Archive for May, 2008

GPUs soon dead?

This article is available in french only. It talks about the struggle between CPUs and GPUs.

L’année écoulée a vu poindre les prémices d’une guerre technologique et commerciale qui va prendre une importance grandissante dans les années à venir : la guerre entre les GPU et les CPU. De simples afficheurs de triangles texturés en 1995, les cartes graphiques munies de GPU sont devenues des sortes d’énormes DSP bientôt composées d’un milliard de transistors, délivrant des performances approchant bientôt le téraFLOPS. La répartition des tâches semblait jusqu’ici bien déterminée entre le CPU, dévolu aux tâches de gestion et de décision, et le GPU se chargeant du calcul brut, en particulier graphique. Mais les quelques acteurs du marché ont récemment amorcé des mouvements les préparant à dépasser leurs frontières traditionnelles.

Read the full article HERE.

NVIDIA: Two New PerfHUD Video

Texture Visualizations and Overrides:

KamaSutra For IT People

GPU Gems 2: Three New Chapters Online

Three new chapters of GPU Gems 2 have gone online, continuing on the theme of “Geometric Complexity”.

The Incredible Hulk Video Game Trailer

Sega released a new action trailer of The Incredible Hulk. This game will be released on June 3rd for most gaming platforms.

[English]Radeon HD 4850 and HD 4870 Performance Comparison[/English][French]Comparaison des Performances des Radeon HD 4850 et 4870[/French]

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OCworkbench has published the first results of Radeon HD 4850/4870 under 3DMark06.
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OCworkbench a publié les premiers résultats des Radeon HD 4850 et 4870 sous 3D Mark 2006.
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Blender 2.46

[English]Blender 2.46 is available. You can download it HERE.[/English]
[French]Blender 2.46 est disponible. Vous pouvez le télécharger ICI.[/French]

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AMD FireGL V8600

The ATI FireGL V8600 is currently AMD’s second fastest FireGL high-end workstation graphics card, which supports OpenGL 2.1. People at Phoronix have reviewed the card and benchmarked it under GNU/Linux and Windows.

Read the review HERE

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Valve Hardware Survey Results

Every few months Valve runs a hardware survey on Steam. The survey collects data about what kinds of computer hardware and system software you’re using, and the results get sent to Steam. The survey is incredibly helpful for game developers in that it ensures that they’re making good decisions about what kinds of technology investments to make, and also gives people a way to compare their own current hardware setup to that of the community as a whole.

Raging Thunder iPhone 3D Racing Game

Raging Thunder is a racing game that shows off the potential of the OpenGL graphics on the iPhone.

AMD GAME!

LightWave v9.3.1 Trial Edition

LightWave v9.3.1 Trial Edition is now available. The LightWave® v9 Trial Edition is designed to provide everyone interested in 3D software and LightWave in particular an opportunity to fully experience the latest version of NewTek’s Emmy award-winning 3D application.

Info and download HERE.

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Albatron GeForce 9600GT 512

Albatron’s GeForce 9600GT reviewed at legitreviews.com.

PS3 to adopt YouTube functionality

Sony has confirmed that developers can now integrate YouTube functionality in upcoming or existing PlayStation 3 games.

Gamers will now be able to upload their in-game video captures to YouTube. We’re excited at the opportunity this presents and look forward to more and more games to be enhanced with YouTube.

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VisionTek Radeon HD 3870 X2

VisionTek Radeon HD 3870 X2 reviewed at:
- neoseeker.com
- overclockercafe.com