GDC 2014: NVIDIA, AMD Announce New Game Dev Partnerships - Crytek, Epic, & More
With GDC 2014 taking place this week in San Francisco, there are a number of gaming related announcements occurring over the next couple of days. These announcements in turn...
13 by on 3/19/2014AMD Teases Dual-GPU Video Card Once Again
Following last week’s dual-GPU teaser, AMD’s marketing department is back with another teaser for their forthcoming product. This time they’ve sent along a bottle of water and two cans of...
22 by on 3/19/2014Khronos Announces WebCL 1.0, SYCL 1.2, and EGL 1.5 Specifications
Following Monday’s announcement of OpenGL ES 3.1, Khronos is back again with a slate of new standards announcements. Unlike Monday’s focus on OpenGL ES, the bulk of these announcements...
7 by on 3/19/2014Imagination Announces PowerVR Wizard GPU Family: Rogue Learns Ray Tracing
Taking place this week in San Francisco is 2014 Game Developers Conference. Though not necessarily a hardware show, in years past we have seen gaming-related product announcements in both...
45 by on 3/18/2014Evaluating AMD's TrueAudio and Mantle Technologies with Thief
Scheduled for release today is the 1.3/AMD patch for Thief, Square Enix’s recently released stealth action game. Following last month’s Battlefield 4 patch, Thief is the second big push...
75 by on 3/18/2014Khronos Announces OpenGL ES 3.1
Coinciding with a mobile-heavy CES 2014, back in January Khronos put out a short announcement stating that they were nearing the release of a new version of OpenGL ES...
17 by on 3/17/2014NVIDIA Announces Spring 2014 GeForce Game Bundles
Coinciding with this week’s launch of the GeForce 800M series, NVIDIA is back in the saddle with another set of bundles to help promote GeForce video card and laptop...
28 by on 3/14/2014AMD Teases Forthcoming Dual-GPU Video Card
It looks like AMD is starting up another one of their tongue-in-cheek video card marketing campaigns, if the latest package to arrive on my doorstep is any indication. In an...
35 by on 3/13/2014NVIDIA Announces Legacy Support Plans For D3D10 Generation GPUs
All good things must come to an end, and for NVIDIA’s Direct3D 10 generation GPUs that end is just about here. NVIDIA has posted a document to their support...
33 by on 3/12/2014Valve Publically Releases "ToGL" Direct3D-to-OpenGL Shim
Though firmly rooted in the Microsoft technology camp for much of their history, in the past few years Valve has been expanding their reach to additional platforms and technologies...
33 by on 3/11/2014NVIDIA GeForce 335.23 WHQL Drivers Now Available: GTX 750 Overclocking Limits Increased
Word comes this afternoon that NVIDIA has released another new set of WHQL drivers, this time version 335.23. 335.23 is another member of the R334 driver branch, so this...
12 by on 3/10/2014AMD's Radeon R7 265 Now Available
After initially missing their planned availability window of late February, AMD sends word this evening that the first Radeon R7 265 SKUs have finally reached North American retailers. Sapphire’s R7...
19 by on 3/5/2014DirectX 12 to Be Unveiled At GDC 2014
Picking up from where we left off with last week’s discussion of GDC presentations, Microsoft has released a short teaser regarding their GDC presentation. The previously mentioned “DirectX: Evolving...
59 by on 3/5/2014AMD Announces Radeon R9 280: Radeon HD 7950 w/Boost Returns
With the launch of the Radeon R9 series back in October of 2013, AMD began the process of releasing a number of their existing GCN 1.0 7000 cards as...
43 by on 3/4/2014Low Level Graphics API Developments @ GDC 2014?
With the annual Game Developer Conference taking place next month in San Francisco, the session catalogs for the conference are finally being published and it looks like we may...
63 by on 2/26/2014AMD Catalyst 14.2 Beta Drivers Now Available
Just a bit over 3 weeks since the release of AMD’s Catalyst 14.1 beta drivers, AMD is back again with their first update to the Catalyst 14 series with...
15 by on 2/25/2014Imagination's PowerVR Rogue Architecture Explored
In what should prove to be an extremely eventful and important day for our coverage and understanding of SoC GPUs, Imagination chosen to share more details about the inner...
95 by on 2/24/2014AMD Announces "AMD Rewards" Program for the Gaming Evolved Application
We normally don’t cover contests and giveaways, but this one is just a bit different than the others and sheds some light on the inner workings of AMD, so...
25 by on 2/19/2014The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti and GTX 750 Review: Maxwell Makes Its Move
As the GPU company who’s arguably more transparent about their long-term product plans, NVIDIA still manages to surprise us time and time again. Case in point, we have known...
184 by on 2/18/2014Radeon R9 290X Retail Prices Hit $900
Though we keep track of video card pricing regularly on an internal basis, it’s not something we normally publish outside of our semi-regular buyer’s guides. More often than not...
135 by on 2/14/2014