New GPU utility shows up

CPU-Z IS THE DE FACTO standard for checking basic features of your system, such as what kind of stepping your processor uses, what are the real latencies of your system memory, motherboard type and so on.

Now a whizz named W1zzard from TechPowerUp! has adopted the "copying is the sincerest form of flattery" approach and managed to create something similar.

The similarity between the two is undeniable, but that was not the goal... you have similar looking UI with a lot of important data

GPU-Z does not hide its similarity to CPU-Z when it comes to the user interface, but the job at hand is absolutely massive. There are numerous graphics chips on the market in most insane combinations, discrete or integrated, and so on.

Currently, the beta supports ATI and Nvidia chips only and has porblems with some hardware like integrated chips with odd numbers - we used HP's tx1000 Tablet-PC, and its integrated GeForce 6150 was not exactly detected as it was supposed to be.

But, this a nifty routine to detect the real number of pixel and vertex units, ROP (Raster Operation) and very important one - real memory controller (nicely detecting all those 6800 128-bit boards and so on).

The application is currently in early beta stage, but we're keeping our fingers crossed that W1zzard pulls this one off. µ

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