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Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Review: The Titan Descendant

Julio Franco — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:43:59 +0100

The new GeForce GTX 780 is based on a similar, albeit slightly cut down version of the Titan GPU, managing to keep many of the features that make the $1,000 graphics card great, like the 384-bit bus. Read more...

The PlayStation 4 is, on paper, faster than the Xbox One

Tim Schiesser — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:09:57 +0100

AnandTech has performed an analysis on the known hardware of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, revealing that (at least on paper) the PlayStation 4 has a faster GPU with more memory bandwidth. Read more...

Intel bringing 'Iris' graphics to Haswell, up to 3x faster

Tim Schiesser — Thu, 02 May 2013 12:02:16 +0100

Intel has detailed a few new graphics options that will be available as part of their 4th-generation Core CPUs ('Haswell'), including new Iris and Iris Pro chips that deliver up to 3x the performance Read more...

TechSpot: AMD Radeon HD 7990 Review, Dual GPU Comeback

Julio Franco — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:33:49 +0100

The Radeon HD 7990 takes a pair of 7970 GPUs with overclocked cores and memory, packing 8.2 TFLOPS computer power, 6GB GDDR5 and an upgraded PEX bridge to connect the two GPUs. Read more...

TechSpot: History of the GPU #4 - The Coming of General Purpose GPUs

Julio Franco — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:47:00 +0100

Until the advent of DirectX 10, there was no point in adding undue complexity by enlarging the die area, which increased vertex shader functionality in addition to boosting the floating point... Read more...

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: History of the GPU, 3Dfx Voodoo - the game-changer

Julio Franco — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 02:04:52 +0100

Launched on November 1996, 3Dfx's Voodoo graphics consisted of a 3D-only card that required a VGA cable pass-through from a separate 2D card to the Voodoo, which then connected to the display... Read more...

TechSpot: Bioshock Infinite Benchmarked

Julio Franco — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:15:36 +0100

Along with DX11 effects, folks playing on PC can look forward to higher resolution textures and a healthy range of customization. Infinite comes with six graphical presets from "very low" to "ultra".. 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: AMD Radeon HD 7790 Review

Julio Franco — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:16:25 +0000

The latest member of the Southern Islands family, the new Radeon HD 7790 is designed to fill the gap between the Radeon HD 7770 and 7850. Set to precisely target the $150 price tag, the HD 7790... Read more...

TechSpot: Tomb Raider GPU and CPU performance

Julio Franco — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:50:01 +0000

Tomb Raider supports DirectX 11, which brings access to rendering technologies such as depth of field, high definition ambient occlusion, hardware tessellation, super-sample anti-aliasing... Read more...

TechSpot: GeForce GTX Titan Review

Julio Franco — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:08:21 +0000

After wearing the single-GPU performance crown for 12 months, the GTX 680 has been dethroned by the new GTX Titan. The Titan carries a GK110 GPU with a transistor count that has more than doubled... Read more...

TechSpot: Triple Monitor Gaming on a Budget

Julio Franco — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:50:25 +0000

Considering next-gen cards are still months away, we didn't expect to bring any more GPU reviews until the second quarter of 2013. However, we realized there was a gap: triple monitor gaming. Read more...

TechSpot: Dead Space 3 Tested, Benchmarked

Julio Franco — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:49:12 +0000

The third installment in the Dead Space series was released this month, and considering the game made our list of 2013's most anticipated PC games we thought we would check it out to see how it... Read more...

Next gen Xbox GPU specs reportedly leak

John Callaham — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:05:15 +0000

The website that leaked what it claimed was the CPU specs of the next Xbox console is at it again, this time with their claim they have the specs for the GPU for Microsoft's next game console. Read more...

Just call me Wayne: Tegra 4 specs leak

Jake Durasamy — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:54:44 +0000

The Tegra 4 chipset codenamed "Wayne" has had it's specs leaked by a Weibo user. Judging from what we can see, we know that it's a substantial improvement to current existing chipsets. Read more...

TechSpot: Far Cry 3 GPU/CPU Tested, Benchmarked

Julio Franco — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 08:47:16 +0000

Like the original game, Far Cry 3 is set on a tropical island, this time found somewhere at the intersection of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. In typical TechSpot fashion, we'll be testing Far Cry... 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: Call of Duty Black Ops II Benchmarked

Julio Franco — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:20:26 +0000

For Call of Duty fans, developer Treyarch just delivered an early Christmas present when they released Black Ops II this week. As the ninth game in the Call of Duty franchise and the sequel to the... Read more...

TechSpot: Medal of Honor Warfighter CPU & GPU Performance

Julio Franco — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:16:01 +0000

Medal of Honor: Warfighter calls for no less than a 3GHz quad-core processor paired with a GeForce GTX 560 or Radeon HD 6950. Given those upper-end requirements, we expect the title to be fairly... Read more...