Intel to pay AMD $1.25bn to settle legal rows

Intel has agreed to pay rival AMD $1.25bn to settle all outstanding legal disputes.



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Intel and AMD settle legal rows

Batman Arkham Asylum Performance

Unless you have been living under a rock for the past 6 months, you must have heard about Batman Arkham Asylum, one of the best comic book to video game adaptations ever. In case you are wondering how this Unreal Engine 3 powered game might perform on your rig, TomsHardware.com have tested the game on various settings and posted the benchmarks in their review.

You can check out the entire review from the following link,

TomsHardware.com Batman Arkham Asylum Review

How do the AMD 5770 and 5750 compare with their previous generation counterparts?

Here is a nice comparison table I found over at AnandTech when browsing through a review of the Radeon HD 5770 and 5750 graphics cards by AMD.

The above table gives you a nice overview of what to expect from these new DX11 graphics cards as compared to their previous generation counterparts. To read the full review, head on over to the following link.

AnandTech: AMD's Radeon HD 5770 and 5750 Review

Radeon HD 5770 in 3-way CrossfireX

After quite a long hiatus of writing blog posts on my blog. I have finally decided to come back to updating my fans with news from the industry. This article caught my eye with the recent release of AMD/ATi's 5770 graphics card. So far it has been a bang for the buck and is the first DX11 capable card available on the market.

The folks at Guru3D.com however decided that they should post some numbers by putting 3 of these puppies together in a 3-way CrossfireX setup. The results have been quite impressive and also suprising in some cases. It is a definite read and you should head over to their finding by clicking on the following link.

Guru3D Radeon HD 5770 in 3-way CrossfireX

Geforce GTX 295 Preview

The guys at Guru 3D have previewed the new Geforce GTX 295!

No matter what game you'll play with the GeForce GTX 295, you'll play it at dazzling framerates, very high resolutions and the very best in image quality. We have shown you the performance of some pretty hot titles. Surely Left 4 Dead based on the HL-2 source engine is a pretty easy task for any modern graphics card, but the card scaled just so well. And when we look at Far Cry 2, we see more of the pretty jawbreaking performance. The same goes for Call of Duty World at War and obviously the other titles we tested. You will not have to forfeit on image quality settings and you can play in the highest resolutions. But that is of course expected. Also and I do have to mention this, the GTX 295 will be a graphics card for users with a high resolution monitor. The overall performance really starts to kick in after roughly 1920x1200, a resolution where more and more pixels need to be rendered and where GPU limitation normally kicks in pretty fast... So keep in mind that cards like these really start to show off in the higher resolutions.

Click here for the full preview.

NVIDIA QuadroFX 5800 Reviewed

HotHardware have been really lucky to get their hands on the latest NVIDIA QuadroFX cards.

 

The QuadroFX 4800 is a much more palatable high-end solution, coupling together a GT200 graphics processor with 1.5 GB of memory and a price tag nearly half that of the QuadroFX 5800. Let's find out how NVIDIA's massive GT200 graphics processor handles workstation-class loads instead of crunching pixels in Crysis...

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3D Card Review: VisionTek Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB

Phoronix have reviewed a sweet performing Radeon HD 4870 X2 on their website.

 

In a majority of the benchmarks -- including those with anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering -- the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 was within frames of the dual Radeon HD 4870 CrossFire configuration. However, in some tests such as running Enemy Territory: Quake Wars at 2560 x 1600, the R700 had fallen about eight frames behind, or about 6%. The Radeon HD 4870 X2 isn't quite as far as two Radeon HD 4870 512MB graphics cards linked together via CrossFire, but it's darn close.

[Phoronix] VisionTek Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB Review