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NVIDIA CUDA 3.0 and OpenCL SDKs with Fermi Support Available

JeGX — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:16:21 +0000

NVIDIA has released a new version of its GPU Computing SDK. This version supports Fermi architecture and will allow GPU computing developers to prepare their code for Fermi-based graphics cards. GPU...

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Gore: Rendering Wounds in Left 4 Dead 2

JeGX — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:28:14 +0000

Left 4 Dead 2 – Lower back wounds Left 4 Dead 2 – Half body wounds For all graphics programmers and game developers that love blood, here is a whitpaper by Alex Vlachos (a former...

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Gephi Google Summer of Code: GLSL Student Applications Wanted!

JeGX — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:06:42 +0000

Gephi is an open-source and free visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs. Gephi is available for Windows Linux and Mac OS...

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GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 More Detailed Specs

JeGX — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:48:06 +0000

XFX GeForce GTX 480 XFX GeForce GTX 470 As usual, these specs must be taken with a grain of salt… until final confirmation on launch day on March 26, 2010. GeForce GTX 480: - GPU: GF100 @...

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Cloth and Hair Simulation with PhysX

JeGX — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:06:52 +0000

Physically simulated clothing and hair by CCP. The cloth train interacts with the environment and doesnt become tangled while moving 360 degrees. In addition, the hair is also simulated using APEX...

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NVIDIA R197.15: First OpenGL 3.3 Drivers Available and 12 New OpenGL Extensions

JeGX — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:44:12 +0000

Few days after the publication of OpenGL 3.3 and 4.0 specifications, NVIDIA has just released a set of graphics drivers with OpenGL 3.3 support. We see the new naming convention of GLSL version...

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[TIPS] What is a Texture Processor Cluster or TPC?

JeGX — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:02:46 +0000

The TPC is a concept we find on NVIDIA GPUs. On G80 and GT200 architectures, a TPC, or Texture / Processor Cluster, is a group made up of several SMs, a texture unit and some logic control. The SM is...

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GeForce GTX 480 Reference Board Final Design and First Benchmarks

JeGX — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:58:03 +0000

GeForce GTX 480 Reference Board From VR-Zone, the GeForce GTX 470 is up to 10% faster than a Radeon HD 5850 and a GeForce GTX 480 is up to 10% faster than a Radeon HD 5870. But this small gain in...

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ATI Catalyst 10.3a Preview Available

JeGX — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:08:19 +0000

Few week ago, a beta version of Catalyst 10.3 was available with the number version 8.71.3-100205a-095620E or 8.710.3.0 – Catalyst 10.2 (2-5-2010). Yesterday, AMD has released a preview of Catalyst...

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[Update] Radeon HD 57xx Will Run OpenGL 4.0 FP64 Operations On GPU

JeGX — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:09:24 +0000

In my previous news, I said that FP64 (64-bit double precision floating point) operations will be emulated in software mode on CPU. Actually this is NOT TRUE! AMD just informed me that there is some...

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OpenGL 4.0 FP64 GLSL Shaders Will Run in Software Mode on Radeon HD 5700

JeGX — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:11:03 +0000

UPDATE: Radeon HD 57xx Will Run OpenGL 4.0 FP64 Operations On GPU In this news we learnt that Radeons HD 5700 (HD 5770 and HD 5750) have no double precision floating point processing support. One...

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GeForce GTX 480 Direct3D 11 Tessellation Demos Details

JeGX — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:04:35 +0000

Hair rendering with D3D11 tessellation NVIDIA has briefly explained three Direct3D 11 demos developed for the GeForce GTX 480. All these demos are widely based on hardware tessellation, one the big...

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NVIDIA ForceWare 197.13 Available

JeGX — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:31:32 +0000

GPU Caps Viewer and R197.13 NVIDIA has published a new set of graphics drivers (WHQL-candidate) for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, and 300-series desktop GPUs and ION desktop GPUs. R197.13 resolves...

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EVGA Classified SR-2 Motherboard: for Xtreme Gamers and FluidMark!

JeGX — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:47:22 +0000

This new ulta high end product by EVGA targets the owners of the Intel Xeon 5500 or 5600 6-Core CPU, especially, the owners of two Xeon CPUs The presence of multiple QPI (QuickPath Interconnect)...

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Radeon HD 5970: the Ultimate Password Cracking Hardware?

JeGX — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:42:00 +0000

ElcomSoft has updated its tool for cracking WPA/WPA2 passwords. This tool called Wireless Security Auditor (or EWSA) uses all available GPUs to crack wireless passwords (WPA/WPA2). Now ATI cards are...

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GF100 Fermi Die Shot + GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 Details

JeGX — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:28:18 +0000

GeForce GTX 470 GPU GeForce GTX 480 GPU This shot of Fermi / GF100 GPU has been taken by a member of Ngacn.cc forums. The die size is approximately 530mm2. The reference is GF100-375-A3. The A3...

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SPARKLE GeForce 210, GT 220, GT 240 Noiseless and Low Profile

JeGX — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:11:04 +0000

SPARKLE, one of the numerous taiwan-based graphics cards makers, has unveiled 3 new GeForce based graphics cards with zero-noise cooling and low profile design: GeForce 210 – ref:...

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Realistic Hair Simulation on GeForce GTX 480

JeGX — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:31:12 +0000

Sarah Tariq shows how simulating and rendering realistic hair on a GeForce GTX 480 with tens of thousands of strands is something that until recently was prohibitively expensive for real-time use....

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Overview of the new Features of OpenGL 4.0

JeGX — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:08:50 +0000

The new versions of OpenGL bring many new features in order to fill the gap between OpenGL and Direct3D 11 functionalities. OpenGL 4.0 offers the Shader Model 5.0 support and all SM5 hardware...

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MSI R5870 Lightning: A Top-Notch Radeon HD 5870

JeGX — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:03:08 +0000

MSI’s R5870 Lightning is a very nice card with Military Class, custom black PCB, Twin Frozr II VGA cooler, a serious power supply and gold plated connectors! MSI has followed US Department of...

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