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Tag Archives: nvidia

Thomas Ryan
Jan 8, 2014
2

Lucid aims to extend Cellphone battery life with PowerXtend and GameXtend

CES14 Press Release

This week at CES LucidLogix announced that it was extending the scope of its PowerXtend software from just Samsung Galaxy devices to all Android devices.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 6, 2014

Sometimes a CEO’s words come back to bite him

CES 2014: A reader with a dark sense of humor and a mixing board had fun with this

A helpful reader pointed us to a link that artfully describes why CEOs shouldn’t make blanket statements on analyst calls.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 2, 2014
6

Maxwell gives us a glimpse of the Project Denver debacle

Top Sekrit Nvidia briefing information inside, don’t tell anyone!

It looks like Nvidia is going to talk about Maxwell this Sunday so lets catch you up to speed a little early.
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Charlie Demerjian
Dec 30, 2013
11

Why did Nvidia lose the Apple MacPro line?

Analysis: How much is that halo in the window, the one with the professional cards?

Nvidia lost the new MacPro deal mainly because of pricing, but the bigger issue is why they didn’t beat AMD for this halo.
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Thomas Ryan
Dec 23, 2013

An Interview with Amit Mookerjee on AMD’s Media SDK

Making heterogeneous compute easy to use…

We had a chance to interview AMD’s project manager for the Media SDK, Amit Mookerjee, about his latest creation.
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Thomas Ryan
Dec 13, 2013

Checking In On AMD’s TressFX 2.0

Maintain volume by varying thickness and detail…

With that feedback in mind AMD announced an update to its hair simulation technology, TressFX 2.0, at its developer conference in mid-November.
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Charlie Demerjian
Dec 2, 2013

Analysis: Nvidia to exit another major market segment

Don’t look for an announcement but it is a done deal

Nvidia has triumphantly exited markets such as chipsets or taken a step back from other markets such as Denver/x86.
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Thomas Ryan
Nov 18, 2013

When will the 290 partner boards arrive?

Christmas presents are on their way for GPU noise fanatics…

The AIBs are hard at work preparing their own versions of AMD’s R9 290(X) cards with new PCB designs and aggressive aftermarket coolers.
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Thomas Ryan
Nov 12, 2013
6

AMD Misses Expectations With Kaveri

That’s a big clock speed miss my friend…

It looks like AMD’s missed the mark big-time with its upcoming mainstream APU, codenamed Kaveri.
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Thomas Ryan
Nov 12, 2013

Testing Intel’s September HD 4600 Graphics Driver

Somethings just don’t change…

In early September Intel released an updated driver for the HD 4600.
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Thomas Ryan
Nov 11, 2013

DIY AMD Radeon R9 290X Heatsink Mod

Testing a brute force fix…

Codinghorror developed a solution for the R9 290X’s air flow problems by bravely taking a dremel to his brand new $550 graphics card.
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Thomas Ryan
Nov 8, 2013

Is the Radeon R9 290X a noisy graphics card?

We take a look…

Comparisons have even been made to such GPU legends as Nvidia’s GTX 480 or the FX 5800 Ultra.
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Thomas Ryan
Nov 4, 2013
1

AMD’s Radeon R9 290 Reviewed

X-less performance…

Today AMD is launching the R9 290 which is based on the same Hawaii chip found in the R9 290X and is aimed directly at Nvidia’s GTX 780.
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Thomas Ryan
Oct 7, 2013

AMD’s Radeon R9 280X: A Preview

Pretty Pictures in a Partial Paradise…

AMD was kind enough to send us an Radeon R9 280X to review, but the svelte new board didn’t arrive until yesterday.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 7, 2013
2

Nvidia’s program to get OEMs like Origin PC to dump AMD called “Tier 0”

Exclusive: Seems awfully antitrusty from this point of view

Remember how Nvidia bribed Origin PC not to carry AMD products and put out press releases to trash AMD GPUs?
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