AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 XT is a winner
AMD’s new AIB is speedy and powerful—and there’s more to come
AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 XT is a winner
AMD has announced its new line of Radeon boards based on the Navi 21 GPU architecture. We have heard rumors and hints from AMD about “Big”-Navi for over a year. Our first examination of the new AIB indicates it was worth the wait. AMD hasn’t been a contender in the high-end for a while. As a result, Nvidia has enjoyed … Read more
Nvidia RTX 3070 fills a niche
It is amusing to a long time follower of this industry, to describe a midrange AIB that sells for $500 as not too expensive, but that’s how the average selling prices have moved led by Nvidia. Nvidia is positioning its RTX 3070 as a replacement for the RTX 2070 or RTX 2080 Ti. Nvidia introduced the RTX 2070 in October 2018 at … Read more
Intel’s discrete GPU
(Source: Clker-Free-Vector-Images) Intel has been laying the groundwork for its new, Xe line of discrete GPUs (dGPU). The company has a long history in graphics, determined this time to avoid past mistakes. Intel has taken several runs building a discrete graphics chip to take on the market leaders. But the company has had a challenging time. They never seemed … Read more
Nvidia RTX 3070 fills a niche
Lots of power not too expensive
If you like Zen2, you’ll love Zen3
(Source: AMD) AMD created an extraordinarily good design with the Zen architecture in April 2017. You can measure that by the steady generation-to-generation improvements the company has made with Zen’s various derivatives. The latest iteration is the new Ryzens. AMD predicts a 19% improvement in instructions-per-clock (IPC) for the Zen 3 over last year’s Zen 2 design version. This improvement … Read more
Epic’s Unreal Engine is almost…
(Source: Epic) I have been trying to write about Epic’s new Unreal Engine 5 since they announced it in May. Every time I do, I am awestruck by the visuals, and mind-boggled trying to figure out how they did it. It is making a bazillion zillion quadrillion polygons fit in a 4k screen. The company said at the time … Read more
Douglas Trumbull to give Siggraph Pioneers keynote
In this video, filmmaker Douglas Trumbull shares a history of cinema technology and a retrospective of his Academy Award-winning career exclusively for the ACM SIGGRAPH Pioneers community.
ACM SIGGRAPH Pioneers: 2020 Speaker Douglas Trumbull – “The Past, Present, and Future of Cinema”
In this video, filmmaker Douglas Trumbull shares a history of cinema technology and a retrospective of his Academy Award-winning career exclusively for the ACM SIGGRAPH Pioneers community.
Global GPU market’s growth blunted by COVID-19 in Q1’20 reports Jon Peddie Research
PC GPU market shipments decreased -5.3% sequentially from last quarter but increased 14.9% year-to-year.
Nvidia’s massive Ampere GPU
Nvidia has been pushing the envelope on graphics chips since it integrated the geometry processor and pixel shader into one chip and called it a GPU, 21 years ago. The potential for GPUs then vastly expanded in 2003 when a branch of development spiked out of GPU applications that took advantage of the GPUs parallel processing for pure computation using … Read more
Famous graphics Chips: S3 ViRGE
In the mid-1990s, two major developments were taking place. One was the explosion of 3D graphics chip companies, and the other was the emergence of virtual reality from the labs to industry. In 1990, twenty companies were making or had declared they would make a 3D graphics chip. By 1996, the number of suppliers exploded to 70. And by 2000, … Read more