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more about #gpus frigg: I take it I'm not alone in seeing this and thinking MBP MBP MBP. Any Apple employee care to risk torture and death and confirm a January release? more » Ryan_Long: Let the speculation begin! I'm hoping for a Macbook Pro with USB 3.0 and blu-ray within the next year- that's when I upgrade from my late '06 MBP. Eit... more » phytonix: Is it likely that 13" MBP will get i5 without price hike? more » Nathan Obbards: I knew there was a reason I was putting off buying a new laptop. I just hope that OEMs actually decide to bundle it with a decent GPU, not that GMA45... more » Evangelion: Awesome. Glad I waited out on buying a laptop. more » mklpickle: But I just bought my macbook pro like 2 weeks ago....... more » TheSonOfKrypton: Hihi new Macbook Pro! more » Kirkaiya: I was pretty surprised by this (well, by the original announcement last week that effectively admitted it was dead). It was already slightly delayed,... more » ECAsh: OK, WHo could guess this?? When has Intel made a DECENT video card?? more » Chimaera: Naked blonde walks into a bar with a poodle under one arm, and a Radeon 5970 under the other. The bartender says, "I guess you won't be needing a drin... more » Avastmateys: Luckily most hobbyists who buy this will have at least a mid tower case with room for it. It's strange though, with all those chips in a card that big... more » FooSchnickens - Full of SCAR: Those ain't got shit on the Bitchin' Fast 3D2000 more » Michai: I can remember when Voodoo1 was hot shit. Nothing like Age of Empires and Quake 2 at 50MHZ. more » nerdwa: I have no idea how long my GTX260 is but I was barely able to fit it in my full size case... (I think its an Antec SX-1030B) I had to move around some... more » Edward's Sisters' Hands: I wonder why they didn't wipe off the fingerprints for such a cool picture. Am I the only person who thinks of these things? more » kevinadatchuk: That's What She Said!!!!! more » sharkync: What's twelve inches and white...? Nothing. more » njdevil: Once you go 5970 HD, you never go back. more » HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.: It's a 2 GPU card... it's going to be big. more » The Dude: Since when is 13 inches staggering? :P more » -
#intel
Intel's New Superefficient-But-Fast Laptop Core i5 Chips on Jan. 7
Intel's dropping a big bowl o' chips January 7th—17 of 'em—like the first lower-end Core i3 chips, but we're most excited about the Arrandale Core i5 for laptops: still fast but more efficient 'cause they're shrunk to 32nm. More » -
#imagecache
It's So Big
A comment on graphics cards and overcompensating: ATI's new Radeon 5970 HD is a staggering13.312.16 inches long. [Anandtech] -
#intel
Intel's High-End Larrabee Graphics Card Won't Be Released Anytime Soon
Intel just told us that its first Larrabee graphics card isn't ever coming out "as standalone discrete product," because they're behind where they'd hoped to be in development, meaning you won't be shoving one inside of your PC anytime soon. More » -
#intel
The FTC Still Wants to Slay the Intel Monopoly Monster
Sure, Intel paid off AMD to drop their antitrust suit, but the FTC's still mighty interested in their their fights with Nvidia, and concerned about preserving competition in the chip marketplace overall. It could get ugly. [BW] -
#graphicscards
Nvidia Fermi Next-Gen Graphics Architecture Has 512 Cores for Radioactively Melting Faces
Fermi is Nvidia's new GPU architecture that's going to be the basis for all of its upcoming graphics cards. With 512 cores and 3 billion transistors, it will nuke Crysis. More » -
#gizexplains
Giz Explains: Why Tech Standards Are Vital For Apple (And You)
Tech standards are important. They're, well, standards. They shape the way the world works, ideally. So if you wanna influence your little world, you probably wanna shape (or maybe even create) standards. Take Apple, for example. More » -
#unconfirmed
Your Graphics Card Is Obsolete Again: ATI and Nvidia DirectX 11 Cards Soon
The first graphics cards that support DirectX 11—the next version of Microsoft's gaming APIs with more fiyapowah—from both ATI and Nvidia will apparently arrive in the next couple of months. More » -
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#directx11
AMD Unveils World's First DirectX 11 Graphics Processor, Takes It for a Spin in Public
AMD demoed their buzzed-about DirectX 11 graphics processor at the Computex show in Taiwan, offering proof that they're making progress in getting to market first with their product. More » -
#chips
Renesas Cellphone Processor Handles HD Video at 1080p With Surround Sound
Renesas has started shipping its SH7370 processor for mobile phones. The 1-centimeter squared chip is capable of decoding and encoding 1080p video in H.264/Mpeg-4, with 5.1 surround sound, via HDMI. Crazy. [TechOn] -
#windows7
Why Windows 7 Is Snappier Than Vista
Most people will tell you that Windows 7 is snappier than Vista, even though the raw numbers say otherwise. But it's not in your head. Windows 7 is more responsive than Vista. Here's why. More » -
#gpus
ARM's GPUs Will Make This Year's Mainstream Phones More Powerful Than the Current iPhone
By the end of 2009, computer and graphics chip designer ARM says we'll see the first sub-$150 cellphones using the low-power Mali 200 GPU, which will give devices greater graphics capabilities than the current-gen iPhone. More » -
#graphics
Ex-Apple Engineers' Caustic Startup Promises 200x Faster Ray-Tracing Graphics by 2010 (Suck It, Crysis)
Caustic Graphics, a startup from ex-Apple engineers, thinks their approach to 3D graphics—ray-tracing—will result in way more realistic eye candy than you see today, with chips that are 200x faster than today's by 2010. More » -
#nvidia
Do the New MacBook Pros Have Faulty Nvidia Graphics Cards?
We already know the new MacBook Pros have video problems, so when the Inquirer says their Nvidia GeForce 9600 GTs use the same faulty material that killed earlier graphics cards, it doesn't look good.
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#gtx295
Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 Graphics Card Is Insane: Two GTX 260s Bolted Together
Tired of ATI ruling the uberidiculous end of the graphics card space, Nvidia is apparently striking back with its own super-stacked GTX295—it's basically two GTX 200 GPUs hot-glued together. -
#nvidia
Nvidia Quadro FX 5800 Claims Most Powerful Graphics Card Ever, Probably Handles Crysis OK
Nvidia has released what it describes as "the most powerful professional graphics card in graphics history"—the Quadro FX 5800, which packs up to 240 of Nvidia's CUDA independent graphics cores for shouldering some of the load normally handled by the main processor as well as 4GB of graphics memory, another claimed first. The 5800 is intended mostly for scientific and medical visualizations, as well as crazy complex 3D rendering. One might imagine it would also play most of your video games at a decent FPS. Price? $3500. More »
