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NVIDIA 9600 GT Reviewed: Best Low-Cost Gaming Card With Anti-Aliasing
NVIDIA's first GeForce 9 series card officially launched today, the budget 9600 GT, which is based on a shrunken version of the G92 graphics processor in their mid-range 8800 GT and the newer GTS cards. More »
graphics cards
ATI Breaks Teraflop Barrier with Radeon HD 3870 X2 GPU
Remember that honkin' ATI graphics card we showed you at CES? The one that was 1,000 times as fast as a Cray-1? Well, it's official, making its debut today as the $450 ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2. It's the first GPU to break the teraflop barrier, and is nearly double the performance of the HD 3870 you spent all your money on back in November. Press release with technical details after jump. [Product Page] More »
graphics cards
NVIDIA's Three-Way SLI Graphics Cards Cost More Than Actual Three-Ways
If tying two video cards together in an SLI configuration doesn't quite get you the frames-per-second you need, NVIDIA's just intrduced three-way SLI, which does exactly what it sounds like. Now you can use their nForce 680i SLI motherboard to tie together tres GeForce 8800 GTX or 8800 Ultras to give a 2.8X boost over just using a single card—so you will be able to play Crysis at something more than the "slideshow" configuration. More »
gaming
ASUS Upgrades EN8800GT Cards With 1GB of Memory
Today Asus rolled out the world's first EN8800GT graphics card with 1GB of Qimonda memory. The card is designed to provide optimum DirectX 10 gaming and multimedia playback performance even at the highest resolutions and quality settings. The unit also utilizes an integrated SmartDoctor feature, allowing users to overclock the Shader Clock for performance gains that they claim can exceed 10%. More »
gaming
Nvidia to Launch GeForce 9 in February?
According to DigiTimes sources, Nvidia is planning on rolling out GeForce 9 this February. They also noted that the first chip in the family will be the 65nm D9E —complete with support for DirectX 10.1 and Shader Model 4.1. As with all rumors, this should be taken with a grain of salt, so I wouldn't put your holiday plans for the 8800GTs on the backburner just yet. [DigiTimes via RegHardware via Gearfuse]
gaming
NVIDIA Launches GeForce 8800M GTX and GTS Notebook GPUs
NVIDIA got official today with its GeForce 8800M GTX and GTS notebook GPUs, which you might remember from the fresh-out-the-door Alienware beast from a few hours ago. Mark Rein, Epic Games' VP is "ordering one" exclamation point, if that makes you more blisteringly excited. [Nvidia]
NVIDIA has just announced their new GeForce 8800 GT. It makes all those new Direct X 10 accessible to your midrange budget. Look for the cards for $199-$249 starting...NOW! [nvidia]
imac
ATI Graphics May Be at the Root of iMac Freezing Issues
Apple's new iMac has been plagued by random—but reproducible for some—freezing issues, and it appears that the ATI Radeon HD graphics card and its drivers could be to blame. According to users participating in official Apple support discussions (here and here), the iMac continues to run during the freeze, but users are unable to control the programs with mouse clicks or keyboard commands without rebooting. Apple is apparently aware of the issue, but at this point, no official fix has been released. Some users have even reported that the latest round of video driver updates have made the problem worse, although there is no evidence to suggest that the problem is widespread. [Appleinsider and Tech.co.uk]
gpu wars
Nvidia's New 8400 GS Will Hit 65nm and Support PCIe 2.0
Now that ATI has finished rolling out their new graphics cards, the boys in green are attempting to take back the spotlight with the new 8400 GS, Nvidia's first GPU to rely on 65nm architecture. What's all the fuss about? 65nm GPUs will be cooler, faster and cheaper to manufacture. The new card will also support the faster PCIe 2.0 standard. The 8400 GS is expected this fall with more 65nm cards due in Q4. More »
card wars
Intel Graphics Business Still Champ, But Nvidia Is Showing Rocky's Pluck
Lest ye forgot, the graphics-card wars are still a-ragin'. CPU maker Intel is still number one overall, with 38.7% marketshare, and they're making crazy gains in the laptop market as well, according to a fresh report. Is it because Intel is better, or just a more convenient choice for OEMs and shoppers? However there is some good news for GeForce fans, as Nvidia has finally beaten Intel. (At least for the quarter. And only in desktops.) More »
peripherals
NVIDIA Ships 128-Core Graphics Cards for High-End Film Editors, Graphics Pros: Apple 'Excited'
NVIDIA just cranked up its highest-end Quadro graphics cards a notch or two, rolling out three products, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600, Quadro FX 5600 (pictured above), and NVIDIA Quadro Plex VCS Model IV that the company says represents the biggest leap in performance for its graphics cards yet. One giant leap indeed, because these parallel processing monsters have the rough equivalent of 128 1.35GHz processors cranking away at graphics in a whole new way. More »
peripherals
ATI's Radeon X2800XT Brings Heavy Horsepower to Apple's Next Gen Mac Pros
So if the guys at AppleInsider are on the money, ATI's abnormally long X2800XT could be the graphics card to power Apple's rumored next gen Mac Pros. The red giant will feature 1GB of GDDR4 memory clocked at 2GHz while the card's core will come in at 800MHz. Basically that means it has the potential to eat Nvidia's overclocked 8800GTX for lunch. The card will also bring CrossFire technology to the Mac, so you'll be able to string two of these suckers together for maximum voltage. It's about time we get some heavy duty card options for the Mac. Better start saving now, though, as I'm sure this config won't come cheap. More »
intel
Intel Leaping into Graphics Card Biz?
Rumor has it that Intel is quietly building up a new army. An army that'll soon tackle both AMD/ATI and Nvidia. Job openings at Intel's Visual Computing Group have led people to speculate that the chip-maker is jumping into the video card market. The job descriptions state that the VC Group will be in charge of "developing discrete graphic products based on a many-core architecture." Multi-core graphics cards? Bring them on! More »
ati
ATI X1950 XTX: New King Of the 3D Hill?
We covered this some time ago, but the ATI Radeon X1950 XTX is now official. ATI's new flagship PCI Express graphics card will cost you $449, which is pretty cheap. It's based around a 648MHz graphics chip and 1GB of fast GDDR4 memory running at 2GHz. There's also a new heatsink design to cool the graphics chip without sounding like a runaway lawnmower. HardOCP have already tested the card and found it to be pretty speedy and pretty quiet, delivering good prefomance for the price. The new card will be available on September 14th. More »
peripherals
MSI NX7600GT Diamond Plus: HDMI Ported Graphics Card, NVIDIA Chips
PC graphics cards are beginning to sprout HDMI ports, and here's the latest one to get into the act, the MSI NX7600GT Diamond Plus. Not only can this one rock the audio and video from card to LCD, but it packs 256MB of memory for 3D goodness. Nice versatility,—now you can feed audio and video from PC to TV using just one cable, and use that monitor to watch video, even if your content is hobbled with that dreaded HDCP copy protection scheme. Of course, that LCD better be hooked up for HDMI audio and video, though, for this to work. More »
peripherals
ATI Radeon X1950 XTX To Feature Quieter Cooling System
It seems that people aren't too keen on the idea of their graphics card sounding like a jet engine while it's cooling. As a result, ATI is set to redesign the upcoming Radeon X1950 XTX's cooling system, acceding to the demands of its patrons. Right now, all information points to a redesigned cooling system that resembles the one currently in HIS Radeon X1900 graphics cards, the ICQ3, which supposedly cooled an ATI X1900 (pictured here) 10 degrees Celsius cooler than ATI's own cooling mechanism. More »
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