AMD 790GX chipset promises best overclocking available for Phenom Black Edition CPUs
By Shane McGlaun - August 6, 2008
AMD officially announced its new AMD 790GX platform today. The 790GX is aimed at the performance computer users and packs in a host of features. One of the main features of the 790GX is advanced overclocking capability when paired with Phenom Black Edition processors. The 790GX features AMD's Overdrive interface that allows easy overclocking of the Phenom Black Edition processors. The significant performance increase the platform can deliver to gamers using Black Edition processors is thanks to what AMD calls Advanced Clock Calibration technology. The 790GX platform uses on-board ATI Radeon HD 3300 series graphics. AMD claims that the HD 3300 onboard GPU is the best performing on-board GPU available. AMD backs that claim up with a 3DMark Vantage score in excess of 2900 -- making the HD 3300 the fastest on-board GPU as of August 6, 2008.
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
Nvidia working on cheaper 790i chipset
With reduced functionality
by Lars-Göran Nilsson, 07 August 2008
It was almost bound to happen, as judging by Nvidia's Intel chipset roadmap, the company only has high-end and entry-level chipset available on en-route, but from what we've been told, Nvidia is working on a cheaper version of the 790i chipset. The new version is meant to come with a more basic southbridge and will as such only support a pair of x16 PCIe 2.0 slots, rather than a total of three PCIe x16 slots, of which the third one is PCIe 1.0 as in the current implementations. We would also guess that Nvidia will put in some limitations on memory support so it won't compete with its more expensive 790i chipsets, but this is just speculation as this moment in time. We're not sure what other limitations this new chipset will have compared to the current two models, but a lower price might give it a much broader appeal.
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by Lars-Göran Nilsson, 07 August 2008
It was almost bound to happen, as judging by Nvidia's Intel chipset roadmap, the company only has high-end and entry-level chipset available on en-route, but from what we've been told, Nvidia is working on a cheaper version of the 790i chipset. The new version is meant to come with a more basic southbridge and will as such only support a pair of x16 PCIe 2.0 slots, rather than a total of three PCIe x16 slots, of which the third one is PCIe 1.0 as in the current implementations. We would also guess that Nvidia will put in some limitations on memory support so it won't compete with its more expensive 790i chipsets, but this is just speculation as this moment in time. We're not sure what other limitations this new chipset will have compared to the current two models, but a lower price might give it a much broader appeal.
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AMD Backs OpenCL, Microsoft DirectX 11
By Scott Ferguson 2008-08-06
In order to develop its ATI graphics, AMD is backing both the OpenCL programming language and Microsoft's DirectX 11 APIs. The move means that AMD is looking for a way to differentiate its graphics from the Intel Larrabee initiative and Nvidia's CUDA programming language for its general-purpose GPUs. Advanced Micro Devices is throwing its weight behind both the OpenCL programming language and Microsoft's upcoming DirectX 11 APIs for use with its line of general-purpose graphics processing units. AMD, which announced official support for both OpenCL and DirectX 11 on Aug. 6, will begin upgrading its Stream SDK (software development kit) during the next 18 months to help developers take advantage of GPU acceleration when building new types of applications. In the enterprise, this could mean applications for HPC (high-performance computing), or for commercial uses such as games that require three-dimensional graphics rendering.
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In order to develop its ATI graphics, AMD is backing both the OpenCL programming language and Microsoft's DirectX 11 APIs. The move means that AMD is looking for a way to differentiate its graphics from the Intel Larrabee initiative and Nvidia's CUDA programming language for its general-purpose GPUs. Advanced Micro Devices is throwing its weight behind both the OpenCL programming language and Microsoft's upcoming DirectX 11 APIs for use with its line of general-purpose graphics processing units. AMD, which announced official support for both OpenCL and DirectX 11 on Aug. 6, will begin upgrading its Stream SDK (software development kit) during the next 18 months to help developers take advantage of GPU acceleration when building new types of applications. In the enterprise, this could mean applications for HPC (high-performance computing), or for commercial uses such as games that require three-dimensional graphics rendering.
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