Archive for June, 2008

ATI Radeon HD 4850 Fan Speed Workaround Posted

Monday, June 30th, 2008

If you own one of the latest ATI Radeon HD 4850 cards and you're not satisfied with the reference single slot cooling and more specially with the temps you're getting in both idle and load, here's a quick workaround which might help you until better solution is available. A Guru3D ...

Radeon HD4870 X2 Readies for Release

Monday, June 30th, 2008

The ATI Radeon HD4870 X2 codenamed R700 is slated for a week 4, July release. This dual-GPU card which features two of the RV770 graphics processors which have been an overnight success for AMD/ATI in their single-GPU avatars, the HD4850 and HD4870, will be priced at US $499. AMD claims ...

Diamond Releases Radeon HD 4870 XOC Unlocked Black Edition

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Diamond Multimedia (diamondmm.com), a leading manufacturer of PC graphics cards, sound cards and communications products, launched today along with boutique system builder Smoothcreations, and Water cooling mavens, Danger Den the ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 XOC Black Edition graphics card. This card offers exquisite gaming capabilities combined with state of the ...

NVIDIA in a Rush for 55nm Parts, has Partners ‘Red-Eyed’

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

With the cost of manufacture for a standard G200 die reaching up to US $110, thanks to yields as low as 40 per cent, NVIDIA seems to be in a rush for a 55nm revamp of its current GPUs. While nothing revolutionary is on the cards, and with 55nm G92b ...

AMD/ATI to grab 40% Market Share in Discrete Graphics in Q3, 2008

Friday, June 27th, 2008

DigiTimes reports that with AMD's ATI Radeon HD 4800-series graphics cards successfully cutting into the US$200-300 mainstream market forcing Nvidia to cut the price of its previous generation GeForce 9800 GTX down to US$199, sources at graphics card makers see AMD's discrete graphics card market share as having a chance ...

Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 Clusters Scale at up to 85% Efficiency

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Microsoft announces that a Windows HPC Server 2008 beta-based system now ranks among the top 25 supercomputers of the world. They have also announced a release-candidate version of the operating system software available for download towards the end of June. The final release version of this software will be available ...

Radeon HD4800 Series Supports a 100% Ray-Traced Pipeline

Friday, June 27th, 2008

During AMD's recent Cinema 2.0 event, TG Daily caught up with representatives of JulesWorld. They are associated with the video production process of an unnamed movie studio and adopted components that are standard in the FX industry (AMD Opteron + Nvidia Quadro). Ray-tracing was an early focus of the company ...

AMD Releases ATI All-In-Wonder HD Series Card

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

AMD today expanded The Ultimate Visual Experience for North America with the ATI All-In-Wonder HD, combining award-winning ATI Radeon Premium graphics and ATI TV Wonder HD tuner technology card in one PCI Express 2.0 solution. As the newest multimedia powerhouse to join the long line of All-In-Wonder offerings, ATI All-in-Wonder ...

ATI Radeon HD4850 Transcodes Four 1080p Video Files Simultaneously in Real-Time

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

With advancements in visual-computing technologies on an all-time high, and graphics processing units with immense 3D computational power coming out by the fortnights, consumers benefit the most. In the process of evaluating graphics processors' abilities using the latest 3D games and synthetic 3D benchmark software alone, we are probably missing ...

GECUBE Craftsmanship Delivers Extreme Graphics Performance

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Well-known graphics card maker GECUBE, released today with great fanfare, the new HD 4870 series of high-end graphics cards, the successor to its popular HD 4850 series. The GECUBE HD 4870 series comes with exclusive GDDR5 memory and the latest AMD graphics technology. Built on the 2nd generation 55nm chip ...