Everyone knows that Windows 8 is launching with DirectX 11.1 and improved hardware acceleration, but if you've ever wondered how these features will actually enhance your user experience, a recent ...

Since November of last year, one of Microsoft's big themes for Internet Explorer 9 has been "graphics hardware acceleration" using Windows DirectX. Just last week, Mozilla's Firefox 4 beta turned on ...

Microsoft's next browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), will offload image and text rendering chores to the PC's graphic processor, one way the company plans to increase the browser's overall performance ...

AMD is almost (but not quite) squeezed out of the desktop GPU game.

Ray tracing algorithms have emerged as a cornerstone for generating photorealistic images by simulating the complex interactions of light with virtual objects. These algorithms trace the paths of ...

After several months in beta, Adobe Premiere Pro now supports Nvidia GPU acceleration for 4:2:2 video color editing in its general release version. As Adobe relates, the 4:2:2 color format is a game ...

Microsoft’s next browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), will offload image and text rendering chores to the PC’s graphic processor, one way the company plans to increase the browser’s overall performance ...