As our graphics card articles have gone a little bit red lately, we finally have something from the green team to compare to. In order to regain the king of the hill status back from AMD, NVIDIA has brought a couple of new competitors to the high-end market. The older GT200 core based GeForce GTX 280 was beaten by the Radeon HD 4870 X2, so NVIDIA had to cook up something new. Just like AMD, also NVIDIA decided to regain the thrown by combining two cores on the same card. This would have been a tremendous feat with the older GT200 core, as it was tremendously hot. The GT200b core was the solution they needed. In addition to lower manufacturing costs it also runs much cooler. - Metku
So today another view on that rather outstanding release based on the recently unleashed NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 card. We say outstanding, as besides the Radeon HD 4870 X2, not once has a dual GPU product been launched and was received with such great enthusiasm. See NVIDIA has got the driver right, the performance right and obviously the price is right as the GeForce GTX 295 series is selling at less than $499. And for a product with 480 shader cores, that is just an awful lot of performance. Many manufacturers therefore are now selling the product, and even in times of financial difficulty, these babies sell like cute little puppies in a pet store. And we like to talk about high-end cards. - Guru3D
The current worldwide economic crisis has hit the computer industry especially hard. Companies like Intel, Microsoft and many others have reported lower than expected revenues for the winter quarter that has caused many of the stocks to plummet in recent months. Companies in the US have begun laying off people like there's no tomorrow. There has always been a balance between the best performing video card and the price that one is willing to pay for that video card. Video cards based upon the Radeon HD 4850 video chip have been enormously popular due to its high performance for a reasonable price. Today ASUS released a new version of the Radeon HD 4850 with modified cooling. - Motherboards
The graphics card we prepared for you today is called the WinFast GTX 260+ Extreme, and as you already know, this GeForce GTX 260 is a great gaming card, decently priced and appealing to many gamers. It's been a while since we've checked those Leadtek graphics cards, and we're quite glad that Leadtek decided to send this card, as you'll surely find it interesting. This is a new 55nm version of the GeForce GTX 260 card with 216 stream processors, whereas the old version was built in 65nm and had 192 stream processors. This card's main contender, performance wise, is the Radeon HD 4870 1GB, which is a tad slower and priced some $25 less but rather an equal or less performer. - FudZilla
So you want to be a rock star? Well just like the stones say, you can't always get what you want. Some of us realize we are just normal people and must settle for our daily mundane tasks and push on day after day. The same holds true for computer graphics cards, or does it? Today we will look at a mainstream card with a bit of an identity problem, the Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 GDDR4 graphics card. The ATI Radeon HD 4670 has been around for some months now, but until recently only available with GDDR3 memory. The addition of GDDR4 memory is not a game maker or breaker but should result in the very least a measurable boost of performance over its GDDR3 brethren. - Benchmark Reviews
We have with us an ASUS special edition series video card that is equipped with a large heatsink for better performance but also better overclocking capabilities. ASUS presents the GeForce 9800 GTX+ Dark Knight TOP edition card ready to rumble on the PC. And in fact ASUS has released several GeForce 9800 GTX+ versions and this time they have combined their TOP edition with the more silent Dark Knight version. That give us a mix between quiet though overclocked, which is actually a nice twist from ASUS to bring to these GeForce 9 series graphics cards. And although we all thought this refresh GTX+ wouldn't have been a real success the variations being released just beg to differ. - t-break
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.
Just a few short weeks ago, NVIDIA launched their GeForce GTX 285 and while it's the fastest single GPU based graphics card we've ever tested, we felt that it was priced in a rather awkward manner. NVIDIA set its price point at not that much less than their flagship GeForce GTX 295, which means there isn't that much wiggle room for its partners. Nevertheless, board partners whose bread and butter is delivering factory overclocked parts have taken the GeForce GTX 285 cards with open arms. The BFG GeForce GTX 285 OCX is the US based board partner's flagship and it comes with some fairly impressive frequency increases as you'd normally expect from a card carrying the OCX label. - Bit-Tech
Recently we have been checking some pretty high-end graphics cards, and while it's all well and good checking out the $149 plus fair, the real money is made for the manufacturers in the budget, to mid range cards. So, if you are looking at the current generation of ATI's GPU's, and anything smells like high-end is too much for you, perhaps the Radeon HD 4670 from HIS is up your street. And it wouldn't be a bad choice either cause it does have some great features at a decent price tag. Of course it all depends what you are looking for and you can't assume top performance, but can easily settle for what it can deliver. But in the end that is all up to each of you to make that decision depending on your budget. - XSReviews
Sapphire have shocked the world with the explosive performance of the Radeon HD 4870 X2 last year. This board still stands uncontested as one of the fastest Radeon based card on the market, and Sapphire have tried to make the fastest, even faster. Sapphire has unveiled their latest graphics board, a limited edition, factory overclocked version of the Radeon HD 4870 X2 with built-in water cooling which has been released within their exclusive Atomic range. Remember, not many graphics card manufacturers include water cooling with their cards. Only BFG, who is specialized in NVIDIA based cards, have come close but not close enough with their GeForce GTX 280 fitted with a water block. - CPU3D
Considering how long it took to get our first high-end graphics card samples, it's interesting that they are now one of our most often reviewed pieces of hardware. Not to be the exception to the rule is our recently acquired GeForce 9800 GT from XFX. The smaller brother of the more well known GTX branding, the GT saw excellent sales during these GeForce 8 series for it's high-end performance, with lower end price tag. And this time it is back for another refresher on gaming performance, but also with a again a lower price but that is about it, as the clock settings have not changed since. If that will let it reign again is doubtful but it will certainly do well in most current games, but also upcoming titles. - XSReviews
GLY GTX275 (OC) PCIe 0896MB - Rev 01
