The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 launched today, and we had the chance to checkout as many as four unique graphics cards based on it. It also gave us the opportunity to pair two of these cards in 2-way SLI configuration to test how performance scales up. These GeForce GTX 670 comes at a good point in time. It closely follows Intel's 3rd generation Core processor family launch, which presents PC enthusiasts time to upgrade, particularly to these PCI Express 3.0 platforms. While NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 670 has much to offer, we investigate the viability of following an incremental upgrade path, in which you buy just one graphics card now, and a second one when your games are beginning to get more and more demanding. - techPowerUp
As for what we're doing here today, as we just mentioned we will be overclocking the soon to be released GeForce GTX 670. This is a video card that really impressed us with some amazing performance when we tested it over the weekend. We wonder what kind of overclock we are able to get out of it. Talking to some partners, word is it is not the best when it comes to overclocking, but apparently they have no issue reaching the same speeds as the GeForce GTX 680, but beyond that there's not a lot of headroom. We'll find out just what we're able to get out of the video card today, though we have somehow high hopes to reach some decent overclocking settings which should eventually lead to some increase in gaming performance. - TweakTown
Historically most of Zotac's AMP! edition graphics cards have just had a mild tweak with slightly overclocked speeds and settings. Sure, some of them have had also an improved heatsink, but it wasn't until the GeForce GTX 580 AMPē! edition released late last year that we saw some significant improvements in the design. Today we will be looking at their GeForce GTX 680 AMP! edition, but instead of just having a mild overclock, we get a significant heatsink as well. That means Zotac has done their job good from the start, improving both performance and the cooling of their pre-overclocked version. Of course we expect some nice boost in gaming performance, as it comes at a premium price over the reference design. - t-Break
This industry, like every other loves drama. Since NVIDIA sent us nothing on the GeForce GTX 680 codenamed Kepler we're kind of winging it here. Something we simply don't really like to do. But when we woke up this morning again with no information from NVIDIA, we ere just over it and decided to knock this review over straight away as clearly we weren't going to hear anything from them. How is that for professionalism? There's not much else that really can be said. We can't get into the technical side of things too much today because NVIDIA again haven't sent us anything. So we're simply going to look at the card and then just get into the benchmarking side of things to see what this model can do. - TweakTown
Yes indeed, most of you will say finally a new version made available and we can't blame you really. We had expected to release it much sooner but due to some unexpected happenings it gotten delayed. With NiBiTor we provide graphics card enthusiasts or hardcore overclockers full control over some advanced features and functionality found on firmware of supported cards. And by doing so users can gain some extra performance, enable certain hidden features, tweak memory timings, access device related information, adapt bootup settings, change fan speed options and even get extra stability using their NVIDIA based graphics accelerators which will just give them that little extra value. - mvkTech
Last year AMD released their Northern Islands architecture starting with the Barts graphics processors, which was then followed by the Cayman architecture. These Northern Islands graphics cards have since become an extremely successful series, but the product range as we know it was an adaption on AMD's part to compensate for TSMC cancelling their 32nm process in favor of its 28nm technology. This forced AMD to release a second generation of 40nm parts. Though those issues are behind AMD now, as its Southern Islands architecture finally is among us, bringing with it the first 28nm GPU codenamed Tahiti. The first AMD graphics board to utilize this new architecture is the high-end Radeon HD 7970 launched today. - NeoSeeker
Based in Hong Kong, Zotac has been around since 2006 and entered the market with an expanded lineup of NVIDIA powered graphics cards, which includes their passive cooled Zone editions and the class leading overclocked AMP! editions, in addition to the standard GeForce series lineup. They have tried to bring the latest DirectX 11 technology to rather every price point with the current king of the hill being the GeForce GTX 590 currently priced at $749 shipped down to the entry level GeForce GTX 550 Ti series. Doing so they got a wide range of products which will please almost everyone, and with their AMP! version being designed with these overclockers in mind given them an extra boost in performance. - LegitReviews
It has been a while since the last release, but today we bring you a new version of our favorite NiBiTor software which is the original GeForce series BIOS tweaker software, providing support for the latest NVIDIA graphics cards. With NiBiTor we provide graphics card enthusiasts or hardcore overclockers full control over some advanced features and functionality found on firmware of supported cards. And by doing so users can gain some extra performance, enable certain hidden features, tweak memory timings, access device related information, adapt bootup settings, change fan speed options and even get extra stability using their NVIDIA based graphics accelerators which will just give them that little extra value. - mvkTech
AMD's Radeon HD 6450 has been on the market for almost two months now. It is the slowest, cheapest and entry-level Radeon HD 6000 series card. When it was launched, AMD provided Radeon HD 6450 samples to the press which used GDDR5 memory clocked at 3600MHz effective. And when looking at the current market, we only see Radeon HD 6450 variants using GDDR3 memory, instead of the faster, more expensive GDDR5. That's why we decided to take a look at such version to provide a more clear picture of these entry level graphics card market. Sapphire's Radeon HD 6450 uses a completely passive low profile design, which makes it an excellent choice for a low noise office system. - techPowerUp
It has been a few months since these AMD Radeon HD 6990 graphics card initially launched. Since that time, a number of AMD's board partners have launched their own Radeon HD 6990 cards, though as is typically the case with these first wave of products based on a new GPU, they all conform to AMD's reference design, save for a water cooled card from PowerColor. While most of the Radeon HD 6990 cards on the market today are fundamentally very similar, we thought it would be a good idea to check out a retail version using the latest drivers to see how well the card performs with updated software. To that end, we got an HIS Radeon HD 6990 card and will see how things sake out in a handful of games. - HotHardware
We've looked at the HIS Radeon HD 6970 Turbo, we've also looked at some IceQ variants of these Radeon HD 6800 series, but today the power of the IceQ and Turbo series combine to create the HIS Radeon HD 6970 IceQ Turbo. The IceQ series is a popular one for HIS and has always represented their best cooler in the line-up. Combined with the Turbo label, the card carries with it also a nice out of the box overclock. Today though, we have decided to ignore the overclock and instead make use of the cooler and overclock the card ourselves. The main focus is really on the cooling solution that should be superior compared to others, and would therefore hold higher overclocking potential as extra feature. - TweakTown
NiBiTor v6.04
