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AMD Announces New Sub-$100 Triple Core A6-3500 APU

Digg / Tech Industry News  Wed, 08/24/2011 - 04:48

AMD announced today a new desktop APU (Accelerated Processing Unit). The A6-3500 processor combines three x86 CPU cores with 320 Radeon GPU cores.


 

Commodore 64 Replicas Shipping Next Week

Digg / Tech Industry News  Wed, 06/22/2011 - 14:03

Sporting an Intel 1.8GHz dual-core processor, NVIDIA GPU, and a 1TB hard drive, the Commodore 64 makes its triumphant return...


 

AMD Directly Challenges NVIDIA For Fastest Graphics Card Ever

Digg / Tech Industry News  Fri, 03/25/2011 - 19:29

Over the last couple of weeks, the two most powerful graphics cards released for the PC to date made their respective debuts, the dual-Cayman GPU powered AMD Radeon HD 6990 and the dual-GF110 GPU powered NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590.

Without a doubt, both of these cards offer performance that puts any current-generation, single-GPU powered graphics...


 

Gigabyte's G1-Killer Mainboards To Integrated E2100 NIC Technolo...

Digg / Tech Industry News  Sun, 01/09/2011 - 04:46

Well, there's really no choice but to give it up for Bigfoot Networks. The company that was simply selling standalone Killer gaming NICs a few months ago now has a bunch of new partnerships under their belt, with an integrated NIC/GPU on the market, a mainboard deal with Asus and now, a motherboard deal with another huge vendor: Gigabyte....


 

Whitepaper Claims Your Graphics Card Could Eventually Become A M...

Digg / Tech Industry News  Wed, 09/29/2010 - 10:05

For the past 3.5 years or so, NVIDIA has ardently advocated the GPU as a computational platform capable of solving almost any problem.

One topic the company hasn't targeted, however, is the tremendous performance advantage the GPU could offer malware authors.

The idea that a graphics card could double as a security hole isn't something we've...


 

Chromium Graphics Overhaul

Linux Today  Tue, 08/31/2010 - 18:03

The Chromium Blog: "For some time now, there's been a lot of work going on to overhaul Chromium's graphics system.

New APIs and markup like WebGL and 3D CSS transforms are a major motivation for this work, but it also lets Chromium begin to take advantage of the GPU to speed up its entire drawing model..."


 

Blowing The Doors Off HPC Speed-up Numbers

Linux Magazine: Top Stories  Wed, 06/30/2010 - 07:59

A recent paper by Intel provides some hard data on CPU vs GP-GPU speed-up numbers.

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AMD Commits to CrossFireX, Eyefinity, and Stereoscopic 3D with N...

Extremetech  Tue, 02/16/2010 - 23:00

Users of multi-GPU ATI video card setups will benefit most from today's release of the Catalyst 10.2 software suite—but another feature-rich update is coming in March.


 

The Return of the Vector Processor

Linux Magazine: Top Stories  Wed, 10/14/2009 - 10:05

The New Fermi GPU shows NVidia has been listening to the HPC crowd


 

Lucid Hydra 2000: Multi-GPU Made Simple?

Extremetech  Thu, 10/08/2009 - 15:15

A new motherboard chip may allow multicard gaming using both Nvidia and ATI graphics cards.