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 »

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 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 »

A week back we heard from the CEO Of Nvidia, Jen-Hsun Huang that he had been working closely on a tablet, and we knew it was coming. Today surfaces the prototype Nvidia Tegra Tablet powered by Windows CE and a Resistive Touch. What comes good is the HD capability of this device. The 720p and 1080p playback on the device is smooth and power efficient. Since the device is just a prototype, its pointless to comment on the battery life. 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 »

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 »

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. Lucid last year promised to develop a chipset that would enable any motherboard to work with any combination of GPUs and still able to get 100 percent of the performance out of both. It took them more than a year to fight against laws of physics . Now, the Read further »

CPU has gone multicore, still we need GPU powered applications for all types of complex graphics. May it be Windows Aero interface or Your photo/video editing/re-sampling application, it now needs and is able to Utilize your GPU (provided you have supported one). Accelerated Graphics, totally absent from Web world, are now opening up for direct GPU access offloading CPU further. A new venture that includes  Mozilla, Google, and Opera Software — along with graphics processor leaders AMD (ATI) and Nvidia, announced this morning their intention to produce a royalty-free mechanism for producing hardware-assisted 3D graphics using JavaScript-enabled Web pages, for initial distribution during the first half of next year. The Internet Graphics are Read further »

Nvidia Tegra was targetted for Smartphones, Why am I seeing a Netbook? The answer is: Read on, You will know. Nvidia seems to be promoting it’s new netbook running the company’s Tegra ARM chipset and, of all things, Windows CE. It looks very ill-logical — baseless, since Tegra is really meant for smartphones, and nobody seems too thrilled with it. Tegra is a huge strength for portable gadgets like the upcoming Zune HD, and series of other portable gadgets demoed last year. But in a full-sized Netbook, Read further »

Netbook concept was started to satisy low end users whose major purpose is to surf the Net, light multimedia and business applications. As more and more people are adopting Netbooks as an alternative for MIDs, or even notebook, demands for better performance has risen. Vendors have not ignored this, they are closely watching and now we have netbooks with better power than before. Now we see a new rising trend, its about packaging more into the Netbooks. The ultra-thin laptops based on Intel’s ULV processors or AMD’s Athlon Neo are an obvious alternative to netbooks. Dell took a different approach with the Vostro 1220, which it announced earlier this week. The Read further »