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GPU Caps Viewer 1.15.0 Released

JeGX — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:32:12 +0000

This new version of GPU Caps Viewer adds the support of Intel Ivy Bridge GPUs (HD Graphics 4000) as well as the support of some AMD’s Mobility Radeon GPUs. For OpenGL programmers GPU Caps...

NVIDIA R295.51 BETA and PhysX System Software 9.11.1111

JeGX — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:36:43 +0000

NVIDIA has just uploaded on its servers a new beta driver for all GeForce cards (GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs) R295.51 is the first...

OpenCL Rigid Body Simulation Test

JeGX — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:14:21 +0000

The rigid body simulation on a Radeon HD 6970 Here is a test of rigid body simulation in OpenCL. The rigid body pipeline runs 100% on GPU: OpenCL_gpu_rigidbody_pipeline_AMD is a proof of concept of a...

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Launched

JeGX — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:14:42 +0000

Radeon HD 7950 Overview AMD has officially launched today the Radeon HD 7950, HD 7970‘s little brother. Like the HD 7970, the HD 7950 is based on a 28nm Tahiti (PRO) GPU with the GCN...

LuxMark 2.0, OpenCL Benchmark for GPUs and CPUs

JeGX — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:52:43 +0000

Around one year after version 1.0, the new version of LuxMark, an OpenCL benchmark based on LuxRender, is available. LuxRender is a physically based and unbiased rendering engine. Based on state of...

AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series Direct3D 11 Demo: Leo in Sneeze The Day

JeGX — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:16:27 +0000

AMD has released a Direct3D 11 tech-demo to showcase the performance of Radeon HD 7900 series. This tech-demo is based on a (home-made?) engine in version 3.3 (build 1). Seems AMD ditched the Trinigy...

AMD MLAA Direct3D 11 Demo, Binary and Source Code Available

JeGX — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:19:37 +0000

AMD has published a Direct3D 11 demo about MLAA (MorphoLogical Anti-Aliasing). For more information about MLAA, read this post. This sample demonstrates a post-process pixel shader technique that...

AMD Catalyst 12.1 WHQL Released

JeGX — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:16:58 +0000

AMD has released the January 2012 edition of its WHQL-certified graphics drivers for Radeon based graphics cards. Catalyst 12.1 drivers do not support new Radeon HD 7900 series. For HD 7900, you can...

(Test) AMD Catalyst 8.921.2 RC11 for Radeon HD 7900, Big Performance Boost in OpenGL Tessellation (* Updated *)

JeGX — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:27:57 +0000

AMD has released a new release candidate of the upcoming WHQL driver (Cat 12.01). This new RC11 brings important performance gains in OpenGL tessellation, especially when high level of tessellation...

GPU Caps Viewer 1.14.6 Released

JeGX — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:20:53 +0000

This update of GPU Caps Viewer brings the support of Radeon HD 7970 and upcoming Radeon HD 7950 and fixes a bug in OpenCL information. The depth of the 3D image size (CL_DEVICE_IMAGE3D_MAX_DEPTH) was...

(Test) ASIC Quality of GeForce GPUs

JeGX — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:29:42 +0000

The latest GPU-Z 0.5.8 includes a new feature that displays the quality of the GPU (ASIC quality) of recent graphics cards (GeForce GTX 400, GTX 500 and Radeon HD 7800, HD 7900 series). Not all GPUs...

(Download) GPU-Z 0.5.8 Released, New Render Test for PCI-Express Bus and ASIC Quality Feature

JeGX — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:10:34 +0000

This new version of GPU-Z includes a render test (not a stress test) to put a small graphics load in order to accurately measure the PCI-Express bus configuration. Just read the explantion on the...

ASUS HD 7970 DirectCU II: The Return of the Triple Slot Cooler

JeGX — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:25:23 +0000

ASUS is about to launch a Radeon HD 7970 equipped with the DirectCU II VGA cooler. This triple-slot VGA cooler is already present on GeForce GTX 570 DC2 or on the ASUS Radeon HD 6950 DCII. The Tahiti...

GPU Shark 0.5.5 Released

JeGX — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:08:47 +0000

A maintenance release of GPU Shark is available. GPU Shark 0.5.5 is based on the latest ZoomGPU SDK 1.6.2 and supports the latest Radeon HD 7970 as well as the upcoming HD 7950. For NVIDIA GeForce...

(Demoscene) Revision 2012 Invitation, Tokyo Demo Fest 2012

JeGX — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:02:37 +0000

Here is the final version of epsilon, the official invitation demo for the Revision 2012 Demoparty (first shown at Tokyo Demo Fest 2012). And here is the prod that won the Tokyo Demo Fest 2012...

SOPA: Internet Resistance Day

JeGX — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:33:13 +0000

Google from inside the US Today, January 18, 2012, is the blackout day for some of the major websites to protest against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and to show how it’s a bad thing. Blackout...

LibGizmo: C++ Lib to Manipulate Transformation Matrices

JeGX — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:34:13 +0000

Scale and Move operations LibGizmo is a small C++ library that brings easy matrix (4×4 floats) manipulation in your OpenGL applications. Three main functions are available to create a move,...

AMD FGLRX Linux Driver: OpenGL Extensions List

JeGX — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:02:42 +0000

Here is the list of GLX and OpenGL extensions of FGLRX, AMD’s proprieraty (closed source) driver for Linux (and based on FireGL drivers). This version of FGLRX is available in Backbox Linux...

Gallium3D AMD CYPRESS Renderer: OpenGL Extensions

JeGX — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:27:47 +0000

Here is the list of GLX and OpenGL extensions for the AMD CYPRESS renderer (the renderer that implements Gallium3D interface for all Cypress GPUs like the Radeon HD 5870 / HD 5850). More information...

Live Coder: GLSL Live Programming Tool (Win / MacOSX)

JeGX — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:53:48 +0000

Live Coder is the kind of tool I like: it’s a real desktop app that allows GLSL live coding. Browser-based live programming tools are cool (GLSL Sandbox / Shader Toy) but I still prefer desktop...