http://gpucafe.com Hottest news on the next generation GPUs Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:30:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today, AMD made official the branding of their in-development CPU+GPU hybrid as Fusion. The ASIC's codename was Fusion since its inception and acknowleding the popularity, AMD decided to keep the same name for the product launch. Fusion is the first major product that invovled both AMD's and (former) ATI's engineering teams ... http://gpucafe.com/2008/09/amd-launches-fusion-campaign/ Nvidia's highly anticipated integrated graphics platform for the Intel platform; MCP7A will finally arrive on the 23rd of September. The chipset has suffered many delays, slipping from schedule by almost 6 months. However we know that Nvidia will make it up by offering the fastest performing integrated graphics platform. Integrated graphics ... http://gpucafe.com/2008/09/nvidia-nforce-730i-details/ 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 ... http://gpucafe.com/2008/09/nvidia-vendor-comparison-rev-01/ Now that the Radeon 4600 Series has been launched, AMD's next objective is to follow through with an entry level (or budget) GPU. RV710 will take the branding of 4500 and 4300 series, sporting DDR3 & DDR2 respectively. This product will be immensely popular with the OEMs for the following reasons: Incredibly ... http://gpucafe.com/2008/09/amd-radeon-hd-45504350-details/ AMD's latest mainstream GPU; RV730 is finally here and how does it stack up against the competition? After delivering great performance/price ratio with the Radeon 4800 series, does AMD bring the same approach to the mainstream segment? How does Nvidia respond? Or for any other question you have, all you ... http://gpucafe.com/2008/09/amd-radeon-hd-4670-review-roundup/ Atleast in the preliminary benchmark scores; the 4670CF setup is slightly faster than a stock 4850 in 3DMark06 & Vantage. The individual scores were 54xx in SM2.0 and 65xx in SM3.0 tests, a 4850 on the same setup ended up with 49xx and 57xx respectively. The tests were done at ... http://gpucafe.com/2008/09/4670-cf-faster-than-4850/ Highly anticipated Creative Suite® 4 from Adobe will be launched on September 23. Adobe will webcast the unveiling and interested people can register to for it at this page. The live webcast is scheduled for 1PM Eastern time on the 23rd, so you might want to add it to your Blackberrys/iPhones. The main attraction ... http://gpucafe.com/2008/09/photoshop-cs4-unveiling-set-for-september-23/ 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 ... http://gpucafe.com/2008/09/amd-firestream-9250/ Popular dutch website, Komplett is the first one to list AMD's yet to be unveiled Radeon HD 4670. Powered by the new RV730 GPU featuring 320 Shader processors and a 128-bit wide bus width, the 4670 is set to deliver class leading performance for the dollar. Listed at €67.00, the card seems ... http://gpucafe.com/2008/09/radeon-hd-4670-listed/ Nvision '08 is coming to a close and Nvidia took the oppurtunity to launch their $59 part; 9400GT. Sporting 16 Shader processors, 8 TMUs & 8 RBEs the GPU will crunch out some decent gaming performance for the money. Memory configurations will be 128-bit 256 & 512MB DDR2. Keep in mind, ... http://gpucafe.com/2008/08/nvidia-preparing-to-counter-attack-in-the-sub-150-segment/