Last month AMD pleased us all by launching what we considered was the fastest single-card solution on the market to date, the Radeon HD 3870 X2. But we all knew it was only a matter of time before Nvidia’s dual-GPU response arrived, potentially putting the company out in front again....

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes from ZDNet.com executed the tests using the AMD Phenom 9700, Radeon 3850 graphics card, 2GB of RAM and ATi Catalyst drivers 8.2. The three games which performed better on Vista than on XP SP2 were Call of Duty 4, F.E.A.R. and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Vista gave...

Nvidia is planning to launch its first GeForce 9 series graphics chip, the GeForce 9600 GT (G94), for the mid-range market on February 21, according to sources at graphics card makers. The 9600 GT adopts a 65nm process and is manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). The GPU sees...

For well over a year Nvidia has remained at the top of the PC graphics market, holding the performance crown so comfortably they never looked as they might lose it. Looking back in time we discover that the only threat from competition in recent times came from the Radeon HD...

AMD recently notified partners that its 45nm-based processors will be launched on time by the second half of 2008. The company highlighted that the new processors will consume less power and have better performance, according to sources at motherboard makers. AMD’s 45nm processors are expected to see core frequencies greatly...

Guinness World Records has recognised folding@home, a project that harnesses the spare processing power of Sony’s PlayStation 3 to help understand the cause of diseases, as the world’s most powerful distributed computing network. Nearly 700,000 PS3 owners have signed up to examine how the shape of proteins affects diseases such...