AMD: GPU Specifications Without NDAs!
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| This morning at the X Developer Summit in the United Kingdom, Matthew Tippett
| and John Bridgman of AMD have announced that they will be releasing their ATI
| GPU specifications without any Non-Disclosure Agreements needed by the
| developers! In other words, their GPU specifications will be given to
| developers in the open.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjA0Ng
Wow. Let's see NVidia topping /that/. AMD is in the headlines at the moment
because of their new products...
AMD claims new quad-core Opteron smokes Intel
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| Chipmaker AMD has released its new quad-core Opteron server processor,
| claiming a significant performance edge over Intel. According to AMD, Under
| the newest SPECcpu2006 benchmarks, AMD dual-core Opteron processors beat
| Intel Xeon equivalent by up to 15%.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14394/1054/
Folding on the Intel V8 - Eight Cores of F@H
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| It was then time to wipe the drive and install Linux natively. Like the
| Windows SMP client, a single instance of the Linux SMP client only put load
| on 4 cores. So two instances were run.
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http://www.legitreviews.com/article/559/1/
Related:
AMD 8.41 Display Driver Preview
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| Whether you are using a Radeon X300 purchased a few years ago or the Radeon
| X1950PRO, the 8.41 driver is noticeably faster. How much faster? In many
| cases it is about 50% faster while in some configurations it may go as high
| as 90% or more. In fact, in some benchmarks the Mobility Radeon X300 was over
| 10x faster!
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=821&num=1
AMD Delivers Significant Graphics Performance and Compatibility Enhancements
for Consumer Linux Users
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| Moving forward, AMD also plans to accelerate efforts to address the needs of
| the open source community as well.
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| "As client computing on Linux continues to grow so has our support and focus
| on delivering best-in-class performance and compatibility for our products,"
| said Ben Bar-Haim, vice president of software, Graphics Product Group at AMD.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070905/20070904006432.html?.v=1
NVIDIA's Calm Before The Storm
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| It has been 80 days since the last NVIDIA Linux display driver was released.
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| [...]
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| This week is already very busy with the X Developer Summit going on where AMD
| will be releasing their new ATI R500/600 open-source driver as well as the
| specifications and it's very likely that the new NVIDIA 100.xx.xx series
| driver will meet the world in the coming days.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjA0NA
NVIDIA: Got Specifications?
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| This past week AMD raised the Linux graphics bar by not only announcing their
| new fglrx graphics driver, which delivers Radeon HD 2000 support, immense
| performance improvements, and AIGLX, but it was accompanied by an
| announcement that they will be delivering specifications to the X.Org
| development community. These two announcements came after intense work
| internally at AMD and over a long period of time, but literally overnight it
| changed the minds of many Linux users on how they judge this company with its
| once notorious binary blob. AMD has really set a precedence for showing that
| a semiconductor company once criticized to no end with their proprietary
| software can update their views to assist and embrace the open-source Linux
| community while remaining competitive as a company in a triopoloy market.
| They have also thus reaffirmed that Linux is a viable desktop operating
| system. But the ball has now landed in NVIDIA's court. NVIDIA can either play
| ball by pushing forward with a similar effort, and then all of the big three
| GPU manufacturers would be cradling an open-source strategy, or they may find
| themselves in trouble down the road.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=831&num=1
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