Tag archive: Fermi

Physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced this week that they have discovered what they believe to be a new elementary particle that could, some say, turn out to be an entirely “new force of nature,” The New York Times reports. A “suspicious” deviation in the Fermilab team's test results reveals what some believe is a version of the elusive Higgs boson particle, which could be… Read More

The market for mid-range desktop video cards targeting gamers has recently been dominated by AMD, but rival Nvidia is proving that it's up for a fight, today announcing the availability of its new GeForce GTX 550Ti video card. The GTX 550Ti might not boast all the processing power of its more-expensive cousin, the GTX 460, but it makes up for it with a friendlier price tag and performance boosts that ought to satisfy many gamers: Nvidia… Read More

Nvidia has introduced its new GeForce GT 430 graphics controller, the latest entry in its Fermi class of graphics processing systems. The GT 430 aims at folks looking to step up from integrated graphics into solid high-definition entertainment and gaming experiences, without straining their pocketbooks: the card uses Nvidia's 40nm GF108 GPU—already found in notebook and desktop computers from a number of OEMs—and a dedicated… Read More

Graphics developer Nvidia has finally taken the wraps of its GeForce GTX 480 and

Nvidia has been under a lot of competitive pressure over the last year, but especially during the last four months as its primary competitor ATI has launched six desktop DirectX 11 GPUs and a complete Mobility Radeon lineup for notebooks. Over two million DX11 GPUs have been sold so far, all of them from ATI. Nvidia had a fairly large presence at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, but also had a series of briefings… Read More

The AMD/ATI success story in the GPU sector has shown little signs of fading with the transition from the 4000 series to the 5000 series. Continuing its competitive pricing, AMD's 5870, 5850, 5770 and 5750, the world's first DirectX 11 GPUs, are all showing strong sales in their respective price ranges, leaving NVIDIA in a painful wait for its Fermi series to reach market readiness. Now AMD is reportedly preparing to take the… Read More

Graphics technology developer Nvidia has formally introduced its next generation graphics architecture, codenamed Fermi, which Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang described as putting a supercomputer into a GPU. Unlike traditional GPUs, which are optimized for rendering and graphics tasks, the Fermi architecture is intended to put standard computing operations and graphics procedures on equal footing, enabling developers to leverage the computing power of… Read More