Chips
Imagination makes the case for mobile OpenCL
GDC 2012: More speed, capabilities, AND battery life
Imagination was showing off GPU compute on a cell phone chip at GDC, physics in your pocket.
Is Nvidia’s GTX 690 Priced Too High?
Not if you’re a fan of supply and demand…
Nope.
AMD’s Chuck Moore has passed away
Tech has lost one of it's brightest lights
It is with great sadness that we bring you the news that Chuck Moore, AMD Fellow and all around great guy has passed away.
Nvidia Outs The GTX 690
Because dual-GPU flagships are the next big thing, right?
In preparation for the launch of its GTX 690 next Thursday, Nvidia has started seeding reviewers with samples and showing off some of the features and design choices of their latest flagship dual-GPU graphics card.
How Does Intel’s HD 4000 Compare on the IQ Scale?
Image quality that is...
One of the biggest question marks we’ve had on our minds is the impact of the HD 4000′s (the GPU side of Ivy Bridge) notably inferior Anisotropic filtering quality.
Does disabling Hyper-Threading increase performance?
Some trade-offs get better with time...
Since Intel introduced its Hyper-Threading technology with its Pentium 4 microprocessors back in early 2002 reviewers have occasionally noticed that under certain condition Hyper-Threading can actually hurt performance instead of helping it.
Via ships 3rd generation USB3 chips
VL812 has a lot of nice features
If the news that the Via VL812 supporting YD/T 1591-2009 doesn’t get your attention, I don’t know what will.
Achronix adds granularity to 22nm FPGAs
HD and HP families are closer to production
Achronix is finally announcing their first 22nm FPGAs, two families of Speedster22i chips.
Intel buys Cray’s interconnect arm but not for that reason
Laughably comical back-pedalling over AMD's SeaMicro buy
What do you do when your baby gets purchased out from under you?
The Battle of the Bridges
How much performance does a 'Tick' get you these days?
It’s that time of year again and Intel’s introducing its new Ivy Bridge based offerings.
Overclocking Intel’s HD 4000
Lots of extra voltage for just a little extra performance...
After playing around with Intel’s HD 4000 in our previous reviews and recording some pretty impressive performance, I decided to try and find the limit of the HD 4000′s graphics performance.
Comparing the Ends of the Spectrum
The old HD 2000 versus the new HD 4000...
Intel sent us two chips for review in the lead up to its Ivy Bridge launch.
Par for the Course: Part 2
A Look at Intel's HD 4000 Graphics Continued
In this half of the review we will be continuing our testing of the graphical capabilities of Intel’s HD 4000.
Par for the Course: Part 1
A Look at Intel's HD 4000 Graphics
Today we are taking a look at Intel’s new Ivy Bridge chip, the Core i7-3770K.
Qualcomm moves majority of production to Global Foundries
Just like we said over a month ago
Recently, Qualcomm has been the subject of many rumors on fabbing and capacity.
What good are benchmarks when a PC is ‘good enough’?
Modern problems for modern systems
With each new chip that comes out, benchmarks become less and less relevant, and are now almost pointless.
Gigabyte Launches it’s Lineup of Intel 7 Series Motherboards
Don't let all the
Motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte is making a rather large splash with the launch of its new Intel 7 Series lineup.
Tegra T37/AP37 pops up on the Nvidia roadmaps
Like clockwork, twice a year revisions come with spring
It looks like someone at the top of Nvidia is getting all worked up, after all, it is roadmap revision season.
Intel’s First Z77 Motherboard
7 Series Chipsets Ahoy!
Today we’re taking a look at Intel’s newest highend motherboard, the DZ77GA-70K. UPDATED
Colorful Whips Up A Custom GTX 680
With extra heatsinks, power phases, and a paint kit to boot.
Niche graphics card manufacturer, Colorful, announced today that it would begin introducing a GTX 680 based SKU into its iGame Kudan lineup.
Netronome is a 22nm Intel foundry customer too
Network processors go cutting edge
Intel’s foundry arm that doesn’t officially exist has a new customer, Netronome.
Onlive’s new dekstop offering does clouds right
GDC 2012: The only ones with all the pieces
One thing that keeps cropping up in geek circles is the use of GPUs in ‘cloud’ environments, and with the advent of Onlive’s desktop offering,
Haswell’s GPU prowess is due to Crystalwell
The key to the story is memory
Remember when we said that Haswell’s shader count was only the beginning of the performance story? The real reason behind the performance isn’t shader count, it is memory. When we wrote that Haswell was a graphics monster a few months ago, we mentioned there was more to the story than that. What we couldn’t tell [...]
What’s the right way to launch a graphics card?
Nvidia’s GTX 680 sells out from online retailers in less than a day…
The GTX 680 is without a doubt a card that has been well received by many reviewers.
Qualcomm has Imagination
As far as stopgap GPUs go, damn good choice
It looks like Qualcomm is going to pull a fast one on the industry and use an Imagination GPU for their quad-core S4 parts.
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