GPUs
SK hynix and TSMC announced early on Friday that they had signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on developing the next-generation HBM4 memory and advanced packaging technology. The initiative is designed to speed up the adoption of HBM4 memory and solidify SK hynix's and TSMC's leading positions in high-bandwidth memory and advanced processor applications. The primary focus of SK hynix's and TSMC's initial efforts will be to enhance the performance of the HBM4 stack's base die, which (if we put it very simply) acts like an ultra-wide interface between memory devices and host processors. With HBM4, SK hynix plans to use one of TSMC's advanced logic process technologies to build base dies to pack additional features and I/O pins within the confines of existing...
NVIDIA Volta, IBM POWER9 Land Contracts For New US Government Supercomputers
The launch of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan Supercomputer was in many ways a turning point for NVIDIA’s GPU compute business. Though already into their third generation of Tesla...
29 by Ryan Smith on 11/17/2014Benchmarked: Lords of the Fallen
Officially launched on October 28, Lords of the Fallen had a bit of a rocky start so it took longer for me to finish running benchmarks on the game...
54 by Jarred Walton on 11/12/2014Apple A8X’s GPU - GXA6850, Even Better Than I Thought
Working on analyzing various Apple SoCs over the years has become a process of delightful frustration. Apple’s SoC development is consistently on the cutting edge, so it’s always great...
114 by Ryan Smith on 11/11/2014Samsung Files Counter-Suit & Patent Infringement Claims Against NVIDIA & Velocity Micro
Back in September NVIDIA filed patent infringement complaints against Samsung and Qualcomm. The crux of the issue being that NVIDIA believes that GPUs from Qualcomm, ARM, and Imagination all...
59 by Ryan Smith on 11/11/2014AMD Catalyst 14.11.1 Beta Drivers Available
As we've noted in a few recent NVIDIA driver articles, there are a ton of new games coming out right now, which of course means we'll need to drivers/profiles...
28 by Jarred Walton on 11/11/2014NVIDIA VXGI Apollo 11 Demo Available
When NVIDIA held their press briefing on the upcoming GM204 Maxwell GPUs back in September, one of the big new features for Maxwell 2.0 was VXGI – Voxel Global...
13 by Jarred Walton on 11/11/2014NVIDIA 344.65 Drivers and GeForce Experience 2.1.4.0
NVIDIA has updated their drivers to version 344.65 drivers and they're available now. These are Game Ready drivers for Assassin's Creed: Unity, and they're ready one week in advance...
18 by Jarred Walton on 11/10/2014Imagination Announces PowerVR Series7 GPUs - Series7XT & Series7XE
Taking place this week are Imagination Technologies’ Chinese idc14 and Imagination Summits developer events. While Imagination holds these events in multiple countries over the year, the Chinese event is...
49 by Ryan Smith on 11/10/2014NVIDIA FY 2015 Q3 Financial Results: Record Revenue For Quarter And Year To Date
This afternoon NVIDIA announced record revenue for their fiscal year 2015 quarter three, which ended October 26th of this year. For those that do not follow financial data, fiscal...
25 by Brett Howse on 11/6/2014AMD Civilization: Beyond Earth and Never Settle Space Edition Promotion
AMD is updating their Never Settle bundles in a different fashion today, effectively doubling down on the bundles. In addition to the existing Never Settle: Space Edition, AMD will...
11 by Jarred Walton on 11/6/2014NVIDIA 344.60 Game Ready Drivers Available
Sorry for the spate of NVIDIA posts, but this is the last one for now. Today, NVIDIA also released their 344.60 Game Ready driver for Call of Duty: Advanced...
1 by Jarred Walton on 11/4/2014NVIDIA Free To Play 2014 Fall Bundle
Going along with their Ubisoft Bundle for high-end GPUs, NVIDIA also announced an updated Fall 2014 Free To Play gaming bundle that applies to their "mainstream" GPUs. As with...
2 by Jarred Walton on 11/4/2014NVIDIA and Ubisoft Team Up for Pick Your Path Gaming Promotion
This morning NVIDIA announced a new gaming bundle for their top GPUS. New buyers of GTX 980, 970, 780 Ti, or 780 desktop GPUs qualify for the offer, along...
14 by Jarred Walton on 11/4/2014Best Video Cards: October 2014
After a couple of months off due to a very busy fall product season, we’re finally back again with our monthly guide to video cards and video card industry...
73 by Ryan Smith on 10/30/2014Alienware's Graphics Amplifier Announced - An External Video Card Chassis Shipping Soon
The idea of an external PCI-Express chassis for video cards is practically as old as PCI-Express itself. However over the years the idea has failed to reach the consumer...
80 by Ryan Smith on 10/28/2014ARM Announces Mali 800 Series GPUs - T860, T830, & T820
Due to a lack of total vertical integration and heavy focus on IP licensing, one of the more interesting aspects of the SoC development pipeline is that we get...
28 by Ryan Smith on 10/27/2014ARM Announces Mali-V550 Video Processor & Mali-DP550 Display Processor
As part of ARM’s fall refresh of their Mali graphics product lineup, today ARM is announcing refreshes and new products in a number of product segments. All told ARM...
7 by Ryan Smith on 10/27/2014AMD Releases Catalyst 14.9.2 Beta Drivers
As promised earlier this week, AMD has pushed out a new Catalyst beta driver release to go hand-in-hand with this week’s launch of Civilization: Beyond Earth. Though not...
17 by Ryan Smith on 10/25/2014Civilization: Beyond Earth CrossFire with Mantle SFR: Not Actually Broken!
Yesterday after an all-day session of benchmarking on Wednesday, we published our initial performance results for Civilization: Beyond Earth. As can often be the case with limited testing, we...
61 by Jarred Walton on 10/24/2014Benchmarked - Civilization: Beyond Earth
One of the longest running gaming franchises around, the Civilization series goes all the way back to my high school years. There have been many changes along the way...
73 by Jarred Walton on 10/23/2014