Review of Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason |
AMD Denies Layoff Rumors |
As the whole world encounters financial crysis, lots of rumors about layoff have been going around. According to Digitimes, AMD may lay off an additional 10% of their global workforce of around 15,000 employees in January 2009.
Reliable Information Shows Improved Frequency of Nvidia GTX285 |
Last week we unveiled some information about NVIDIA GeForce GTX285. As we said, GTX285 can be regarded as GTX280 Overclocking Edition based on 55nm processing.
According to exact data we got today, the core/shader/memory frequency of GTX285 is 648/1476/1242MHz (2484MHz data rate) respectively. We can see obvious improvements comparing with 602/1296/1107MHz of GTX280. It’s noteworthy that the improvement of shader frequency has exceeded that of core frequency. In another word, the shader clock/core clock scaling of GTX285 is bigger than GTX280, which means slight improvement in performance.
AMD RV775 Ready to Give Nvidia a Punch |
We have unveiled lots of details of NVIDIA new-line products (GeForce GTX260, GTX285, GTX295) expected to be out next year. Of course AMD wouldn’t keep quiet always. It has been nearly half a year since RV770 was launched in June. Some websites have reported that AMD will bring out something new – 55nm RV790 (960SP) for transition between 55nm RV770 and 40nm RV870. Is that true?
Couple of days ago we got an email from a mysterious friend from US who would like to leak something new just because he likes our style. We need to keep his name condential, but we’d love to share all the information we’ve got. We won’t make use of this to do any evil things. Considering AMD ever purposely leaked some confusing news about RV770, the following data remains to be confirmed.
OCZ Introduces 2.5″ Vertex Series SSD |
OCZ now unveils its 2.5” Vertex Series Solid State Drive (SSD) featuring Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND flash memory. 30/60GB Vertex is equipped with 32MB of cache, and 120/250GB SSD offers 64MB of cache.
RivaTuner v2.21 Featuring Catalyst 8.12 Support |
RivaTuner v2.21 is offered today to support ATI Catalyst 8.12 Display Driver and NV’s latest Forceware 180.84 driver. It supports GeForce 9×00/GTX200 Series VGA cards. Besides, RivaTuner v2.21 has also improved the compability of GTA4 game.
55nm GTX285 Climbs to Head of Single-GPU Cards |
We have looked into 55nm GeForce GTX260 VGA Card, now let’s turn to 55nm GTX280. It features brand-new PCB design and enhanced default frequency. Besides, it’s been given a new brand – GeForce GTX285.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX280
Roadmap Indicates CUDA 3.0 in Q4 2009 |
As the only runtime C language environment for GPU at present, NVIDIA CUDA has been put into application by 25,000 users in more than 100 programs. Of course this number has been increasing with the improvements of CUDA itself.
ATI Releases Catalyst 8.12 Display Driver |
ATI today updates Catalyst 8.12 display driver which strengthens gaming performance hugely. Besides, Catalyst 8.12 also integrates Stream Acceleration support. Radeon HD 4600/4800 Series VGA Cards will support ATI Avivo Video Converter function, which enables video compression/encoding to be converted promptly, and improves video quality by reducing SNR.
GeForce GTX 295 Card Exposed |
VR-Zone has scored the first photo of the upcoming GeForce GTX 295 card slated for launch over at CES 2009. Just as we reported, the GeForce GTX 295 is based on the sandwich design again like the 9800GX2 with two 55nm GT200 GPUs. As you can see, there are 2 DVI and 1 Display Port (we think it’s HDMI though).
