NVIDIA Teases Cooler, Quieter Beast Of A GPU

NVIDIA, unsurprisingly, is billing its next big GPU as the fastest, quietest and coolest yet.


September 3, 2010
Computing

Nvidia’s GeForce 400M Series Roids Up Notebook Graphics Of All Classes

Nvidia gave us a taste of what its Fermi-based notebook graphics cards would be like with the GeForce GTX 480M, but now it’s time to meet the whole family. That’s seven Fermi GPUs, running the gamut from face-melting to face-singeing.


March 27, 2010
Mobile

Samsung Galaxy S Has 3x Faster GPU Than Snapdragon

AndroidAndMe has rewatched the Samsung Galaxy S keynote from earlier in the week (barrel of laughs ’round their way!) and realised that the 1GHz chip they mentioned – which can “process a staggering 90 million triangles per second” actually works out to three times faster than the Snapdragon processor.


March 7, 2010

Nvidia GTX 480 Takes On ATI HD 5870 In Benchmark Gauntlet

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February 3, 2010

Nvidia’s First Raging Fermi Graphics Cards: GeForce GTX 470/480

The first Fermi graphics cards from Nvidia will bear the names GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470. All preliminary hearsay indicates they will be ornery beasts. And cost as much as dragons. [Nvidia]


January 19, 2010

Nvidia GF100 512-Core Monster Graphics Card Previewed

The curtain’s been dropped on much of Nvidia’s upcoming Fermi-based graphics cards, and the five-hundred-and-twelve-core GF100 looks like a behemoth, indeed. A completely overhauled architecture is all about three things: scalability, parallelism and geometry. Oh, and ripping your eyeballs out.


December 7, 2009

Intel Confirms Larrabee Graphics Card Is Dead

Last week Intel blabbed to us that its high-end Larrabee card would never debut as a “standalone discrete product,” and now its demise has been made official. Can you hear Nvidia and AMD crowing from where you are too? [Reuters]


December 6, 2009

It’s So Big

A comment on graphics cards and overcompensating: ATI’s new Radeon 5970 HD is a staggering 13.3 inches long. [Anandtech]


December 5, 2009

Intel’s High-End Larrabee Graphics Card Won’t Be Released Anytime Soon

Intel just told us that its first Larrabee graphics card isn’t ever coming out “as standalone discrete product,” because they’re behind where they’d hoped to be in development, meaning you won’t be shoving one inside of your PC anytime soon.


November 18, 2009

ATI Radeon HD 5970: The World’s Fastest Graphics Card

The ATI Radeon HD 5970 slaughters the competition in pretty much every benchmark thrown at it. It’s outrageously fast. We’re talking 5 teraflops here, people. Teraflops.