In lieu of the upcoming GTX 780 Ti debut on November 7, Nvidia has cut prices on both the GTX 780 and GTX 770. Effective tomorrow, the cards are being reduced to $500 and $329 respectively. This is a hefty drop: the GTX 780 in particular previously cost $650. It all comes on top of an aggressive bundle package, which […]

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, it appears Microsoft will be using some variant of the Radeon HD7000 series in its next box, which is built […]

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 that is presumed to be the oft-rumored GTX580. According to Petersen, the unreleased card boasts a robust vapor cooling system, […]

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 forum user over at Chinese site PCinLife, showing off a GPU score of 11,634. While the veracity is questionable, a […]

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 DX11 GPU. Interestingly, 21.55 percent of those users are still on Windows XP, which is only DX9 capable. However, that figure is […]

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 that sport a 40nm die-shrink of RSX — the PS3’s GPU — are out in the wild. In Japan, at […]

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 helm at the high end segment is the GTX 480, followed by the GTX 470. While the exact specifications and […]

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 billion transistors, 512 shader cores, eight times the peak performance in double precision situations, and the ability to run C++ […]

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 quieter operation, in addition to fully supporting Microsoft’s Direct X 10.1 spec and Shader Model 4.1. Following the release of […]

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 Zephyr boards. According to The Mercury News, Microsoft plans to further lower Xbox 360 production costs and improve reliability by […]