SANDY BRIDGE WAS shaping up to be the killer CPU of the year, a huge step forward in the ‘uncore’, decent graphics and big gains in the core as well. Instead, we got broken graphics, non-working feature sets, and a showstopper bug. What a shattering disappointment.
Editor’s note: Additional Sandy Bridge coverage on it’s way. Overview, Benchmarks, Linux
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TWO NEW JOBS posted in December on Apple’s Mac Hardware Engineering jobs website strongly point towards a big change coming in Cupertino.
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INTEL’S SANDY BRIDGE is days away from launch, but the big news this week is the massive changes to the next generation Ivy Bridge. If Intel manages to get their drivers in order, it could destroy the entire low end GPU market.
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REMEMBER HOW EVERYONE applauded Nvidia’s Optimus graphics switching technology? Well, it seems like there’s a new sheriff in town, as LucidLogix has just announced its brand new dynamic graphics switching solution called Virtu, which is all done in software and which will work with any discrete GPU, not just Nvidia’s.
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AS OF LATELY, MSI has gained a bit of fame with the graphics card overclocking community largely thanks to its N480GTX Lightning and we can now offer you a sneak peek at what MSI has coming next, namely the R6970 Lightning and N580GTX Lightning. Both boards use a much larger PCB than you normally get on a graphics card, akin to the N480GTX Lightning, but MSI has come up with a new cooling solution called Twin Frozr III which aesthetically looks much better than the older card.
Updated: December 29, 2010
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AMD, OR RATHER ATI have in the past had a few claims to fame thanks to its easily “soft moddable” graphics cards and it seems like the company has just scored itself another popular card with those brave enough to flash their graphics card BIOS. The Radeon HD 6950 as it turns out is quite easily turned into a Radeon HD 6970 and it can save you some cash at the same time.
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AMD LAUNCHED IT’S first new GPU architecture in four years last week, Cayman aka the HD6900 series. Lets take a look at the cards themselves, and how they perform, with a lot of emphasis on the new PowerTune feature.
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AMD’S ‘NORTHERN ISLANDS’ family of GPUs was perhaps the most frustrating product I have ever had to dig out information on. The reason for that is a long and complex development tale that has more twists and drama than your average mystery novel.
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NVIDIA’S FIRST DESIGN win as far as smartphones are concerned was announced today by LG in the shape of the Optimus 2X, an Android handset with a pretty rich feature set outside of the Tegra 2 processor. The Optimus 2X is equipped with a 1GHz dual core Tegra 2 processor, a 4-inch screen and some other goodies that should make this a really attractive Android handset in terms of features.
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MANY OF YOU might not remember the glory days – well, ok, they weren’t that glorious – when PowerVR was a name that you had to consider when you bought a desktop 3D graphics card, but the company behind the technology is still alive and kicking, more so than ever and they are buying Caustic Graphics. Ok, hang on; let’s start from the beginning shall we, as neither of these companies is that well known outside of their respective circles, so let’s take a look at what’s going on here.
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GPUS DON’T CHANGE architectures very often, but when they do, it is big news. AMD’s new Radeon HD6900 GPUs are the largest single change from that company in three and a half years, so lets dive in to the architecture.
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AT SEMIACCURATE WE never met an NDA we did like and most sites seem to ignore them on a whim to whore views, so now seems as good a time as any to violate a few about the AMD 6900 series. We don’t want to feel like loners. Some of the card’s secrets have leaked by now, but the biggest one, the second switch, hasn’t even made the speculation circuit yet.
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AS CLOSELY AS AMD has guarded its 6900 series graphics cards it wasn’t entirely unexpected that pictures of cards would start to leak ahead of the launch once products started to ship into retail and that’s exactly what has happened now. Some benchmarks have also leaked, but due to the fact that the drivers supplied with the cards aren’t the final drivers, none of the current benchmarks should be taken as gospel.
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RUMOURS ARE STARTING to come in that Apple is considering dumping Nvidia graphics on its entry level notebooks in favour of Intel’s new integrated graphics in the upcoming Sandy Bridge processors. Considering that Apple has to move away from Nvidia’s chipset if it’s planning to bring its entire line of notebooks to the Sandy Bridge platform, then Apple doesn’t have much choice.
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WE NOTICED A drop in temperature, but we weren’t aware that hell had frozen over, again. Lo and behold, Intel has teamed up with AMD, Dell, Lenovo and LG and Samsung’s display divisions to abolish the analogue VGA display interface in favor of more modern digital options and no, we’re not talking about DVI here.
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