Tom’s Hardware Taiwan released a typically terrible first look at Phenom II performance on the AM3 platform. The difference between AM3 and the current AM2+ platform is, understandably, DDR3 support. Of course, the advantage of DDR3 over DDR2 is higher clock speed and subsequently bandwidth. Despite this, Tom’s Hardware thought it would be awesome to [...]

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An NVIDIA press release debuted today explaining that the total expected revenue for the fourth quarter, which ends January 25th, will be 40 to 50 percent lower than originally projected in the 3rd quarter fiscal 2009 conference call. This is obviously a pretty significant drop, and apparently it is the result of low demand from [...]

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With the way things have been going in the graphics industry, it would not be to brash an assertion to say that NVIDIA is likely to be on top again in a couple of months. However, taking into consideration other factors might shed some light on the reasons that at least one AMD executive believes [...]

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Perhaps adding insult to injury, NVIDIA has posted a loss of $120.9 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2009. No matter how you slice it this is bad news. Although the earnings represent a year over year increase of 15%, many expect the losses to continue into Q3. NVIDIA cites $198M set aside for [...]

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Last week we brought you a story regarding a piece of software that NVIDIA will be launching in the near future. This software is designed to basically show how a GPU upgrade will produce a more substantial performance increase than a CPU upgrade. To quote our earlier article, “This software is supposed to show that [...]

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