The International Supercomputing Conference in Germany has been host to AMD’s announcement that their new AMD Firestream 9250 floating point processor has become the first to break the one teraflop barrier which AMD claims represents a 55 times speed increase over floating point processing using the CPU alone.
New details about AMD’s next generation graphics card as the launch date approaches. Among the leaked details we can see physics processing and lower prices but it looks like Nvidia may beat AMD to the finishing post with their GT200.
Intel’s latest hardware development has been aired in the form of the Skull Trail motherboard launched at the Game Developers’ Conference and aimed at power-hungry gaming enthusiasts and developers but all may not be as it seems…
Tomorrow (21st Feb) Nvidia will be announcing its first GeForce 9 series graphics chip, the GeForce 9600 GT (G64), aimed at the lower to mid range of the GPU market. We will see an increase in memory bus width (256 bit) and performance increases of over 40% have been predicted by sources at graphics card [...]
SLI (Scalable Link Interface) enables multi-GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) in the same machine to cooperate virtually doubling or tripling the speed of the system. Recent advances in technology mean that these cards will be spreading from the desktop world to laptops and notebooks in the very near future.
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