Items tagged with 'benchmark'

Futuremark & Gigabyte Tag Team On Overclocking Competition

Futuremark & Gigabyte Tag Team On Overclocking Competition

Looking for yet another venue to showcase your overclocking skills? Look no further, as two of the biggest names in overclocking have joined hands in order to offer up an array of prizes for those willing to push the very boundaries most folks are fine with accepting. Futuremark (the company responsible for the benchmarking... Read More
A Closer Look At Safari 4: How Does It Stack Up?

A Closer Look At Safari 4: How Does It Stack Up?

In early June, Apple released what is arguably its most significant upgrade to Safari yet: Safari 4. In typical Apple fashion, the company was quick to deem it the "world's fastest and most innovative browser." Today, we're setting out to find if that bold claim is indeed true, and we'll be breaking down the features and... Read More
New Benchmark for Virtualization Set by AMD

New Benchmark for Virtualization Set by AMD

Quad-Core AMD Opteron CPU Sets New Benchmark for VirtualizQuad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor Sets New Benchmark for Virtualization Performance on the VMware Platform —Power efficient AMD Opteron Processors improve system availability, control costs and drive business flexibility across the enterprise —SUNNYVALE, Calif.... Read More
Phenom TLB workaround benchmarked

Phenom TLB workaround benchmarked

Our friends at the Tech Report have a somewhat alarming article posted that you all should check out.  By now, we suspect you’ve all heard about the ‘TLB bug’ affecting all current quad-core AMD Opteron (Barcelona) and Phenom (Agena) processors.  If you haven’t heard of the bug, to put it simply, there is a problem... Read More
New Lightsmark 2007 OpenGL Benchmark

New Lightsmark 2007 OpenGL Benchmark

While you're waiting for your Crysis downloads to finish (Don't be fooled, it's just a pre-load and store.  You have to wait until 11/16 for the ability to activate), you might want to check out the new Lightsmark OpenGL demo.  It's even got real-time global illumination and real-time Penumbra shadows... and stuff.... Read More
MacBook Updated, Benchmark Shenanigans Ensue

MacBook Updated, Benchmark Shenanigans Ensue

One thing you have to love about Apple are their benchmarks.  When they used to tout the PowerPC series of chips, they had benchmarks showing how the G4 and G5 could topple anything that AMD or Intel were producing.  Then came the transition to Intel, and those benchmarks magically reversed themselves, perhaps... Read More
More AMD Barcelona Benchmarks Surface

More AMD Barcelona Benchmarks Surface

The gang at The Inquirer has aquired some new information regarding AMD's upcoming native, Quad-Core processor, dubbed Barcelona.  They've got a number of synthetic benchmark results that paint a very good picture of Barcelona's performance, should they turn out to be correct... "These performance numbers were based... Read More
Will OEMs Learn? - ATI RADEON 2900 XT Benchmarks

Will OEMs Learn? - ATI RADEON 2900 XT Benchmarks

We trust you've been through the drill before.  It gets old after a while, frankly.  Major technology innovator OEM targets release date of next generation product and briefs the press months prior to the launch.  Embargo dates are set, NDA commitments made and confirmed by those partners who are "trusted" to maintain confidentiality.... Read More
AMD Execs Talk R600 Models, 'Barcelona' Benchmarks

AMD Execs Talk R600 Models, 'Barcelona' Benchmarks

ExtremeTech has an article posted with information regarding AMD's upcoming "Barcelona" processors and the future R600 family of graphics cards.  The information was compiled last week during a briefing in San Francisco and includes quotes taken directly from AMD's Mario Rivas, Henri Richard, and... Read More
Ageia Releases RealityMark Benchmark

Ageia Releases RealityMark Benchmark

The folks over at Ageia have informed us that they have just released their new RealityMark physics benchmark utility. Based on the highly popular CellFactor technology demo we utilized in our initial review of the Ageia PhysX card, the benchmark runs through a timedemo of sorts which is run both with and without the discrete... Read More
Radeon X1300 XT and X1650 Pro Benchmarks

Radeon X1300 XT and X1650 Pro Benchmarks

If you read our coverage of ATI's Radeon X1K fall-refresh featuring the new Radeon X1950 XTX, X1900 XT 256MB, X1650 Pro, and X1300 XT from last week, you know that we did not receive X1300 XT or X1650 Pro cards in time for launch.  A few days after posting the article, however, Sapphire's "retail-ready"... Read More
New DX9 Benchmark (Finally!)

New DX9 Benchmark (Finally!)

Fudo sends word that the industry will soon have a new DX9 benchmark that is based off of a boat racing game. Should the genre not excite you, the technical details surely will. Called RyderMark 2006 and based off a multithreaded Sahara game engine, we find support for Parallax Occlusion Mapping, 64-bit High Dynamic Range... Read More
S3's MultiChrome dual-GPU technology Tested & Benchmarked

S3's MultiChrome dual-GPU technology Tested & Benchmarked

For multi-card support, ATI has CrossFire. Nvidia, on the other hand, has SLI. But that's not all, S3 has MultiChrome. In their latest review, The Tech Report gets a couple of Chrome S27 GPU's for testing, putting them up against Nvidia's GeForce 6600GT(both single card and SLI). S3 has made some good... Read More
Apple: iMAC Windows Benchmarks Revealed

Apple: iMAC Windows Benchmarks Revealed

Rahul Sood has posted some benchmarks in his blog of an Intel powered Apple iMac running Windows XP.  There were some graphical anomalies, and overall Rahul characterized performance as being similar to a "mid-range notebook".  Not earth shattering performance by any means, but interesting info nonetheless."We... Read More
Conroe @ 2.4GHz w/ Benchmarks!

Conroe @ 2.4GHz w/ Benchmarks!

Victor Wang has posted some interesting infomration over at XtremeSystems regarding Intel's upcoming Conroe processor. Using a Conroe sample running at 2.4GHz and an Intel 965G motherboard, he was able to run a healthy suite of benchmarks and has posted the results for your viewing pleasure. Should the retail processors... Read More
Intel Conroe Benchmarks - Showing Big Strength

Intel Conroe Benchmarks - Showing Big Strength

  Fresh from the show floor of Intel's March 2006 Developer's Conference, and after spending some time behind closed doors with Intel, we have a sneak peek at Conroe performance for you today.  The following is a run down of benchmark numbers we recorded with hands-on testing of an early 2.66GHz Conroe-based dual-core... Read More
Fedora Core 5 (TR3) Benchmarks

Fedora Core 5 (TR3) Benchmarks

Phoronix has just posted a handful of benchmarks results from a system running the latest test release (3) of Fedora Core 5. There's not too much to see, but from what they've got posted, it seems like there are some nice improvements in a few areas, and they also mention that font rendering is improved as well. In my limited... Read More
GeForce 7300 GS Benchmarks

GeForce 7300 GS Benchmarks

HKEPC have posted the first public benchmarks we've seen for the new 90u GeForce 7300 GS entry-level GPU. Matched against a GeForce 6500 128MB and an ATI Radeon X1300LE 128MB, it was more than a bit surprising to see NVIDIA's latest GPU fail to dominate the previous generation cards. Although we're not sure which drivers... Read More
R580 Benchmarked!!!

R580 Benchmarked!!!

Well, it looks as though Daily Tech wants to end the week with a bang as they have somehow managed to get their hands on an actual X1900XT card from Taiwan and have thrown NDA's to the wind by posting some benchmark results. Looking at the numbers they ran and the numbers provided by ATI it looks as though we have some... Read More
QUAD SLI w/ Benchmarks!

QUAD SLI w/ Benchmarks!

The folks at Toms Hardware have taken two new Asus Extreme GeForce 7800GT graphics cards (each cards features dual-GPU's) and installed them into an SLI system for an effective Quad-GPU configuration! Despite a complete and total lack of support for a quad-gpu setup from both ASUS and NVIDIA, the gang managed to get the... Read More
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