GPU

by Rafael Hernandez on June 2, 2010 · 0 comments

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 March 26, 2010 · 1 comment

Depending on who you ask Nvidia’s “Fermi” based lineup of GPUs was supposed to be released many months ago in order to go up against AMD’s Radeon HD 5000 series of graphics chips. Ah the best laid schemes of mice and men. Well the NDAs have been lifted and Nvidia’s GTX 480 and GTX 470 […]

Read more Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 / GTX 470 is upon us…finally

by Rafael Hernandez on December 4, 2009 · 0 comments

Intel’s stab at a consumer level graphics chip that makes use of many many X86 cores and SIMD instruction sets to make for a powerful GPU is, apparently, a thing of the past. VentureBeat writes that Larrabee’s development was behind where Intel had hoped so they’re cutting their plans to release it as a consumer […]

Read more Intel Drops Larrabee Consumer Plans

by Rafael Hernandez on November 17, 2009 · 0 comments

You can’t blame a company for taking things slow when their technology is used by millions of people every day to view streaming content on the web even if it is horribly inefficient and causes a lackluster viewing experience. Adobe’s Flash version 10.1 will be making usage of graphics card features to improve video playback […]

Read more Adobe Flash 10.1 harnesses GPU power to speed up video playback

by Rafael Hernandez on August 3, 2009 · 0 comments

techPowerUp GPU-Z Developer: techPowerUp Usage: System Information techPowerUp GPU-Z Website We’re fans of the single use utility. Something built around the premise of handling a simple task and presenting you with exactly what you need when you need it. Knowing…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 15, 2009 · 0 comments

Despite all of the recent issues Nvidia has gone through the company is forging ahead with their latest in mobile graphics chips by launching their new GeForce 200 GPU lineup.The new chips are all made with the 40nm manufacturing…

Read more Nvidia Announces Mobile GeForce 200 Series GPUs

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 1, 2009 · 0 comments

AMD has announced their new ATI Radeon E4690 Discrete GPU. What does that mean for you? Well not all that much in the short term but you can be sure that notebook manufacturers will be all over this one.It…

Read more ATI Radeon E4690 Announced, Discrete Graphics Joy

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