A First Look At Apple's OS X El Capitan
Right on schedule, at last week’s World Wide Developers Conference Apple announced the next iteration of their desktop OS, OS X. Version 10.11, dubbed El Capitan, is the latest...
100 by on 6/15/2015NVIDIA Acquires Game Porting Group & Tech From Transgaming
While NVIDIA’s core businesses and gaming have been inseparable since the start, it’s only relatively recently that NVIDIA has become heavily involved in game creation itself, and not just...
56 by on 6/13/2015Apple’s Metal API Comes to OS X Desktops
At last year’s WWDC, Apple introduced their Metal API for iOS 8. A low-level graphics API, Metal was originally designed to bring the benefits of low-level graphics programming to...
63 by on 6/10/2015Steam Machines, Steam Link, & Steam Controller Launching November 10th
For a couple of years now Valve has been developing and promoting the concept of what has become their Steam Universe. The Linux-based SteamOS running on top of console-sized...
57 by on 6/4/2015AMD Demonstrates FreeSync-over-HDMI Concept Hardware at Computex 2015
While AMD wasn’t the first GPU vendor to implement a system for variable refresh, the company has made up for lost time with zeal. Since demonstrating their FreeSync proof-of-concept...
91 by on 6/3/2015AMD Confirms June 16th Date for Upcoming GPU Announcement
After an earlier vague deadline of Q2’15 and more than a few teases in the interim, AMD has finally announced when they’ll be revealing their forthcoming high-end video card. AMD...
41 by on 6/2/2015Intel Announces Thunderbolt 3 - Thunderbolt Meets USB (At Last)
A lot has been happening in the world of external communication buses over the past year. In the last 12 months the USB consortium has announced both 10Gbps “Superspeed+&rdquo...
91 by on 6/2/2015AMD Picks Up Jim Anderson from Intel To Lead Computing and Graphics Business Group
Word comes from AMD this afternoon that they have finally found a new Senior VP and General Manager for the company’s Computing and Graphics business group. The group has...
30 by on 6/1/2015Intel to Acquire FPGA-Specialist Altera for $16.7 Billion
Today Intel has announced that they are buying Altera in an all-cash deal of $16.7 billion. The deal, having been rumored for a while now, will see Intel pick...
20 by on 6/1/2015NVIDIA Launches Mobile G-Sync, Enables Windowed G-Sync, & More
With Computex kicking off today NVIDIA has a number of announcements hitting the wire at the same time. The biggest news of course is the launch of the GeForce...
37 by on 5/31/2015NVIDIA Announces GameWorks VR Branding, Adds Multi-Res Shading
Alongside the GeForce GTX 980 Ti and G-Sync announcements going on today in conjunction with Computex, NVIDIA is also announcing an update for their suite of VR technologies. First off...
9 by on 5/31/2015The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Review
Having launched the GeForce GTX Titan X a bit over 2 months ago, NVIDIA is back to launch their second GM200 card, GeForce GTX 980 Ti. Based on a...
290 by on 5/31/2015AMD Releases Catalyst 15.5 Beta Drivers
AMD has pushed out another Catalyst beta driver update this afternoon, bringing their latest drivers up to Catalyst 15.5 beta. The release notes for this driver indicate that it’s...
18 by on 5/28/20152015 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro’s dGPU (R9 M370X) Is Cape Verde
Earlier this week Apple announced their 2015 15” Retina MacBook Pro. Though Apple didn’t make any CPU changes, they did make some GPU changes on the high-end model, swapping...
109 by on 5/23/2015AMD Teases Upcoming Video Card
Between Financial Analyst Day 2015, their briefing on High Bandwidth Memory, and now a carefully seeded hardware sample to DICE developer and uber guru Johan Andersson, AMD is making...
75 by on 5/22/2015Imagination Announces OmniShield: Hardware Security Zones For MIPS + PowerVR Ecosystem
Though it would be unfair to state that there was a point where device security never mattered, it’s safe to say that the interest in security from hardware manufacturers...
4 by on 5/20/2015NVIDIA To Give Away The Witcher 3 To GTX Titan X Owners Who Participate in Software Beta
When NVIDIA announced their most recent GeForce game bundle, notably absent was the GTX Titan X. With Titan products typically uncontested in holding the performance crown and priced as...
20 by on 5/19/2015Apple Announces 2015 15” Retina MacBook Pro, Cheaper 27” Retina iMac
This morning Apple announced the release of the 2015 refresh of their 15” Retina MacBook Pro lineup. With the 13” rMBP having been updated with an Intel Broadwell processor...
75 by on 5/19/2015