Gamers looking to play this year’s hottest PC games at a highly affordable price—with in-game settings cranked up to high—got their wish today with the introduction of the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST GPU. Based on the NVIDIA Kepler architecture and equipped with 768 NVIDIA CUDA cores, the GTX 650 Ti BOOST GPU is available in 2GB and 1GB configurations at an estimated $169 and $149, respectively. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Phys.org
Last month’s release of Nvidia’s Titan graphics card—the most powerful consumer GPU ever announced—may have inspired uncontrollable drooling among the enthusiast crowd, but at a cool $1000, the card simply isn’t priced to move. AMD‘s latest release takes a different tack. Today, the company announced the Radeon HD 7790 series graphics card, a $150 mid-range GPU designed to bring better 1080p gaming to the masses.
The Radeon HD 7790 fills a hole between the Radeon 7770 GHz Edition, which is typically priced between $100 and $110, and the $180 and up Radeon 7850. At $150, the Radeon HD 7790 directly competes against Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 650 Ti, which has thus far been sitting uncontested at that particular price point.
Most of AMD‘s press materials for the Radeon HD 7790 unsurprisingly compare its 1080p gaming performance against Nvidia’s counterpart, with AMD‘s card claiming frame rate victories to the tune of 8 to 32 percent across a slew of games—and a whopping 67 percent frame rate lead over the Nvidia GTX 650 Ti in DiRT Showdown. (That game heavily favors AMD graphics cards, to be fair.) AMD claims the Radeon HD 7790 performs delivers “an average performance advantage of up to 20 percent over the GTX 650 Ti.”
The Radeon HD 7790 offers full DirectX 11.1 support and works just fine with EyeFinity multi-monitor setups, though frame rates will obviously drop if you’re rocking several displays. Fortunately, AMD loaded the Radeon HD 7790 with CrossfireX support just in case you want a graphical boost down the line. The GTX 650 Ti, on the other hand, doesn’t support multi-card solutions.
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld
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Samsung is about to take the lid off its next flagship smartphone, but that doesn’t mean the Galaxy Note II is a slouch. Utilizing the the handy writing and multitasking features of the S Pen, the Galaxy Note II is a great option for business professionals or anyone who wants a more tactile experience. Check and write email naturally, hovering the S Pen over the screen to switch between apps. Running on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the Note II offers a 5.5-inch Super AMOLED 720p display 2GB of RAM. An 8MP rear camera is capable of taking multiple, successive images with Burst Shot – perfect for capturing every moment in fast-action scenarios like sporting events. While grabbing a Note II would normally cost you $300, you can grab this handy device right now for only $149.99 (with a Verizon Wireless account).
Today Nvidia introduced its new flagship desktop graphics processor, the GTX Titan. Inspired by the Nvidia-powered Titan supercomputer found in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the GTX Titan is the company’s most powerful single-processor GPU chip to-date, boasting a staggering 2,688 CUDA cores with 6GB of GDDR5 memory.
While the GTX Titan falls short of Nvidia’s current crown-jewel, the GTX 690, in terms of raw specs and compute power, it makes huge gains in efficiency. While the GTX 690 drives 3,072 CUDA cores between two on-board GPUs (1,536 cores-per-GPU), the GTX Titan’s single GPU features over a thousand additional cores. Subsequently, the GTX Titan requires less power (250w vs. 300w), generates less heat, runs quieter, and can fit in the growing category of compact PCs, such as the iBuyPower Revolt.
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Tech
