GPUs
When Intel unveiled its range of Arc A-series desktop graphics cards last year, it introduced four models: the Arc A770, Arc A750, Arc A580, and Arc A380. However, the Arc A580, which uses a cut-down ACM-G10 GPU, never reached the market for reasons that remain unclear. On Tuesday Intel finally fleshed out the Arc desktop lineup with a 500 series card, formally and immediately launching the Arc A580 graphics card. Intel's Arc A580 is based on the Alchemist ACM-G10 graphics processor with 3072 stream processors and that is paired with 8 GB of memory using a 256-bit interface. While the the cut-down GPU has fewer SPs than its higher-performing counterparts, it retains all of the features that the Alchemist architecture has to offer, including world-class...
AMD Releases Instinct MI210 Accelerator: CDNA 2 On a PCIe Card
With both GDC and GTC going on this week, this is a big time for GPUs of all sorts. And today, AMD wants to get in on the game...
39 by Ryan Smith on 3/22/2022
AMD Teases FSR 2.0: Temporal Upscaling Tech for Games Coming in Q2
Alongside their spring driver update, AMD this morning is also unveiling the first nugget of information about the next generation of their FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) technology. Dubbed FSR...
46 by Ryan Smith on 3/17/2022
AMD Releases Adrenalin Software Spring 2022 Update: Adds RSR Upscaling and More
AMD this morning is releasing the awaited spring update to their AMD Software Adrenalin Edition suite for their GPUs. First unveiled back in January as part of AMD’s keynote...
12 by Ryan Smith on 3/17/2022
Interview with Intel’s Raja Koduri: Zettascale or ZettaFLOP? Metaverse what?
We currently live in a sea of buzzwords. Whether that’s something to catch the eye when scrolling through our news feed, or a company wanting to latch their product...
45 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/9/2022
SPEC Adds Linux Edition of SPECviewperf 2020 v3.0 Benchmark
The SPEC Graphics Performance Characterization (SPECgpc) group updated the Windows version of the workstation GPU benchmark suite - SPECviewperf 2020 - twice last year. The intent of the benchmark...
14 by Ganesh T S on 3/3/2022
Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) Announced: Setting Standards For The Chiplet Ecosystem
If there has been one prominent, industry-wide trend in chip design over the past half-decade or so, it has been the growing use of chiplets. The tiny dies have...
25 by Ryan Smith on 3/2/2022
Intel Goes Full XPU: Falcon Shores to Combine x86 and Xe For Supercomputers
One of Intel’s more interesting initiatives over the past few years has been XPU – the idea of using a variety of compute architectures in order to best meet...
28 by Ryan Smith on 2/17/2022
Intel’s Arctic Sound-M Server Accelerator To Land Mid-2022 With Hardware AV1 Encoding
Rounding out Intel’s direct GPU-related announcements from this morning as part of the company’s annual investor meeting, Intel has confirmed that the company is also getting ready to deliver...
18 by Ryan Smith on 2/17/2022
Intel Meteor Lake Client Processors to use Arc Graphics Chiplets
Continuing with this morning’s spate of Intel news coming from Intel’s annual Investor meeting, we also have some new information on Intel’s forthcoming Meteor Lake processors, courtesy of this...
20 by Ryan Smith on 2/17/2022
Intel Arc Update: Alchemist Laptops Q1, Desktops Q2; 4mil GPUs Total for 2022
As part of Intel’s annual investor meeting taking place today, Raja Koduri, Intel’s SVP and GM of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) Group delivered an update to...
13 by Ryan Smith on 2/17/2022
A Visit to Intel’s D1X Fab: Next Generation EUV Process Nodes
On a recent trip to the US, I decided to spend some time criss-crossing the nation for a couple of industry events and spend some of the time visiting...
38 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 2/16/2022
AMD Reports Q4 2021 and FY 2021 Earnings: Turning Silicon Into Gold
As the full year 2021 earnings season rolls along, the next major chip maker out of the gate is AMD, who has been enjoying a very positive trajectory in...
26 by Ryan Smith on 2/1/2022
Launching This Week: NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3050 - Ampere For Low-End Gaming
First announced as part of NVIDIA’s CES 2022 presentation, the company’s new GeForce RTX 3050 desktop video card is finally rolling out to retailers this month. The low-end video...
44 by Ryan Smith on 1/26/2022
Vulkan 1.3 Specification Released: Fighting Fragmentation with Profiles
Khronos this morning is taking the wraps off of Vulkan 1.3, the newest iteration of the group’s open and cross-platform API for graphics programming. Vulkan 1.3 follows Khronos’s usual 2...
12 by Ryan Smith on 1/25/2022
Launching Today: AMD's Radeon RX 6500 XT, Starring Navi 24
Following its announcement back at CES, today AMD is formally launching the entry-level member of its Radeon RX 6000 series of video cards: the Radeon RX 6500 XT. Based...
101 by Ryan Smith on 1/19/2022
NVIDIA Quietly Launches GeForce RTX 3080 12GB: More VRAM, More Power, More Money
NVIDIA this morning is quietly adding to its menagerie of high-end video cards with a third version of the GeForce RTX 3080, the simply-named GeForce RTX 3080 12GB. Just...
36 by Ryan Smith on 1/11/2022
Intel Changes Senior Executives: VP That Led CES is Out, New CFO
At the close of play today, Intel is announcing two major changes at the top of its organization. The big one is that EVP and GM of Intel’s Client...
18 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/10/2022
AMD Expanding Into Tesla Model 3 and Model Y
One constant theme throughout AMD’s recent resurgence into high-performance computing has been the messaging around the scalability of its platform. Building a processor that can scale both from single...
14 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/10/2022
Intel Keynote and SVP Greg Bryant at CES 2022: Live Blog (10am PT, 1800 UTC)
Today is a day for CES keynotes, and up next is Intel. Here we'll be getting SVP Greg Bryant to talk us through the next generation of hardware launches...
0 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/4/2022
NVIDIA Briefly Teases GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, More Details Later This Month
As part of today’s CES keynote for the company, NVIDIA GeForce SVP and GM Jeff Fisher very briefly teased a new flagship NVIDIA video card. The GeForce RTX 3090...
21 by Ryan Smith on 1/4/2022
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