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India gamers if you’re in need of a powerful GPU with no restrictions on the budget, Asus has got the perfect card for you. It’s the ARES that goes for a hefty Rs. 1,00,000 but promises to give top gaming performance. The ARES comes laden with two Radeon HD 5870 cores that optimizes its joint [...]

 
UPDATE: The Indian prices for the GTX 460 are: 768MB – Rs. 13,129; 1GB – Rs. 15,049.
Nvidia has unveiled a new GeForce GPU aimed at gamers with a limited budget. The GTX460 promises to give outstanding DirectX11 performance at an affordable price of $199.
Nvidia says the GPU has been built from scratch and is optimized [...]

 
Users looking for a decent performer in the graphics department but don’t want to shell out much can take a look at ATI’s newest offering. The Radeon HD 5450 lowers the price bar to around $60 from 5670’s $100 but gives at par performance with 512MB memory and support for DirectX 11, Eyefinity multi-display technology, [...]

 
AMD today announced a new and cheap graphics card. The Radeon HD 5670 GPU is the first graphics card that boasts DirectX11 support for a $100 price tag. The card claims to give the full Windows 7 experience with its oodles of features like the GDDR5 memory, 400 stream processors, OpenGL 3.2 and ATI Eyefinity [...]

 
Nvidia unveiled a completely new CUDA GPU architecture at the company’s first GPU Technology Conference. Codenamed as Fermi, it will become the base of all the Nvidia GPUs coming from GeForce, Quadro and Tesla families. Fermi boasts over 512 CUDA cores and over 3 billion transistors that enables it to give supercomputer like performance incurring [...]

 
AMD has unveiled the world’s first graphics cards to fully support DirectX 11 that will be shipped with Windows 7 this October. The ATI Radeon HD 5870 and the ATI Radeon HD 5850 from the 5800 Series boast full DX11 support, 1GB of GDDR5 memory, 1440 (5850) / 1600 (5870) stream processors and up to [...]

 
Asus has announced the F1 Series Graphics cards in India that are inspired from – you guessed it right – F1 cars. If you think these cards with its aerodynamic design are appealing only on the aesthetics front then think again because such a design is created to enhance cooling when the card is handling [...]

 
The rumored 40nm based GeForce GPUs for Desktops have popped up on Nvidia’s website. The budget offerings – GeForce GT220 and GeForce G210 are tagged as OEM products, which means we could see them being preinstalled with branded PC manufacturers.
The GeForce G210 boasts a graphics clock speed of 589MHz, processor at 1402MHz, 16 stream [...]

 
Looks like AMD will be able to flaunt its DirectX 11 silicon for more time than expected. If the rumor flying post-Computex is to be believed, Nvidia’s answer to AMD’s DirectX 11 card (due later this year) will be sometime in the first half of 2010. This is because Nvidia is said to be reworking [...]

 
AMD is proudly showing the world’s first graphics processor supporting DirectX 11 at the Computex. AMD says ATI graphics card combined with DirectX 11 will give consumers an ultimate experience because the cards can benefit from DirectX 11 features like tessellation and compute shader. The shader and ATI DirectX 11 card will make Windows 7 [...]

 
AMD has launched its first GPU based on 40nm manufacturing process. The energy efficient HD 4770 ATI Radeon card is Windows 7 ready and boasts the same 4000 Series GPU features but at a very convincing price tag. Anticipated at around $99, the card has GDDR5 memory, support for DirectX 10.1, CrossFireX technology, HDMI and [...]

 
Nvidia at the NAB 2009, unveiled a Mac Pro compatible GPU meant for professionals working in architecture, content creation, science or medicine.
Priced at $1,800, FX 4800’s Mac compatibility comes with the standard 3-pin stereo connector which is said to give “true 3D stereoscopic imaging” and a prerequisite for many Mac professionals.
It also has [...]

 
After being sighted in the wild and getting an extensive review, AMD has officially announced HD 4890 bragging 1.36 TeraFLOPs of compute power, making it the fastest GPU available in the market. The card’s got a GB of GDDR5 memory, 800 stream processing units, DirectX 10.1 support and CrossfireX support.
The card also features HDMI out [...]

 
You may find this as an exaggerated statement but ARM, who is bully on its Mali line of processors is dead serious. According Remi Pedersen, graphics product manager at ARM, Xbox like graphics is very much possible in mobile phones and he says it may take till later 2009 to fulfill his promise.
The trick [...]

 
There’s not much to tell about this one but ATI’s Radeon HD 4890 has been pictured from quite a few angles. The few changes expected in the 4870’s successor is the changes in the PCB to handle extra power for higher clock speeds. The GPU is also expected to be clocked at 850MHz while its [...]