A juicy rumor from SemiAccurate indicates that production for the initial run of Xbox Next devkits has already started, with units expected to arrive at select studios by March or earlier. Although details have not been finalized at this stage, [...]
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Nvidia Shows Off ‘Unreleased GPU’ At PDXLAN As GTX 580 Talk Swirls
by Mike Bendel on November 7, 2010 @ 1:38 pm
Those in attendance at the PDXLAN 16.5 gaming event caught a first-hand glimpse of Nvidia’s future GPU plans, courtesy of technical marketing director Tom Petersen. Nvidia rallied up the crowd with metrics on a new piece of dedicated graphics hardware [...]
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Alleged Radeon HD6870 Benchmarks Surface
by Mike Bendel on August 29, 2010 @ 9:29 pm
Hot off the heels of its successful DX11 family of Evergreen GPUs, alleged benchmarks for AMD’s next in line have emerged from the dark corners of the internet. A 3DMark score of the purported HD6870 was recently posted by a [...]
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Steam Hardware Survey Reveals Uptick In DX10 Adoption
by Mike Bendel on June 3, 2010 @ 4:56 pm
Valve’s latest in-house Steam survey reveals a tantalizing statistic – namely that as of May, the vast majority of PC gaming rigs now sport a DirectX 10-capable GPU. More specifically, 56.47 percent of users surveyed on Steam are rocking a DX10 or [...]
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PS3 GPU Shrinks To 40nm
by Mike Bendel on April 22, 2010 @ 1:16 pm
Update: There was a bit of erroneous information in our previous report. The GPU in newer PS3 units is manufactured on a 40nm process, not 45nm like that of the Cell processor. We regret the mix-up. New PS3 Slim units [...]
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Nvidia Names Initial GF100 Parts As GTX 480, GTX 470
by Mike Bendel on February 1, 2010 @ 11:35 pm
Graphics chip manufacture Nvidia today officially named the first batch of GPUs that will be based on its GF100 architecture, first revealed by company CEO Jensen Huang at the California-based GPU conference last September under the codename of Fermi. Taking [...]
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NVIDIA Officially Announces Fermi GPU Architecture
by Mike Bendel on September 30, 2009 @ 3:55 pm
At its GPU Conference in San Jose, California, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang officially announced the company’s next line of GPU architecture, codenamed Fermi. Described as the “soul of a supercomputer in the body of a GPU,” the specs boast 3 [...]
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NVIDIA To Roll Out 9 Series GPU In February
by Mike Bendel on November 30, 2007 @ 1:36 pm
According to a DigiTimes report, GPU developer NVIDIA plans to launch its next-generation GeForce 9 series GPU in February 2008. Inside sources say that the new high-end GPU, dubbed D9E, will use 65nm process technology for reduced power consumption and [...]
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Xbox 360 Codename JASPER Due Next Year
by Mike Bendel on October 9, 2007 @ 6:53 pm
A couple weeks ago, we learned that Xbox 360 consoles with the new Falcon motherboard were hitting the market, primarily in Halo 3 LE units. The Falcon motherboard sports a 65nm CPU, but still retains the 90nm GPU from the [...]
