If you’ve ever gone shopping for graphics cards, chances are you’ve been baffled by hardware manufacturer Nvidia’s crazy naming scheme for their video cards. This simple chart will help you determine where each falls in a hierarchy of graphics performance. More
Some Facebook users are seeing the site’s top navigation bar locked to the top of the browser window no matter where they scroll. This floating navigation bar gives users access to their notifications, friend requests, messages, and links to the home page, profile, and account settings at all times.
Microsoft showed us a few of Windows 8’s big upcoming features, but mentioned that there are more than 300 in development. Here’s a list of the other things you can look forward to. More
MOG, one of our favorite music streaming services, introduced a new free, ad-supported version of its versatile, music-filled streaming service today. More
Thunderbolt is certainly taking its sweet time catching on, but Intel isn’t about to give up yet. In 2012 the company will be rolling out Cactus Ridge, a replacement for it’s current Light Ridge and Eagle Ridge solutions. There will be two versions: a quad Thunderbolt channel, dual DisplayPort model (replacing the similarly speced Light Ridge); and a dual T-bolt, single DisplayPort edition (taking over for Eagle Ridge). Exactly when they’ll land next year or how much it’ll cost OEMs to shoehorn the controllers into their machines is still a mystery, but we’re holding out hope that this time next year the 10Gbps jacks will be in every Dell, Acer and Apple.
[Image credit: iFixit]
New Thunderbolt chips, dubbed Cactus Ridge, coming in 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Intel revealed more details about the planned successors for its current-generation Sandy Bridge processors at its Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco this week. Coming in the second quarter of 2012 will be Ivy Bridge, a 22nm die-shrink “tick” to Sandy Bridge’s “tock.” Ivy Bridge will benefit from Intel’s new 3D tri-gate transistor technology, offering as much as a 37 percent power efficiency improvement along with what looks like serious integrated graphics improvements. Following that in 2013 will be the 22nm Haswell architecture, which promises “all day” laptop battery life along with up to 10 days of what Intel is calling “connected standby.”
Sandy Bridge offered significant performance over last generation Intel CPUs within the same power envelope. Additionally, Intel integrated the GPU onto the same die as the CPU, connecting the two with a shared L3 cache. While Intel has had a pretty poor reputation with its integrated graphics solutions, the architectural improvements finally put the Intel HD3000 IGP included on most mobile Sandy Bridge chips on par with even low-end discrete GPUs. The performance boost was enough for Apple to ditch NVIDIA GPUs in its MacBook Air and other low-end machines.
Read the comments on this post
See original article:
Next-gen Intel CPUs to improve mobile graphics, battery life