Samsung: DDR DRAMs to Remain in Short Supply

 

Samsung has just confirmed reports that there are tight supplies of DDR3, and warned that the shortages would last until the first quarter of next year, according to EETimes.

Keich Lee, manager of memory marketing for Samsung said that shortages of “DDR2 are more severe than DDR3″, and “DDR2 prices surpassed DDR3 at the end of September.”

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Intel Graphics Drivers Employ Optimizations for 3DMark Vantage

 

Intel has been accused of not playing fair as its 15.15.4.1872 Graphics Media Accelerator drivers for Windows 7 incorporate performance optimizations that specially target the 3DMark Vantage benchmark.

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NVIDIA Delivers SLI Profile Update 3

 

NVIDIA has just released its SLI Profile update 3 which should be used with v191.07 WHQL display driver.

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ATI Radeon HD 5700 Reviews Sum-up

 

AMD has just officially unveiled its Radeon HD 5700 series, 40nm DirectX 11 graphics cards which target mainstream market. AMD did a good job really in infusing DirectX 11 technology and adding immersive features just like Eyefinity. The new babies are claimed to consume less power as well.

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NVIDIA Mainstream Fermi Reportedly Arrives in Late Q1

 

The launch of Radeon 5800 series and subsequent launch of Radeon HD 5700 has been greeted by immense number of positive reviews, but NVIDIA appears to be weaker in this part. According to Fudzilla, its Fermi will not be available until Q1 2010.

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TechPowerUp GPU-Z v0.3.6 Ready for Grabs

 

TechPowerUp has today released the newest version of their GPU detection utility – GPU-Z v0.3.6, which includes support for the unreleased ATI Radeon HD 5900 (Hemlock), HD 5600 (Cedar) and HD 5300 (Redwood).

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