Geeks3D – 2009 Retrospective

During 2009, 485 posts have been published on Geeks3D (and more than 600 posts in the news forum). Here are the important facts covered in 2009:

• GeForce GTX 295 released (January 2009)
• GeForce GTX 285 released (January 2009)
• GeForce GTS 250 released (9800GTX rebranded – March 2009)
• Radeon X1900 and all DX9 GPU no longer supported from Catalyst 9.4 (March 2009)
• ATI Radeon HD 4890 released (April 2009)
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 released (April 2009)
• ATI Radeon HD 4770 released (April 2009)
• FurMark 1.7.0 and FluidMark 1.1.x (July 2009)
• OpenGL 3: specifications released (August 2009)
• NVIDIA adds OpenGL 3.2 support in Forceware 190.xx (August 2009)
• ATI Radeon HD 5870 released (September 2009)
• ATI Radeon HD 5000 series have hardware protection against power virus like FurMark (September 2009)
• Hardware PhysX Acceleration is Disabled (GeForce or Ageia) when ATI GPU is Present (September 2009)
• ATI Radeon HD 5850 released (October 2009)
• NVIDIA Fermi first details (October 2009)
• GeeXLab first public release (October 2009)
• ATI Radeon HD 5970: release and overclocking problems with FurMark (November 2009)
• NVIDIA GeForce 310 (GeForce 210 rebranded – November 2009)
• GPU Caps Viewer 1.8.x with OpenCL support (December 2009)
• ATI Stream SDK v2.0 with OpenCL support (December 2009)
• AMD adds OpenGL 3.2 support in Catalyst 9.12 (december 2009)

And this funny slogan found in a comment:

NVIDIA, the way it meant to be rebranded. 😉

January 2009

• Catalyst 9.1 and the stupid glGetString(GL_VERSION) bug with OpenGL 3
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285: A Super GTX 280 and the Fastest Single GPU Videocard!
  

  

• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 Reviews – The New Pixel-Killer Has Been Unleashed!
  

  

• [Tutorial] How To Load and Display an Image with DevIL and OpenGL
  

  

February 2009

• FurMark 1.6.5 Won the OpenGL Fight Against Catalyst 9.1!
  

  

• Thermalright Does Not Like FurMark…
  

  

March 2009

• NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 Graphics Card
  

  

• ATI Catalyst 9.4 Will not Support Old Video Cards Like Radeon X1900
• GPU RayCaster Demo Using NVIDIA CUDA
  

  

• CausticOne + CausticGL = Real Time Ray Tracing
  

  

April 2009

• ATI Radeon HD 4890
  

  

• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275
  

  

• Metatunnel: An OpenGL 1k Demo With Source Code
  

  

• The Ultimate Gaming Hardware: 23 GeForce 295 GTX Into A Single System!
  

  

• The Ultimate Gadget for 3D Geeks: NVIDIA G98 Based Keychain!
  

  

• GPU Caps Viewer 1.7.0 Available With CUDA Support
  

  

• ATI vs NVIDIA: Innovation vs Rebranding
  

  

• Real Time Ray Tracing at 5 FPS with CausticRT Raytracing System
• [TEST] Google O3D API: First Test and Impressions
  

  

• ATI Radeon HD 4770
  

  

May 2009

• GPUTool 0.0.0: A New Utility With Two Furry Donuts
  

  

• Programmer Comics
  

  

• MARS 295: Dual GeForce GTX 285 With 4GB of Graphics Memory
  

  

• 3D Visualization of Bubble and Quick Sort
  
  
  

June 2009

• 3D Texture In Real Life?
  

  

• Geeks3D Test: USB 3G Key
  

  

• Quick Test: VirtualBox 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
  

  

• Hey Fellow Geek, Why You Should Adopt Blender
  

  

• Michael Jackson Death Downed Twitter
  

  

July 2009

• FurMark 1.7.0: The Bad Boy of Graphics Cards Utilities is Back!
  

  

• CPU-Z Wants To Kill GPU-Z Supremacy By Adding Graphics Card Information?
  

  

• Javascript Depth of Field Effect
  

  

• [Tutorial] GeForce GTS 250 Overclocking
  

  

• Coder Girl: An Ode to Female Programmers
  
  
  
• 10 Most Popular Graphics Cards July 2009
  

  

• PhysX FluidMark 1.1.1
  

  

• [HowTo] Perspective Projection Matrix in OpenGL
  

  

• OpenGL 3.2 and GLSL 1.50 Expected Shortly!
  

  

August 2009

• OpenGL 3.2 Officially Released!
  

  

• [Test] NVIDIA Display Drivers 190.56 with OpenGL 3.2 Support And New OpenGL Extensions
  

  

• OpenCL Physics Simulation Across 6 AMD Opteron (24 Cores)
  
  
• Powder Toy Physics Simulation Game
  

  

• Demoscene: Assembly 2009 Results and Releases
  

  

• NVIDIA OptiX Demos Available for Windows
  

  

September 2009

• FurMark Used In GIGABYTE GPU Gauntlet Sorting Process
  

  

• FurMark Slowdown by Catalyst Graphics Drivers is INtentional!
  

  

• ATI Radeon HD 5870: The New Reference for OpenGL High-Performance Graphics?
  

  

• [Tutorial] Discovering Blender Part 3: Applying UV Mapping
  

  

• ATI Cypress (Radeon HD 5870) Cards Have Hardware Protection Against Power Virus Like FurMark and OCCT
  

  

• Hardware PhysX Acceleration is Disabled (GeForce or Ageia) when ATI GPU is Present
  

  

• NVIDIA GT300 Has 512 Cores and Supports C++
  

  

October 2009

• ATI Radeon HD 5850: Cypress Family is Widening
  

  

• NVIDIA Fermi: the Nuclear GPU for Scientific Applications
  

  

• A Patch to Re-Enable Hardware PhysX When ATI Card is Present
  

  

• GeeXLab: Laboratory for Real Time 3D Learning and Experiments
  

  

• NVIDIA Releases The GPU Computing SDK With OpenCL Support and Demos
  

  

• [Shader Library] Night Vision Post Processing Filter (GLSL)
  

  

• Radeon HD 5770
• Radeon HD 5770 Has No Double Precision Floating Point Support
  

  

• S3 Graphics 5400E GPU with OpenGL 3.1 and OpenCL Support
  

  

• [GeeXLab] Shadow Mapping and Large Depth Map on Radeon HD 5770
  

  

November 2009

• NVIDIA OptiX SDK Available for Windows and Linux
  

  

• Overclocking a Radeon HD 5850
  

  

• Exploration of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal
  

  

• ATI Radeon HD 5970: Hemlock is the King!
  

  

• Radeon HD 5970 Overclocking Problems with FurMark
  

  

• NVIDIA GeForce 310: A GeForce 210 Renamed or An Error ???
  

  

• How To Know If a PhysX Application Uses PhysX GPU
  

  

December 2009

• NVIDIA GF100 Fermi SLI Pictured
  

  

• GeForce GTX 275 VRM Damaged by FurMark
  

  

• How to Visualize the Depth Buffer in GLSL
  

  

• GPU Caps Viewer 1.8.0 With OpenCL API Support and DEMOS
  

  

• ATI Stream SDK v2.0 with OpenCL 1.0 Available
  

  

• ATI Catalyst 9.12: OpenGL and OpenCL Details