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Toshiba launches 8600M GT SLI notebook

Lars Nilsson | Nov 8, 2007 4:39 AM CST

Toshiba Japan has launched a new dynabook Satellite notebook which goes under the WXW moniker. Although it's likely to drop the dynabook branding when it arrives outside of Japan, the name isn't what's important, but rather what's on the inside. This is one of the first notebooks with a pair of GeForce 8600M GT cards in SLI which also features a Core 2 Duo mobile processor and the reasonably new Intel PM965 chipset.

The CPU is a Core 2 Duo T7700 which is clocked at 2.4GHz and this has been paired up with no less than 4GB of DDR2 memory, although it's only 667MHz modules due to some limitations when it come to available modules for notebooks at this size. Each of the graphics cards has 256MB of GDDR3 memory, although they can also use TurboCache if more is needed.

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Gigabyte Radeon HD 3850 pictured

Lars Nilsson | Nov 7, 2007 1:40 AM CST

At our visit to Gigabyte yesterday we also got to see something unexpected, Gigabyte's Radeon HD 2950 prototype. The model name on the board was GV-RX295P512, although this will change before the actual launch. The P in the model name suggests Pro and since the card was using GDDR3 memory from Hynix, we presume that this is the Radeon HD 3850, although we weren't specifically told it was.

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Gigabyte's 780i SLI board pictured

Lars Nilsson | Nov 6, 2007 9:11 PM CST

At a visit to Gigabyte's office in Taipei yesterday, we had the chance to take some pictures of Gigabyte's upcoming 780i SLI board and it looks like it's just about ready to enter mass production. The GA-780SLI-DS5 isn't the top of the range version, but it still has a wide range of high-end features.

If you're an avid reader of TweakTown you might remember that we posted a picture that we found online of this board a few days ago and apparently the designs are slightly different between the two which is really odd. You can find the previous news post here. If you compare the two you'll notice that the heatsink is quite different, although, we were told by Gigabyte that the one on the board we saw is likely to change and it is most likely going to extend to the south bridge.

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AMD's Q4 graphics line-up revealed

Lars Nilsson | Nov 4, 2007 7:04 PM CST

We've managed to get our hands on a document which contains AMD's plans for Q4 this year and how they position their products against Nvidia's in the graphics card market. There are some interesting information here and one of the main things we spotted was that the Radeon HD 2900 XT is being EOL:ed or in other words, discontinued.

It looks like the Radeon HD 3870 and 3850 are indeed the right names for the new RV670 based cards from AMD, although there's an XT and a P which we presume means Pro on this document which doesn't add up with what we've seen some sites reporting about when it comes to AMD's new naming scheme.

The G3 and G4 refer to GDDR3 or GDDR4 on the cards. We'd guess that this document isn't brand spanking new due to the missing 3DMark 06 scores for the 8800 GT and the fact that it has been placed lower than the 320MB 8800 GTS cards. The Radeon HD 3870 should according to this document score some 12,000 plus points at 1,280x1,024 in 3DMark06, and thus beating the 8800 GTX according to AMD's test results.

There's a 256MB version of the 3850 on there as well and it looks like it will replace the Radeon HD 2900 GT which hasn't exactly arrived en masse as yet and it and its 512MB counterpart scores some 10,245 plus points in 3DMark06. There's also a mention of the R680 on there, some reports are suggesting that this is a new chip, while others claim it's a dual RV670 card, time will tell. It should be priced similar to the 8800 Ultra which will put this card out of reach for most of us.

The pricing also looks a bit off now, but this might have something to do with the date of this document, as AMD has lowered the price of its RV670 since the 8800 GT launched. It seems like AMD is keeping some older cards for a little while longer such as the X1950 GT and the X1650 Pro and the entry level X1550 and X1050 parts. It's only a couple of weeks to go until we find out the real deal here, but this is at least an indication of where things are heading.

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Pictures of Chinese retail Radeon 3850

Lars Nilsson | Nov 1, 2007 3:19 AM CDT

Pictures of a retail Radeon 3850 have appeared on a Chinese website and they're from a China only brand as far as we know, since the company behind the card is Yeston. It's a reference card with a sticker on it, so nothing to get too excited about, but since the cards are about to launch within the next two weeks, it's good to see that manufactures have cards already.

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Matrox releases Passive P690 Graphics

Steve Dougherty | Oct 17, 2007 6:37 PM CDT

We haven't heard from these guys in a fair while but they seem to stay alive and continue to dish up some interesting alternatives in the graphics card market to what we're used to seeing from the likes of NVIDIA and AMD/ATI.

Today Matrox pave the way for a new series of fanless graphics cards, these called the "Millennium P690" series. Making up the lineup is a range of cards with different form factor sizes, each with low enough power consumption that passive cooling is made a breeze.

Another interesting feature about these cards is the ability for them to be quad-upgradeable meaning they can support up to four analog displays with the right configuration. Pair two P690 Plus cards together and you have the ability to output to four DVI or eight analog monitors.

For the full rundown on the new series, check out the official announcement residing on Matrix's website folks.


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More new Intel graphics features

Lars Nilsson | Oct 16, 2007 12:04 PM CDT

Intel's upcoming graphics drivers which should be out in the not to distant future will add hardware vertex processing to the G965, GM965 and G35 chipset, but not for all games. Apparently, Intel has found after rigorous testing that some games benefit from having software vertex processing, such as you can see from the picture below which shows F.E.A.R. running with software vertex processing on the left and hardware vertex processing on the right.

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Intel integrated graphics sucks less

Lars Nilsson | Oct 15, 2007 9:10 AM CDT

We've got one more video for you, of Intel integrated GM965 graphics and in all honesty, it seems like Intel graphics isn't as bad as it used to be. There are several demo's running in the video, but the first two are on Intel integrated graphics powered by the GM965 chipset.

Intel was talking a lot about graphics and with its new programmable graphics core it appears that the company can add features as it goes along. It will add hardware accelerated geometry shaders in its next generation of integrated graphics as well as adding more video decoding and possibly even encoding into hardware as fixed functions.

Power saving was also big on the agenda and we'll talk more about this tomorrow as well as some other interesting features about Intel's upcoming graphics architecture. For now, enjoy the somewhat dark video of a range of Intel powered notebooks.

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Three way SLI on November 15?

Lars Nilsson | Oct 12, 2007 4:00 AM CDT

It seems like three-way SLI might be closer than we expected with several websites having information about it today. There are some limitations as to who can actually run it, starting with the fact that you need to have a Nforce 680i or 680i LT based motherboard, at least until the 780i comes out. We're not sure about AMD support, as so far no-one has mentioned it, but it should be possible with the 680a SLI chipset.

The next requirement is a graphics card with two SLI connectors on the top, such as the 8800 GTX or Ultra. This limits the audience of three-way SLI even further. A new SLI connector is also needed and we're not sure where you'll be able to get one of these from, unless you buy a new motherboard, but Nvidia will surely figure out a way.

The three cards are then connected to each other by the primary card having links to the second and third card, while the second and third cards are connected to each other as well. It might sound confusing, but the new SLI connector takes care of all the brain work for you. For those that can afford this kind of a setup it should offer some additional performance, but we suggest you get a fast CPU and a high-res display, as otherwise it'll be wasted money. The suggested launch date is the 15th of November.

On a side not, Expreview has also got some benchmarks of an 8800 GT vs. an 8800 Ultra and you can check that out here

You can also find out a bit more about three-way SLI here

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RV670 pictured in CrossFire

Lars Nilsson | Oct 8, 2007 2:23 AM CDT

The Inquirer has a few pictures up of a pair of AMD's upcoming RV670 cards running in CrossFire. The pictures of the cards were snapped at the World Cyber Games in Seattle and it looks like AMD is keen to show off its new hardware. Normally you'd expect to see one card when something new like this is being shown off to the general public, but considering the perceived performance of these cards, it might not be a bad move by AMD.

The test system belonged to Sapphire and they'd got their hands on one of the brand new Thermaltake cases we wrote about last week. The motherboard is also brand new, although Theo mentions that it's Sapphire's own creation, we can tell you that it's not, it's been source from a well known performance motherboard manufacturer here in Taiwan. The RD790 board would've been an early sample as well, since the manufacturer is as far as we know not quite ready for mass production of these boards.

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