Radeon HD 4600 Series Slated for September, Two Models in the Making

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Based on the new RV730 graphics processor from AMD, the Radeon HD 4600 series is set for a September release. There are two models to start with in this series: Radeon HD 4650 and Radeon HD 4670. The HD 4650 is positioned to compete with the GeForce 9500 GT while ...

PhysX Makes it to MMOG with APB

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Often underappreciated by those who only casually play games, fast and accurate physical models and calculations are a key to a game’s playability and realism. From the effect of explosions on nearby objects, to the impacts of car accidents, to how a character reacts when hit, physics is as important ...

AMD Aims Higher, 50% Market-share in Discrete-graphics in Sight

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Following the release of the R700 Spartan, the most powerful graphics card till date, AMD has noted that the ATI Radeon HD 4800 series products has boosted the company's market share in the discrete graphics industry from 30% to 40%. This has triggered optimism with the company, it expects to ...

NVIDIA Brings GeForce 9800M and 9700M GPUs to Notebook PCs

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

NVIDIA Corporation has unveiled a new era of notebook PC gaming, featuring advanced rendering and physics effects that will transform gaming beyond what consumers know today. Enabling this evolution is a new generation of notebook PCs equipped with NVIDIA's newest GeForce 9800M and 9700M GPUs and featuring NVIDIA's PhysX physics ...

NVIDIA Amps Up GeForce Lineup With Immediate Availability Of Three New GPUs

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

NVIDIA Corporation, the world leader in visual computing technologies, today announced the immediate availability of three new desktop GeForce 9 Series graphics processing units (GPUs) that bring support for NVIDIA PhysX technology and CUDA general-purpose parallel computing to mainstream PC computing markets.

BFG Technologies Announces NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ OC

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

BFG Technologies, Inc., the leading North American and European supplier of advanced NVIDIA-based 3D graphics cards, power supplies and other PC enthusiast products, announced today the BFG NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ OC 512MB PCI Express 2.0 graphics card. Backed by free 24/7/365 world-class tech support and the best lifetime warranty in ...

PhysX Driver that Works on all Capable GPUs to be out by August

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Reports by TG Daily suggest that NVIDIA could release a WHQL-certified stable release PhysX driver that supports all capable GPUs GeForce 8 series thru 9-series and GTX 200 series. The driver would expand driver-level support to all PhysX-based game titles including the likes of Ghost Recon 2: Advanced Warfighter, Warmonger ...

GeForce 9800M, 9700M Offer Performance and Energy Savings in a Broad Range

Monday, July 21st, 2008

NVIDIA has released two lines of high performance graphics processors (GPU) for the notebook PC market, the GeForce 9800M series and the 9700M series. These are sub-classified into GT and GTS for the 9700M and GT, GTS and GTX for the 9800M. These new GPUs provide a wide range of ...

GPU PhysX Doesn’t get you to 3DMark Vantage Hall of Fame Anymore

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

With NVIDIA releasing their GeForce PhysX drivers, users of the PhysX accelerating GeForce cards were at an advantage over their Radeon counterparts, reason being that in a certain CPU test routine of the 3DMark Vantage benchmark, the physics processing abilities of the computer are tested, and since the physics API ...

Possible Specifications of the GeForce GTX 350 Emerge

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Hardspell released is list of possible specifications for the GeForce GTX 350 graphics processor (GPU): NVIDIA GeForce GTX 350 GT300 core 55nm technology 576 sq.mm die area 512bit GDDR5 memory controller GDDR5 2GB memory, doubled GTX280 480 stream processors Grating operation units are 64 the same with GTX280 216 GB/s memory bandwidth Default clock speeds of core: 830MHz, shader: 2075 ...