We will see if NVIDIA’s new GeForce GTX 580 has what it takes to compare to AMD’s Radeon HD 5970 2GB dual-GPU video card. These five apples-to-apples tests will reveal performance differences and memory limitations on the Radeon HD 5970 2GB. The Radeon HD 5970 is less expensive, so let’s where the chips fall. This [...]

There are times when manufacturers like to keep their latest product under wraps until the day of launch. Then there are times when a manufacturer has something they feel is so impressive that they just can’t help themselves and so they leak information on the product. A product which falls into the second category is [...]

Seen on numerous occasions and teaser videos as in either its prototype form or just plain CGI drawings, XFX seems to have finally made a working, ready for release iteration of its HD 5970 Black Edition 4 GB graphics card in its wacky retail packaging, which it hype-marketed through teaser videos. TweakPC got to lay [...]

After the launch of GF104 NVIDIA got a real opportunity to design a dual-processor graphics card with Fermi architecture that would offer acceptable thermal and electrical specs. Our today’s article will discuss the performance of a solution like that. As you know from our news and reviews, AMD’s superiority in the sector of single-processor gaming [...]

What do you think, what does the today’s fastest graphics accelerator lack? Of course, it is an efficient and quiet cooling system. The Swiss Arctic Cooling Company solved this problem. Find out how from our new review. Top-performance graphics cards have come to produce so much heat that developers of their reference cooling systems often [...]

I just want to say before I get started that what we’re doing today isn’t really practical in any sense of the word, except for the fact that it can be done. Before we really get into it, let’s just put into perspective what this is going to cost to set up. With the HD [...]

If you think that the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Editions cards are extreme, with their six mini DisplayPorts, then think again as PowerColor is working on a Radeon HD 5970 card with 12 (twelve) outputs. Seen below, PowerColor’s uber-Eyefinity HD 5970 model features 12 mini DisplayPorts that can power a maximum of 12 monitors, [...]

Back when the HD 5970 launched in November of 2009, it was the fastest video card on the planet. Fast forward almost 6 months and well, the HD 5970 is still the top dog when it comes to video cards. So what do you do to follow up the fastest video card on the planet? [...]

The other day we gave you a little bit of a sneak peek at the latest video card from Sapphire, the HD 5970 TOXIC 4GB. You can see it here. In that article we mentioned that we tend to leave previews to products we’ve seen at tradeshows or at the manufacturers headquarters. However, due to [...]

First spotted at the CeBIT event, the XFX Radeon HD 5970 Black Edition 4 GB graphics card is taking a new shape with the company redesigning its cooler. The older design borrowed heavily from AMD’s reference cooler design. Its CGI drawings were released to the press, although the real card with its older cooler was [...]

Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 claims GPU supremacy. The Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 carries the torch of the HD 5870, naming itself as the fastest graphics card ever. According to SlashGear, who saw it at CeBIT 2010, the card comes loaded with three cooling fans, 4GB of DDR3 memory running at 1,200MHz and an overclocked GPU [...]

The fastest graphics card in the world – this title is currently given to the Radeon HD 5970. But at the Cebit Asus shows the dual HD 5870 cad with two times 2 GiByte video memory which is supposed to conquer the throne. At the Cebit Asus presents the Ares, a dual GPU card with [...]

OverClockersClub – Arctic Cooling has unveiled its latest VGA cooling offerings: the Accelero  XTREME  5970 and Accelero  XTREME  5870. Both of the new Accelero  models are designed for their respective graphics card counterparts, the ATI Radeon  HD 5970 and 5870. Both models include three 92mm PWM fans which run at 900-2000 RPM, and produce 81CFM [...]

OverclockersClub – When it comes to gaming prowess, FPS is life, or so they say! At least that’s what my kid believes and since I get seriously pawned by him, despite the fact that my rig is the far more superior rig, I’m really not so sure. Maybe skill has something to do with it. [...]