For years it had been hard to render some REal world particle systems i the computer world. The major breakthroughs have been seen in over last 5 years when we were able to represent complex graphics like Fire flames, Water flow & waves, etc.

What has not been possible till today was to replicate behavior of very complex particle motions like .. Read Further »

VideoLAN VLC is among the most popular video players on Windows, Linux. Despite its popularity, it wasn’t the best one. As we talked about it months back, VLC had been supporting alot of video codecs that were way too inferior in performance and quality as compared to the top of the line.

Top of the line codec performance is showcased by CoreAVC, that lets you play 1080p smoothly, even on low-end machines (1.5Ghz Dual core, low-end GPU).

The new VLC version i.e. 1.1 seems to address these issues. Here are the key .. Read Further »

In the Desktop world, AMD has long lived with the lead exploiting DirectX11 in their ATI HD 5970 graphics monster. Nvidia had previously showcased that they are all set to take the lead over there.

Today, Nvidia announced new Mobile GPU GeforceGTX 480M – The Fastest Graphics on Laptops/Mobile.

the new graphics for mobile is a re-spin of its extravagantly overpowered Fermi desktop counter-parts. The chip, scheduled for release mid-next month, will bring whooping 352 CUDA cores and a 256-bit memory interface to up to 2GB of GDDR5 RAM.

In contrast with Nvidia’s current top of the line: 360M, .. Read Further »

Intel has been trying to do it since years, but they have failed in a an ugly fashion with poor graphics performance of Core i3, Core i5. Not just that, Intel has failed at even creating a decent dedicated Graphics processor. Now AMD, with years of strong Graphics processor ATI, seems to be holding strong with Fusion of CPU + GPU.

Did you recently decided to make yourself a High-end Gaming Rig and ended-up in confusion of what to get. Whether to choose that new 1GHz AMD ATi Radeon HD or one of those of Nvidia CUDA/SLI powered GTX quad cores?

Well, here is the solution- Get best of both worlds.

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 »

When I first watched Cloud-based Games-On-Demand via OnLive, I was amazed with the power of cloud rendering delivered to a dumb PC. At that time, a thought came to my mind “How about about having hardware .. Read Further »

With large no. of advanced photo editing techniques packed into one bundle, Adobe’s Photoshop is the most advanced image editing tool.

Taking it further, Adobe is working on a new selection and masking tools for the upcoming Photoshop CS5. Adobe had .. 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 graphics. Switching between .. 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 »