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Lucid Introduces UNITY Graphics Board Architecture to Make HYDRA
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- Tuesday 31 August, 2010 |
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Today LucidLogix Technologies (Lucid) announced its arming video card manufacturers with the new Unity graphics board architecture for the HYDRALOGIX engine (previously known as HYDRA). Now graphics board vendors for the first time can combine a single HYDRALOGIX 200 real time distributed processor with any single NVIDIA or ATI GPU, creating an affordable, flexible multi-GPU-ready graphics card that can make any motherboard a high performance gaming system.
Gamers and high performance PC enthusiasts will have even more options to configure multi-GPU systems, which until recently were limited to vendor-exclusive architectures or HYDRALOGIX equipped motherboards. And mainstream graphics users can now buy even a $99 graphics card and upgrade their system in the future with the brand graphics card of their choice.
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AMD Intros Affordable DP-DVI Active Adapter for Eyefinity Users
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- Tuesday 31 August, 2010 |
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AMD rolled out a reference-design DisplayPort to DVI active adapter today, that lets the masses create Eyefinity setups on existing monitors easier. The adapter plugs into full-sized and mini DisplayPort connectors on ATI Radeon graphics cards, and gives out a single-link DVI signal. The conversion between DP to DVI is active, and conserves video quality, as well as other features such as content protection. This is because when Eyefinity-ready graphics cards with DisplayPorts from AMD came to be, some manufacturers sold cheap $10 DP-DVI dongles that pass DVI signals from the DP directly (passive conversion). Such dongles more often don't work, because Radeon GPUs don't give out DVI signals from DP. Active adapters (those which actively convert DP signals to DVI) were sold at the time in upwards of $100.
AMD has managed to bring the price of such active adapters down to $30. There however, is a limitation. The output is a single-link DVI, meaning that it will support digital resolutions only up to 1920 x 1200 @ 60 Hz (1080p is supported). It shouldn't matter for the target users, because the DisplayPort on ATI Radeon HD 5000 graphics cards conveys only one TLDS link, so even with a DVI dual-link capable adapter, it would only give out single-link output. At least a bulk of the users are covered, at a very affordable price point. AMD will market this adapter directly, and through its growing network of add-in board partners (in bundles with graphics cards, or directly). PowerColor beat AMD to today's announcement, and released PowerColor-branded AMD-reference DP-DVI adapter last week.
Source: HardwareCanucks |
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AMD Kills ATI Brand, Future Products to Feature Brand Change
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- Tuesday 31 August, 2010 |
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This had to happen eventually, and it did just happen: AMD has dissolved the ATI brand completely, and consolidated ATI brands, such as Radeon and FirePro under the AMD main brand. Under the new branding scheme, new graphics products AMD launches (such as the upcoming Radeon HD 6000 series), will do away with "ATI" completely from the logo, marketing material, and so on, and the market will, as it already has been doing since the AMD-ATI merger, albeit informally, refer to Radeon/FirePro products as "AMD Radeon" and "AMD FirePro".
AMD explains its move as an "evolution of the AMD brand portfolio", saying that consolidation of ATI-branded products under the main brand results in reduced marketing overhead. It claims to have surveyed several thousand discrete graphics-aware users in in the U.S., U.K., Germany, China, Japan, Brazil, and Russia. The survey revealed that when made aware of ATI-AMD merger, AMD preference triples; AMD brand is stronger than ATI (against graphics competitors); and that people see Radeon and FirePro product names more conspicuous than ATI, indicating a "permission" to consolidate ATI into AMD. The survey was conducted entirely by AMD.
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ATI Radeon HD 6000 Series GPU Codenames Surface
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- Friday 27 August, 2010 |
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Even as NVIDIA is taking its own sweet time to complete building its lineup of DirectX 11 compliant GPUs to target all market segments, AMD, which got a 6 months' headstart into releasing its lineup, which ended up targeting all market segments in a span of 5 months, is readying the Radeon HD 6000 series for launch well within this year. Just as the Radeon HD 5000 series GPU family was codenamed Evergreen with its members codenamed after evergreen trees (such as Cypress, Juniper, Redwood, Cedar), the Radeon HD 6000 is codenamed "Southern Islands", with its members codenamed after islands in the Caribbean (not islands in the Mediterranean).
"Bart" (after Saint Barthélemy island) is the codename for the performance/upper-mid segment GPU, a successor to the "Juniper" Radeon HD 5700 series. "Cayman" (after Cayman Islands) is the enthusiast GPU, successor to Cypress, and will go into making SKUs that succeed the Radeon HD 5800 series. Finally, the king of the hill is codenamed "Antilles" (after Antilles Islands), it is the dual-GPU SKU that makes use of two Cayman GPUs, successor to the Radeon HD 5970 "Hemlock". AMD partners will be in a position to sell graphics cards based on these by November 2010. The Radeon HD 6970 "Antilles" should be out by December 2010. The lower-half of the family will likely release next year.
Source: DonanimHaber |
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| New NVidia Graphic Card |
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Geforce GTX 460 Sonic / Platinum
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Graphics Engine : NVIDIA GTX 460 SonicBus Standard : PCI Express 2.0Video memory : GDDR5 1024MB / 2GBCore Clock : 700 / 800 MHzMemory Clock :... |
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Geforce 210 128 bit
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Graphics Engine : NVIDIA GT 218Bus Standard : PCI Express 2.0Video memory : DDR2 1024MBCore Clock : 475 MHz Memory Clock : 800 MHz (400x2)Memory interface... |
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Geforce GTX 470
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Graphics Engine : NVIDIA GTX 470Bus Standard : PCI Express 2.0Video memory : GDDR5 1280MBCore Clock : 607 MHzMemory Clock : 3.348MHz (1674X 2)Memory... |
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Geforce FX 5500
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Chipset : GeForce FX5500Support Memory : 128/ 64MB DDRBus Type : AGP 4X/ 8X with texturing and fast writesVideo Output Function : TV output, DVI
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| New Ati Graphic Card |
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Radeon HD4870
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Graphics Engine : ATI RADEON HD 4870 GreenBus Standard : PCI Express 2.0Video memory : GDDR5 512MBCore Clock : 700 MHzMemory Clock : 3.6GHz (900X 4)Memory... |
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Radeon HD4850
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Graphics Engine : ATI RADEON HD 4850Bus Standard : PCI Express 2.0Video memory : GDDR3 512MBCore Clock : 625 MHzMemory Clock : 1986GHz (993X 2)Memory... |
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Radeon HD5670
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Graphics Engine : ATI RADEON HD 5670Bus Standard : PCI Express 2.0Video memory : GDDR5 512MB /1GBCore Clock : 775 MHzMemory Clock : 4.0GHz (1000X 4)Memory... |
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Radeon HD5750
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Graphics Engine : ATI RADEON HD 5750Bus Standard : PCI Express 2.0Video memory : GDDR5 1GBCore Clock : 700 MHzMemory Clock : 4.6GHz (1150X 4)Memory... |
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