Intel is preparing for the release of their next generation Ivy Bridge processor which we should be seeing hit the streets in 2012. As expected Ivy Bridge is faster and smaller than Sandybridge which is found in the 2nd generation Core i series of chipsets.…
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AMD’s Brazos E-450 Processor Reveals a Few More Details
Details on AMD’s upcoming update of the Brazos platform, the E-450 APU have been leaked. At Computex in June we found out that the it will feature an updated HD 6320 graphics card, a bit higher CPU clock and support for higher clocked memory.
The…
Nvidia GPU Conference Taipei 2011: History of the GPU
Sanford Russel Director of CUDA Marketing gives us the history of the GPU at Nvidia’s GPU Conference 2011 in Taipei Taiwan, May 19th, 2011.
A GPU or Graphics Processing Unit is a processor attached to a graphics card which is dedicated to calculating floating point…
Qualcomm’s Latest 1.5GHz Dual Core Gets Benchmarked
The Qualcomm Snapdragon MSMS8660 is a dual core processor running at 1.5GHz with an Adreno 220 GPU. Anandtech managed to get their hands on a development phone running the new chip and put it through the paces. If you check out the results Qualcomm latest…
Qualcomm’s Mobile 3D Gaming Ecosystem – Snapdragon + Adreno
With everyon focusing on Tegra 2 tablets and smartphones we have to ask our selves what’s beeing going on with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon. They’ve been pretty quite the past few weeks with nvidia hoging the stage with product releases. It appears that Qualcomm wants to remind…
Unboxing: MSI U270 12.1″ Subnotebook with a Dual Core AMD E-350
the MSI Wind U270 is shaping up to be a serious competitor in the range 12.1″ category running the AMD Zacate E350. Accroding to Pierre over at Blogeee who got his hands on one for unboxing its swift & responsive, relatively simple and quiet with…
Samsung’s Exynos 4210 Shows Off 3D Gaming at GDC 2011
Gaming on your handset has been a cute experience, nothing serious with usable graphics. That’s all about to change with Samsung’s Orion / Exynos 4210. If you’re wondering where you’ll be able to access the raw power of this dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 CPU…
AMD 2012 Releases RoadMap That Thankfully Includes Tablets
AMD after too many years to count is finally fulfilling its promise on Ontario and its making bold steps in pushing a RoadMap to 2012. The code names of their new CPUs & APUs are Trinity, Krishna, Wichita & Komodo. A bold move on this…
ARM Mali T604 GPU Official Trailer
The Mali-T604 will bring support for DirectX, OpenCL, and will appear in an system-on-a-chip together with an ARM Cortex-A15 “Eagle” CPU. The idea behind the chip design is aimed at general purpose computing. We are looking at “up to 5x performance improvement over current Mali…
GTC 2010 City of the Future Tessellation Demo
Nvidia’s GPU Conference last month offered some outstanding demos, we’ve gotten our hands on this tessellation demo which shows off a futuristic city which is meant to mimic an Ultra…-realistic environment. The dark environment that was created was impressive to see, NVIDIA is of
GPU Enables Beating Heart Surgery – Nvidia GPU Conference
Nvidia’s GTC 2010 opening day Keynote by Jen-Hsun Huang presented a breakthrough development in robotic cardiac surgery called “beating heart surgery”. This notable development of minimally invasive surgery [MIS] benefits patients through shortening convalescence, reducing trauma and surgery costs. The aim is to make the…
3ds Max Demos Mental Imaging & iRay Support at Nvidia’s GPU 2010
Nvidia GPU conference last month had a few cool demos at the keynote. We were able to grab a few demos from Nvidia that we didn’t film during the GPU conference. In this demo you’ll see 3Ds Max will show off the difference between Mental…
Google Confirms Chrome 7 will have GPU Acceleration
With the release of the first versions of Chrome 7, initial reviews indicated a subtle speed increase in graphics-heavy websites and suggested that Google is improving Chrome’s overall graphics performance. This is due the fact that GPU acceleration can already be manually activated. Google has…
Nvidia Netbooks Rejoice! VLC 1.1 Media Player Supports Hardware Acceleration
If you download video on the web then you probably have fallen in love with VLC player as it plays pretty much any video format you throw at it! Never again search for the right player for the job, its an all in one! If…
NVIDIA To Unify Desktop and Netbook Drivers
Historically, notebook & netbook users have been at the mercy of the OEM when it comes to mobile graphics driver updates and they usually lag way behind the GPU manufacturers. This leaves mobile computing users envious of desktop who get it all, performance enhancements &…
