The GeForce GTX 580 heralds a huge comeback by NVIDIA to deliver the best DX11 gaming experience. The fastest single-GPU performance, a cooler running GPU and quiet? Is this Fermi combination possible? We explore all of this as we compare it to the GeForce GTX 480 and Radeon HD 5870. Somewhat unexpected this soon, but [...]

Enter the GeForce GTX 580. If two weeks ago somebody told us that today NVIDIA would be hard-launching a new high-end graphics processor under a new product family (the GeForce GTX 500 series), we’d have laughed out loud. We were too busy looking in AMD’s direction for its new high-end GPU in the works, which [...]

NVIDIA came up with a new generation enthusiast-grade graphics card out of freaking nowhere. The GeForce GTX 580 is touted by its makers to be the single most powerful GPU, and an efficient GPU compared to the previous generation (if efficiency doesn’t matter to you, heat and fan-noise just might). Since the GTX 580 is [...]

It has been more than a year since nVidia revealed its new GPU architecture, called Fermi. The flagship GPU of the Fermi line, GF100, is a monster at more than 500 square millimeters and 3 billion transistors. Its size and complexity led to manufacturing problems that caused a six-month delay before it finally reached gamers [...]

Even before NVIDIA’s Fermi architecture made it into the hands of enthusiasts, it was being criticized on a number of fronts. From power consumption to supposed profit margins to how many chips could effectively be produced; speculation ran wild and for the most part NVIDIA proved their detractors wrong in the months following launch. Through [...]

It might be cliche to say it as this point, but despite the launch of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 480 and 470 cards offering the best performing single GPUs available at the time, there was a lot about the GF100 GPU that didn’t go as planned. First, it was late and left NVIDIA with a 6+ [...]

Advanced Micro Devices has just announced their new generation of ATI Radeon HD graphics architectures. Our today’s article will show whether they will turn out as successful as their predecessors. AMD and NVIDIA have been competing for the graphics card market for many years, an occasional lull only meaning that the fighters are preparing for [...]

AMD’s first video card in the new HD 6xxx series occupies a brand new position in the product hierarchy. The HD 5830 GPU only made economic sense if you had awful yields at the wafer fab, and the Cypress chip, with 334 square millimeters of silicon, is way too big for just 1120 shaders and [...]

Last month, AMD, which pioneered DirectX 11 compliant PC consumer graphics, released its second-generation Radeon HD 6800 DirectX 11 architecture, codenamed Northern Islands. The company has enjoyed a 6 month head-start into the race for DirectX 11 graphics hardware market dominance, which also reflected in both growth of market-share, and domination in sales. The time [...]

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 SOCWhen we look at NVIDIA anno 2010, the GeForce GTX 460 has to be the most interesting in terms of value for money with very acceptable decent thermals and power consumption. This is why we see a lot of SKUs released for this product, with a variety of cooling and factory [...]

A little over a year after the initial introduction of the Radeon HD 5770, PowerColor is still tweaking their take on what was then a revolutionary card for the mid-range price segment. Benchmark Reviews has the PowerColor AX5770 1GBD5-PPGV2 and has tested it’s performance against the mid-range offering from NVIDIA, the GeForce GTS 450. The [...]

NVIDIA landed an astounding blow to AMD last July pulling the GeForce GTX 460 out of nowhere and quickly taking the lead as the best mid-range graphics card on the market. It’s only been a few weeks since and the 768MB version of this card can now be had for as little as $170, crushing [...]

MSI GeForce GTX 480 LightningMSI a week or two ago finally launched their new GeForce GTX 480, this is the Lightning edition that has been pimped up and equipped for extreme overclocking, especially with sub-zero cooling like LN2, for the professional overclocking community actually. But for the regular enthusiasts who need to deal with petty [...]

You have to love competition. With the release of AMD’s affordable HD 6870 and 6850 graphics cards, the folks over at NVIDIA decided to respond with a move of their own. In case you missed it, the same day the Radeons launched, NVIDIA dropped the price of their mid-range GeForce products to gain a competitive [...]

Today we have a nice little roundup for you on a set of retail boxed AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB GDDR5 video cards from Diamond Multimedia, Sapphire and XFX. Also known as “Barts XT,” the Radeon HD 6870 has already had a successful launch even though it has only been on the market less than [...]

It was … hmm a week and a half ago since AMD released the Radeon HD 6800 series on the market, their answer against the GeForce GTX 460 series. They launched it with much success and the series seems to be another winning streak for AMD. All products thus far have been reference based though [...]

Sometimes a product is so good, there’s no reason to change a solid working design. VisionTek accepts this practice, and offers consumers the most affordable video cards sold on the market. In this article Benchmark Reviews tests the VisionTek Radeon HD 6870 video card, a $240 DirectX-11 graphics solution that performs better than the more [...]

With AMD’s release of their HD 6800 series, one heck of a shakeup has been delivered to the GPU market. With the HD 6870 arriving on store shelves at $240 and the HD 6850 making its mark with a price tag of just $180, things weren’t looking good for NVIDIA’s GTX 460 1GB. However, the [...]

Last week, AMD, which pioneered DirectX 11 compliant PC consumer graphics, released its second-generation Radeon HD 6800 DirectX 11 architecture, codenamed Northern Islands. The company has enjoyed a 6 month head-start into the race for DirectX 11 graphics hardware market dominance, which also reflected in both growth of market-share, and domination in sales. The time [...]

Change comes quickly when it comes to computers. Anyone with a computer a year or two old can tell you that. The last year has been all about DX11. Microsoft DirectX-11 has made video games for the PC look the best they ever have. For a while, there was quite a lull between video card [...]