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Palit’s high-end cards tend to be exercises in extravagance. That’s certainly true with its GTX 570 Sonic Platinum. At first, we thought Palit shipped the wrong card, given the 8-pin power connector nes…
Wait a minute, didn’t AMD take the ATI brand behind the shed and give it the Old Yeller treatment? Sort of. Barring a special edition throwback or a mulligan of sorts, you won’t ever see a new graphics card in the home desktop market carrying an ATI la…
It was a disappointing fourth quarter for graphics chip makers as overall shipments failed to meet expectations, according to Jon Peddie Research. Year-on-year growth was “an unimpressive 4.3 percent,” which JPR pegged as a major bummer considering the…
Nvidia designs graphics processors and TSMC manufactures them. Between the two, they’ve managed to ship a billion GeForce graphics chips, an impressive milestone that took less than 12 years to reach, the two companies said in a joint statement.
“Since…
AMD’s new Radeon HD 6000M series is the chip maker’s second generation of DirectX 11 capable mobile graphics architecture and is a top-to-bottom solution with GPUs for every performance segment.
These latest GPUs deliver up to 1.3 teraFLOPS of compute …
The fellas over at TechPowerUp have posted a guide detailing how to mod a Radeon HD 6950 (Cayman Pro) videocard into a Radeon HD 6970 (Cayman XT), both of which are based on the same GPU design. The main difference comes down to the number of shaders -…
The more we learn about Nvidia’s Tegra 2 GPU the more we’re looking forward to it. Tegra 2 could end up playing a big role in the emerging tablet market, providing a boost in graphics performance over what’s currently available today.
According to Fudz…
Futuremark originally delayed the release of its much anticipated 3DMark 11 benchmark in order to “fix a couple of difficult bugs rather than patching the benchmark immediately after launch.” Mission accomplished, as today’s update to version 1.01 does…