| 183 Computer Hardware - Video Cards Resources |
| Drivers |
| AMD Releases Catalyst 12.1; Previews Catalyst 12.2 Drivers |
| AMD quietly released a new set of graphics drivers last week just at the tip of the weekend. If you missed them, consider this a reminder that the Catalyst driver suite now has a dozen versions in its history. |
| February 1, 2012 |
| NVIDIA GeForce 295.51 Beta Drivers Released |
| If you are a GeForce owner and you like your drivers on the wild side, NVIDIA has released new GeForce 295.51 Beta drivers for you to play with. |
| February 1, 2012 |
| 8.921.2 RC11 AMD Radeon HD 7900 Driver |
| AMD Catalyst update for the AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series |
| January 20, 2012 |
| AMD Catalyst 12.1 and AMD Catalyst 12.2 Preview Drivers |
| AMD has just released new Catalyst 12.1 drivers for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Linux platforms. |
| January 25, 2012 |
| AMD CrossFireX Drivers - Opportunity Lost |
| AMD likes to tell us that it is "Gaming Evolved." The fact of the matter is that when it comes to driver support for its high end GPU configurations in CrossFireX, AMD has been doing anything but evolving. In fact, we think AMD has been regressing in the last year. AMD still has an opportunity to shine in 2012. Will it step up? |
| January 18, 2012 |
| AMD Releases Battlefield 3-Ready Beta Radeon Drivers |
| AMD's new Catalyst 11.10 Preview driver is optimized for the Battlefield 3 Open Beta for Radeon HD 6000 and Radeon HD 5000 Series GPUs. |
| September 27, 2011 |
| GeForce 270.51 Beta Drivers |
| Just a heads up to all you GeForce owners out there, NVIDIA has new 270.51 beta drivers out now. The beta driver supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs. This driver package also includes the 3D Vision Controller driver. |
| March 30, 2011 |
| GIGABYTE Announces 3TB+ Unlock Utility |
| GIGABYTE, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and computing hardware solutions today officially announced the availability of the 3TB+ Unlock Utility that allows GIGABYTE motherboards without Hybrid EFI Technology to recognize and use unallocated space on new 3TB and larger hard disc drives (HDDs). |
| March 29, 2011 |
| New AMD 11.3 Catalyst Drivers |
| New AMD 11.3 Catalyst drivers are now out. Here are the links to Windows 7 / Vista 32-bit, Windows 7 / Vista 64-bit, WinXP 32-bit, and WinXP 64-bit. Grab them if you need them. |
| March 29, 2011 |
| New GeForce 267.59 Drivers |
| There are new GeForce 267.59 drivers out today but, for the life of me, I can't get them to download. I can get every other version of the drivers to show up, the new 267.59 drivers even show up in the side bar on the site (see below), I just can't get them to download. Hit the link above, you might have better luck than I did. |
| March 15, 2011 |
| Nouveau's OpenGL Performance Approaches The NVIDIA Driver |
| As I began to share over the weekend, the community-created Nouveau driver that's open-source and is written by clean-room reverse-engineering the NVIDIA binary display driver, has reached a serious milestone. For low-end NVIDIA GPUs, the Nouveau driver based upon the Mesa Gallium3D architecture is now as fast, or even faster, than NVIDIA's official proprietary driver. |
| March 21, 2011 |
| NVIDIA Drivers |
| driver downloads featuring Detonator XP Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) technology. |
| Provides a Service |
| NVIDIA GeForce 285.62 WHQL Drivers |
| NVIDIA has just released brand new GeForce 285.62 WHQL drivers. Grab them if you need them. |
| October 24, 2011 |
| Numbers |
| 3D Labs |
| Supplier of integrated hardware and software graphics accelerator solutions for workstations and design professionals |
| Provides Products |
| 3D Spotlight |
| offering product reviews, tweak guides, gaming coverage, and video card information for the PC enthusiast. |
| Provides Products |
| A |
| AMD Home Page |
| Manufacturer of high performance graphics and multimedia accelerator. |
| Provides Products |
| AMD's Site Map |
| In English |
| Provides Information |
| ATI Downloads and Support |
| Knowledgebase, Catalyst Drivers & Software and Warranty Services |
| Provides a Service |
| AMD FirePro |
| AMD FirePro V7900 and V5900 Professional Graphics Review |
| On May 11, AMD invited a handful of technology journalists and hardware reviewers to Northern Islands FirePro Tech Day to unveil a pair of new professional graphics cards -- the V5900 and V7900. |
| May 25, 2011 |
| AMD FX-8150 |
| AMD FX-8150 Multi-GPU Gameplay Performance Review |
| We are taking the new AMD FX-8150 and giving it the power of Dual and Triple-SLI GeForce GTX 580 video cards. We are going to take the new CPU up to large NV Surround resolutions and see how performance stacks up when it comes to high-end gaming scenarios. |
| November 3, 2011 |
| AMD New Releases |
| AMD Considers Dropping Low-end Discrete Graphics |
| Computers built around AMD's latest Fusion chips all come with decent GPU functionality that's integrated right into the same CPU package. No longer would system builders need to factor in an additional entry-level video card for some World of Warcraft action, which is a win-win situation for both the vendor and consumer. |
| August 8, 2011 |
| AMD Delivers First Embedded GPU Offering Support for OpenCL and Six Independent Displays |
| Today at Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley 2011, AMD introduced the AMD Radeon™ E6760 embedded discrete graphics processor. Available now, the AMD Radeon E6760 GPU is the first of its kind to offer embedded system designers the combination of OpenCL™ support along with support for six independent displays. |
| May 2, 2011 |
| AMD Extends Graphics Performance Lead, Launches World's Fastest Graphics Card... AGAIN! |
| AMD Radeon™ HD 6990 utilizes sophisticated AMD PowerTune intelligent power management technology, delivers native support for wraparound 5x1 gaming with AMD Eyefinity technology |
| March 8, 2011 |
| AMD FirePro Professional Graphics Get Even Better, Outperform Competition By 100 Percent |
| AMD FirePro™ V5900 and AMD FirePro™ V7900 professional graphics cards help deliver increased productivity with AMD Eyefinity, AMD PowerTune and GeometryBoost technologies |
| May 24, 2011 |
| AMD Introduces A6-3500 Desktop APU |
| AMD today announced availability of a new member of its A-Series APU desktop processor family: the A6-3500. |
| August 18, 2011 |
| AMD Launches The AMD FirePro V4900 Professional Graphics Card |
| AMD today launched the AMD FirePro™ V4900, which delivers unequalled performance for Digital Content Creation (DCC) and Computer Aided Design (CAD) professionals at an entry-level price point. |
| November 1, 2011 |
| AMD Raises The Bar on Sub-$100 Graphics Performance and Image Quality |
| New AMD Radeon™ HD 6670, HD 6570 and HD 6450 discrete graphics cards provide exceptional DirectX 11 game experience, application acceleration and AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology in low-power, low-profile, low-cost graphics boards |
| April 27, 2011 |
| AMD, Nvidia introduce "new" mobile graphics card lineups, but Radeon 7000M, GeForce 600M are just rebadges |
| As we've mentioned before, rebadging is one of the graphics card world's dirty little secrets. Take your existing graphics engine, tweak the clock speeds a little, and - voila - it's a whole new card with a spiffier-sounding product name. |
| December 8, 2011 |
| Report: AMD May Soon Launch Radeon HD 6930 |
| It appears that AMD is preparing a new variant of the Radeon 6000-series to compete with Nvidia's GTX 560 graphics card. |
| December 5, 2011 |
| AMD News |
| AMD Delivers Multi-Display Support with Longevity on Latest Entry-Level Embedded Discrete GPU |
| AMD Radeon™ E6460 GPU brings the latest desktop graphics performance and features to the casino gaming, digital signage, instrumentation and industrial controls markets |
| September 26, 2011 |
| AMD Demonstrates Next Generation 28nm Graphics Processor at Fusion 2011 |
| At Fusion 2011, AMD today demonstrated its next generation graphics processor, based on the cutting-edge 28nm process technology. The demonstration was delivered by Corporate Vice President and General Manager of AMD's Graphics Division, Matt Skynner, as part of his keynote titled, "Enabling the Best Visual Experience." |
| October 05, 2011 |
| AMD Radeon |
| AMD back on top with new Radeon HD 7970 3D card |
| A new graphics architecture, a new 28-nanometer chip manufacturing process, and a new emphasis on GPU computing. The most important thing is that the new card, code-named Tahiti, is the new 3D gaming king. |
| December 22, 2011 |
| AMD Radeon HD 7950 |
| For PC gamers who want high frame rates but don't want to pay more than $500 to get them, AMD's new Radeon HD 7950 video card is a compelling, powerful choice. |
| January 31, 2012 |
| AMD Radeon HD 7990 and 7950 Details Leaked |
| Over the holiday weekend, details were leaked on the upcoming release of the AMD Radeon HD 7950 and the massive dual-GPU flagship Radeon HD 7990. |
| December 28, 2011 |
| AMD Radeon HD 7970 Design Details Leak Out |
| Turkish website DonanimHaber has leaked a few NDA Briefing slides providing details on the upcoming release of AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series GPUs. |
| December 19, 2011 |
| AMD Radeon HD 7970 graphics card launched, benchmarked: Fastest single-GPU board available |
| AMD has introduced its new flagship desktop graphics card, the Radeon HD 7970. While the $549 super board won’t hit retailers until January 9, the first reviews are in, and as expected, the new Radeon is now the fastest single-GPU card available. |
| December 22, 2011 |
| AMD Radeon HD 7970 Review |
| The Radeon HD 7970 is the first of a series of upcoming graphics cards that are making the jump to the 28nm fabrication process. The new HD 7970 will effectively become AMD's new flagship single GPU graphics card come January, when the board is expected to ship. |
| December 27, 2011 |
| AMD Radeon HD 7900 to Utilize New XDR2 Rambus Memory |
| AMD is set to launch its next-generation graphic processors this coming fall and it is shaping up to be more than expected with use of XDR2 memory interface. |
| September 14, 2011 |
| AMD Radeon HD 6670 1GB Video Card Review |
| The Radeon HD 6670 video card from AMD comes with interesting features like UVD 3.0, Eyefinity with 3 video outputs and offers decent performance in games, while using lower resolutions like 1280x1024, 1600x1200 or 1680x1050, making it a card to consider when building a HTPC system. |
| July 22, 2011 |
| Radeon HD 7950 launches, beats GTX 580; HD 7990 and 7870 launch date leaked |
| It's a veritable glut of Radeon-related news! Yesterday, to much fanfare, a bevy of AMD Radeon HD 7950 graphics cards were released. Based on the same 28nm Tahiti core found in the Radeon HD 7970, but with slightly fewer stream processors (1792 vs. 2048), texture units (112 vs. 128), and slower core and memory speeds, the 7950 is a monstrous graphics card that outperforms Nvidia's GTX 580 at a lower price point. |
| February 1, 2012 |
| Radeon HD 7970: One GPU to rule them all |
| Spend any serious amount of time with computers, especially building them, and it becomes much easier to see the pieces rather than the whole. Obsessing over whether this memory is fast enough or that hard drive is big enough or some other motherboard is better for overclocking than the one you’re looking at, for better or worse, goes with the territory. |
| December 22, 2011 |
| Asus ENGT430 |
| ASUS EAH6950 & ENGTX570 DirectCU II Vid Card Review |
| ASUS has released two enthusiast friendly overclocking video cards: the EAH6950 DirectCU II and the ENGTX570 DirectCU II. The question is which one is better, and does overclocking these change the victor. We test each out of the box and overclocked in Lost Planet 2, F1 2010, Civilization V, and Battlefield Bad Company 2. |
| April 18, 2011 |
| Asus ENGTX560 |
| ASUS ENGTX560 Ti DirectCU II TOP Video Card Review |
| ASUS ENGTX560 Ti DirectCU II TOP is on our test bench today, and we overclock it until it screams. We're see if this video card can match the performance of a Radeon HD 6950. Will the voltage tweaking provided by ASUS give it enough boost to make it worth the purchase? We will find out. |
| August 1, 2011 |
| ASUS ENGTX580 DirectCU II Review |
| The GTX 580 has proven to be at the top of the food chain in the single GPU arena. AMD has taken shots with the HD6970, falling short on performance, but mitigating that with better pricing. With that said, ASUS has brought together a video card in the ENGTX580 DirectCU II that pushes the performance a little further, with clock speeds that get a small boost for a very modest pricing upside over a reference card, currently selling for $469. |
| August 19, 2011 |
| ASUS GTS |
| Lucid Hydra Performance Review on the AMD Platform |
| Asus provided the motherboard and a whole stack of cards representing a significant portion of their NVIDIA lineup. I already had two HD 5870s on hand, so we can see the performance benefits/ drawbacks between native Crossfire provided by the 890FX chipset and the A-Mode in Hydra. |
| March 16, 2011 |
| ASUS GTX |
| ASUS GeForce GTX 590 Video Card Review |
| Today NVIDIA is launching the GeForce GTX 590 with dual-GPUs on a single video card. We are going to take this beast and compare it to not only Radeon HD 6990 but also GeForce GTX 580 SLI and GeForce GTX 570 SLI. |
| March 24, 2011 |
| ASUS GTX580 DirectCU II Graphics Card |
| I've looked at a couple of video cards over the past few months, each being more powerful (and expensive) than the previous. It all started with MSI's R6850 which retailed for $177.99 at the time of our review. |
| October 03, 2011 |
| ASUS GTX570 DirectCU II Edition |
| The GTX570 DirectCU II Edition from ASUS brings a very awesome redesign to the table in the form of what could very well be a passive tri-slot cooler with five big heatpipes, but then goes ever further, strapping two gigantic fans on for the ride! What we have here is a three slot GTX570 from ASUS, complete with dual 80mm fans, five direct contact heatpipes, and voltage tweak capability housed in a full metal casing that looks as beastly as the specs sound. |
| July 1, 2011 |
| ASUS GTX550 Ti DirectCU TOP Review |
| NVIDIA has finally worked its way toward a mid-range offering for the 500-series with the new GTX 550 Ti. The GTX 550 has the same CUDA core count of the GTS 450 with 192, which is half that of the GTX 560 Ti. The memory bus is increased to 192-bit combined with the now common 1GB of GDDR5 and the increased bus size directly correlates to more memory bandwidth. |
| March 15, 2011 |
| ASUS HD 6870 |
| ASUS HD 6870 DirectCU |
| Today, we have the ASUS HD 6870 DirectCU, with a custom PCB design, that will be going onto our test bench to see how closely it performs to the marketing hype. The DirectCU line of cards from ASUS are catered to the overclockers out there in the market. The DirectCU has precision mounting, putting the copper heatpipes in direct contact with the GPU for better cooling performance. |
| July 20, 2011 |
| ASUS HD 6950 |
| ASUS HD 6950 Review |
| Today I'll be taking a look at an HD6950 from ASUS, otherwise known as the ASUS HD6950. Just as with the other versions of the Cypress Pro core, the ASUS HD6950's core utilizes 22 SIMD, 1408 stream processors, 32 ROPs, and 88 texture units. To top it all off, the card is also equipped with a very hearty serving of 2GB of GDDR5 memory. |
| June 2, 2011 |
| ASUS Radeon HD 6950 DirectCU II Video Card |
| It seems that every time we turn around there a new PC component that is new to the market that we must have. Just recently we see that AMD just received a new processor featuring quad-cores, Intel is right around the corner (we hope) with their new offering and before we can blank we will probably be seeing new Radeon 7xxx series graphic cards as well as Nvidia 7xx family models. |
| November 28, 2011 |
| Asus New Releases |
| ASUS ENGTX580 and EAH6970 DirectCU II Review |
| ASUS has graced us with two of their flagship DirectCU II series video cards: The ENGTX580 DirectCU II based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580, and the EAH6970 DirectCU II based on the AMD Radeon HD 6970. These video cards feature an advanced PCB and cooler design without a price premium. |
| March 14, 2011 |
| ASUS to release passively-cooled Radeon HD 6770 DirectCU Silent graphics card |
| ASUS is to release a new passively-cooled Radeon HD 6770 graphics card called the HD 6770 DirectCU Silent featuring an enormous passive cooler that is 16% more efficient than the stock cooler. |
| August 2, 2011 |
| Asus will launch Mars II graphics card behemoth with dual Nvidia GeForce GTX 580s at Computex |
| If the GeForce GTX 590 graphics card, which combines two GPUs on a single card, just isn't enough for Nvidia fanboys, Asus is riding to the rescue with its forthcoming Mars II monster unit. Reportedly set to launch next month at Computex, the card will likewise fuse two GF110 GPUs to compete against AMD's dual-GPU Radeon HD 6990. |
| May 28, 2011 |
| ASUS Radeon HD 7970 |
| ASUS Radeon HD 7970 Video Card Review |
| ASUS has released its baseline model of the recently released Radeon HD 7970. We will be compare the performance of the ASUS Radeon HD 7970 out-of-box against the highest overclock achieved with voltage tweaking, along with a Radeon HD 6970, and a reference clock GeForce GTX 580. |
| January 25, 2012 |
| ASUS ROG Mars II |
| ASUS ROG MARS II GTX 580 Quad SLI Video Card Review |
| The ASUS ROG MARS II Limited Edition video card brings true dual-GeForce GTX 580 GPUs to the table. Take two of these and you can have a true GTX 580 Quad-SLI system. We'll dive into performance, including Battlefield 3, and see what these can do directly compared to 4-way CrossFireX. |
| November 8, 2011 |
| Best Graphics Cards For The Money |
| Budget Graphics Card Comparison |
| In the last few months, AMD and Nvidia released what will likely be the last additions to their current generation graphics cards: the Radeon HD 6990 and GeForce GTX 590. Although both products deliver incredible performance for single card solutions, they are reserved for the most demanding users with pricing set around $700. |
| May 12, 2011 |
| Best Graphics Cards For The Money: August 2011 |
| This month we discuss Nvidia's new GeForce GT 545, add a lot of new GPUs to the graphics card hierarchy chart at our readers' request, and discuss some conspiracy theories swirling around the introduction of next-generation products! |
| August 12, 2011 |
| Best Graphics Cards For The Money: May 2011 |
| This month we discuss AMD's Radeon HD 6570 and 6670, dish the truth on the company's Radeon HD 6750 and 6770, and point out an impressive online deal that might save you a significant amount of cash if you're buying a graphics card in the near future! |
| May 9, 2011 |
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| COMPRO Technology |
| develops, and markets PC graphic multimedia products and consumer Internet appliances. |
| Provides Products |
| D |
| Diamond Multimedia |
| Video Card, Modem, DVR, TV Tuner, & Media Center PC Products. |
| Provides Products |
| Driver Zone: Video Device Drivers |
| drivers for S3, SIS, Nvidia, ATI, Diamond, and other graphics boards. |
| Provides a Service |
| E |
| Enseo |
| manufacturer of multi-monitor output, broadcast digital video, and MPEG-2 decoder cards. |
| Provides Products |
| eVGA.com |
| sells VGA cards, including the e-GeForce line of products, and provides resources, technical support, and community boards. |
| Provides Products |
| EVGA |
| EVGA Announces The Dual GPU GTX 460 2WIN |
| Apparently GPU envy has taken hold of the folks at EVGA, the company has just announced the GeForce GTX 460 2WIN. You can have the best of both worlds...all the bragging rights of owning a foot long dual GPU video card (size matters) and all the features of a single GPU Radeon HD (2GB GDDR5, triple monitor gaming, etc.)! |
| March 11, 2011 |
| EVGA Releases GeForce GTX 580 Superclocked for Batman |
| With the pending release of Batman: Arkham City Graphics Card scheduled for 11/18/2011, EVGA has released the themed GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) Superclocked Batman: Arkham City Edition Graphics Card |
| November 3, 2011 |
| G |
| GeForce Graphics Cards |
| Gamers and graphic designers know the true utility of Geforce Graphics Card, EVGA is North America's #1 NVIDIA partner of Geforce graphics cards |
| Provides Information |
| GeForce GTX 580M SLI Vs. Radeon HD 6990M CrossFire |
| A flagship graphics launch is bound to fail unless it's the fastest game in town. Well, both AMD and Nvidia say their respective juggernauts have that title. Clearly, only one company can be right. Is the Radeon HD 6990M or GeForce GTX 580M quicker? |
| September 16, 2011 |
| Geforce Tweak Utility |
| utility to tweak the settings for GeForce based video cards. |
| Provides a Service |
| Guillemot Corporation |
| makers of MaxiSound and Maxi Studio sound cards. |
| Provides Products |
| Galaxy |
| Galaxy GT 520 MDT Review |
| Once you run a multiple monitor configuration with either Eyefinity or Surround technologies it's tough to go back to a single display configuration. Unfortunately, the graphics card needed to drive more than two monitors on the NVIDIA side of the fence has been limited to either the extreme high end (Think GTX 590) or a pair of cards that drive up costs and, in the end, power consumption. |
| January 26, 2012 |
| Gigabyte |
| GIGABYTE GTX 560 Ti OC Video Card Review |
| GIGABYTE offers a factory overclocked GeForce GTX 560 Ti based video card. The Gigabyte GTX 560 Ti OC series will be competing with a Radeon HD 6950 and an XFX Radeon HD 6870 Black Edition. Will the price premium of GIGABYTE's custom hardware be able to deliver the extra performance needed to compete? |
| July 11, 2011 |
| GIGABYTE HD 6770 Silent Cell CFX Video Card Review |
| Today we'll find out if two of GIGABYTE's HD6770 Silent Cell cards can match the performance of a Radeon HD 6950. We were impressed with how this no-fan silent configuration CrossFireX setup performed. However, is it worth $280 against the falling prices of the Radeon HD 6950? |
| September 19, 2011 |
| GIGABYTE HD 6870 Super Overclock Video Card Review |
| Would you be better served by a feature rich HD 6870 or a plain-Jane HD 6950? The GIGABYTE HD 6870 Super Overclock certainly has features of plenty with an improved three fan cooling solution, factory boosted frequencies and high quality components. Enough to trump a reference Radeon HD 6950 for the money? |
| May 23, 2011 |
| GIGABYTE's Entire 6 Series Ready to Support Native PCIe Gen. 3 |
| Gigabyte Technology Co, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and computing hardware solutions today announced their entire range of 6 series motherboards are ready to support the next generation Intel 22nm CPUs (LGA1155 Socket) as well as offer native support for PCI Express Gen. 3 technology, delivering maximum data bandwidth for future discrete graphics cards. |
| August 8, 2011 |
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| Hellbeast: AMD Radeon HD 6990 Performance Preview |
| AMD's dual GPU cards have come a long way in the past several years. The original Radeon HD 3870 was noisy, ran hot and didn't always perform up to snuff. Since then, AMD's Catalyst Driver suite has substantially improved the performance and breadth of CrossFire-supported games. |
| March 8, 2011 |
| Hercules Computer Technology Inc. |
| Offers high performance graphics, video, multimedia and 3D accelerators for PCs. |
| Provides Products |
| HIS |
| HIS HD 6570 Silence VGA Card |
Specifications:- Graphics Engine: AMD HD 5670
- Interface: PCI Express
- Engine Clock: 650MHz
- Memory Clock: 4.0 Gbps
- Memory Type/Size: GDDR5/1GB
- Memory Interface: 128-bit
- Max Resolution: 2560x1600
- VGA: Yes with adapter (not included)
- HDMI: Yes
- DVI: Yes
- Display Port: Yes
- Crossfire Support: Yes
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| July 19, 2011 |
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| Imagenation Corporation |
| analog, digital, and embedded frame grabbers for machine vision systems. |
| Provides Products |
| Instrumentation Technology Systems |
| manufacturer of video instrumentation and communications systems, VMEbus and stand-alone configurations. |
| Provides Products |
| Intel's Ivy Bridge integrated GPU will support 4K resolution |
| Here's something else to look forward to when Intel's new Ivy Bridge processors ship next year: Their integrated GPU will be able to handle 4K display resolution. Not only can it support up to 4096 x 4096 pixels, but it also can run multiple monitors simultaneously showing 4k videos. |
| September 23, 2011 |
| IXMicro |
| manufactures the TwinTurbo graphics accelerator for Mac and PC, TurboTV and ATM communications products. |
| Provides Products |
| M |
| Matrox Graphics |
| Offers high performance video cards and upgrades and DVD acceleration. |
| Provides Products |
| MaxVision |
| manufacturer of high performance Intel and Alpha AXP workstations, servers, and 2D/3D graphics subsystems. Custom configurations for the CAD/CAM, MCAD, and imaging markets. |
| Provides Products |
| Micro-Labs |
| Manufactures and sells the VGA line of graphics boards. |
| Provides Products |
| MSI Releases the R6950 Twin Frozr III Power Edition Graphics Card |
| nternationally renowned graphics card and mainboard manufacturer MSI proudly launches the R6950 Twin Frozr III Power Edition today. The all-new graphics card is not only equipped with the latest Twin Frozr III dual fan cooling module, it also incorporates MSI's exclusive Propeller Blade technology for 20% more airflow than conventional fan blade designs. |
| March 9, 2011 |
| Misc. |
| 73% of x86 Processors Now Integrate Graphics |
| Intel's Sandy Bridge and AMD Fusion processors continue to drive processor revenues, according to data released by IDC. |
| November 4, 2011 |
| Crysis 2 Multiplayer Demo Video Card Performance |
| Crytek released the first Crysis 2 demo a few weeks ago, giving anxious gamers a first look at the graphics and performance its "new" engine brings to the table. We've tested the demo extensively with a handful of video cards, and we're here to share our experiences with you. |
| March 21, 2011 |
| DirectX 11 hasn't yet caught fire -- so what? |
| The latest edition of Steam's Hardware & Software Survey is out. The news isn't particularly good for DirectX 11 (DX11) video cards -- but it's not bad for gamers. |
| September 9, 2011 |
| Farewell to DirectX? |
| Despite what delusional forum chimps might tell you, we all know that the graphics hardware inside today's consoles looks like a meek albino gerbil compared with the healthy tiger you can get in a PC. Compare the GeForce GTX 580's count of 512 stream processors with the weedy 48 units found in the Xbox 360's Xenos GPU, not to mention the ageing GeForce 7-series architecture found inside the PS3. |
| March 18, 2011 |
| First USB 3.0 Video Card Coming Soon to Retail |
| For video cards, the first things people ask are the GPU make and model. For USB video adapters, however, it isn't easy to find out unless the GPU is from DisplayLink in which case companies simply slap the "DisplayLink Certified" label on their products. Here we have the first USB 3.0 video card. The advantage of having the SuperSpeed interface is obvious. No longer does the ASIC have to sacrifice image quality and frame rates because USB 3.0 has plenty of bandwidth for even multiple HD monitors. |
| March 30, 2011 |
| Four Overclocked GeForce GTX 580 Cards, Rounded Up |
| Today we put four factory-overclocked GeForce GTX 580 cards to the test: Gigabyte's GeForce GTX 580 Super Overclock, MSI's N580GTX Twin Frozr II/OC, Sparkle's X580 Captain, and Zotac's GeForce GTX 580 AMP2! Edition. |
| August 4, 2011 |
| Gigabyte & MSI GeForce GTX 560 Launch Review |
| When Nvidia launched the GTX 560 Ti we assumed it would only be a matter of time before a non-TI model hit the market. Well, it turns out we didn't have to wait long because as of today Nvidia has officially launched their latest mid-range graphics card, the GTX 560. In terms of market positioning the GTX 560 fits between the GTX 460 and GTX 560 Ti in both price and performance. This places card in a sweet spot for mid-range gamers looking for excellent HD 1080p performance, while not spending an arm and a leg. |
| May 18, 2011 |
| How Loud Is Too Loud for a Video Card? |
| Within the last two months, AMD and Nvidia have both released their new highest-end flagship video cards: respectively, the Radeon HD 6990 and the GeForce GTX 590. Both cards deliver best-in-class frame rates, even at the maximum resolutions of today's easily available monitors (we tested some games at 2,560 by 1,600, and both cards could handle them). Both cards also come with the same imposing price tag: $699. But one difference between the cards kept making itself known time and time again: noise. |
| April 20, 2011 |
| How Nvidia’s 3D Vision works with Skyrim, Battlefield 3, and others |
| I have a torrid, love-hate history with 3D, as I’ve outlined ’round these parts more than once in the past. The short version is: I don’t necessarily mind it, but most of the time it costs too much and doesn’t deliver the captivating thrills that would make it worth the trouble and expense. |
| December 5, 2011 |
| Intel stealthily slides into workstation graphics market |
| The integration of CPU and GPU into a single die and its impact on the computer industry has been discussed at great length over the past few years, but almost always in the context of the consumer market. Intel, at least, has been thinking about professional graphics as well. The company's Xeon E3-1200 series literature makes direct reference to the Intel P3000 graphics family and claims that the P3000 offers "up to 4x better performance than Intel HD Graphics 3000." |
| January 30, 2012 |
| NVIDIA 3-Way SLI and AMD Tri-Fire Redux |
| We have re-tested performance between GTX 580 3-Way SLI and Radeon HD 6990+6970 Tri-Fire with a brand new Sandy Bridge 4.8GHz system. Our readers wanted to know if the CPU speed would improve performance and open up the potential of this triple-GPU performance beasts. To put it succinctly, they were right. The results completely turn the tables upside down and then some. |
| May 3, 2011 |
| Nvidia launches Windows 8 developer program |
| Under Nvidia's Windows 8 developer program, its quad-core Tegra processor, GeForce GPUs, Quadro and Tesla processors will be included. |
| September 13, 2011 |
| NVIDIA Surges As 3Q Net More Than Doubles; 4Q Revenue Guidance In Line |
| The shares of NVIDIA Corp. are poised to shine as brightly as the graphics produced by their core processing chips this morning. In pre-market trading, NVDA has jumped more than 4%, with traders reacting to stronger-than-expected third-quarter earnings. Specifically, NVIDIA said it earned $178.3 million, or 29 cents per share, in the quarter, up from $84.9 million, or 15 cents per share, a year ago. |
| November 11, 2011 |
| Powercolor expected to unveil double-barreled Radeon at Computex |
| An unnamed, undressed dual-GPU prototype of AMD's latest in southern-island graphics cards surfaced over the weekend. Flaunting twin Bart chips with 1,120 stream processors a pop, this card totals up at 2,240, with each GPU packing its own memory for a total of 2GB of GDDR5. Although PowerColor is staying tight lipped on specs and official name until Computex in June, two DVI ports, double mini DisplayPorts, and one HDMI-out paint obvious similarities to the existing Radeon HD 6870. One last notable difference? The unknown soldier is powered by two eight-pin PCIe connectors, as opposed to the HD 6870's six-pin variant. We're probably looking at the latest in the Radeon HD 6800 series, we'll know for sure in about a month. |
| May 10, 2011 |
| Quad-GPU Performance Review NVIDIA vs. AMD |
| How does NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 590 SLI Quad-GPU compare to AMD's Radeon HD 6990 CrossFireX Quad-GPU? We will find out if these "if-money-didn't-matter dream video card setups" will deliver the gameplay experience we all expect. |
| May 19, 2011 |
| Top Budget to Mainstream Graphics Cards |
| The last few months we've seen both AMD and Nvidia turn their attention to the high-end segment of the graphics market. In addition to launching their latest single-GPU flagship boards, both companies just recently launched a couple of dual-GPU beasts. We have to say it's great to see such spirited competition as it's usually customers that reap the benefits. |
| April 6, 2011 |
| MSi |
| MSI Announces the R7950 Twin Frozr 3GD5/OC Graphics Card |
| Today, leading global graphics card and mainboard manufacturer MSI officially announces the R7950 Twin Frozr 3GD5/OC graphics card built on the latest AMD 28nm Radeon HD7950 GPU with PCI Express Gen 3 support. MSI's exclusive Twin Frozr III thermal design features dual 8cm Propeller Blade fans to achieve up to 10? lower GPU temperatures and 13.7dB less noise under full load! |
| January 31, 2012 |
| MSI GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB Cyclone OC Review - GF116 Sees Daylight |
| For testing of this new graphics platform, MSI sent along its overclocked version dubbed the MSI N550GTX-Ti Cyclone OC. As the name implies, the clock speeds on this version are just a bit higher than the reference settings. |
| March 15, 2011 |
| MSI GeForce GTX 560 Twin Frozr II 1 GB |
| NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 560 Ti is based on NVIDIA's new GF114 chip. As far as specifications and transistor-count go, it is identical to the GF104 on which GTX 460 was based, except that it has all 384 of the CUDA cores physically present enabled, and that it uses the same secret-sauce (read: electrical enhancements) that made GF110, an evolved clone of the GF100, totally rock with power consumption figures. |
| March 3, 2011 |
| MSI N560GTX-Ti HAWK Graphic Card Review |
| Have I mentioned that MSI is putting out some pretty nice video cards as of late? Last year I was able to take a look at their R5770 HAWK, and this year so far I have taken a look at their HD 6950 OC Twin Frozr II and the superb R6970 Lightning. All of these cards have impressed me to a great degree. MSI has really excelled in their pursuit of designing unique cards which often stand out from the crowd, without breaking the budget. Or even being all that more expensive than their reference design brothers. |
| June 9, 2011 |
| MSI N560GTX-Ti Hawk Video Card Review |
| Microstar's latest Hawk video card is here, packing a highly overclocked NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti. Can its enhanced PCB and cooler fend off the Radeon HD 6950's falling prices? Does it actually offer anything over a standard GeForce GTX 560 Ti? The end results are incredible and price drops have completely changed the landscape. |
| April 25, 2011 |
| MSI N580GTX Lightning Video Card Review |
| MSI's flagship of flagships, the N580GTX Lightning, is on our test bench. Sitting among the realm of $500 video cards, the MSI N580GTX Lightning exudes class and sophistication. Does it justify its price tag? Is it that much better than other GTX 580s? Is it even better then MSI's own R6970 Lightning? |
| June 2, 2011 |
| MSI N580GTX Lightning XE 3GB Video Card Review |
| We put MSI's new N580GTX Lightning XE 3GB video card to the test and find out what kind of gameplay experience can be delivered from a 3GB 580GTX beast. Will we be limited by our resolution and games, or will the Lightning XE push through and prevail, we will find out against a GeForce GTX 580 and Radeon HD 6970. |
| June 6, 2011 |
| MSI R6850 Cyclone Power Edition Video Card Review |
| If you are looking for a robust Radeon HD 6850 video card that has the potential for a high level of overclocking, then this is the video card for you. We evaluate the MSI R6850 Cyclone Power Edition video card and perform in-depth overclocking using MSI Afterburner. This video card has great potential, and competes well with the competition. |
| May 27, 2011 |
| MSI R6870 Hawk Video Card Review |
| MSI has released their fourth version of the Radeon HD 6870 and this one is crammed with features. The MSI R6870 Hawk features a 3rd generation custom cooler, triple voltage tweaking, plus much more. We put this enthusiast's video card to the test by not only having it compete with a GeForce GTX 560 Ti but also with an overclocked version of itself. |
| March 15, 2011 |
| MSI R6950 1GB Twin Frozr III Power Edition Review |
| Today we will be looking at a 1GB Radeon HD 6950 from MSI sporting its latest cooling innovation, the Twin Frozr III. Will 1GB of VRAM constrain the Twin Frozr III, or will Triple Over-Voltage support give it enough boost to soar past a 2GB HD 6950 and GeForce GTX 570? |
| October 17, 2011 |
| MSI R6950 Twin Frozer III Power Edition Review |
| Making a choice of which video card to buy is becoming more difficult with all the specialized models that feature better cooling solutions, improved build quality, and increased clock speeds -- all to draw the buyer in. There are plenty of catchphrases used to entice the buyer to a certain product. |
| July 22, 2011 |
| MSI R6970 Lightning Review: A Supercharged AMD Radeon HD 6970 |
| MSI has been on a tear as of late with their video card offerings. The Twin Frozr II and III series have all received positive reviews, people seem to be buying their products, and the company has taken some interesting turns in how they handle overall design and differentiation in a very crowded graphics marketplace. This did not happen overnight, and MSI has been a driving force in how the video card business has developed. |
| May 23, 2011 |
| MSI R6970 Lightning Video Card Review |
| MSI's Latest Lightning series, the R6970 Lightning is here, based on an AMD Radeon HD 6970 with 2GB of GDDR5. It is only moderately overclocked out of the box, but its hardware quality may just knock the ball out of the park. Come with us as we test it against the stock Radeon HD 6970 and the GeForce GTX 570. |
| May 9, 2011 |
| MSI Radeon HD 6970 Lightning 2 GB |
| AMD's Radeon HD 6970 has been on the market for quite a while now. Recently we have seen an influx of new custom designs from many AIBs that build on the foundation laid out by the HD 6970 reference version but improve on points like overclocking, features or cooling. |
| April 13, 2011 |
| MSI Unveils N550GTX-Ti Graphics Cards |
| Leading global graphics card and motherboard maker MSI today officially unveils the N550GTX-Ti Cyclone II 1GD5 and N550GTX-Ti-M2D1GD5 graphics cards based on the NVIDIA Geforce GTX 550 Ti GPU. With 1GB, 192-bit bandwidth graphics memory, the MSI N550GTX-Ti Cyclone II 1GD5 features the new Cyclone II cooling solution. MSI's exclusive "Propeller Blade" technology provides improved cooling performance with 20% more airflow compared to conventional fans. Matched with the popular Cyclone Heatsink, the result is an operating temperature 23 degrees lower than the reference board under full load! |
| March 15, 2011 |
| New World Records for MSI N580GTX Lightning and MSI N560GTX-Ti Hawk graphics cards |
| N580GTX Lightning Achieves Unprecedented Core Frequency of 1665MHz, Breaks Single-card, Single-core World Record; N560GTX-Ti Hawk Breaks Single-card World Record for GTX 560 Ti with Highest Core Frequency of 1500MHz |
| June 14, 2011 |
| The MSI N580GTX Lightning Once Again Breaks Three Graphics Card World Records -- Only Lightning can outshine Lightning! |
| Since releasing its Lightning series graphics cards, world-renowned mainboard and graphics card manufacturer MSI has received universal praise from media and gamers alike for their outstanding design, rich use of components, powerful performance, and infinite overclocking potential. With the release of the N580GTX Lightning that follows in the footsteps of previous generation Lightnings, graphics card world records were sure to fall. Overclocking enthusiasts from all over have been running the N580 GTX Lightning with LN2 for some extreme overclocking and once again broke 3DMark 11, 3DMark Vantage, and Unigine Heaven (DX11) single-card, single-core world record scores. These considerable achievements demonstrate once again that only a Lightning can outshine a Lightning! |
| July 19, 2011 |
| Nvidia 3DFX |
| Introducting the 3DFX Voodoo 590 |
| For the past ten years, a group of ex-3dfx veterans at NVIDIA have been leading a secret double life. In the day time, they fulfill their duties as NVIDIA employees, designing, building, and marketing GeForce graphics processors. In their spare time, and with the company's tacit consent, they've been working on a revolutionary graphics card based on 3dfx technology. After ten years of secretive development, they are finally ready to show the world what they've created. |
| April 1, 2011 |
| Nvidia GeForce 500 Series |
| Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Core Review: GF110 On A Diet |
| Ready for a limited edition graphics card? The GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Core just landed. Learn how it differs from the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, why its life will be be short, if it's a decent performer, and what we can do with this thing overclocked. |
| November 29, 2011 |
| Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 3 GB Review: Firing Back With 1024 CUDA Cores |
| AMD shot for--and successfully achieved--the coveted "fastest graphics card in the world" title with its Radeon HD 6990. Now, Nvidia is gunning for that freshly-claimed honor with a dual-GF110-powered board that speaks softly and carries a big stick. |
| March 24, 2011 |
| Nvidia Preps GF110-based GeForce GTX 560 Ti Upgrade |
| Nvidia is apparently planning to release an updated and upgraded version of its GTX 560 Ti graphics card reference model. |
| October 27, 2011 |
| Nvidia unleashes GeForce GTX 590 dual-GPU graphics card in time for Crysis 2, but does it beat AMD Radeon 6990? |
| AMD got the jump on the latest dual-GPU graphics card skirmish with the Radeon HD 6990, but Nvidia's long-awaited GeForce GTX 590 is now finally confirmed -- and craftily timed right around the release date for Crysis 2. |
| March 24, 2011 |
| Nvidia GTX |
| Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti Review: Bridging The Budget Gap |
| Nvidia has a sizable gap in its product line between the GeForce GTS 450 and the GeForce GTX 460 768 MB. The company is filling that gap with an all-new card called the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. Is this product a worthy competitor for AMD's Radeon HD 5770? |
| March 15, 2011 |
| PNY Introduces Factory Watercooled NVIDIA GTX 580 |
| At E3 this week, gaming-related companies are taking the opportunity to announce their new products, and that includes graphics card makers - even if the show feels increasingly dominated by the console players. Those who still practice at the altar of the PC, however, know that a good graphics card can provide an experience that no console can match, delivering mind-numbing, state-of-the-art visuals. |
| June 9, 2011 |
| The Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Review: Take Off Your Ti |
| Nvidia strips the Ti moniker and some performance from its GeForce GTX 560 Ti in order to create a new lesser-priced model. Can the company's GeForce GTX 560 stand up to AMD's popular Radeon HD 6870, or does it fall short of the value mark? |
| May 17, 2011 |
| Nvidia Misc. |
| Nvidia Can't Get Greedy In Pricing With AMD, Intel On Its Heels |
| Nvidia should be more careful about how it prices its GPUs given increased competition from AMD. Besides AMD, Nvidia also competes with Intel in the graphic processors business. |
| April 2, 2011 |
| NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 4.0 Now Available |
| NVIDIA today announced the latest version of the NVIDIA. CUDA. Toolkit for developing parallel applications using NVIDIA GPUs. The NVIDIA CUDA 4.0 Toolkit was designed to make parallel programming easier, and enable more developers to port their applications to GPUs. This has resulted in three main features: |
| March 4, 2011 |
| NVIDIA GeForce 3-Way SLI and Radeon Tri-Fire Review |
| We've seen what a Radeon HD 6990 can do when paired with a Radeon HD 6970 for "Tri-Fire" performance. Now it is time to find out what three NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 video cards in 3-Way SLI game like in comparison. We will look at A2A performance comparisons and discuss which setup offers the best gameplay experience. |
| April 28, 2011 |
| Nvidia introduces three more graphics cards: GeForce GTX 560, GT 530, GT 545 |
| If there weren't enough new graphics cards on the market already, Nvidia is making sure that every price point and market niche is considered. And I mean every one. This week alone, it's released three new boards, though you'll only find two available in systems built by desktop manufacturers. |
| May 20, 2011 |
| Nvidia Next-Gen Kepler GPUs Slated for Q2 2012 |
| Nvidia's first Kepler graphics cards are now believed to be available in March or April of next year. |
| December 5, 2011 |
| NVIDIA SLI coming to AMD motherboards ... at last! |
| NVIDIA has announced that it has licenced SLI multi-graphics card technology to motherboard manufacturers making AMD boards. |
| April 29, 2011 |
| NVIDIA's New Quadro 2000D Professional Video Card for Medical Applications |
| NVIDIA today released its new Quadro 2000D graphics card aimed at diagnostic medical workstations. It supports both 10 and 12 bit grayscale for up to 10 megapixels, packs a 1Gb frame buffer, 3D support, and DICOM monitor calibration functions, and will drive two monitors via DVI at a combined 2560x1600 resolution. |
| March 14, 2011 |
| PowerColor |
| PowerColor Reveals the Devil 13 HD6970 |
| PowerColor has released their new Devil 13 HD6970 graphics card designed to fulfill the most demanding of HD titles. |
| October 06, 2011 |
| Q |
| Quantum3D, Inc. |
| is the industry leader in interactive 3D PC-based visual computing systems for professional markets. |
| Provides Products |
| Radeon 6000 series |
| AMD Radeon 6990+6970 CrossFireX / "TriFire" Review |
| What happens when you take an AMD Radeon HD 6990 and add a Radeon HD 6970 to it for 3-way GPU CrossFireX performance? We compare this configuration directly to GeForce GTX 580 SLI a multi-monitor setup at high resolutions. TriFire in all its Eyefinity glory! Along with one new DX11 game. |
| April 11, 2011 |
| AMD Radeon HD 6450 |
| If all you want or need is an inexpensive video card to replace your PC's integrated graphics, then the AMD Radeon HD 6450 does the job. |
| May 27, 2011 |
| AMD Radeon HD 6570 (1GB) |
| Its sub-$80 price makes the AMD Radeon HD 6570 an attractive alternative to integrated graphics, but its gaming skills are too weak to easily seal the deal. |
| May 25, 2011 |
| AMD Radeon HD 6670 |
| Keep your PC's resolution settings modest, and the $99 AMD Radeon HD 6670 can be a good way to play 3D games without breaking the bank. |
| May 25, 2011 |
| AMD Radeon HD 6790 |
| Starting at $149, the AMD HD 6790 has got a terrific-sounding price, but with some comparison shopping it?s easy to do better without spending more. |
| April 5, 2011 |
| AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB Performance Review |
| We are pitting the new Radeon HD 6950 1GB video card against the Radeon HD 6950 2GB version and a GeForce GTX 560 Ti in apples-to-apples testing to see how they compare. We test at 1920x1200 and 2560x1600 to push memory limitations and find which card provides the best gaming value. |
| March 29, 2011 |
| AMD Radeon HD 6990 |
| If you want the absolute best in enthusiast-class video cards, then you want the AMD Radeon HD 6990. But be prepared to pay for it--in more ways than one. |
| March 8, 2011 |
| AMD Radeon HD 6990 Video Card Follow-Up Review |
| We further examine the performance of the AMD Radeon HD 6990 video card. This time comparing it to a GeForce GTX 580 and Radeon HD 6970 and Radeon HD 6970 CrossFireX on a single display. We will also look at the performance advantages of the overclock BIOS option and examine overclocking in both modes. |
| March 21, 2011 |
| AMD rolls out budget-friendly Radeon HD 6450, Radeon HD 6790 desktop graphics cards |
| While all the talk lately has been about high-end dual-GPU monsters like the Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 and the AMD Radeon HD 6990, AMD has quietly released a pair of new boards with more economical price tags this week. |
| April 7, 2011 |
| HIS Radeon HD 6850 & 6870 IceQ X Turbo Crossfire Review |
| Looking at the market today, the Radeon HD 6850 remains one of the best options available to gamers shopping for a sub-$200 GPU, while the Radeon HD 6870 still commands the sub-$250 bracket with its only real competition coming from the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. It's not very often that we see mainstream-level GPUs settle down for long, in this case it appears there's nothing too big on the horizon and thus we were pleased to hear that HIS was preparing an update for all card versions this year. |
| April 26, 2011 |
| Powercolor officially launches HD6870X2: two AMD Radeon HD 6870s on one graphics card for $449 |
| After showing it off at the recent Computex show, Powercolor has officially released its HD6870X2, which combines two AMD Radeon HD 6870 high-performance GPUs on a single card. It will compete with other dual-GPU boards like the Radeon HD 6990, Nvidia GeForce GTX 590, and the forthcoming Asus Mars II, though according to Fudzilla, it will undercut their pricing by being offered at $449. |
| June 22, 2011 |
| PowerColor PCS+ Radeon HD 6970 Video Card Review |
| PowerColor's highest-end Radeon HD 6970 is on our test bench today. The PCS+ Radeon HD 6970 has a respectable out-of-the-box overclock, a custom cooler, and a free game, but does it offer value for its price premium? |
| June 22, 2011 |
| PowerColor Radeon HD 6970 LCS Review |
| Of all the cooling solutions on the market one of the most appealing and yet most feared is water cooling. Who in their right mind would put water in with electronics and hope that the inevitable does not happen (sheepishly raising my hand)? Water cooling is one of the cooling solutions that offer tremendous upsides when done correctly and that most feared of things when done incorrectly. |
| March 4, 2011 |
| Skyrim AMD CrossFireX Performance and IQ Review |
| AMD has provided a new Catalyst 11.11b Performance driver that supports CrossFireX in Skyrim for Radeon HD 6000 series owners. We will evaluate CrossFireX performance, scaling, and see how it compares to the competition. We will also look at FXAA and Transparency AA image quality comparisons. |
| November 28, 2011 |
| Unlocking The AMD Radeon HD 6950 to 6970 - BIOS Flash Mod Guide |
| It has been known since the release of the AMD Radeon HD 6950 and Radeon HD 6970 graphics cards that the two cards were virtually identical. The Radeon HD 6950 and the 6970 are both based on AMD's Cayman GPU core, having identical specifications except for the cards respective maximum power limit and power connectors. The features that are 'locked' on the AMD Radeon HD 6950 are done so in the GPU's BIOS or vBIOS and can be 'easily' unlocked making the card the same as a AMD Radeon HD 6970 with the exception of the 8-pin PCIe power connector that doesn't appear to be needed. |
| May 12, 2011 |
| XFX Radeon HD 6870 Black Edition Review |
| With each new graphics release, a cycle can be observed regarding the rollout of specialty cards to the masses, further diversifying each series. First, stock cards are rushed to the market with MSRP stickers with discounts few and far between. Next, after a moderate decline in initial demand, the vendors cut the stock card's pricing and manufacturers get the okay to begin pushing out factory overclocked specialty cards. These cards come in all different flavors and increments of warranteed speed. Sapphire, for instance, produces their top-tier Vapor-X cooling system to couple with their products to offer an additional few valuable degrees off of your card's operating temperature for your top dollar. XFX takes a similar approach in its tiered factory OC options. Its flagship cards however carry a renowned Black Edition label that carries recognition anywhere computers are worshiped. |
| May 2, 2011 |
| XFX HD Radeon 6790 Review |
| AMD is continuing to push lower and lower on the scale of new GPUs. The Barts core used on the 6870 and 6850 has been chopped up further to make the 6790s, perhaps by quality binning and using cores that couldn't pass as a full Barts core. Early speculation thought unlocking the core to the equivalent of a 6870 or 6850 was possible but AMD has said that the sections were physically cut and unlocking is impossible. Whether or not the 6790s can be unlocked or not remains to be seen for sure. The core has over 1.7 billion transistors on a 40nm fabrication node attached to the PCB with a 256-bit memory bus and 1GB of GDDR5. The clock speed has been increased on this core to 840 MHz core and 1050 MHz memory for factory reference. 800 Shaders are enabled on the core. The paper specifications are very similar to the prior generation's 5770. |
| May 9, 2011 |
| Radeon 6000 series |
| Budget GPU - Radeon HD 6670 |
| A new graphics card is always in the top three PC upgrades (behind RAM and hard drives), and while some people are ready to put $500 down for a new graphics card, most want something a little more modest. |
| July 19, 2011 |
| Radeon 7000 Series |
| AMD Fusion System Architecture Moves to Unify CPUs and GPUs |
| If you thought that AMD's new A-Series CPU-and-GPU-on-a-chip (APU) was cool, hold on to your seats: the A-Series is just the first step in unifying CPU and GPU architectures in such a way that developers see just a single, multi-purpose processing unit. It's called the Fusion System Architecture (FSA), and rather shockingly it will make its debut with AMD's upcoming Southern Islands (Radeon HD 7000-series) graphics cards. |
| June 20, 2011 |
| GIGABYTE Radeon HD 7970 OC Exclusive First Look |
| An early first look at a custom built Radeon HD 7970 based video card. The GIGABYT E GV-R7970C-3GD sports a custom design, custom heatsink, and a custom fan all with an out-of-box 1GHz GPU frequency. The future of Radeon HD 7970 based video cards is looking good. |
| January 9, 2012 |
| S |
| S3 Graphics |
| design and development of graphics cores for use in discrete graphics subsystems, integrated graphics, and core logic chipsets. |
| Provides Products |
| Salient Systems Corporation |
| high-speed graphics and image capture boards. Real-time frame-grabbing as well as TIGA based accelerators. |
| Provides Products |
| Sapphire |
| Sapphire adds new Radeon HD 68XX card |
| Sapphire has released a new graphics card - the HD 6870 1GB Dirt3 Edition. |
| September 15, 2011 |
| Sapphire HD6670 Ultimate, HD6750 & HD6770 Review |
| Are you looking for a new video card for your current setup? Maybe you have been waiting for a decently priced card to come out that has some good features and supports DirectX 11. |
| June 24, 2011 |
| Sapphire HD 6670 Low Profile Review |
| This graphics card has been designed to be universally compatible -- it supports HDMI 1.4a, Dual-Link DVI, and D-Sub VGA outputs in both low profile and standard configurations. Auxiliary power is not needed -- the main requirement is just an open PCI Express x16 slot. |
| December 23, 2011 |
| Sapphire HD 6770 FleX Edition Review |
| If there are improvements to the build process or capabilities, then really is this something bad? Depends on how you look at it! AMD has made improvements to the BIOS to enable HDMI 1.4a and UVD3 to set the HD 6770 apart from the HD 5770, so you are getting something slightly different even though the hardware is left untouched. So where does that leave us? With current pricing, there is no incentive to go for the HD 5770 over the HD 6770, if you look carefully -- pricing is very close, with prices determined by brand, bundle, and cooling solutions employed. |
| July 4, 2011 |
| Sapphire HD 6950 2GB DiRT 3 Video Card Review |
| Overclocking a video card provides a better gameplay experience, or so every enthusiast hopes. Today we have the Sapphire HD 6950 2GB DiRT 3 Special Edition on our gaming rig to see how well it performs and overclocks using Sapphire's TRIXX Tweaking utility. Will this overclock yield a better gameplay experience? |
| July 25, 2011 |
| Sapphire HD 6970 BFBC2: Vietnam Special Edition Review |
| The SAPPHIRE HD6970 BFBC2: Vietnam Special Edition will be competing with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 570 and NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 580. We overclock the SAPPHIRE HD6970 BFBC2:V Special Edition using SAPPHIRE TriXX Tweak Utility and voltage tweaking to see how it can compare to the more expensive GTX 580. |
| August 9, 2011 |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 6570 |
| AMD has expanded its Radeon HD 6000 series family, with the launch this week of the mid-range Radeon HD 6570 and Radeon HD 6670 graphics cards. We were sent over a Sapphire Radeon HD 6570 in advance, but as it did not arrive until Monday, the results are only now available. Here is the first Linux benchmarks of the AMD Radeon HD 6570 "Turks" graphics processor. |
| April 20, 2011 |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 Review |
| Are you looking for a new graphics card to install in your system? Maybe you are building a new setup that is not going to be used for heavy gaming, but would still like to have all the bells and whistles that are available, such as DirectX 11 support, AMD Eyefinity, and AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing Technology. Whatever your reason for looking into a new graphics card for your current setup, or maybe a future setup that does not require a lot of graphics processing power and needs to operate silently, you may just want to check out the Sapphire HD6670. Sapphire's HD6670 is going to offer you a graphics card with the latest features, as well as the ability to have a single monitor resolution up to 2560x1600, while not breaking your wallet. I am excited to see how well the HD6670 is going to compare to the other cards that are in its class. |
| April 26, 2011 |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 6770 Vapor-X & HD 6670 Ultimate Review |
| Entry level graphics cards aren't designed to push as many pixels per-second as their high-end counterparts, but they still play a vital role in the market. In fact, graphics cards priced at or below the $100 mark make up the largest share of GPU's sold worldwide. The simple reasoning for this is that most home PC users can be categorized as light to moderate gamers who use their computers mainly for tasks such as photo editing, streaming videos, surfing the internet and multi-tasking. For this large majority, the graphics cards' price and manufacturer support are more essential than the absolute gaming power of the product. |
| June 22, 2011 |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 Toxic Video Card Review |
| Today we are going to be taking a look at the Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 Toxic Video Card. This is the factory overclocked version of the Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 video card. This particular card does not contain Sapphire's Vapor X cooler and is based on the reference PCB that is familiar to the 6800 series of AMD's Radeon HD cards. |
| April 4, 2011 |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 DiRT 3 Special Edition Review |
| AMD's HD 6000 series cards are nothing new to the market, passing through the pages of OCC since early this year. As the year has gone by, there have been small variations made by each vendor in an attempt to stand out in the heavily crowded market with small variations in price tagged on with each revision. This late after the series release, it is expected that all the supply/quality quirks have been worked out, allowing vendors to produce top-shelf revisions that introduce new features on top of highly binned chips, leading to the new best-in-class card until the next series release. Such tweaks can mean slightly less power consumption, better heatsinks offering lower temperatures, voltage modding, and factory warrantied overclocks. |
| October 18, 2011 |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 DiRT 3 Edition Review |
| The Sapphire HD 6950 DiRT 3 Edition is essentially a standard Cayman Pro based graphics card with key features that separate it from the rest of the herd. The first "feature" is, as the name suggests, a free code good for downloading a copy of DiRT 3, the third iteration in Codemasters' celebrating off-road racing game series and one of the hottest titles released this summer. Sapphire has also improved the on-board thermal solution by increasing the size of the cooling surface area and adding five copper heatpipes. By including a $50 game and improving the GPU cooling of the HD 6950 alone, Sapphire has effectively increased the overall value of their HD 6950 model. |
| July 1, 2011 |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 6990 Review |
| Back in November when AMD brought OCC out to LA for the 6 series launch event, the HD 6990 Antilles was not much more than a footnote in the presentation as an all new "Future Product". A product we were told not to talk about as it was under NDA with more information to be forthcoming. Here we are a few months later with that product ready for review. Today we have the Sapphire HD 6990. AMD has held onto the single card performance title sin |
| March 14, 2011 |
| Sapphire Toxic HD6950 Video Card Review |
| SAPPHIRE claims to have produced the fastest HD 6950 on the market in the SAPPHIRE HD6950 TOXIC Edition. It competes with a stock Radeon HD 6950 and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570. We also put it to the test against a Radeon HD 6970 and GeForce GTX 580 with results that might shock you. And did we mention you get two free games? |
| August 29, 2011 |
| Sapphire unveils new Radeon HD 6970 with dual fans AND dual BIOS |
| Sapphire has added a new card to its Radeon HD 6900 series, the HD 6970. |
| November 1, 2011 |
| T |
| Tech-Source |
| Ultra-high resolution graphics for PCI and SBus |
| Provides Products |
| Tridium Research Inc |
| providing dual monitor graphics with 2560 pixels across. |
| Provides Products |
| Tweak3D.net |
| offering guides to overclocking and tweaking video cards and computers, product reviews, forums, and more. |
| Provides Products |
| V |
| Video Electronics Standards Association |
| VESA was established in 1989 to set and support industry-wide interface standards designed for the PC, workstation, and other computing environments. |
| Provides Information |
| Video-Drivers.com |
| lists video drivers available for download by company. |
| Provides Products |
| XFX |
| XFX HD 7970 Black Edition Double Dissipation 3 GB Review |
| Just a few short weeks ago, I had the opportunity to look at and test a reference HD 7970 from Sapphire for the official launch of AMD's latest video cards, which feature an all new architecture based on the 28 nm Tahiti core. |
| January 27, 2012 |
| XFX HD-695X-ZNFC |
| Intended primarily for gamers who want to amp up their graphics performance without spending a ton of money, the HD-695X-ZNFC has a core clock running at a speed of 800MHz and an effective memory clock of 1,250MHz, and contains 1GB of GDDR5 memory operating over a 256-bit memory interface. It's driven by 1,408 stream processing units. |
| October 26, 2011 |
| XFX HD6950 1GB Overclocked Edition Review |
| The XFX HD 6950 1Gb XXX Edition is packaged in a box that is identical to recent XFX production. It is a black/gray box accented with signature red AMD color along with the XFX and AMD logos with the XXX Edition sticker in the bottom right of the front face. |
| March 28, 2011 |
| XFX R7970 Black Edition Video Card Review |
| We have the new XFX R7970 Black Edition video card to evaluate, which is XFX's current flagship Radeon HD 7970 based video card. With a custom PCB, custom hardware components and custom cooling fan, will it take us to new heights in overclocking, or leave us wishing we had just purchased a "reference" card? |
| January 24, 2012 |