AMD has released faster new ATI Catalyst drivers for Linux customers of its ATI FireGL professional graphics cards. The 8.49.7 Linux driver provides 33 percent faster OpenGL performance than the previous driver, claims the company.
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AMDs Radeon 4850 and 4870 have been widely praised in the media and put the ATI team back on the map. But it appears that we have just seen a small portion of what the ATI guys have in space for users. The new boards are actually running at well below the clock speed they can support and these cards will be challenging Nvidia’s very best.
Mountain House (CA) ? AMD?s Radeon 4850 and 4870 have been widely praised in the media and put the ATI team back on the map. But it appears that we have just seen a small portion of what the ATI guys have in space for users. The new boards…
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AMD is in the process of pushing new high-end features into their Linux driver — such as Multi-GPU CrossFire support — and with the ATI Radeon HD 4850 they have even begun showing off Tux, the Linux mascot, on their product packaging and providing Linux drivers on their product CDs!
While AMD has been making great strides in both their open and closed source investments, their performance-oriented proprietary driver isn't yet feature equivalent to the Windows Catalyst Suite and they have had problems delivering…
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Great idea to protect your digital family picture album.
Auburn (CA) ? Most small businesses and consumers do not have elaborate disaster recovery plans in place, which means that their data may be at risk, especially if backups are stored nearby. Fire and water can wipe out at least portions of…
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This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install XEN on an Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) Server System (amd64) without compromising on disk I/O and network throughput. You can find all the software used here in the Ubuntu repositories, so no external files or source compilation are required.
Install the Ubuntu Hardy Heron (x86_64) Server Edition (http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition) on the first partition only. Afterwards, on this we will be install the Xen stuff and use this as the host OS…
Sometimes you just have to work with what you have and AMD quite apparently has mastered this art. Buy a 2.8 GHz processor, that can, if you want to, run at 3.2 GHz. (Almost) no overclocking experience required.
Xcor suborbital spacecraft One step closer to space tourism: XCOR to launch in 2010 Intel Atom Processor Intel unveiled at IDF Spring its smallest x86 processor taking aim at the handheld market. >> See all TG Daily slideshows
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc is rolling out a much-awaited line-up of chips for laptops, as Intel Corp’s main rival seeks to regain a competitive footing against the world’s biggest chip maker.
PC makers using Puma chips include Acer Inc, Asus, Dell Inc, Fujitsu Siemens Computers BV and Hewlett-Packard Co, she said. Prices for the mobile PCs will be mid-range for laptops, from about $700 up to $2,000. Most will be available in…
There you have it. Griffin changes to Turion Ultra.
Mountain House (CA) - Computex Taipei 2008 is just around the corner and news of what we can expect to see at the conference is already trickling in. Nvidia will release its new GeForce GTX 280 and 260 GPUs, AMD its Radeon 4850 and…
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After some recent work today, Compiz is now working on R500 graphics cards using the open-source xf86-video-ati and the latest Mesa git. In addition, the Unreal Tournament 2004 demo is even running! There is now parity between the open-source R500 3D support and the level of Mesa support for the older R200/300/400 generations!
Another celebration for today is the DRI support being merged to master for the xf86-video-radeonhd driver. Matthias Hopf has pushed 23 patches into the xf86-video-radeonhd driver that adds a trivial memory manager, rudimentary…
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a team of scientists from Romania and Turkey say they've found a simple and effective method to turn printed circuit boards from discarded IT kit into material suitable as fuel or for industrial use.
The researchers note that the plastic portion of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is particularly tricky to recycle because it contains additives, heavy metals, and extremely toxic flame retardants. (You don't want…
nVidia’s CEO is still rampaging across the media circuit, shouting about Intel to anyone who will listen.
A few days ago Brooke Crothers from cNet's Nanotech blog posted some comments by an analyst from CRT Capital Group that I thought were spot on:”Huang seems to believe that Nvidia's graphics solutions are better than Intel's…
AMD and Intel have been trading shots through the court docket since AMD first filed its antitrust lawsuit against Intel in 2005, so it's not particularly surprising to see a new 108-page filing from Sunnyvale and a prompt and massive reply from Santa Clara. AMD's filing does, however, contain a few new bits of information.
Having listed the various ways in which Intel allegedly abuses its monopoly position, AMD launches into the heart of its argument. In taking such actions, Intel has excluded AMD from fairly competing in the market and placed the company in a vice…
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It has been almost two years since NVIDIA released a new flagship chipset for the AMD platform, despite the release of quad-core Phenoms and AMD’s competing 7-series chipsets. Today NVIDIA has launched their nForce 780a SLI chipset that supports 32 lanes of PCI Express Gen 2, 3-way SLI, and a new mode called Hybrid SLI.
As we've already mentioned, the flagship model in the nForce 700a series of chipsets is the 780a SLI. We've got a high-level overview of the chipset below and then we'll talk a bit about the nForce 750a SLI as well.
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… and China isn’t happy. Why? Because AMD did not deliver what was ordered. Interesting one.
Xcor suborbital spacecraft One step closer to space tourism: XCOR to launch in 2010 Intel Atom Processor Intel unveiled at IDF Spring its smallest x86 processor taking aim at the handheld market. >> See all TG Daily slideshows
