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  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 [...]

  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 [...]

  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 [...]

  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 [...]

  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 [...]

  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 [...]

  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 [...]

  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 [...]

  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 [...]

  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 [...]

  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 [...]

  AMD introduced a new GPU aimed at the enterprise market. The ATI Firepro 2450 is a low profile dual GPU card that allows to plug in up to four monitors simultaneously via both DVI or VGA. It has 512MB of memory, consumes less than 18 watts, PCI Express 2.0 and has DirectX 10.1 support. [...]

  Asus looks to be the biggest draw at this year’s CeBIT. After wooing the attendees with Eee range, notebooks and few other products, they are now showing specially designed F1 styled cards that makes the card to run cool. The cards have something called as Micro Surface Treatment technology, one of the reasons for [...]

  AMD announced the world’s first 40nm based GPUs for notebooks. Based on 40nm fabrication means good graphics power on a smaller die and allows laptop companies to integrate discrete GPUs in a small notebook. The Radeon HD 4830 and Radeon HD 4860 are the first pair offering full 1080p playback, HDMI-out, DirectX 10.1 support, [...]

  Nvidia just announced four new GPUs for notebooks hailing from the GTX 200M and GTS 100M series. The GTX 280M and 260M are apt for enthusiast notebooks while GTS 160M and 150M aim for high performance sleek laptops. All the cards boast to be 50 percent faster from the previous generation cards without increasing [...]