Advanced Micro Devices has released a new professional graphics card known as FirePro R5000. While there are many other AMD professional graphics cards this one differs from the rest by being able to send video to remote client devices using standard network interfaces. It is exactly this capability that allows the AMD FirePro R5000 graphics card to connect to up to four scre...
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Toshiba cuts CPU cache power consumption by 85 per cent
25 February 2013 | Notebooks, PC, Tablets
Toshiba has brought some great news for chip makers and consumers by introducing a new innovative CPU technology that cuts CPU cache power consumption by up to 85 per cent. The new technology is based on using a bit line power calculator (BLPC) and a digitally controllable retention circuit (DCRC) and works by reducing active and standby power consumption in temperatures that ran...
AMD posts Opteron 4365 information
22 February 2013 | PC
AMD’s corporate web site has unveiled the first details on an upcoming Piledriver-based Opteron processor that will power SeaMicro SM15000 servers – the Opteron 4365. Up until now SeaMicro servers were powered by Intel Xeon E3-1260L processors with an upcoming update in the form of Intel Xeon E3-1265L v2 Ivy Bridge chips. The AMD Opteron 4365 will have eight Piledriver core...
New AMD Malta graphics card to come this summer
22 February 2013 | PC
It seems that the wide release of GeForce GTX Titan graphics cards has really shaken the people at AMD because the recent announcement of the upcoming Radeon HD 7790 graphics card has been followed by a new report that claims AMD will soon introduce a dual-GPU video card that currently goes under the codename Malta. The upcoming dual-GPU card will be the continuation of the widely rumo...
AMD plans Radeon HD 7790 video card
21 February 2013 | PC
A few days ago the launch of the GeForce GTX Titan prompted AMD to announce the upcoming release of a number of new Southern Islands graphics cards scheduled for release later this year. It seems the US chipmaker will keep its promise – in order to compete against NVIDIA’s increasing pressure and counter the delay of its Sea Islands GPU family (Radeon HD 8000 series) AMD will soon ...
MSI works on G-Series gaming motherboard line
20 February 2013 | PC, PC gaming
The upcoming CeBIT 2013, which will be held between March 5-9, 2013 will become the place where MSI will debut a new line of gaming motherboards under the G-Series product name. If this happens then MSI will follow suit with companies such as ASUS, which has its Republic of Gamers line and ASRock with its Fatal1ty line of gaming motherboards. The MSI G-Series line will offer t...
MAINGEAR to offer GeForce GTX Titan gaming PCs
20 February 2013 | PC, PC gaming
US high-end PC maker MAINGEAR will soon add gaming PCs based on NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX Titan graphics card, which was unveiled yesterday. The GeForce GTX Titan is the world’s fastest single-GPU 3D graphics card based on the GK110 Kepler core and offers never before seen frame rates in all games out there beating the previous fastest single-GPU graphics card - the GeForce GTX 680 - by...
AMD plans new Radeon HD 7000-series graphics cards this year
19 February 2013 | PC
The ailing chip company AMD has announced the upcoming release of a number of new Radeon HD 7000-series graphics cards expected to hit the market in H1 2013. This move likely comes due to intense pressure from NVIDIA which today launched the GeForce GTX Titan - a new single-GPU high-end graphics card that is about 50 per cent faster than its previous single-GPU champion – the GeForce...
NVIDIA launches GeForce GTX Titan
19 February 2013 | Featured, PC
NVIDIA has officially launched the GeForce Titan graphics card with a little twist - the card will actually be sold as GeForce GTX Titan. This is pretty much the only change in the card - it still comes with the reported single GK110 core with 2688 stream processors, 6 GB of GDDR5 memory and a 384-bit bus. The core runs at 837 MHz (876 MHz in Turbo Mode) while the memory operates at 60...
ASUS launches ROG ARES II graphics card
19 February 2013 | PC
Perhaps as a response to NVIDIA’s launch of the GeForce GTX Titan the Taiwanese ASUS has started the sales of another 3D graphics monster – the dual-GPU ROG ARES II-6GD5 graphics card. The new graphics card is based on two AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition graphics chips and 6 GB of GDDR5 memory. The cores run at 1050 MHz (1100 MHz in Turbo mode) while the graphics memory works at 660...
ASUS presents 20-inch ET2012AUTB all-in-one PC
18 February 2013 | PC
ASUS has taken the wraps off another all-in-one PC that goes under the ET2012AUTB product name. The ASUS ET2012AUTB comes with a 20-inch monitor that works at 1600 x 900 pixels, AMD E2-1800 APU (two Bobcat cores at 1.7 GHz and a built-in HD 7340 GPU), 4 GB of DDR3 memory, a 500 GB hard drive, a DVD-RW drive and a SD/SDHC/MMC card reader. As expected the ASUS ET2012AUTB supports 802.11n...
