ATI’s Radeon HD5970 Hemlock - DirectX 11, lots-o-cores, multiple displays, over-clockable
Posted by Jon Peddie on November 24th 2009 | Permalink
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Number five in its series of new AIBs, ATI as promised delivered the dual chip HD5970 Radeon board. It’s killer fast, easy on the power supply and pocketbook, and has bonuses like multi-display output and over clocking tools. The board comes with 2GB of DDR5, one each for each GPU. The GPUs get to the PCIe lanes via a gen2 PLX PCIe bridge chip. We ran a series of tests on the board in Windows 7 and the results were very impressive—without over-clocking. ATI has a lot of headroom in the RV870 Evergreen GPU, and the two of them on the…
New benchmarks - Radeon HD 5870 Review
Posted by Kathleen Maher on August 17th 2010 | Permalink
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Two new games are out, or will be shortly, and they run DirectX, even though they look like re-ports from a console platform. Nonetheless they do have interesting effects and lighting in them, and give a GPU an interesting workout. “Mafia II” Developed by 2K Czech (previously known as Illusion Softworks), “Mafia II” is published by 2K Games and was first announced in August 2007 at the Leipzig Games Convention. Developed originally for PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, a PC version will be out soon. A 3rd person shooter, driver, maze game with a pretty linear track, the graphics are good,…
Futuremark’s 3DMark 11 Review
Posted by Robert Dow on December 8th 2010 | Permalink
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First look at new benchmark DirectX 11 has been with us since Windows 7 was introduced in late October 2009, almost 14 months ago. And it’s not as if no one didn’t know it was coming, or no major OEM or game developer didn’t know what the specifications were, and even have access to some of the tools. So it’s hard to understand why so few games are available that support DirectX 11 other than they are cheap console ports and were never designed for DirectX 11. OK, that explains the lazy PC hating game developers, but not a company whose…
The Sandy Bridge Review
Posted by Jon Peddie on January 12th 2011 | Permalink
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CES is over and the hope, promise, and promise of Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPU with embedded processor graphics (EPG) has been revealed. There is rejoicing through the press and the webosphere. We’ve been testing and using a 4-core version Sandy Bridge Core i5-2500k running at 3.3 GHz. We ran a variety of tests and compared the Sandy Bridge against the previous generation, Clarkdale. As you might expect, Sandy Bridge, code named “SNB,” is a “Tock,” and considerably faster in all the operations we tested, including CPU tests, and graphics. Intel's new Sandy Bridge desktop processor architecture has a lot going on,…
Nvidia’s GF580 versus GF480 review
Posted by Webmaster on March 8th 2011 | Permalink
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We've been running a 3D Surround Vision system for a while that was originally built using GeForce GTX 480 AIBs. No complaints, they do a great job This week we decided to do run some caparison with dual Nvidia AIBs in stereo and with SLI on and off to see if the Nvidia GTX580 is OK, better, or a whole lot better than the GTX480 It's a whole lot better We ran four benchmarks without S3D on a single processor Core i7 980 3.33 GHz machine, and two benchmarks with and without S3D on a dual processor Core i7 960 3.67…
Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 Review
Posted by Robert Dow on March 24th 2011 | Permalink
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Let no pixel go un-accelerated Right on the heels of their most recent midrange product launch, the GTX 550 Ti, Nvidia rolled out their flagship AIB the dual GPU GTX 590. This top of the line, take no prisoners, 3GB GDDR5 AIB with a massive 384-bit memory bus (per GPU) has delivered some impressive scores, but doesn't beat two GTX 480s or 2 GTX 580s in SLI configuration—it doesn't cost as much either The AIB has a 12-layer PCB and to help disperse heat more effectively across the PCB, two ounces of copper are used for each of the board's power…
Android vs. Android vs. Android
Posted by Kathleen Maher on May 18th 2011 | Permalink
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A look at the Motorola Droid 2, LG G2X, Sony Ericsson Experia Play We’re swimming in Android phones right now. We have a (slightly) older Droid 2 that’s actually in use as my working phone, a brand new Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, and an LG G2X. The Droid 2 is a Verizon phone and the G2X and Xperia Play are from T-Mobile. The three phones are very different and they’re aimed at very different users, but there are some basic similarities too. The Droid 2 and the G2X are both based on the Android 2.2 operating system. The Xperia Play is…
Benchmarking Mobile devices
Posted by Jon Peddie on July 28th 2011 | Permalink
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New Web Browser test shows value of GPU clock How do you benchmark a mobile device? You download an app and run it. Qualcomm has a nice one, more on that later. But how do you benchmark a mobile device with a benchmark that isn’t in a sanctioned app store. If you had a little more control over the device you could email to your mobile device, but getting it to install from the email would be tricky. Maybe we need an app for getting apps. So if you want to test a lot of mobile devices there are some obstacles…
AnTuTu mobile device benchmark
Posted by Jon Peddie on July 28th 2011 | Permalink
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Nice evaluation tool for Android devices The AnTuTu System Benchmark is an Android benchmarking tool that can run a full test of a mobile devices’ processor through a series of test for easy comparison. It can test for Memory Performance CPU Integer Performance CPU Floating point Performance 2D and 3D Graphics Performance SD card reading/writing speed Database I/O performance. And when completed presents the results in a numeric list on the mobile device’s screen. We ran the benchmark on some of the mobile devices we had and got the following results (we didn’t test for SD car or Database I/O performance.…
Testing Vellamo
Posted by Webmaster on September 24th 2011 | Permalink
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Vellamo is a mobile Web benchmark that evaluates browser performance on Android devices and provides a holistic view into browser performance. It also evaluates networking, JavaScript, rendering, and user experience incorporating industry standard and custom tests. The test was developed by Qualcomm. We ran Vellamo on a couple of Android tablets and a few android phones to see how they compared. There was a mixture of operating systems and service providers as shown in the table. The tablets, with larger more powerful SoCs clearly got the best scores, while most of the phones were in the same range. Brand Model Specifications…
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