GPGPU

by Rafael Hernandez on July 26, 2010 · 0 comments

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Transcoding your media files should be a whole heck of a lot easier given the amount of processing power in a modern PC but, somehow, many software makers just can’t seem to get the job done right. Thankfully CyberLink is keeping an eye out for all of us with their new MediaEspresso 6 software which […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 24, 2010 · 0 comments

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 […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 27, 2010 · 0 comments

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 […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 15, 2009 · 0 comments

You can’t fault AMD’s Richard Huddy for being a little enthusiastic about Microsoft’s upcoming DirectX 11 and the features it brings along for graphics cards. The graphics API’s "Local Data Share" capability is, in his words, the killer feature which…

Read more DirectX 11 Compute Shader Leads to Speed Up, Sharing is a "Killer Feature"

by Rafael Hernandez on June 16, 2009 · 0 comments

AMD is attempting to extend their GPGPU computing reach by creating a plugin that will allow Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 to be accelerated by their ATI Stream technology.The basic premise is your ATI Radeon HD or FirePro graphics card…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 13, 2009 · 0 comments

You may have mistaken Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system as a gussied up and streamlined version of their previous operating systems but you’d be ingoring the changes under the hood that are set to make it one of the…

Read more Windows 7's Direct3D Improvements, DirectX 11 Brings Whole Lots of Changes

by Rafael Hernandez on June 11, 2009 · 0 comments

The GPU is set to become one of the most utilized components in your computer, and not just for video games. Nvidia and ATI/AMD have been coming up with graphics chip designs that are extremely parallel in nature and…

Read more ATI AVIVO Video Converter Still Flawed

by Rafael Hernandez on June 3, 2009 · 0 comments

AMD has been firing on all cylinders lately, well at least their ATI graphics division has. The company showed off the world’s first Microsoft DirectX 11 capable graphics chip at Computex and it’s quite impressive.Trusted Reviews has a look at…

Read more ATI's Touts First DirectX 11 GPU

by Rafael Hernandez on June 2, 2009 · 0 comments

Well this certainly came out of nowhere. Microsoft is usually the first to tout their own perceived advancements but this may come as a shocker and a definite selling point for their next operating system Windows 7.bit-tech was on…

Read more Windows 7 Does GPGPU Video Transcoding Natively

by Rafael Hernandez on May 28, 2009 · 0 comments

ATI’s Avivo video transcoding software has been around for quite a while now promising all of the grand GPGPU enhancements that go along with using their high powered graphics chip to do some computing work outside of pushing pixels….

Read more ATI GPU Transcoding Receives AMD's Helpful Hotrodding

by Rafael Hernandez on May 10, 2009 · 0 comments

Microsoft’s DirectX 10 graphics API promised us all a much richer visual experience when titles and graphics cards made full use of the technology, given how long new features take to work into game development things didn’t turn out so…

Read more Microsoft's DirectX 11, More Gaming Joy?