With the release this month of competing dual-GPU graphics cards, Nvidia’s GTX 590 and the AMD’s HD 6990, both companies have laid claim to the moniker “world’s fastest”. As our friends at Hexus.net try to explain, it is quite subjective. Read more on the debate here.
And all the other phrases and acronyms we live with Have you ever wondered how you would explain the technological developments of the past ten years, or the forecast for new technology without using the phrase, Moore’s law? I supposed you could, but it’d be wordy, probably awkward, and you’d never say it quite the same way each time. Thank … Read more
Corel has released new app for the CorelDraw Graphics Suite. The new app lets you connect to the CorelDRAW.com community from your iPhone or iPod touch. Browse the galleries for design inspiration, ask and answer questions in the forums and interact with other CorelDRAW fans. Learn more about the new app here.
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. Does it outperform 2 GTX 480s or 2 GTX 580s? Read our … Read more
The 38th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques will be taking place this year in Vancouver, the 7th – 11th of August. Registration is open to experience all of the latest advances in computer graphics and interactive techniques with your international colleagues, collaborators, and friends. Read more about SIGGRAPH 2011 here.
Futuremark, the developer of popular graphic intensive benchmarking software such as 3DMark 11, announced PCMark 7, a new benchmark offering complete PC performance analysis for Windows 7. PCMark 7 includes 7 separate test suites combining more than 20 individual workloads covering storage, computation, image and video manipulation, web browsing and gaming. You can read more about the new benchmark suite … Read more
Despite a warning from Nintendo not to buy the 3DS for children 6 or under, American optometrists are welcoming the device. Aside from the fact that the 3DS is good clean fun “The 3DS could be a godsend for identifying kids under 6 who need vision therapy,” say vision experts. Read about the unforeseen advantages of the 3DS here.
By Ted Pollak (contributions by Jon Peddie) Japan's terrible situation with its nuclear power plant is heartbreaking. Especially sad are reports that some workers are exposing themselves to potentially harmful radiation levels. The bravery of these people is overwhelming. This got me to thinking about how game technology could maybe help in situations like this and also train and educate … Read more
The new GTX 550 Ti enters the mainstream segment checking in at the $149 price point. It will feature 192 Cuda Cores, 900 MHz Graphics Clock, 1GB of GDDR5 with a Texture Fill Rate of 28.8 billion texels per second. You can read about new Nvidia offering here and our review in the upcoming issue of TechWatch.
Our Golden Gate Bridge is being revamped and the San Francisco Transportation Authority showed off the new Presidio Parkway driving simulator Tuesday at the Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco. The sim includes a steering wheel, gas and brake pedals and a working speedometer. Read about the simulator here.
IE9 promises to take surfing the internet to a new level with hardware accelerated graphics and HTML5. Top sites such as Ebay, Amazon, Hulu and CNN are among the first sites to take advantage of the new browser. You can download and learn about IE9 here.
No they don’t…ah… I’ve been having this debate with myself, my colleagues, and almost anyone who will listen to me for more than 30 seconds, about the game publishers unjustified bias against PC games and love affair of console games. I don’t play console games. Everyone else here does, I’m the lone holdout. Well maybe Ted too, although I think … Read more
