Larrabee GPUs inside Xbox 720?

September 5th, 2008 No Comments   Posted in GPUs

According to The Inquirer, Microsoft's nextgen Xbox (Xbox 720) gpu may be the upcoming Intel Larrabee. For publishers and developers, switching to a new hardware architecture is a risk in term of costs, so Intel is having trouble getting developers to program for Larrabee. Since most games these days are written for consoles before being ported More »


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SLI support on Intel X58

September 1st, 2008 No Comments   Posted in GPUs

For a long time motherboard makers had to be using Nvidia nForce 200 chip for SLI to function. But, as reported by TechReport, now it seems that Nvidia is going to enable native SLI on certified X58 motherboards without the need of the nForce 200 SLI bridge chip. The motherboard has to be certified for manufacturer by Nvidia before More »


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Ati M98

August 10th, 2008 No Comments   Posted in GPUs

m98.jpgThe guys at PcPop seem to have gotten their hands on the new upcoming Mobility Radeon series GPU, codenamed the M98. The engineering sample board makes use of a RV770 core and four GDDR3 memory chips made by Qimonda, the gpu is clearly marked as M98 XT. In terms of performance, the M98 More »


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New Larrabee details

August 6th, 2008 No Comments   Posted in CPUs, GPUs

Intel unveiled some details about its upcoming Larrabee accelerator/discrete graphics architecture, due for launch in 2009 or 2010. Larrabee is a multi core processor containing ten or more individual x86 processor cores inside one silicon package. Discrete graphics cards using the Larrabee architecture will be aimed at the gaming market, this means that Intel is directly targeting Amd and Nvidia. The use of x86 cores means that game developers More »


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Intel’s Havendale

July 30th, 2008 No Comments   Posted in CPUs, GPUs

Intel announces its new hybrid platform codenamed Havendale, a cpu with an integrated gpu and an Ibex peak chipset, all in a single chip solution. The CPU part of the Havendale is a dual core, Nehalem derived 45nm model and it comes with integrated memory controller on the CPU side of the chip. The chip supports only DDR3 and it interconnects with Ibex peak directly through a memory interface (DMI). The Ibex peak Southbridge is More »

FireStream 9250

July 4th, 2008 2 Comments   Posted in GPUs

AMD has announced its new FireStream 9250 application accelerator, a stream processor mounted on a pci express card. With a power consumption of less than 150 watts and no additional pcie slot required for a cooling system, the AMD FireStream 9250 delivers an unprecedented rate of performance per watt efficiency with up to 8 GFLOPS per watt. Based on RV770 GPU, the FireStream 9250 can More »