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Friday, November 20, 2009
- 10:11 pm | ATI Seeks Its Best to Ensure More Radeon HD 5-Series Supplies – Company. Additional Number of DirectX 11 Graphics Boards is Incoming
Thursday, November 19, 2009
- 7:32 pm | Galaxy Technology to Release Graphics Card to Rival Asus Mars – Rumour. Galaxy’s New “Masterpeace” is Dual-GPU GeForce GTX 285
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
- 3:07 pm | ATI Launches New Dual-Chip Flagship Graphics Solution. ATI Releases Radeon HD 5970 Graphics Card
- 7:21 am | Nvidia Shows Off GeForce “Fermi” Graphics Card Rendering DirectX 11 Benchmark. Nvidia Shows Image of Working GeForce “Fermi” Graphics Board
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
- 3:16 pm | Intel to Release Version of Nehalem-EX Chip for Super Computers. Intel to Launch HPC-Optimized Nehalem-EX Processor
- 11:50 am | Nvidia to Begin Shipments of Next-Generation Tesla “Fermi” Cards in Q2 2010. Nvidia Announces Next-Gen Tesla Solutions for HPC Markets
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As it has been initially planned, AMD has just launched a new member in their ATI Radeon HD 5x00 family. This time it is a solution for those users who need ultimate performance at any price.
What will happen if we take the fastest single-chip graphics cards and put them into a CrossFireX configuration? How far will the performance increase?
Most GeForce GTX285 solutions you see in retail are exact copies of Nvidia’s reference design. Today we are going to talk about a truly unique modification of this powerful graphics accelerator.
Following the super-powerful Cypress, which we have already reviewed before, AMD graphics division released an inexpensive and affordable Juniper, which should spread the Direct X 11 revolution into the mainstream segment. Our today’s review will be devoted to these particular solutions.
Having launched the new Radeon HD 5850, AMD didn’t really know what a mean trick they played on themselves by doing it. Read our review to find out why.
We are going to talk about three unique ATI Radeon HD 4890 modifications that could be a good choice for those who are not yet ready to spend a fortune on the new Radeon HD 5870. Products from Gigabyte, MSI and Sapphire – all in one roundup.
The long-awaited launch of the new ATI Radeon HD generation has finally happened. WE are going to find out how successful the Radeon HD 4800 successor turned out to be and what it is capable of in real conditions.
Our today’s article will be a brief retrospective of almost entire ATI Radeon HD 4xxx lineup while only a few days are left before the new graphics flagship solution – ATI Radeon HD 5870 – comes out.
Noiseless graphics cards are always in demand among people who value peace and quiet. Today we are going to talk about one more solution like that, this time based on an Nvidia GPU.
We are going to see if the two graphics cards perform differently with the new Catalyst driver version released today.
Our today’s review will be the last one in a series of articles devoted to performance of super-powerful multi-GPU graphics configurations. This time we are going to witness the performance by GeForce GTX 295 SLI tandem also know as Quad SLI.
The new driver tests we are going to carry out today will be rather unusual. We will test new ATI and Nvidia drivers in the new Windows 7 operating system that promises to have a great future ahead of it.
The first GeForce GTX 295 revision couldn’t become very popular because it was too complex and expensive. Today we are going to find out how successful Nvidia’s second attempt to create the most powerful single-board dual-processor graphics adapter turned out to be.
Professional graphics cards for performance workstations occupy a completely different market niche than the gaming solutions, even though they are manufactured by the same developers. Today we are going to check out the performance of these graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia in popular CAD/CAM systems for professionals. Especially since both manufacturers now have new card series on contemporary 55 nm chips: Quadro FX and FirePro.
Our today’s article will talk about the performance of contemporary graphics cards in a sequel to a famous Western shooter – Call of Juarez.
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game genre has become pretty popular a while back already, that is why in response to numerous readers’ requests we decided to study the performance if inexpensive graphics accelerators in contemporary MMORPG.
As we have already pointed out in our first review of a GeForce GTX 275 based solution, the only problem with this successful new product is the amount of onboard video memory. EVGA decided to fix that. Find out how from our new review!
We do not review new versions of Nvidia GeForce graphics card drivers as often as we do ATI Catalyst, however, once version 186.18 came out we decided to pay special attention to it by performing a comparative performance test session.
Looks like we have just recently tested Catalyst 9.5 driver version, but time has already come for the new, Catalyst 9.6. The new graphics card driver from ATI promises certain performance improvements that is why we couldn’t leave it unnoticed.
The amount of onboard video memory on contemporary graphics accelerators keeps getting larger and 1024MB has already become a standard today. Does it mean time has come for the next increase? Let’s find out!



