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This video devours watts as greedily as it eats benchmarks After a rocky development period and a delayed launch, Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 480 GPU is finally entering that middle stage: Factory overclocked, not-quite-standard products are emerging, offe… [...] Don’t expect Nvidia, AMD, or any other graphics card maker to start touting this as a marketing bullet, but apparently GPUs are pretty good at decoding passwords with fewer than 12 characters, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology claim…. [...] For the most part, AMD’s 5xxx series of GPUs have stood up well against the competition,and that includes Nvidia’s Fermi architecture. If the Sunnyvale graphics chip maker wanted to, it could probably sit on the sidelines for the rest of the year and s… [...] Starcraft fans take note – EVGA’s latest update to its Precision overclocking utility — version 1.9.6 — comes with a Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty on-screen display profile for Logitech G-series keyboard LCDs. Advanced Micro Devices has said that it remains ahead of schedule with its Fusion chips – or APUs (accelerated processing unit) as it likes to call them. The low-power “Ontario” SoC (System-on-Chip), aimed at netbooks and low-end notebooks, will… [...] The film Predators opened in theaters over the weekend, and as was the case with several other flicks proceed by Robert Rodriquez — Shorts, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Spy Kids 3D: Game Over, Planet Terror, Sin City — it was AMD hardware t… [...]
Much ado has been made over the chip shortage that apparently affected Nvidia’s Fermi architecture, but they’re not the only ones dealing with a tight supply. According to DigiTimes, supply for AMD chipsets is also running tight. So much so, that AMD is letting foundry partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) tap into its 55nm capacity reserved for chipsets to help ease current GPU shortages. You probably noticed that AMD’s high-end HD 5870 and HD 5970 videocards were pretty tough to come by in the second half of 2009, which DigiTimes says was the result of low yields on TSMC’s 40nm process. As a result, graphics card partners placed more orders for 55nm Radeon HD 4000 series parts than they otherwise would have. TSMC’s recent 40nm yields have been improving at a steady clip, which should help ease the tight supply of both 40nm and 55nm parts, but part of this is being offset by high demand, DigiTimes says. As it stands, AMD’s chipset shortage will likely last throughout the third quarter, and possibly into the fourth.
[...] Rumors still say that the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 video card will be released on June 1st during Computex. Over the weekend an Asian site posted up some benchmarks of the card… [...] |
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