Beyond3D Featured ContentThe Technology of a 3D Engine - Part Two
In this part of the article series, Roderic talks about scene management and its specific implementation in his engine technology. What he describes is an elegant optimised implementation of understood techniques, pulling together ideas and their application using accessible design patterns, to make them easy to consume in code.
After a hugely successful launch of RV770-based SKUs to retake the performance graphics crown, AMD are set to release RV730 and RV710 shortly to apply the same perf/area madskillz to the lower ends of the GPU market. HEXUS have pictures.
Broadcom has announced that it has purchased AMD's DTV business, including staff and design centres
The folks at AMD are up to their monthly Catalyst shenanigans, with version 8.8 available today for Vista, XP, and Linux.
Highligts include new Avivo features, including Dynamic Gamma/Contrast correction for the HD 4800 series, optimized video presets (though we must note that one man's "optimize
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has admitted to underestimating the strength of ATI's recent product launch lineup in its most recent financial conference call.
Develop has scored an interview with Aaron Coday, Manager of the Visual Computing Group EMEA, on Larrabee, Intel's upcoming x86-based graphics architecture.
After nearly a year, Khronos unveils the OpenGL 3.0 specifications.
The Tech Report have taken a look at AMD 790GX, an integrated graphics offering for performance-oriented and multimedia folks. The main difference compared to 780G is support by the IGP's memory controller for on-mainboard graphics memory: the board they tested uses a 1Gb DDR3-1333 chip.
QuakeCon 2008 is coming to a close so we decided to recap all the major news that have come out of the event. Spicy John Carmack comments on consoles, Rage details, and engine characteristics.
At last month's International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, NASA presented the results of an internal study exploring the suitability of the Cell BE architecture towards accelerating key aspects of climate modeling.
PerfHUD and PerfKit have been the pinnacle of real-time 3D graphics performance tuning on the PC for some time now. PerfHUD 5.0, released in September 2007, brought support for Direct3D 10 and Windows Vista, and the new 6.0 release builds on that foundation with some compelling new features.
After a relatively short public beta period, NVIDIA have gone gold with 2.0 of CUDA, their C-based programming environment for their recent graphics processors.
Lucid have demonstrated working first silicon at IDF this year. For those unfamiliar with their technology, it's a combination of hardware and software that intercepts graphics calls to the API runtime, before performance workload division to affect performance scaling.
The track notes from the Beyond Programmable Shading course at SIGGRAPH this year are now available.
NVIDIA have released a beta driver supporting most of the new OpenGL 3.0 specification. Sadly, it's Windows-only.
Multi-GPU has come a long way since NVIDIA resurrected the idea with SLI and NV40 back in the day. Today's implementations get significant driver engineer hours spent on them, and the form factor has evolved to where two-GPU boards are expected parts of the product stack.
NVIDIA have released a new beta of Cg 2.1, and the highlight is the toolkit supporting Cg shader translation to D3D10 HLSL, letting your shaders run there. There's a new runtime lib for D3D10 to support that, doc updates and the usual performance improvements and bug fixes.
ATI have announced a new line of workstation-class graphics accelerators, which they're calling FirePro. ATI position FirePro underneath FireGL in terms of the relative levels of performance that the products offer, marking them as the company's entry level professional accelerators.
NVIDIA, in email communication with the Tech Report, has denied it is leaving the PC core logic market after a news report by Digitimes claimed it was.
NVIDIA has released another set of beta Forceware drivers to the Geforce 8, 9, and 200 series owning masses, bumping the version number to 177.79.
Sony rounded out the manufacturer press conferences at E3 yesterday, surprising the public with a new Playstation 3 SKU and the launch of its video service.