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GTX 480 and GTX 470 were the first Fermi cards to hit the market, but Nvidia recently followed them up with the third Fermi GF100-based card dubbed the GTX 465. The name suggests that the card is slower than both of its predecessors and the fact that it’s put up against AMD’s HD 5850 proves that it’s a mid-range gaming oriented card. The card arrived with a MSRP of $279 and it’s Nvidia’s first more affordable DirectX 11 card.

Our friends from Gainward sent us their GTX 465 Good, which should offer better overclocking performance, quieter operation at equal or lower price than the reference GTX 465. Read more…

Featuring 352 CUDA Cores and support for DirectX 11, PhysX, SLI, CUDA and 3D Vision Surround, the new GTX 465 is also the most affordable GF100 based graphics card with it US $279 price tag.As noted, the GTX 465 features 352 CUDA Cores and works at 607MHz for the core and 1215MHz for the shaders. It has 1GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 3206MHz and paired up with a 256-bit memory interface. The card still needs two 6-pin PCI-Express power connectors and has a 200W TDP. The new GTX 465 looks a lot like the GTX 470 and it still uses the dual-slot cooler and feature two dual-DVI and an HDMI output.

We tested Gainward’s card dubbed the GTX 465 Good, which comes with non-reference, twin-fan cooling. The second card, on the picture below, is Gainward’s GTX 470 which, unlike our today’s test sample, closely resembles the reference card. Read more…

Our today’s review features Gainward GTX 480, currently the fastest single GPU graphics card. Of course, we’re talking about a Fermi GF100-based card announced about a month ago. Fermi is the family name for the latest generation of GPUs from NVIDIA, and naturally comes with DirectX 11 support.

The first Fermi derivative is the GF100 GPU – NVIDIA’s internal code name for the first Fermi based chip that is used for the high end GTX 480 and GTX 470 cards. With about 3.2 billion transistors in 40nm, GF100 is the largest graphics processor ever to be announced (AMD’s RV870, which is used in the ATI Radeon HD 5870, is comprised of roughly 2.15 billion transistors)

Gainward’s GTX 480 card runs at reference clocks, just like the rest of the GTX 480 pack we’ve seen so far.Unlike ATI, this is the first time NVIDIA used GDDR5 memory on its high-end cards whereas the red team resorted to that a couple of years ago. Gainward’s GTX 480 packs 1536MB of memory. Read more…

A “GOOD” news announced by Gainward, a leading brand in enthusiastic graphics cards, keeps its glorious traditions, redefines performance by release of Gainward Optimized Own Design (GOOD). Gainward races against competitions and develops the market first own designed GeForce GTX 470 “GOOD” Edition with “Gamer’s Spirit” in mind. The card received optimized circuit layout on a longer PCB (10.5 inches to NVIDIA reference 9.5 inches), which enables better overclockability owing to plentiful PWM power modules with rugged solid-state components on better ground, also allows to accommodate larger heat-pipes cooler with dual 8 cm double bearing fans, which improved thermal characteristics and significantly reduced noise at full load. Even better, the card is geared with “QuattroPorts” integrated 4 ports in 1 including DisplayPort, HDMI 1.3a (upgradeable to HDMI 1.4 support for 3D format with upcoming NVIDIA 3DTV Play) & Dual DVIs, fulfill universal connectivity for diverse displays. Read more…

Gainward is among the first companies to bring Fermi-based graphics cards to Europe, and we simply couldn’t resist the urge to show you some preliminary results. We’re talking about two cards – 480 GTX and 470 GTX. Both cards run at reference clocks, but perhaps the most important piece of info is that the cards will soon be available in greater numbers.

The first card we’ll show you is Gainward’s 480 GTX, where the card’s full name is GTX480 1536M GDD5 348B Dual-DVI mHDMI.

As you can see, the card comes with reference cooling. Not much to say here, except that the cooler will keep the GPU below 97°C in 3D and at about 65°C in idle mode. Read more…

Gainward GTX 480 will be bundled with Super LoiLoScope
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NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 may be a lot of things, good and not so much, according to reviewers, but they most certainly have a technology that will make them very well suited for use by professionals in the field of video making and converting.

Known as the NVIDIA CUDA technology, this ability lets video adapters easily handle and accomplish video conversions and other such sophisticated tasks. In such applications, however, the adapters require a piece of software that can match their own skills. To provide a complete solution, Gainward has partnered with Japanese company LoiLo and will bundle a trial version of the Super LoiLoScope video editing software with its latest NVIDIA-based products. Read more…

NVIDIA today announced the introduction of GeForce GTX 275. Based on the GT200 architecture, reference model GeForce GTX 275 is equipped with over-clocked GPU 633MHz, 240 stream processors (1404 MHz), 80 texture processing units, 448-bit bus and 896 MB of graphics memory. In terms of price and output device may be pozycjonować between the GeForce GTX 260 and GeForce GTX 285 – which certainly is not a surprise to the interested topic.

The main advantages of the product:

• Support for NVIDIA PhysX technology for interactive experiences during the game
• NVIDIA CUDA akcelerowanych hardware for the most demanding applications
• Supports NVIDIA 3D Vision for the rest of the game without engaging in stereoskopowym 3D
• Ready to operate Windows 7
• Support for new driver GeForce Release 185 to ensure optimum performance and functionality, including the possibility of setting a new method of shading Ambient occlusion
• GeForce GTX 275 is placed along with the new GeForce pakietiem Power Pack # 3, offering users a range of new GeForce card, the effects of free PhysX and CUDA functions.

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Gainward has decided to add something to your special offers – the graphics card Radeon HD 4850 Golden Sample Goes Like Hell. As perhaps the only market it will be equipped with 512 MB GDDR5 memory. Radeon HD 4850 have not been combined with GDDR3 modules, and assembled in the GDDR5 HD 4870.

Graphics processor in the new card will clock timings, 700 MHz, a memory – 3600 MHz. As a result, the total efficiency should be slightly lower than the reference HD 4870. Golden Sample GLH will be equipped with DisplayPort connectors, DVI, HDMI and D-Sub.

Price  of Gainward’s new card is not yet known.

Gainward has also hold the graphics card based on GeForce GTS system 250. The system will be characterized by copyright PCB design and cooling system niereferencyjnym.

Card will be sold in two versions – with 512 MB or 1 GB of graphics memory. GPU clock frequency is set to 745 MHz while the memory modules “meet” at a speed of 2200 MHz. Gainward GTS 250 will be sold at a price about 130 Euro. Read more…

Gainward informed that it will soon offer video cards will be extended to not reference version of the GeForce GTX 260 – Golden Sample marked. This is a twin structure model GTX 260 from Palit Sonic.

The new GTX 260 is not surprising since Gainwards equipment. It has a 55nm GPU with 216 stream processors made, 896MB memory and a standard set of DDR3 video connectors – 2 x DVI + HDTV. Clock timing is as follows: 620MHz core and 2200MHz for the memory (576MHz and 1998MHz standard). Responsible for cooling dualslot cooler with two fans.

We do not know anything yet about the price of cards

Our today’s guest is GeForce GTX 285, yet another card with a 55nm GPU. The recently announced GTX 295 card also features a 55nm GPU, as is the case with many other NVIDIA cards such as the GTX 260 with 216 shaders. NVIDIA opted for a silent approach, where the cards would get a new chip and retain the name without making a big fuss about it, but GeForce GTX 285 couldn’t retain the name as it was clocked higher than GTX 280.

GeForce GTX 280 has so far been the fastest single GPU NVIDIA card running at 602MHz for the core and it packed a 65nm GT200 chip. The following picture shows the GTX 285 and the GTX 280 head to head. Gainward’s new card runs at reference core speed – 648MHz.

Although they appear to be somewhat identical, there’re a couple of things that will help you tell GTX 285 and GTX 280 cards apart. From this point of view we can see that GTX 285’s doesn’t feature protective rubber caps on SLI connectors, which is just fine as they weren’t needed in the first place except for better looking.

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As fun as overclocking is, it does manage to take up a fair bit of time. But every once and a while a product will come along that we feel really deserves a good amount of time put into it to find those perfect clock speeds.

<a href=’http://www.tweaktown.com/phpadsnew/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a695f25f’ target=’_blank’><img src=’http://www.tweaktown.com/phpadsnew/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=186&n=a695f25f’ border=’0′ alt=” /></a>Last year it was the Q6600; we wanted to get it to 4GHz and we did. We also had that lovely new i7 CPU known as the 920 which overclocks so well. This year we’re getting into it early, though, thanks to NVIDIA. The GTX 295 is to date the fastest single graphics card you can purchase. We found this out when reviewing the Gainward card earlier today.

While some would say “why bother overclocking something so fast?” – We reply with “why not?!” – The particular card of choice is the Gainward card we’ve already looked at. The overclocking software of choice? – Well, we thought we would try out the Expertool software that Gainward offered on their utility CD that came with the card. The clocks? – Well, you will just have to turn over to the next page to find that one out.

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1708/nvidia_s_geforce_gtx_295_overclocked/index.html

This article was exciting to do for two reasons; the first was of course the fact that we were going to just see how powerful two of the fastest graphics cards on the market would perform when put together. This in total gave us four GPUs to play with across two cards and what this results in is a bucket load of power.

<a href=’http://www.tweaktown.com/phpadsnew/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a695f25f’ target=’_blank’><img src=’http://www.tweaktown.com/phpadsnew/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=186&n=a695f25f’ border=’0′ alt=” /></a>The second reason was that I would finally get a chance to take SLI for a spin on the newly built testbed. It’s really been ages since I’ve had the ability to test SLI on my main testbed. It was great that the X58 closed that gap where we no longer need one motherboard for Crossfire and another for SLI.

We were fortunate enough to receive a GTX 295 sample from both GIGABYTE and Gainward, so with two cards in hand and a motherboard that supported SLI, we wanted to see some Quad SLI goodness, if not just for our readers.

The GTX 295 is impressive, but Quad SLI can really show a card and drivers’ faults, so let’s get straight into our test system and the results.

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1707/nvidia_s_geforce_gtx_295_in_quad_sli/index.html

Launch of nVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 280 brought a huge enthusiasm in last two months, but it already begun to fade. The main “culprit” is ATi which showed to all of us that even when hard times come they are continuing with good work as if competition isn’t a problem and as confirmation of their efforts we got incredible new generation of graphics cards. The whole story started with great Radeon HD 4850 and continued with HD 4870 that had GDDR5 memory. After great critics for these two GPUs, ATi was aware that they shouldn’t stop there, if they want to overthrown nVIDIA from the top performance throne. And they did

You can bet that ATi learned lessons with Radeon HD 3870X2 and introduced Radeon HD 4870X2. ATi really did great job, so great that several former nVIDIA exclusive brands like Gainward start with production of graphics cards based on ATi GPUs, while many of them for the first time will take in consideration that possibility. These new actions show not only that ATi can compete with nVIDIA but also how much nVIDIA is threatened by ATi.

• http://www.insidehw.com/Reviews/Graphics-cards/ATi-Radeon-HD-4870-X2.html

Gainward graphics card manufacturer decided to advertise its new Radeony HD 4850, 4870 and 4870 X2 in the world as the old way – in the charming company. Pretty good idea, because that komputerowiec would not look good on a piece of equipment, so to speak on the occasion, a nice girl.

Although today such ads may be received negatively by some members, as brazen, in the near future in the hands sitter dzierżąca efficient hardware will probably something as natural as the girl advertising fast cars.

Below is the new image advertising Gainward. Read more…

Good news for all lovers of ATI / AMD. Working closely with the company introduced the modified Gainward Radeon HD 4850. The model is called the Radeon HD 4850 Golden Sample. RV770 graphic core processor to be brought up to 700MHz (625MHz Reference), in turn, 512MB memory GDDR3 operates at a frequency 2000MHz.

The Charter was equipped with cooling dwuslotowe based, inter alia, Two copper tubes Heatpipe and slightly modified housing. According to the assurances it is allowed to maintain cards in the appropriate cool temperature. Other information in as support for DirectX 10.1 support CrossFireX or PCI-Express 2.0 but does not require comment, because they are common to all papers of this series.

Now it is not known when the Golden Sample will appear in przedaży and what will be its price. You can, however, that in some East Asian stores card will appear as early as the end of this month.

The manufacturer announced today the introduction of three new sales graphics processor with GeForce 9, providing support for NVIDIA PhysX and calculations in parallel CUDA general-purpose computers in the middle class. The new GeForce 9800 graphics processors GTX, 9800 GT and 9500 GT offer a unique graphic quality, efficiency and compatibility with applications, as well as support for NVIDIA SLI, a leading industry solution which allows the use of multiple processors, graphics and gaming platforms for enthusiasts, available in different ranges price.

“The introduction of new graphics processor 9800 GTX, 9800 GT and 9500 GT graphics-processing capacity increases in computer class,” said Ujesh Desai, head of the graphics processor for desktop computers in a company NVIDIA “NVIDIA graphics processing units provide the greatest potential at its price at any price category, and thanks to use CUDA, PhysX and stereoscopic 3D technology, customers can now use a unique, innovative capabilities, which offers only NVIDIA. ”
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GeForce 8800 GT card, which appeared on the market several days ago, members podbiły heart. Their high performance, often exceeding the performance of expensive and topowych 8800 Ultra, in conjunction with the price of gold around 1000, has resulted in substantial confusion. However, a feature of most cards to onboard 8800 GT was active cooling systems, which may discourage some, noise-sensitive users.

Concern Gainward decided to fill this gap in the market and get their version of the card GeForce 8800 GT with passive cooling. As you can see in the pictures, together with the radiator thermal tubes is considerable size and najprawdopobniej will require good air circulation in the body. In addition to passive cooling, the card is also equipped with 512 MB of memory DDR3. It should appear on the market soon.

NVIDIA today has officially presented its fastest GPU GeForce 8800 Ultra. The new cards based on a GeForce 8800 Ultra to be faster on average from 10 to 15% lower than the standard series GeForce 8800 GTX, now considered to be the fastest GPU on the planet.

8800 Ultra is not, however, nothing extraordinary offer nVidia. In fact, the tab even higher frequencies, GPU could have been for some time to find offered by Asus – GeForce 8800 GTX AquaTank typically strong is the frequency 630/1030 MHz.

The specification of the new system:
# Number of Stream Processors: 128 (unchanged)
# GPU clock: 612 MHz (575MHz in the 8800 GTX)
# Shader frequency (ext): 1500 MHz
# Memory frequency: 1080 MHz (900 MHz in the 8800 GTX)
# Amount of memory on the card: 768MB of GDDR3 (unchanged)
# Latitude railhead data memory: 384-bit (unchanged)
# Bandwidth memory: 103.7 GB / sec.
# The rate of filling (Texture Fill Rate): 39.2 billion / sec.

The only change in relation to the series 8800 GTX, are higher GPU and memory clocks, which provide higher performance carry out the card and przeputowość memory.

Graphics cards equipped with a GPU NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra, and 768 MB of video memory will be available in the global network of sales from 15 May 2007 premiere of the partners of NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra, for example, Company Asus, BFG, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision, Leadtek, MSI, PNY, Point of View, Sparkle and XFX.

New NVIDIA GTX 200 graphics architecture is just as interesting as the recently announced ATI Radeon HD 4800 that is why it deserves thorough and detailed discussion. Today we are going to talk about the results of synthetic benchmarks obtained from Gainward GeForce GTX 280 and Leadtek GeForce GTX 260.

We have already discussed in detail ATI’s strategy: they decided not to focus on high-performance monolithic GPUs and instead bet on the relatively inexpensive mainstream graphics solutions. And it has totally paid back (for details see our article called ATI Radeon HD 4800 Graphics Architecture: Long Anticipated Revenge?). Today we should pay special attention to a completely opposite approach to winning the market suggested by NVIDIA and find out if they made the right bet.

• http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/geforce-gtx200-theory.html