Tag: GPU
New MacBook Pro Models Bring Speed, Storage and GPU Updates
Apple has updated the MacBook Pro line of notebooks with a number of small, but appreciable upgrades to speed, storage size and graphics. The new MacBook Pros have the same look as the previous models, but have updated specs, something we had expected. Updating the specs, and leaving the exterior unchanged is common at this [...]
AMD Fires Back With AMD Radeon HD 6990M – “World’s Fastest” Battle Heats Up
It should come as no surprise that AMD isn’t content to let NVIDIA go around claiming the “Fastest. Notebook GPU. Ever.” for long. Just weeks after the flagship NVIDIA GTX 580M GPU launched, AMD has fired back with the new AMD Radeon HD 6990M, a premium notebook GPU which the company is calling “The World’s Fastest Notebook GPU.” According [...]
Toshiba Unveils Tecra R850 Notebook
The 15-inch Toshiba Tecra R850 is the third of Toshiba’s new series of business-class notebooks that consists of the 13-inch Portege R830 and the 14-inch Tecra R840. As the largest model of the series, the Tecra R850 follows the design stylings of the smaller R830 and R840 models while maintaining a strengthened fiber glass body [...]
Toshiba Introduces Tecra R840 Notebook
In addition to the 13-inch Portege R830, Toshiba has also introduced the Tecra R840 14-inch business class notebook which follows the industrial design cues from the smaller Portege R830 mode. The Tecra R840 branding is new to this year’s lineup as last year’s 14-inch Tecra was called the Toshiba Tecra M11. The change in branding [...]
Toshiba Launches Portege R830 Ultraportable
With the coming of Intel’s second-generation Sandy Bridge Core i Series mobile processors combining a revamped intel Intel HD 3000 graphics solution, Toshiba is also updating its ultra-portable business class Portege R830 to bring the latest improvements to its slim and light notebook. Design-wise, the Portege R830 will set the tone for this year’s re-design [...]
Why a 13-Inch MacBook Pro Sandy Bridge Refresh is Significant for Apple
For its low-end notebook systems in the past, Apple has often cited the importance of a good GPU, or graphics processor, as reason for sticking with the aging Intel Core 2 Duo platform, at a time when the first generation Intel Core i Series CPUs were available on laptops from rivals, rather than migrating to [...]
AMD Discrete Graphics to Power New High-End Apple MacBook Pros?
While Apple may be dumping NVIDIA’s integrated graphics solution on the low-end 13-inch MacBook Pro in favor of Intel’s integrated GPU option due to regulations that the chip-maker had imposed on hardware-makers hoping to utilize the second-generation Intel Core i Series Sandy Bridge CPU, Apple may also be eschewing NVIDIA’s solutions in its higher-end laptops [...]
Apple Poised to Switch Smaller MacBooks to Intel Graphics
Apple MacBook models with 13″ screens or smaller will cease using NVIDIA graphics in favor of Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processor which includes integrated Intel graphics, according to a report by CNET. Sandy Bridge is the name Intel has given to its newest version of processors which will be officially unveiled in January. It not [...]
AMD Benches ATI Brand, Keeping Radeon
When AMD bought graphics card maker ATI, the result was an awkward double branding of AMD and ATI that as it turns out confused consumers. But AMD has decided that one acronym is enough and will be dropping the ATI name from the company’s graphics processors. However, the familiar mobile graphics title Radeon will live on as [...]
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M, Fastest Mobile GPU
NVIDIA recently released its new GeForce GTX 480M mobile GPU, claiming it to be the fastest mobile GPU to date. Now there is proof to back it up. The GeForce GTX 480M has proven to be the fastest mobile GPU to date, making it the perfect addition to gaming laptops. Though incredibly fast, it still [...]
