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AMD Sabine Platform Will Support DirectX 11
As reported by Expreview, AMD is working on a notebook platform with DirectX 11 compliant integrated GPU. The integrated GPU will be part of the APU (Accelerated Processing Unit), a new design approach where the CPU package holds both the CPU and the northbridge in a multichip module. The AMD APU, codenamed Llano, will be part of the Sabine mobile platform together with the SB9xxM series southbridge. More »
RV790: 55 nm Manufacturing Process
A lot has been said about ATI's RV790. Clues about the new gpu surfaced in the last November when was clear that AMD was working on a successor to the RV770. A german website, Hardware-Infos, reports that RV790 will be built on the newer improved 55 nm manufacturing process. The new gpu may get a little help from its superior silicon fabrication, foundry partner codename is 55GT, which makes it more expensive to manufacture. According to the source there are two RV790 engineering samples: a base model and an overclocked model. More »
RV740, The First 40nm GPU From AMD
As reported by NordicHardware, it seems that AMD has successfully manufactured its first chip on the 40nm node, the RV740. This is not an high end GPU, but it is the first successful port of AMD's GPU architecture to the new manufactoring node. It is a mainstream GPU on the $100 segment that AMD is using to gain some experience while working on the RV870 Lil' Dragon, the next generation high end GPU. More »
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295
The guys at vr-zone published the first photo of the upcoming GeForce GTX 295 card. Expected to be unveiled at CES, the GTX 295 will be featured with two GPUs placed on two separate printed circuit boards, each one has a GTX 200 GPU, 240 stream processors, 448-bit memory bus and 896MB DDR3 memory. The card displayed in the picture features 2 DVI ports and 1 Display Port. The card has been featured with a 8+6 pins power connector combo, which you an idea of how much power it needs. More »
Nvidia GT206, GT212, GT216 and GT300
GT2xx generation cards' life cycle is not over yet, the GT206 will be released in Q4 2008, presumably to cash in on the christmas shopping season. GT206, the last 55 nm cards, seems to be having problems with its shader domain, which has pushed its launch for that late. Following GT206, GT212 and GT216 would be Nvidia's entries to the 40nm silicon fabrication process, both will support GDDR5 memory on a broad memory bus. GT212 will be released in Q1 2009, GT216 in Q2 2009. More »
New Nvidia GPU nomenclature
Industry sources suggest Nvidia will be dropping the 8000 and 9000 series names in favour of a newer naming system. Since the company is rumored to announce additional graphics cards in the GT200 series on October 15, in this date probably Nvidia will break away from its current nomenclature and will adopt a naming system that is in line with the GT200 series. More »
Nvidia MCP7A chipset
By the end of September Nvidia is planning to launch a new chipset called MCP7A IGP. It seems that MCP7A will come in two variants, the MCP7A-U with a GeForce 9400 graphics core and the MCP7A-S with a GeForce 9300 graphics core. The difference between the two is that the 9300 will be clocked at 450MHz and 1200MHz (core, shader), the 9400 at 580MHz and 1500MHz (core, shader). More »
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