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Best Graphics Cards for Money: February 2012 (Buyer’s Guide)

Buyer’s guide for February 2012. Updated with newest AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce cards. Which is the best graphics cards for money this month? We have included the newest AMD card – Radeon HD 7970 and 7950, which have taken GeForce GTX 580 and ASUS MARS II position. $110 €80 Radeon HD 6770 1GB GDDR5 [...]

HIS Announces its Radeon HD 7950 Graphics Card

HIS Announces its Radeon HD 7950 Graphics Card

Hightech Information System (HIS) today announced the launch of HIS 7950 3GB. The card provides a budget choice for keen gamers who wish to experience the latest 7900 series. With a clock rate of 800 MHz, memory clock of 5.0 Gbps as well as a 384-bit memory interface, the HIS 7950 3GB offers top-class performances [...]

VTX3D Releases Radeon HD 7950 (VTX3D HD7950)

VTX3D Releases Radeon HD 7950 (VTX3D HD7950)

VTX3D, a leading manufacturer of AMD based graphics products, is proud to announce the release of the brand-new HD7900 GPU based model, VTX3D HD7950, with higher performance and new features. VTX3D HD7950 is designed to work perfectly with the latest PCI Express 3.0 bus architecture, delivering double bandwidth per lane compares to previous generation. Enhanced [...]

Lenovo Releases IdeaPad Y470p with Radeon HD 7690

Lenovo Releases IdeaPad Y470p with Radeon HD 7690

Lenovo has released new IdeaPad model with Radeon HD 7690. This card is actually a rebranded Radeon HD 6770 with overclocked memory clock by 100MHz. IDEAPAD Y470: High-performance mobile multimedia magic. Up to Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium OS. Up to 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i7 processor. Fun is clever technology that helps you enjoy, [...]

Lesance Releases Notebook with GeForce GT 630M

Lesance Releases Notebook with GeForce GT 630M

Japanese company Lesance has relesed the first notebook with GeForce 600 Series card. Before you start wondering why there was no information about GeForce 600 Series relase it is worth mentioning that GeForce GT 630M is actually refreshed GeForce GT 540M. Notebook Lesance BTO GSN721GW TYPE-GX features 17 inch monitor supported with GeForce GT 630M. [...]

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Specification Partially Leaked?

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Specification Partially Leaked?

Russian portal OCLAB has posted a leaked gpu-z screenshot with GeForce GTX 680 specification. The only readable information are CUDA cores count, memory size and memory bus width. Yesterday Chiphell informed that NVIDIA’s employee was posting multiple ‘leaked’ information on their forums. Chphell accused NVIDIA of using marketing shills to spread anti-AMD rhetoric. This does [...]

Radeon HD 7950 Listed in Europe, XFX and Gigabyte Radeon HD 7950 Pictured

Radeon HD 7950 Listed in Europe, XFX and Gigabyte Radeon HD 7950 Pictured

Only a few days left to Radeon HD 7950 release date. Multiple online stores are already preparing for orders by listing new AMD card. Gigabyte Radeon HD7950 3GB DDR5/384bit DVI/HDMI/mDP PCI-Express (GV-R795W3-3GD) Core Clock 900 MHz Memory Clock 5000 MHz AMD Radeon HD 7950 3072MB GDDR5 DVI-I HDMI Mini DisplayPort, PCI-E Retail Core Clock 800 [...]

3DMark 11 World Record Set By MSI X79A-GD65 (8D)

3DMark 11 World Record Set By MSI X79A-GD65 (8D)

Futuremark® today announced the winners of its latest overclocking contest, sponsored by MSI, Kingston, Enermax and Cougar. Singapore overclocker Spyboy48 emerged with the best score that is now the official world record for 3DMark 11 Physics score. The new record score, 19 090, set with an Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition processor and MSI X79A-GD65 [...]

AMD Radeon HD7000M Series to be Released in Q2

AMD Radeon HD7000M Series to be Released in Q2

Earlier this week, AMD has officially released first graphics card from Radeon HD 7000 Series. Radeon HD 7970 was actually released in late December, but it is available just know for every enthusiast. Is is the fastest single core graphics card, with a huge overclocking potential, so it will find many owners. AMD has not [...]

Gigabyte Releases Radeon HD 7970

Gigabyte Releases Radeon HD 7970

Gigabyte hopped into the Radeon HD 7970 launch bandwagon with a base-model graphics card, the GV-R797D5-3GD-B. The custom-design GV-R797OC-3GD isn’t launched so far, doesn’t feature on the company website, and will probably join its ranks a little later, since it appeared to be using a custom-design PCB, something no card launched so far has. The [...]

VTX3D Launches its Radeon HD 7970 3GB

VTX3D Launches its Radeon HD 7970 3GB

VERTEX3D, a leading manufacturer of AMD based graphics products, is proud to announce brand-new HD7900 models, VTX3D HD7970, with higher performance and new features. HD7970 is designed to work perfectly with the latest PCI Express 3.0 bus architecture, delivering double bandwidth per lane compares to previous generation. Enhanced DirectX 11.1 version boosts up the speed [...]

HIS Unveils its Radeon HD 7970

HIS Unveils its Radeon HD 7970

Hightech Information System (HIS) today announced the launch of HIS 7970 3GB. The card is the world’s first 28nm GPU graphics card, pushing the graphics experiences to an unrivalled level! With a clock rate of 925 MHz, memory clock of 5.5 Gbps as well as a 384-bit memory interface, this new 7000 series HIS 7970 [...]

PowerColor Announces its Radeon HD 7970

PowerColor Announces its Radeon HD 7970

TUL Corporation, a leading manufacturer of AMD graphic cards, today announces a breathtaking graphics solution: the PowerColor HD7970. Based on the 28nm GCN architecture, HD7970 enables the absurdly high frame rates at demanding setting while using less power and better transistor efficiency, maximizes the most astonishing gaming performance like never before. Clocks at 925MHz core [...]

AMD Releases Radeon HD 7670 to OEMs

AMD Releases Radeon HD 7670 to OEMs

It is four days till AMD releases their new Radeon HD 7970 graphics card on annual CES gadget-fest in Las Vegas. But AMD has prepared another card even before the event. If you remember Radeon HD 6670 graphics card, then you should probably stop reading this post at this point. AMD has rebranded HD 6670 [...]

Radeon HD 7770 Pictured (Again) and Tested

Radeon HD 7770 Pictured (Again) and Tested

Thanks to recognized Chiphell member BigPao007, we can see how Radeon HD 7770 looks in detail, yet again. Radeon HD 7770 is based on Cape Verde XT core which is 164 square millimeters in size. It features 896 stream processors and 56 texture units. It also has 16 raster operating units. It is build to [...]

Club3D Prepares Radeon HD 7970

Club3D Prepares Radeon HD 7970

Club3D is preparing their newest graphics card which is Radeon HD 7970 with 3GB of memory. The sale of CLUB3D Radeon HD 7970 is to begin on January 9th, in terms of both design and technical features remains the same as AMD’s reference card. New Radeon has DirectX 11.1 support, was build in 28nm process [...]

PCI Express 3.0 Has Zero Performance Incentive for Radeon HD 7970: Tests

PCI Express 3.0 Has Zero Performance Incentive for Radeon HD 7970: Tests

Over the last few months, motherboard manufacturers have been raising a big hoopla over how it’s important to pick their products that feature PCI Express 3.0 (Gen 3.0) slots. There was even some drama between competing motherboard manufacturers over who was first to the market with this technology, even when consumers couldn’t really make use [...]

AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB Review @ PCPerspective

AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB Review @ PCPerspective

It is going to be an exciting 2012. Both AMD and NVIDIA are going to be bringing gamers entirely new GPU architectures, Intel has Ivy Bridge up its sleeve and the CPU side of AMD is looking forward to the introduction of the Piledriver lineup. Today though we end 2011 with the official introduction of [...]

AMD Radeon HD 7970 Review @ HardwareHeaven

AMD Radeon HD 7970 Review @ HardwareHeaven

In the graphics card industry rarely does 6 months go by when there isn’t a significant new release from either AMD or NVIDIA but over the last 12 months we have seen little new from either manufacturer, especially in the high end. That all changes today though with AMD’s launch of the Radeon HD 7970, [...]

AMD Radeon HD 7970 Review @ techPowerUp

AMD Radeon HD 7970 Review @ techPowerUp

Out with the old, in with the new. Let’s welcome the newest kid on the block, the Radeon HD 7970, part of AMD’s spanking new Southern Islands GPU family. This card is the industry’s first with a few things, it uses the first ever high-performance GPU built on the 28 nanometer silicon fabrication process; Radeon [...]