Posts Tagged graphics
A Few Thoughts on Nvidia’s Fermi
Posted by jasoncross in Gaming, PC Tech on September 30, 2009
Today was the start of Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference. It’s really still just the NVISION conference, because it’s not much of a “industry-wide” conference if ATI and Intel aren’t there. The biggest announcement of the show is undoubtedly the unveiling of Nvidia’s next-generation GPU, code-named Fermi. I’m not sure why they named the chip after Enrico Fermi, who is best known for his work with radioactive substances and controlled nuclear reactions and stuff. But as code-names go, physicists are cool, so I’ll let it slide.
I won’t bother to summarize all the individual features that were revealed today. Tech Report has a excellent article on it, so does AnandTech. I’m just going to editorialize a bit with some of my thoughts based on what we know (and don’t know) so far.
Geek 101: A Graphics Card Primer
Posted by jasoncross in Media, PC Tech, Work on September 3, 2009
Just posted over at PC World’s Geek Tech Blog is a new feature I wrote this week called Geek 101: A Graphics Card Primer. They’re apparently going to have a series of “Geek 101″ articles, this is just the first. The article is a very high-level look at some basic terms, companies, and considerations in the consumer graphics market. It intentionally leaves a lot of nitty-gritty stuff out to avoid confusion as much as possible. This is for general computer users to get a better handle on what’s going on in the graphics market and what they should be thinking about when buying a graphics card, or looking at what graphics card comes in their next PC or notebook.
So that’s the latest freelance thing to go up. I do other posts at the Geek Tech blog from time to time, and I’m not going to link all of them here. This one was much larger and more involved than most, so I thought I’d call it out.
Mobility Modder.net (saving ATI notebook graphics)
Posted by jasoncross in PC Tech on August 2, 2009
I have a Dell Studio 15 (the 1555 model). It has an Mobility Radeon HD 4570 in it with 512MB of dedicated memory – a fine mobile graphics chip, “good enough” performance for the fairly casual 3D gaming I do on my laptop. It runs The Sims 3 just fine, for instance.
There’s only one problem. Drivers.