Tuesday Shortbread |
Graphics Card:
First non-reference HD 4850 introduced with PCB and circuit re-design by Sapphire |
Altough many non-reference HD 4850 have already showed up, they seems only changed the cooler. As the biggest partner of AMD, Sapphire introduces the first circuit and PCB re-design non-reference HD 4850.
Powercolor HD 4870 1GB GDDR5 has awesome VRM |
PowerColor is going to launch HD 4870 1GB GDDR5. We’ve got some more pics of the card.
With R700 AMD has HD 4800 series wholly reach 80℃ idle Temperature |
HD 4870 under infrared unveils the PCB even reaches 119℃
Recently the hottest VGA Cards must be the AMD’s next generation HD 4800 series. In our first review of the Radeon HD 4870, we figured out that HD 4850 and HD 4870 both reach 79℃ when they’re idle. And what’s more, from the newest previews we found the R700 is even hotter! They’re even hitting 90℃. Here’s three temperature resultsof R700 from previews (We overviews almost every preview, but it seems most of them didn’t take the temperature test since R700 wasn’t supportted by GPU-Z then) :
DirectX 11 preliminary details emerges in Gamefest |
Tessallation dividesgiant subjects into smaller pieces – either irregular tetrahedrons, or irregular hexahedrons
Today Microsoft unveils more details about the next generation API – DirectX 11. The Compute Shader, Tessallation, Multi-thread randerings and GPGPU support are included.
