NVIDIA’s first go with their Fermi architecture was something of a frustrating effort since the performance potential was obviously there but its power demands and heat output, not to mention pricing, was difficult for the average person to reign in. NVIDIA’s refreshed design is nicely worked into the GeForce GTX 570 which sports much improved […]
Read more NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 seems familiar and that’s not a bad thing
Performance solutions that hide under reference cooler designs can be worrisome but considering how cool the AMD Radeon HD 6870 graphics chip runs you don’t have much to worry about. The ASUS EAH6870/2DI2S/1GD5 doesn’t stand out in a sea of reference cooled graphics cards but it does boast a minor clock boost above the norm […]
The mid-range graphics card segment used to be in a tough bind when it came to providing performance labeled products since the chips they were pushing weren’t really designed as performance solutions. That time has passed and ASUS is taking full advantage of the situation with their GeForce GTS 450 DirectCU TOP graphics card. The […]
Read more ASUS GeForce GTS 450 DirectCU TOP lives life on the wild side
There’s a serious give and take relationship between CPU and GPU performance which can lead to bottlenecks in many situations. It would seem that the CPU is currently at a disadvantage in the pairing. The Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 running in a 3-way SLI setup reaches impressive performance heights which may, or may not, be […]
Read more Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 3-way SLI scales performance mightily
Depending on who you ask Nvidia’s “Fermi” based lineup of GPUs was supposed to be released many months ago in order to go up against AMD’s Radeon HD 5000 series of graphics chips. Ah the best laid schemes of mice and men. Well the NDAs have been lifted and Nvidia’s GTX 480 and GTX 470 […]
Read more Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 / GTX 470 is upon us…finally
Gaming is as stressful and activity your PC is likely to go through. Those lit, shaded, anti-aliased, and anisotropic filtered pixels require more than a bit of processing power to pump out and have always presented a big problem to graphics card manufacturers…well at least they used to. ATI’s Radeon HD 5970 is so powerful […]
Read more ATI Radeon HD 5970 makes you want even more monitors
Graphics card launches are generally a good thin, bringing about the latest and greatest in graphical technical achievements, unfortunately they also bring along the dreadful “reference heatsink” which nearly every card manufacturer adopts to save time and get their product out the door quickly. Gigabyte’s Radeon HD 5750 does away with the reference cooler and […]
Read more Gigabyte Radeon HD 5750 blazes its own cooler trail
It’s official, AMD/ATI’s Radeon HD 4890 is, for the most part, a faster version of the company’s 4870 graphics card, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. Instead of simply taking choice 4870 GPUs and running them at higher clock…
Read more AMD Radeon HD 4890, Pushing Clock Speeds To New Heights
