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Apple to Support External GPU & VR

by Bob Raikes

As part of its announcements at the WWDC 2017, Apple said it would support a development kit that is an external GPU enclosure, with an AMD Radeon RX 580 that can connect to PCs …

Gigabyte Adds Thunderbolt Box, Front HDMI and UHD Blu-ray on a PC

by Milos Pavlovic

At Computex, Gigabyte was showing the Aorus brand, which it is now using for its high end gaming PCs. The brand was run separately from the firm’s OEM/ODM business, but it is now being …

Tags:GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Thunderbolt| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Nvidia Boosts Unity VR Rendering

by Bob Raikes

Nvidia has launched a VRWorks plug-in for the latest Unity beta with a number of new features exploiting the Nvidia GPUs. Multi-Res Shading (Maxwell & Pascal) – renders each part of an image at …

The New Radeon Pro Duo Runs Dual 5K or Single 8K Displays

by Bob Raikes

AMD has announced a dual GPU graphics card that is claimed to have double the performance of the ‘closest competing professional graphics card’. The card can drive four UltraHD monitors at 60Hz, and 8K …

Tags:AMD| GPUs| Graphics Cards| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 16

AMD Cards Designed for Upgraders

by Bob Raikes

AMD has introduced the Radeon RX 500 series of graphics cards with improved game performance, higher clock speeds and a second generation Polaris architecture. The cards are aimed at upgraders. Features include: Optimized DirectX …

Tags:AMD| GPUs| Graphics Cards| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Imagination Hit by Apple Decision

by Bob Raikes

UK technology developer, Imagination Technologies, had a bad week as it had to announce that Apple had said that it would not use the Imagination ip in its products from 2019. Imagination has been …

Tags:Apple| GPUs| Imagination Tech| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Colorful GTX 1080 Ti has Integrated LCD Display

by Bob Raikes

We couldn’t resist running a story about a new graphics card from Colorful of China which has added an LCD display to its latest Nvidia GTX1080-based iGame GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card. The …

Tags:GPUs| Graphics Cards| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Nvidia & AMD GPUs Benchmarked for VR

by Milos Pavlovic

We reported on the new FCAT VR benchmarking tool for GPU performance in VR a couple of weeks ago (NVIDIA Announces ‘FCAT VR’ Frame Analysis Tool to Help Demystify VR Performance). Now the RoadtoVR …

Tags:AR/VR| GPUs| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Imagination Backs 4K, HDR and 120fps in Furian

by Bob Raikes

Imagination Technologies has announced a new GPU design, the Furian which is the next step after the firm’s Rogue architecture, released in 2010, although that technology will continue to be available for lower level …

MWC 4YFN Show Buzzes

by Bob Raikes

Away from the main show at the older exhibition centre in Barcelona, Montjuic, the organisers held a special event called “Four Years from Now”, or 4YFN, that was designed for technology innovators from academia …

Total GPU Shipments Remain Flat – JPR

by Bob Raikes

Jon Peddie Research said that the GP market was flat from Q3 to Q4 in 2016, in line with normal seasonality. In graphics, Q2 is the trough, Q3 is the peak, Q4 is flat …

Is Nvidia Looking to Boost Card Sales?

by Bob Raikes

Sources in Asia say that Nvidia is looking to boost sales of its own graphics cards, sold as ‘Founder Edition’ and based on Nvidia’s reference design. This will put Nvidia increasingly in competition with …

Tags:GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 24 - Issue 03