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Nvidia GTX 880 Flagship Maxwell GPU Detailed, Features ARM Cores
We’ve already heard some early rumours about the Nvidia GM204 and now we’re hearing some details about the GM210. As you might expect, and as the name suggests, the GM210 is expected to replace the GK110 GPU we currently have. According to details the GM210 has a 512 bit…
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Nvidia Maxwell GM204 GPU Gets Detailed
More details have emerged on Nvidia’s upcoming 20nm Maxwell GPUs which will form the new GTX 800 series, however, as always these are very premature and somewhat vague details. As a result we encourage readers to remember they could be untrue, inaccurate or subject to change. The GM204 is the…
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Intel Roadmap Shows New Line of SSDs Due For Launch Around Q4
During a tech conference over in Italy, where Intel have been displaying their upcoming roadmap for the CPU market, they have also touched on what the SSD side of their business will look like over the next few months. Although Intel does cover both the consumer and enterprise sides of…
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Alleged AMD “Bermuda” R9 390X Specs Detailed!
With AMD’s RX-2XX series now seemingly complete after the recent launches of the R9 295X2 and the R5 230, speculation is already hotting up for what might come next. Since AMD’s RX-X00 branding is relatively young we can safely assume the next series will go by the same naming conventions…
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Nvidia GM107 GPU Detailed, Will Form GTX 750 and GTX 750 Ti
VideoCardz have managed to get a hold of the new Nvidia GM107 GPU die layout. The GM107 is based on the next-generation Maxwell GPU architecture and according to rumours it contains a very different layout to its predecessor “Kepler”. In the GM107 die, which is expected to form the GTX 750…
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AMD To Tape Out 14nm and 20nm Process Chips In Next 2 Quarters
AMD recently made a public statement about starting production and development on 14nm FinFET and 20nm Planar manufacturing process based chips. AMD says work will begin on both processes within the next two quarters (6 months) reports X-Bit Labs. AMD’s 20nm process will be done with TSMC and the 20nm chips…
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OCZ Vertex 450 256GB SSD Review
Introduction Since I have been reviewing SSDs, there is one particular brand that as been at the forefront of my testing and who are always willing to send me the latest revision of their most popular drives. This is of course OCZ and since I took a look at the…
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TSMC Stepping Up To 20nm Manufacturing Process
Digitimes reports thats TSMC is stepping up its purchases of equipment that is needed for the transition to the 20nm process. TSMC expects to enter volume production of 20nm based silicon from the first quarter of 2014 according to Digitimes’ sources. “TSMC’s investment in 20nm manufacturing equipment for the fourth…
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Nvidia’s Maxwell (GTX 800) Confirmed For Q1 Of 2014
We have already heard that we may be seeing an Nvidia GTX 790 dual GK110 GPU in the near future and now VideoCardz reports that we will also be seeing Nvidia’s Maxwell GPUs come as early as Q1 of 2014. VideoCardz cites manufacturer sources which state that the GTX 800…
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OCZ Vertex 3.20 240GB SSD Review
When it comes to SSD line-ups, its safe to say that OCZ has got virtually every inch of ground covered with budget, performance and all round value drives with the Octane, Vertex 3 & 4 and recently the Vector series of drives. At the same time of covering all price…
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Rumour: AMD HD 8970 Pictures And Specifications Emerge
An image has shown up on the notorious 4Chan website showing what is apparently a picture of the AMD HD 8970 graphics card. Alongside the pictures the uploader also added specification information. This states that the GPU is the 28nm Curacao XT architecture with 2304 stream processor, 48 ROPs, 144…
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Crucial M500 480GB SSD Review
At the start of the year during CES, the major buzz word of the show as we all know was 4K, but whilst this was a buzz word, in the storage sector there were other goings on the was stirring a whole heap of interest. For many years now we…
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More Details Emerge On AMD’s Next Generation “Volcanic Islands” 20nm GPUs
Yesterday we broke to you some pretty important news. This was that AMD’s next generation of video cards (likely to be HD 8000) would be released at the end of 2013, which is later than Nvidia releasing their GTX 700 series, but the reason for this is that AMD are…
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Rumour: AMD’s Next-Gen 20nm “Volcanic Island” GPUs Coming In 2013
Current knowledge suggested that AMD’s Volcanic Islands series of graphics cards, which are to be based on the 20nm process, would get released at some point in mid to late 2014. The logic was that there would be revision of the 28nm process first, Sea Islands or HD 8000, which…
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OCZ Announce Vertex 3.20 SSD with 20nm NAND Flash
Today OCZ Technology have unveiled their latest Solid State Drive which falls under the Vertex 3 series of drives but with a difference as it features 20 nanometer NAND flash memory. Keeping with the original, the drive is a 2.5 inch, 6Gbps SATA III based drive that features MLC memory.…
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