EVGA made finally released a backplate accessory for NVIDIA’s reference-design GeForce GTX 560 Ti graphics cards. Priced at $20, the backplate is made of brushed metal. It helps reduce PCB bending by reinforcing it, as well as helps with heat dissipation. Then there’s the obvious aesthetic lift it gives to your rig by covering up [...]

NVIDIA saw its share in the discrete notebook graphics card market edge up 8.9pp to 50.6% in the second quarter of 2011, with the ratio likely to continue to move up in the third quarter as Asustek Computer, Clevo and Micro-Star International (MSI) are scheduled to launch more GeForce 500M-based notebooks soon, according to industry [...]

NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today reported revenue of $1.02 billion for the second quarter of fiscal 2012 ended July 31, 2011, up 5.7 percent from the prior quarter, and up 25.3 percent from $811.2 million in the same period a year earlier. On a GAAP basis, the company recorded net income of $151.6 million, or $0.25 [...]

NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 580 is a beast of a card, able to reach 80°C with minimal effort. So what about those who value high performance along with silence? There are some options, such as Zalman’s VF3000F after-market cooler. But with it requiring three slots in your PC, and $75 from your wallet, can it deem [...]

The SAPPHIRE HD6970 BFBC2: Vietnam Special Edition will be competing with NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 570 and NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 580. We overclock the SAPPHIRE HD6970 BFBC2:V Special Edition using SAPPHIRE TriXX Tweak Utility and voltage tweaking to see how it can compare to the more expensive GTX 580. Sapphire Technology is a well-known company based [...]

NVIDIA has recently detailed its plans regarding the launch of the next-generation Kepler GPU architecture, letting us know that the first products based on these designs won’t actually arrive into the retail channel until 2012. According to an NVIDIA representative, the company is scheduled to receive early silicon by the end of this year, but [...]

Buyer’s guide for August 2011. Updated with newest AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce cards. Which is the best graphics cards for money this month? Radeon HD 5670 512MB GDDR3, Radeon HD 6770 1GB GDDR5, Radeon HD 6790 1GB GDDR5, Radeon HD 6850 1GB GDDR5, GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB GDDR5, GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5, [...]

Gigabyte is best known for its blue motherboards, undoubtedly some of the best in the business, however depending on where you live you will have noticed these days they offer a multitude of other products from mobile phones to computer mice. Their graphics card division has emerged as a top contender in recent years, whether [...]

NVIDIA’s Kepler GPU (GeForce 600 series) will arrive by the end of the year according to xbitlabs. NVIDIA Corp. said at a recent event that it would start shipping its next-generation graphics processing units (GPU) code-named Kepler by the end of the year. The company did not say that the new chips will actually become [...]

NVIDIA-exclusive graphics card maker Zotac, in collaboration with CoolIT, has introduced a couple of products that surely go great with these hot summer nights, the liquid-cooled GeForce GTX 580 Infinity Edition, and the Omni water-cooling upgrade kit. Seen below, the GeForce GTX 580 Infinity Edition comes equipped with CoolIT’s Omni self-contained water-cooling system, and features [...]

Our today’s review is devoted to a unique graphics card that combines two AMD Barts XT processors designed for mainstream products, but nevertheless demonstrates exceptionally high level of performance. Perhaps the main reason why AMD and NVIDIA develop dual-processor graphics cards is that they want to emphasize their superiority over the competitor, so such products [...]

ASUS ENGTX560 Ti DirectCU II TOP is on our test bench today, and we overclock it until it screams. We’re see if this video card can match the performance of a Radeon HD 6950. Will the voltage tweaking provided by ASUS give it enough boost to make it worth the purchase? We will find out. [...]

You know, when ATI released Eyefinity a year or two ago NVIDIA was taken by surprise, I mean .. pants down and everything. What I found surprising is that NVIDIA never really adapted to some sort of Eyefinity for their single graphics card solutions Sure, they have Surround view mode, but it requires two graphics [...]

According to statistics from Steam, sub-$200 graphics cards from the value and mainstream segments are currently the most popular products among computer users. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 demonstrates the best growth dynamics of all graphics cards supporting DirectX 11 API. While this product was launched only in May, its sales volumes have already exceeded those [...]

Following a few teasers and sneaks peeks, EVGA has now delivered a proper introduction for its GeForce GTX 570 Classified graphics card which is equipped with a stock NVIDIA cooler but has everything else customized. The new Classified card features a 10-player PCB, 6-phase digital PWM, voltage read points, 480 CUDA Cores, GPU/shader clocks of [...]

NVIDIA had a big partner thing in Lisbon Portugal and some key people even talked about 28nm chips and have confirmed that some of NVIDIA’s 28nm notebook chips are almost ready for production even today. Far East sources are confirming this independently. The yields are the factor that will decide when wills this actually happen [...]

Asus’ recently-introduced ROG Matrix GTX 580 graphics card is about to get some serious competition from EVGA who’s preparing the release of its own highly-customized and overclocking-craving GeForce GTX 580 model. Known as GeForce GTX 580 Classified, EVGA’s incoming card features an ‘expansive’ PCB (it’s taller than normal to accommodate extra, high-end components), a dual-slot, [...]

Today we are going to be looking at an add-in-board partners version of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 video card that might be worth your hard earned money. The card we are looking at today is made by Gigabyte and has the GPU core clock and shaders factory overclocked, so you get an extra performance [...]

The product for review today was pending in our queue for a while now, as such it is already available on the Market, yes yes. The GTX 560 Ti HAWK edition has arrived to the scene, and dang… it’s really good! After the initial launch reference reviews NVIDIA’s partners released more customized solutions onto the [...]

Two MSI N580GTX Lightning XE 3GB video cards in SLI! Tested in NV Surround. We are going to find out if these 3GB video cards hold an advantage over two GeForce GTX 580′s and two Radeon HD 6970′s. This is the most VRAM per video card we have ever gamed with. We test with seven [...]