http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/18/ati.radeon.hd.5970.boasts.3200.cores/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/atiradeonhd5970.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />AMD on Wednesday bragged of the graphics performance crown with the launch of the ATI Radeon HD 5970. The card uses two 5800 series chipsets on one card to provide the most performance possible. While each has the speed of a 5850 with a 725MHz primary clock speed and 1GHz GDDR5 memory, the 3,200 stream (effects) processors, 160 texture units and 2GB of memory give it as much performance as two 5... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/18/ati.radeon.hd.5970.boasts.3200.cores/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/17/geforce.gt.240.updates.nvs.budget.gpus/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/nvidiageforcegt240.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />NVIDIA in a low-key move today launched the GeForce GT 240. The chipset brings performance from the mid-level to sub-$100 cards and uses the newer 40 nanometer manufacturing process to make itself a reasonable fit in budget PCs: its low energy use both helps it occupy only one slot and to run entirely off the power of the PCI Express bus instead of needing a separate power connector.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/17/geforce.gt.240.updates.nvs.budget.gpus/ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/16/nvidia.20.series.teslas.appear/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/nvidiateslac2050.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />NVIDIA today provided details of the first official hardware to use its upcoming Fermi architecture. The Tesla 20 series is even more optimized for general-purpose computing standards like OpenCL or NVIDIA's own CUDA and handles complex math that previously hasn't been as practical, such as ISO standard double-precision math and C++ code processing. Unlike past models, though, the card model als... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/16/nvidia.20.series.teslas.appear/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/02/nvidia.fermi.with.snow.leopard.in.mind/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/nvidiafermi.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The just-unveiled Fermi graphics architecture will find its way into Macs and play an important role in Mac OS X Snow Leopard, NVIDIA chief scientist Bill Dally said today. While it's expected that NVIDIA would continue to play an important part of future Macs, the researcher drew a particular connection between the new GPU design and Apple's new OS, expecting that it would provide a significant ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/02/nvidia.fermi.with.snow.leopard.in.mind/ Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/02/nvidia.fermi.to.start.with.three.models/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/nvidiafermi-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />NVIDIA's Fermi architecture will start with three models if it ships before the end of the year as promised, one leak from Friday claims. A flagship single-chip model would have the 512 cores NVIDIA is advertising, but a second model would, like the GeForce GTX 295, have two slightly less powerful chipsets on one card that combined would be much faster. The slowdown may be necessary as Fudzilla ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/02/nvidia.fermi.to.start.with.three.models/ Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/30/nvidia.fermi/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/nvidiafermi.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />NVIDIA this evening provided an early look at the next generation of its graphics processors. Nicknamed Fermi, the architecture for future GeForce, Quadro and Tesla chipsets will jump from 240 cores to a much larger 512 and should be much faster in each core courtesy of some industry-first techniques. Fermi chips will be the first GPUs to have a real cache hierarchy, with Level 1 caches to keep ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/30/nvidia.fermi/ Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/23/ati.radeon.hd.5800.official/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/atiradeonhd5870.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />AMD's graphics label ATI tonight claimed to set a new benchmark for graphics with the Radeon HD 5800 series. The new video hardware is theoretically twice as fast as the 4870 and has an extremely large set of 1,600 stream (visual effect) cores -- enough to calculate 2.72 teraflops per second. Besides handling twice as many rendering tasks at once, the 5800 is also running a sixth-generation engi... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/23/ati.radeon.hd.5800.official/ Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/24/ati.radeon.hd.5800.leak/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0908/amdradeonhd4890.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />AMD's major video chipset update this fall has had its feature set and release date uncovered thanks to a slip of information Monday. The ATI Radeon HD 5800 series should be fronted by the 5850 and 5870, both high-end cards that could be the first to support Eyefinity, a technology that not unlike Matrox cards will support three displays on a single card. They are also to be AMD's first graphics... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/24/ati.radeon.hd.5800.leak/ Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/02/radeon.hd.4200.leak/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0907/amdmobilityradeonhd4860.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />AMD is developing an integrated graphics chipset for budget PCs that could take the performance crown in the category, a leaked roadmap shows. Codenamed RS880 but likely to be badged Radeon HD 4200 when it ships, the design will have a new graphics core that should run about 15 percent faster than "anything comparable" on the market, implying that NVIDIA's GeForce 9400 or 9400M may be the primary ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/02/radeon.hd.4200.leak/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/01/nvidia.ion.sequel.speedup/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0907/nvidiageforce9400m.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The sequel to NVIDIA's Ion platform could be much faster than its predecessor when it ships, leaks today would show. While the current graphics and chipset combo is based on the GeForce 9400M and has just 16 visual effects cores, Fudzilla now hears that it will have 32 cores, potentially doubling the amount of simultaneous effects it can handle at once. The difference will have the most dramatic... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/01/nvidia.ion.sequel.speedup/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:30:00 GMT