Dell unveiled a new 13 inch gaming laptop this summer, and now the Alienware 13Â available for purchase for $999 and up. It’s the company’s smallest laptop designed for gaming and it combines an Intel Haswell processor with NVIDA GeForce GTX 860M graphics, 802.11ac WiFi an Ethernet jack, HDMI and mini DisplayPort, and 52 Whr battery. […]
gpu
Posted inNews
ARM’s next-gen graphics promise 4K support, better efficiency
Chip designer ARMÂ has unveiled its next-gen graphics, video, and display technologies. ARM licenses its designs to other companies so it’ll be a while before the first processors with ARM’s new technology hit the streets. The first products with ARM Mali-T800 series graphics, Mali-V550 video, and Mali-DP550 display processor technology should launch in late 2015 or […]
Posted inNews
NVIDIA GTX 970M, 980M graphics chips bring Maxwell power to gaming laptops
NVIDIA is launching its most powerful graphics processors for notebooks. The company says the new GeForce GTX 980M is the fastest notebook GPU ever released — it’s about 40 percent faster than the GTX 880M processor. The new new GTX 970M is a less powerful processor which still offers performance gains and better energy efficiency […]
Posted inNews
Linux 3D graphics support for Rockchip RK3188 devices
Developers have been porting Ubuntu and other operating systems to run on tablets and TV boxes with Rockchip RK3188 quad-core chips since mid-2013. The RK3188 chip is one of the fastest ARM Cortex-A9 processors around, and Ubuntu is surprisingly snappy on devices with the processor… but up until now there’s been no Linux support for […]
Posted inNews
Lilbits (2-11-2014): Intel builds a GPU that’s 40 percent more efficient
Smartphones, tablets, and notebooks keep getting more powerful… but that doesn’t mean they have to become more power hungry. There’s a race on to make chips that don’t just offer higher performance, but which are also more efficient than previous models. Intel’s been making pretty big strides in reducing power consumption with its Bay Trail […]
Posted inNews
ARM unveils Mali-T760, Mali-T720 graphics
ARM is introducing next-gen graphics technology for upcoming phones, tablets, and other devices. LG, Rockchip, and MediaTek have already signed up to license the new graphics technologies, which will likely appear in upcoming Android devices. Mali-T720 is a GPU aimed at mid-range devices and it won’t exactly offering bleeding edge performance. But ARM says the […]
Posted inFeatured, News
NVIDIA to license Kepler GPU technology to other companies
NVIDIA plans to license its Kepler graphics technology to companies for use in phones, tablets, and other devices. Kepler is the graphics processor core used in the company’s GeForce processors as well as upcoming Tegra chips for mobile devices. The company also plans to license its visual computing portfolio, which would let other companies develop […]
Posted inFeatured, News
Next-gen ARM Mali GPU to bring 10x the graphics performance
ARM has introduced a new graphics core design which will offer ten times the performance available from the ARM Mali-T400 chips available today. In other words, you get a 1000% graphics performance boost over the chip in the Samsung Glaaxy S II, which is one of the fastest phones available today. The new ARM Mali-T658 […]
Posted inNews
AMD launches next-generation low power chips
AMD has unveiled its new line of CPU and GPU products, with a heavy emphasis on low power chips for netbooks, ultraportable laptops, and low power desktops. Probably the most interesting new chips in AMD’s lineup are the new Fusion chips which combine graphics and CPU functions onto a single chip. We’ve been hearing about […]
Posted inNews
ATI says goodnight, future chips to wear the AMD brand name
Chip maker AMD acquired graphics company ATI a few years back but continued to produce graphics cards and processors under the ATI name. So while competitor Intel would pump out both CPU and GPU products with its own name on them, you could easily wind up buying a computer with an AMD CPU and ATI […]