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NVIDIA Fermi GPU and Architecture Analysis
The timing could barely be better! ATI launch a new line of graphics processors and what do we do? We finally get round to looking at Fermi. Alex was at the controls again for this one, beating GF100 in GeForce GTX 470 form up with a new suite of software and a very deep, in-depth analysis of how the majority of the chip and architecture work. It's the de-facto public analysis and a must read.
Following the news about the removal of the PlayStation Portable's MHz cap,
which finally gave developers a free reign of the clock frequency of
the CPU, Beyond3D was able to get some more details from its sources.
Yes, yes, we know we started this feature ages ago and it had a successful run of, wait for it, one, but it's back! Weekly Forum Follies is the Friday afternoon bit of Beyond3D where we round up what's happened on the forums in the last 7 days.
Onkyo USA has announced the DV-HD805 HD DVD player, marking Onkyo's
first foray into the high-definition optical format war. Coming as
something of a counterpoint to Denon's own recent announcement of Blu-ray
support, Onkyo's HD805 will provide consumers with a more upscale
option for HD DVD playback relative to the…
Formerly known as Longs Peak, the OpenGL Architecture Review Board officially announced OpenGL 3 at SIGGRAPH yesterday during the OpenGL Birds of a Feather session! Sweet!
With the current AMD R6 and NVIDIA G8x architectures released, analysed and mostly understood, attention is starting to turn to what the two biggest graphics IHVs will release next.
The DirectX Bad Boy, Sam Glassenberg, introduced D3D10.1 to the assembled 3D masses at SIGGRAPH yesterday, in a short but sweet portion of the D3D10 presentations now available for download from Microsoft.
NVIDIA launched a new Quadro Plex VCS 1000 yesterday at SIGGRAPH. The Model S4 is effectively just the
Tesla S870 GPU Computing Server repurposed for Quadro-led apps.
AMD have released an emulation environment for developers to start creating OpenGL ES 2.0 applications using the PC, before their supporting hardware in the handheld space starts to ship.
Scan are selling 1GiB Radeon HD 2900 XTs for £269 inc VAT, today only, down from their usual price of £288 inc. That's a good chunk less than the other online retailers we know of in the UK that are selling the 1GiB boards.
Microsoft have licensed unknown graphics intellectual property to Weta Digital, the guys behind the digital effects of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong movies, among others.
Hardware.fr have published an analysis of NVIDIA CUDA, looking at the architecture of the first hardware, the software side, performance versus x86 processors running the same application on GPU and CPU, the role AMD plays in the GPU computing space and more.
Our spies on the SIGGRAPH show floor have spotted the rear end of an AMD FireGL V5600. Hark back to the very recent launch announcement at the same show and you'll remember the V5600 sounded like a clone of a Radeon HD 2600 XT 512MiB. How right that is.
Ho hum. Another quarter, and more record results for NVIDIA. In what is typically a seasonally down quarter, the graphics maker obliterated pre-announcement consenus results of $860M in revenue by throwing down with $935.3 million instead.
The PCI Special Interest Group, which controls the PCI Express specification, looks set to draft the 3.0 revision of the interconnect by the end of 2007, for review process and refinement in 2008, with devices and hosts appearing in 2009.
With some of the updates in the two patches relating to graphics, it's worth letting folks know about a pair of pre-SP1 official updates from Microsoft that fix some issues in Windows Vista.
Hot on the heels of the $50 price cut, Microsoft confirmed that its $349 Xbox 360 console now includes an HDMI port, suggesting it could be the much-anticipated 65nm "Falcon" revision.
MAXON, the guys behind Cinema 4D, a 3D DCC app commonly used in film and TV, have released version R10 of their popular Cinebench application.
Autodesk, software company behind the likes of 3ds Max, Maya and Inventor, announced on Monday that they'd acquired Skymatter Inc, creators of Mudbox. Mudbox is a brush-based modeling tool primarily aimed at those looking to create high-resolution meshes.
Imagination Technologies are celebrating their PowerVR Insider program at SIGGRAPH this year, with its success since its launch last year a high point for the Kings Langley-based company.
After using NVIDIA's G84 chips in its MacBook Pro, Apple announced a new version of its iMac today, which will be powered by AMD Radeon HD 2400 and 2600 GPUs.