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

Julio Franco — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:47:00 +0000

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...

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...

AMD plans GPGPU SDK updates including DirectX 11 support

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:42:01 +0000

AMD has announced that they planning new updates to its SDK to further increase the ease and efficiently of software development using future versions of the Stream SDK. The improvements will reduce time and effort... Read more...