Most people don’t realize just how much processing power is contained in modern GPUs and the fact that they can be programmed to do things other than pump out vivid graphics. It’s a massively parrallelized processor which can speed up time consuming tasks like video conversion, image manipulation, and even some database tasks. A pair [...]
Read more CUDA taken into book form, for your learning needs
by Rafael Hernandez on July 30, 2010
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With the amount of technology that goes into today’s modern components it’s difficult to keep track of what you need to license in order to make sure you won’t get sued into oblivion later on down the road. It would seem one company forgot to square certain things away. The International Trade Commission has found [...]
Read more NVIDIA infringes on IP, product injunctions ahoy
by Rafael Hernandez on July 28, 2010
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The professional graphics card market is filled with all sorts of technological wizardry that makes creating 3D worlds a whole lot easier. These cards don’t come cheap of course but if you’re dealing with triangles day in and day out you’ll no doubt be glad you’re running a GPU that can handle complex scenes. Enter [...]
Read more NVIDIA Quadro 5000 tesselates like no other
by Rafael Hernandez on July 27, 2010
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The biggest question you would face when looking for a gaming performance improvement was which graphics card was the one to buy, now you’re faced with which platform to choose for that extra special multi-GPU performance push as well as which graphics cards to buy. You just can’t win. NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 470 and 480 [...]
Read more NVIDIA Fermi SLI scales quite nicely thank you very much
by Rafael Hernandez on June 18, 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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There’s a serious give and take relationship between CPU and GPU performance which can lead to bottlenecks in many situations. It would seem that the CPU is currently at a disadvantage in the pairing. The Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 running in a 3-way SLI setup reaches impressive performance heights which may, or may not, be [...]
Read more Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 3-way SLI scales performance mightily
by Rafael Hernandez on April 30, 2010
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