Sparkle released a GeForce GTS 450 which utilizes a single slot cooling solution with two heatpipes and a blower style fan to deal with the heat. Apart from the single slot design the card comes with 192 Cuda cores, 1GB of GDDR5 memory on a 128bit memory interface and operates at 789/1578/3760MHz (GPU/Shader/Memeory).
Month October 2010
Alleged nVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 pictures show up
A couple of pictures possibly showing nVIDIA’s GTX 580, the answer to AMD’s Cayman based HD 6900 Series. The card is probably using the GF110 chip, porting the GF104 structure to larger proportions and getting better performance-per-Watt figures compared to the original GF100 architecture. Looks like the new card will retain the 384-bit memory interface and probably boast 512 Cuda Cores accompanied with somewhat higher clocks compared to the GTX 480, thus providing a steady +20% performance boost.
Catalyst 10.10c Hotfix released
AMD released yet another hotfix of this months Catalyst package. We can review the 10.10c hotfix as a cumulative release of the previous two hotfixes (a & b), but it brings a new CrossFire profile for Dead Rising two and CrossFire improvements in Metro 2033, Formula 1 2010 (DX9) and Fallout: New Vegas.
ZOTAC goes dual-gpu with the GTX 460
Seems like the engineering department at Zotac is at is again after the very overclocker friendly and very custom GTX 460 they thought they can do one better… a whole GPU better. So they went bonkers and designed a dual-GPU card with two GF104 chips linked together by the nForce 200 bridge chip. The cards is powered trough two 8-pin PCIe power connectors and utilizes a dual 3+1+1 phase VRM design for the two GTX 460 1GB spec GPUs. The card also boasts an SLI connector, so if someone needs the urge to go Quad-SLI with two of these cards they’ll have the opportunity to do so. For connectivity we get four dual-Link DVI connectors and one mini-HDMI.
Source: EXPreview
nVIDIA releases ForceWare 260.99 WHQL
New set of ForceWare brings performance improvements in Fallout 3, Final Fantasy XIV, Formula 1 2010 (DX11) and Cilivization V in SLI, improved compatibility in Fallout 3 with anti-aliasing enabled and improved alt-tab compatibility for several titles. They also come with SLI profiles for Fallout: New Vegas, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Star Wars: Force Unleashed II and 3D Profiles for Call of Duty: Black Ops and H.A.W.X. 2.
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