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NVIDIA Releases GPU Programming Guide for GeForce 8 and Later GPU's

More from the NVIDIA Developer Zone today, as they've released the NVIDIA GeForce 8 and 9 Series GPU Programming Guide, which the website says "provides useful advice on how to identify bottlenecks in your applications, as well as how to eliminate them by taking advantage of the GeForce 8 and 9 Series’ features."

Xbox 360 Jasper investigated

Xbox 360 was recently updated for the third time. It has moved from the Xenon/Zephyr setup using 90nm CPU and GPU, but was later upgraded to Falcon/Opus that shrunk the CPU to 65nm, while the GPU remained at 90nm. The Jasper model has finally arrived with it Microsoft has finally completed the transition to 65nm by also shrinking the graphics circuit. There have been many signs to that the GPU has been the culprit behind the Red Ring of Death (RRoD) phenomena that has killed more than plenty of Xbox 360 consoles.

Do you have a GPU

A GPU is a specialized processor on a video card to help make the card run faster. I never thought that it was something I really needed, as I don't play a lot of 3D games. But according to the PC Hardware / Reviews Guide at About.com, this may be changing. Now, if you have Creative Suite 4 and the appropriate graphics card, you will get some advantage when editing photos in Photoshop, video in Premiere, using Acrobat or Flash player. Using Graphics Cards For More Than Just 3D Graphics

NVIDIA 2009 GPU roadmap revealed

Thanks to a chart posted over at VR-Zone, we now get a clearer picture as to NVIDIA's supposed movements across their GPU line-up throughout 2009.

Xbox 360 GPU Hits 65nm With "Jasper"

A new Xbox 360 motherboard configuration was found this past week by a reader on the Xbox-Scene forums. This new motherboard, code named "Jasper" contains the fabled 65nm GPU among other improvements.

AMD successfully tapes out 40nm GPU

It looks like AMD has just successfully taped out its first 40nm GPU which it calls RV740. Though this is only a mid-range chip which is said to take over where RV730 leaves off, it's a big milestone for AMD and they plan to gain some experience from it in order to better design their next-gen RV870 chip, also referred to as Lil' Dragon.

Inside Tsubame, Japan's GPU-Based Supercomputer

Startled Hippo writes "Japan's Tsubame supercomputer was ranked 29th-fastest in the world in the latest Top 500 ranking with a speed of 77.48T Flops (floating point operations per second) on the industry-standard Linpack benchmark. Why is it so special? It uses NVIDIA GPUs. Tsubame includes hundreds of graphics processors of the same type used in consumer PCs, working alongside CPUs in a mixed environment that some say is a model for future supercomputers serving disciplines like material chemistry." Unlike the GPU-based Tesla, Tsubame definitely won't be mistaken for a personal computer.

Xbox 360 with 65nm Xenos GPU spotted?

Xbox 360 has been a great success for Microsoft, but the video game console has perhaps also been the most criticized of the current generation consoles. Not the least for its power consumption and high temperatures. One of the ways to fix this is to turn to more power efficient components and the perhaps most demanding components is the graphics processor. The made-by-AMD Xenos GPU found in Xbox 360 is powerful, but also a real power hog and emits more than plenty of heat. Many have been waiting for Microsoft to shrink the manufacturing process to enable a cooler and more power efficient chip.

NVIDIA GTX 285 benchmark slides leaked

We've heard and seen a lot about NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce 295 dual-GPU graphics card recently, but little has been mentioned about the next flagship single-GPU offering; the GeForce GTX 285. We know that the card is based on NVIDIA's refined 55nm G200b core and apparently it runs identical specs to the existing GTX 280s, but will come in with higher reference clock speeds yet eats less power.

Inside The Xbox 360 Jasper

Ben Heckendorn got his hands on one of the newer Xbox 360s sporting the new Jasper motherboard. In addition to the GPU heatpipe that has been around for awhile, there is added memory and new 65nm GPU. The article also shows you how to identify the Jasper 360s without cracking it open which, as you can imagine, is handy. Hit the link for all the pics, I snagged this one for those of you too lazy to click the link:

Jasper-Based Xbox 360 Consoles Hit The Scene

After months of anticipation and speculation, revised Xbox 360 consoles built around the new Jasper platform have finally appeared in the wild. Jasper employs an updated GPU manufactured using 65nm process, as opposed to the 90nm process used for the original revision. Other than the GPU, however, a few more changes have been made as well, as reported by the folks at Xbox-Scene…

XBMC Running On an Atom-Based MID

reborn writes "Someone's got XBMC running on one of those MIDs. This one is a Compal Jax10. It runs Linux and is powered by an Intel Atom processor clocked at 800Mhz along with Intel's GMA500, which is basically a licensed PowerVR SGX GPU. Except for the better GPU (and its screen and keyboard, of course), it is similarly specced as some of the lower-end netbooks. XBMC would make a great portable media player, given its ability to play media off the network and virtually all file formats, but in the end it depends on the price-point of these MIDs. Here's the video."

NVIDIA now provides notebook graphics

SANTA CLARA, CA—DECEMBER 18, 2008—Users with notebooks equipped with NVIDIA® graphics processing units (GPUs) now have the added flexibility of downloading upgradeable graphics drivers directly from NVIDIA.com so they can immediately take advantage of new features, improved application compatibility, and performance optimizations. The first graphics driver release from NVIDIA will extend the NVIDIA CUDA™ architecture to notebook GPUs, enabling the growing number of consumers moving to a notebook-only lifestyle to immediately experience the wide range of CUDA-based applications—from heart-stopping GPU-accelerated game physics to GPU-accelerated video conversion.

Intel ups stake in iPhone GPU maker

Intel has countered Apple's investment in Imagination Technologies with an increased stake of its own. The semiconductor maker says it has bought just over 6.9 million shares in Britain-based Imagination to gain a 3.04 percent stake in the company and warns in a required statement that it may respond to any bid to acquire the company with a counter offer of its own, though it adds that there is no immediate intention to launch a takeover itself.

Nvidia offers Intel-thrashing netbook GPU tech

Nvidia is clearly in with Intel: it's announced a netbook integrated-graphics chipset designed to work with the Atom CPU.

HD Video Playback With A $20 CPU & $30 GPU On Linux

"The testing in this article is similar to our original NVIDIA VDPAU benchmarks, but we have now benchmarked not only H.264 but also WMV3 and MPEG acceleration and our test system is very economical. The CPU we used for this latest round of testing is an AMD Sempron LE-1150. The AMD Sempron LE-1150 is a single-core "Sparta" processor clocked at 2.0GHz and built on a 65nm process. There is only 256KB of L2 cache unlike the newer AMD Phenom CPUs that have 512KB of L2 cache for each of its four cores or even some of the Athlon 64 CPUs that have 1MB of L2 cache. One nice feature though about this processor is the 45W thermal design, which makes it ideal for small form factor PCs and media center PCs where minimal active cooling is preferred to keep a low noise level.

HD Video Playback With A $20 CPU & $30 GPU On Linux

Phoronix: "To see how well NVIDIA's VDPAU really is though, we have carried out some more thorough testing now and our hardware consists of a CPU we purchased for $20 USD and a NVIDIA GeForce graphics card that retails for just $30. Can this very low-end hardware manage to play high definition videos under Linux?" Full Story...

HD Video Playback With A $20 CPU & $30 GPU On Linux

A month ago NVIDIA had introduced the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) that brought PureVideo-like features to Linux. Our initial benchmarks of this video decoding API within NVIDIA's binary driver were quite favorable as it was able to dramatically cut down on the CPU usage when playing H.264 video files. To see how well NVIDIA's VDPAU really is though, we have carried out some more thorough testing now and our hardware consists of a CPU we purchased for $20 USD and a NVIDIA GeForce graphics card that retails for just $30. Can this very low-end hardware manage to play high definition videos under Linux?

NVIDIA GTX 295 Brings the Pain and Performance

Vigile writes "Dual-GPU graphics cards are all the rage and it was a pair of RV770 cores that AMD had to use in order to best the likes of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 280. This time NVIDIA has the goal of taking back the performance crown and the GeForce GTX 295 essentially takes two of the GT200 GPUs used on the GTX 280, shrinks them from 65nm to 55nm, and puts them on a single card. The results are pretty impressive and the GTX 295 dominates in the benchmarks with a price tag of $499."

SETI boosted by nVidia CUDA tech

Nvidia'slatest graphics processing units (GPU) are actually being used to search for aliens at part of the SETI@Home project.

Future iPhones to wield OpenCL acceleration

Imagination Technologies has posted a series of job openings for OpenCL engineers, indicating that the open, general purpose GPU parallelism technology Apple spearheaded for use in Mac OS X Snow Leopard is destined to also play a significant role in boosting embedded graphics and video acceleration on the company's future handheld products.

Panasonic prepares new powerline networking gear

A post over at Expreview is indicating they have source spilling some proverbial beans about the upcoming NVIDIA GT212 GPU update due in mid-2009. Here's the table of interest:

Intel Linux Graphics Performance Q4'08

Phoronix: "The past year has brought several invasive changes to the Intel Linux graphics stack with the introduction of the Graphics Execution Manager for GPU memory management within the kernel, support for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure 2, and kernel mode-setting finally getting ready to enter the limelight. How though has the work this year affected the overall performance of Intel integrated graphics on Linux? In this article we have run a few benchmarks that show where the driver was at a few months ago and where it is today." Full Story...

NVIDIA's GeForce G1xx naming goes ahead

Further to initial reports in Q4'08, more evidence has come forth which supports NVIDIA's intent to move all of its lower/mid-range GPU lineups across to the GTxxx naming scheme.

NVIDIA prepping 40-nm GPUs for 2009

With their transition to 55-nm now complete, NVIDIA is expected to introduce their first 40-nm GPUs next year. According to DigiTimes, NVIDIA is prepping a high-end GT212 GPU to replace GT200b, as well as 40-nm GT214 and GT216 GPUs to replace G94 and G96 in Q3'09.

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