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Do you want the good or the bad news? Ok, the good then. Remember the rumours last month that Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 700 series graphics cards wouldn’t be released until 2014? Well, it looks now like they may have been incorrect. And quite wildly incorrect too. Word on the street …
Read More »No Nvidia GTX 700 series graphics cards until 2014
The next generation of PC graphics cards from Nvidia doesn’t look set to arrive until 2014. The current 600 series debuted over a year ago, with the only recent refreshes being the powerhouse GTX Titan and the recent 660 re-spec the GTX 660Ti Boost. A GTX Titan LE is expected …
Read More »Nvidia reveals ‘next-gen’ £827 GeForce GTX Titan graphics card
A new graphics card standard has been set and will be found lurking in the PCs of millionaires everywhere from later this month. Nvidia has lifted the lid on its first consumer card based on its GK110 Nvidia Kepler design that can be found in the Titan supercomputer cluster. Which …
Read More »UPDATE: Gaikai sued over alleged patent infringement
T5 Labs is attempting to sue cloud gaming firm Gaikai in the Delware courts. It alleges that the Sony-owned company has committed and continues to commit acts of infringement” in the region. It is demanding a jury trial. The complaint revolves around US Patent 8,203,568 called Sharing a Graphical Processing …
Read More »PS4 to ditch The Cell processor?
The next iteration of Sony’s PlayStation console will not feature the much-touted Cell processor, according to new reports. The Cell was the famous love child of former PlayStation boss Ken Kutaragi, who believed its expensive development would be rewarded by its eventual use in more or less every aspect of …
Read More »Next-gen Xbox ‘six times more powerful’ than 360
Late 2013 release for new console 'confirmed', reports claim
Read More »New Xbox "6x as powerful as Xbox 360"
The successor to the Xbox 360 will be six times as powerful as the current machine, fresh reports suggest. IGN claims to have word from sources close to the project” that its GPU architecture will be based on the existing Radeon HD 6670 card. That card, which was launched in …
Read More »New ARM smartphone chip supports DirectX 11
Mobile processor could bring 'console quality graphics' to smartphones
Read More »Xbox 360 Slim pictured?
It’s not the first time we’ve heard talk of a possible Xbox 360 Slim, but new pics that purpose to show the innards of a redesigned version of the console have surfaced online. Kotaku reports that the main change in this supposed redesign is the combining of the CPU and …
Read More »Xbox 360 could save researchers thousands
A University of Warwick researcher and former employee of Microsoft developer Rare has demonstrated an Xbox 360 chip is equivalent in power to parallel network PCs. Dr Simon Scarle discovered the console’s Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) boasts the same parallel processing power as several thousands of pounds worth of PC …
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