What you're looking at is the world's first wireless graphics card affectionately dubbed the KFA2 (aka, Galaxy) GeForce GTX460 WHDI 1024MB PCIe 2.0. The card uses five aerials to stream uncompressed 1080p video from your PC to your WHDI enabled television (or any display courtesy of the bundled 5GHz WHDI receiver) at a range of about 100 feet. Otherwise, it's the same mid-range GTX 460 card we've seen universally lauded with 1024MB of onboard RAM helping to make the most of its 336 CUDA cores. Insane, yes, but we'd accept nothing less from our beloved graphics cards manufacturers.
Though the new Mac Pro tower and iMac is yet to hit shelves, gamers can already expect enhanced visuals on these PCs.The graphics cards powering the Apple iMac and Mac Pro tower come courtesy of AMD’s ATI Radeon graphics solutions as announced by the latter company.
AMD’s graphics solutions offer users an immersive gaming experience while playing HD content. The ATI Radeon HD 5770 video card with 1GB GDDR5 memory is built to deliver motion graphics, 3D modeling, rendering or animation. The graphics card comes standard with the Mac Pro, though customers can choose to upgrade to the AMD ATI Radeon HD 5879 video card.
“Apple buyers demand the best, and AMD’s award-winning ATI Radeon graphics enable exceptional visual experiences for iMac users. AMD has conducted extensive testing and research to create superior graphics products for the iMac. This research is designed to dramatically enhance the Mac-user experience so that Apple users can enjoy responsive performance and play the newest games,” averred Matt Skynner, corporate VP and GM, GPU division, AMD.
The ATI Radeon HD 4670 video card is hosted by the new 22” iMac, while the ATI Radeon HD 5650 graphics card powers the visual output of both the 22” iMac as well as the 27” version. The new 27” iMac can also be configured with the ATI Radeon HD 5750 graphics card. These AMD offerings are up on the Apple retail and online outlets.
Nvidia today provided information about their upcoming next-gen graphics card along with some pictures of it. The upcoming Nvidia GT300, supporting Dx11, graphics card will be based on the ‘Fermi’ architecture. Cards based on these architecture will be competing directly with ATi’s recently released HD5xxx series graphics card.
The GT300 chip has more than 3 billion transistors along with 512 shaders. It also features a 384 bit memory bus bandwith and will use GDDR5 memory chips. Nvidia GT300 will also be the first graphics core until now to support ECC memory. The card will receive the required power from either a 6 pin connector or a 8 pin one. Nvidia also said that the maximum power consumption of cards based on GT300 core will not be more than their previous generation cards. These cards will also be Tri-Sli capable so you can add 3 of these monsters for an awesome gaming experience.
Nvidia also said that the ‘Fermi’ architecture is highly flexible and it will be used to power Nvidia’s Quadro, Tesla and Geforce based Graphics Card variants even though their consumer base is very different from each other. It is expected that cards based on GT300 will not be launched before Q1 of 2010.
Asus has launched their new ENGTX 460 graphics card with features such as DirectCU thermal design, Voltage Tweak overvolting GPU Guard, EMI Shield and Fuse Protection. A press release quotes Vinay Shetty, Country Head – Component Business, ASUS (India), “ASUS is excited to launch the ENGTX460 series of graphics cards featuring NVIDIA's latest GeForce 400 Series GPU design that delivers impressive DX11 graphics plus support for exciting technologies like NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround, PhysX and CUDA and enhanced tessellation performance. The ASUS ENGTX460 DirectCU TOP lineup goes further than reference solutions with a focus on quality, reliability and performance. These facets are driven through performance enhancing features like DirectCU thermal design, Voltage Tweak overvolting and reliability features like GPU Guard, EMI Shield and Fuse Protection. These innovative features ensure enhanced performance and superb overclocking ability.” The specs of the card are as follows: Graphics Engine: Nvidia GeForce GTX460
Bus Standard: PCI Express 2.0 Video Memory: 768MB GDDR5 Engine Clock: 700 MHz CUDA Core Clock: 1400MHz Memory Clock: 3680MHz (920MHz GDDR5) Memory Interface: 192-bit DVI Max. Resolution: 2560 x 1600 D-Sub Max. Resolution: 2048 x 1536 DVI Output: 2x native dual-link DVI-I HDMI Output: 1x native HDMI (mini HDMI) D-Sub Output: 1x via adapter HDCP compliant: Yes Software Bundled: ASUS utilities and driver The Asus ENGTX460 is priced at Rs. 18,450 and comes with 3 years of warranty.
Asus has launched their new ENGTX 460 graphics card with features such as DirectCU thermal design, Voltage Tweak overvolting GPU Guard, EMI Shield and Fuse Protection.
