All Posts Tagged With: "GPU"

Intel Larabee details surface

Early details on Intel’s Larabee GPU, the nVidia killer, were unveiled today by Intel. The company is presenting a paper in SIGGRAPH on August 12th. The paper details a new approach to the software rendering 3-D pipeline, a many-core (many processor engines in a product) programming model and performance analysis for several applications.
The first product [...]

August 4th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued

AMD announces first TeraFLOPS GPU

AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced the launch of the first teraFLOPS graphics card, the ATI Radeon™ HD 4850, and the launch of the first graphics card featuring ultra high bandwidth GDDR5 memory, the ATI Radeon HD 4870. The cards feature DirectX® 10.1 [...]

June 25th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued

Nvidia taking a swipe at Intel?

Nvidia recently launched their “Optimized PC” campaign and took a swipe at Intel, the microprocessor industry leader. Claiming that over half the PC’s shipped today have an underpowered GPU, nVIDIA suggests customers should use a functional CPU and are better of by leaving their complicated computations to a GPU for a variety of OS, games [...]

April 17th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued