TweakTown stopped by the ASUS booth at Computex for a chance to see the special “Mars” GTX295 in action. Capable of running a whopping 3840×2160 at 60fps, it even set a record for 3DSMark Vantage at X25057 . (Although the site now shows 25949)
See the video of the short presentation after the break.
NVidia drew a crowd today by giving away 3D Vision equipment in their booth at Computex2009. However, unlike their recent active-shutter technology, they surprised everyone by going old-school.
NVIDIA showed a few games (Tomb Raider was one, Burnout: Paradise was another) running while supplying the press with those glasses seen above and while yes, it did look like things were coming out of the screen, it looked awful while things were coming out of the screen.
It’s particularly surprising since most of the marketing material lambasted anaglyphic stereo technology as antiquated junk.
via PC Perspective – Computex 2009: NVIDIA gives away 3D Vision, but not really.
At Computex today in Taiwan, AMD showed off the world’s first DX11 compliant GPU with a set of impressive demonstrations.. From the press release:
The series of demonstrations shed new light on the significantly improved computing experience set to debut at the end of 2009.1 The fusion of AMD’s new ground-breaking graphics processors with the forthcoming DirectX 11 programming interface is set to forever change both applications and PC gaming for the better. To illustrate, AMD showed numerous examples of faster application performance and new game features using the world’s first true DirectX 11 graphics processor. (…) DirectX 11 features such as tessellation will bring consumers higher quality, superior performing games making use of 6th generation AMD technology. Another DirectX 11 feature, the compute shader, will enable AMD’s DirectX 11 graphics cards to help make Windows 7 run faster in a wide number of applications and in a manner that’s completely transparent to users, for example, in seamlessly accelerating the conversion of video for playback on portable media players through a drag-and-drop interface. (…) many of the capabilities of DirectX 11 were pioneered on AMD GPUs, including DirectX 10.1, tessellation, compute shaders, Fetch4, custom filter anti-aliasing and high-definition ambient occlusion shading.
It goes on to say that DX11 should be out in late 2009, with hardware to be released on a similar schedule.
NVidia has blown away all expectations with an unprecedented 21 new hardware announcements based on their Ion chipset at Computex in Taiwan today. Just a few:
And more.. Engadget is on the scene with the full press release and photographs.
via NVIDIA strikes gold with Ion: 21 new products at Computex.
Another find from Computex came at the Keynote this morning from ARM CEO Warren East. Describing modern netbooks are actually being overpowered from what users want, he describe ARM’s offering (announced at Computex) using their Cortex A9 processor and Mali400 graphics, with 3G WWAN connectivity and GPS. They also showed a short “future concept” clip where all of this could be integrated into a flexible pull-out screen with location aware visualization integrated.
See the video after the break.
Update: See the followup post, including Video & 3DMark benchmarks.
Engadget has some details on ASUS’s rumored “Mars” video card. A limited run, only 1000 units, will be available for sale.
We knew it was coming, and come it did. Over in Taiwan today, ASUS was demonstrating its motherboard-incinerating Mars graphics card, which it proudly deemed “the world’s fastest.” In fact, the card packs 21 percent more power than a reference GeForce GTX 295 card, and the eight-heatpipe cooling solution keeps things at least a notch below molten. We found that the card will actually be sold in some capacity, though only 1,000 of them — all of which will be individually numbered — will be made available. Two more looks after the break.
In case you’ve never heard of “Mars”, it’s the production version of the Engineering prototype we showed last week, Dual GTX285′s in a GTX295 configuration.
Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) plans to announce a new line of Video Cards at the Computex Taipei 2009 Conference. Starting with new AMD & Intel chipset motherboards, they are also announcing 3 lines of video cards using both ATI & Nvidia Chipsets:
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