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| Posted: 23 Dec 2011 08:34 AM PST The perpetual war for supremacy between AMD and Nvidia constantly leaves enthusiasts dodging shrapnel: When you want the best video card you can afford, why buy one now instead of waiting for the better one the competing chipset designer will undoubtedly release in a few months? This leaves reviewers in a tough spot, too, as we're constantly proclaiming that nearly every new card is the fastest ever. But because you can only live in the world you live in, we're obliged to go there. So, here goes once again: The just-released AMD Radeon HD 7970 ($549 list) is the latest fastest and most feature-rich single-GPU card ever, surpassing our previous Editors' Choice winner, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 580. Though we have little doubt that Nvidia will yank back that title with its next generation of cards, the 7970 is an impressive achievement for the moment. (It's rumored to become widely available by early January of 2012.) The inaugural member of the Southern Islands family, it utilizes a fresh architecture AMD refers to as "Graphics Core Next." Based on a new 28nm process technology and utilizing more than 4.3 billion transistors, Graphics Core Next uses a revised instruction set architecture, gives each compute unit the ability to simultaneously execute instructions from multiple kernels, and delivers an increased number of instructions per clock cycle per square millimeter of GPU space. The result, so AMD claims, is "designed for high utilization, high throughput, and multitasking." Continue reading AMD Radeon HD 7970 review Tags: 28nm, adslice, amd, amd radeon hd, amd radeon hd 7970, directx 11, directx 11.1, gaming, gpu, graphics cards, nvidia, pc, peripherals, radeon, radeon hd 7970, review, reviews, sidefeatured, southern islands, southern islands gpu, video cards, zerocore, AMD Radeon HD 7970 review originally appeared on Gear Live on Fri, December 23, 2011 - 8:34:18
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| Heavy backlash against GoDaddy due to SOPA support Posted: 23 Dec 2011 08:08 AM PST Action on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has stalled for the year, but those opposed to it are gearing up to target those in support of the controversial legislation—particularly GoDaddy. A Reddit user is calling on those with GoDaddy domains to move them elsewhere on Dec. 29; Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh has already pledged to make the move. "We will move our 1,000 domains off @godaddy unless you drop support of SOPA. We love you guys, but #SOPA-is-cancer to the Free Web," Huh tweeted. SOPA would expand the ability of the Justice Department to go after sites overseas that specialize in fake goods like counterfeit purses or prescription drugs. According to the bill's sponsor, Rep. Lamar Smith, the Justice Department would have to get a court order against an infringing site, and if granted, could request that the site be blocked. Search engines like Google would then have to remove links to those sites. Continue reading Heavy backlash against GoDaddy due to SOPA support Tags: ben huh, cheezburger, godaddy, law, sopa, stop online piracy act, Heavy backlash against GoDaddy due to SOPA support originally appeared on Gear Live on Fri, December 23, 2011 - 8:08:55
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