NVIDIA released its GF104 part, the GTX 460 largely as a measure to regain market share than produce high profit margins. The aggressive pricing of the GTX 460 raised the eyebrows of enthusiasts, while consumers received exceptional value for money. Unfortunately, the GeForce GTX 460 hasn't been as much of a hit as expected, with supply outstripping demand. As a result, prices for the already bargain priced GTX 460 are dropping across the board. The GTX 460 768 MB, previously priced at $200, can now be had for as little as $180. The GTX 460 1 GB, has also dropped to $220.

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Chinese website IT168 has leaked slides from the release presentation of NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce GTS 450. While there are no major surprises, the slides confirm several rumours. The reference design of the GeForce GTS 450's body is identical to the reference GTX 460. It features 4 SM or PolyMorph Engines with 48 SP or CUDA Cores each (much like GF104, unlike GF100), for a total of 192 SP. The core is clocked at 783 MHz, with the shaders at 1566 MHz. 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 memory clocked at 900 MHz mean a low bandwidth of 57.6 GB/s, well below the likes of the HD 5770 and predecessor GTS 250. The GTS 450 features 32 TMUs, and looks like a fully enabled GF106 part. In essence, GF106 is GF104 cut in half.

Donanimhaber reports that the AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6000 series will be headed by a GPU codenamed Blackcomb. Of course, Blackcomb will be based on a desktop chip, presumably either Barts or Cayman. For the Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series, AMD skipped the Cypress GPU completely, with the top Mobility Radeon HD 5870 being mainstream Juniper, featuring 800 SP and 128-bit memory. Blackcomb, however, will feature a 256-bit memory interface, and the number of functional units are expected to increase dramatically.

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ComputerBase has scored some vital details regarding AMD's first Fusion APU - Ontario. Releasing with Ontario will be Zacate, a higher speed version of the same. Zacate is a 18W APU targeted at low-power desktops (nettops) and notebooks. Ontario is only 9W - including CPU and GPU - and is designed for netbooks, embedded and other ultra-portable devices.

Alongside the newly announced GeForce 400M cards, Nvidia has quietly listed a new desktop card - the Geforce GT 420. However, this is an OEM card and will not be available in retail. The GT 420 features 48 SP - same as the GT 220, but lesser than the GT 320's 72 SP. However, it is clocked higher, at 700 MHz core. It features 2GB DDR3 over a 128-bit bus, for a memory bandwidth of 28.8 GB/s. "Maximum Graphics Card Power" is rated at 50W. Most importantly, the GT 420 is based on a GF100 derivative DX11 chip.


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NVIDIA has unveiled seven mobile GPU parts today, most of them listed in the 259.47 driver leak. The cards released are two GTX 400M performance products - GTX 470M and GTX 460M, and no less than five GT 400M mainstream products - GT 445M, GT 435M, GT 425M, GT 420M and GT 415M. However, these cards reveal many peculiarities. NVIDIA insists that all the Geforce 400M products are Fermi DX11 based, and not rebrands, which could indicate the release of several GF106 and GF108 products, well before their desktop counterparts.


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Sure, we had posted articles in the past describing Samsung's then-unreleased tablet device, the GALAXY Tab, but nothing beats having the official confirmation from the company itself. More importantly, the official release of the GALAXY Tab reveals details which were not present in earlier articles, which relied mostly on leaked information.

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