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TechSpot: History of the GPU #3 - The Nvidia vs. ATI era begins

Julio Franco — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:27:07 +0100

Prior to the Voodoo 5's arrival, ATI had announced the Radeon DDR as “the most powerful graphics processor ever designed for desktop PCs.” Previews of the card had already gone public... Read more...

TechSpot: The History of the Modern Graphics Processor

Julio Franco — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:03:56 +0000

The evolution of the modern graphics processor begins with the introduction of the first 3D add-in cards in 1995, followed by the widespread adoption of the 32-bit operating systems and the... Read more...

TechSpot: Full AMD and Nvidia GPU Comparison with Latest Drivers

Julio Franco — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 06:08:45 +0000

With updated pricing and performance across the board, we figured it would be worth revisiting both company's offerings to see where you should spend your hard-earned cash this holiday season and... Read more...

TechSpot: Tribes: Ascend GPU & CPU Performance Test

Julio Franco — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:10:29 +0100

Considered a successor to Tribes 2, Tribes: Ascend embraces its heritage by incorporating the same fast-paced combat, tons of maps, weapons, vehicles and unique traversal mechanics. Read more...

Rumor: AMD tried to buy NVIDIA before buying ATI

John Callaham — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 04:55:08 +0000

A new report claims via unnamed sources that AMD seriously considered acquiring NVIDIA before deciding to merge with NVIDIA's biggest graphics chip rival ATI back in 2006. Read more...

TechSpot: Graphics Card Overclocking, Is It Really Worth It?

Julio Franco — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:26:12 +0000

Overclocking plays a vastly different role in the computer industry today than it did 10 years ago, a time when overclockers were considered outlaws by manufacturers. Back then even mentioning... Read more...

Quanta sues AMD over alleged defective notebook chips

John Callaham — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:44:00 +0000

Quanta, the world's biggest contract manufacturer of notebook PCs, had filed a lawsuit against AMD, alleging that the company delivered defective processors to Quanta. Read more...

AMD Catalyst 11.7 for Windows

Steven Parker — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:02:39 +0100

AMD's award-winning ATI Catalyst graphics and HD video configuration software delivers unprecedented control of performance and visual quality with ATI Radeon™ graphics processors. ATI Catalyst drivers deliver stable performance and push the limits of innovation... Read more...

AMD Catalyst 11.5b Hotfix for Windows

Steven Parker — Thu, 26 May 2011 12:55:44 +0100

AMD have released version 11.5b of their Catalyst drivers, these are based on the 11.5a RC5 release. Fixes: Includes performance optimizations and resolves various quality issues for the upcoming release of Brink Resolves transcoding video lagging issues seen... Read more...

AMD Catalyst 11.5

Marcel Klum — Tue, 10 May 2011 15:50:49 +0100

AMD released version 11.5 of their ATI video card driver package. Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 11.5 Windows release includes: New Features: Hydravision enhancements for Eyefinity configurations. The HydraGrid feature... Read more...

AMD Catalyst 11.4

Marcel Klum — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:25:41 +0100

AMD released version 11.4 of their ATI video card driver package. Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 11.4 Windows release includes: New Features: Enhancements to the AMD VISION Engine Control Center / AMD... Read more...

TechPowerUp GPU-Z v0.5.2

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:52:11 +0000

TechPowerUp has released version 0.5.2 of GPU-Z, our popular graphics hardware information and diagnostic utility that gives you information about the installed graphics hardware in your computer, and lets you monitor various parameters such as... Read more...

How gaming technology is being used to save lives

Josh Neland — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:45:24 +0000

Here’s a riddle: When you think of a computer with a dual blazing-fast NVIDIA cards, a Xeon processor and 16GB of RAM, what type of PC comes to mind? Maybe a high-end Alienware system? Believe... Read more...

ATI Catalyst 11.2

Marcel Klum — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:11:36 +0000

AMD released version 11.2 of their ATI video card driver package. The AMD Catalyst™ software suite 11.2 contains the following: AMD display driver version 8.821 HydraVision™ for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 Southbridge/IXP Driver... Read more...

ATI Catalyst 11.1

Marcel Klum — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:41:14 +0000

AMD released version 11.1 of their ATI video card driver package. The AMD Catalyst™ software suite 11.1 contains the following: AMD display driver version 8.812 HydraVision™ for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 Southbridge/IXP Driver... Read more...

AMD Catalyst 11.1a Hotfix

Steven Parker — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:33:10 +0000

AMD has released a new build of their Catalyst software suite. This particular software suite updates both the AMD Display Driver, and the Catalyst Control Center. This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide... Read more...

ATI Catalyst 10.12

Marcel Klum — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:42:15 +0000

AMD released version 10.12 of their ATI video card driver package. The AMD Catalyst™ software suite 10.12 contains the following: AMD display driver version 8.801 HydraVision™ for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 Southbridge/IXP Driver AMD Catalyst™ Control... Read more...

ATI Catalyst 10.11

Marcel Klum — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:25:45 +0000

AMD released version 10.11 of their ATI video card driver package. The AMD Catalyst™ software suite 10.11 contains the following: AMD display driver version 8.791 HydraVision™ for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 Southbridge/IXP Driver AMD Catalyst™ Control... Read more...

ATI Catalyst 10.10

Marcel Klum — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:50:26 +0100

AMD released version 10.10 of their ATI video card driver package. What's new: Introduction of AMD Catalyst™ Accelerated Parallel Processing ("APP") technology Edition Video acceleration for WMV HD® video content Enhanced Dynamic Contrast video controls Introduction of AMD HD3D... Read more...

AMD teams up with Valve to deliver drivers over steam

Brandon Boyce — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:38:26 +0100

AMD recently announced that they are teaming up with Valve to release driver updates for their ATI Catalyst graphics drivers through steam. Steam users will now be able to automatically detect and install driver updates... Read more...