First AMD Fusion Specifications, Hint Toward RV710 Specs.

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

AMD Fusion could well be the first CPU to feature a graphics processor core. It will incorporate a graphics processor with specifications identical to the RV710. This CPU would be based on the 45 nm silicon fabrication process, and this processor will be manufactured at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

960 SP-laden RV870 in the Works, and more

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Sources at TSMC told Hardspell that the next graphics processor (GPU) by ATI/AMD, the RV870 in the works have specifications such as: 40nm or 45nm fab process 140 sq. mm die size 192 ALUs, 960 stream processors 256-bit GDDR5 memory controller It is believed that this GPU could perform 1.2 times ...

AMD Slates 40/45nm GPUs for Early-2009, RV870 on the Cards

Monday, July 14th, 2008

As we inch closer to the R700 release, which previews prove to have dethroned the GeForce GTX 280 convincingly, taking the crown for the fastest graphics card there is, NordicHardware reports AMD could be giving 'final-touches' to a fresh-wave of GPUs for early 2009. The timing is a critical factor ...

R700 Supports 4-way Crossfire X

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Yes, you read that right. You can use upto four HD4870 X2 accelerators in tandem for an 8-GPU, 9.6 TFLOP, 8 GB graphics crunching monster. You need a 4-slot motherboard though. There are 4-slot solutions available on the AMD 790FX platform, for Intel though X48 did support 4 slots and ...

Eran Badit of NGOHQ now Part of NVIDIA Developer Program

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Eran Badit of the NGOHQ ATI PhysX driver fame now joins the NVIDIA developer program. In a more assertive statement, he believes that NVIDIA wants to “take on Intel with CUDA and to deal with the ‘latest’ Havok threat from both AMD and Intel.”. In a conversation with TG Daily, Roy ...