Nvidia to buy Ageia… Yes, somebody actually wants a Phys-X
Nvidia announced today that they plan to buy Ageia, makers of the other most unwanted piece of specialty gaming hardware (the other being BFG’s super ethernet card).
Although nobody actually wanted or bought a Phys-X card, and there are very few games that make use of the engine (although Nvidia stated in their press release [...]
Nvidia G92 GeForce 9800 GPU - Rumored Specs
Consider this info as 100% unverified rumor-fodder, but for the curious, here are the purported specs of Nvidia’s next GPU:
65nm process technology at TSMC.
Over one billion transistors.
Second Generation Unified Shader Architecture.
Double precision support (FP64).
GPGPU native.
Over one TeraFLOPS of shader processing power.
MADD+ADD configuration for the shader untis (2+1 FLOPS=3 FLOPS per ALU)
Fully Scalar design.
512-bit memory interface.
1024MB [...]
Nvidia Releases Mainstream DX10 Video Cards
Today Nvidia announced it new lineup of mid to low range DX10 video cards. The three main releases are the 8500GT along with the 8600GT and 8600GTS. Most major manufactures including ECS, Foxconn and Gigabyte are onboard and ready to ship.
The 8600 units come with DDR3 and are based on the 80nm G84 core. [...]
Video Card Naming Schemes
I am of the opinion that video card naming and numbering schemes are now created to purposely confuse and mislead the consumer. I’m all for having selection, but things are starting to get ridiculous.
Without googling, put the following GPUs in order from fastest to slowest: the x1950 pro, x1950XT the x1900XT, the x1900XL, the [...]
