The majority of graphics chips tend to go from cradle to grave housed in the same PCB design the chip manufacturer created for it. There’s very little incentive to create something new unless there are obvious cost or performance benefits. The Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Toxic Edition fancies itself a performance option with its new […]
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When a new GPU lineup is rolled out you can expect to see quite a few variations on the design over the coming months as the chip designer wants to maximize their earning potentials, which also means you’re likely to find something within your budget as well. AMD’s Radeon HD 5570 sports the same great […]
There are two tiers of graphics cards out there, those that are worthy of overclocking and those that aren’t. Architecture differences, namely memory bandwidth, are the biggest roadblock to overclocking effectiveness. TweakTown has a look at how well the Sapphire Radeon HD 5670 handles some increased clock speeds and it’s not looking so hot: You’re […]
Read more Sapphire Radeon HD 5670 Overclocking just might be futile
While there’s a huge benefit to the top-end of the market once a new GPU hits the street there’s an equally large performance boost to the mid-range and low-end graphics cards based on the newest cores. Testseek Labs has a look at the AMD Radeon HD 5670 graphics card which promises a good performance jump […]
Read more AMD Radeon HD 5670 sports a fine graphics pedigree
Putting together a gaming rig used to mean laying down a rather large chunk of cash for the best components that would give you an advantage over the competition…or in some cases just to run that new game that requires insane system resources. Thankfully the mid-range isn’t too far off from the high-end nowadays. The […]
The bulk of the graphics cards that are released with a GPU launch tend to stick near the factory settings because most manufacturers are in a rush to get their products to market quicker, the more interesting stuff comes along later. The XFX Radeon HD 5870 XXX Edition serves up a bit of a clock […]
Graphics cards have a habit of improving quite rapidly so what was high end last year is suddenly mid-range this year and on down that line. You won’t see us complaining about that trend much. AMD’s Radeon HD 5670 sports the same great DX11 supporting feature set found on its bigger brothers but snips off […]
Read more AMD Radeon HD 5670 redefines the low-end
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 cards tend to be very temperature sensitive which puts a bit of a crimp in the overclocking and tweaking plans of many of use out there, reference coolers just can’t seem to keep up. TestSeek Labs has a look at the Sapphire Vapor-X Radeon HD 5750 which does away with the reference design in […]
Read more Sapphire Vapor-X Radeon HD 5750 piles on the cooling performance
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
When a new graphics chip lineup is launched there’s usually quite a few chips that aren’t quite up to the task for running at the insanely high speeds of the top end so they do a bit of tinkering and make them suitable for the lower end of the market. It might seem a little […]
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