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16 articles tagged as acceleration

Could Intel's 10th Gen Desktop plans turn the tide against AMD?

Intel looks to be adding hyper-threading across its 10th Gen desktop CPU range, but is it enough to deal with AMD?

February 21, 2020 | 09:00

3D Printing GPU Support Brackets

Say no to sag, the bit-tech way.

February 17, 2020 | 09:00

Is The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners the best VR Game yet?

Rick gets his hands dirty with Skydance's VR zombie game.

February 14, 2020 | 14:00

Khronos Group releases OpenVX 1.3

Includes Raspberry Pi implementation.

October 23, 2019 | 11:26

Nvidia unveils RTX Broadcast Engine SDKs

Finds a use for the Tensor Cores.

September 27, 2019 | 11:08

Nvidia's GauGAN turns sketches into photos

Landscapes only, for now.

March 19, 2019 | 11:44

Building an Ion-powered Linux Media PC

We revisit the Linux version of HTPC app Boxee with the help of Zotac's latest Ion-F motherboard and Nvidia's GPU video acceleration to see if this is the future low power, truly silent HTPC solution.

December 3, 2009 | 12:46

Nvidia releases Windows 7 Direct Compute driver

Nvidia has attained WHQL certification for its latest Windows 7 direct compute drive.

August 25, 2009 | 14:06

ATI Stream SDK 2.0 beta 2 lacks OpenCL GPU support

AMD's ATI Stream SDK v2.0 beta 2 doesn't support GPU acceleration for OpenCL and instead only supports CPUs at this time.

August 10, 2009 | 15:46

Acer Aspire Revo Review

Acer's Revo is the first product we've seen that uses Nvidia's Ion platform, combining GeForce graphics with Intel's cheap and cheerful Atom CPU. It promises smooth 1080p video playback and playable game frame rates for £250 - join us as we find out whether the Revo is able to deliver.

June 22, 2009 | 15:08

VIA brings 1080p video playback to small devices

VIA's new VX855 chip features hardware acceleration for H.264 video at 1080p, enabling netbooks to playback HD video.

March 13, 2009 | 15:00

Adobe introduces GPU accelerated Creative Suite 4

Adobe has released its Creative Suite 4 product family and includes GPU acceleration in Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere Pro.

September 24, 2008 | 14:04

Nvidia, Pegasys announce CUDA support for TMPGEnc

NVISION 2008: Nvidia and Pegasys have announced CUDA support for TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress and it delivers pretty big performance gains.

August 25, 2008 | 22:17

Adobe to integrate GPU acceleration into Photoshop

During a meeting at Nvidia's HQ last week, Adobe revealed that Photoshop 'Next' will integrate GPU and Physics acceleration.

May 28, 2008 | 13:42

ATI touts physics on GPU

COMPUTEX 2006: Fancy running three graphics cards in your system? A combo deal of two X1900s and an extra X1600 in an Intel motherboard could get you a PhysX-killing setup.

June 6, 2006 | 19:00

Microsoft to create standard Physics API

Physics acceleration looks like it has some acceptance from software giant Microsoft, as it wants to create an industry-standard physics API.

May 2, 2006 | 19:05

NVIDIA unlocks more PureVideo features

NVIDIA has announced the availability of some new PureVideo technologies that are aimed at high-definition video acceleration. These include the H.264 and CV-1 codecs that will be used in the Blu-ray and HD DVD media formats.

March 2, 2006 | 17:43

NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS

NVIDIA has replaced the GeForce 6200 TurboCache with the GeForce 7300 GS. For under $100, the card delivers H.264 hardware acceleration up to 1080p - ideal for low-noise HTPCs, as well as gaming at 1280x1024. We get the lowdown on the technology and talk to NVIDIA about its plans.

January 19, 2006 | 15:19