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AMD Radeon HD 6870 and 6850 Review Roundup | Posted on: 30/10/2010 @ 18:25

Now that the official release date has arrived, reviews are cropping up all over the internet. Unfortunately, Overclockers.com's sample is still in the mail, but we have plenty to tide you over...AMD Radeon HD 6870 and 6850 Review Roundup is a post from: Overclockers - The Performance Computing Community Related posts:Official AMD Radeon HD 6850/6870 Performance Specs ATI Radeon HD5870 ...

Official AMD Radeon HD 6850/6870 Performance Specs | Posted on: 30/10/2010 @ 18:25

Architecture, specifications, and design highlights for the AMD Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon HD 6870 - this is what everyone has been waiting for. While many sites are publishing exhaustive dissertations spanning many pages, we're looking to quickly bring out the essentials of what you need to know. The time for guesswork regarding AMD's 6000 series graphics cards has come to an end...Official AMD ...

Lantic Radeon HD 6870 1GB Video Card in CrossFire Overclocked | Posted on: 30/10/2010 @ 12:48

Lantic show us a HD 6870. We pair it with another and then overclock them both. Hold on to your hats!

ASUS EAH6870 1GB Radeon HD6870 Graphics Card | Posted on: 30/10/2010 @ 9:24

The ASUS EAH6870 1GB Radeon HD6870 graphics card arrived on the test bench as a bit of a mystery, as I was not sure what to expect. After some time testing it against an HD5850 and an HD5870, I have to admit that I am impressed. While it may put up results in benchmarks and games that rival the HD5870, there is much more to consider.

The GeForce GTX 580 mystery is clearing | Posted on: 30/10/2010 @ 3:48

GeForce GTX 580 will most likely be the most powerful single-GPU graphcis card on the market in 2010. Now that we have the complete specifications for NVIDIA's GF110 GPU it becomes clear that NVIDIA is attempting to do what it failed to with GTX 480 - going all in - to win the performance war against AMD.

NVIDIA confirms GeForce GTX 580 | Posted on: 30/10/2010 @ 2:48

NVIDIA seems decided to spin the heads of the consumers before the big launches from rival AMD. The company first published the name on its website and has rolled out a new driver where it clearly mentions the new flagship.

GeForce GTX 580 presenting its new cooler | Posted on: 30/10/2010 @ 2:48

GeForce GTX 580 looks to become the next flagship with many similarities to GeForce GTX 480, but one of the changes is the cooler that has a slightly revised design. Pictures have been published at a Chinese website showing the cooler in detail.

AMD vs. NVIDIA - who really won in HD 6850 and GTX 460 battle | Posted on: 30/10/2010 @ 2:24

The dust has settled. I take a look back at last week's GPU shenanigans.

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 Super Overclock graphics card review | Posted on: 30/10/2010 @ 2:00

Is this the pinnacle of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 graphics cards?

Review: MSI GeForce GTS 450 Cyclone | Posted on: 29/10/2010 @ 23:48

It's not so long ago that the first graphics card touting Nvidia's GTS 450, the Asus GTS 450 TOP, passed through the TechRadar labs. When we first checked it out we quite liked it but as we said at the time: "we'd have hoped for a price tag a little closer to the £100 mark". Well, someone was listening, because MSI's overclocked N450GTS Cyclone is within a tenner of our target. It runs at 67MHz ...

HIS Radeon HD 6870 Turbo 1 GB | Posted on: 29/10/2010 @ 4:12

The HIS Radeon HD 6870 Turbo is a factory overclocked variant of the HD 6870 that builds heavily on the AMD reference design. This means that PCB, components and cooler are unchanged from the original AMD card - which is a good thing. The increased clock speeds give the card a 4% performance advantage.

NVIDIA Tesla heart of world's fastest supercomputer | Posted on: 29/10/2010 @ 2:00

China has claimed the throne among supercomputers as has completed and presented the new supercomputer Tianhe-1A during HPC 2010. The system has reached peak performance of 2507 petaflops, which is largely thanks to the 7000 Fermi Tesla GPUs.

Yeston working on powerful Radeon HD 6850 | Posted on: 29/10/2010 @ 2:00

Yeston is the next company to give AMD Radeon HD 6850 a total makeover and like Colorful it is aiming for higher clock frequencies. It will use a surprisingly low PCB, very powerful power supply and large cooler from Arctic Cooling.

Galaxy GTS 450 HOF with1 GHz GPU frequency | Posted on: 29/10/2010 @ 2:00

Galaxy continue to lure us with its own graphics card solutions. The comany has now launched its GeForce GTS 450 Hall of Fame, the first GTS 450 sporting 1 GHz clock frequency from factory, far above the 783 MHz of the reference model.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 pictured | Posted on: 29/10/2010 @ 2:00

GeForce GTX 580 is starting to look like a real threat to AMD and its coming flagship Radeon HD 6970. After NVIDIA "accidentally" published the name of the new graphics card on its website we now have pictures of what is said to be a reference card of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580.

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1,024MB in CrossFireX review | Posted on: 28/10/2010 @ 17:12

Up against Radeon HD 5850 XF and GeForce GTX 460 SLI. Who wins?

ASUS GeForce GT 430 Overclocking Performance | Posted on: 28/10/2010 @ 14:38

When the GT 430 platform was released in desktop cards, Benchmark Reviews brought you a review of the performance of the ASUS ENGT430. The GF108 Fermi GPU was released by NVIDIA to provide a new set of media GPUs capable of providing excellent quality movie and video playback, as well as the possibility of watching and enjoying 3D media. Our review of the ASUS ENGT430 showed that it could also ...

Visiontek Radeon 6870 1GB | Posted on: 28/10/2010 @ 13:30

Visiontek's latest powerhouse is the Radeon 6870. It's a reference design for the most part, but it brings some strong capabilities to enthusiasts looking for something special. Boasting some impressive gaming horsepower at a very competitive price, it sounds very tempting. Let's take a closer look at the Visiontek Radeon 6870 1GB and see what it can do.

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 470 Super Overclock Edition Video Card Review | Posted on: 27/10/2010 @ 22:24

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 470 Super Overclock Edition graphics card is a sharp looking graphics card. Ignoring the sexy black anodized aluminum shroud and the three fans to keep this beast cool, the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 470 Super Overclock Edition comes to the party well armed. Along with its looks, the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 470 Super Overclock Edition brings to the party the fastest core of any of ...

Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1GB Video Card w/ 960 Shaders | Posted on: 27/10/2010 @ 13:36

We get our hands on a HD 6850 that carries the reference 960 Shaders. Let’s compare this to our 1120 Shader sample.

Zotac building GeForce GTX 460X2 graphics card | Posted on: 27/10/2010 @ 3:36

AMD has taken a firm grip of the mid-range segment with its Radeon HD 6800 series but NVIDIA is standing up well with its very capable GTX 460 graphics card. For those who craves more than a single GF104 GPU, Zotac has the solution with a dual GPU version coming, ZOTAC GeForce GTX 460X2.

GeForce 260.99 driver solves problems in Fallout: New Vegas | Posted on: 27/10/2010 @ 2:36

NVIDIA has released a new WHQL certified driver for its GeForce graphics cards, called GeForce 260.99, that brings a some performance improvements, but also better antialiasing support for the praised RPG Fallout: New Vegas, and a bunch of new SLI profiles.

NVIDIA GT 425M: Windows 7 Ultimate vs. Ubuntu 10.10 | Posted on: 26/10/2010 @ 21:48

Back in August we looked at the gaming performance between Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04 using a Lenovo ThinkPad W510, and the results were not too dramatic, but since then there has been a new release of Ubuntu (the 10.10 Maverick Meerkat) and new graphics hardware has been released. After receiving an ASRock Vision 3D system recently, which will soon be reviewed at Phoronix, we decided to compare ...

Radeon Page-Flipping Patches Come About | Posted on: 26/10/2010 @ 21:12

Since the Linux 2.6.32 kernel there has been the KMS page-flipping ioctl and it's been hooked into the Intel DRM driver for providing tear-free updating of the screen by low-latency page-flipping. This KMS page-flipping ioctl is also used by Wayland. Since late October there's also been Nouveau patches for page-flipping, but now patches have finally emerged for bringing this support to the Radeon ...

Sapphire 100315L Radeon HD 6850 Video Card Review | Posted on: 26/10/2010 @ 13:07

In this article Benchmark Reviews tests the Sapphire 100315L Radeon HD 6850 video card, a 960 shader core DirectX-11 graphics solution that competes at the $180 price point with the 768MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 video card and the Radeon HD 5830/5770 to a lesser extent. Graphical frame rate performance is tested using the most demanding PC video game titles and benchmark software available. ...

Intel, Radeon DRM Get Precise VBlank Timestamps | Posted on: 26/10/2010 @ 3:00

Mario Kleiner has published patches over the weekend that introduce precise vblank time-stamping support within the Linux kernel's DRM core and has implemented this support already within the Radeon and Intel kernel drivers too. The precise vblank timestamps and counting is needed by the DRI2 sync and swap extensions and in particular to conform with the OML_sync_control extension...

Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 1GB Video Card Overclocked | Posted on: 26/10/2010 @ 2:12

We try and see what tricks we can pull with Sapphire’s TRIXX OC software on the Sapphire HD 6870.

HIS Radeon HD 6850 1GB Video Card w/ 1120 Shaders Overclocked | Posted on: 25/10/2010 @ 19:12

We begin to get down and dirty with the HD 6800 series. First we start with the HIS HD 6850 running a BIOS with 1120 Shaders (vs. the reference 960).

Well, There's No Radeon HD 6000 Open-Source Surprise | Posted on: 25/10/2010 @ 5:36

Earlier this week AMD launched the Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon HD 6870 graphics cards as their first next-generation offerings that belong to the "Northern Islands" family. A day later there was the Catalyst 10.10 Linux driver release from AMD that added support for these new "Barts" GPUs to their proprietary driver, but no open-source support has yet to be found...

HIS Radeon HD 6870 1GB Video Card in Crossfire | Posted on: 23/10/2010 @ 16:36

We’ve checked out the HD 6850 in CF and since we’ve got another HD 6870 from HIS, it’s time to turn our attention to the bigger brother in tandem.

Your Feedback On The Use of EVGA's GeForce GTX 460 FTW in Last Night's Review | Posted on: 23/10/2010 @ 6:48

Last night we published our Radeon HD 6870 and 6850 review. In it we made a decision to include a factory overclocked GeForce GTX 460 from EVGA (the EVGA GeForce GTX 460 FTW). For those who aren't aware, NVIDIA has allowed a number of its partners to ship GTX 460s at higher than stock clock speeds. A practice that has been done in the past. The cards are available in retail with full warranties. ...

AMD Radeon HD6870 and HD6850 Launched by VisionTek | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 23:36

Be nice if I had one for review, but I do have a GTX470 on the way!!

HIS Radeon HD 6850 1GB Video Card in Crossfire | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 18:00

Having checked out both the new HD 6850 and HD 6870 cards separately, it’s now time to turn our attention to other areas of interest with the new models. First up? Some HD 6850 Crossfire goodness thanks to HIS coming aboard. Has scaling improved?

ASUS Radeon EAH6870 1GB | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 16:04

We've come to expect big things from ASUS, and their latest powerhouse is the Radeon EAH6870. It's a reference design for the most part, but it brings voltage tweaking capabilities to enthusiasts looking for something special. Boasting some strong gaming horsepower at a very competitive price, it sounds very tempting. Let's take a closer look at the ASUS Radeon EAH6870 1GB and see what it can do.

Sapphire Radeon 6850 1GB | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 16:02

The newest generation DX11 cards are upon us, and the Sapphire Radeon 6850 1GB sports a non-reference heatsink and boasts some strong gaming horsepower in what is a rather diminutive card compared to some of the behemoths we've seen in the past. Sounds tempting. Let's take a close look at the Sapphire Radeon 6850 1GB.

Gigabyte Raden 6850 1GB | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 16:01

The Gigabyte Radeon 6850 sports a non-reference heatsink and comes with a small factory overclock, looking to bring some strong gaming horsepower in what is a rather diminutive card compared to some of the behemoths we've seen in the past. Sounds tempting. Let's take a close look at the Gigabyte Radeon 6850 1GB.

AMD Radeon HD 6870 Barts Video Card Review | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 13:24

In this article Benchmark Reviews tests the AMD Radeon HD 6870 video card, a DirectX-11 graphics solution that doesn't really have direct competition at the $250 price point but costs less and still performs better than the Radeon HD 5850. Graphical frame rate performance is tested using the most demanding PC video game titles and benchmark software available. DirectX-10 favorites such as Crysis ...

AMD Radeon HD 6850 Barts Video Card | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 13:20

In this article Benchmark Reviews tests the AMD Radeon HD 6850 video card, a DirectX-11 graphics solution that competes at the $200 price point with the 768MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 video card and the Radeon HD 5770 to a lesser extent. Graphical frame rate performance is tested using the most demanding PC video game titles and benchmark software available. DirectX-10 favorites such as Crysis ...

AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series Graphics Cards On Linux? | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 12:12

This evening AMD has officially launched their Radeon HD 6800 series, which currently includes the Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon HD 6870 graphics cards. These are just two of several next-generation graphics cards to be launched over the coming weeks and months for consumers while next year the FirePro derivatives for professional/workstation customers should come around too based upon this ...

AMD’s Radeon 6870 & 6850: Renewing Competition in the Mid-Range Market | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 11:48

All things considered, the Radeon HD 5000 series has gone very well for AMD. When they launched it just over a year ago, they beat NVIDIA to the punch by nearly 6 months and enjoyed a solid term as the kings of the GPU world, with halo parts like the 5870 and 5970 giving them renewed exposure at the high-end of the market while mainstream products like the 5670 redefining the HTPC.  Ultimately ...

ATI Radeon HD 6850 Review | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 11:48

What's in a name? We see if ATI's latest graphics card is its best ever.

ATI Radeon HD 6870 Review | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 11:48

What's in a name? We see if ATI's new mid-range graphics card can dominate the market.

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB Video Card | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 11:00

We check out the big brother to the new HD 6850 that’s also been launched today; the HD 6870. Where’s it sit and how’s it go?

Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1GB Video Card | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 11:00

Joining the launch of the HD 6870 today is its little brother in the HD 6850. Let's take a ride in Sapphire style and see if it can impress.

AMD Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 CrossFire Video Card Review | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 10:48

Today AMD released their second generation DirectX 11 video card with the Radeon HD 6800 series. The Radeon HD 6800 series consists of the Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon HD 6870 video cards and we have an in-depth review of them for you today. We also run them both in CrossFire to see how they scale and do all the usual tests that we throw at new video cards!

AMD Radeon HD 6850 CrossFire | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 10:48

AMD's new Radeon HD 6850 is priced at an extremely affordable $179. This poses the question whether two cards in CrossFire can manage to claim the price/performance sweet spot in the $360 segment or if other alternatives are better.

ASUS Radeon HD 6870 CrossFire | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 10:48

In this review we will put the dual card CrossFire configuration of the AMD Radeon HD 6870 in the spotlight. It promises higher performance than a Radeon HD 5970 at only a fraction of the price. But is this enough to make CF a recommendation?

HIS Radeon HD 6850 1 GB | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 10:48

AMD's new Radeon HD 6850 comes at an extremely affordable $179 price point. This poses the question whether it can become the new weapon of choice for budget oriented gamers. In our testing we see excellent performance which enables full HD resolution gaming in DirectX 11.

ASUS Radeon HD 6850 Direct CU 1 GB | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 10:48

The new ASUS Radeon HD 6850 Direct CU aims to be the king of the sub-$200 segment. It offers plenty of performance for the latest DirectX 11 titles, overclocks very well and comes with improvements to the display output configuration. Instead of an AMD reference heatsink the card uses an ASUS Direct Touch heatpipe solution.

HIS Radeon HD 6870 1 GB | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 10:48

Today AMD released their new Radeon HD 6870. The card brings new features like HDMI 1.4 and DisplayPort 1.2 which allow up to six displays to be connected to a single card. Performance has also been substantially increased and power draw reduced. But is this enough to defeat NVIDIA's latest offerings ?

AMD Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850 cards benchmarked and reviewed | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 10:48

We pit Sapphire and HIS retail cards against a 13-GPU jamboree. Who comes out on top?

Radeon HD 6850: Grinding Diamonds | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 8:44

In IT, each autumn brings with itself something new, after the dry summer period, which is generally shunned when new products are to be presented, since much of it goes “under the radar”. Well, AMD certainly is trying to make this autumn noticeable, marking the upcoming period with its Radeon series. Having in mind the blow struck to the HD series at the very beginning, with the HD 2000 ...

New rumors of GeForce GTX 580 points to December | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 3:24

NVIDIA is said to be working on a new graphics circuit to counter AMD's coming Radeon HD 6900 series and we revealed earlier it is rumored to be called GeForce GTX 580. These are still rumors, but from loose indications on the performance new informaion suggests a launch in December.

NVIDIA lists GeForce GTX 580 on its website | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 3:24

NVIDIA has managed to add to the rumor spreading of a coming flagship. During the day the rumored GeForce GTX 580 appeared at the company website, in a product listing for the system requirements of 3D Vision.

EVGA GeForce GTS 450 FTW Video Card Review | Posted on: 22/10/2010 @ 0:22

With the launch of AMD's next generation of graphics cards looming, most everyone's eyes are on the upcoming HD 6000 series. Today, however, we turn our attention to the NVIDIA camp. While it's still unclear what NVIDIA is preparing in response to this new generation, it's worth pointing out the GTS 450 is just barely a month old. As we witnessed in our last GTS 450 review, the overclocked ...

NVIDIA Launches 3DTV Play, Bringing 3D Vision to the Big Screen | Posted on: 21/10/2010 @ 21:48

After announcing it earlier this year, NVIDIA has finally released their 3DTV Play software add-on for 3D TV owners. 3DTV Play enables consumers to take full advantage of the HDMI 1.4a port on their 4xx GPUs / 3D Vision GPUs by enabling 3D over HDMI, allowing 3D TV owners to fully utilize NVIDIA's 3D VIsion technology, after previously being limited to just Blu-Ray 3D. Till now, the 3D ...

NVIDIA cuts prices of GeForce GTX 460 1GB | Posted on: 21/10/2010 @ 21:12

NVIDIA is, like the most of us, waiting for AMD to launch Radeon HD 6800, but as the direct competitor to NVIDIA's baby GeForce GTX 460 it decided to make an preemptive attack by lowering the price of the top model GeForce GTX 460 1GB.

MSI N480GTX Lightning officially launched | Posted on: 21/10/2010 @ 20:48

MSI has officially launched the N480GTX Lightning, based on NVIDIA's GF100 GPU, that has already claimed numerous world records in the hands of multiple overclockers, including our own team. The card comes with a tailored circuit board and ridiculously powerful power supply.

Galaxy presents milky white GeForce GTX 460 | Posted on: 21/10/2010 @ 5:36

Galaxy continues to show innovation and it is currently working on a GeForce GTX 460 that not only gets a milky white PCB but also digital power supply with plenty of phases. The graphics card is without a doubt geared for enthusiasts where the power circuitry is good for 240A.

MSI Geforce GTX 480 Lightning 1536 MB | Posted on: 21/10/2010 @ 5:00

MSI's GeForce GTX 480 Lightning promises to be an overclocker's dream. It is build around a completely redesigned PCB and thermal solution with overclockers in mind. The card offers unique features like control for up to three voltages, dual BIOS with liquid nitrogen support and easy to reach voltage measurement points.

Zotac GeForce GTX 470 Amp! Edition | Posted on: 20/10/2010 @ 15:12

Can some price cuts and a custom cooler bring the GTX 470 into the light?

MSI GeForce GTX 460 HAWK 1GB | Posted on: 20/10/2010 @ 8:08

The MSI HAWK sports a gorgeous custom Frozr II heatsink that we've seen on other MSI cards, but what's really interesting about this model is that it comes with a huge factory overclock and has some voltage tweaking abilities. And we're not talking some some lame little 25MHz overclock either. MSI goes for the jugular here, pushing the card very far. And all this while maintaining very low ...

Gainward GeForce GTS 450 GLH 1GB Video Card in SLI | Posted on: 20/10/2010 @ 0:48

We send the GTS 450 from Gainward into the depths of hell by pairing up two of these 930MHz bad boys!

A Visual History Chart Of Graphics Cards | Posted on: 20/10/2010 @ 0:13

When I was little I had a fast 3D card... Or I didn't? Wait wait wait... when I bought my first VooDoo, just when it appeared on the market, it was 1995... or 1996... or was it even 1997? Well, enough googling for dates and other info, all you need to do is look at the Chart!A Visual History Chart Of Graphics Cards is a post from: Overclockers - The Performance Computing Community Related ...

AMD Radeon 6000 Series, Llano, Set to Debut | Posted on: 20/10/2010 @ 0:13

O ATI, ATI, wherefore art thou ATI? A cheap Shakespearean knock-off reference doesn't really do justice to the way AMD has positioned itself currently with the pending Radeon 6000 series release along with its line of "Llano" APUs... But then, I'm not really much of a writer, and this ain't no renaissance. AMD has closed the book on its successful history with ATI branding by recently folding ...

Radeon HD 6800 launches October 22nd | Posted on: 19/10/2010 @ 21:48

AMD will launch the first graphics cards based on the Northern Islands architecture by the end of the week and to keep the interest up it has chosen to lift the media embargo somewhat. While the full launch launch won't happen until the end of the week it has allowed media to published pictures of the cards already.

GPU-Z 0.4.7 updated with Radeon HD 6800 support | Posted on: 19/10/2010 @ 21:48

Software developers are ramping up for the launch of AMD's coming graphics card launch. The latest is TechPowerUp's latest version of the graphics card monitor GPU-Z where it supports NVIDIA's new GeForce GT 430/420 but also recognizes AMD Radeon HD 6800.

Quick Look: AMD Radeon HD 6850 and HD 6870 - What We Can Tell You | Posted on: 19/10/2010 @ 19:12

We can tell you a little of what to expect from the new AMD cards launching this week.

AMD’s Radeon HD 6800 Series & Llano “Fusion” APU: A Story in Pictures | Posted on: 19/10/2010 @ 12:24

We happen to have the AMD Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon HD 6850 in-house for testing at the moment. We wanted to play Show & Tell, but the nice people from AMD’s Legal Department say that we’re not allowed to tell you anything about these cards quite yet. But they are letting us go ahead and show you the cards, and as an added bonus they're also allowing us to show you pictures of AMD's Llano ...

AMD Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 Video Card Preview | Posted on: 19/10/2010 @ 12:24

Today, we have the ability to tell you the product names of the AMD Radeon HD 6800 series, show you the photos of the AMD Radeon 6800 series cards and give you a peak at an upcoming demo AMD made called Mecha Rampage. Be sure to read on to see a sneak peak of the Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon HD 6870 video cards that we will be reviewing in-depth later this week!

EVGA GeForce GTX 470 Hydro Copper FTW Video Card Review | Posted on: 18/10/2010 @ 22:24

EVGA teamed up with Swiftech to deliver a water cooling solution for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 'For The Win' edition video card that makes it hard to ignore. The EVGA Hydro Copper waterblock uses a 0.6x0.6mm thin pin matrix, and the base plate is made of chrome plated electrolytic C110 copper which gives it a clean look. The integrated heat pipe connects to the power mosfet heatsink for optimal ...

POV/TGT pushes GeForce GTS 450 to 920 MHz | Posted on: 18/10/2010 @ 17:24

TGT continues to launch overclocked graphics cards for the mother company Point of View. The latest addition is NVIDIA's baby GeForce GTS 450 that has been overclocked to 920 MHz while the 1GB graphics memory now runs at over 4,000 MHz, a big improvement over the reference model.

AMD ships 25 million DirectX 11 graphics cards | Posted on: 15/10/2010 @ 19:36

AMD has since the launch of the first DirectX 11 graphics cards in September 2009 shipped 25 million circuits supporting the latest graphics standard. This was revealed by AMD in its fiscal resport Q3 2010, which otherwise was dominated by red numbers and a loss of 118 million dollar.

NVIDIA preparing GTX 580 with 512 CUDA cores | Posted on: 15/10/2010 @ 18:36

AMD has just unveiled Radeon HD 6800 to the press and in a week we will see the first cards from the Northern Islands family in stores. With the next launch, Cayman and Radeon HD 6900, AMD is expected to raise the bar, which apparently NVIDIA is planning to counter with GeForce GTX 580.

Radeon HD 6870 caught naked | Posted on: 15/10/2010 @ 18:00

The dams are open and the information on Radeon HD 6800 are flooding the web even though AMD is trying to patch any leaks toward the media. The latest shows pictures of what is said to be a naked Radeon HD 6870 graphics card revealing more about the layout and design of the card.

AMD Radeon HD 6000 roadmap leaked | Posted on: 15/10/2010 @ 17:48

As the launch of Radeon HD 6800 comes nearer more and more information are leaking onto forums and websites worldwide. Once again a major leak was found at ChipHell where it has published pictures said to be coming from a roadmap covering Barts and Cayman.

AMD Quietly Reveals Next Radeon Series, Launches Next Week | Posted on: 15/10/2010 @ 13:48

The cat is out of the bag, so to speak, after today's earnings conference call for AMD. One of the things that ended up being discussed by AMD CEO Dirk Meyer in today's call was the future of AMD's graphics division, where AMD's "second-generation DX11" GPUs were mentioned. We will be launching our second-generation DX11 graphics offerings next week. Later on, he also had the following ...

Palit GeForce GTS 450 Low Profile 1GB Video Card | Posted on: 15/10/2010 @ 11:24

Palit show us another GTS 450. This one's a little different coming in at only half the height of the standard model, which could be more accommodating for some.

Microsoft acquires patent for GPU video encoding | Posted on: 14/10/2010 @ 16:12

Microsoft looks to have acquired a trump now that it has been granted a patent for using graphics processors for encoding video. The patent was applied for six years ago and has been approved as late as last week.

Colorful iGame GTX 460 1 GB | Posted on: 14/10/2010 @ 4:00

Colorful's iGame GTX 460 uses a massive triple slot cooler with two fans to keep the card cool. It also offers overclocker-friendly features like a Turbo button or voltage measurement points. Out of the box the card runs at clocks of 820 MHz core and 1000 MHz memory making it one of the faster GTX 460 variants out there.

ECS GeForce GTS 450 1GB Black Edition Video Card Review | Posted on: 13/10/2010 @ 21:12

The ECS Black GeForce GTS 450 1GB PCI Express 2.0 video card comes with 192 CUDA cores that are factory overclocked to 850MHz on the core clock, which is a nice boot from the 783MHz used on the NVIDIA reference design. ECS didn't stop there though as they added a dual fan Arctic Cooling GPU cooling solution to make sure they card operates quietly and to ensure a long service life. Read on to see ...

Yeston builds Radeon HD 5770 X2 card | Posted on: 13/10/2010 @ 17:12

Taiwanese graphics card maker Yeston has presented a new and interesting solution using AMD's mid-range GPU Juniper. The company has installed two Radeon HD 5770 circuits and fitted them to the same circuit board together with 2GB GDDR5 memory. They call the card, simply Radeon HD 5770 X2.

Point of View launches water-cooled and overclocked GTX 480 | Posted on: 13/10/2010 @ 17:12

Point of view continues to send over circuits to TGT and it has now presented the latest creation. Point of View TGT GeForce GTX 480 Beast is a severely overclocked GTX 480 card with full-cover water block from Innovatek.

NVIDIA launches GeForce GT 430 for media PCs | Posted on: 13/10/2010 @ 16:36

NVIDIA has launched its latest graphics card and GeForce GT 430 is based on the slim GF108 GPU targeting media PCs. NVIDIA markets the card as a video and image editing card, but of course has gaming in mind too.

Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon HD 6850 benchmarked | Posted on: 13/10/2010 @ 16:12

AMD's launch of Radeon HD 6000 is getting close and in about two weeks we will see Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850 in stores. The leaks from Asia keep pouring out and now we have benhcmarks from 3DMark Vantage.

XFX breaks with NVIDIA - All AMD now | Posted on: 13/10/2010 @ 16:12

XFX Europe watched how AMD was gaining ground in 2008 and after further Fermi delays it decided to team up with the red camp. XFX quickly became a trump for AMD and a close partner, while NVIDIA felt betrayed and cooled down the relationship.

Radeon HD 6870 supports loads of monitors and 3D | Posted on: 13/10/2010 @ 15:12

Tomorrow NordicHardware will be in Los Angeles and cover AMD's launch of Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon HD 6850. New pictures of the top model reveal more about the expanded monitor support, where the standard model of HD 6870 can in theory support up to 10 monitors and 3D.

Microsoft Granted A Patent For GPU Video Decoding | Posted on: 13/10/2010 @ 2:00

Back in 2004 there was a US patent application from Microsoft entitled "Accelerated video encoding using a graphics processing unit" and as of this morning the patent has been approved by the USPTO. Will this now further complicate matters for the Linux graphics stack?..

GeForce GTS 450 pushed to 930 MHz by Gigabyte | Posted on: 12/10/2010 @ 21:00

Gigabyte GeForce GTS 450 OC2 is a new and overclocked model of NVIDIA's budget card GeForce GTS 450 and the company has really outdone itself when overclocking the card. The graphics circuit is tuned up to 930 MHz while the 1GB memory gets to sweat at 4000 MHz.

MSI N460GTX Cyclone - mod your way to world records | Posted on: 12/10/2010 @ 20:00

 NHOC  We often take a closer look at graphics cards and with MSI N460GTX Cyclone we found something really good. A mid-range card worthy of more special attention. There is a lot potential if you just pay it enough attention, and treated right it can do great things, even bring home GPU world records.

Elmor crushes Vantage world record with GTX 480 Lightning | Posted on: 12/10/2010 @ 18:36

Swedish overclocker Jon "elmor" Sandström has knocked down the elite of overclockers in the popular benchmark 3DMark Vantage. With a good Core i7 980X CPU and a MSI GTX 480 Lightning graphics card elmor crushed the world record in Perfomance preset with a single GPU.

ASUS ENGT430 Video Card Review | Posted on: 12/10/2010 @ 11:58

With the release of their Fermi architecture, NVIDIA has battled forward from a back-seat position to AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5000 series DX11 compatible video cards to once again regain the lead in GPU performance. When NVIDIA released the GTX480 video card, they reclaimed the top performance position, but the GPU had a lot of shortcomings, including extremely high operating temperatures and huge ...

ASUS ENGT430 GeForce GT 430 1GB DDR3 Video Card Review | Posted on: 11/10/2010 @ 23:12

NVIDIA has been been slowing been trickling out GeForce 400 series graphics cards since April 2010 when the company first launched the GeForce GTX 480. Today, NVIDIA is releasing another new DX11 graphics card, but this time around it is an entry level card with an MSRP of just $79.99. This is a very popular price point for video cards and one where NVIDIA has been lacking a DX11 offering for ...

ASUS GeForce GT 430 1GB | Posted on: 11/10/2010 @ 21:44

The GeForce GT 430 is a very small, low-power budget graphics card, marketed in the $70 range to consumers who are primarily interested in home media usage and light gaming. It's no graphics powerhouse, but it does look to offer some value-added features at a reasonable price, particuarly against the Radeon 5550, its main competition.

NVIDIA ASUS GeForce GT 430 graphics card review | Posted on: 11/10/2010 @ 21:24

The newest Fermi card gets taken for a spin by HEXUS.

NVIDIA's GeForce GT 430: The Next HTPC King? | Posted on: 11/10/2010 @ 21:12

It’s been 7 months since the launch of the first Fermi cards, and at long last we’re here: we’ve reached the end of the road on the Fermi launch. Today NVIDIA is launching the final GPU in the first-generation Fermi stack into the add-in card market, launching the GeForce GT 430 and the GF108 GPU that powers it. After months of launches and quite a bit of anticipation we have the complete ...

ZOTAC GeForce GT 430 1 GB | Posted on: 11/10/2010 @ 21:12

Today NVIDIA launches their new low-end GeForce GT 430 Series. The cards which are supposed to replace the GT 220 bring full DirectX 11 support to the table. Power consumption is also low which enables its use in media PC systems.

Review: EVGA GeForce GTX 460 1GB FTW Edition | Posted on: 11/10/2010 @ 20:12

In the GTX 460 FTW Edition EVGA has managed to create the fastest out-of-the-box GeForce GTX 460 on sale.We've seen many other versions of this fabulous graphics chip, from all the big guns like Asus, MSI and Zotac, and it has been an absolute performance hero across the board. EVGA itself has got several iterations even of just the 768MB version.Based on the reworked Fermi architecture, the GF ...

XFX bryter officiellt med NVIDIA - Full satsning på AMD | Posted on: 11/10/2010 @ 18:36

XFX Europe såg under 2008 hur AMD fick vind i seglen och efter ytterligare Fermi-förseningar beslutade sig grafikkortstillverkaren för att hoppa på det röda tåget. XFX blev snabbt ett trumfkort för AMD och en nära partner, medan NVIDIA direkt tog avstånd mot vad företaget såg som ett svek.

NVIDIA GTC 2010 Wrapup | Posted on: 10/10/2010 @ 14:36

Today we’re wrapping up our coverage of last month’s NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, including the show’s exhibit hall.  We came to GTC to get a better grasp on just where things are for NVIDIA still-fledging GPU compute efforts along with the wider industry as a whole, and we didn’t leave disappointed. Besides seeing some interesting demos – including the closest thing you’ll see ...

Zalman VF3000 Series VGA Coolers Rounded-Up for nVIDIA and ATI GPUs | Posted on: 08/10/2010 @ 13:48

ECS GeForce GTS 450 1GB Black Video Card | Posted on: 07/10/2010 @ 18:12

Today we see the Black treatment given to the ECS GTS 450. Let's skip the stock clocks and push it to its limits!

AVADirect Clevo X7200: Six Cores, SSD RAID, and GTX 480M SLI Yields World's Fastest DTR Notebook | Posted on: 07/10/2010 @ 12:36

The march of progress is inevitable, with faster computers constantly replacing last year's top performing parts. Clevo is a company with a heavy focus on Desktop Replacement (DTR) notebooks, often at the forefront of the latest performance enhancing parts. AVADirect is one of a few vendors that sells Clevo notebooks, letting customers choose the various components. In the past, Clevo has had ...

ASUS GeForce GTS 450 DirectCU TOP: Cool and Affordable | Posted on: 06/10/2010 @ 22:53

Filling up product range gaps used to be NVIDIA’s specialty. Almost as a rule, as soon as the strongest models from a new generation have surfaced on the market, users with pockets more shallow were offered a solution characterised by an excellent price/performance ratio. We believe that many will reminisce of cards such as GeForce 6600, 7600GS, 9600GTO etc. In this case, however, it has taken ...

KFA2 GeForce GTX 480 LTD OC Anarchy graphics card | Posted on: 06/10/2010 @ 15:00

A GeForce GTX 480 that's both cool and super-fast? Find out how KFA2 has achieved this feat.

NVIDIA's Best Buy GeForce GTX 460 1GB Video Card Overview | Posted on: 05/10/2010 @ 23:24

We got word late yesterday by a friend at NVIDIA that Best Buy had slipped up and released NVIDIA branded graphics cards on Sunday night. This is the first time that we have seen NVIDIA branded video cards being sold direct and we went to a few Best Buy stores in St. Louis and sure enough, we spotted the cards sitting on store shelves. We couldn't leave the store empty handed, so we bought the ...

Discrete graphics card will be around for 10 years more at least | Posted on: 05/10/2010 @ 22:00

Intel and AMD will in 2011 raise the stakes when it comes to integrated graphics circuits. The discussions on the "to-be-or-not-to-be" of discrete graphics cards have been unavoidable, but like we've stated in the past high-end graphics cards will be here for very long time, now "confirmed" by analysts.

GIGABYTE GeForce GTS 450 OC 1GB Video Card | Posted on: 05/10/2010 @ 10:48

We look at the GIGABYTE GTS 450 OC with the new Windforce cooler. Let's see how it performs.

MSI GTX 460 Hawk "Talon Attack" overclocks further | Posted on: 05/10/2010 @ 2:36

MSI launched an overclocked version of GeForce GTX 460 just recently. The graphics card named Hawk has received a sibling, Hawk "Talon Attack", that has been overclocked even more; 810 MHz GPU and 3900 MHz minne, which actually makes it faster than GeForce GTX 470.

ASUS ENGTS450 DirectCU TOP Video Card Review | Posted on: 04/10/2010 @ 23:57

Last month NVIDIA launched their new midrange video card: the GeForce GTS 450. Benchmark Reviews covered the launch with two articles focusing on single-card performance and SLI performance at reference clock speeds. In this review, we turn our attention to partner products. Specially, we take a look at an overclocked GTS 450 offered by ASUS. With a 925MHz core clock speed and DDR5 running at ...

NVIDIA Launches Quadro 2000 & Quadro 600 | Posted on: 04/10/2010 @ 21:00

This morning NVIDIA is announcing the rest of its Fermi-based Quadro family: the Quadro 2000 and the Quadro 600. Based on the GF106 and GF108 GPUs respectively, the 2000 and the 600 flesh out NVIDIA’s Quadro line for the mid-range and entry markets, focusing on Quadro’s traditional strengths in the professional graphics & CAD markets, and more recently on CUDA-accelerated professional ...

Gigabyte GeForce GT 430 appears | Posted on: 04/10/2010 @ 18:48

We have encountered new signs of life with NVIDIA's new budget graphics card GeForce GT 430 as a model from Gigabyte has been listed at an Austrian e-tailer costing around 70€. The card is based on the 40nm GF108 GPU that is expected to launch in October.

Gigabyte GeForce GT 430 visar upp sig i butiker | Posted on: 04/10/2010 @ 18:24

Vi har nu hittat nya livstecken på NVIDIA:s nya budgetgrafikkort GeForce GT 430 där en modell från Gigabyte blivit listad i en österrikisk webbutik med ett pris på motsvarande 700 kronor inklusive moms. Grafikkortet som baseras på den 40-nanometertillverkade GF108 grafikkretsen väntas lanseras senare i oktober.

ATI Radeon HD 5450 On Linux | Posted on: 04/10/2010 @ 14:36

While AMD soon will be introducing the Radeon HD 6000 graphics cards, there is still plenty of life left to the Radeon HD 5000 series especially for those interested in open-source support with the Evergreen GPUs finally being supported by the open-source driver stack complete with OpenGL acceleration via a Mesa driver and this support will continue to mature before there is the same level of ...

GIGABYTE X58A-UD9 Tested in Quad SLI w/ GTX 480 | Posted on: 04/10/2010 @ 11:36

Now that we know the GIGABTE X58A-UD9 can handle three-way SLI with the GTX 470, we find out if it can hang with the big dogs; a ravaging pack of GTX 480s in Quad SLI.

MSI squeeze in GeForce GTX 460M into gaming notebook | Posted on: 02/10/2010 @ 1:24

GeForce GTX 460 is flooding the graphics card market in a variety of format and MSIhas now made sure the mobile version of NVIDIA's GPU can be found in its notebooks. MSI GT663 focuses on gaming and comes with a whole lot of goodies.

ASUS GeForce GTX 480 Video Card Review | Posted on: 01/10/2010 @ 12:57

Benchmark Reviews: Nearly half a year since that launch of NVIDIA's GF100 Fermi GPU, the landscape has hardly changed. NVIDIA still sells the most powerful graphics processor made, and for a select few with money set aside for elite-level graphics the top-end GeForce GTX 480 video card still offers good reason for purchase. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the ASUS ENGTX480/2DI/1536MD5 ...

Zotac developing extreme GeForce GTX 460 card | Posted on: 01/10/2010 @ 1:48

GeForce GTX 460 looks like the dream for innovative graphics card makers and NVIDIA has really outdone itself with the popula mid-range card. Expreview has taken a closer look at an extreme model from Zotac where a bigger PCB has been paired with a giant 120mm fan.

Galaxy equips GeForce GTX 460 with wireless video technology | Posted on: 01/10/2010 @ 1:12

Galaxy is accustomed to releasing graphics cards with spectacular functions and odd designs. We now know what the special version of GeForce GTX 460 uses the extra mini-PCIe port for, to connect a WHDI module that can send out video signals wirelessly.

ME4ME pushes MSI GTX 480 Lightning to record high 1450 MHz | Posted on: 01/10/2010 @ 1:12

The overclocking team NHOC is moving up the ranks and we have seen several interesting results over the last week, and there is more coming. Henry "ME4ME" de Kruijf has given a preview, by overclocking MSI GeForce GTX 480 Lightning to 1450 MHz.