ARM: two generations of graphics processors arrive

ARM provides two new chips Mali to address different markets, a pay strategy for British society?

This time, it is the English business ARM which shows the future of mobile processors embedded in our smartphones, tablets and even connected TVs. ARM is here that his new party graphic called Mali that animates its chips. The new generation is called Mali-450 and the successor to Mali-400 that getting into four hearts of treatment with the support of OpenGL ES 2.0 for the first time.

ARM Mali-450, passes to eight graphic hearts and also optimizes the treatment of OpenGL ES 2.0 for even more performance in video games. Chief product of ARM in the process media division, Steve Steele said that Mali-450 is not that double the number of hearts on the chip, but that optimizations were performed on units of graphics for better performance even if they are a little more than place on the chip in the end.

For the moment, this new generation does not yet the latest technologies in terms of graphics as the tesselation example calculation, but Steve Steele indicates that ARM has already in its cartons a new architecture called Midgard for the end of the year and will be fully exploited in the Mali-604 chips. In the meantime, Mali-450 chips are thought to be used in the entry and the means of range and Mali-604 and 658 which will arrive a little later to the high and compete directly with NVIDIA on this segment. We are asking to see...

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ASUS presents its graphics ROG Matrix HD 7970

The Taiwanese manufacturer Asus shows at the stand of the Computex a heavy-handed in its Republic Of Gamers line, the Matrix HD 7970.

After the impressive March III, Asus exposes on its stand of the Computex in Taipei, a very high graphics from range of its ROG (Republic Of Gamers), the Matrix HD 7970 mark.

Integrating a GPU Tahiti AMD pushed to the extreme, it would be question of a frequency of 1200 Mhz or 20-25% more than that of reference. This large map occupying three slots do an imposing House heatpipe. It consists of a radiator solid aluminum crossed by several heat pipes and cooled by two fans 120 mm PWM.

Aimed at discerning and demanding users, the Matrix HD 7970 has a floor of food designed accordingly and proposes therefore 20 phases of power to allow a high overclocking. The card requires two connectors PCI-e 8-pin to feed energy, PCB is also home to control points of tension, a button to push fans at their maximum speed of rotation and two BIOS selectable by a switch to easily return to the default settings.

Compatible Eyefinity, the card offers via its six rear angle output video with two Dual-Link DVI ports and four outputs HDMI. Still in development, the Matrix HD 7970 ROG has for the time being no date of availability or tariff known.

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This ASUS ROG March III, his graphics bi GTX 680

The Asus brand is a true beast of race with his March III to the Republic Of Gamers range card, a GTX 680 led bi hormones.

ASUS takes advantage of the Computex 2012 to expose a prototype of its future graphics ultra high-end ROG (Republic Of Gamer), March III series.

This power monster has two GPU GK104 as on the 690 NVIDIA GTX but they could see their overclockées by Asus frequencies, the manufacturer however would not expand on the subject for the moment.

    

Each bullet would allocate 4 GB of GDDR5 on a 256 bit bus for a total of 8 GB of RAM on the map, a good point to mount in high definitions. March III type three axial fan heatpipe cooling system which has the advantage of not occupy only two slots, it is efficient to effectively cool the concentrate of technology.

Feed the beast, it requires be connected to three PCI-e 8-pin catch what just the extreme overclockers that will also find a small red button right next to the pins to launch three turbines to 100% instantly. The rear angle of the map includes four video outputs with three Dual-Link DVI ports and a mini DisplayPort, to engage in the 3D Vision Surround on three screens of 1920 by 1200 pixels.

    

The Asus March III should be manufactured in very limited, normal amount given its tariff coming higher than a GTX included therefore 690 in the range between 1300 and €1400 (Ouch). And in SLI it gives what? It's beautiful dream sometimes!

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Optimize the performances of your graphics with HIS iTurbo

HIS Chinese society offers its software iTurbo to make the best of graphics cards.

Delivered in bundle with its graphics and maps available free for download on its web site, HIS offers a complete, ergonomic and easy to use graphics tweaking tool with iTurbo.

iTurbo gives you then total control over the settings of your graphics card (voltages and frequencies of the GPU and memory, speed of the ventilos) allowing a simplified overclocking. The soft is designed to be used with all models of graphics cards all builders that they be equipped GPU AMD or NVIDIA (GPU Boost 680 GTX is managed).

   

iTurbo more to save the various settings tested in profiles that it will be possible to change at any time. iTurbo comes in the form of an executable file that it is enough just to start (no installation required).

> Download the iTurbo of HIS software

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Zalman launches in graphics cards

Zalman and AMD become partners. Maps charts of solid performance and impeccable cooling?

Zalman, known and recognized in the field of cooling, society continues to diversify. For example, we recently presented a new SSD disk proposed by the trade mark. And today, we learn that it starts in the race for graphics cards with three models based on AMD processor. This is in any case what think of our fellow Overclockers.ua site which gives the future map of the brand images.

                                                   

Table, cards are therefore to base frequencies, step of Overclocking of plant, but it is very likely that cooling will be insured property and therefore it will be, a posteriori, possible to frequencies. Bet that Zalman has greatly improved the ventilation of these cards to present products with a strategic advantage over the range of prices which will be chosen. And availability, talking about cards launched tomorrow...

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Google makes mathematical graphics...

Mathematicians and students will be able to make pretty charts directly from the Google search bar.

Mathematics and Google fans will be delighted and old TI-82 has to well to keep, because the engine indicates that it is sufficient just to type the function to "grapher" in his field of research to see the result. Just as on the Maps service, it is possible to zoom in, to have the coordinates of x and y strolling on the curves and - to be the most complete possible - the overlay of the curves is authorized as the photo shows.

Two simple forms processed by Google...

For the moment, Google maintains that functions to a variable, but it is likely that the service will extend to two or three variables. Since students in scientific studies and have done current hand, it must not be sorcerer for Google.

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The true cost of the graphics cards top of range

We test lot of graphics cards, but this time, we wanted a less conventional than usual approach and measure the power consumption of these devices between the time where we switch the computer, for example to read his mails or to play, and where we extinguish it.

It seemed in fact that extrapolations and estimates that everyone is usually at the start of the consumption minimum and maximum figures did not sufficiently reflect reality. Today, we therefore decided to measure the actual consumption of several graphics cards top range for a given period and different patterns of use, which seems more logical insofar as well rarely that a possessor of PC turns on his computer and start to play without ever nothing.Moreover, it is important to clearly define this "something else". As we proceed with longer tests that usually, we will take the opportunity to verify the consumption-induced by a series of software and services and compare it to the consumption at rest. Addition to the games in full screen and windowed modes, we will also analyse the influence of the video playback so that execution of D2D and D3D mode applications windowed.Our goal, of course, is to determine the actual consumption of our components, and not only consumption peak or at rest. This brings us to the heart of this article: of course, everyone knows that the most powerful graphics cards are expensive, but what the daily? Use really so much that it? A PC equipped with a high range 3D map and dedicated to the game really take influence on your electric bill at the end of the year? If Yes, how?Somehow, the tests that follow akin many mixed consumer testing that realize the automotive professionals. With the difference that we express our results in watts-hours rather than litres per 100 kilometres.

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The next integrated graphics cards?

 

It is not only independent graphics cards in the world of personal computers, and that the future of integrated cards

Already nVidia will replace its MCP73 (GeForce 7150) by a MCP78.It will be compatible DirectX10 and support hybrid Sli (it allows to use its graphics integrated office automation and switch on the pci-express when needs are felt).
The rest will be classic, namely: two ports PCI-Express x 16, Serial - ATA 3 Gb/s...

Side at Amd, is RS790 will integrate interfaces DVI, VGA, HDMI and Compatible PCI-Express 2.0, it will manage a 16 port x, or two 8 x (as the MCP78) and it is intended for the AM3.

All of these integrated chips arrive early 2008 for nVidia and mid-2008 for Amd, we already know that this is will be not the wrath of war (view the hybrid sli for nVidia option), at the same time this is not what asked.

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