Nvidia Geforce 9800GT, 9500GT Review Roundup

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Both products look very promising, especially at their price points. The 9800GT is an official re-positioning of the 8800GT (lower price point) and will bring features such as Hybrid SLI etc. 9500GT on the lower end of the spectrum dominates its competitors (3650) handily at a lower [...]

Dell Announces New Notebook .. with Faulty Nvidia GPU

Everybody and their little dog now knows that the Geforce M series, especially the 8400/8600 models have been identified as the models being effected due to bad packaging material. Today, Dell has announced a new notebook; Vostro 2510 that still uses the same GPU in its configuration.
The most critical thing about this new notebook is [...]

Radeon 4800 outselling GTX 200 by 4-1 ratio?

And this includes the figures after the massive price drops on the GTX 200 series recently. A quick look at the number of submissions Futuremark's ORB, will give you a glimpse about the purchasing trends in the graphics industry.
4850 was available in large quantities even prior to its launch on June 16 while 4870 was [...]

Nvidia's Big Bang II Comes this September [Updated]

One of the major topics of discussion for the last two weeks was Nvidia preparing a driver codenamed "Big Bang II" for introduction in September. In case you didnt know, Nvidia's first driver for SLI came with "Big Bang I", so naturally people assumed that this must be something similar & significant, in case you didnt believe the [...]

Crysis:Warhead - 60fps at 1920×1200 a Reality?

It is no surprise that Crysis has emerged as the acid test for testing new GPUs and has found itself a home in the benchmark protfolios of most websites.
Later on Crytek released the 1.1 patch which offered performance gains but the significant of those gains was on Multi-GPU configurations. As it stands today, Crysis is [...]

Gamefest Underway: DX11 & GFW Announcements

Microsoft's kicked of it's Gamefest 2008 by some really good announcements; sharing details on DirectX11 and also making Games for Windows LIVE! free. Stay tuned as we bring more details from the conference. Following are the details of the both announcements:
DirectX 11
Full support (including all DX11 hardware features) on Windows Vista as well as future [...]

New Geforce 9 Products Launching on July 29

Geforce 9800GT & 9500GT to be precise. Just like much of the 9800 Series, 9800GT is just a renamed 8800GT based on G92 (112 Stream processors) while the 9500GT is based on a brand new GPU; G96. 8800GT will go EOL (End-of-Line), it has had a really good run and will go down in the history as [...]

Larrabee Could Come on 32nm

Intel's foray into the graphics industry; Larrabee could possibly make its first appearance on 32nm in 2010. It all depends on how well Intel transitions to the 32nm process. According to internal roadmaps, Intel is expected to start production on the 32nm process in mid 2009.
Given Intel's apparent preference of ray-tracing over rasterization, we expect Larrabee [...]

PCI Express 3.0 Brings Triple Slot, 300W, 1.5kg Cards in 2010

PCI-SIG (Special Interest Group) is currently in the process of finalizing the PCI Express 3.0 spec for graphics. One of the main improvements this spec brings to the table over 2.0 is twice the interconnect bandwidth. The 3.0 spec is rated at 8 GT/s (Giga transfers per second) compared to effective 4 GT/s currently available. The [...]

Exclusive - Geforce 9M Details

Today we bring you the exclusive details on the recently unveiled high-end Geforce 9M products from Nvidia. The 9 series line-up replaces as the 8 series goes EOL (End-of-Line) shortly. The newly introduced line-up is expected to provide upto a 50% performance boost over the previous generation while bringing in new power-saving features as Hybrid SLI to [...]