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LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 23

by Tom Allen

The Geforce GTX 980 GPU, Nvidia‘s newest flagship, is now even more powerful. The company has updated the card in the form of the new GTX 980Ti, with support for UltraHD gaming at an …

Tags:Android| Consoles| Game Playing| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| Nvidia| sharp| Sunlight Readable Displays| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 23

GPU Market Sinks Below 10-Year Average

by Tom Allen

Worldwide GPU shipments in Q1’15 were below the 10-year average of -3.6%, according to Jon Peddie Research (JPR). GPUs are a leading indicator of the PC market, and most PC vendors are guiding cautiously …

Tags:GPUs| Jon Peddie Research (JPR)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 21| Worldwide

Oculus Ignores Laptops, Apple Users

by Tom Allen

Planning to buy the Oculus Rift? Start upgrading your PC. Oculus VR has released the requirements for the headset, which will need to be tethered to a computer to work. Owners will need an …

Tags:GPUs| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus Rift| Oculus VR| Vol 22 - Issue 21

Titan X Should be Used for UltraHD – And Only UltraHD

by Tom Allen

In a series of benchmarking tests, Hexus has determined that Nvidia’s new Titan X GPU (Titan X: A Low-Cost Answer to Titan Z) is capable of driving UltraHD content at very high frame rates …

Tags:Chips| Game Playing| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Nvidia| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 14

Pascal is Nvidia’s Newest, Fastest GPU Architecture

by Tom Allen

Nvidia’s GPU technology Conference took place in the USA recently, with a new flagship GPU (see Product News) announced as well as a brand new architecture. Maxwell is Nvidia’s 10th-generation GPU architecture, and will …

Tags:GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 22 - Issue 12

HSA Finalises 1.0 Specification for Power-Efficient Computing

by Tom Allen

The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation has released the HSA 1.0 specification, bringing the technology industry one step closer to true heterogeneous computing on platforms spanning mobile devices, desktops, high-performance computing (HPC) systems and …

Tags:CPUs| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| PCs| Vol 22 - Issue 12

Titan X: A Low-Cost Answer to Titan Z

by Tom Allen

We heard about Nvidia’s Titan X earlier this month (Nvidia Reaffirms Move to Gaming Products With Streaming Console), when it was previewed at GDC 2015. Now, the company has officially announced the card at …

Tags:Game Playing| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Nvidia| UltraHD| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 12

Imagination Video Encoding is High Quality

by Bob Raikes

We spoke to Imagination Technologies at CES, but the company still managed to have plenty of news at MWC. The first news was support by Imagination of the Vulkan low level API that has …

Tags:GPUs| HEVC (H.265)| Imagination Tech| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 11

ARM Shows Mali GPU Running Unreal Engine 4

by Bob Raikes

Arm, the IP core supplier from the UK, was talking about the latest variations of its Mali GPUs – it claims to be the top GPU design supplier globally with 550 million sales. The …

Tags:Arm| GPUs| Mobile Display Monitor| Mobile Processors| MWC 2015| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 11

AMD Bypasses OS to Improve VR Latency

by Tom Allen

Virtual Reality was a major talking point at this year’s Game Developers’ Conference, and AMD wasn’t letting the action pass it by. After all, a dedicated GPU will still be necessary to drive the …

Tags:AMD| GPUs| Graphics Software| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Software| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 10

Nvidia Reaffirms Move to Gaming Products With Streaming Console

by Tom Allen

Nvidia has hit back at Razer’s Forge TV (Razer Strikes Nvidia’s Shield) with its own Android-based game-streaming set-top box: the Shield Android TV Console (doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue – TA). It is …

Tags:Android| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Razer| STBs| Streaming Video| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 22 - Issue 10

Nvidia gains 3% in Q4 from last quarter, Intel dropped 4%, AMD slipped 7%

by Helen Vince

Graphics processors, stand-alone discrete devices, and embedded processor-based GPUs are ubiquitous and essential components in all systems and device today from handheld mobile devices, PCs, and workstations, to TVs, servers, vehicle systems, signage, game …

Tags:AMD| GPUs| Intel| Jon Peddie Research (JPR)| Nvidia