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3D-Tech News Around The Web / HWiNFO/32/64 v4.18

« on: May 18, 2013, 03:37:19 PM »

Changes in HWiNFO v4.18 - Released on: May-16-2013:

    Fixed reporting of GPU Power/Current on certain CHL controllers.
    Added support of CHL8203, CHL8212 and CHL8213 on GPU.
    Added preliminary support ITE IT8732.
    Separated reporting of GPU codename.
    Improved Intel Haswell support.
    Improved AMD Kabini support.
    Added AMD Radeon HD 7990 (Malta).
    Added reporting of GPU Serial Number for later ATI/AMD GPUs.
    Enhanced sensor monitoring on Apple machines.
    Added AMD Radeon HD 7730.
    Added support of NCT6683D hardware monitor.
    Avoid polling of nVidia GPUs disabled by Optimus.
    Added monitoring of some ACPI values.
    Added monitoring of CPU Core/NB currents and powers on AMD Trinity, Richland and Kabini.
    Added nVidia GeForce GTX 770 and GeForce GTX 780.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / TechPowerUp GPU-Z v0.7.1

« on: May 18, 2013, 03:35:10 PM »

GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU.
Version History
0.7.1

    Added support for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770, GTX 780, GTX 650 Ti OEM, GT 640 (GK208), GT 630 (GK208), GT 730M, GT 750M, GTX 780M, GRID K1, GRID K2
    Added support for AMD Radeon HD 7730, HD 8310G, HD 6480G, HD 8410G, HD 8450G, HD 8510G, HD 8550G, HD 8610G, HD 8650G
    Fixed BIOS reading on GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    Added experimental sensor readout to show reason for power capping on recent NVIDIA cards
    Fixed clock readings on some older NVIDIA cards
    Improved detection for future NVIDIA cards

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / NVIDIA CUDA 5.0 for MAC release 5.0.59

« on: May 15, 2013, 06:04:48 PM »

New in Release 5.0.59 - no changelog available

actually libcuda_313.01.01.dylib has been added

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / NVIDIA Quadro & GeForce Mac OS X Driver Release 313.01.01

« on: May 15, 2013, 04:37:10 PM »

New in Release 313.01.01f03:

    Contains performance improvements and bug fixes for a wide range of applications.
    Includes new NVIDIA Driver Manager preference pane.

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS for Driver Release 313.01.01f03

    Model identifier should be MacPro3,1 (2008), MacPro4,1 (2009), MacPro5,1 (2010) or later
    Mac OS X v10.8.3

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / Re: (Android) Kainy - Remote Gaming/Desktop

« on: May 14, 2013, 04:51:02 PM »

(the samples below, for some reason GPU test fails).

Maybe the failure is related to the fact that GPUTest is a 64-bit application? All other benchmarks (FluidMark, FurMark, ...) are 32-bit apps.

Yes, indeed!
The Kainy server software is only 32 bit, so it can't hook into 64 bit apps.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / (Android) Kainy - Remote Gaming/Desktop

« on: May 13, 2013, 05:01:21 PM »

Kainy is a remote desktop oriented for Gaming and Performance.
Stream your games from your PC into your Phone/Tablet.
Play your PC Games Everywhere (Wifi/3G/4G).

- HD/native resolution (8 qualities).
- About 100 Preset Templates for Controls and UI.
- Up to 60 fps.
- Customize your Interfaces (Buttons and Controls).
- Apply your Custom Pages (Interfaces) for each of your Games/Applications.
- Use Accelerometer to control your Games.
- Support Fullscreen, Sounds, Bluetooth Keyboard...
- Authentication/Data encryption in 128 bits.
- Use Kainy as Game Controller.
- Optimized for Neon, Tegra2 and Tegra3.
- Multi-Devices connections (Up to 5).

As opposed to "Splashtop" it works with AMD GPUs in full screen mode (the samples below, for some reason GPU test fails).
Use a fast server, it's a bit laggy with an old AMD APU
The config is a PITA, i suggest to try the demo first.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / NVIDIA GeForce 320.14 Metro: Last Light Beta Drivers Released

« on: May 13, 2013, 04:41:53 PM »

The new GeForce 320.14, Metro: Last Light beta drivers are now available to download. Boosting performance in the eagerly anticipated sequel by up to 10%, the 320.14 beta drivers also ensure maximum system compatibility when battling the monsters of Last Light's post-apocalyptic world. For an in-depth look at the game's technology and GPU performance check out our new Metro: Last Light Graphics Breakdown & Performance Guide.

320.14 beta also includes all of the performance optimizations and SLI profiles found in the recent 320.00 beta release, improving performance and compatibility in games such as Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, Dead Island: Riptide, Dungeons & Dragons: Neverwinter, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, GRID 2, Remember Me, Natural Selection 2, Resident Evil 6, Tomb Raider, and TrackMania² Canyon.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / NVIDIA Lifelike Human Face Rendering demo

« on: May 12, 2013, 06:43:45 AM »

Lifelike Human Face Rendering
Meet "Digital Ira". Ira represents a big leap forward in capturing and rendering human facial expression in real time, and gives us a glimpse of the realism we can look forward to in our favorite game characters.

This demonstration highlights the state of the art in performance capture. All Ira''s motions were acted out in a "light stage" at the Institute for Creative Technology at USC. The team there headed by Dr. Paul Debevec is able to photographically capture facial geometry, surface detail, and lighting information of an actor without any of the traditional tricks of face markers or special makeup.

This light stage data is pulled into NVIDIA''s demo engine, and using FaceWorks rendering technology we witness a realism of human facial rendering never before seen in real time. FaceWorks shading gives Ira lifelike skin, eyes, lips and teeth. Adaptive tessellation keeps the curves of his face perfectly smooth.

Play with this interactive demo to see Ira immersed in three different lighting environments. Adjust his skin rendering to see the effect of sub surface light transmission through his skin. And, see the realism of his facial motion as he stares you down with a myriad of lifelike expresssions.

This demo works with Fermi (GTX 465), but doesn't (yet) run on AMD GPUs.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 3.0 released

« on: May 11, 2013, 06:37:30 AM »

The final release of Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 3.0 is available for download under Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition Registered Developer Program.
This new release officially supports OpenGL frame debugging and profiling, GLSL GPU shader debugging, local single GPU shader debugging, the new Kepler™ GK110 architecture found in Tesla® K20 & GeForce GTX TITAN, and CUDA® 5.0.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / (Android) GPGPU Benchmark

« on: May 10, 2013, 02:51:15 PM »

This App test the General Purpose Computation on your GPU of your device. You can upload your results and see the comparison of several devices.

I will use the results for my final paper.

Thank you for your help.

Permissions:
- Internet, Network and Wifi state are used for uploading results and ads (ads can be disabled in settings)
- Camera is used for testing camera performance (see screenshots)
- prevent from sleeping is used when benchmark is running

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manuals May 2013

« on: May 10, 2013, 01:43:39 PM »

[PDF] AMD64 Technology AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Volume 5: 64-Bit Media and x87 Floating-Point Instructions

[PDF] AMD64 Technology AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Volume 4: 128-Bit and 256-Bit Media Instructions

[PDF] AMD64 Technology AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Volume 3: General-Purpose and System Instructions

[PDF] AMD64 Technology AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Volume 2: System Programming

[PDF] AMD64 Technology AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Volume 1: Application Programming

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / (Android) OpenGL-ES info 1.4

« on: May 07, 2013, 04:27:35 PM »

OpenGL-ES Info lets you view relevant information about your device's OpenGL-ES implementation. The data includes:

- all available display configurations
- available EGL extensions
- vendor, version & renderer strings
- all supported extensions, both for GL-ES 1.x as well as 2.x

Using the sharing option, the results can be sent by email, stored on your Dropbox account, or shared via any app that accepts plain text input.

What's New in this version:
Check for ES3 support in configurations list.

Obviously no GLES3 in Nexus 4, i doubt that it will be added in upcoming Jelly Bean 4.3 update.
So lets wait for "Key Lime Pie" (Android OS 5)

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / CUDA-Z Release 0.7.181 is out

« on: May 02, 2013, 04:45:48 PM »

2013.05.02: Release 0.7.181 is out

Mainstream release.

    Better support of Windows 8.
    Number of fixes for Linux and MacOSX.
    Multiple bugfixes for all platforms.
    Use CUDA SDK 5.0+.
    Add GK11x support.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / Ogre 1.9 RC1 is here

« on: May 01, 2013, 05:44:53 PM »

Ogre 1.9 RC1 is here!

Good news!
Some days ago we finally tagged our official source code repository with “v1-9-0RC1” which of course means to we reached a development state that we consider feature-complete for Ogre 1.9. As usual we first release a Release Candidate (RC) version that – if no major issues are found or any upcoming issues were fixed – will be declared final/stable and then become the official current Ogre version. So please: Wherever possible switch to the new version to give it a try and report any issues you find to our Ogre JIRA tracker so that we as the team can tackle them.

...

Changelog highlights:

        New LOD Volume Rendering Component with LOD from GSoC 2012
        Terrain Improvements from GSoC 2012
        Android platform support
        Windows Phone 8 platform support
        Windows Metro / WinRT support
        OpenGL3+ Render System (still experimental and under heavy development)
        Improvements to all Render Systems, e.g. DirectX11 from GSoC 2012
        multitude of bug fixes

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / AMD Catalyst 13.4 beta for Radeon HD 4000, HD 3000 and HD 2000 Series

« on: May 01, 2013, 01:20:36 PM »

AMD Catalyst™ Driver for AMD Radeon™ HD 4000, HD 3000 and HD 2000 Series

AMD has moved to the AMD Radeon™ HD 4000, AMD Radeon HD 3000, and AMD Radeon HD 2000 Series new driver support model.  These updates will focus on resolving application specific issues and critical updates. The reason for the shift in support policy is largely due to the fact that the AMD Radeon HD 4000, AMD Radeon HD 3000, and AMD Radeon HD 2000 Series have been optimized to their maximum potential from a performance and feature perspective.

Feature Highlight of the AMD Catalyst™ 13.4 Legacy Beta Driver:
                     -  Resolves a driver crash in Company of Heroes 2

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / NVIDIA D3D11 Deferred Contexts

« on: April 30, 2013, 05:31:57 PM »

Game Engines are Complex
●Many possible bottlenecks
●CPU
● Game code bottleneck
● D3D11 Runtime bottleneck
● Driver code bottleneck
●GPU
● Shading, Texture, etc etc
● Blending
●Bandwidth
● Texture and Buffer updates

...

What is a ―Deferred Context‖
●ID3D11DeviceContext that does not immediately issue commands invoked on it
●Called a ―deferred context‖ or ―DC‖
●All commands are deferred until later
●―Finished― into a ID3D11CommandList
●ID3D11CommandList is executed later on immediate context (―IC‖)
●Supported on all D3D11 hardware
●Possibly through emulation in D3D11 runtime

download whitepaper

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / Mark Rein Talks About the Future of the Unreal Engine on Mobile

« on: April 26, 2013, 05:18:50 PM »

In this exclusive video interview with Epic Games co-founder, Mark Rein, learn about how the Unreal Engine and Tegra are leading the way in the mobile gaming space.

Unreal Engine-powered games like Real Boxing and the upcoming HAWKEN running on Project SHIELD are bringing console-quality experiences into the palm of your hand.

I got Real Boxing @ 99 Cent sale, but the touch screen control on Nexus 7 sucks (if you have stubby fingers).

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / Intel - Fluid Simulation for Video Games (part 16)

« on: April 26, 2013, 04:51:55 PM »

This article showed how to use SPH, instead of a grid, to compute density gradient. The simulation accompanying this article uses that to compute baroclinic generation of vorticity. The result is mesh free and automatically dynamically adapts to nonuniform distributions of particles but takes more time to run.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / (WebGL) Goo engine

« on: April 26, 2013, 04:44:29 PM »

Goo Engine is available as invitation only alpha!

To make sure that we can give the best possible support to early adopters, we are releasing Goo Engine to a limited number of people. If you are interested in trying out Goo Engine, apply by registering here.

"Pearl boy" demo screenshots from Firefox on Android, Chrome beta for Android fails to render the model.

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3D-Tech News Around The Web / AMD Catalyst 13.4 EDG

« on: April 26, 2013, 04:24:31 PM »

This driver matches with the WHQL version (except from the different installer file).
Supported devices:

AMD6763.1 = "AMD Radeon E6460"
AMD6743.1 = "AMD Radeon E6760"
AMD9804.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 6250 Graphics"
AMD9805.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 6250 Graphics"
AMD9807.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 6290 Graphics"
AMD9803.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 6310 Graphics"
AMD9802.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 6320 Graphics"
AMD9806.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 6320 Graphics"
AMD6720.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 6900M Series"
AMD9994.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7400G"
AMD99A4.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7400G"
AMD9992.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7420G"
AMD99A2.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7420G"
AMD9993.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7480D"
AMD990A.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7500G"
AMD9919.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7500G"
AMD9990.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7520G"
AMD99A0.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7520G"
AMD9991.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7540D"
AMD9904.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7560D"
AMD9908.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7600G"
AMD9918.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7600G"
AMD9907.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7620G"
AMD9917.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7620G"
AMD9903.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7640G"
AMD9913.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7640G"
AMD9901.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7660D"
AMD9900.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7660G"
AMD9910.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7660G"
AMD6819.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series"
AMD6800.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7970M"
AMD68B8.1 = "ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series"