New and notable graphics card manufacturer from the east, ColorFire, is ready with its Radeon HD 6790 graphics card, the Colorful associate brand is starting with a non-reference design card like every other AIB. Despite making some necessary cost-cutting in terms of components, ColorFire didn’t compromise on features such as dual-BIOS, hardware-based voltage control, and [...]

As stated above, HIS 6870 Fan Turbo 1GB GDDR5 HDMI/2xDVI/2xMini DP is a copy of the reference design described in detail here. But HIS 6850 Fan 1GB GDDR5 HDMI/2xDVI/DP bases on a custom layout. Memory chips remain at the same place, but power elements are relocated closer to outputs, making the graphics card a bit [...]

Concrete evidence of the upcoming arrival of a Radeon HD 6790 is now available thanks to AMD add-in board partner Sapphire who let slip a bunch of photos depicting the new mid-range card which is said to be powered by a ‘vanilla’ version of the Barts 40nm GPU. Sapphire’s Radeon HD 6790 features a blue [...]

March 2011 was certainly an interesting month for the high-end graphics card aficionados. First, AMD released the Radeon HD 6990 and merely two weeks later NVIDIA released their GeForce GTX 590. Both products each with pros and cons, but overall extremely fast products offering you a lot of performance, at a price of course. With [...]

On April 5, AMD will release its newest Radeon HD 6000 series GPU, which it has been largely secretive about. The new Radeon HD 6790 is designed to compete with NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 550 Ti. The HD 6790 is based on AMD’s 40 nm “Barts” GPU (on which are based HD 6850 and HD 6870). [...]

According to reviews, AMD dual-GPU Radeon HD 6990 is faster than NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590. The HD 6990 is faster but also louder. It doesn’t matter for AMD, as long as the HD 6990 is faster in 3DMark11… And of course for NVIDIA, the GTX 590 is the fastest card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 Is [...]

Awaited since, pretty much the end of 2010, MSI’s Lightning-struck GeForce GTX 580 and Radeon HD 6970 have today made their debut, claiming to be dream cards for overclockers and gamers who want to squeeze every bit of power out of their graphics card. The overclocking capabilities of both the R6970 Lightning and N580GTX Lightning [...]

TUL Corporation, a leading manufacturer of AMD graphics cards, today announces an advanced version of PCS+ HD6870: the PowerColor PCS++ HD6870. As an upgrade edition of award-winning PCS series, the latest product features with ultimate factory overclocked setting, clocks in at 975MHz core speed, while memory clocks in at 1150MHz, providing 8% better gaming performance [...]

There is always a constant and tough struggle for supremacy among the manufacturers of computer components like CPUs, graphics cards, system memory modules, coolers, etc. There is fierce competition in each price category, especially among top-end products. The graphics card market is a vivid example of that. Having the world’s fastest graphics card under one’s [...]

After it initial release, the AMD Radeon HD 6950 became the popular option that enthusiasts and gamers were considering the best bang for the buck if an upgrade to AMD’s latest generation of videocard was considered. Not only did it provide solid gaming performance with sufficient power to play even the newest games with above [...]

SAPPHIRE Technology has just announced the SAPPHIRE HD 6950 Flex Edition, bringing a new level of gaming performance to the company’s unique solution for multi-screen gaming. Most graphics cards based on AMD technology require the third monitor in an Eyefinity set-up to be a DisplayPort monitor, or connected with an active DisplayPort Adapter. The SAPPHIRE [...]

AMD worldwide developer relations manager of graphics Richard Huddy has blamed Microsoft’s DirectX for limiting the potential of GPUs in PCs. Current high-end PC GPUs can contain at least as many as 512 stream processors, which should significantly outperform the graphics capabilities of consoles like the Xbox 360 which only has 48 stream processors by [...]

AMD will create its upcoming Radeon HD 7000M graphics processors for notebooks on 28nm architecture, according to a leaked roadmap. Posted by Turkish site DonanimHaber, the roadmap also indicates the chip will be split into four families, codenamed Wimbledon, Heathrow, Chelsea and Thames. The first two will fall under the gamer/enthusiast category, using up more [...]

Sapphire is readying a new non-reference design AMD Radeon HD 6950 2 GB graphics card that boasts of superior out of the box display connectivity to the reference design. Called the Sapphire HD 6950 FleX Edition, the card features the same exact display output connector configuration as the reference design (two each of DVI and [...]

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. ASUSTeK Computer Inc. is [...]

There has been the same undisputed leader in the graphics cards market for almost eighteen months now. As with many good things, they all must come to an end or at least step aside in order to give way to the new generation. Sticking to its ‘premium products are of dual chip design’ dogma, AMD [...]

AMD introduced its first Radeon HD 6000 graphics card last October, when we reviewed the mid-range Radeon HD 6870. Since then AMD opened up to show its GPU roadmap and the cards that soon thereafter were coming to market. The high-end Radeon HD 6970 and HD 6950 also arrived late last year, while the dual-GPU [...]

Several months late and supposedly only a couple of weeks ahead of NVIDIA’s own dual-GPU flagship launch, AMD’s Radeon HD 6990 has no trouble establishing performance superiority. But does speed at any cost sacrifice too much of the user experience? In drag racing, they say ‘a chase is a race.’ In other words, if you [...]

Gigabyte unveiled its latest high-end graphics card, the Radeon HD 6970 WindForce 3X. Based entirely on an in-house design, the card uses a Ultra Durable VGA+ PCB that makes use of 2 oz copper layers, and high-grade chokes, MOSFETs, and capacitors. Cooling is care of Gigabyte’s workhorse high-end VGA cooler, the WindForce 3X. It makes [...]

I’ll be blunt: the AMD Radeon HD 6990 is a beast. Soundly outpacing the best that NVIDIA has to offer (at the moment), this dual-GPU juggernaut — previously codenamed “Antilles” — clambers to the top of our graphics card heap by serving up the most raw power we’ve seen to date. But then there’s the [...]