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    Will a GTX 460/470/460 SLI configuration work?

    I couldn't find much information on this subject, mostly due to the 460 being pretty new. And I'm no expert when it comes to the technicalities of SLI. The GTX 460's only have 1 SLI connection, and thus you can only do dual-SLI 460's. But what if you had a 470 or 480 in-between them, with the...
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    4650 Pro - DXVA decode - weird full screen artifact problem

    I have an old P4 HT system with an XFX AGP Radeon 4650 Pro 512MB. This problem has been going on since I got the card. I've searched far an wide for an answer but haven't found one. Perhaps someone here might have an idea of why this is happening. Basically when I have my video settings set to...
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    Fermi Media Collection Thread

    Thought I'd make a thread for all Fermi related media as it comes out. Contribute any you find that I haven't. Articles: NVIDIA Fermi Architecture Whitepaper: http://www.nvidia.com/content/...itectureWhitepaper.pdf Anandtech thorough Architecture break down...
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    World's first ray-traced PC game and movie to arrive in 2012

    http://brightsideofnews.com/ne...to-arrive-in-2012.aspx And in connection with the lightstage/ray-tracing part: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=31&threadid=2336162 Hopefully we hear some more about this soon. Anyone else know more about it?
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    Nvidia CEO to visit Taiwan in October, to discuss 40nm contract prices with TSMC

    http://google.com/search?q=cac...ws/a20090918PD210.html Interesting :)
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    ATI Ultra-Realistic Realtime Ruby Tessellation demo

    Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4uUx051zBk Textured: http://www.flickr.com/photos/a...ed/3907249086/sizes/o/ Untextured: http://www.flickr.com/photos/a...ed/3907250684/sizes/o/ Normals: http://www.flickr.com/photos/a...ed/3906472189/sizes/o/ Specular Highlights...
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    Nvidia confident that GT300 wins over 5870

    http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15535/1/ http://www.tweaktown.com/news/...orm_the_radeon_hd5870/ *Awaits Cult of Saint Charlie followers to make baseless claims against this rumor*
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    XFX 2118AD, DirectX 67, ATI Eyefinity & ATI Stream.

    http://www.xfxforce.com/2118AD/ For once in my life I glanced at the ad's on the side of a page, and noticed something wrong with the XFX ad. It said DirectX 67 at the bottom. And I'm all like, WTF? So I click on it, and look what we have here! Banner...
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    Differences between Nvidia/ATI architecture, can anyone explain?

    HD4870: 55nm - 956 Million transistors Die Size = 256mm² Bus-w = 256 bit Shaders = 800 TMU's = 40 ROP's = 16 GTX285: 55nm - 1.4 Billion transistors Die Size = 470mm² Bus-w = 512 bit Shaders = 240 TMU's = 80 ROP's = 32 This is something I'm confused...
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    nVidia schedules an event on the same day as ATI's Evergreen launch?

    http://brightsideofnews.com/ne...-evergreen-launch.aspx Well this should be interesting if it holds true.
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    nVidia plans GT300 demos for late September

    http://brightsideofnews.com/ne...or-late-september.aspx
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    GeForce GTX 275 VS. Radeon HD 4890 Video Card Battle

    http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1027/1/
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    ChipHell - RV870/830 specs

    http://www.chiphell.com/2009/0807/93.html RV870: 1600 SP 256bit 80 TMU 32 ROP RV830: 800 SP 128bit 40 TMU 16 ROP ChipHell is usually correct about this stuff. Leaked RV870 card image: http://www.chiphell.com/2009/0728/89.html
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    Interactive Ray Tracing: A Better Way to Program 3D

    http://www.caustic.com/docs_presentations.php Hour long presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfgz90Y93c0&fmt=22 Was an interesting presentation. I especially liked the part on simple real time script editing & modification of a scene. Caustic really seems to have something going...
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    When Will Ray Tracing Replace Rasterization?

    http://www.tomshardware.com/re...asterization,2351.html Very nice read. Going to be awesome when we can finally ray trace in highly detailed games with acceptable frame rates.
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    AMD beliefs: DirectX 11 Radeons pleasantly fast

    http://www.pcgameshardware.com...-pleasantly-fast/News/
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    AMD DirectX 11 White Paper Released

    http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1001/1/ (To big to quote.) Shader Model 5.0 comparison chart: http://www.legitreviews.com/im...1/directx_11_chart.jpg
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    nVidia GT300 - GeForce GTX 380 yields are sub-30%

    Well, apart from the poor TSMC yields, it's promising to hear that Nvidia is already at this stage with GT300.
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    Fudzilla: ATI/Nvidia DX11 cards will come in 2009

    Nvidia: ATI:
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    GPUs Will Have 20 Teraflops of Performance by 2015 ? Nvidia Chief Scientist.

    http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/v...a_Chief_Scientist.html I think this helps reinforce the rumor that Nvidia's GT300 series are going to use MIMD instead of SIMD. But as always, we'll have to wait and see.