Lucid’s Virtu unites any and all GPUs
Posted by Robert Dow on March 8th 2011 | Permalink
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Lucid (formally LucidLogix) came up with the idea for a PCIe sniffer that could intercept API calls, back in 2006. The company stayed in stealth mode, living on VC money and didn't actually show a product till 2008. The original idea was that Lucid would build a chipset that would allow any two (or more) AIBs to operate together in a complimentary way – what AMD calls Crossfire, S3 calls Multi Chrome, and Nvidia calls SLI. However, Lucid promised to enable any of them, any combination of them, any generation or SKU of them, to run together and boost each other.…
Review: AMD’s HD 6990 and Nvidia’s GTX 590 - Dueling dual GPUs, and AIBs
Posted by Robert Dow on April 12th 2011 | Permalink
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The dual GPU AIBs are marvelous products. They are awe inspiring, and not for everyone because of their price, but they are the Ferraris of the market in every sense. Nvidia officially released the GeForce GTX 590 dual GPU AIB 24 March, 2011, just 16 days after AMD introduced their dual GPU AIB the Radeon HD 6990. That's not a big gap in time relative to what these designs represent, and more of a marketing move between the two companies than a technology gap or indication of any problems. Nvidia is the more clever of the two at marketing and in…
Review the AMD 6000 Series
Posted by Robert Dow on May 3rd 2011 | Permalink
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Covers the low end with refresh parts for the mainstream gamer AMD rounded out their 6000 line with the introduction of the "Turks" line of add-in boards. AMD who was first to market with DirectX 11 AIBs points out that developers are no longer making DirectX 10 games. Even "World of WarCraft," the world's most popular PC game (12 million subscribers), is now DirectX 11. So their message to the consumer is: It's time to upgrade to DirectX 11 now! AMD thinks the casual gamers who bought a Radeon 5450 a couple of years ago, a fine DirectX 10 AIB, should…
Duking it out in the low-end: AMD HD 6450 vs. Nvidia GT 520 Reviews
Posted by Robert Dow on May 18th 2011 | Permalink
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This week we focused on the entry level market and tested three AIBs, the Nvidia GT 520, and two versions of AMD boards: the HD 6450 and 6450 GDDR5. Some would argue that any board coupled with GDDR5 belongs in the mainstream segment, however we take a look at price as the determining factor. The Nvidia GT 520 is based on the GF119 GPU and has a core clock of 810 MHz compared to the AMD 625 MHz DDR3 and the 750 GDDR5 HD 6450s models. Despite the GT 520’s lack of GDDR5, and fewer shaders, the GT 520 more than…
Benchmarking the FirePro V7900, V5900 and V4900 / The V4900 shined on SPECapc Lightwave
Posted by Alex Herrera on December 11th 2011 | Permalink
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The FirePro V7900 and V5900 boards, based on AMD’s Caymen GPUs, now occupy the mid-range and high-end positions in AMD’s workstation graphics portfolio. The V4900 workstation AIB is the latest addition to the line. It’s built with the Turks Northern Island’s GPU, and targeted at the entry level. AMD provided us with all three new models to assess their competitive positioning. To get a sense of the performance the new trio can deliver, we employed some of the same basic tools we have in the past, including one relatively new (and very welcome) addition. We benchmarked the three boards shortly after…
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