GeForce4 Specs Leak Online
News The GeForce cards support DirectX 8. The chip will be GeForce's first major redesign since the NV-20, launched last February, under the name GeForce3. GeForce 4 is expected to launch on 5 February. The details were leaked when Morex, a French...
[January 17, 2002, 13:57]
ATI, Nvidia Competition Heats Up
News The GeForce FX Go 5600 and 5200 include all the DirectX 9 features from the desktop GeForce FX, plus advanced power management technology and a host of new multimedia features for displaying DVD and streaming video, said Tim Lau, senior product...
[March 13, 2003, 14:48]
ATI Delays Radeon 9600
News ZDNet lab tests published last month showed that the Radeon 9800 outperformed Nvidia's current top-end chip, the GeForce FX 5800 Ultra, at least where it came to high-end features. The GeForce part is currently only shipping in limited quantities.
[April 2, 2003, 14:30]
Microsoft® DirectX® 7: What’s New For Graphics
White Papers NVIDIA’s GeForce 256™ GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) fully supports the entire suite of DirectX 7 for graphics. Microsoft’s introduction of DirectX 7 introduces a wide range of new 3D graphics features for the personal computer.
[October 7, 2003, 0:22]
DirectX 7: What’s New For Graphics
White Papers NVIDIA’s GeForce 256 GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) fully supports the entire suite of DirectX 7 for graphics. Microsoft’s introduction of DirectX 7 introduces a wide range of new 3D graphics features for the personal computer.
[October 31, 2003, 2:15]
Perfect Reflections And Specular Lighting Effects With Cube Environment Mapping
White Papers A unique feature of the NVIDIA GeForce 256, cube environment mapping is fully supported by Microsoft® DirectX® 7 and OpenGL® and is an easy-to-implement step toward photorealism on a desktop PC. NVIDIA's introduction of cube environment mapping in...
[December 26, 2003, 5:06]
NVidia Sharpens Image With GeForce3 Titaniums
News The GeForce Ti 200 has a slightly slower memory subsystem, at 400MHz, than the top-end Titanium, reducing the operations per second to 700 billion. As with previous revisions, the new top-end GPU is balanced by budget versions; graphics cards built...
[October 1, 2001, 16:49]
Futuremark Backs Down On Nvidia Cheat Claims
News See the full review: Nvidia GeForce FX 5900 Ultra: updated benchmarks) Last week Futuremark, one of the leading benchmark software providers, alleged that Nvidia tweaked software needed to run its new GeForce FX 5900 processor to distort...
[June 3, 2003, 9:33]
DRM Monitor?? Huh?
Talkback I have the Vista Beta1 and with my GeForce 6200 works fine :) Final version of Vista will need a graphics card with 100% support on DirectX 9.0c. If Video card is not DirectX 9.0c fully compatible, you will not see the Aero Glass effect.
[November 25, 2005, 18:31]
Nvidia Unveils NV20 Graphics Chip
News Apple chief executive Steve Jobs earlier this month announced that the GeForce 3 card will be available with Power Mac G4 systems from April, which was seen as a coup for the Mac maker. Unlike any previous graphics chip, the NV20 is optimised for...
[February 27, 2001, 11:54]
ATI Goes Mainstream With New Graphics Technology
News The NV30, to be sold under the GeForce 5 brand, will be unveiled at next month's Comdex trade show, but will not roll out in volume until early next year. All three, like the Radeon 9700 Pro announced three months ago, support Microsoft's DirectX...
[October 25, 2002, 15:22]
Nvidia: GeForce FX Cooler Than Ever
News Nvidia on Monday officially launched its long-awaited next-generation graphics processor, the GeForce FX, claiming a power boost of four times over the company's previous high-end product. To this end it designed the GeForce FX to execute complex...
[November 19, 2002, 10:24]
Nvidia Takes Its Show On The Road
News While the GeForce FX Go may not have quite the same level of performance as the desktop equivalent, Nvidia claims that it does at least have the same level of features, allowing the very latest games to run on both mobile and desktop PCs.
[March 13, 2003, 11:26]
Nuggets: Graphics Chip Goes Vroooom!
News Elsa's Erazor X is one of the first graphics boards to be built around Nvidia's powerful new GeForce 256 chip. Elsa says that games based on DirectX 7.0 will be displayed in resolutions up to 1920 x 1280, with up to 16.7m colours.
[September 3, 1999, 11:53]
New Graphics Chip Enters Crowded Market
News However, the new chip uses the same 0.13-micron manufacturing process as Nvidia's GeForce FX, which was unveiled last week at the Comdex trade show. However, it is a costly and complex transition -- the GeForce FX was delayed partly because of...
[November 26, 2002, 12:52]
Nvidia Chips To Make Tardy Debut
News Nvidia was expected to have its NV30 processor, to be sold as the GeForce 5, on the market by now. ATI opted to build the Radeon 9700 on the 150-nanometer process, a decision that meant bigger chips but ones that outperformed Nvidia's current...
[October 25, 2002, 9:48]
Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra: A First Look
Talkback ATI are the ones who are crapping in their boots, all they have done is taken old technology and boosted how fast it can render the graphics.where as Nvidia have added new rendering technologies, and enhanced existing ones to take advantage of the...
[June 13, 2004, 1:49]
