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AMD 890GX has 700MHz graphics
| Written by Fuad Abazovic | |
| Wednesday, 11 November 2009 10:23 | |
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DirectX 10.1 AMD will finally launch a new DirectX 10.1 based chipset but unfortunately, this won’t happen at least until May 2010. The graphics core on AMD 890GX should work at 700MHz like the HD 3300 core on the 790GX, and for 22W TDP Northbridge this is quite a good clock speed. As you can imagine 890 GX graphics are based on a crippled version of the RV710 graphics core and therefore it supports UVD 2. The launch date should be May, but we expect motherboards based on it to start showing around Computex 2010 that kicks off in first week of June 2010.
Source: http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/16380/1/
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Add comment November 11, 2009
AMD releases new Catalyst 9.9
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| Written by Slobodan Simic | |
| Monday, 14 September 2009 11:53 | |
 A few minor tweaks AMD has released a new version of its Catalyst driver, the 9.9. The new driver supports Radeon HD 2000, HD 3000 and HD 4000 series card and only features some minor tweaks. The new driver doesn’t bring any new features and even the new .inf file doesn’t include the new HD 5800 series card that should come out on September 22/23rd, depending on the region. It looks like the next Catalyst driver is the important one as the 9.9 brings anti-aliasing support for Ghostbusters game, ATI CrossfireX for Resident Evil 5 and a fix for graphics corruption in Sims 3 game. The rest of the new tweaks include fix for CCC which now responds properly after exiting quick adjust video settings, edge enhancement and de-noise sliders in Catalyst Control Center which no longer lags or appear out of sync with mouse movement, proper HDMI detection as DTV (HDMI) instead of DTV (DVI) when the HDMI display is hot-plugged for the first time and some minor tweaks with Cyberlink’s MediaShow Espresso after transcoding process. The rest of the bug fixes and tweaks can be found in release notes here where you can also find the driver as well. |
1 comment September 14, 2009
AMD 890FX launch is April 2010
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| Written by Fuad Abazovic | |
| Monday, 24 August 2009 10:12 | |
Quarter+ delay The launch is now planned for April, which is surprising as Cebit was usually the time when AMD launched its chipset, and Cebit usually takes place in the first week of March. The VP of chipsets at AMD Phil Eisler went to Nvidia and this might cause some changes in the company’s chipset strategy but overall, AMD won’t really have any new CPUs until this time either. The 32nm AMD quad-cores are expected in mid-2010, if all goes as planned. Currently AMD calls this chipset AMD 890FX, while the official brand is still to be decided. It might very well end up as 890FX. source: |
Add comment August 24, 2009
PCI Express 3.0 delayed
| Written by Nick Farrell | |
| Friday, 21 August 2009 09:16 | |
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Will not be in the shops until 2011 PCI SIG has decided to delay the release of the PCI Express 3.0 specification until the second quarter of 2010. This means that any products that will ship with the new specification won’t be released until 2011 According to PC Magazine. PCI Express 3.0 was supposed to be released this year, with products due about a year after the spec’s release, or in 2010. Al Yanes, the president of the SIG said that there were problems getting backward compatibility with current PCI Express standards, such as the older PCI Express 1.0 and PCI Express 2.0. He said that while PCI gen 3 providing so much more capabilities but with the need to be still backwards-compatible it was taking longer than expected. Most of the delays are tied to verifying products in the lab. However the standard boffins have managed to move the 8-bit and 10-bit encoding schemes to 128-bit and 130-bit encoding. However the real trick was to enable the proper encoding schemes at the three speeds used by the three PCI Express versions: 2.5-GHz, 5.0-GHz, and the new 8.0-GHz speed. Apparently most of the members in the standards group were happy with the delay. source: |
Add comment August 21, 2009
AMD officially launches Catalyst 9.8
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| Written by Slobodan Simic | |
| Tuesday, 18 August 2009 10:03 | |
CrossfireX performance and OpenGL 3.1 After releasing it few days early at Ian “Cabrtosr” McNaughton’s AMD blog, AMD has now officially released its new Catalyst 9.8 version. The new driver brings some CrossfireX performance gains in various games, as well as OpenGL 3.1 support. The games that will see a performance boost in CrossfireX modes include Battleforge, Company of Heroes, Crysis, Crysis Warhead, Farcry, World in Conflict and Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X., all in DirectX 10 mode and with gains from 5 to 77 percent depending on the game. The new Catalyst 8.9 also brings support for OpenGL 3.1 which includes OpenGL Shading Language 1.30 and 1.40, instanced rendering with a per-instance counter accessible to vertex shaders (GL ARB draw instanced), data copying between buffer objects (GL EXT copy buffer), texture buffer objects (GL ARB texture buffer object), rectangular textures (GL ARB texture rectangle), uniform buffer objects (GL ARB uniform buffer object), and some other various OpenGL 3.1 related topics. You can find the new driver and full release notes here. source: |
1 comment August 18, 2009
Catalyst 9.8 out, boosts CrossFireX with AMD chipsets
by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:09 PM on August 14, 2009
AMD has released a new set of Catalyst graphics drivers, and there’s a twist. The drivers shouldn’t hit the AMD Game website until Monday, but AMD marketing chief Ian McNaughton has posted links to them on his blog.
You can grab the drivers right now for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 in their 32-bit and 64-bit variants. We can’t link the actual files, though; some sort of anti-leeching technology is afoot. (Oh, and we were asked not to post hard links, too.)
AMD tells us the drivers deliver “enhancements specific to Performance Platforms that improve system performance in CPU bound situations.” What does that mean? Well, using a system based on the Dragon platform (so Phenom II, 790GX, and Radeon HD 4800 graphics), the company says it measured considerable gains with multi-GPU configurations running at resolutions of 1680×1050 and higher.
Purportedly, performance can increase by as much as 50% in Far Cry 2, and you can also expect meaty gains in Battleforge, Company of Heroes, Crysis, H.A.W.X., S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, and World in Conflict. AMD notes that the gains apply to both conventional CrossFire setups and the single-board Radeon HD 4870 X2.
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1 comment August 16, 2009
AMD 785G chipset launches tomorrow
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| Written by Fuad Abazovic | |
| Monday, 03 August 2009 11:07 | |
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Windows 7 DX10.1 ready AMD is about to launch its new IGP chipset simply called AMD 785G. The new chipset should have exceptional Windows 7 mainstream PC performance and of course it still has DirectX 10.1 support. A DirectX 11 IGP is still far away and we don’t expect it before sometime next year. The graphics in the AMD 785G is based on the RV620 core. It has 40 shaders and it will be branded as ATI Radeon HD 4200, something that we wrote about many moons ago. The GPU supports DirectX 10.1, UVD 2 GPU enabled and ATI Stream technology for faster video transcoding and application performance, when supported. The new chipsets brings DisplayPort support to chipset as well as HDMI 1.3 and the board is going to be accepted by many partners. It supports AM3 / AM2+socket and many Athlon and Phenom CPUs in both DDR2 and DDR3. Officially it launches tomorrow, August 4th. |
1 comment August 3, 2009
Catalyst 9.6 is out
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More performance, more Linux support
Here’s what AMD is promising in terms of improved performance: Company of Heroes – performance gains of up to 25% for the ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series, and performance gains of up to 10% for the ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series Crysis Warhead – performance gains of up to 11% for dual CrossFire Crysis – performance gains of up to 13% for ATI CrossFireX technology in dual configuration World in Conflict – performance gains of up to 30% for high settings that were previously CPU limited with the ATI Radeon HD 4800 series. Of course, your performance may vary, depending on your particular system configuration. Our favorite Scotsman, AMD’s Ian McNaughton says his favorite community is the Linux community, and it also got a treat, in the guise of SLED and SLED 11 production support and RHEL 4.8 early look support. You can find the full release notes here, and you can download the new drivers here. |
Add comment June 16, 2009
New Catalyst 9.4 ready for download
| Written by Slobodan Simic | |
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Brings new auto-tune in Overdrive As promised, AMD has released its new Catalyst driver, version 9.4. The new driver supports all the cards in the ATI Radeon HD 2000, 3000 and 4000 series, as well as ATI’s 3000 IGP series. Beside some minor fixes in Windows Vista, XP and 7, the new driver comes with a new ATI Overdrive auto-tune application designed for the Radeon HD 4000 series cards. The new auto-tune application in Overdrive is part of the ATI Catalyst Control Center. As you probably already know, ATI Overdrive auto-tune application is used to determine the best overclocked GPU and memory values. The new auto-tune is designed for the Radeon HD 4000 series cards. The new driver fixes some flicker issues in Crossfire with WOW and WOW: Wrath of the Lich King, Google Sketchup no longer displays blank screen, resolutions above 1,024×768 will have proper full screen for specific HDMI displays and artifacts in Age Of Conan DX10 are fixed. The new driver also fixes CAL driver, Overlay Theater Mode corruption after enabling 3D screen saver and OS display setting for Component Video under Windows XP, as well as bunch of issues under Windows 7 which include fix for City of Villains which now redraws correctly after changing graphics settings. It also fixes some component video mode issues, custom format modes, issues with diplay profiles restore after system sleep, jitter and flicker issues in WinDVD9 HD playback, and errors in device manager after express driver uninstall. The new Catalyst 9.4 driver can be downloaded here, while you can check out the full release notes here |
1 comment April 9, 2009
ATI finally releases its Catalyst 9.1
| Written by Slobodan Simic | |
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Updated: Full OpenGL 3.0 support ATI has finally decided to release a newest version of its Catalyst driver pack, the Catalyst 9.1. The new Catalyst 9.1 supports almost all cards since the 9500, R300 model time and the only new feature is the full OpenGL 3.0 support. ATI’s Catalyst 9.1 comes with v8.573 graphics driver. The new driver pack does fix a lot of bugs and issues but unfortunately we can’t see any performance gains noted in the release notes. According to the tests over at Ati-forum.de website, there is some gain in Crysis, FarCry 2 and 3DMark Vantage, but nothing serious as you get just a single frame per second more. The more interesting fact is that the power consumption was a tad bit higher with a new driver. You can download the new Catalyst 9.1 here and you can check out the release notes here. We are happy to report that it fixes some of the instabilities that we had with 8.12 drivers. Update: The new Catalyst 9.1 also brings some interesting new features to Linux platforms, including Hybrid CrossFireX support for AMG 780G/780D and an ATI Radeon HD 3400 and ATI Radeon HD 2400 series graphics accelerator, support for Ubuntu 8.10, MultiView support under Linux, as well as the full OpenGL 3.0 support with all the OpenGL 3.0 extensions listed in Catalyst 9.1 release notes. |
Add comment January 30, 2009
