Beyond3D Featured ContentIt's Dead Jim - a debate about the future of the graphics API
Love them or hate them, standardised IHV agnostic(-ish) graphics APIs have changed the landscape in a mostly positive way. Yet some bear them ill will. We set out for the truth about their future fate, hoping that we can handle it.
NVIDIA's design investment into new GPU architectures doesn't just apply to consumer products. The company, like AMD, have one eye on the professional space at engineering time, the result being a pro product line with almost as much depth as their consumer offerings. With Quadro FX 5600 and 4600 already…
Monday saw the update of NVIDIA's Shader Library, a repository of shader samples for developers to reference while producing their 3D applications.
NVIDIA have made available 163.67 in beta form, improving compatibility and perf for Crysis and BioShock in the main.
Information about the future successors of the RV610 and RV630, found
respectively in the Radeon HD 2400 and 2600, has been unearthed. The
always unable to keep a secret sources close to graphics card
manufacturers told DigiTimes that AMD's DirectX 10.1 entry-level and
mid-range graphics processor would be known under…
A german publication has posted an interview with Todd Hollenshead, id Software's CEO, that reveals id Software and John Carmack are no longer as committed to Linux as they have been. Todd's words also imply that the Windows version of id Software's next game, Rage, will use Direct3D rather than OpenGL.
HP have sent an email out to the great and good in the hardware and analyst community pledging their support for upcoming AMD quad-core Opteron in their server offerings.
AMD just announced that its upcoming Catalyst 7.9 drivers for Linux
will not only finally provide support to HD X2000 series on the OS, but
it is also claimed to host the most significant series of enhancements
ever for Linux users. As far as AMD graphics drivers are concerned,
that…
An unannounced update for the PlayStation 3 was made available
yesterday. This update, which takes the PlayStation 3 firmware from
1.90 to 1.92, is only affecting the backward compatibility with
PlayStation 1 and 2 games feature of the console.
Linux.com have published an interesting piece on Nouveau, an open source GNU/Linux graphics driver for NVIDIA graphics hardware.
ArcSoft, creators of the Digital Theatre video player software for Windows, have announced that version 2 will support NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology.
Japan-based Nikkei has released sales numbers for all three major next gen consoles today.
Speaking at an Australian tech show, an AMD spokesperson suggested that Fusion based systems, expected to ship in late 2008 or early 2009, will initially focus on the integrated notebook market. This kind of thinking has been expressed before from the AMD camp, so by itself it is not news.
It's Monday, it's the 10th of the month, and there's a north-westerly
blowing past my office window. "What could that mean?!", I hear you
all cry. Why, Catalyst 7.9 of course.
After months of fevered doubt and speculation, Sunnyvale CPU maker AMD finally announced today the release of its latest server-oriented processor, and first quad-core architecture, the Quad-Core Opteron, a processor most know by its codename “Barcelona.â€
X-bit labs, via Newhua, have pictures of the next generation Ageia PhysX processor on PCI Express.
eWeek are reporting that Henri Richard has joined Freescale to head up the company's sales and marketing.
ARM, the microprocessor intellectual property (IP) company, specialising in RISC processors and system-on-a-chip (SoC), had made available OpenMAX DL API libraries for the decoding of AAC audio format and H.264 video format. These libraries are optimised to take advantage of the SIMD instruction set…
Ubisoft, French publisher of Rayman, Tom Clancy’s game series' and Far Cry amongst other titles, has decided -- without any form of publicity on its website -- to make available ad-supported version of three games from its portfolio, at no cost to the user other than the download.
Digitimes are reporting, via their usual sources at graphics card makers, that NVIDIA are set to deploy a new revision of the BR02 PCI Express-to-AGP bridge IC, to get GeForce 8-series products on AGP.
Hot on the heels of the GeCube dual HD 2600 XT announcement last Friday, Sapphire are set to announce a similar product very shortly today.