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| General Purpose Computing on the Graphics Processing Unit is a growing market and has so far sparked significant industry interest. AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel are all creating GPGPU products, and with many corporations turning to high performance GPGPU systems with interest, the industry is also starting to pay much more attention to the GPGPU market. We take a look at exactly what is GPGPU, what its uses are, and why it is being used, in some cases over the CPU, for high performance computing. »
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Dual Radeon HD 2600 XT from HIS
06/05/2007 11:29:07 AM CST
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HIS is demonstrating a dual-GPU Radeon HD 2600 XT at Computex 2007. Although this card might never actually make it to to market, it is still an interesting show of technology by HIS. The card features a total of 120 stream processors and 1 GB of memory.
No further information is being given out by HIS at the moment. After repeated questioning by our team, however, we were able to find out that the GPUs run at 700 MHz in place of the standard 800 MHz. In addition, we were told that although commercial plans are not completely carved in stone, we might see a product based on this card released towards the end of the year.
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Possible Intel and NVIDIA Agreement
05/07/2007 1:04:17 PM CST
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From what we know so far, Intel is believed to be working on its top-secret
"Larabee" project, which is reportedly a high-end discrete graphics card
targeted at gamers, and up until right now, thought to be created completely by
Intel. According to
DigiTimes,
though, NVIDIA might be giving Intel a hand sometime in the near future by
trading its GPU (graphics processor unit) "technology for cooperation with
Intel." Although specific details of the deal were not revealed, and whether the
deal even exists is unknown, DigiTimes quoted various unknown motherboard makers
as saying "Nvidia has had discussions with Intel and has already reached several
agreements." The sources claim that NVIDIA recently met with its partners in
Taiwan to explain its role and plans for the motherboard market. Exactly what
"cooperation" NVIDIA might be looking for and what agreements it reached with
Intel is completely unknown.
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Halo 3 AD Screencapture
11/30/2006 5:25:34 PM CST
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November 15th, Microsoft and Bungie announced a 60 second teaser ad to air on ESPN duing Monday Night Football. The ad will air December 4th, which is next Monday. Shortly after, the ad will be available on Xbox Live Marketplace.
For Europe, the ad will be aired simultaneously on Xbox.com. Developed by McCann Erickson, the advertisement will supposedly offer a unique and compelling look at Master Chief and Halo 3. Below is a screencap.
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ASUS leaks NVIDIA Physics
09/21/2006 4:06:58 PM CST
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Today ASUS might have leaked NVIDIA’s counterattack to ATI’s Boundless Gaming Physics Solution. Boundless gaming, which was announced earlier this year, is ATI’s answer to handling Physics. The technology involves three video cards and three PCI-Express 16x slots. Two of the video cards will work as a normal Crossfire setup, and the third will work for physics computations.
As a result of ATI’s announcements, people began to suspect that NVIDIA would be coming out with a similar solution too. Three months after the announcement of Boundless Gaming, there has still been no official announcement from NVIDIA. However, today ASUS might have leaked NVIDIA’s plans for Physics. In their press release for their P5N32-SLI Premium/WiFI-AP motherboard, ASUS said that their board will have “a third PCI Express x16 slot for Nvidia's upcoming Physics card to deliver superior gaming realism.” The product page on ASUS’ official website also mentions a “GPU Physics card”.
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NVIDIA releases the 7950 GT
09/14/2006 9:36:16 PM CST
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This week NVIDIA has released the 7950 GT video card, which is meant to take the place of the older 7900 GT. The new video card is based on the G71 graphics processor and supposedly offers significantly better performance than its predecessor. Despite the increase in performance, the card is facing some fierce competition. The 7950 GT is being pitted up against ATI’s X1900 XT 256MB, which is also going on sale today. Even though the X1900 XT has only half the memory of the 7950 GT, it is based on the powerful R580 GPU that comes with an intimidating 48 pixel shader processors. |
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