The AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series desktop graphics cards are designed to make everyday computing entertaining and productive.
ENGADGET: AMD Radeon HD 8000 series GPUs official for laptops, desktop series now shipping to OEMs
Professional graphics are high profit margin products that typically having 2x -3x the profit margins of desktop graphics cards.
The Santa Clara, Calif. firm has 62% of the market for desktop PC graphics cards, up from 57% a year ago, according to Mercury Research.
Although much of the research in this area is still in its infancy, some experts predict that haptics will soon be as familiar a part of the computer desktop as colour graphics and stereo sound are today.
Nvidia still leads the market for high-end graphics processors in desktop computers, but Huang needs to tap the fast-growth markets for smartphones and tablets before things worsen.
Sega's machine will also ship with a 33.6 kps modem, 16 MB of memory and a host of technical tricks that will make its graphics ability comparable (or even better) than a-top-of-the-line desktop PC, even one decked out with special 3D graphics hardware.
Select AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series graphics will be available in desktop systems from major OEMs, starting late January 2013.
ENGADGET: AMD Radeon HD 8000 series GPUs official for laptops, desktop series now shipping to OEMs
The company has just unveiled the 8900M series, an adaptation of its Graphics Core Next architecture for desktop replacement-class gaming laptops.
As bandwidth becomes cheap and ubiquitous, people will want 3-d power as much online as they do now in desktop games, and the demand for graphics processors will grow.
Intel is also a threat at the low end, where it competes with Nvidia and AMD to sell the cheaper integrated graphics chipsets used in budget desktop computers and many notebooks.
The chips will include an 800-megahertz ARM central processor--the same power-sipping design powering many smart phones--with a high-definition video processor, an imaging processor, an audio processor and a tiny, low-power version of the GeForce graphics processors Nvidia pushes for desktop and laptop computers.
One of the challenges of desktop virtualization is translating Microsoft 's DirectX graphics language into the OpenGL standard used by Apple.
Both announcements represent a commitment from AMD to provide the ideal graphics solution for everyday notebook and desktop users, whether they're gaming, streaming online HD videos, creating presentations or editing photos or videos.
ENGADGET: AMD Radeon HD 8000 series GPUs official for laptops, desktop series now shipping to OEMs
When you pack Intel's blazing new Core 2 Extreme processor and a pair of top-of-the-line nVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX graphics cards into a single gaming desktop, you can pretty much expect it to post impressive benchmark numbers.
There's a bit of a surprise inside the expansion dock: by laying the M2432 on top of it, not only are you adding six extra USB 2.0 ports plus DVI-out and another HDMI-out, but you're also kicking up its graphics power with the built-in desktop-class NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 with 1GB video RAM.
ENGADGET: Gigabyte M2432 laptop with GeForce GT 440 graphics card dock hands-on
Excelling at compute and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), these solutions redefine data center graphics capability while consuming 95 percent less power at idle and dramatically cutting data center operating costs(4).
In this case the desktop computer's processors power the software, offering higher quality graphics than could be rendered by the mobile processor.
Lenovo also introduced an extreme performance gaming desktop PC, the Lenovo Erazer X700, designed for enthusiast-level gaming and graphics-hungry applications.
ENGADGET: Lenovo introduces Erazer X700 gaming desktop: dual graphics support for $1,499 and up
In addition to motherboards and graphics cards, GIGABYTE further expanded its product portfolio to include notebook and desktop PCs, datacenter servers, networking products, mobile handsets, and home entertainment devices to serve each facet of the digital life in the home and office.
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Designed for measuring the gaming performance of everything from tablets and notebooks to high-end desktop gaming systems, the next 3DMark for Windows will be the world's first unified graphics benchmark allowing testing of DirectX 9, DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 capable hardware through the DirectX 11 API.
ENGADGET: Next 3DMark teased, who says benchmarks don't need trailers? (video)
With 2X the performance and 2X the power efficiency, the ZMS-40 delivers ground-breaking media capabilities to handheld devices such as tablets, including ultra-high-resolution H.264 HP decoding of up to 3840x1080 for true 1080p 3D stereo, a rich and interactive desktop browsing experience, 2560x1600 (WQXGA) display resolution support, higher-quality video encoding and immersive OpenGL ES graphics and future support for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC).
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