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AMD to retire the ATI brand
Four years ago AMD announced the 5.4 billion dollar acquisition of ATI, now the company plans to get rid of the ATI branding on its graphics line. "Combination of AMD and Radeon actually proved to be a stronger combination than ATI and Radeon in the minds of processor aware consumers, by a statistically significant amount," says marketing VP John Volkmann. This means the new cards will keep the Radeon name, but you will no longer see that red boxed ATI logo. More »
GeForce GTX 465 Details
Chinese website eNet.com.cn published some specifications about Nvidia's upcoming GPU which is on the low end of the GeForce GTX 400 series, the GTX 465. According to eNet's screen grabs, the GTX 465 is clocket at 607MHz and has not four, but five streaming multiprocessors disabled from the GF100 core, resulting in a reduction of stream processors from 448 to 352. The amount of GDDR5 memory is lowered to 1.024MB, and the memory bus width is reduced from 384 bit to 256 bit. More »
Intel shelves Larrabee gpu project
Intel has shelved plans to continue development of Larrabee graphics processor. Intel spokesperson Nick Knupffer said that Larrabee silicon and software development are behind where Intel hoped to be and as a result the first Larrabee product will not be launched as a standalone graphics product, rather it will be used as a software development platform for internal and external use. At SC'09, Intel demonstrated Larrabee computational power which peaked at over 1 TFLOP. More »
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Nvidia GT300
Nvidia presented the main competitor to Amd Radeon HD 5800 series, the GT300 chip (codenamed Fermi), the first DX 11 chip from Nvidia. According to information presented on GPU Technology Conference the GT300 will have 3 billion transistors, 512 shader processors (referred as CUDA cores), 32 cores per core cluster, 384-bit memory interface and maximum 6GB of GDDR5 memory. More »
ATI Radeon HD 5800 series
AMD today launched the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards, the world’s first to fully support Microsoft DirectX 11 included in Microsoft Windows 7 operating system. AMD will initially release two cards: the ATI Radeon HD 5870 and the ATI Radeon HD 5850, each with 1GB GDDR5 memory. The 5850, which is a cut down version of the 5870, is clocked at 725Mhz for the core and 1Ghz for the memory, giving it a maximum compute performance of 2.09 TFLOPS. More »
AMD R800, RV870 and RV840 Expected Late 2009
According to Hardware-Infos AMD is set to release a lineup of DirectX11 compliant 40nm GPUs within 2009, targeting NVIDIA’s upcoming G300. Besides RV870, there will be R800 that consists of two RV870 chips, RV840 for mainstream market and RV810 for entry level market. Probably named as Radeon HD 5870, RV870 will be powered by 1200 stream processors, GDDR5 memory and bandwidth of 143 GB/s. RV840 and RV810 GPUs specifications are still unknown. More »
GT300 to feature 512-bit interface
Over the past six months, we heard many rumors about the upcoming nVidia GT300 GPU. The last information surfaced on the web reveals that GT300 might feature a 512bit wide GDDR5 memory interface. If this is true, this would mean that nVidia has a playing field of eight 32bit memory controllers connecting to multiple 32 core clusters for a total of 512 cores. If the GT300 chip ends up connected to quad data rate memory at 1000MHz we'll have a memory bandwidth of 256GB/s per single GPU. More »
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