ARM: two generations of graphics processors arrive

ARM provides two new chips Mali to address different markets, a pay strategy for British society?

This time, it is the English business ARM which shows the future of mobile processors embedded in our smartphones, tablets and even connected TVs. ARM is here that his new party graphic called Mali that animates its chips. The new generation is called Mali-450 and the successor to Mali-400 that getting into four hearts of treatment with the support of OpenGL ES 2.0 for the first time.

ARM Mali-450, passes to eight graphic hearts and also optimizes the treatment of OpenGL ES 2.0 for even more performance in video games. Chief product of ARM in the process media division, Steve Steele said that Mali-450 is not that double the number of hearts on the chip, but that optimizations were performed on units of graphics for better performance even if they are a little more than place on the chip in the end.

For the moment, this new generation does not yet the latest technologies in terms of graphics as the tesselation example calculation, but Steve Steele indicates that ARM has already in its cartons a new architecture called Midgard for the end of the year and will be fully exploited in the Mali-604 chips. In the meantime, Mali-450 chips are thought to be used in the entry and the means of range and Mali-604 and 658 which will arrive a little later to the high and compete directly with NVIDIA on this segment. We are asking to see...

ASUS presents its graphics ROG Matrix HD 7970

The Taiwanese manufacturer Asus shows at the stand of the Computex a heavy-handed in its Republic Of Gamers line, the Matrix HD 7970.

After the impressive March III, Asus exposes on its stand of the Computex in Taipei, a very high graphics from range of its ROG (Republic Of Gamers), the Matrix HD 7970 mark.

Integrating a GPU Tahiti AMD pushed to the extreme, it would be question of a frequency of 1200 Mhz or 20-25% more than that of reference. This large map occupying three slots do an imposing House heatpipe. It consists of a radiator solid aluminum crossed by several heat pipes and cooled by two fans 120 mm PWM.

Aimed at discerning and demanding users, the Matrix HD 7970 has a floor of food designed accordingly and proposes therefore 20 phases of power to allow a high overclocking. The card requires two connectors PCI-e 8-pin to feed energy, PCB is also home to control points of tension, a button to push fans at their maximum speed of rotation and two BIOS selectable by a switch to easily return to the default settings.

Compatible Eyefinity, the card offers via its six rear angle output video with two Dual-Link DVI ports and four outputs HDMI. Still in development, the Matrix HD 7970 ROG has for the time being no date of availability or tariff known.

This ASUS ROG March III, his graphics bi GTX 680

The Asus brand is a true beast of race with his March III to the Republic Of Gamers range card, a GTX 680 led bi hormones.

ASUS takes advantage of the Computex 2012 to expose a prototype of its future graphics ultra high-end ROG (Republic Of Gamer), March III series.

This power monster has two GPU GK104 as on the 690 NVIDIA GTX but they could see their overclockées by Asus frequencies, the manufacturer however would not expand on the subject for the moment.

    

Each bullet would allocate 4 GB of GDDR5 on a 256 bit bus for a total of 8 GB of RAM on the map, a good point to mount in high definitions. March III type three axial fan heatpipe cooling system which has the advantage of not occupy only two slots, it is efficient to effectively cool the concentrate of technology.

Feed the beast, it requires be connected to three PCI-e 8-pin catch what just the extreme overclockers that will also find a small red button right next to the pins to launch three turbines to 100% instantly. The rear angle of the map includes four video outputs with three Dual-Link DVI ports and a mini DisplayPort, to engage in the 3D Vision Surround on three screens of 1920 by 1200 pixels.

    

The Asus March III should be manufactured in very limited, normal amount given its tariff coming higher than a GTX included therefore 690 in the range between 1300 and €1400 (Ouch). And in SLI it gives what? It's beautiful dream sometimes!