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 »

Intel plans to end the Processor Rat race, atleast for few months, by unveiling it’s latest Processor architecture: Nehalem-EX server. Last year, Intel had announced the new Nehalem — A 8-core processor. The processor will be targeted at four-socket servers with each physical core will run two threads simultaneously, giving the chip 64 virtual processing cores on servers and can Read further »

Do you still own crappy USB 1.0 devices that are painfully slow? Or newer USB 2.0 devices that are actually faster than the interface? Time to trash them all, USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) has finally approved 50 Products that are fully USB 3.0 compliant. the SuperSpeed USB (3.0) compliance on 50 devices means alot, specially in mass storage devices, PCIe , ExpressCard adapters. As we prompted earlier, SuperSpeed USB delivers data transfer rates 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 »

Gordon Moore might not have thought that this day would come when his popular “Moore’s law” will see some serious irrelevance. “number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years” Over the years scientists and chip industry evangelists have argued that Moore’s law is still valid as we enter the era of Multi-core processors. But, the latest revelation from IBM can give the the Moore’s law a permanent backseat. 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 »

In 1968, IBM had introduced a new concept that could enable Software Threads at the lowest level transparent to the application developers, this was known as SMT or Simultaneous Multithreading. Sure, it was a great innovation but several years later was copied and re-branded as Hyper Threading (HT) by Intel #mce_temp_url#in it’s x86 processors. Intel claims it to produce two parallel threads without loss in performance. Well, it’s not true. Read further »

The wait is over, The USB 3.0 specification is now available publicly in consumer products after it saw initial launch at CES 2010. Tighten your seatbelts coz it’s getting 10x time faster with speeds upto 5gbps from 480 mbps of USB 2.0. In order to get USB 3.0, you need to have a new motherboard that support it or Alternatively, a new cable with a new host adapter. The good part is that USB 3.0 is backward compatible with USB 2.0. What this means is that you can still use the device on a USB 2.0 port and achieve typical USB 2.0 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 »