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New G80-based Qaudros

Posted by: Hooz on: 03/06/2007 07:42 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Yesterday, NVIDIA released three new Quadro products based on their G80 architecture. The Quadro FX 4600 and 5600 appear to be quite the beasts, packing in a respective 768mb and 1.5gb of memory, combined with CUDA technology (Think AMD's Stream Computing), 128-unified shader units, support for DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.

All that graphical muscle does come at a price... $1995 for the 4600, and $2999 for the 5600!

Intel to buy Nvidia?

Posted by: Hooz on: 10/05/2006 12:59 PM [ Print | 8 comment(s) ]

I'm not quite sure what to say, so I'll just post a link, and a quote:
Nvidia shares rose $2.32 to $30.62 in afternoon Nasdaq trade. Some 20 million shares changed hands, about double the three-month daily average.

Investors have been speculating that Nvidia might be acquired since July, when Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE:AMD - news) agreed to buy Nvidia rival ATI Technologies Inc. (ATYT.OQ) for $5.4 billion. Rumors of such a transaction resurfaced on Wednesday, spreading quickly across Wall Street trading desks, according to three options market participants.
They speculated that Intel would make an official announcement last night. Has anybody heard anything?

ATI "FireStream" Next Week?

Posted by: Hooz on: 09/20/2006 01:29 PM [ Print | 1 comment(s) ]

Beyond3D speculated a few weeks ago that ATI was planning on releasing add-in cards for general purpose GPU (GPGPU) computing. The original speculation was based on some entries in ATI's Linux drivers that referenced "FireStream 2U (R580 724E), FireStream 2U (R580 724F)".
First consider the ATI SIGGRAPH '06 presentation on what they call a Data Parallel Virtual Machine, using a recently released 'close to the metal' API, built specifically for general purpose GPU computing (GPGPU). Then consider that ATI have spent significant resources on GPGPU since the inception of the R5-series of GPUs, lastly bearing in mind that stream processing is a class of problem that exploits massive parellism of a device, and it seems logical that FireStream is a product using a 3D GPU but is not for the explicit purpose of drawing pixels.
Now it seems that ATI has invited the press to a September 29th event in San Francisco at which it will reveal "a new class of processing known as Stream Computing."

OpenGL workstation cards reviewed

Posted by: Hooz on: 06/19/2006 01:25 PM [ Print | 5 comment(s) ]

Inbetween all the ads at Tom's, I noticed this review of FireGL and Quadro FX cards.
Now that 3Dlabs has stopped producing OpenGL cards, there are only two manufacturers left: the big boys, ATI and Nvidia. The THG lab in Munich tested the current FireGL boards V7350 and V7300 from ATi; the competing product from Nvidia is called the Quadro FX 4500, and although it is not exactly the newest product around, it can still hold its own, as our tests show.

ATI releases dual-core optimized drivers

Posted by: admin on: 12/09/2005 04:28 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Not to be outdone by their archrivals Nvidia, ATI has come to the table with some fresh, new drivers touting dual-core optimizations. Based on this post at TR, there is a 3-25% performance increase in some games and benchmarks.

Man... Where were "SMP optimized" drivers back when I was running a TNT2 and/or Radeon in my dual PII and PIII machines?!?

Encoding movies five times faster

Posted by: admin on: 11/30/2005 09:25 PM [ Print | 16 comment(s) ]

We've been hearing for a while now that eventually someone would figure out a way to harness the processing power of the new video chips for other uses. After all, the chip on your video card could be one of the most powerful, most complex processors in your computer.

Well... Someone has found a way to harness the power, and the results are pretty mind boggling.CHIP Online had the opportunity to test a beta version of ATI

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