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More Graphics Card Makers To Start Selling IGP MotherboardsJul 25, 2008 - in News
Taipei (Taiwan) - With falling demand for entry-level discrete graphics cards, and even mid-range cards in some cases, due to improvements in motherboard IGP performance, several graphics card makers have taken steps to enter the motherboard market.
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Channel Vendors Demand Card Makers Recall Faulty Nvidia ProductsJul 25, 2008 - in News
Taipei (Taiwan) - Due to Nvidia did not clearly explaining the details of the faults reported in its notebook GPUs, some channel vendors have demanded graphics card makers issue a recall for desktop-based discrete graphics cards using the same GPU core, according to sources at graphics card makers.
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Nvidia To Bring WHQL-certified PhysX Drivers On August 5thJul 23, 2008 - in News
Santa Clara (CA) - After demonstrating beta drivers featuring GPU-accelerated physics on 3DMark Vantage and Unreal Tournament III (GeForce GTX and 9800 boards), Nvidia is getting ready to release the official Windows driver.
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Albatron's 'Retrotechnology' Video Cards Hit A SnagJul 22, 2008 - in News
Taipei (TW) - Albatron's new Retrotechnology PCI slot video cards won't hit market for a while because of problems with some motherboards.
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New AMD/ATI Catalyst Drivers Promise Higher Benchmark Scores, Smoother GameplayJul 22, 2008 - in News
Los Angeles - AMD has released its newest Catalyst Windows and Linux drivers for the ATI Radeon graphics cards.
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Is GPU Stacking The Answer To All Your Performance Concerns?Jul 16, 2008 - in News
Kfar Netter (Israel) - Sure, you may have heard about SLI and Crossfire and you may run up to four graphics chips in your PC.
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AMD Takes $880 Million Charge Related To ATI AcquisitionJul 14, 2008 - in News
Preceding its Q2 earnings release due this Thursday, AMD today said there will be another big ATI write-down. The company announced in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that the goodwill and intangible asset impairment charges wi
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 200 Prices CrashingJul 14, 2008 - in News
Pricewatch - There is trouble in Nvidialand.
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Rambus Is Back In Court, Sues NvidiaJul 11, 2008 - in News
More bad news for Nvidia. The company is now being sued by Rambus for the alleged infringement of 17 patents.
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Albatron Unveils GeForce 8-series Graphics Cards For PCI SlotsJul 11, 2008 - in News
Albatron Technology has unveiled three new Nvidia GeForce 8-series graphics cards that use the practically outdated PCI slot.
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The Return of Intel's Pentium MMXJul 8, 2008 - in News
Intel to base its upcoming vector graphics chip 'Larrabee' on the P5 architecture from days gone by.
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DreamWorks To Creates 3D Movies With Intel's 'Larrabee'Jul 8, 2008 - in News
Santa Clara (CA) - Intel is partnering with another big name to create credibility for its upcoming visual computing technology consisting of Nehalem processors and Larrabee accelerator units.
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Nvidia Supports ATI Radeon PhysX EffortsJul 8, 2008 - in News
Nvidia says it's please that people want to run PhysX on ATI cards, and even invited developers to do so.
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Nvidia Expected To Offer DirectX 10.1 GPU In Q'1, 2009Jul 3, 2008 - in News
Chicago (IL) - Nvidia so far declined to provide any information if and when the company will consider support the DirectX 10.
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Radeon Forces Nvidia GTX2XX Price CutsJul 3, 2008 - in News
It appears that AMD's ATI Radeon 4800 GPU has turned out to be a much better chip than initially expected and AMD's aggressive pricing puts enough pressure on Nvidia to prompt the company to react.
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AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 Ready By AugustJul 3, 2008 - in News
Following the recent launch of the ATI Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 GPUs, AMD plans to introduce the high-end dual-GPU HD 4870 X2 by the end of July, according to sources at graphics card vendors.
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Nvidia's Stock Bloodbath - Company Admits Faulty ChipsJul 3, 2008 - in News
Santa Clara (CA) - Nvidia is admitting that some of its notebook chips are failing at "higher than normal rates" in a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Gigabyte Goes Extreme Cold OverclockingJul 2, 2008 - in News
Gigabyte launches its first State-side overclocking competition and plans for more in the coming months.
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Gainward To Launch AMD Radeon ProductsJul 1, 2008 - in News
Graphics card vendor Gainward, previously an exclusive AIB partner of Nvidia, has begun working with AMD and will launch ATI Radeon HD GPU-based products soon, according to market sources.
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ATI Readies OEM Special: Super RV770 To Challenge GeForce GTX 260, 280Jul 1, 2008 - in News
Mountain House (CA) - AMD's Radeon 4850 and 4870 have been widely praised in the media and put the ATI team back on the map.
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Matrox's New $600 Graphics CardJun 30, 2008 - in News
Let's be realistic, the glory days of Matrox and blockbuster graphics cards such as the legendary Parhelia and Millennium are over,
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AMD's Upcoming CPU/GPU Platform To Catch Up With Intel?Jun 30, 2008 - in News
San Francisco (CA) - At the moment, AMD GPG (former ATI Technologies) could be considered as the only division in AMD that is firing on all cylinders.
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ATI Radeon 4850 Cards from HIS, PowerColor, Asus and MoreJun 27, 2008 - in News
With the recent release of ATI’s Radeon 4850, we’re seeing a whole bunch of 4850 cards cropping up all over the place. The cat is barely out of the bag but we’ve already seen boards from Gigabyte, Asus, PowerColour, VisionTek, HIS, MSI, Diamond...
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AMD Expected To Grab 40% Discrete Graphics Card Market Share In Q3 08Jun 27, 2008 - in News
With AMD's ATI Radeon HD 4800-series graphics cards successfully cutting into the $200-300 mainstream market forcing Nvidia to cut the price of its previous generation GeForce 9800 GTX down to $199, sources at graphics card makers see AMD's discrete graphics card market share as having a chance to increase to 40% in the third quarter this year from around 30% at the beginning of 2008.
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Nvidia's GeForce GTX260 Cards Debut Well Above MSRPJun 27, 2008 - in News
Nvidia's GTX260 cards are hitting retail shelves today and if you are looking to buy one of these cards, don't expect to get a good deal.
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Watch Out, Larrabee: Radeon 4800 Supports A 100% Ray-traced Pipeline Using DirectX 9Jun 27, 2008 - in News
San Francisco (CA) - It appears that the buzz about 3D graphics has been focused on a feature that is not even integrate din today's games - ray-tracing.
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AMD Releases ATI All-In-Wonder HD CardJun 26, 2008 - in News
Sunnyvale (CA) - It has been a while since ATI offered a new version of its All-in-Wonder graphics/TV tuner card combination.
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Physics Drivers Outrage: Nvidia Guilty?Jun 25, 2008 - in News
Opinion - When we published an article detailing Nvidia’s advantage in 3DMark Vantage, we had a good feeling that data might spark some controversy. Using GPU for physics calculation in a CPU benchmark highly suspicious thing in any way you look at it. A
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New Radeon 4800 Twice As Fast As 3800, AMD SaysJun 25, 2008 - in News
Sunnyvale (CA) - AMD's Radeon 4800 series launches a bit later than originally expected, but AMD promises a huge jump in performance, especially in number crunching horsepower: The Radeon 4870 delivers 1.
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Second Wave Of Radeon 4850 Cards To Go Against Nvidia's 9800 GTX+Jun 24, 2008 - in News
Toronto (Canada) - AMD is preparing an answer to Nvidia's recently released GeForce 9800GTX+ card.