Alright, its been a while since ive made a post in tech section, so lets get started. Whats going on in the world of technology? Heres whats going on.
A new version of windows is in the making according to Microsoft, unofficially called windows 8 my the internet world. Whats to come from windows 8? Well for one they are now starting to support ARM architectures processors. ARM is being used currently in 95% of the mobile phone market due to its power and minimal power consumption. It seems as though Microsoft sees a future for this architecture in small desktop form factors and has made the informed decision to get to work on it. It is not expected to have backwards compatibility with x86 based software. Also this new version of windows has a whole new kernel, it seems that they are finally dropping NT and working on a whole new one. No one is sure how well it will run older NT software, but they claimed games will run better on this future version of windows. I guess only time will tell.
In the other side of the computing world, Apple is about to refresh there line of Macintosh computers. It is expected that they will be using the new Intel Sandy Bridge processors in a lot of there systems, but we may also see some AMD processors making there way into Apples mobile line. Apple and AMD signed a contract but no one is sure what its for, but personally I think it will have AMD's new bobcat APU. As im sure some of your have noticed, apple still has some core 2 duo cpu's in its computers. The reason for this is they don't want intel's under-performing integrated graphics on some of intel's cpus from the first and second generation core series. But since AMD has created the APU code named bobcat that has a integrated graphics processor and northbridge as well as a high performance dual core CPU all in one die, which also lowers power consumption down to about 9 watts, Apple might start shifting in that direction .
Nvidia just released the all new GTX 560Ti video card, featuring a whopping 384 fermi cores, based on the new GF114 die, and up to 1.5gb of ram all for under the price point of $250. This card is aimed at 6950 and 6970 markets and it does a fairly good job. In some cases it does end up slower than 6950, others it comes out beating the 6970. Of course keep in mind this is a new card, drivers have not really matured yet so we may see improvements in performance in the coming months.
Nvidia also seems to be working on a dual GPU video card based on the gtx 580 GF110 die, which contains 512 fermi processing cores on a single die, so 2 of these bad boys together will give you a 1024 cores worth of power. But this doesn't necessarily mean double the power. Fermi GPU architecture is known to have a HUGE power draw as well as running quite hot at high clocks. I personally estimate the GTX 590 will be running around 500mhz when being marketed, but it will for sure take over the 5970 for the most powerful graphics card in the world. It is not yet known how well it will perform with the 6990 when it is released by AMD but we should find out in the coming months.
If you enjoyed this, let me know. I might start making one of these every once in a while
Your friend, |KKK| Joe momma.
A new version of windows is in the making according to Microsoft, unofficially called windows 8 my the internet world. Whats to come from windows 8? Well for one they are now starting to support ARM architectures processors. ARM is being used currently in 95% of the mobile phone market due to its power and minimal power consumption. It seems as though Microsoft sees a future for this architecture in small desktop form factors and has made the informed decision to get to work on it. It is not expected to have backwards compatibility with x86 based software. Also this new version of windows has a whole new kernel, it seems that they are finally dropping NT and working on a whole new one. No one is sure how well it will run older NT software, but they claimed games will run better on this future version of windows. I guess only time will tell.
In the other side of the computing world, Apple is about to refresh there line of Macintosh computers. It is expected that they will be using the new Intel Sandy Bridge processors in a lot of there systems, but we may also see some AMD processors making there way into Apples mobile line. Apple and AMD signed a contract but no one is sure what its for, but personally I think it will have AMD's new bobcat APU. As im sure some of your have noticed, apple still has some core 2 duo cpu's in its computers. The reason for this is they don't want intel's under-performing integrated graphics on some of intel's cpus from the first and second generation core series. But since AMD has created the APU code named bobcat that has a integrated graphics processor and northbridge as well as a high performance dual core CPU all in one die, which also lowers power consumption down to about 9 watts, Apple might start shifting in that direction .
Nvidia just released the all new GTX 560Ti video card, featuring a whopping 384 fermi cores, based on the new GF114 die, and up to 1.5gb of ram all for under the price point of $250. This card is aimed at 6950 and 6970 markets and it does a fairly good job. In some cases it does end up slower than 6950, others it comes out beating the 6970. Of course keep in mind this is a new card, drivers have not really matured yet so we may see improvements in performance in the coming months.
Nvidia also seems to be working on a dual GPU video card based on the gtx 580 GF110 die, which contains 512 fermi processing cores on a single die, so 2 of these bad boys together will give you a 1024 cores worth of power. But this doesn't necessarily mean double the power. Fermi GPU architecture is known to have a HUGE power draw as well as running quite hot at high clocks. I personally estimate the GTX 590 will be running around 500mhz when being marketed, but it will for sure take over the 5970 for the most powerful graphics card in the world. It is not yet known how well it will perform with the 6990 when it is released by AMD but we should find out in the coming months.
If you enjoyed this, let me know. I might start making one of these every once in a while
Your friend, |KKK| Joe momma.
