Mobile gamers now have a potential reason to pay attention to CES 2013 in January as the Sunnyvale, California-based CPU, APU and GPU makers will only release the HD 8000M series, otherwise known as Solar System, after having just revealed four lines from the series. The quartet will all be using AMD’s 28nm Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture, rather than the legacy 40nm process some of the Radeon HD 7000M lineup was saddled with. Three of the GPUs — the 8500M, 8600M, and 8700M.

The HD 8500M has an engine clock of up to 650 MHz, a single precision floating point performance of 537 GigaFLOPS, a double precision performance of 33 GFLOPS and a memory clock speed of up to 1,125 MHz (GDDR5) or 1,000 MHz (DDR3).
The second GPU, HD 8600M, is a 775 MHz chip with the same memory specs, and 633/39 GFLOPS single/double precision performance.
Thirdly, the Radeon HD 8700M is a 650-850 MHz chip, a variable memory speed (1,100-1,125 MHz GDDR5, or 1,000 MHz DDR3), and variable floating point performance (537-691 / 33-42 GFLOPS single/double precision).
Finally, the Radeon HD 8800M, the strongest of the lot, is a 650-700 MHz processor with 640 Stream Processors, 1125 MHz memory clock speed (only GDDR5 is supported) and a floating point performance of 992/52 GFLOPS (single/double precision).

One system has already emerged with one of the new GPUs: an Asus Vivobook U38DT notebook popped up on a German online site sporting the Radeon HD 8555M. No doubt there were will be plenty more laptops using the new 8000M-series cards being launched at CES next month.

For those who want context, the Radeon HD 8870 is said to beat the NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 650M GDDR5. AMD claims a 20-45% advantage over rival units, but we won’t know for sure how true any of this is until next year.

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You might think that inserting one of the best graphic card in your system will result in a better graphics performance than standard performance but there are certain other things that have to be done by you (other than overclocking) before you can get an actual performance boost out of your gaming system. So Today I would help you increase your system’s speed through following ways.

Driver updates

The latest drivers can be a solution to better gaming performance for gamers because the latest or newly released drivers have a new  set of features and bug fixes introduced in them. So if you have a card that is running on driver that were installed a year ago, it is running at 10-20 per cent slower than normal.

Adjust your system for best performance

As you are looking at better performance in gaming and all your graphic details are being taken care of by the GPU, you should set your system for best performance by following steps.
Click Start, right-click Computer, click Properties, and then click Advanced system settings.
On the Advanced tab, click Settings under Performance.
On the Visual Effects tab, click Adjust for best performance, and then click OK.
Click OK to close the System Properties dialog box.
Test your game.

Patches

Visit the game publishers website in case you are facing a problem which is a known. There could be a patch or hot-fix for that problem which can solve the problem and improve your gaming speeds.

Game Booster (Freeware Software)

It is a must have software for every gamer because as the name suggests, It Boosts up your gaming experience by optimizing your system for gaming by disabling various services temporarily that can affect gaming performance. There are other options in Game Booster like Game Drivers, which checks for latest updates of your graphic card, sound and network drivers. Then there is Game Defrag menu which will defrag your gaming directories, so that games load faster.

Changing Game Settings

– Lowering the shadow detail can have a huge impact on improving your gaming performance as it uses a lot of your processing power.

– V-Sync if enabled, prevents the next frame from being displayed unless the present one has been fully rendered. This is not desirable in games that require fast responses like first-person shooters. So it is best to Disable V-Sync.

– Gaming details : Many games give you the option to improve details like dynamic lighting, water ripples, etc., for giving you a richer gaming experience. While it all sounds good, it does use up your cards processing power. So unless you have a very fast or high spec card, it is best to keep these fine adjustments disabled.

–Disable Anti-aliasing (AA)
Anti-aliasing is a process which helps in smoothening the jagged edges. For instance, while gaming we come across lots of sharp objects which look pixellated at the edges such as leaves, wires, etc which is called aliasing. So an anti-aliasing will try to work on those pixels on the edge to give you a smooth edge and a better image quality. But this will reduce the performance of your graphic card to some extent. So unless you have a very powerful graphic card, it is pointless to crank up the anti-aliasing filter to an extent where your game play is affected.

–Disable Anisotropic Filtering (AF)
After anti-aliasing, you will come across this term – Anisotropic filtering (AF) – a lot in your game settings menu. Anisotropic filtering tries to enhance the sharpness and clarity of textured object. Textured object consists of different types of data such as color, transparency among others. It is best to keep it disabled unless you have a powerful graphics solution.

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NVIDIA’s marketing team earlier sent  a large metal crowbar which had a message on it that read “for use in case of zombies or…” and the NVIDIA logo. This Thing was of no use until the next wooden crate arrived which had NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

The top of the crate said “weapons grade gaming power”and on the side was “0b1010110010″, which is is binary for “690″. We even don’t exactly know that what the next two lines mean though, so if you do be sure to let us know!

Inside the crate was the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 video card! The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 dual-GPU graphics card uses two GK104 Kepler cores and has a total of 3,072 NVIDIA CUDA cores! The GTX 690 features a base clock speed 915 MHz and a “typical” Boost clock of up to 1019 MHz. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 GPU will be available in limited quantities starting May 3, 2012 and it costs $999.

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