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AMD Catalyst 12.6 Beta Available (Monthly Releases are Over), Two New OpenGL Extensions

JeGX — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:54:01 +0000

Where are the 12.5 drivers? Here is the answer: With the release of the AMD Catalyst™ 12.6 Beta driver (“Catalyst”), AMD would also like to announce that we are moving away from our Monthly Catalyst...

Windows 8 Release Preview and Visual Studio 2012 RC Available

JeGX — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:16:41 +0000

Microsoft has published yesterday the release preview of Windows 8 (final pre-release version). This version of Win8 is now a reliable platform for develpers to test their softwares. And to develop...

Amazing Soft-Body Physics in CryEngine 3

JeGX — Tue, 29 May 2012 09:30:32 +0000

From BeanNG The amazing soft-body physics you know from Rigs of Rods, now even better in CryEngine3. Anything can be built in the Beam physics system – cars, trucks, planes, boats, trains,...

Demoscene: Stream 2012 Prods

JeGX — Wed, 23 May 2012 18:58:22 +0000

Here are some productions from Stream 2012, a demoparty that took place in Tampere (Finland) from 18.05.2012 to 20.05.2012. Results are available HERE. mono part 2 by mfx (Combined demo, rank #1) -...

NVIDIA R301.42 WHQL Released, 4-Way GTX 670 SLI Added

JeGX — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:19:53 +0000

NVIDIA has just published the first WHQL-certified driver of the R300 family and it supports all GeForce cards (GeForce 6 to the latest GTX 670). R301.42 comes with bugfixes and the support of 4-way...

Sketchfab: WebGL-based Service to Publish your 3D Models

JeGX — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:00:48 +0000

Sketchfab is a service to publish interactive 3D content online, with WebGL and HTML5, and no plugin. The viewer can easily be embedded in any webpage, as simply as a youtube video. I tested the...

NVIDIA Kepler GK110 Architecture Whitepaper: 2880 CUDA Cores and Compute Capability 3.5

JeGX — Thu, 17 May 2012 11:03:53 +0000

NVIDIA has published (GTC 2012) a whitepaper that details some computing aspects of the upcoming high-end Kepler GPU, the GK110. This GPU is clearly focused on computing with its 7.1 billion...

NVIDIA Kepler Realtime Raytracing Demo (GTC 2012)

JeGX — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:21:17 +0000

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NVIDIA GTX 680 OpenGL Bindless Textures Demo

JeGX — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:24:13 +0000

1 – Bindless Textures Overview I spent some time last week to add into GeeXLab the support of bindless textures. Bindless textures is the very cool feature introduced with the GeForce GTX 680....

GeeXLab 0.4.0 Ultim8 Edition Available, GTX 600 OpenGL Bindless Textures Support Added

JeGX — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:04:40 +0000

1 – GeeXLab 0.4.0 Release Highlights A new version of GeeXLab is ready. GeeXLab 0.4.0 comes with two new features. The first one is about the different editions of GeeXLab. From the version 0.4.0,...

FurMark 1.10.1 Released

JeGX — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:48:39 +0000

Comparative tables of FurMark scores (Preset:1080 and Preset:720) are now available HERE. A maintenance release of FurMark is ready for stressing and overheating your overclocked GPUs! FurMark 1.10.1...

GPU Shark 0.6.3 Released, GTX 690 and GTX 670 Support

JeGX — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:53:19 +0000

A new version of GPU Shark is available. GPU Shark 0.6.3 is based on the latest ZoomGPU SDK 1.8.3 and adds the support of latest GeForce GTX 690 and the freshly launched GeForce GTX 670. GPU Shark...

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 Launched

JeGX — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:39:35 +0000

1 – GeForce GTX 670 Overview NVIDIA has officially launched the new GeForce GTX 670. Based on the same GK104 GPU then the GTX 680 (with a little less cores of course), the card is priced at USD...

Intel Ivy Bridge HD Graphics 4000 GPU: OpenGL 4 Tessellation Tested

JeGX — Sun, 06 May 2012 13:15:23 +0000

The version 2729 of Intel HD Graphics driver has been released with OpenGL 4 support. It’s rather a big surprise even if it was somewhat foreseeable. So let’s see how the HD Graphics 4000...

Intel HD Graphics Driver v2729 with OpenGL 4 Support and New OpenGL Extensions!

JeGX — Sun, 06 May 2012 09:47:29 +0000

I just tested the latest HD Graphics driver v2729 with my Ivy Bridge GPU and guess what, GPU Caps Viewer tells me that Intel has (silently?) added the support of OpenGL 4! Yes my friends, we can now...

EVGA OC Scanner X 2.1.2 Released

JeGX — Sat, 05 May 2012 11:47:50 +0000

A maintenance release of OC Scanner X is available. OC Scanner X 2.1.2 brings the support of GeForce GTX 690 and upcomming GTX 670. Minor bugs have been fixed and OC Scanner can now run on Intel HD...

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 Launched, Reviews Available

JeGX — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:59:02 +0000

NVIDIA has officially launched today the new dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690 announced few days ago. To sum up things, this card is expensive (USD $1000), but is the faster card on the market today (almost...

(Download) GPU-Z 0.6.2 Released with GTX 690 / GTX 670 Support

JeGX — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:19:52 +0000

The new version of GPU-Z is out with GeForce GTX 690 support as well as other new GeForce (GTX 670, GT 640, GT 630). You can download GPU-Z 0.6.2 here (left-click to grab the file): Changelog: Fixed...

(PhysX Test) GTX 680 vs GTX 580 vs GTX 480 in FluidMark

JeGX — Wed, 02 May 2012 08:20:24 +0000

Some readers asked me how much better is the GeForce GTX 680 in PhysX compared to previous GTX 580 and GTX 480. To bring an element of answer, I quickly tested the GTX 480, GTX 580 and GTX 680 with...

Laguna: Real-time OpenCL Path Tracer

JeGX — Wed, 02 May 2012 07:54:50 +0000

Laguna is a new small OpenCL path tracer (ray tracer) based on a precalculated blocks structure. I tested Laguna on an EVGA GeForce GTX 680 (R301.24) and a MSI Radeon HD 7970 (Cat 12.4) at a...