Today is the day that AMD were rumored to be announcing the ATI Radeon HD 4830, a sub-$150 video card that would directly rival the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT. However, according to a leaked pre-embargo slide from Engadget Chinese, it looks as though we may have to wait a couple more days: the NDA doesn’t lift until October 23rd, suggesting the HD 4830 will be officially announced this Thursday.
The ATI Radeon HD 4830 is believed to be a PCI Express card, require a minimum 450W PSU and be compatible with ATI CrossFireX. It will have built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound support and come with a Blu-ray decoder. From previous leaked information, it’s believed the card will feature 640 stream processors, a 256-bit memory interface and GDDR3 memory.
Price-wise, the HD 4830 will slot in-between the Radeon HD 4850 and HD 4670, hence the sub-$150 prediction. The NVIDA GeForce 9800 GT currently retails for around $130.
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Written by Chris Davies on October 21st, 2008 with no comments.
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Heavy users of Adobe Creative Suite 4 will know that the only thing worse than a hangover for slowing the design process is a computer unable to keep up. CS4 feasts on processor cycles like supermodels crave bacon; thankfully here’s NVIDIA to the rescue with their Quadro CX, a PCI-E card dedicated to giving the graphics software all the grunt it needs.
That means slicker performing apps and faster tweaks in Photoshop, while After Effects and Premier Pro get their own processing speed increase. Different CX plugins grant other niceties such as uncompressed 30-bit color or 10-bit/12-bit SDI video previews, while video encoding (such as H.264) works faster than ever. Under the metal shielding lurks a 1.5GB GDDR3 frame buffer with up to 76.8GBps memory bandwidth, spitting out visuals via two 2560 x 1600 capable DisplayPort outputs and a single dual-link 3,840 x 2,400 @24Hz DVI output.
As the kind of person who still turns to Paint for his day to day image editing needs, I’m unlikely to be in the target audience for the NVIDIA Quadro CX. Which is something of a relief, as I don’t have the $1,999 it’s priced at; the CX is available now.
[via Engadget]
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Written by Chris Davies on October 17th, 2008 with no comments.
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NVIDIA have officially announced the GeForce 9400M graphics chipset, the same found in the new MacBooks that Apple unveiled at yesterday’s event. The chipset differs from existing integrated graphics by virtue of incorporating both the full mainboard chipset, including memory and bus controllers, with the GPU; it promises 5x speed increases on both MacBook and Windows systems.
The GeForce 9400M includes sixteen graphics pipes (twice the amount in the 9300M) but still manages to take up just half the notebook mainboard space. It’s compatible with NVIDIA’s Hybrid SLI system, which allows users to switch between the integrated 9400M and a separate, discrete graphics card for boosted video performance (at the cost of battery life, of course).
It also supports full hardware high-definition video decoding and CPU offsetting, whereby general computing tasks take advantage of free processing cycles in the GPU. However only Apple have publicly signed up to use the GeForce 9400M; while they do not have an exclusivity agreement, Steve Jobs did predict that they would be using “a lot” of NVIDIA’s chips and, as such, could prompt a shortage should other manufacturers desire them.
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Written by Chris Davies on October 15th, 2008 with no comments.
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Apple has publicly blamed NVIDIA for graphics hardware failures in some MacBook Pro models, after initially customers were informed that their computers would not be affected. The news is the latest blow to NVIDIA, whose GPU problem has caused multiple laptops to overheat. According to Apple, NVIDIA assured them back in July that the issue would not impact on MacBooks; however the company’s own investigation turned up NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processors being inaccurately reported as integrated Intel chips.
The fault - which NVIDIA have blamed on an unnamed substrate or bumping material used in the chips manufacture - causes the MacBook Pro to display either distorted or scrambled video, or no video at all. Machines made between approximately May 2007 and September 2008, including the MacBook Pro 17-Inch 2.4GHz and 15-Inch, 2.4/2.2GHz, and the early-2008 MacBook Pros, with the NVIDIA chips could all be affected.
Apple is asking any owners with affected machines to bring them in for evaluation. They’re also issuing refunds to users who have already paid for repairs.
[via Electronista]
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Written by Chris Davies on October 10th, 2008 with no comments.
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ATI are planning a sub-$150 HD 4000 series video card that will take on NVIDIA’s GeForce 9800 GT, in the shape of the Radeon HD 4830. According to leaked slides from AMD, the card will feature 640 stream processors, a 256-bit memory interface and GDDR3 memory, and slot in-between the Radeon HD 4850 and HD 4670.
A PCI Express card, the HD 4830 will require a minimum 450W PSU and be compatible with ATI CrossFireX. It will have built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound support and come with a Blu-ray decoder.
The ATI Radeon HD 4830 is expected to launch on October 21st. Pricing is, as stated, believed to be sub-$150; considering the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT retails for around $130, it seems likely AMD would continue the pressure by also aiming for that figure.
[via The Tech Report]
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Written by Chris Davies on September 26th, 2008 with no comments.
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Palit have released a quad-output graphics card based on ATI’s Radeon 4870 HD. The Palit Radeon HD 4870 1GB Sonic Dual Edition consists of an overclocked ATI chipset with a sizable dual-fan cooler and switchable dual-BIOS for ’sonic’ and ‘turbo’ modes. The output options are twin HDCP-compliant DVI and a DisplayPort socket, with included converters for DVI-to-VGA and DVI-to-HDMI.
The sonic/turbo switch - which requires a reboot to take affect, so no on-the-fly changeovers possible - flips between two BIOS settings. Sonic leaves the CPU at 750MHz but boosts the 1GB GDDR5 RAM speed to 3800MHz; Turbo takes the core to 775MHz and the memory to 4000MHz.
HardwareZone have been testing out the Palit card, and rated it highly: 4.5 out of 5, in fact. Their main criticism appears to be their test unit’s 512MB of RAM, and how the card could do with more - something Palit seems to have taken on board, as a 1GB version is available. Where it really scores is the price: the Sonic Dual Edition benchmarks better than the standard Radeon HD 4870, but costs around the same.
Look to pay around €230 or $270 for the card, which is available now.
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Written by Chris Davies on September 24th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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NVIDIA has announced that Futuremark games will be using NVIDIA PhysX technology for its new first-person shooter, Shattered Horizon. The game is a first-person shooter that simulates a zero-gravity environment.
Jukka Makinen, Head of Futuremark Games Studio said “Shattered Horizon has a real space setting that offers gameplay, tactics, and freedom of movement that cannot be found in any other shooter…PhysX is essential in helping our game designers create a realistic and fun zero-gravity combat experience”
NVIDIA PhysX technology allows game makers to add an extra layer of reality to their games. The technology works on PC games as well as games for the Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360. The technology enables computers to “handle 10-20 times more visual complexity than what’s possible on today’s traditional PC platforms.”
[via IGN]
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Written by Emily Price on August 27th, 2008 with no comments.
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Back when they announced their Dual Drive Bay VGA cooling system for ATI’s storming HD 4870 X2, CoolIT CEO Geoff Lyon told us that by using the liquid-cooled setup they’d managed to overclock the video card by over ten percent. We’re sceptical by nature here at SlashGear, though, and so CoolIT have released a video demonstrating their setup.
Check out the CoolIT demo video after the cut
CoolIT took the stock HD 4870 X2 from its 750MHz GPU and 900MHz memory, and overclocked it to 880MHz on the GPU and 1000MHz on the memory. That was enough to see the Xtreme Vantage score jump from X7090 to X8162.
Even more impressive (and important, you could argue), the GPU temperature of the test rig never exceeded 39 degrees during benchmarking. CoolIT are yet to release pricing details for the Dual Drive Bay VGA cooling system, but it’s expected in September
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Written by Ewdison Then on August 26th, 2008 with no comments.
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