It was lonely for AMD ATI graphics at the top for about a year. With ATI Radeon 5870 HD, AMD was the manufacturer of most powerful DirectX11 graphics card in the world. A year after, Nvidia knocks them off with GTX 480 Unigine. With GTX 480, NVIDIA is stressing that GTX 480 has a  superior tesselation benchmarked performance over the ATI HD 5870, but it was very levelled for most of the other tasks. Tesselation is all about the extra detail you can embed using Read further »

SpiderMonkey is the secret sauce that gave us the first browser that was leap ahead of IE. But, over the years competitors like Opera, Chrome, Safari had left Firefox far behind in performance. Mozilla had started working on “JagerMonkey”, a new “baseline” method JIT compiler for SpiderMonkey, Firefox.The JagerMonkey method JIT will provide a much better performance Read further »

So you thought you had switchable GPU graphics that automatically lower power usage by switching discrete graphics, when needed? Well, not really. They have been around since years but they haven’t lived up to user expectations. Nvidia will change that with their new Optimus technology (hopefully). We are not talking about PowerMizer which only changes the clock (and that too is absent in Windows 7). It’s rather about switching between integrated and discrete Read further »

Intel may still be suffering the bad side of their so-called HD GPUs, but AMD is already ready to blow them away in Laptop market. AMD has announced a new chip is called the “Llano” processor which is not just a  CPU or GPU, instead, it’s a hybrid design that the chip company calls as an “Application Processor Unit,” or APU. Intel’s current offering for the Read further »

The Evolution and Features that can mark Success for Windows 7 – Direct X 11 from dx10 and dx9 No doubt, Windows is the best platform for Gaming. Other platforms, due to lack of proper driver support and optimizations (Linux, Mac OS); never lived upto the competition. What we mean by Best platform is: If you have a good Graphics GPU and a great Processor, you can Read further »

Intel has recently unveiled plans for it’s next generation graphics for Netbooks: PineTrail. Nvidia already has a strong contender: Nvidia Ion. So which one is better? Intel claims that Nvidia Ion is overkill for Netbooks battery. But practically, Intel’s Pine Trail Atom n450 chips are pretty bad in almost everything. Their power management is not as good as Nvidia’s and when it comes to performance, there’s no comparison. Ion can play  Read further »

It had been long predicted, that this day would come when Browsers will learn to leverage GPU for rendering webpages. After Microsoft’s announcement of GPU acceleration in it’s upcoming browser IE9, Firefox also started to get into it seriously.  Microsoft had published new API with Windows 7 called Direct2D. Direct2D is designed to be  replacement for GDI and takes the task of vector graphics rendering engine, using Read further »

Nvidia ain’t holding back in the Graphics race. Last week, AMD knocked Nvidia to the second place by introducing ATI Radeon HD 5970 – World’s Fastest Graphics Card. Nvidia didn’t show anything on the typical consumer side,  but rather for Supers (HPCs), they gave AMD a big hit. At this year’s SC09 supercomputing trade show in Portland, Oregon, Nvidia unveils its plan for the next-gen Chip ‘Fermi’. Overall, the GPU co-processors aimed at personal supers and massive clusters were the stars of the show. This is something much more powerful than Read further »

AMD is serious on Gaming, we don’t doubt. Today, AMD has announced their newest graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 5970, which had been in news for a while known as “the fastest card ever created.” AMD is claiming that this graphics card breaks several older records. Besides being the fastest, it’s the one of the first to provide support for Read further »

Cloud Computing started from the cloud based processing then expanded steps to storage and now comes the third contender: Graphics. Now, Nvidia will power cloud-based GPU rendering which can be deployed as server-farms. Nvidia looks to be bringing 3D rendering to the cloud with the news it is to partner with rendering expert Mental Images to launch its RealityServer platform. The pair are hoping to develop systems for offering web-based 3D rendering via Read further »