Maingear Computers have announced immediate configurability of Nvidia’s latest graphics cards – the Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 – in the Shift supercomputer.

Nvidia is touting 27 percent faster performance than any GPU newer DX11 applications and, in its press release, claims the GTX 480 61 percent faster in Metro 2033, 89 percent faster in Unigine Heaven v2, and 29 percent faster in Battleforge than the closest competitor.

For gamers on the go there is a bit of a problem. Laptops don’t really allow much in the way of upgrades, especially with the graphics cards. However, ATI announced that it is developing the first external graphics cards for people who dabble heavily with multimedia and graphics.

The ATI XGP will have to be connected to a laptop via PCIe 2.0 port connection and will take a laptop from everyday computing to hardcore gaming capabilities. To start,…

PC graphics cards have long been touted as the cutting edge in terms of videogame visuals. But according to British engineering site The Engineer Online, they also could serve another purpose: the medical field.

In 2006, the researchers found they could do image reconstruction faster via a cluster of networked 64-bit supercomputer, which costs £15,000 (approximately US$30,000). However, they found a far more cost-effective way to speed it up when they used PCs armed with the newest graphics cards…