing the raw processing power of graphics cards to the programming masses. Manju Hegde, NVIDIA’s former VP of Technical Marketing for all things CUDA, has decided to join up with AMD who’s Fusion program will get a dosage of marketing [...]
Read more NVIDIA CUDA Executive leaves for AMD
by Rafael Hernandez on May 27, 2010
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Another month gone by means yet another ATI Catalyst driver set. The company’s efforts have brought their drivers up to version 10.5 bringing along a number of fixes including: “Battlefield 2: Bad Company” maps no longer takes unusually long to load Enabling hardware shaders (perfect mode) no longer causes text and on-screen menu corruption while [...]
Read more ATI Catalyst 10.5 Drivers Released
by Rafael Hernandez on May 26, 2010
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Normally you’d want as much graphics processing power as you can get your hands on but in some instances you need just enough for that low-power home theater computer you’ve had your eyes on. PowerColor’s Radeon 5550 Video Card is capable of handling high definition content with ease while sipping on the power meter. PureOverclock [...]
Read more PowerColor Radeon 5550 Video Card does its duty on the down low
by Rafael Hernandez on May 25, 2010
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