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AMD's Radeon HD 5970 graphics card
It doesn't get any more extreme than this
CrossFire on a stick goes to the next level in the Radeon HD 5970, the new fastest graphics card on the planet. This one is extreme in more ways than one, though. Read on to see what we mean.
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Last by shank15217 at 2:11 PM on 11/21/09 - Nvidia photo shows running Fermi-based GeForce
In case you missed the big news, Nvidia announced its first Fermi-based Tesla GPUs for high-performance computing apps yesterday. So as not to disappoint GeForce fans longing for some DirectX 11 goodness, the company has now posted a photo of a Fermi-based GeForce in action on its Facebook profile.
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Last by Meadows at 1:20 PM on 11/20/09 - Catalyst 9.11 drivers introduce Flash 10.1 support
Radeon users don't have to jealously watch their GeForce-using friends enjoy GPU-accelerated Flash video playback any longer. AMD has released its Catalyst 9.11 graphics drivers, bringing official support for the new Adobe Flash 10.1 beta plug-in. You can grab these new drivers for Windows 7, Vista, and XP in...
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Last by StuG at 9:31 AM on 11/18/09 - GPU-accelerated Flash 10.1 beta hits the web
A little over a month ago, Adobe announced plans to release a beta of its GPU-accelerated Flash 10.1 player "later this year." Well, we're now later in this year, and as planned, the beta has become available for download from the Adobe Labs site. Adobe offers versions of the...
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Last by insulin_junkie72 at 5:14 PM on 11/18/09 - Nvidia announces Fermi-based Tesla GPUs
Don't we all love a good paper launch? Fermi-based graphics processors may not be ready for stores just yet, but that hasn't stopped Nvidia from announcing its first Tesla products based on the new architecture. These Tesla 20-series offerings include two workstation cards and two quad-GPU workstation systems, all...
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Last by lycium at 4:39 AM on 11/18/09 - Nvidia unveils GeForce GT 240
As it continues to work on next-generation graphics processor for the high end, Nvidia is also refreshing the mainstream portion of its product line. A pair of low-end 40-nm GeForce 200 GPUs targeted at pre-built PCs first appeared on Nvidia's website in July before hitting retailers in...
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Last by kc77 at 8:59 PM on 11/18/09 - AMD claims spots in top supercomputers
The new Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers is now out. Who came out on top this month? AMD believes it did, and it has a pretty strong case. Jaguar, a Cray XT5 system situated the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, has become the world's number-one supercomputer thanks...
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Last by Sahrin at 12:59 PM on 11/17/09 - Nvidia says it didn't, won't block Lucid's Hydra
Our hands-on preview of the Lucid Hydra GPU load-balancing chip included some reporting about the status of the first Hydra-based product, MSI's Big Bang Fuzion motherboard, and the rumors that have swirled around that delay, some centering on a possible role Nvidia might have played in the whole drama....
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Last by shank15217 at 9:17 AM on 11/17/09 - Report: Apple strips Atom support from Mac OS X
Still pining for an Apple netbook? Well, don't get your hopes up too much. According to OS X Daily, Apple has stripped support for Intel's Atom processors from the latest Mac OS X release, 10.6.2. None of the systems in Apple's lineup currently feature Atom CPUs, but a number of...
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Last by derFunkenstein at 3:13 PM on 11/15/09 - AMD, Intel settle all antitrust, licensing disputes
With Intel now under heat from regulatory authorities in both the European Union and the United States, today's announcement might be the last thing you'd expect. Nevertheless, AMD and Intel have settled all of their ongoing antitrust and intellectual property disputes. Here's the skinny from the official announcement: Under...
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Last by Vaughn at 8:13 PM on 11/15/09 - AMD sheds light on Bulldozer, Bobcat, desktop plans
During its 2009 Financial Analyst Day presentation today, AMD revealed some more details about its next-generation processor architectures, Bulldozer and Bobcat, as well as its desktop processor roadmap for 2010 and 2011. This latest desktop roadmap is a little bit different from the one we saw a year ago....
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Last by smilingcrow at 4:21 PM on 11/13/09 -
Hands on with Lucid's Hydra GPU load balancer
The first performance results revealed
We recently got the chance to test Lucid's Hydra GPU load balancer first hand. We came away with some of the first public performance numbers, along with our impressions of this magical toy that allows Radeons and GeForces to work together.
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Last by mattthemuppet at 2:16 PM on 11/16/09 - Nvidia CEO: We have supply constraints
About a month ago, the Taiwanese rumor mill broke the news that supply of 55-nm Nvidia graphics processors had gotten tight. One source later suggested Nvidia was discontinuing its GeForce GTX 200-series graphics cards, a claim Nvidia quickly denied. The GTX 200 lineup may still be alive, but as...
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Last by BooTs at 9:34 AM on 11/13/09 - Mini DisplayPort becomes a real standard
When Apple unveiled its aluminum MacBooks in 2008, it broke new ground on several fronts, offering users aluminum unibody enclosures, multi-touch glass touch pads... and a new display connector of its own design: Mini DisplayPort. Just over a year on, the Video Electronics Standards Association has adopted Mini DisplayPort...
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Last by loophole at 6:49 PM on 11/11/09 - Nvidia's Huang uses Macs at home
Open up any Mac these days, and you're likely to find an Nvidia graphics processor inside. MacBooks, Mac minis, the cheapest iMac, and the default Mac Pro configs—all of them carry an Nvidia GPU or chipset; sometimes a combination of the two. Steve Jobs might like Nvidia products, but according to...
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Last by ProzacMan at 2:32 PM on 11/11/09 - CyberLink speeds up photo, video apps with GPUs
A year on from the release of Elemental's Badaboom, GPU-compute acceleration for consumer video apps seems to have creeped into the mainstream. Earlier today, CyberLink and Nvidia announced "unique new features and significantly improved performance" now available in CyberLink's suite of photo- and video-editing applications. The acceleration features span...
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Last by stmok at 11:43 AM on 11/10/09 - IDC: AMD captured 18.7% of CPU shipments last quarter
In the third quarter, AMD managed to post its first "Product Company" profit since the creation of GlobalFoundries, while Intel enjoyed its strongest second-to-third-quarter growth in "over 30 years." How did those results translate on the market share side of things? IDC has the scoop. According to the...
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Last by shaq_mobile at 3:41 PM on 11/11/09 - Nvidia's Huang shoots down x86 CPU rumors
Once again last week, the rumor mill began grinding away about the possibility of Nvidia developing an x86 microprocessor. And, once again, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has shot down the speculation. CNet News got the official line from Huang during Nvidia's latest earnings conference call: "No," he said...
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Last by Shining Arcanine at 10:26 AM on 11/10/09
