AMD Launches FirePro W9100
Kicking off this week is the 2014 NAB Show, the National Association of Broadcasters’ annual trade show for broadcast content and technology. The NAB Show is often a launch...
20 by on 4/7/2014USB-IF Publishes First Type-C Connector Renderings
The last time we talked to the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), the governing body for USB, it was back at CES 2014. At the time the USB-IF was showing...
24 by on 4/2/2014AMD’s Next Teaser: The Mystery Briefcase
After taking a week off, AMD is back once more with another teaser for their forthcoming dual-GPU product. This should, we assume, be the final such teaser, meaning we’re...
47 by on 4/2/2014NVIDIA Announces Jetson TK1 Dev Board; Adds Erista To Tegra Roadmap
Continuing our coverage of NVIDIA’s 2014 GPU Technology Conference, today we’re looking at NVIDIA’s Tegra-related announcements. As Tegra is primarily a consumer facing product, especially the pre-K1 parts, NVIDIA...
33 by on 3/27/2014AMD Announces FirePro W9100
In what’s proving to be a busy week for GPU news, AMD has just wrapped up their webcast announcing their next flagship FirePro product. Dubbed the FirePro W9100, AMD’s...
32 by on 3/26/2014NVIDIA Updates GPU Roadmap; Unveils Pascal Architecture For 2016
In something of a surprise move, NVIDIA took to the stage today at GTC to announce a new roadmap for their GPU families. With today’s announcement comes news of...
68 by on 3/26/2014NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX Titan Z: Dual-GPU GK110 For $3000
Today at GTC NVIDIA announced their next GTX Titan family card. Dubbed the GTX Titan Z (no idea yet on why it’s Z), the card is NVIDIA's obligatory entry...
65 by on 3/25/2014Best Video Cards: March 2014
We’re back once again with our regular guide to desktop video cards, this time for March of 2014. Since our last update in January 2014, we’ve seen some significant shifts...
53 by on 3/24/2014Microsoft Announces DirectX 12: Low Level Graphics Programming Comes To DirectX
With GDC 2014 having drawn to a close, we have finally seen what is easily the most exciting piece of news for PC gamers. As previously teased by Microsoft...
105 by on 3/24/2014GDC 2014: NVIDIA, AMD Announce New Game Dev Partnerships - Crytek, Epic, & More
With GDC 2014 taking place this week in San Francisco, there are a number of gaming related announcements occurring over the next couple of days. These announcements in turn...
13 by on 3/19/2014AMD Teases Dual-GPU Video Card Once Again
Following last week’s dual-GPU teaser, AMD’s marketing department is back with another teaser for their forthcoming product. This time they’ve sent along a bottle of water and two cans of...
22 by on 3/19/2014Khronos Announces WebCL 1.0, SYCL 1.2, and EGL 1.5 Specifications
Following Monday’s announcement of OpenGL ES 3.1, Khronos is back again with a slate of new standards announcements. Unlike Monday’s focus on OpenGL ES, the bulk of these announcements...
7 by on 3/19/2014Imagination Announces PowerVR Wizard GPU Family: Rogue Learns Ray Tracing
Taking place this week in San Francisco is 2014 Game Developers Conference. Though not necessarily a hardware show, in years past we have seen gaming-related product announcements in both...
45 by on 3/18/2014Evaluating AMD's TrueAudio and Mantle Technologies with Thief
Scheduled for release today is the 1.3/AMD patch for Thief, Square Enix’s recently released stealth action game. Following last month’s Battlefield 4 patch, Thief is the second big push...
75 by on 3/18/2014Khronos Announces OpenGL ES 3.1
Coinciding with a mobile-heavy CES 2014, back in January Khronos put out a short announcement stating that they were nearing the release of a new version of OpenGL ES...
17 by on 3/17/2014NVIDIA Announces Spring 2014 GeForce Game Bundles
Coinciding with this week’s launch of the GeForce 800M series, NVIDIA is back in the saddle with another set of bundles to help promote GeForce video card and laptop...
28 by on 3/14/2014AMD Teases Forthcoming Dual-GPU Video Card
It looks like AMD is starting up another one of their tongue-in-cheek video card marketing campaigns, if the latest package to arrive on my doorstep is any indication. In an...
35 by on 3/13/2014NVIDIA Announces Legacy Support Plans For D3D10 Generation GPUs
All good things must come to an end, and for NVIDIA’s Direct3D 10 generation GPUs that end is just about here. NVIDIA has posted a document to their support...
33 by on 3/12/2014Valve Publically Releases "ToGL" Direct3D-to-OpenGL Shim
Though firmly rooted in the Microsoft technology camp for much of their history, in the past few years Valve has been expanding their reach to additional platforms and technologies...
33 by on 3/11/2014NVIDIA GeForce 335.23 WHQL Drivers Now Available: GTX 750 Overclocking Limits Increased
Word comes this afternoon that NVIDIA has released another new set of WHQL drivers, this time version 335.23. 335.23 is another member of the R334 driver branch, so this...
12 by on 3/10/2014