Tag: AMD

Nvidia gets serious for 3D PCs

Posted by Nexus – 01/06/2010

[via pocket-lint.com]

Nvidia has announced that it is in cahoots with various partners, including Alienware, Asus, Dell, Microsoft and Toshiba, in order to bring 3D PCs to the world. Speaking at the Computex expo in Taipei, Nvidia also welcomed Asus chief Jerry Shen to the stage to announce three new 3D capable PCs.

“Asus has a strong track record of pioneering new categories of PCs, as we did with the netbook,” said Shen.“Now Asus is very bullish on developing the 3D PC category by shipping notebooks, desktops and an all-in-one PC equipped with Nvidia 3D Vision. We believe that all entertainment-based PCs will become 3D capable within a few years.”

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NVIDIA Claims Upper Hand in Tessellation Performance

Posted by Nexus – 20/03/2010

[via techpowerup.com]

A set of company slides leaked to the press reveals that NVIDIA is claiming the upper hand in tessellation performance. With this achievement, NVIDIA is looking to encourage leaps in geometric detail, probably in future games that make use of tessellation. NVIDIA’s confidence comes from the way its GF100 GPU is designed (further explained here). Each GF100 GPU physically has 16 Polymorph Engines, one per streaming multiprocessor (SM) which helps in distributed, parallel geometry processing. Each Polymorph Engine has its own tessellation unit. With 15 SMs enabled on the GeForce GTX 480 and 14 on the GeForce GTX 470, there are that many independent tessellation units.

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AMD Starts Shipping 12-core and 8-core ”Magny Cours” Opteron Processors

Posted by Nexus – 23/02/2010

[via techpowerup.com]

AMD has started shipping its 8-core and 12-core “Magny Cours” Opteron processors for sockets G34 (2P-4P+), and C32 (1P-2P). The processors mark entry of several new technologies for AMD, such as a multi-chip module (MCM) approach towards increasing the processor’s resources without having to complicate chip design any further than improving on those of the Shanghai and Istanbul.

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nVidias Fermi GTX480 deemed “broken and unfixable” pre-launch

Posted by GODDAMN SEXUAL TYRANNOSAURUS – 23/02/2010

[via semiaccurate.com, originally written by Charlie Demerjian]

WITH ANOTHER LAUNCH of the Nvidia GT300 Fermi GF100 GTX480 upon us, it is time for an update on the status of that wayward part. Production parts have been coming back from TSMC for several weeks now, and the outlook for them is grim.

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AMD’s 12-core Magny-Cours leaked on eBay

Posted by Nexus – 17/02/2010

[via bit-tech.net]

Holy huge die batman

If you just can’t wait to get your hands on AMD’s latest 12-cored ‘Magny-Cours’ Opteron processor, perhaps you’d care to risk buying leaked versions from eBay?

The as-yet unreleased dodeca-cored processors have popped up on the auction site under the user account oakvillemehlvillecomputers, available on buy-it-now at an eye-watering $7,700 (£4,880) for a batch of four 2.2GHz processors – designed for quad-processor socket G34 server systems and offering 48 logical processing cores to the host operating system.

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Upcoming Intel Core CPUs Detailed

Posted by Nexus – 02/02/2010

[via techpowerup.com]

Intel is poised to release new performance and high-end processors across its various Core family brands, within Q1 2010 and later. OCWorkbench, citing sources in Japan, released tentative release dates and information of new Core family processors. Among a few known names such as the six-core Core i7 980X, there are a few new ones. Details and dates are as follows:

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