Jon Peddie

Do dual AIBs help?

If you read my article on multi-GPUs you know that SLI and Crossfire have been retired, and Nvidia has introduced NVLink. The intrepid Mark Poppin of BabelTech Reviews wanted to find out if adding a second AIB could actually improve performance. He hooked up an Nvidia RTX 3090 FE and an RTX 2080 Ti (adding up to ~ $2,800 of … Read more

Will Sony re-invent S3D?

(Source: Sony)   Sony Electronics announced the debut of its Spatial Reality Display (SR Display), a new Stereo 3D display made with Sony’s Eye-Sensing Light Field Display (ELFD) technology. The display does not require virtual reality glasses or a headset.  The display uses a 4K panel with micro-optical lenticular lens. (Source: Sony)   In the past, such displays which used … Read more

Three new Alienware monitors

Alienware has always been a style leader. The company epitomized that with the revolutionary Area 51 chassis. There’s not much you can do with a monitor design-wise. A big flat panel on a stand is pretty hard to make sexy. Nonetheless, the company has carried through with its sense of design to create monitors with distinctive style and with features … Read more

Imagination Technologies new B-series multi-core GPU IP

  Late last year, Imagination Technologies introduced its IMG A-Series. At the time, they said it was their most important GPU launch since the mobile PowerVR GPU, 15 years ago. Now, 11 months later, the company says it has topped itself and announced the IMG B-Series—a new expanded range of GPU IP. Imagination says the B-series multi-core lets customers reduce … Read more

From 3m to 30 Suns: see how spaceships stack up in the world

If you’ve ever watched a science fiction movie or TV show, you’ve seen the fabulous space ships the artists have created. Some of them have become icons like the Star Trek Enterprise, or the Star Wars Millenium Falcon, and X-wing fighters. Did you ever wonder how big they might be in real life? They are actually meticulously designed, properly scaled 3D … Read more

Nvidia introduces the RTX A6000 WS AIB

(Source: KPF. Beijing Century City)   As mentioned in my Siggraph blog, the coronavirus pandemic has shifted the way content is created and consumed. Work now often involves teams dispersed worldwide, working remotely on high-resolution content while using multiple workloads and requiring massive computing resources. Nvidia has contributed with the new RTX A6000 and A40 AIBs that use the 8 … Read more

Pixel™

Pixels™, from rock groups to clothing, to pinpoints of light, they have been an intrinsic part of our life, vocabulary, and concept since the 1800s. Alas no longer may we use it with abandon, it is now the property of Google™. The term “Pixel™” can be found throughout our industry and many others. A “pixel™” is the smallest element of … Read more