Tag Archive for "GPU"

May 8, 2012 analysis
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Is Nvidia’s GTX 690 Priced Too High?

Not if you’re a fan of supply and demand…

Nope.

Apr 24, 2012 analysis
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Adobe accelerates CS6 with OpenCL

Speed for the unwashed masses

Adobe and AMD today anounced that the next Creative Suite 6 (CS6) will be OpenCL based.

Apr 23, 2012 analysis
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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.

Apr 23, 2012 analysis
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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.

Apr 23, 2012 analysis
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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.

Apr 2, 2012 analysis
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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 [...]

Mar 28, 2012 analysis
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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.

Mar 27, 2012 Channel
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ARM adds Mali support to the new DS5 suite

GPGPU on mobiles, now with less pain

A few weeks ago, ARM put out their new CPU/GPU compiler suite called Development Studio 5 (DS5).

Mar 13, 2012 analysis
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Apple drops Nvidia Kepler from large numbers of laptops

28nm going well my a**, just like we said

If you recall our last story about Intel and the Ivy Bridge non-delay, we mentioned that it happened due to a large customer order.

Mar 13, 2012 analysis
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Intel’s non-delay of Ivy Bridge explained

Minor change, huge implications one step out

If you haven’t been paying attention, there was a recent flap about Intel delaying Ivy Bridge chips by a quarter.

Mar 2, 2012 analysis
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Sony Playstation 4 will be an x86 CPU with an AMD GPU

But that is only the beginning of the story

With the current wave of Playstation 4 leaks, it is time to spill some of the beans on what we know about the console.

Feb 23, 2012 analysis
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Mixed Results for GPU sector

Better than last year, worse than Q3…

Word has just come in from everyone’s favorite market research group, Jon Peddie Research…

Feb 20, 2012 analysis
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A closer look at Nvidia’s financial results

IGP takes a bite

On February 15th Nvidia published their results for FY2012, ended 31th January 2012 and the results were a mixed bag.

Feb 8, 2012 analysis
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Haswell is a graphics monster

Don't believe the rumors of mediocrity

There has been a lot of talk about Haswell and its lack of graphics prowess.

Feb 2, 2012 analysis

AMD opens up Bobcat to 3rd party IP

Financial Analayst Day 2012: Just like we said

Updated: Mark Papermaster just confirmed what SemiAccurate has been saying for years, AMD is opening up Bobcat to 3rd party IP.

Jan 18, 2012 analysis

Exclusive: XBox Next/Xbox 720 chips in production

Dev kit silicon is moving through the fabs now

If you crave more info about the upcoming XBox 720/Next, there is finally some concrete info.

Jan 17, 2012 analysis

Stock In The Channel: January 2012

The HD 7970's are out of stock, and the GTX 590's is MIA

With the recent launch of AMD’s new single GPU flagship, the HD 7970, in mind we decided to check back in at the popular US online retailer Newegg.com…

Jan 12, 2012 Display

LucidLogix does GPU virtualization

Virtualization can improve performance by up to 200 percent, the company claims.

Israeli graphics company LucidLogix is showing off its GPU virtualization software XLR8 at CES this week.

Jan 2, 2012 analysis

Exclusive: The next generation AMD GPU is NOT called Sea Islands

Rant: The real name, plagiarism, and humor (Updated)

Every once in a while, you see a story so wrong it makes your head hurt, but that is where the fun begins.

Dec 30, 2011 analysis

Nvidia GPU roadmap slips a year too

Analysis: Admitting the no longer deniable in Santa Clara

It looks like Nvidia has slipped their GPU roadmap a year, but that is news to no one.

Dec 16, 2011 analysis
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Low-end Radeon HD 7000 series; AMD re-brands

Out with the old, in with the 'new'

Remember that we previously reported the latest low-end discrete GPU offerings from AMD will be re-brands?

Dec 15, 2011 analysis

Stock in the Channel

Reporting by Thomas Ryan and Leo Yim.

HD 6990 and GTX 590, where art thou?

Dec 1, 2011 analysis

Can Nvidia supply Apple?

Canceled parts and fundamental production issues raise questions

As we exclusively reported, Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) has the contract for GPUs in the upcoming MacBooks, but the open question is, “Can they supply?”

Nov 21, 2011 analysis

Exclusive: Apple swaps GPU suppliers again

Never means 3 years in Cupertino

Remember when we said that AMD’s Llano loss in the MacBook Air had repercussions?

Oct 27, 2011 Channel

Exclusive: AMD far future prototype GPU pictured

Full of surprises that no one else has shown

AMD has some top secret prototype GPUs floating, and SemiAccurate managed to get a picture of one.

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