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AMD Releases HD 6990: Fastest "Single" Card-> 0

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on Tuesday March 08 2011, @01:06AM

JoshMST writes "AMD has unleashed the big guns... again. While NVIDIA may soon follow with a new dual GPU card, AMD has struck first with the HD 6990. This monster card pairs two full Cayman GPUs together along with 4 GB of memory total. The card is fast, the card pulls power, and the card drains the bank account. But it might be worth it."
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NVIDIA GF100 wants to revolutionize GPUs-> 0

Submitted by JoshMST on Monday January 18 2010, @12:54AM

JoshMST writes "NVIDIA is late to the party with DX11-ready graphics hardware, but they are
hoping to make up for it with a very unique and different design than the
competing AMD Radeon GPUs. The GF100 GPU is
essentially the same hardware that was detailed in the
Fermi release late last year, but only now do details emerge on how the
hardware is targeted at the gaming market. A total of 512 processing cores
are combined with a new PolyMorph Engine that performs the necessary
tessellation for DX11 but in a new, less serialized manner. The chip is
going to be big and we already know that it is going to be power hungry,
but until actual products and benchmarks are revealed, the final answer
between AMD and NVIDIA this generation will be up in the air."
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SLI on Life Support on the AMD Platform-> 2

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on Friday June 19 2009, @01:48AM

JoshMST writes "For years AMD and NVIDIA were like peas and carrots, and their SNAP partnership proved to be quite successful for both companies. Things changed dramatically when AMD bought up ATI, and now it seems like NVIDIA is pulling the plug on SLI support for the AMD platform. While the chipset division at AMD may be a bitter rival to NVIDIA, the CPU guys there have had a long and prosperous relationship with the Green Machine. While declining chipset margins on the AMD side was attributed to AMD's lackluster processor offerings for the past several years, the Phenom II chips have reawakened interest in the platform and they have found a place in enthusiasts' hearts again. Unfortunately for NVIDIA, they are seemingly missing out on a significant revenue stream by not offering new chipsets to go with these processors. They have also curtailed SLI adoption on the AMD platform as well, which couldn't be happening at a worse time."
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PC Perspective Live IDF Coverage-> 0

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on Tuesday August 19 2008, @06:07PM

JoshMST writes "PC Perspective is live at IDF, and by using a new (for PCPer) streaming app, users can read what Ryan is experiencing at IDF. It is also interactive in that users can contribute to the dialog, or ask Ryan questions in realtime that he can either answer, or pass them onto the folks at Intel."
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