Nvidia's GeForce GTX 680 is hard to find online
The new flagship in Nvidia's graphics processor family came out last week, but you wouldn't know it from scouring at e-tail listings around the web. In a cursory look around major online retailers in the U.S. and Canada today, we found few GeForce GTX 680 variants listed and none stocked by the vendors themselves. AMD's competing Radeon HD 7970, by contrast, appears to be in plentiful supply.
We checked availability by seeking out cards at Newegg, TigerDirect, and Amazon here in the States. Those are all large retailers with sizable stocks, and other, smaller vendors seem to be slipping behind. North of the border, we looked at NCIX. The cards we found are ...
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Catalyst 12.3 drivers fix bugs, fully support new Radeons
AMD's monthly WHQL-certified graphics driver update is here. The company has rolled out its Catalyst 12.3 release, which feature full support for Radeon HD 7900-, 7800-, and 7700-series graphics cards (in Windows 7 and Vista, at least), some bug fixes, and the all-important stamp of approval from Microsoft's Windows Hardware Qualification Labs. Folks running Windows XP will apparently have to wait for next month's Catalyst 12.4 release to get complete 7000-series GPU support.
The official release notes list ...
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XFX's Radeon HD 7850 and 7870 Black Edition graphics cards
We're already well acquainted with AMD's Radeon HD 7870 and 7850 graphics cards. We studied them, and the Pitcairn graphics processors that dwell within them, about three weeks ago. In that initial encounter, we learned that these cards have all the makings of successors to the popular Radeon HD 6800 series: similar-sized GPUs and memory interfaces, with lower power requirements. The newcomers are quite a bit faster, too. Thanks to a new 28-nm chip fabrication process and a revised graphics architecture, dubbed GCN, they even outpace the old Radeon HD 6900 series cards, which are based on larger chips.
Unfortunately for bargain hunters, AMD has priced the Radeon HD 7850 and 7870 at $249 and $349, respectively, well above the $180-240 price range the 6800 series occupied when it arrived in October 2010. Whispers around the industry suggest the higher prices can be attributed the limited supply ...
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Poll: Where do you most want a high-DPI display?
High-DPI screens are all the rage these days. Apple deserves credit for starting the trend with the Retina display on the iPhone 4, and it's followed up in stunning fashion with the 2048x1536 pixels spread across the new iPad's 10" panel. Rumors abound that next-generation MacBooks and ultrabooks will feature high-DPI displays, as well. Microsoft has even detailed how Windows 8 will scale with higher pixel densities.
We're clearly on a path to greater pixel densities, but high-DPI displays remain relatively rare outside a handful of devices. In our latest poll, we're curious to see where you're most eager to see an increase in the number of pixels ...
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Crowd-sourcing raises $660,000 for PC racing sim
We discussed the racing sim Project CARS on the Podcast a few weeks ago, but there's fresh news on the title. Developer Slightly Mad Studios, which worked on the Need for Speed: Shift series, has revealed that it's raised $660,000 through the game's unique approach to crowd-sourcing. Over 40,000 people have contributed, and they're already getting something in return. Backers can play early builds of the game, participate in forum discussions on features, attend development meetings, and even have their faces put in the final product. There are difference access levels depending on how much you kick in, starting with a Junior level that costs about $13 and ending with a Senior Manager position that runs over $33,000. Contributed funds earn gamers a discount on the final product. Spring for Full Member status, which costs $60, and you'll end up getting the game for free.
If that's not enough to entice you, buying into Project CARS early can be seen as an investment. 70% of the game's profits will ...
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Adobe to charge Flash devs for 'premium' 3D features
As we saw earlier this month, the latest version of Flash has all the right bits and pieces to allow for a playable Unreal Engine 3 tech demo. Pretty impressive stuff. According to CNet News, however, there's a slight catch: starting in August, Adobe will require a cut of commercial projects that use the "premium" features required to make such games possible. Adobe says so quite plainly on its Adobe Flash Player Premium Features for Gaming page:
There is no charge to use premium features in applications that generate less than $50,000 in application revenue. For each application ...
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Updated: Judge denies Hasbro's injuction request against Asus
As The Verge reports, a federal district court judge has denied Hasbro's request for an injunction that would have prevented the sale of Asus' Transformer tablets. The request was related to a lawsuit Hasbro filed against Asus alleging that the Transformer and Transformer Prime tablets infringe upon Hasbro's Transformers franchise.
Among other things, the decision said Asus' naming scheme "had nothing to do with Hasbro's products" yet "accurately ...
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