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Remember this slide?
The "Scalable design" block we already know about, that's RV770 - we reviewed it last month. The 150W TDP $300 part is the Radeon HD 4870, and the 110W $200 part is the Radeon HD 4850, the two cards that have caused NVIDIA quite a bit of pain already. The smaller $100 part has a name, and a release date, neither of which we can talk about at this point, but it's coming.
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Remember this slide?
The "Scalable design" block we already know about, that's RV770 - we reviewed it last month. The 150W TDP $300 part is the Radeon HD 4870, and the 110W $200 part is the Radeon HD 4850, the two cards that have caused NVIDIA quite a bit of pain already. The smaller $100 part has a name, and a release date, neither of which we can talk about at this point, but it's coming.
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Have you ever read about an upcoming game that sounded exciting, but then you lost enthusiasm due to the lack of updates that followed? Maybe you didn't even recognize it at the time, because the game just faded from your consciousness. Like many gamers, I like to follow the progress of games I'm excited about from development to release. I enjoy watching all the informative developer interview ... |
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...and then disaster struck.
Or at least that's how it felt. The past few weeks have been incredibly tumultuous, sleepless, and beyond interesting. It is as if AMD and NVIDIA just started pulling out hardware and throwing it at eachother while we stood in the middle getting pegged with graphics cards. And we weren't just hit with new architectures and unexpected die shrinks, but new drivers left ... |
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...and then disaster struck.
Or at least that's how it felt. The past few weeks have been incredibly tumultuous, sleepless, and beyond interesting. It is as if AMD and NVIDIA just started pulling out hardware and throwing it at eachother while we stood in the middle getting pegged with graphics cards. And we weren't just hit with new architectures and unexpected die shrinks, but new drivers left ... |
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A very smart man at Intel once told me that when designing a microprocessor you can either build a new architecture, or move to a smaller manufacturing process, but you don't do both at the same time. The reason you don't do both is because it significantly complicates the design, validation and manufacturing processes - you want to instead limit the number of variables you're changing in order t... |
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Tucked away in our NVIDIA GT200 review was a bit of gold. Elemental Technologies has been developing, in CUDA, a GPU-accelerated H.264 video transcoder.
If you've ever tried ripping a Blu-ray movie you'll know that just a raw rip of just one audio and one video stream can easily be over 20 - 30GB. I've been doing a lot of this lately for my HTPC and even without 8-channel audio tracks, my rippe... |
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It's been one of those long nights, the type where you don't really sleep but rather nap here and there. Normally such nights are brought on by things like Nehalem, or NVIDIA's GT200 launch, but last night was its own unique flavor of all-nighter.
On Monday, AMD had a big press event to talk about its next-generation graphics architecture. We knew that a launch was impending but we had no hardw... |
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It's been one of those long nights, the type where you don't really sleep but rather nap here and there. Normally such nights are brought on by things like Nehalem, or NVIDIA's GT200 launch, but last night was its own unique flavor of all-nighter.
On Monday, AMD had a big press event to talk about its next-generation graphics architecture. We knew that a launch was impending but we had no hardw... |
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Many people, especially in huge articles like the GT200 launch article, skip over the very text heavy pages I tend to write. Especially as I have a flair for low-level technical detail that not everyone enjoys.
In this recent foray into GPU architecture guess work, we spent some time speculating about G80 and GT200 SP pipeline depth. Our guess was 8 stages based on the depth of other architecture... |
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One-Point-Four-Billion. That's transistors folks.
The chip is codenamed GT200 and it's the successor to NVIDIA's G80 and G92 families. Why the change in naming? The GT stands for "Graphics Tesla" and this is the second generation Graphics Tesla architecture, the first being the G80. The GT200 is launching today in two flavors, the die of the larger one is pictured below:
Um...yeah...we're revi... |
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Introduction
Do the names Tycho Brahe and Gabriel
ring a bell? If your first thought is for Danish scientists or biblical angles,
you should probably just walk away from this review right now. And if you're
offended by colorful language or potty humor, run - don't walk. Those of you
who immediately thought of Penny Arcade's main characters probably don't need
to read this review either, as i... |
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Introduction
Most people don't like leftovers. A
second round of heating can result in overcooked foods that are dry and/or
tough. There's nothing worse than a high-quality filet mignon that's been
overcooked. However, not all leftovers are bad, and some foods can even taste
better the second time around as flavors are allowed to mix and mingle another
night in the refrigerator.
If you'll p... |
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In the heat
of the console war, gamers rely upon exclusive titles that set their gaming
platform apart from the others, all the while instilling confidence in the
decision to buy one console over another. With only a few of A-list exclusive
titles available for the PlayStation 3, owners of the console have been chomping
at the bit for more new IPs that are created solely for the PS3. Ente... |
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Introduction
Hot on the heels of the launch of their 9800 series
products, NVIDIA is holding a Financial Analyst Day. These are generally not
filled with the normal technical glitz and glitter an Editors Day has, but the
announcements and material covered are no less important to NVIDIA as a
company. NVIDIA has an unusually large institutional ownership rate at
84% (versus 79% and 66% for AM... |
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Yes, NVIDIA leads
the way in performance. They own the fastest single GPU card, the fastest
multiGPU single card, and the fastest multi card configurations. People who
want the best of the best do pay a premium for the privilege, but that isn't
something everyone is comfortable with. Most of us would much rather see a high
end card that doesn't totally depart from sanity in terms of actual ... |
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Sometimes it’s the little quirks in life that sneak up on
you and change the way you look at the world. The past couple weeks have done
that in testing all this new high end gear. Sure, we’ve had our problems
testing bleeding edge stuff before, but in putting all of this from CrossFireX
through 9800 GX2 Quad SLI to the test, we’ve gotten ourselves lost in some
other dimens... |
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For quite a while now, the 8800 GTX and 8800 Ultra have been the fastest single GPU cards around. In spite of the fact that we haven't seen any faster single GPU solution introduced, it is only recently that the rest of the lineup has become compelling on either the NVIDIA or AMD front. Aiming high is a good thing for those who can afford it, but until the technology makes its way into cheaper p... |
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We previewed AMD's CrossFireX technology a
couple weeks ago, but today a WHQL drier is available that supports more than
two AMD GPUs. In order to do this, AMD employs Vista's Linked Display Adapter
(LDA) technology to make the collective GPUs appear to the system as a single
virtual device. While this allows for more flexibility in GPU configurations,
there are some drawbacks that we ... |
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Yesterday saw the introduction of NVIDIA’s GeForce 9 series of GPUs, starting with the GeForce 9600 GT. Carrying a MSRP of $169 - $189, the GeForce 9600 GT was designed to fill a void in NVIDIA’s product lineup. The GeForce 8600, NVIDIA’s original sub-$200 competitor was being sorely beaten by AMD’s Radeon HD 3850. The GeForce 9600 GT was introduced to rectify the situat... |
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