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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 official, vies for graphics lead
Mar 24th
NVIDIA as it promised has launched the GeForce GTX 590 as its fastest-ever graphics hardware. The design mates two underclocked GTX 580 chips on one board and includes 1,024 visual processing cores, dual 384-bit memory buses and a total of 3GB of RAM spread across the two chips. It may also be as much as two times quieter than the Radeon HD 6990, since each chip now has its own vapor chamber cooling system and combined stop at 48dB of noise, even at full speed.
The hardware can still pair up in quad SLI mode by adding a second GTX More >
NVIDIA GTX 580 presentation shows vapor cooling, high detail
Nov 8th
NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 580 has been previewed again with clues that the cooling will be as important as the performance. The official clip (below) shows the “unreleased GPU” having vapor chamber cooling, which carries the heat away from the graphics chipset through constantly circling water that evaporates and condenses as it reaches the heat sinks. Combined with a dynamic fan system and optimization for multi-card SLI setups, the design should run noticeably cooler and quieter than earlier cards, NVIDIA said.
The company also touted the unreleased hardware as the fastest DirectX 11-capable video chipset yet and used a handful of More >
Chinese supercomputer uses NVIDIA Tesla to crush records
Oct 28th
A new Chinese supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A was revealed today at HPC 2010 in China has set a new performance benchmark, at 2.507 petaflops. In doing so, it has become the fastest supercomputer in the world, taking the title from the US-based Cray XT5, which managed a performance of 1.756 petaflops. The Tianhe-1A uses 7,168 NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs and 14,336 CPUs, which combined lets it calculate much more in parallel.
The use of the GPUs helps the system conserve energy, as the Tianhe-1A uses just 4.04 megawatts. Without the GPUs, it would require 12 megawatts of power for the same More >
NVIDIA confirms GTX 580 by accident
Oct 24th
NVIDIA has inadvertently confirmed the GeForce GTX 580 this weekend by briefly posting mention of it on its 3D Vision requirements page (since pulled). The mention didn’t confirm more than that it would have full support for 3D in Blu-ray and gaming but hinted at a near-term release. The graphics veteran is expected to ship the GTX 580 in late November or early December.
The new design is mostly an improved version of the GTX 480 that boosts the number of processing cores from 448 to at least 512 while more than doubling the texture units, to 128, and widening More >