graphics cards

The WebGL 3-D graphics specification implemented in Firefox and Chrome, and included in Safari, is subject to denial of service attacks.

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...

Phoronix: "With NVIDIA having announced the GeForce GTX 470 and 480 graphics cards (formerly known as "Fermi") at the end of March and these graphics cards starting to appear at Internet retailers (see links below), NVIDIA has now put out its OpenGL 4.0 Linux driver."

AMD executives said Wednesday that the company can't keep up with the demand for its high-end AMD Radeon HD 5800 and 5700 graphics cards.

Phoronix: "To Linux users these graphics cards are also interesting in that they fully support all of the current features of VDPAU for Linux video decoding, including MPEG-4 support.

We picked up an XFX GT220XZNF2 GeForce GT 220 1GB graphics card for this round of benchmarking on Ubuntu Linux."

When AMD's new Radeon HD cards launch in a few weeks, the showstopper will be a technology the company calls Eyefinity, which can power up to six monitors on a single graphics card.

And when four graphics cards are added to a single PC... well, wow.

The H Open: "Linux 2.6.31 will offer Kernel-Based Mode-Setting for Radeon graphics cards up to model X1950.

The developers have included new drivers for X-Fi sound cards and for Intel's "Next-Generation Graphics Device""

Phoronix: "To those running ATI Radeon graphics cards on Linux, this week has been very important with several key announcements having been made.

The TTM memory manager is getting ready for inclusion into the Linux kernel, which finally will allow the open-source ATI driver (and soon the Nouveau driver too for NVIDIA hardware) to have kernel-based GPU memory management."

We examine a big batch of graphics cards, all under $250 and many under $150. What's the best bet for gaming on a budget?

Spring brings with it a pair of new graphics cards based on prior technologies. Which new card gives you more bang for your buck?