Review: AMD/ATI Radeon HD 5970 Edition
Posted by Donster on: 2009-11-18 16:20:32 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
AMD has launched the AMD/ATI Radeon HD 5970 today and there are a handful of reviews posted around the internet.
AMD today announced the flagship installment in the award-winning line of graphics cards, the ATI Radeon™ HD 5970, the fastest card ever created.1 The new ultra high-end model joins a growing list of the world’s first and only graphics cards to fully support Microsoft DirectX® 11 technology and ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology.
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Review: NVIDIA GeForce GT 240
Posted by Donster on: 2009-11-18 16:20:04 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
NVIDIA yesterday rolled out the new GeForce GT 240, its new low cost, low power, high performance graphics card. Does it succeed in its goals?
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ATI Catalyst 9.11 WHQL Released
Posted by Donster on: 2009-11-18 15:38:25 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
Source: TweakNews
Coinciding with the launch of its latest and greatest desktop graphics powerhouse today, the HD5970, AMD has also announced the release of a new set of Catalyst drivers, these being the 9.11s.
There are of course the usual run of bug fixes and more; you can get the full scoop on what's been adjusted within the official release notes HERE. (.PDF) 82.5 KB
To download the drivers for XP, Vista or 7, head over to the AMD GAME! website. 44 MB - 66 MB
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Review: Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X Video Card
Posted by Donster on: 2009-11-03 16:16:27 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
Written By: Nathan Kirsch @ Legit Reviews
Sapphire has added their Vapor-X vapor chamber cooling technology to the Radeon HD 5870 series and has launched a doozy of a card today. Read on to see how this factory overclocked Radeon HD 5870 does with a superior cooling solution in place to keep the RV870 core nice and cool. You might just be surprised to see how well this card does!
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DirectX 11 for Vista Released
Posted by Donster on: 2009-10-28 16:15:28 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
Source: Blue's News
DirectX 11 is now available for Windows Vista users through a new Platform Update for Windows Vista available automatically through the "Windows Update" function. Buried in the patch notes is a low-key "Updates to "DirectX" to support hardware acceleration for 2D, 3D, and text-based scenarios," and that update is indeed the new version of "DirectX".
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Review: ASUS EAH5870 Video Card
Posted by Donster on: 2009-10-28 16:00:54 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
Author: Matthew Krysiak @ HardOCP
Today we look at ASUS’s brand new, voltage tweakable and highly overclockable EAH5870 based on AMD’s new ATI Radeon HD 5870. With the ability to increase the core voltage we cannot wait to see how high it will go, but first we must see how it compares to its rivals in some of the latest and most demanding games.
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ATI Catalyst 9.10 AGP Hotfix Released
Posted by Donster on: 2009-10-23 18:38:39 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
Source: Blue's News
AMD support now offers a hotfix for the just released version 9.10 Catalyst reference drivers for ATI accelerators. This fix addresses the "No compatible hardware found" error when installing Catalyst drivers for ATI Radeon HD 4000, ATI Radeon HD 3000 and ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series AGP products. 39 MB - 65 MB
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ATI Catalyst 9.10 WHQL Released
Posted by Donster on: 2009-10-22 17:17:19 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
Source: techPowerUp!
AMD released the latest version of its ATI Catalyst software suite. Version 9.10 WHQL brings with it official support for the company's newest "ATI Radeon HD 5800" series graphics processors, adds features that enhance usability under Windows 7, along with the usual list of bug fixes. The driver also adds support for Super Sample Anti-Aliasing, for Radeon HD 5800 GPUs. A complete list of changes can be read in the
release notes document (.PDF). 40 MB - 57 MB
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Next-Gen 3D Rendering Technology: Voxel Ray Casting
Posted by Donster on: 2009-10-21 15:44:32 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
By Fedy Abi-Chahla @ Tom's Hardware
A little while back, we discussed some of the benefits and disadvantages of ray tracing. Today, we're going to be talking about another potential successor to triangle rasterization: voxel ray casting, the subject of much research by id's John Carmack.
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Review: Custom Cooled Video Card Shootout: ASUS & MSI
Posted by Donster on: 2009-10-16 17:06:03 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
By Michael Lin @ HotHardware
One of the sub-categories cropping up amongst OEMs are videos cards which feature highly customized cooling along with special controller chips or other functionality that help facilitate tweaking the card's performance. These cards all have a few things in common. First, they all mount beefy and often very radical cooling designs which are a distinct departure from the ATI / NVIDIA approved reference cooler designs. They also offer some form of advanced tweaking features either in software, firmware or hardware (or perhaps all 3), that a stock reference design wouldn't possess, such as fan and voltage control.
The tweaker-friendly video card segment seems to be getting more popular as more OEMs are producing custom cards that fit the mold. We're going to give you a peak into what makes these cards special by giving you the run-down on three available options which are excellent representatives of what the segment currently has to offer.
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Review: Takes Two to Tango - ATI Radeon HD 5770 in CrossFire Action
Posted by Donster on: 2009-10-16 16:58:47 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
By Kenny Yeo @ HardwareZone
The Radeon HD 5770 falls short of fantastic, but how would two of them in CrossFire configuration perform? Would it surpass the dual-GPU Radeon HD 4870 X2? Check out the results to find out.
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Review: Radeon HD 5770 in 3-way CrossfireX
Posted by Donster on: 2009-10-16 16:57:46 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
By: Hilbert Hagedoorn @ GURU3D
If you pick up three Radeon HD 5770 1024MB cards say at 150 USD, would that bring game performance into the uber high-end level? Well, we wanted to find that out. So we took a new eVGA P55 Classified motherboard which has plenty of PCIe x16 ports, popped in three Radeon HD 5770 1024MB cards and once again ran our test suite of software to see what performance scaling is like, and where we end up anno 2009 with driver issues, as there are bound to be at least a few of them. Head on over to Guru3D's 3-way Radeon HD 5770 CrossfireX review.
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Review: AMD Radeon HD 5770 and HD 5750 Graphics Cards
Posted by Donster on: 2009-10-13 16:31:38 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
Today AMD is taking the next step in the launch of the Radeon HD 5770 and 5750 graphics cards. Although, at the time of this posting, AMD hasn't released it's official announcement, there has been a review tsunami unleased today on these new cards. Click the links below and check see if AMD is still kickin' NVIDIA's behind.
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Review: NVIDIA GeForce GT 220/GeForce 210 - The New Budget Arrivals
Posted by Donster on: 2009-10-12 16:54:52 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
Today NVIDIA announced the release of the new budget entry Geforce GT 220 and GeForce 210 graphics cards. NVIDIA has given the green light for the posting of articles reviewing these new products performance. Most of the reviews listed below are on the GeForce GT 220 series card from a few different manufacturers, thought there is some GeForce 210 coverage.
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Review: AMD Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Performance Testing - With Video
Posted by Donster on: 2009-10-09 15:56:57 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
Author: Ryan Shrout @ PC Perspective
After my review of the AMD Radeon HD 5870 graphics card last month that featured a heavy dose of information and videos about AMD's new Eyefinity technology, the one single request I have received the most is for performance results using these games and a multi-monitor configuration. I purposefully avoided any types of benchmarks in our first go-around with the technology and instead focused on trying to showcase the user experience that using 3 monitors for gaming can create.
Well enough email barged through my inbox that I decided I would graph-up the results that I already had from our initial testing and share it with you here.
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NVIDIA GeForce 191.07 WHQL Drivers Released
Posted by Donster on: 2009-10-05 17:02:45 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
Source: techPowerUp!
A little over two weeks after releasing its previous 190.62 WHQL version of its GeForce drivers, NVIDIA released its brand new GeForce 191.07 driver suite, signed by Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL). The suite provides driver and system software support for all current NVIDIA GeForce graphics products, GeForce 6-series and above. This release is aimed for provide application-specific performance enhancements, numerous bug-fixes related to the drivers, and included software, and improved game support for NVIDIA's SLI multi-GPU technology. As listed by the company, important changes are as follows. For a broader list of changes, please refer to the Release Notes document (located with each
windows version download link) 84 MB - 99 MB
NVIDIA DOWNLOADS PAGE
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NVIDIA Refutes Claims of Meddling with Batman Arkham Asylum AA Features
Posted by Donster on: 2009-09-29 15:38:26 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
By FiXT @ HardwareCanucks
Players of the latest smash hit, Batman: Arkham Asylum have received a visual treat with its stunning graphics and immersive gameplay, but recently gamers picked up on the fact that those with NVIDIA GPU’s may be a little more privileged than those on the ATI side of the tracks; having the ability to natively enable and adjust AA (Anti-Aliasing).
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AMD Provides First Radeon HD 5800 Driver for Windows Vista & 7
Posted by Donster on: 2009-09-25 16:04:45 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
Source: TechConnect
Not supported by the Catalyst 9.9, the world's first DirectX 11-ready graphics cards, the Radeon HD 5800 series models, got their first driver this week via AMD's support site.
Available HERE, the driver only supports the Radeon HD 5850 and HD 5870, and works with the 32 and 64bit version os Windows Vista and 7. This is a temporary 'fix' though as the upcoming Catalyst 9.10 will surely support the Cypress-powered cards. 112 MB
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Review: AMD/ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series Graphics Cards
Posted by Donster on: 2009-09-23 16:21:14 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
The AMD/ATI HD 5800 Series official announcement day has arrived, and as one would expect, there are a bunch of HD 5870 reviews have already gone online. The bottom line is clear, ATI has a DirectX 11 card that is faster than its HD 4870 X2 card and any other single GPU card for that matter. Check out the reviews via the links below.
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Review: ASUS Republic of Gamers MARS Quad SLI
Posted by Donster on: 2009-09-18 16:45:17 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
Author: Mark Mackay @ Bit-Tech
ASUS has done what NVIDIA couldn't, and paired two full-speed GeForce GTX 285 GPUs on one card. The GTX 295 uses two under-clocked GTX 275 GPUs, so the MARS should be the fasest graphics card on the planet (for a little while, at least).
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Review: MSI N285GTX Superpipe OC GeForce GTX 285
Posted by Donster on: 2009-09-17 15:56:57 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
Author: Josh Walrath @ PC Perspective
Before AMD unleashes their latest foray into the graphics market, we have the chance to look at the current fastest, single GPU video card around. MSI has differentiated their product with a unique (and surprisingly effecting) cooler which adds to the value of their offering. While we can't prognosticate about how well it will fare against upcoming products, we can see how well it performs against what is available today.
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ATI Catalyst 9.9 WHQL Released
Posted by Donster on: 2009-09-11 17:43:57 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
Source: techPowerUp!
AMD released version 9.9 of its ATI Catalyst driver suite that provides drivers and related essential software for ATI Radeon graphics processors, AMD 7-series core-logic, and ATI Multimedia products. This release mainly intends to fix application-specific issues, and features related to Catalyst Control Center application. For more details, refer to the Release Notes document (PDF). 41 MB - 63 MB
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Review: MSI N275GTX Lightning 1792MB
Posted by Donster on: 2009-08-27 16:07:49 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
By: Hilbert Hagedoorn @ GURU3D
Think of the most extreme GeForce GTX 275 you can think of. Yeah, MSI designned it. Check out some of the N275GTX Lightning features: Custom design PCB, high-quality chokes and capacitors, Twin Frozr II cooling solution, voltage monitoring points, 10 power phase design, doubled up memory at 1792MB, and yes .. even more. Be sure to read this review.
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Preview: ASUS ROG MARS GeForce 4,096MB
Posted by Donster on: 2009-08-26 17:25:41 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
ASUS unleashes the god of war - ROG MARS - the most outlandish graphics-card around.
Author: Tarinder Sandhu @ HEXUS
Nothing gets an enthusiast's heart racing as much as a grounds-up design that's outlandish in the extreme - a SKU that no-one has. ASUS wants to occupy this ground with the limited-edition ROG (Republic of Gamers) MARS card.
Pulling together two GeForce GTX 285s and sandwiching them on the same card, the MARS aims to be the fastest graphics-card on the planet. But what happens when you couple two together? We find out.
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NVIDIA GeForce 190.62 WHQL Drivers Released
Posted by Donster on: 2009-08-22 15:11:59 in category: Video Card News [ Print ]
Source: techPowerUp!
Exactly a month after releasing GeForce 190.38 drivers, NVIDIA published GeForce 190.62, complete with WHQL-certification. Supported products include the entire range of NVIDIA GPUs from GeForce 6 series and upwards, and NVIDIA ION, ION LE platforms. This release includes a few significant changes, apart from the numerous bug-fixes as described in the Release Notes documents (for Windows 7, Vista, and XP). Included are:
- Support for Microsoft's new DirectX GPU Computing API: DirectCompute, complete with WHQL-certification
- PhysX system software updated to version 9.09.0814 WHQL
- Optimizations for Batman: Arkham Asylum and Darkest of Days
NVIDIA DOWNLOADS PAGE (80.0 MB)
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