GeForce GTX 460 coming in July
The Computex rumour mill has churned out a few interesting tidbits about the new GeForce GTX 465. For one, it should offer quite a bit of overclocking potential. The GF104 is quite a bit smaller and less complex than the GF100 core, so it could hit the sweet spot for Nvidia, as it will deliver higher clocks and solid performance with significantly lower production costs. Despite this, the GTX 460 will reportedly feature a 180W TDP at stock clocks, which sounds a bit too much for an 8.5-inch card.
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PowerColor releases HD 5770 Evolution with Hydra chip
PowerColor is showing off a few very custom graphics cards at its Computex booth, including the Radeon HD 5770 Evolution which comes equipped with Lucidlogix's Hydra chip, enabling it to be paired up with another Radeon or even a GeForce card for enhanced gaming performance.
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Sonic acquires DivX
Sonic Solutions has announced that it will acquire digital media company DivX, merging the operations of the company into its own. Under the terms of the agreement, Sonic will pay about $326 million in cash and stock, with DivX stock holders receiving 0.514 shares of Sonic and $3.75 cash per share. DivX closed the day trading at $8.79, after closing at $6.95 on Tuesday. Sonic says the deal should close in September, and says the deal will possibly double its EPS (earnings per share) for the fiscal year that starts in April 2011.
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Galaxy prepares dual-GPU GeForce GTX 470
Nvidia Fermi is a pretty hot chip which makes dual-GPU designs pretty difficult if not even impossible, especially if you intend to push these chips to full speed. Galaxy, however, seems to have felt adventurous enough and showed off a dual-GPU GTX 470 card at Computex. The card features two GF100 GPUs on a single PCB and it features two 8-pin PCIe power connectors and three dual-link DVI outs. It's clearly a prototype, but the company obviously wasn’t shy of showing it off.
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Nvidia announces the 3D revolution
Speaking of revolution in Taiwan is always risky, but Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang didn't mince words, saying that it's the beginning of the 3D revolution. Huang spoke at its 3D Experience Center, a few blocks away from the Computex Taiwan World Trade Center Hall, where he had gathered a few hundred tech reporters and graphics groupies. Indeed, although, Huang spoke for a bit about Nvidia's Optimus and DX11 support, most of his enthusiasm was reserved for Nvidia's 3D Vision.
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Chrome gained even more market share in May
According to the latest data from NetApplications, Google's Chrome browser continues to take market share at a rapid pace, and is continuing its pace to surpass the 10 percent milestone by the end of the year. For the month ended May 31st, Chrome moved to 7.05 percent share, up from 6.73 percent at the end of April. Google's gain came at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox, which both continue to lose share on a continuing basis.
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Sapphire prepares passive-cooled Radeon HD 5670
For all them users in need of a graphics card that offers both silent operation and decent mid-range gaming performance, Sapphire reckons it has the answer in the form of its passive Radeon HD 5670. The card is about as high up the ATI ladder you can get before requiring additional power connectors, making it ideal for a fairly basic build. Ideal, perhaps, for an HTPC that'll double as a casual gaming rig.
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AMD demonstrates first Fusion APU at Computex
AMD has demonstrated its new hybrid graphics-microprocessor chip at Computex 2010. In a press release AMD said it is on schedule to show working chips later this year and launch the Accelerated Processing Units. The company said that the Fusion design represents a significant shift in the architecture of personal computers, combining the microprocessor, which is great at processing big tasks one after another, with the graphics chip, which can process lots of small and similar tasks all at the same time.
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ATI CrossFireX: It Takes Two To Tango
The possibility of pairing up graphics cards in order to increase the overall graphics subsystem strength is nothing new. Ever since the golden days of 3dfx and the first SLI mode (which was not the same as today’s Nvidia SLI) have two graphics cards in a single PC been an option. To be honest, only the last few generations have made this concept practically usable, meaning that the gain from using two cards instead of one has a significant performance impact compared to the doubled price required to be paid. Actually, most users still think that two graphics cards equals double the performance, but that’s not exactly the case. Still, that isn’t to say that a long period of time hasn’t passed since gains of 30-50% were considered good, and on the other hand, ATI and Nvidia have kept on increasing the number of Radeons/GeForces one can place inside a single PC.
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