Smack down in the middle of the launch day of the GeForce GTX 570, a couple of board partners already presented their pre-overclocked models. Yeah that's an indicator to us, the more versions announced, the more popular a product tends to get. The GeForce GTX 570 might become a mildly popular product. So roughly four weeks ago NVIDIA released the GeForce GTX 580 card, with an unpredicted amount of success we must add, as we certainly did not expect the popularity of the card to be at the level that it is now. NVIDIA knows this and as such tried to cover their bases. The GeForce GTX 480 is now officially going end of life after its short lived life. To replace it they're introducing, the GeForce GTX 570. - Guru3D
With these GeForce GTX 580 launch being extremely rough for us, there was no way the GeForce GTX 570 launch could be any rougher. Still, it wasn't easy with the card shipping to us at the last minute and having to personally pick it up from the courier depot just to get it all done the same day. Still, everything went to some form of plan in the end and at least we are able to bring you our insights. What does matter is that we're looking at the GeForce GTX 570, the replacement to the GeForce GTX 470 which really hasn't existed for a bit now. Over the past few months it's been all about two models released by NVIDIA, the GeForce GTX 480 being the fastest single GPU card and the GeForce GTX 460. - TweakTown
After testing the GeForce GTX 580 at stock clocks there is clearly a little bit of a love hate relationship going on with this card. The one thing you can't take away from it is the raw performance that it offers out of the box. Considering you have essentially got the performance of two slightly overclocked GeForce GTX 460's in not just a single PCI Express card, but more importantly a single GPU version, is nothing short of fantastic. The low stock though, and a high price tag is no doubt going to be a turn off for most people. Today we try and add some extra value to this graphics card with the help of MSI's own Afterburner software and see what happens when we overclock this bad boy, in terms of performance. - TweakTown
Well we have has just released a new version of NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) software. NiBiTor is the original and definitive BIOS tweaker that supports the latest NVIDIA graphics cards, and which is updated on a regular basis. NiBiTor allows graphics card enthusiasts, or the hardcore overclockers to have full control over some advanced features and functionality found on firmware of supporting cards. And doing so users gain some extra performance, enable certain hidden features, tweaking memory latencies, provide extensive information, adapt bootup settings, changing fan speed options and/or get extra stability on their NVIDIA based graphics accelerators which will just give them that little extra value.
Last week NVIDIA quietly released their new GeForce GTX 460 SE version and according to them, the SE is designed to give a good price to performance level without compromising on memory amount or bandwidth. Being it retains 1GB of GDDR5 memory across a 256-bit wide memory interface like the GeForce GTX 460 variant, but has a lower shader core count of only 288 instances. The clock speeds on the GeForce GTX 460 SE are slightly lower, too. We talked to several board partners about the GeForce GTX 460 SE and they say that consumers are mostly ignoring the GeForce GTX 460 with 768MB due to reduced memory size and demand an affordable 1GB variant, which the SE delivers. - techPowerUp
Last month, AMD which pioneered DirectX 11 compliant PC consumer graphics, released its second generation Radeon HD 6800 architecture, under codename Northern Islands. The company has enjoyed a six month head start into this race for DirectX 11 graphics hardware market dominance, which also reflected in both growth of market share and domination with sales. The time passed by allowed AMD to refine and fine tune its new architecture to better suit the existing 40nm silicon fabrication process, by promising to churn out just higher performance per Watt and also performance per die area, compared to their previous generation Evergreen architecture leading to more cost effective products. - techPowerUp
Lantic might not be a company you have heard of before. Currently being sold in Taiwan, China, Vietnam, etc and expanding onto the European market towards the end of the year, there is a chance you will be hearing more and more of the company in the coming months. Today we are looking at the Lantic Radeon HD 6870 and since all cards follow the reference design at the moment, we thought why not pair it together with another Radeon HD 6870 and run that in CrossFire. Of course, we have already looked at these Radeon HD 6870 in CrossFire so we thought it was time to overclock the model and see what happens with the actual performance, and as such bring new gaming heights to the public. - TweakTown
Well we have has just released a new version of NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) software. NiBiTor is the original and definitive BIOS tweaker that supports the latest NVIDIA graphics cards, and which is updated on a regular basis. NiBiTor allows graphics card enthusiasts, or the hardcore overclockers to have full control over some advanced features and functionality found on firmware of supporting cards. And doing so users gain some extra performance, enable certain hidden features, tweaking memory latencies, provide extensive information, adapt bootup settings, changing fan speed options and/or get extra stability on their NVIDIA based graphics accelerators which will just give them that little extra value.
In this competitive market, the most well performing cards wins, and these cards often come at streep price. Even just upgrading can become expensive. To help bridge the gap between two cards, you can take a lower end card and overclock it yourself. For users who cannot or do not wish to tinker with their card's clock speeds, Gigabyte are now also offering an overclocked edition of the popular and powerful GeForce GTX 470 graphics accelerator. The step up to an GeForce GTX 480 can cost as much as $200, depending on the manufacturer or memory size chosen. This GeForce GTX 470 of course costs more than a normal version, but it is still much cheaper than a standard GeForce GTX 480 edition. - Bjorn3D
Today NVIDIA launches their new GeForce GTS 450 series of graphics cards. As the GTS naming suggests, this card is more of an mid-range part than an high performance device. It is NVIDIA's expressed goal to offer a low priced DirectX 11 graphics card that the majority of gamers can just afford and still play the latest games. This GF106 graphics chipsets are based on NVIDIA's Fermi architecture, which was released earlier this year. In order to achieve the product performance and positioning NVIDIA was looking for, they disabled some components of the full GF106 core, resulting in the graphics processor for this GeForce GTS 450. Unlike other Fermi class cards the changes are quite limited. - techPowerUp
The latest member of the NVIDIA lineup is the GeForce GTX 460 graphics card. It is fully based on the all new 40nm GF104 chipset which is based on the Fermi architecture introduced earlier this year. These GeForce GTX 460 is positioned at the lower end of the mid-range performance segment around the $200 price tag. And NVIDIA offers two variants of these GeForce GTX 460, one with 768MB of GDDR5 memory and one with 1GB. Due to the GPU architecture this change in memory size not only affects the memory but also other performance relevant figures. Such reduction of memory is achieved by installing less memory chips which reduces the bus width to 192-bit on the 768MB version. - techPowerUp
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