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iPhone 3G S is crazy fast at 3D compared to iPhone 3G

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jun 22nd, 2009)

They didn't just slap an S on the back and call it a day, you know. Apple has improved the 3D performance on the 3G S by including a more powerful graphics processor. According to John Casasanta, the speed increase is up to four times that of the 3G. But don't take his word or these OpenGL ES speed ...

OpenCL 1.0 ratified; is Snow Leopard now ready for launch?

by Steven Sande (Dec 10th, 2008)

There's been quiet anticipation for the last 6 months for OpenCL (Open Computing Language), which is an Application Programming Interface standard allowing developers to take advantage of the power of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) in parallel with multi-core processors. The result? Applications ...

TouchArcade: Second-generation iPod touch faster than iPhone

by Robert Palmer (Nov 24th, 2008)

TouchArcade interviewed Handheld Games Corp's Thomas Fessler, who noted an interesting bit of the company's research: Second-generation iPod touch devices are significantly faster than their predecessors when it comes to 3D rendering. In fact, it's faster than both iPhone models as well. In its ...

New NVIDIA hardware capable of more than Apple lets on

by Mat Lu (Oct 23rd, 2008)

We've already seen some suggestions that more is hiding under the hood of the new unibody MacBooks than Apple has disclosed. Now Gizmodo is reporting that the NVIDIA folks have revealed to them that the graphics hardware in the new MacBooks is capable of quite a bit more than Apple has has chosen to ...

Yes, Virginia, you do have to log out to switch graphics cards on the MBP

by Michael Rose (Oct 15th, 2008)

Having options is good; saving energy is good; improving battery life on your laptop is very good. Having to log out and back in to switch between the two video cards on the MacBook Pro? Um... not all that good. Kinda annoying, to tell you the truth. Engadget posted a video last night of the swap ...

Photoshop CS4 to include GPU acceleration?

by Mat Lu (May 25th, 2008)

One of the nicest features of the latest round of OS X image editors like Pixelmator and Acorn is their use of GPU acceleration. They use your Mac's graphics processor to radically speed up various image tools like filters and transformations, etc. Now it appears that the big boys are finally ...

MBP vs. MBA benchmarking showdown

by Mike Schramm (Apr 21st, 2008)

Bare Feats continues to pit Macs against each other in a no-holds-barred, up-against-the-wall benchmarking breakdown, and this time around it's the MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air in the octagon together. And things go about as planned -- while the solid state drive in the MBA has its advantages, ...

NVIDIA is happy about AMD + ATI merger

by David Chartier (Jul 26th, 2006)

FiringSquad, a site covering all things gaming, interviewed Derek Perez, the Director of Public Relations for NVIDIA (ATI's largest competitor), about yesterday's news of the AMD and ATI merger. Mr. Perez looks at the merger as a boost to their own business, excited that NVIDIA will be the only GPU ...

On the MacBook Pro and GPU overclocking

by David Chartier (Apr 21st, 2006)

Oh those enterprising hackers, whatever are we going to do with them? First they're blazing their own trail by getting Windows XP on a Mac, and now they're overclocking their GPUs. Hardmac.com posted about one forum member's discovery (in French) that, when compared to similar PC notebook hardware ...