GPUs
VESA this morning is taking the wraps off of the next iteration of its DisplayHDR monitor certification standard, DisplayHDR 1.2. Designed to raise the bar on display quality, the updated DisplayHDR conformance test suite imposes new luminance, color gamut, and color accuracy requirements that extend across the entire spectrum of DisplayHDR tiers – including the entry-level DisplayHDR 400 tier. With vendors able to begin certifying displays for the new standard immediately, the display technology group is aiming to address the advancements in the display technology market over the last several years, while enticing display manufacturers to make use of them to deliver better desktop and laptop displays than before. Altogether, the DisplayHDR 1.2 is easily the biggest update to the standard since it launched in...
EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Classified Review: Pushing GTX 680 To Its Peak
Thanks to a flood of new arrivals, over the next couple of weeks we’ll be taking a look at a range of GTX 670 and GTX 680 cards from...
75 by Ryan Smith on 7/20/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7970, 7950, 7870 Price Cuts Inbound. 7970GE Available Next Week?
For those of you in the market for a new video card, in case April’s round of AMD Radeon price cuts didn’t quite meet your desires, AMD has ordered...
51 by Ryan Smith on 7/14/2012NVIDIA Posts GeForce 304.79 Beta Drivers, Unifies Windows 8 & Win7/Vista Drivers
NVIDIA has posted a new beta driver from their 304 family of drivers, version number 304.79. The biggest change with 304.79 is that NVIDIA has officially unified their Windows 8...
9 by Ryan Smith on 7/3/2012
AMD Posts Catalyst 12.6 WHQL, 12.7 Beta
Closing out the month of June, AMD has posted two new Catalyst driver builds. The first is Catalyst 12.6, the WHQL’d final version of the 12.6 beta at the start...
13 by Ryan Smith on 6/30/2012NVIDIA's Windows 8 WHQL Display Driver Now Available
With the launch of the Windows 8 Release Preview at the very start of this month, NVIDIA initially promised that they would have Windows 8 WHQL’d display drivers available...
8 by Ryan Smith on 6/27/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Review: Battling For The Performance Crown
The GeForce GTX 680 launch marked both the closest and the farthest AMD has ever been from outright beating NVIDIA in modern times. On the one hand NVIDIA beat...
110 by Ryan Smith on 6/22/2012
Zotac GeForce GT 640 DDR3 Review: Glacial Gaming & Heavenly HTPC
Two weeks ago NVIDIA formally launched the retail GeForce GT 640, catching up to their OEM and laptop offerings with their first GK107 based video card for the retail...
60 by Ryan Smith & Ganesh T S on 6/20/2012
AMD Announces FirePro W600, Sets Their Sights On Digital Wall Market
For AMD’s FirePro customers, they know that with GCN coming up on 6 months old now that this is the time to keep an eye on product announcements. It...
10 by Ryan Smith on 6/13/2012
Update: CERT/CC Takes AMD To Task On Driver Security, AMD Responds
In a bit of an odd move, the Carnegie Mellon's Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT/CC) has posted a vulnerability report and a blog post taking AMD to task over...
51 by Ryan Smith on 6/8/2012
Hands on With EVGA's GeForce GT 640
NVIDIA officially launched its first retail desktop GK107 part earlier this week as the GeForce GT 640. After getting a load of the mammoth GTX 680 Classified, EVGA's GeForce...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/8/2012
EVGA's GeForce GTX 680 Classified, Water Cooling Optional
As one of the most well known NVIDIA partners we were expecting a heavily overclocked, very custom take on the GeForce GTX 680. At Computex EVGA brought its GeForce...
9 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/8/2012
Computex 2012: MSI GPU Technologies
Visiting the MSI booth today at Computex was rather exciting – they were showing off two rather interesting GPU fan technologies, alongside their portable Thunderbolt GPU device, GUS. The...
8 by Ian Cutress on 6/5/2012
AMD Llano HTPC Builders Guide
Home Theater PCs (HTPCs) are becoming more and more popular due to a number of reasons. The desire of consumers to watch and enjoy their media, be it Blu-rays/DVDs...
76 by Ganesh T S on 6/5/2012
NVIDIA Announces Retail GeForce GT 640 DDR3
Though NVIDIA primarily likes to announce products on their own schedule and own time they have also been known to announce more budget oriented parts at trade shows, and...
21 by Ryan Smith on 6/4/2012
Gigabyte meets Trinity - A Computex Look At FM2 and A85
One of the meetings today was with Gigabyte, up on the 36F of the Taipei 101. We got a chance to see close up their FM2 prototype design...
10 by Ian Cutress on 6/4/2012
AMD Announces A New 900MHz Radeon HD 7750
For our final bit of AMD news today, in a bit of an unusual move AMD has informally announced a new Radeon HD 7750. The new 7750, which will not...
31 by Ryan Smith on 6/1/2012
The Rest of the Ivy Bridge Die Sizes
AnandTech reader Grant Vezina pointed out in the comments to my last post that Intel properly documents almost all Ivy Bridge die sizes in the mechanical specifications pages of...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2012
Intel Core i5 3470 Review: HD 2500 Graphics Tested
Intel's first 22nm CPU, codenamed Ivy Bridge, is off to an odd start. Intel unveiled many of the quad-core desktop and mobile parts last month, but only sampled a...
67 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2012
More Good News from AMD: 30 Additional Free AFDS Passes Available
You guys really impressed AMD with how quickly you took advantage of their 50 free passes to AMD's Fusion12 Developer Summit (AFDS). After seeing that a couple of commenters...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/29/2012
AMD's Gift to AnandTech Readers: 50 Free AFDS Passes - Update: All Gone
Apparently Manju was feeling pretty generous after our recent Ask the Experts session and gave us 50 free passes to AMD's Fusion12 Developer Summit (AFDS) to give away to...
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/23/2012
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