ATI Catalyst 7.9 drivers
ATI/AMD has released a new version of its drivers for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Version 7.9 of the ATI Catalyst drivers bring many bug fixes, speed improvements and new features.
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10.9.2007 AMD not eliminating ATI brand, reports false
One of the unforeseen ramifications of the AMD-ATI hookup is the new hyper-rumor-transport bus, a new technology whereby unsubstantiated rumors become fact at an alarming rate. I lamented this sad state of affairs a few weeks ago when patently false information regarding motherboard licensing was making its way around the 'net, and now we get to do it again.
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8.8.2006 AMD Gains Antitrust Approval to Buy ATI
Advanced Micro Devices said yesterday it has gained approval from key U.S., Canadian, and German antitrust regulators for its $5.4 billion plan to buy Canadian chip set developer ATI Technologies.
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7.9.2006 ATI Radeon X1650XT vs. Nvidia GeForce 7600GT
The next generation of mid-range graphics cards are just around the corner, so should you even consider purchasing a GeForce 7600GT or Radeon X1650XT graphics card?
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7.12.2006 First alleged photos of the ATI Radeon HD 5870
Today we got the first glimpse of one of the new upcoming DirectX 11 video cards from ATI. The Radeon HD 5870, also known by the codename name “Cypress”
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11.9.2009 ATI Radeon X1650 Pro vs. Nvidia GeForce 7600GS
As much as we love testing and talking about the latest innovations in PC graphics, it's only a fraction of the gamers market that can truly enjoy these high-end products as soon as they come out of the oven because of its high prices.
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31.10.2006 ATI driver flaw exposes Vista kernel to attackers
An unpatched flaw in an ATI driver was at the center of the mysterious Purple Pill proof-of-concept tool that exposed a way to maliciously tamper with the Windows Vista kernel. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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12.8.2007AMD Supports Microsoft Windows 7 in ATI Catalyst 9.3 Unified Driver
AMD today released Windows 7 driver support as part of the latest ATI Catalyst 9.3 unified graphics driver. ATI Catalyst 9.3 represents the industrys
first unified driver installation package to incorporate Windows™ 7 support, including Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) 1.1 compliance, bringing
with it a host of benefits for developers currently testing and updating applications using the widely available Windows 7 beta release. In addition,
the inclusion of Windows 7 drivers sends a clear message to the millions of AMD graphics customers worldwide “ ATI Catalyst 9.3, and every planned
future release of ATI Catalyst, is ready for the final release of Windows 7.
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18.03.2009NVIDIA releases graphics drivers for Windows 7 Beta
In a press article today, NVIDIA announced that it has released new graphics drivers for Windows 7 Beta, which it says will be "the start of regular
NVIDIA driver updates for the forthcoming operating system". The new drivers, released today, have support for the new Windows Display Driver Model
(WDDM) v1.1 which is used in Windows 7 Beta. The new WDDM offers improved performance in both 2D and 3D applications. The new GeForce drivers,
version 181.71, are currently available from the NVIDIA website.
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02.03.2009WDDM Overhaul On The Way
Microsoft is to overhaul
Windows? graphic driver model
after realising that the
Windows Display Driver Model
(WDDM) 1.0 ? which will ship
with Vista ? needs improvement
in the way it shares GPU
resources between programs and
Windows itself.
Steve Pronovost of
Microsoft?s DirectX team
disclosed at WinHEC in Seattle
last week that although the
WDDM 1.0 introduces some
rudimentary task scheduling
for GPUs, a new generation of
GPU hardware and a major
architectural change to the
way Windows deals with video
cards will be required.
He said that the
trouble with WDDM 1.0 is that
once one program is using the
GPU, other programs are shut
out until the process
completes. In Vista, that can
cause less fluid rendering of
on-screen graphics, if
multiple programs are trying
to use GPU resources at
once.
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02.06.2006HD DVD, Blu-ray playback added to new entry-level ATI cards
For years, ATI played itself as the performance leader in the graphics space. But now as part of AMD, which is having a difficult time of late making
its case for CPU performance, ATI may have to make like its new corporate parent for a little while...
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23.01.2008ATI seeks to break back into the GPU game with barrier-breaking cards
This week, AMD launched two new graphics cards that each give the Sunnyvale- based company two new firsts:. The ATI Radeon HD 4850 is the first
teraflop graphic card, while the ATI Radeon HD 4870 is the first to feature GDDR5 memory...
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27.06.2008ATI logo to remain on stage
Although AMD aggressively
consolidates its business with
ATI after the merger, the ATI
logo is not going to disappear
from graphics products,
according to sources at
graphics cards makers. AMD
recently sent a letter to
partner companies, saying that
graphics card vendors, while
shipping products based on ATI
GPUs, should not only
highlight part numbers without
the ATI logo, according to the
sources
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10.11.2006NVIDIA launches new GPUs, ATI lies in wait
Today was originally scheduled to be the date that both NVidia and ATI launched their next-generation graphics products, but NVidia had the only one
that made it out the door in time...
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18.06.2008AMD Plans Another GPU SKU
AMD has a new ATI Radeon HD
2000-series graphics processor
in the pipeline slated for
Q42007. The new RV670 GPU is
not an ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
replacement, but rather an
additional product to AMDs
current midrange lineup. Very
little detail is known about
RV670 right now.
DailyTech speculates the
upcoming RV670 should fill in
the large pricing gap left
between the ATI Radeon HD 2600
XT and the HD 2900 XT, similar
to how RV570 joined the
X1000-family as the X1950 Pro.
AMD has had a rough
launch with its ATI Radeon HD
2000-series GPUs. After months
of delay, the ATI Radeon HD
2900 XT hit the market with
performance barely able to
keep up with the months old
GeForce 8800 GTS. The 1GB ATI
Radeon HD 2900 XT has
essentially become a niche
product, with low production
numbers and performance that
barely edges out its 512MB
brethren. ..
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11.07.2007AMD and ATI head for uncharted territory with 'Spider'
In an effort to make its investment in ATI pay off, AMD is rolling out its first comprehensive PC platform today, aimed carefully at the lower half of
the high-dollar enthusiast market...
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19.11.2007ATI's latest graphics card aims for stock traders
As the battle between NVidia and ATI for graphics supremacy seems focused more on the desktop and notebook markets, there's activity shaping up in
the enterprise market as well, with a new device from ATI that's more about efficiency and multiplicity than 3D...
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17.03.2008AMD comes to grips with the ATI merger fallout
Investors and consumers were warned the bad news would come, and it came as predicted. AMD took a stunning charge of $1.6 billion in one quarter, to
account for value from the ATI merger it now realizes may not materialize...
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18.01.2008ATI Demonstrates Mobility Radeon HD 4000 Graphics Processor
ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, has demonstrated working samples of its ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000-series graphics processors
at Ceatec trade-show in Japan. What is, perhaps, even more interesting, is that ATI preps dual-chip graphics adapters for mobile computers as well.
There is no secret that the new breed of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 graphics processing units (GPUs) for mobile has been in development for
some time now. In fact, code-named ATI M98-L and ATI M96 passed PCI Express compatibility validation at PCI-SIG sometime in June, however, since then
both products have disappeared from the list.
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01.10.2008AMD, ATI Merge in $5.4 Billion
Deal
AMD confirmed rumors Monday
and said it was merging with
graphics chipmaker ATI in a
transaction worth $5.4
billion. The companies expect
to have products on the market
by next year, with an
integrated chip by 2008...
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24.07.2006AMD-ATI to Offer CPU/GPU Combo
Three months in the making,
the merger between AMD and ATI
was completed today. Customers
have been asking, how much of
ATI's design philosophy and
architecture will be merged
into AMD? This morning, they
got their first peek at an
answer with the announcement
of a new hybrid platform in
the works...
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25.10.2006ATI Quietly Enters Switchable Graphics for Centrino 2
ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, has quietly introduced technology that allows notebooks to seamlessly switch between discrete
ATI Mobility Radeon graphics processing unit (GPU) and integrated Intel Graphics and Media Accelerator to boost graphics performance or save power.
The tech is available for Intel Centrino 2 laptops that run Microsoft Windows Vista operating system.
ATI Switchable Graphics technology is
a joint effort between ATI/AMD and Intel Corp. to provide users of Intel Centrino 2 notebooks the best features of various graphics adapters:
performance and feature-set of discrete GPU and power-efficiency of integrated graphics processor (IGP). A similar technology was also developed by
Intel and Nvidia so that to provide customers a choice of graphics processors.
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30.10.2008AMD delivers ATI Stream SDK v1.4 beta
AMD has now let loose a new version of the ATI Stream SDK (Software Development Kit) to help developers make applications that utilize Radeon GPUs to
accelerate compute-intensive tasks. The Nvidia CUDA-rivaling ATI Stream SDK 1.4 beta adds support for the Radeon HD 4870 X2 and ATI FirePro 3D V8750,
V8700, V7770, V7750, V5700, V3750 graphics cards, and features...
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13.03.2009ATI, Nokia Pen Multimedia Deal
Nokia and ATI said Thursday
that they had formed a
strategic relationship that
aims to enhance the multimedia
experience on Nokia cellular
phones. The two would work
together on music and video
playback, as well as 3D gaming
and mobile TV...
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05.05.2006ATI Set to Launch Offensive with ATI Radeon HD 3000 Pricing
ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, may lower the pricing of its ATI Radeon HD 3000-series graphics processing units (GPUs) weeks
after the introduction in an attempt to recapture the lost market share from the No. 1 discrete GPU supplier Nvidia Corp. The decision will allow
add-in board manufacturers to decrease the prices to end-users.
śTwo weeks after the launch, the ATI RV670 drops the price,ť a
said familiar with the matter told X-bit labs.
The ATI Radeon HD 3850 with 256MB of GDDR3 memory begins at $179 manufactured
suggested retail price (MSRP) and the ATI Radeon HD 3870 with 512MB GDDR4 memory from $219 MSRP, available from AMDs selected graphics products
partners. Unfortunately, not all suppliers of graphics cards could get the new boards on time from AMD.
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22.11.2007ATI to roll out five new
chipsets for AMD M2 platform
in 2006
ATI Technologies is
gearing up to introduce a
lineup of five new chipsets
for the AMD Socket M2 K8
platform in 2006, industry
sources indicated. The
upcoming chipsets will be
manufactured at Taiwan
Semiconductor Manufacturing
Company (TSMC), the sources
noted.
In
2006, Advanced Micro Devices
(AMD) will adopt the M2
940-pin design for all of its
single- and dual-core desktop
processors, as reported on May
9.
ATI is preparing
the RD580 and RD580C for the
high-end segment, with the
chipsets supporting ATI???s
crossfire dual-graphics card
technology, the source
indicated. The two solutions
will compete against Nvidia's
nForce4 SLI (scalable link
interface) series. According
to ATI???s roadmap, volume
production is slated for the
end of this year, but sources
stated the company will need
to adjust its roadmap and
bring it in line with AMD???s
M2 launch schedule...
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06.09.2005TechSpot: ATI Radeon HD 5970 Reviewed, Dual-GPU Graphics
As we discussed in our preliminary Radeon 5870 review, on ATI's horizon ATI was a follow-up to the Radeon HD 4870 X2, code-named "Hemlock XT",
which in essence would put together a pair of Radeon HD 5870 GPUs on a single PCB. Today AMD is officially unveiling the Hemlock as the new ATI
Radeon HD 5970, hoping to expand its current dominance in single-GPU performance with the fastest single-slot graphics card on the market -- a title
that until today was reserved for Nvidia's dual-GPU GeForce GTX 295. The Radeon HD 5970 looks to be well suited for the job.
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