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AMD works with Intel on switchable graphics
2008-03-24 11:23:00 AMD?s GPU and Intel ?s chipset ATI is working hard with Intel to offer what we call switchable graphics for notebook users. It wouldn?t be so surprising if it weren’t for the fact that AMD works hard with Intel to offer its mobile GPUs for Intel notebooks. Intel will enable switchable graphics where ATI?s GPU will work when ... More About: Hardware , Graphics , Works
ATI cuts prices on the 3850 and 3870
2008-03-19 17:27:00 ATI IS GOING TO drop prices on the 3850 and 3870 in the next day or two. This is not a short term thing, it is a permanent cut. The price on the 3850/512 is going to sink to $145 or below, and the 3870/512 should hit $159 or less. At that money, many may ... More About: Hardware , Cuts , Prices
GeForce 9800 GX2 Performance Preview
2008-03-18 12:19:00 Our first batch of GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics cards arrived recently in our lab in Australia this week and Shane is busy testing out the new dual-GPU product from Nvidia. Our first performance review should be online soon but we thought we would give you a quick performance preview of what the card is capable ... More About: Hardware , Performance , Preview , Geforce
GeForce 9800 GX2 GPUs to clock down if too hot
2008-03-17 16:06:00 It’s probably very clear that the card Nvidia will introduce tomorrow, the GeForce 9800 GX2, with its two G92 chips, will get pretty hot. The board design of the 9800 GX2 has the two 65nm chips facing each other and although they will be separated by the fan-equipped heatsink, it is safe to say ... More About: Hardware , Clock , Geforce
Some more information on RV770
2008-03-12 09:24:00 RV770 is the chips that will replace the RV670 as the next high-end chip from AMD/ATI. Specification rumors are floating around (much thanks to us…), even the name Radeon HD 4000 has been suggested, which is not final though. Some more information on the upcoming high-end core has been posted over at Chiphell, saying ... More About: Hardware , Information
AMD tells partners RV770 arrives late Q2
2008-03-12 09:19:00 AMD has sent out a memo to partners about the current status of its coming products. This includes the next generation graphics chip RV770. This chip will replace the RV670 as the high-end solution, and last we heard, AMD was hoping to have the chip ready for launch in late Q2. Apparently, things have been ... More About: Hardware , Partners , Late , Tells
AMD lowers RV770 reference frequencies
2008-03-12 09:15:00 It seems AMD will be going with a bit lower frequencies than previous stories have been speaking off. They will still be higher than with the RV670, but not in the gigahertz range. It’s normal for a company to set the initial frequencies high, try to achieve them, but fail and lower them before the ... More About: Hardware , Reference
AMD lineup for GPU, CPU and notebook platforms revealed
2008-03-12 09:09:00 AMD has recently notified its partners that the company expects its share in the discrete graphics card market to rise after its next generation RV770 GPU shows up in the end of the second quarter, growing from the current 35% to reach 50% by the end of this year, according to sources at graphics card ... More About: Hardware , Notebook , Lineup , Platforms
Nvidia Prepares 55nm G92 Against AMD RV770
2008-03-12 08:54:00 VR-Zone has learned that Nvidia is preparing to shrink G92 process technology from 65nm to 55nm to better compete against the upcoming RV770. DigiTimes today reported that RV770 will come along by end Q2 which is about the same timeframe as the 55nm G92. Most probably, you will see RV770 based mobile parts first as ... More About: Hardware
AMD is on the recovery road
2008-03-07 11:02:00 Cebit 08: Directors and VP at AMD agree Laslie Sobon, the lady who got famous with the 45nm wafer picture and who also works as Director of Product Marketing and Brand Management in Desktop division, and Jochen Polster, Marketing Vice President of EMEA, agree that AMD is on the road to recovery. They are aware of ... More About: Hardware , Recovery , Road
Kuma is still Q2, launches at B3
2008-03-07 10:51:00 Cebit 08: Dual-core hope In our pleasant conversation with Laslie we learned that Kuma dual-core 65nm CPU is on schedule for Q2, and in company talk this usually means the end of the quarter. The new dual core CPU will launch as B3 stepping and those nasty L3 cache problems won?t be a part of the dual-core ... More About: Hardware
Phenom 8600 triple core pictured
2008-03-07 10:47:00 Cebit 08: J&W renders hybrid on it We had a chance to take a picture of AMD’s Toliman tri-core CPU and from what we can see it works quite well. J&W, the new motherboard kid in town decided to show it and reveal it to the world. The Phenom 8600 is currently based on the DR-B2 revision, ... More About: Hardware , Core , Triple
Shanghai 45nm Opteron up close
2008-03-07 10:34:00 Cebit 08: No frequencies yet We had a chance to see AMD’s four quad-core 45nm processor, codenamed Shanghai , and we can report that the new CPU has 4×64KB data, 4×64KB instructions, 4×512KB date and a massive 6MB of L3 cache. We don?t have the frequencies, we don?t have anything better than that it comes in second half ... More About: Hardware , Close , Opteron
Geforce 9800 GTX to cost ?399
2008-03-07 09:51:00 Cebit 08: Launch in the last week of March Nvidia’s refurbished G92-based 9800 GTX will launch in the last week of March. The card will cost ?399 and it will have 768MB of memory. It will also have two SLI bridges and it will support Tri SLI. The quad SLI will remain the thing for 9800 GX2 ... More About: Hardware , Cost , Geforce
European 9800 GX2 to cost ?549
2008-03-07 09:46:00 Cebit 08: Launches on the 18th Geforce 9800 GX2 will launch in the week of the 18th of March and in the U.S. it will cost $599, while in Europe we would averagel ?549+VAT. The new card might be stuck with 600MHz core and no overclocking will be allowed. At the same time, some partners are telling ... More About: Hardware , European , Cost
Cebit 08: PowerColor Introduces HD 3870 X2 with Samsung GDDR4 Memory
2008-03-04 12:22:00 TUL is showcasing at CeBIT 08 a high-end graphics solution, PowerColor HD 3870 X2 with Samsung GDDR4 memory, designed for gamers PowerColor HD 3870 X2 GDDR4 comes equipped with the fastest graphics memory now produced ? Samsung’s 16Mx32 GDDR4 memory, which has an effective memory speed of 1126 MHz. The video card also boasts a ... More About: Hardware , Memory
RV770 to be twice as fast as RV670 claim
2008-03-04 10:18:00 Best case scenario We have seen some marketing talk from the DAAMIT machine and it was funny to read that its upcoming RV770 mainstream chip will end up twice as fast as RV670. Well, this is probably right, but this would naturally be the best case scenario. You should count on average 20 to 30 percent performance ... More About: Hardware , Fast
ATI prepares new 3870 X2
2008-02-29 10:39:00 With new PCIe 2.0 bridge chip ATI is working on a new revision of its Radeon HD 3870 X2 card and if all goes well, you should be able to get one by the middle of Q2 if not even earlier. The new card will have an updated PLX bridge chip that will support PCIe 2.0 ... More About: Hardware
ATI works on RV670 revision A12
2008-02-29 10:35:00 Faster and more optimized ATI is working hard to ship a new RV670 A12 revision to the market. All current Radeon 3870, 3850 and 3870 X2 cards are A11 silicon-based and the new silicon should definitely improve things here and there. The A12 revision definitely sounds like higher clocks are possible, as we are sure that there ... More About: Hardware , Works , Revision
Radeon 3870 X2 DDR4 to surface at Cebit
2008-02-29 10:27:00 Most of ATI?s partners will showcase their Radeon 3870 X2 DDR4 versions of the cards at Cebit. For a few of your that might not know, Cebit starts on the March 4th, so on the coming Tuesday and it still remains to be the biggest computer tradeshow. It takes place in Hannover Germany. Radeon 3870 X2 ... More About: Hardware , Surface
Shanghai K10.5 is about 10 to 20 percent faster
2008-02-26 13:44:00 Than K10 marchitecture Well informed sources have confirmed that Shanghai K10.5, a 45nm version of AMD?s native quad core, will be about ten to twenty percent faster than the current K10 at 65nm. This is a clock per clock comparison and this is just as much juice as AMD needed to run faster than Core ... More About: Hardware
Pakistan?s YouTube ban shut down the site worldwide
2008-02-26 13:40:00 Collateral damage A local ISP following orders from Pakistan to ban YouTube routed many worldwide users to nowhere for a couple of hours. YouTube users found themselves routed according to erroneous Internet Protocols, and many users around the world could not access the site. Pakistan ordered all Internet service providers to block the YouTube website for containing ... More About: Software , Youtube , Site , Worldwide
Intel to release 6-core processors
2008-02-25 16:20:00 With octo-core CPUs expected next year Intel has decided to make the transition from four to eight cores smoother, at least for the server market, by introducing a processor with no less than six cores. Codenamed Dunnington, the new server-grade six-core CPUs will utilize three 45nm Core 2 Duo parts in one die, each inner ... More About: Hardware , Processors , Release
Will XP SP3 Slow Vista`s Adoption?
2008-02-22 09:30:00 Analysts say that the more secure, stable and reliable Windows XP is, the less reason businesses have to upgrade to Vista in a hurry. The upcoming release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 will further slow the rate of business adoption of Windows Vista by extending the life of the older operating system, some ... More About: Software , Adoption , Slow
AMD slashes Radeon 38×0 card prices
2008-02-21 10:23:00 Just one day before the release of the GeForce 9600 GT AMD has decided to cut the prices of the 512 MB version of the Radeon HD 3850 and the 3870. The price cuts will first be felt in the US followed by the rest of the world’s markets and will see the HD ... More About: Hardware , Card , Prices
Radeon HD 4000 series specifications surfaces
2008-02-18 10:07:00 The ATI Radeon HD 4000 series is slated for late Q2. Information about the high-end RV770 has been leaking onto the web, from here and there, but the exact specifications has remained in the shadows. German hardware site Hartware.net has gotten their hands on what seems to be pretty authentic information. As far as ... More About: Hardware , Series
Nvidia tries to snow financial analysts
2008-02-07 18:11:00 SO, HOW LOW can Nvidia go? Well, how about official messages from its Vice President of Investor Relations, Michael Hara that sink below the low, low standard the aggressive outfit normally sets. Luckily, unlike many other episodes, we can’t find an outright lie in this set, but then again, the audience is a little more ... More About: Hardware , Financial , Snow
Nvidia?s 8800M GTX MXM pictured
2008-02-01 12:26:00 Dual 8800M GTX in SLI mode Nvidia has finally unveiled its Geforce 8800M GTX GPU, which should bring the highest possible performance in notebooks, especially if you place two of these together in SLI. According to the press release, this should bring “extreme gaming experience” on notebooks for the newest PC games titles including Crysis, Hellgate: ... More About: Hardware
U.S. Antitrust Court Slams Microsoft With Two More Years of Oversight
2008-02-01 10:02:00 The Feds tell Microsoft they will be watching them Despite the circus-like atmosphere punctuated with laugh-inducing testimony, United States v. Microsoft, which went to trial in 1998, remains one of the landmark federal court decisions of the 90’s. It paved the way for other government bodies worldwide, such as the European Union, to successfully pursue ... More About: Software , Years , Court
Update: Radeon 8.45 v1.3 Driver To Improve 3870 X2 Performance
More articles from this author:2008-01-30 16:16:00 VR-Zone has learned that Radeon display driver 8.45 v1.3 will improve performance and compatibility on the Radeon HD 3870 X2 over the current 8.45 v1.0 driver. The current set of driver is facing performance issues with games right now so benchmarks on this set of drivers are not reflective on the actual gaming performance ... More About: Hardware , Performance , Driver , Update , Improve 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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