After our recent article on the Radeon HD 4830, we move further down into a low-end graphics processing segment called the sub-$100 club. But gone are the days when low-end budget graphics cards could be ignored and no need for a sizeable bank balance to get gaming. The Radeon HD 4670 is about to seal the fate of its unfortunate counterparts. This also brings ATI in the fist position with their new series of video cards, on both low-end and mainstream segment where it really can make money with their products. And we are still waiting on NVIDIA to strike back with their mid-range card based upon their new generation, to introduce some new cards with further enhancements and die shrink. - t-break

ATI Radeon HD 4670 CrossFire Graphics Card Review

ATI has learned that being the king of graphics means you must raise the bar for performance with each product release. The Radeon HD 4850 X2 is the latest evolution in graphics cards, and ATI delivers a product nearly as grand as their Radeon HD 4870 X2. We has been fortunate to check out the Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 dual-GPU video card against a collection of todays hottest video cards available. At some undetermined point in late June of 2008, ATI gained ground on the competition in small steps. AMD launched several enthusiast level processors, lifting them up out of a wild tailspin. And around the same time, ATI launched their Radeon HD 4850 graphics card. - Benchmark Reviews

Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 2GB Video Card Review

XFX was kind enough to send us a nice package containing the fastest GeForce GTX 260 and currently very popular Far Cry 2 game. The XFX edition of the latest GeForce GTX 260 has the Black edition suffix, and the Black edition versions traditionally come at higher clock speeds than reference NVIDIA's cards, and even higher than the already excisting pre-overclocked versions designed by XFX. So, it's an overclocked GeForce GTX 260 card based on GT200 core running at 666MHz. Meaning XFX overclocked the core by 90MHz and stream processors from 1242MHz to 1404MHz clock speed. The Black edition is one of the fastest single chip cards and it didn't even break a sweat running Far Cry 2. - FudZilla

XFX GeForce GTX 260 896MB Black Graphics Preview

We think it's worth everyone's wait for Toxic. As far as brandings go anyway. But Sapphire puts so much effort into general improvements over the stock designs, where they have some hand in, that we have to wonder if they hold back just to make certain that their Toxic will be that much better. Maybe we're giving too much away for an intro. Let's get back to boring stuff, like how the Radeon HD 4800 changed every possible standard for pricing, and slammed into NVIDIA's market share so hard that they knocked stock out of 'em. People walking past their offices in California were picking it up on the streets as souvenirs. It uses a lot of power, and makes a lot of noise. - TechLounge

Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 512MB Toxic Style Review

NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 graphics cards in last June. And both are based on the GT200 GPU which uses NVIDIA's improved, second generation unified architecture. As one of NVIDIA's biggest retail partner, ASUS has no less than seven different GeForce GTX 280 models. They consist of three versions, each available with or without HDMI support. The three major versions are the basic Extreme GTX 280, the game bundle kit and the top of the line TOP or overclocked edition. This is the typical style of ASUS to come with several versions and that the TOP line is really the one version to go for when you want something extra, especially when it comes to great performance. - TechARP

ASUS Extreme GTX 280 TOP Overclock Style Review

AMD recently released their Raden HD 4650 and Radeon HD 4670 cards which are based on the AMD RV730 graphics processor. The cards are targeted at the sub-$100 segment and which is also where the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT and GeForce 9600 GSO are positioned. While other board partners have designed their own PCB's to reduce cost or optimize it to their own design goals, Sapphire has chosen to use ATI's reference board design. Unlike the reference design, the clock and memory speeds are increased to 650MHz and 1800MHz, far from the maximum as our overclocking tests will show later. This certainly should be a great card with a good price to performance ratio. - techPowerUp

Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 512MB OC Version Review

These past two months have been pretty exciting for us in the graphics card department. In late August, we checked out the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, ATI's top of the line card. Since then, we've looked at two factory overclocked Radeon HD 4850's, a factory overclocked Radeon HD 4870, a Radeon HD 4670 and last a factory overclocked Radeon HD 4650 card. That covers the entire Radeon line excepting three cards, the brand new midrange card, the Radeon HD 4830 and a couple of very low budget cards, like the Radeon HD 4550 and Radeon HD 4350, the latter isn't released yet. Our friends at Sapphire have added an additional selection, with the new Radeon HD 4550. - ThinkComputers

Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 512MB Low Profile Review

With games ramping up their requirements and with the never ending needs of enthusiasts on the rise, it seems like everyone is looking for a more powerful GPU that offers speed they need right now, and that little extra umph for future proofing. And others are just looking for blazing fast frame rates with immersive graphics, while just a select few are looking not only for blazing graphics performance, but a world record class GPU. ATI has released the Radeon HD 4870 line which is a very capable GPU that the average enthusiast would be content with. Then they upped the ante with the Radeon HD 4870 X2, currently the most powerful single card GPU in the world. - Bjorn3D

Palit Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB Graphics Board Review

ATI recently added a new graphics card to the Radeon HD 4800 series, the ATI Radeon HD 4830, mainly to compete with the GeForce 9800 GT. A budget card aimed at the lower segment for everyday users to give their systems a little boost in power to claim their own gaming systems. The card samples sent out by AMD did show up with 560 shader processors instead of the 640 as specified, however a quick BIOS flash gave us access to original Radeon HD 4830 specifications for our benchmarks. Although it was certainly something strange to have samples straight from AMD that didn't follow the actual specifications and came with less shaders. But glad it could be easily resolved. - t-break

ATI Radeon HD 4830 (RV770) Graphics Board Review

Just over a week ago ATI launched the Radeon HD 4830 which is the latest card in the Radeon HD 4800 series range and hits the market at around $130. Unfortunately, due to a BIOS issue on the first batch of review sample cards, both reference models and some retail branded the full number of unified shaders was not available and performance was therefore negatively impacted. Today we present our view featuring cards from Sapphire, PowerColor and HIS. All have the correct BIOS version and we will be running them through a selection of the latest games. This way we can get a clear picture on the actual performance and match is against comparable NVIDIA offerings. - DriverHeaven

Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 512MB Video Card Review

No matter your need for graphics power, the choice of GPU's right now is fantastic. Where high-end gamers are concerned, two popular options are the Radeon HD 4870 1GB and the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 version. We're taking a look at XFX's latest release of the latter, which features such an impressive factory overclock, it manages to keep up to the GeForce GTX 280. There's little question that over the course of the past few months, there has been a massive shift towards ATI, and NVIDIA is undoubtedly feeling the effects. Coupled with company layoffs, ongoing lawsuits and defective product, it couldn't be much fun being an NVIDIA employee right now, though it will get better. - Techgage

XFX GeForce GTX 260 Black Edition Graphics Review

We have always had problems endorsing the sub-$100 video card. Usually, for an amount less than the video game you intend to play, you can get a card that can actually play said game, unless you really don't care about turning the detail setting up, which as far as we're concerned, is the way the developers intended it. And they come with lots of memory and no hardware to drive it, inadequate, bottom dollar cooling, and disappointment. But we're about to tell you that the Radeon HD 4670 isn't a complete waste. We know, weird right? Now, it's just one of many options, which we'll get to in a minute. But for the first time since ever, eighty bucks will let you play Crysis. - TechLounge

Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 512MB Video Card Review

These pre-overclocked Radeon HD 4870's are much like London buses, you don't get any for a while and then a few pop along at once. Leading the charge was the PowerColor Radeon HD 4870, packing in an 1GB frame buffer and ZEROtherm cooler. Sapphire then stepped up to the plate with its Toxic card. Now we have Force3D enter the fray with yet another pre-overclocked card featuring a different heatsink. In fact Force3D has created their own design to go up against the big boys and also take some of the money and market on that area. Say hi, to the Black edition. Arriving at just under $300 with a healthy boost in frequencies, let's see if this is the graphics card to own and delivering just that little extra. - Hexus

Force3D Radeon HD 4870 Black Edition Board Review

Our sources have confirmed that NVIDIA is talking about a dual chip solution that might come in December. We are not sure which chip is behind this dual card story, but it has been rumored that there might be a dual GT200 55nm card that is currently in the works. NVIDIA is extremely secretive these days and they didn't share their future plans with clients. They simply told them to believe in CUDA, PhysX and graphics plus concept, something that NVIDIA really tries to push. We need to remind NVIDIA one more time that money actually comes from gaming and other segments of video markers, not from these CUDA like things, but we are sure that NVIDIA that knows that as well. - FudZilla

NVIDIA Working On Dual-GPU Card And 40nm Switch

A few weeks ago, we read something that really surprised us, the vast majority of video cards bought each year cost under $100. Actually, the figure is more than halve. That market is so important that the industry calls the sub-$100 video card mainstream. We're sure that most of you reading this find it laughable, with your mid-range or high-end graphics card. Who are the people that buy these video cards? We suppose that the majority are people with off the shelf rigs like HP, Dell, and the like, wanting an upgrade from their integrated graphics and builders with tight budgets. We suspect that many of these don't really know what they want or need and are attracted by the price. - ThinkComputers

Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 OverClock Version Review

HIS is not an unfamiliar name around. In the past, we have seen HIS flourish with enthusiast products like the HIS Radeon HD 3870 X2 and we have seen them hit home with fan free products like the Radeon HD 3450 card. Today, we get the opportunity to check their HIS Radeon HD 4850 IceQ4 TurboX with full high definition 1080p suport. The board utilizes 512MB of GDDR3 memory, has two dual link DVI outputs and TV output. We will admit, the competition should be worried. The TurboX arrived factory overclocked and ready to rock 'n roll in your computer. And don't make a mistake this is still a Radeon HD 4850, but adapted to offer more gaming performance while keeping it quiet. - Overclockers Online

HIS Radeon HD 4850 IceQ4 Cool TurboX Card Review

When ATI launched the RV770 last summer, few could predict the amount of chaos that was brought onto the market. Even today, the barrage of products and the assault on NVIDIA continues, with the Sapphire Radeon HD 4550. But today, we look at things from a different perspective. The Radeon HD 4800 series handle the gaming side of things very well, but the price point of the Radeon HD 4550 aims toward a very different market. While we still look at the gaming capabilities of this card, the testing will be primarily geared for a home theatre PC and high definition playback applications. So sit back, relax and let us torture yet another video card for you and give our feedback on the benchmarks. - ClubOC

Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 512MB Board Style Review

Last month NVIDIA and its partners introduced a new product into the market known internally at NVIDIA as the GeForce GTX 260. One problem, that name was already taken by a GPU released in June. What NVIDIA had done was the same GPU core that existed in the original GeForce GTX 260 with 192 shader processors and bumped it up to 216 shaders and this to better compete with AMD's updated Radeon HD 4800 series of graphics cards. And while NVIDIA seemed determined to call the product just GeForce GTX 260 neither the press nor NVIDIA's partners seemed to fall for trick. Many went with call it the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 or the GeForce GTX 260+ version. - PCPerspective

Galaxy GeForce GTX 260+ 896MB Video Card Review

In these trying economic times, it's hard to justify the cost of a high performance graphics card, especially when you consider that video cards are superceded at least once every half year, and subject to the law of diminishing returns, the more you pay, the less increase in performance you get. For those who are financially conservative, the object of our desire is the best product for the price, or also the best bang for your buck. Earlier this year, ATI released the Radeon HD 4850, an excellent card at an excellent price. And it offered so much value that in reaction, NVIDIA immediately lowered the price on their GeForce 9800 GTX, and after that they quickly pushed out the improved GTX+ version. - SilentPCReview

ATI Radeon HD 4830 Graphics Design Edition Review

BFG was one of very few companies that came to mind a few years ago when people spoke of pre-overclocked graphics cards. Over the past few years though, more and more companies have jumped on the overclocking bandwagon and we're now at the point where it feels like almost every company on the market offers some form of a pre-overclocked card, be it based on an ATI or NVIDIA graphics chip. Not too long ago BFG thought that it was time to kick it up a notch and expand upon the popular OC line it already had. Expanding that line, two new OC variants were created. The OC2 helped knock up clock speeds a bit more and the OCX which was to offer a significant boost. - TweakTown

BFG GeForce GTX 260 OCX Graphics Version Review

We checked out the new Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 card and done some quick benchmarks on it using an Intel X58 platform with Core i7 processor. The cooler casing looks pretty nice and heatsinks beneath looks much like the Intel reference cooler. The air is drawn in by the dual fans and exhaust out from the top of the card, there is a hole at the top side of the cooler. This card is clocked at 625MHz for the core, a 1886MHz for the memories and has twice 800 stream processors. The card scores great, considering the fact that it has two RV770 GPU's on the same PCB, and it definitely looks great. This should bring some great extra performance in a single board product. - VR-Zone

Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 Dual-GPU Card Preview

Welcome to the world of Gainward, a world beyond your senses! Gainward is a world leading producer of high-quality, high-end 3D accelerators for the personal computer market. Wasn't it really a great period the previous six months? Who doesn't recall the introduction of the GeForce 9 series graphics cards? Cause if you look back on some months ago the GeForce 9 series did get a very fast successor with the newly GeForce GTX 200 series. The Gainward GeForce GTX 260 did come out as a very well priced version and we could take this card further than we expected to hit a final top of 702/2304MHz on our overclocking exercise. One great experience with stunning overclocking and gaming interaction.

Gainward GeForce GTX 260 Standard Version Review

Today, we have a chance to take a close look at the GeForce 9800 GT from MSI. This graphics processing unit is the once from the Gaming series, which comes in a bit under $150. The GeForce 9800 GT is, as you can probably guess, the successor to the GeForce 8800 GT, released little over a year ago. This offering from MSI is a factory overclocked board with better specs than the GeForce 8 series card had to offer. Though it does use the same technology as previously though slightly optimized. We don't expect too much difference in performance, though the price has gone down with these new series which is all the better for end user who can enjoy some great gaming experience. - Legit Reviews

MSI GeForce 9800 GT 512MB Gaming Version Review

Another day, another article and today we got ASUS's latest GeForce 9800 GT Matrix card on our bench with DirectX 10 support and 512MB of GDDR3 video memory so this should be a interesting product as we are going to compare it some other high performing cards on the market right now. The GeForce 9800 GT is however nothing more than the older GeForce 8800 GT, even though it comes powered with two different GPU's. Either the good old 65mm G92 which has been already used extensively or the newer 55nm G92 version with some optimizations. The latter version is of course the better, generating less heat and able to be clocked higher and turning out to be faster. - Red & Blankness

ASUS Extreme N9800 GT Matrix Video Board Review

Now over just this past year, it's interesting to see how affordable high-end video cards have become. We remember looking on some websites a few years back and finding some of the top-end video cards priced close to a thousand dollars. Today, the best single graphics card from NVIDIA that is available to consumers is the GeForce GTX 280. How much better is the GeForce GTX 280 than the previous best GeForce 9800 class of graphics cards? With this card being priced in between $400-500, it is definitely not for the average Joe. However, there are many users who need to have the best available. If you're looking for the absolute single best video card available, this might just be it. - Overclockers Club

Zotac GeForce GTX 280 AMP! 1GB Card Style Review