As promised, the fist revision of vendor comparison that offer products based on Nvidia GPUs. If you are in the market for an ATI product, dont worry we've got that covered too. Note that you have to register your purchase to take advantage of these warranties.
As usual, there are some extra benefits offered by some [...]
RV770 has been a run away success story for AMD, in form of a class leading performance product (4870X2) as well as offering a very good performance/price ratios (4850/4870). Now AMD brings the same price/performance approach to its stream computing class of products; the AMD FireStream 9250.
Based on the RV770 GPU; FireStream 9250 packs in [...]
Intel's next-generation CPU codenamed Nehalem sporting a brand new micro-architecture finally gets a name; Core i7, according to PCpop. Why Core i7? Your guess is as good as anyone until Intel makes the brand name official on Monday, August 11. Probably it could mean the 7th generation of micro-architecture and the i could stand for integrated [...]
Manufacturers have started ramping up the production of GDDR5 this quarter. Qimonda was the first out of the gate with AMD's Radeon HD 4870. Now Samsung & Hynix have also begun production of GDDR5. Aside from improving availability and driving GDDR5 costs down, the speeds have also started to ramp up nicely.
The Qimonda GDDR5 chips used in [...]
You are in the market for a new graphics card and after a thorough research you have decided to plunk down your cold hard cash on an ATI graphics card. Sadly that is not where your research ends, you have a whole set of another criteria to sort through to finally settle on THE right one [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Diamond Multimedia is the first partner to offer the recently revived All-in-Wonder series of cards. This is the first All-in-Wonder board the meets the HD spec.
Currently there are two flavors on offer by Diamond; All-in-Wonder HD & All-in-Wonder HD Premium. The difference being that the Premium bundle has an expansion plate for additional media inputs. Both cards [...]
Couple of weeks back, we brought you some exclusive details on AMD's upcoming flagship Radeon 4800 series card; R700. We were the first one to report a July launch, which was confirmed by chinese daily Digitimes six days later.
Again, we are the first one to bring you the exact launch date. R700 (4870X2) is currently slated for [...]
