AMD Radeon HD 5970 2GB Review - AMDomination

Graphics Card - Nov 18, 2009 | 12:00 AM

Even though it has lost the 'X2' moniker, the latest dual-GPU graphics card from AMD is a graphics processing powerhouse we have not seen the likes of here before! By pairing up a set of Evergreen parts from the Radeon HD 5800-series, AMD's new HD 5970 is definitely the new king of the hill when it comes to PC gaming. Stop in to see how it fares as well as what you can expect with Eyefinity.

Lucid HYDRA 200 Multi-GPU Technology Performance Preview

Graphics Card - Nov 11, 2009 | 09:00 AM

The gang at Lucid finally let us get our paws on some actually testing-ready hardware this week and I ran the configuration through some tests to see how it stood up compared to existing CrossFire and SLI systems. We also of course test cross-vendor performance and see how much scaling you can get when you combine the performance of a GTX 260+ and a Radeon HD 4890.

Galaxy GeForce GTX 260+ Razor Edition - Single slot performance

Graphics Card - Nov 10, 2009 | 08:00 PM

Galaxy has been continuing to improve on product differentiation and quality and the company's new GeForce GTX 260+ Razor does it again with a single slot, air cooled design. This GPU offers all the performance of standard GTX 260+ GPUs but in a more condensed package that should make SFF and HTPC users smile.

Left 4 Dead 2 Demo AMD and NVIDIA Graphics Performance

Graphics Card - Oct 30, 2009 | 11:00 AM

Left 4 Dead will be available next month but the early release of the demo prompted us to spend some time with it and a handful of graphics cards from AMD and NVIDIA to see how they performed on this new gaming title. I think you'll find the results interesting and the gameplay exciting. Do you need to upgrade??

AMD Radeon HD 5870 Triple CrossFireX Performance Testing

Graphics Card - Oct 16, 2009 | 12:00 PM

What do you do when you have a set of three Radeon HD 5870s sitting in your office and a Core i7 gaming computer waiting there with a blank 30-in monitor? Obviously you plug it all in and see how it perform! Today we are looking at GPU scaling of not just two Radeon HD 5870s, but three of them in a CrossFireX configuration. Overkill? Maybe.

AMD Radeon HD 5770 and HD 5750 Review - Juniper and DX11 for all

Graphics Card - Oct 13, 2009 | 12:00 AM

AMD continues to push the pedal to the floor with NVIDIA right in view over the steering wheel with another GPU release this fall. This time Juniper falls into our laps and brings the Radeon HD 5770 and HD 5750 into the fold to compete against the likes of the GeForce GTX 260+ and GTS 250. Can AMD's new offerings push gaming at $170 and $110 to new levels?

Galaxy GeForce 210 and GT 220 Review - NVIDIA 40nm GPUs hit consumers

Graphics Card - Oct 11, 2009 | 07:00 PM

NVIDIA is out with a set of GPUs for the desktop budget market in the form of the GeForce 210 and GeForce GT 220. Can these options, now running on 40nm process technology and implementing DirectX 10.1 support, compete with the year-old Radeon HD 4670 cards for dominance in the $70 GPU market?

AMD Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Performance Testing

Graphics Card - Oct 09, 2009 | 03:00 PM

After my review of the AMD Radeon HD 5870 graphics card last month that featured a heavy dose of information and videos about AMD's new Eyefinity technology, the one single request I have received the most is for performance results using these games and a multi-monitor configuration. Well I decided to spend some time this week doing just that, so check out our results!

The State of NVIDIA: For better or for worse

Graphics Card - Oct 05, 2009 | 12:00 AM

We spent last week at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference learning about more than just the new GPU architecture NVIDIA was showcasing. In this editorial we take a look at where NVIDIA stands today, what you can expect from them in the near future and how the company plans to hold on to gamers' hearts while striving to build a new market in the GPU computing world.

NVIDIA Fermi Next Generation GPU Architecture Overview

Graphics Card - Sep 30, 2009 | 04:00 PM

NVIDIA is revealing details today about its upcoming GPU architecture, codenamed Fermi. This new design offers a lot of great new advancements for GPU computing as well as gaming, though details on performance are still pretty slim. The GPU will implement 512 CUDA cores on a 3.0 billion transistor die. That got your interest up?

AMD Radeon HD 5850 1GB Review - Cyprus gets a bit cheaper

Graphics Card - Sep 30, 2009 | 12:00 AM

Last week we saw the introduction of AMD's new Evergreen architecture with the release of the Radeon HD 5870 graphics card and we follow that up today with the lower cost variant, the Radeon HD 5850. This card still has 1GB of memory and requires a pair of 6-pin power connectors, but for the money, it looks like the card to beat.

ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB Graphics Card and AMD Eyefinity Review

Graphics Card - Sep 23, 2009 | 12:00 AM

AMD is making a splash again with another new GPU that aims to take NVIDIA head on and force a shift in the graphics card market. The Radeon HD 5870, previously known as the Evergreen architecture, offers up twice as many shader processors as the HD 4800-series of cards at higher clock speeds. And the new AMD Eyefinity technology is something you have to see to understand!

Lucid HYDRA Multi-GPU Technology Launches - End of SLI and CrossFire?

Graphics Card - Sep 22, 2009 | 05:30 PM

Last year we met a darling new company by the name of LucidLogix, or just Lucid, that promised to deliver "near linear scaling" on multi-GPU performance without the requirements of SLI or CrossFire. We have finally seen the technology in action on a production level motherboard coming from MSI and even see an AMD and NVIDIA graphics card share the workload!

MSI N285GTX Superpipe OC GeForce GTX 285 Review

Graphics Card - Sep 16, 2009 | 11:00 PM

Before AMD unleashes their latest foray into the graphics market, we have the chance to look at the current fastest, single GPU video card around. MSI has differentiated their product with a unique (and surprisingly effecting) cooler which adds to the value of their offering. While we can't prognosticate about how well it will fare against upcoming products, we can see how well it performs against what is available today.

Mid-range GPU comparison: Gigabyte GTS 250 1GB and 9600GT 512MB Graphics Cards

Graphics Card - Aug 19, 2009 | 01:00 PM

The massive influx of mid-range GPUs has made for a feeding frenzy by consumers looking for budget graphics solutions. Mid-range offerings from NVIDIA and ATI have completely saturated the market with sub-$100 graphics cards that can almost play Crysis Warhead at decent resolutions. Some video cards priced just over the $100 mark can easily play Crysis and other GPU-intensive games like Far Cry 2 and World in Conflict at higher resolutions too.

ATI Stream vs. NVIDIA CUDA - GPGPU computing battle royale

Graphics Card - Aug 07, 2009 | 12:00 PM

Since our initial review of five of NVidia's CUDA-enabled applications back in June, we've been chomping at the bit to get our first real look at ATI's entry into the GPU computing ring called ATI Stream. Both of these platforms use parallel computing architectures to utilize their GPU's stream processors, in tandem with the CPU, to significantly increase any system's video transcoding speeds. Today, we are going to discuss both of these technologies as well as benchmark a couple video transcoding applications from Cyberlink that actually support both CUDA and ATI Stream.

Caustic Graphics and the CausticGL Ray Tracing API

Graphics Card - Jul 07, 2009 | 01:00 PM

Caustic let us peruse a new technical brief it was working on that describes in much more detail the software side of its CausticRT ray tracing platform. Based on OpenGL ES 2.0, CausticGL aims to do for ray tracing what OpenGL did for rasterization and the company even hopes to gain Khronos Group standardization for its custom API.

NVIDIA CUDA-enabled Applications Roundup

Graphics Card - Jun 12, 2009 | 12:00 PM

General purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs) have had a huge impact in everything from professional and home applications to video processing and even physics simulations. No GPU parallel computing architecture has been more in the spotlight than NVIDIA’s CUDA either. CUDA technology is being used in many different types of applications including video and audio encoding, oil and gas exploration, product design, medical imaging, and scientific research.

Galaxy GeForce GTX 275 OC 896MB Review

Graphics Card - Jun 10, 2009 | 09:00 AM

The GeForce GTX 275 started as a fill-in GPU to combat the Radeon HD 4890 when it was released earlier this year. As enthusiasts started adopting it, it found a great spot in terms of performance and price between the GTX 285 and GTX 260+. Galaxy has an overclocked model with a custom cooler available that does cost a bit extra, but allows you get even more out of the graphics chip.

Mid-range matchup: ASUS GTS 250 Dark Knight and Sapphire HD 4850 Vapor

Graphics Card - Jun 08, 2009 | 12:00 AM

We have said over and over again that the mid-range GPU market is a mess - a great mess of fantastic performance and value. Today we are taking a look at a pair of new graphics cards from ASUS and Sapphire that fit snuggly into the sub-$150 field. The ASUS GeForce GTS 250 Dark Knight edition and Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 Vapor go up against the HD 4770 to see who comes out on top.

Computex 2009: AMD Demonstrates working 40nm DirectX 11 Silicon

Graphics Card - Jun 03, 2009 | 12:00 AM

Today at Computex, AMD has unveiled its first DirectX 11 compliant part, but the announcement is more about the overall features that DX11 introduces rather than the specific part that AMD has already fabricated in conjunction with TSMC on their fledgling 40nm process. Read on for the full scoop.

Galaxy GeForce 9600 GT LP Review - Low Power, Low Profile

Graphics Card - May 19, 2009 | 12:00 AM

Low power and low profile might not seem like very important features for a GPU most of the time, but you would be surprised how many new PCs on the market today can't fit a standard expansion card. Galaxy is hoping to pin that market by offering a decently-powerful 9600 GT GPU without a PCIe power connection and with a half-height PCB design.

AMD Radeon HD 4770 512MB Review - World's First 40nm GPU

Graphics Card - Apr 28, 2009 | 12:00 AM

The new AMD Radeon HD 4770 is the world's first 40nm GPU and brings even more performance to a world of sub-$100 graphics cards. Does AMD's technology advantage make the 9800 GT and GTS 250 looks like schmucks?

Caustic Graphics Ray Tracing Acceleration Technology Review

Graphics Card - Apr 20, 2009 | 12:00 AM

Caustic Graphics is formally announcing availability of the CausticOne ray tracing accelerator card today and we are finally allowed to unveiling the technology we learned about at GDC last month. If you think the ray tracing and rasterization debate was interesting before, wait until you see what this new player has to say.

AMD Radeon HD 4890 RV790 and GeForce GTX 275 Review

Graphics Card - Apr 02, 2009 | 12:00 AM

AMD and NVIDIA again have new graphics cards for us to throw into the GPU testing beast on our bench and see what comes of it. The new RV790-based HD 4890 card takes on the cut-in-half GTX 295 known as the GeForce GTX 275 in a battle for your hard earned $250.

Larrabee New Instruction set gives developers first glimpse of new GPU

Graphics Card - Mar 27, 2009 | 02:00 PM

Intel was promoting Larrabee quite heavily at GDC in San Francisco this week even though there is still no hardware to be found. For the GDC audience, Intel decided to share a Larrabee instruction emulation layer so that developers can now start to see how the new x86-based GPU design can be efficiently utilized.

Windows 7 series: NVIDIA and AMD Graphics and Gaming Performance

Graphics Card - Mar 24, 2009 | 12:00 AM

The Windows 7 beta has been a huge success with pundits and users all over the tech world singing its praises. But what about gaming? Does moving to Windows 7 beta mean a drop in PC gaming performance like it did with Vista or do Microsoft and the driver teams at AMD and NVIDIA have it all ironed out?

Will the AMD RV790 Architecture be Something Different?

Graphics Card - Mar 09, 2009 | 02:00 AM

Initial rumors had the RV790 pegged as a speed optimized RV770, which currently powers the Radeon HD 4800 series of cards. Recent information has hinted that there is far more than a simple speed increase, and AMD could be catching us unawares with a potentially exciting new part. I take a look at AMD's releases over the past two years and make a few guesses as to what we might expect to see.

Palit GeForce GTS 250 1GB Graphics Card Review - More NVIDIA G92b

Graphics Card - Mar 03, 2009 | 03:00 AM

The new GeForce GTS 250 1GB is being launched today and is not hiding the fact that it is a rebranded 9800 GTX+. But with a lower price and more memory, does NVIDIA have all the fixings for a great budget solution? Or will AMD crash the party?

Professional Graphics Roundup: NVIDIA Quadro and AMD FirePro

Graphics Card - Feb 27, 2009 | 06:00 PM

Both NVIDIA and AMD have updated their respective professional graphics lines in the last month or so and we sit down with a pair of Quadros and a pair of FirePro cards to see which has the ability to be the best performer AND which is the best value.

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