Every month or so ATI and Nvidia push out the latest and greatest drivers for their graphics chips all the while claiming to improve on the performance of earlier versions. Tom’s Hardware wonders if these claims are appropriate and compares…
Graphics Cards
AMD is officially anouncing its split up into two entities later today according to the New York Times. It’s two seperate halves will handle their respective businesses with one side designing chips while the other manufactures the company’s processors…
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The general trend with graphics cards is to bump up the amount of memory on board to entice those that don’t know any better, oddly enough it actually helps in this instance. bit-tech has a look at the ATI Radeon…
ATI has been firing on all cylinders up and down their product lines this year offering compelling feature sets and great performance at every price point. PC Perspective has a look at the Radeon HD 4670 which puts in some…
Graphics chip makers have been doing a good job of increasing performance of their products but they haven’t been able to reign in the amount of heat their creations pump out. Dual slot coolers with high-speed noisy fans are the…
Read more Gigabyte GV-R485MC-1GH Graphics Card, Powerful and Silent
There is an absolute glut in the mid-range graphics card segment with every manufacturer looking for different ways to improve on very similar product lines. HotHardware has a look at a pair of Nvidia 9800 GT based cards from…
Read more Gigabyte and Palit 9800 GT Comparison, More Midrange Options
It’s not all about the massive framerates and insane resolutions with your fancy pants anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing, sometimes you just need a simple graphics card for web browsing and watching your Blu-rays. ATi’s new Radeon HD 4550 has many…
New budget cards from ATI offer hope for gamers on a budget, as long as you don’t push them too hard (the cards, not the gamers). Both go on sale in October, with Direct X 10.1 support and with the…
Read more ATI's New Budget Cards: ATI Radeon HD 4550 and 4350
TG Daily brings us word of a new WHQL driver (Version 178.13) that “adds PhysX acceleration for all 8-, 9- and 200-series of graphics cards with at least 256 MB of memory.” For those of you that don’t have…
Adobe’s Creative Suite 4 is finally joining the GPU processing club. The update to the professional graphics editing suite now includes an OpenGL acceleration option. Here’s what it means for all you pixelsmiths, from APC: For instance, with the…
Read more Photoshop Finally Puts GPUs to Use
PC Perspective has a look at the Asus EN8600GT OC Gear graphics card. The board would seem like any other 8600GT card except for its massive chip cooler and the drive bay insert that allows you to control the card’s…
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