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Graphics Technology Shows Shape Of The Universe
News Although computer graphics have already attained a high degree of realism, they remain one of the hotbeds of research. Astronomical data, computer graphics and the emerging field of "conformal geometric algebra" are giving researchers a clearer...
[July 29, 2003, 10:28]
Graphics Hardware Requirements That Enable Improved Audio/Video Synchronization And Performance Validation
White Papers This paper discusses graphics hardware requirements that enable improved audio/video (A/V) synchronization and allow software to determine when frames are rendered to the primary display buffer. It describes new display position counters that will...
[April 1, 2004, 0:00]
Graphics Wars Heat Up
News The new technology, dubbed Unified, will allow games written to run on 3dfx graphics accelerators to also run on competing boards made by Creative Technology Ltd. Many of our customers have wanted to move over to a new graphics boards, but still...
[May 14, 1999, 8:08]
Graphics Card Help - PCI, PCI Express AGP???
Forum You can however buy a PCI graphics card. They are older and therefore rarer than AGP cards and although you can get a decent PCI graphics card they are not the most powerful. Hi Ben, Unfortunately you cannot - add-in an AGP slot.
[November 28, 2006, 11:24]
Nuggets: Graphics On A Budget Anyone?
News "Get yer graphics cheap.only 60 quid! If it wasn't it wouldn't be the most popular graphics package around. However the rest of us are probably just looking for a decent, basic graphics editing package that doesn't cost hundreds of pounds.
[September 28, 1999, 9:24]
Graphics Benchmarker Tightens The Rules
News Graphics-card manufacturers have been instructed not to optimise their products to generate undeservedly high results in a key benchmarking test. These rules explain that Futuremark will not tolerate the practice of optimising software drivers so...
[September 24, 2003, 15:40]
Graphics Performance Improvements
White Papers Performance is always an issue for graphics programs. Rendering complex shapes and patterns on a display requires iterating through the pixels and calculating values for each of them. Loading an image and performing a filter operation on it...
[July 1, 2004, 0:00]
Graphics Chip Makers Turn Up The Heat
News The graphics chip industry is readying for a renewed scuffle this autumn, as chipmaker Nvidia prepares its bid to regain the performance crown and other chip designers refresh their products. This new direction, which arrives along with Nvidia's...
[October 7, 2002, 16:19]
Nuggets: Graphics Card For TV Addicts
News ATI has come up with a solution for those of you who want to upgrade the TV, video and graphics capability of your PC for one easy price. The ATI All-in-Wonder 128 is a 32MB graphics board, based on the Rage 128 chip, with integrated video and TV...
[January 5, 2000, 7:12]
Linux: New Graphics, Old Problem
News Efforts to bring glitzy new graphics to Linux are fuelling an old conflict: Does proprietary software belong in Linux? The proprietary drivers are largely the only choice for those with modern graphics processors.
[April 19, 2006, 11:50]
Partnership Aims To Add Graphics To Wireless Web
News Graphics engine Simplylook and wireless provider Gravitate want to see pictures, graphs, pie charts -- anything that isn't text -- added to wireless Web pages. Instead, graphics are "more like icons for news stories", said James Siedel of wireless...
[January 17, 2001, 10:01]
Nuggets: Another Day Another Graphics Card
News ELSA of Germany has based its latest graphics card on S3's 128 bit Savage 4 chip (hasn't everyone? Oh no -- it's another Savage card. Winner II is a 2D/3D AGP model and uses the S3TC texture compression technology of the afore mentioned techy...
[June 9, 1999, 15:31]
Prolink GeForce4 Graphics Card Details Leak Out
News More specifications of Nvidia GeForce4-based graphics cards have leaked onto the Internet, with details and images of three Prolink Pixelview units appearing on a hobbyist site. Graphics acceleration cards are an essential accessory for gamers, and...
[January 18, 2002, 16:54]
A Year Ago: California Graphics Plans New Year Voodoo 2 Card
News California Graphics says it will be among the first board makers to build around 3Dfx's much-awaited Voodoo 2 graphics processor when it ships its latest cards early next year. Aimed at the serious gamer market, the 3D Wizard includes one Pixel/fx...
[December 15, 1998, 6:13]
Creative Launches Graphics Move With 3DLabs Takeover
News Computer peripherals manufacturer Creative Technology announced on Sunday that it has reached an agreement to buy graphics company 3DLabs for almost £73m in shares and cash. DLabs specialises in creating high-end graphics chips and software for...
[March 11, 2002, 9:27]
Nuggets: Supersonic Graphics Card Is A-comin'
News Only a few months after it released the GeForce2 GTS, nVidia has launched a new contender -- the GeForce2 Ultra graphics processing unit (GPU), which promises even faster performance than before. Creative Labs says it'll employ a GeForce 2 Ultra...
[August 17, 2000, 12:09]
ATI Extends Graphics To Chipsets
News ATI Technologies, the No.graphics chip company, is looking to recharge itself with a leap into the growing but risky market for PC chipsets. The mobile chipsets also incorporate PowerPlay instructions that adjust graphics performance to extend a...
[March 14, 2002, 6:31]
New Sun Workstation Sharpens Graphics
News As it continues to fight the PC powers on its home turf, Sun Microsystems unveiled on Thursday a new high-end workstation with improved graphics. Specific configurations also come with a new graphics unit, the Sun XVR-1000, which greatly improves...
[March 15, 2002, 12:42]
News Burst: Silicon Graphics Makes Loss Of $220m
News Workstation maker Silicon Graphics reported Thursday a larger-than-expected fourth quarter operating loss of $57m (£34.75m), or 31 cents a share. Including restructuring charges, the company reported a loss of $220m (£134m), or $1.17 per share.
[July 24, 1998, 10:47]
