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AMD, Nvidia Enable Microsoft RemoteFX Support in Pro Graphics Cards

Posted 02/24/2011 at 6:19am | by Pulkit Chandna

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Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, which became available through Windows Update on Tuesday, is nothing more than a bundle of security and stability updates. Nevertheless, it does bring a couple of new virtualization technologies. One of those virtualization innovations, RemoteFX delivers a full-fidelity virtual desktop experience, including support for Windows Aero and 3D applications, through GPU virtualization. Both AMD and NVIDIA have now enabled RemoteFX support in their professional graphics cards.

Read on to find out which cards currently offer RemoteFX support.

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AMD Revives ATI Brand for New FirePro Card

Posted 02/02/2011 at 7:36am | by Paul Lilly

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Wait a minute, didn't AMD take the ATI brand behind the shed and give it the Old Yeller treatment? Sort of. Barring a special edition throwback or a mulligan of sorts, you won't ever see a new graphics card in the home desktop market carrying an ATI label, but AMD is still using it for some of its professional cards, including the ATI FirePro V5800 DVI, one of two new graphics cards geared for the workplace (the other being the AMD FirePro 2270).

"Because of their superior power consumption and multi-dispaly capabilities, solutions based on the AMD FirePro 2270 and ATI FirePro V4800 DVI deliver strong value for financial, medical, and corporate workstation environments," said Janet Matsuda, general manager, AMD Professional Graphics. "With the AMD FirePro family, we continue to demonstrate our focus on enhancing productivity through an enhanced visual experience."

The AMD FirePro 2270 ( $150) is AMD's only low-profile, passively cooled, dual-display, triple set support solution graphics card, while the ATI FirePro V5800 DVI ($470) boasts added muscle to drive two high-resolution dual-link DVI displays. Both cards are available now.

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Is AMD Having Second Thoughts About Killing Off ATI Brand?

Posted 11/15/2010 at 11:10am | by Paul Lilly

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AMD made it clear that the ATI brand was living on borrowed time, and with the introduction of AMD's Radeon HD 6800 series, we figured ATI was officially dead. We may have been wrong.

Credit goes to Fudzilla for spotting a page in AMD's Developer Central portal outlining six upcoming Radeon 6000 series cards, and unlike the 6800 series, these new parts carry the ATI label. They include the ATI Radeon HD 6230, ATI Radeon HD 6250, ATI Radeon HG 6290, ATI Radeon HD 6390, ATI Radeon HD 6510, and ATI Radeon HD 6750 cards.

These are all Evergreen parts and may end up being renamed before all is said and done, or as OEM cards, but at least for now it appears the ATI label may live on a little longer.

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From Monochrome to Multitouch: A History of PC Displays

Posted 10/21/2010 at 3:40pm | by Mark Edward Soper

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The development of PC display technologies over the last 30 years has taken us through many chapters: from IBM, the creator of the IBM PC, pioneering color display technologies (and ceding development to third-parties ATI, 3dfx, and nVidia); to the quest to provide both sharp text and colorful graphics; through the ever-increasing size of displays; to LCD flat panels overtaking TV-type CRTs; the move to 3D graphics rendering and, currently, to 3D viewing. Here's a brief history of these and other milestones in PC graphics history.

A classic example of CGA graphics: F-15 Strike Eagle

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AMD Releases New Catalyst 10.9a Profile

Posted 10/15/2010 at 5:30am | by Paul Lilly

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For those of your running multiple ATI Radeon videocards in a CrossFire configuration, AMD this week posted a new ATI Catalyst Application Profile (10.9a). The update includes CrossFire performance boosts for a handful of titles, including:

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World of Warcraft DX11 version CrossFire update

You can download the new profile here.

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Rumor: AMD Plans to Release Technical Details for the HD 6000-Series on October 19th

Posted 10/03/2010 at 7:49am | by Justin Kerr

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Nvidia has been soaking up all the positive press lately, and with just cause. The GTX 460 has proven itself to be a solid competitor against the midrange AMD 5000 series GPU’s, and the upcoming launch of the new GT 430 will round out a very capable portfolio of DX11 parts.

ATI remains competitive for the moment, but many have been left wondering when they would announce their follow up to Fermi, the answer it would seem is very soon. The last rumor we heard was that the AMD 6000 series cards would be hitting the streets sometime in November, and we can now further validate this date based on new reports citing that the company plans to release all the technical details on October 19that its annual Technical Forum and Exhibition show in Taipei.

The first card expected to be announced is the AMD 6870, a replacement high end enthusiast part, however even this rumor is contradicted in a few sources we found. Either way if you have been hovering your mouse cursor over the 1-click buy button lately this is one of the rare instances where it might actually pay off to wait a couple weeks to see what happens. At the very least it’s reasonable to expect that the current 5000 series cards will see a long awaited price drop, something I’m sure many of you have been waiting for.

Will AMD continue to place the emphasis on performance per watt, or simply go for the home run? Let us know what you expect the 6000 series to deliver after the jump.

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Old School Monday: Who's Laughing Now?

Posted 09/27/2010 at 4:50pm | by The Maximum PC Staff

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Earlier today we brought you the 20 Most Important Moments in the History of ATI--a look back at the history of one of the companies that made gaming hardware what it is today. For this week's Old School Monday, we thought we'd share a piece of that history, in the form of a 1997 Boot interview with Henry Quan--then-Vice President of ATI.

Check it out, then hit the comments and tell us whether you think it was the right move for AMD to kill the ATI brand name.

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The 20 Most Important Moments in the History of ATI

Posted 09/27/2010 at 4:21pm | by Paul Lily

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It's the end of an era, folks. In the coming months, AMD will retire the ATI brand, letting the ATI name ride off into the sunset after a remarkable 25-year run, presumably never to be seen again. Don't mistake that to mean AMD is getting out of the graphics business -- it isn't -- but once the brand is dropped, you won't see the ATI name attached to any new Radeon, FirePro, or EyeFinity products.

The decision came after AMD sent out surveys to several thousand "discrete graphics aware" respondents spread out across the U.S., U.K., Germany, China, Japan, Brazil, and Russia. According to John Volkmann, AMD's VP of global corporate marketing, "the Radeon brand and the ATI brand are equally strong with respect to conveying our graphics processor offering." That might be so, but it doesn't tell the full story behind ATI and its 25 year tenure in the graphics business, one that includes witnessing the rise and fall of 3dfx, and continued participation in what's largely become a two-man battle in the discrete graphics space.

Join us as we take a look back at some of the most important periods and events in ATI's history, starting with when it was formed in 1985.

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ATI Catalyst 10.9 Driver Now Available for Download

Posted 09/16/2010 at 10:21am | by Paul Lilly

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AMD has made available its ATI Catalyst 10.9 software suite, which you can download directly from AMD or access via your Steam account.

There are only a handful of performance improvements in the latest release, including double digit gains in Stalker: Call of Pripyat benchmark for HD 5700 and HD 5800 graphics cards owners, and single digit performance gains in The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena for HD 4800, HD 5700, and HD 5800 owners.

Some new profiles have been added and updated (Aliens Vs Predator, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, F1 2010, Kane & Lynch 2), as well as a handful of resolved issues for Windows 7, Vista, and XP.

Release Notes (PDF)
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AMD Now Delivering Catalyst Updates on Steam

Posted 09/15/2010 at 9:53am | by Paul Lilly

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Driver updates through Steam? Brilliant! AMD agrees and has now begun offering Catalyst graphics drivers through the Steam platform, an idea we're shocked no one thought of before.

"Steam gamers will never again have to worry about finding the most recent ATI Catalyst graphics driver," AMD said in a statement. "PC gamers can now detect and install the latest ATI Catalyst driver for their ATI Radeon graphics card directly from with Steam! Gamers using ATI graphics will not only be kept posted on the latest available drivers for their hardware, but with every update they'll know that they're getting the overall best possible gaming experience AMD and Valve can deliver."

AMD says the first ATI Catalyst update to made available via Steam will be ATI Catalyst 10.9

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