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Gigabyte to Deliver Passively-Cooled HD 4850

There is certainly a significant amount of buzz surrounding AMD's current generation of Radeon graphics cards. As it has been proven by several benchmarks, the company’s HD 4000 series can deliver an impressive performance level, but at a much more affordable price tag, which is why major graphics card man...

5 September 2008
10:57 GMT

ASUS Officially Intros New 9800GT-Based Matrix Series Card

ASUS has officially unveiled the new ROG EN9800GT graphics, as part of the company's successful Matrix Series. The newly announced product was first spotted last week, alongside another Matrix Series card, based on AMD's Radeon HD 4850. Designed to provide gaming users with a boost of graphics performance, ...

5 September 2008
03:20 GMT

AMD to Launch New Low-Level Radeon Cards

AMD is just getting used to being the leading manufacturer of high-performance graphics, and all thanks to its high-end dual-chip Radeon HD 4870 X2. On the other hand, NVIDIA is becoming more familiar with the entry-level market with the release of its recent GeForce cards, the 9500GT and the even lower 9400GT. Unfo...

2 September 2008
03:53 GMT

NVIDIA Preps GeForce 9550GT

Just recently, NVIDIA has officially introduced its GeForce 9400GT graphics card, designed for entry-level desktop computer users. The new card was released just after the Santa Clara chip maker had announced a couple of highly anticipated GeForce models, designed for the mainstream and entry-level markets, including...

29 August 2008
03:52 GMT

NVIDIA's GeForce 9400GT Is Alive

Following numerous rumors surrounding NVIDIA's cheapest GeForce 9-series graphics cards, the Santa Clara-based chip maker has finally decided to officially release the 9400GT. As expected, a number of the company's board partners have already announced their own versions of the card, which means that users ...

27 August 2008
22:42 GMT

NVIDIA's Secret Weapon: 40nm GPUs

According to the most recent details regarding NVIDIA's upcoming graphics products, the Santa Clara-based chip maker is planning to release its very first 40nm GPUs, even before competitor AMD has a chance of delivering its own 40nm-based solutions. Apparently, NVIDIA will step up to the next-generation TSMC (Ta...

26 August 2008
09:14 GMT

NVIDIA CUDA Boosts Speed for Pegasys Video Processing Solution

Those of you that have taken a keener interest in technology-related news these days must know of NVIDIA's NVISION event, which is currently taking place in San Jose, California, and will end tomorrow. It is here that the green company is expected to announce a number of technologies and discuss future projects,...

26 August 2008
06:28 GMT

Leaked GeForce 9400GT Photos Surface

Despite the fact that NVIDIA is yet to officially unveil its GeForce 9400GT graphics card, leaked photos of it have already surfaced on the Internet, suggesting that the date when it drops is getting closer. Two of NVIDIA's graphics card partners, namely Gigabyte and Zotac, are ready to release their own models ...

26 August 2008
04:59 GMT

AMD and Game Devs Work to Enable DirectX 10.1 Gaming

One of ATI's main betting cards against NVIDIA's GeForce graphics cards is the DirectX 10.1 support for the company's latest Radeon graphics cards. Unfortunately, due to the lack of DirectX 10.1-enabled gaming applications, AMD's strategy can't be exploited to its full potential. However, the...

25 August 2008
11:11 GMT

Sparkle Has New GeForce 9500GT-Based Cards

Not too long ago, NVIDIA released three new graphics cards designed for the mainstream and entry-level market segments. After the official release, several of the company's board partners announced their own graphics cards based on the brand new GeForce 9500GT, 9800GT and 55nm 9800GTX . Sparkle decided to extend...

25 August 2008
05:01 GMT

MSI Goes All Out with HD 4870 Quad CrossFire System

When it comes to graphics cards, the biggest buzz in today's market has to be around AMD's high-end HD 4870 Radeon card, which was unveiled quite some time ago. Not that it performs better than NVIDIA's GTX 280 (a job that was left for the recently released HD 4870 X2), but rather because of its signif...

22 August 2008
08:37 GMT

More Details on AMD's RV730-Based Cards

As we mentioned today in one of our posts, AMD is set to roll out three new graphics cards, and photos of them have already been spotted on the Internet. As expected, rumors are starting to build up and, because of them, we can now offer you more details about the upcoming cards, including core speeds for both the gr...

21 August 2008
09:02 GMT

Gainward Preps Non-Reference HD 4870

Not too long ago, just right after the release of AMD's latest Radeon HD 4000-series of graphics cards, a rather surprising announcement was made by the graphics firm Gainward. The company, which up to that moment had been one of NVIDIA's best board partners, decided to roll out a couple of new ATI Radeon-b...

19 August 2008
11:10 GMT

MSI Unveils New NVIDIA GeForce Cards with Custom Cooling

Despite the fact that almost everybody in the IT business is talking about AMD's latest high-performance, dual-chip HD 4870 X2 graphics card, MSI has decided to unveil two new models based on NVIDIA's latest mainstream GPUs, the 9500GT and 9800GT, and also a new HD 4870-based one. Unlike the reference cards...

15 August 2008
09:48 GMT

AMD Aims for Half of Discrete Graphics Market in 2008

AMD's official announcement for the latest high-performance graphics card, HD 4870 X2, was followed by yet another one, also made by the Sunnyvale-based maker. It appears that the company's graphics business has managed to achieve a market share of 40%, up from 30%, due to the success of its recently releas...

15 August 2008
06:40 GMT

CoolIT Second to Unveil Cooling Solution for AMD's Spartan

After Asetek rushed to reveal, earlier this week, the first liquid cooling solution for AMD's latest dual-chip graphics card, CoolIT has been quick to follow suit with its own liquid cooling system for the HD Radeon 4870 X2. As with Asetek's product, the new Dual Drive Bay VGA Cooler has been designed to ef...

15 August 2008
04:16 GMT

NVIDIA Marches on - Intros New Quadro FX GPUs

As you have probably heard - or even read in some of our previous posts - HP, Lenovo and Dell have recently announced the release of a number of business-oriented notebooks. Some of these have one thing in common, namely that they come equipped with an NVIDIA Quadro FX mobile GPU. On that note, the Santa-Clara based ...

13 August 2008
09:48 GMT

Make Way for the "Spartan" - AMD's Radeon HD 4870 X2

After rumors of AMD's dual-GPU Radeon HD 4870 X2 have filled hundreds of pages in the media, the Sunnyvale company has finally rolled out its latest flagship high-performance card. Furthermore, it looks like AMD is set on releasing a second dual-GPU card, based on the performance-range HD 4850 graphics processor...

12 August 2008
03:35 GMT

Inno3D Intros New Overclocked GeForce 9800GT

If you haven't grown tired yet of all the recent reports on the GeForce 9800GT-based graphics card, then you might want to check out the latest offer coming from Inno3D. The company has recently revealed two new graphics cards that feature the above-mentioned NVIDIA graphics processor and the Hurricane and Accel...

11 August 2008
04:20 GMT

GeForce 9300GS Listed for €30

It has become somewhat of a trend for NVIDIA's graphics cards to pop up at various online retailers before they are launched officially. We've seen this happen with the company's current lineup, and we are once again witnessing the same thing with one of its upcoming products. However, before jumping t...

6 August 2008
06:35 GMT

EVGA Muffles Rumors of Leaving NVIDIA

Given all the recent rumors of NVIDIA's major board partners leaving the Santa Clara-based chip maker, it looks like things aren't all that gloomy, at least as far as one partner is concerned. EVGA, which was reported to have pondered on manufacturing Radeon graphics cards, has infirmed the latest reports a...

5 August 2008
06:37 GMT

PowerColor to Bring HDMI, DisplayPort-Equipped Radeon HD 4850

Without a single trace of doubt, AMD's channel partners are going through what can only be deemed a terrific period, and they all have the release of the company's latest HD 4000-series of graphics cards to thank for. Just recently, most of them have announced the availability of various models, developed o...

1 August 2008
06:16 GMT

EVGA Brings New AKIMBO-Series Cards

As most of you already know, last Tuesday, the Santa Clara-based graphics manufacturer, NVIDIA, finally decided to release the latest GeForce cards, the 9800GTX , 9800GT and 9500GT. Following the official launch, a number of the company's board partners, including EVGA, also announced their versions of NVIDIA�...

1 August 2008
05:26 GMT

AMD Working on DirectX 11 Support

Now that AMD's latest Radeon cards have come to be among the company's most successful products, and given that the HD 4870 X2 is expected to drop soon, on-going rumors have picked up on yet another interesting move on behalf of the company. Apparently, AMD is currently working on DirectX 11-support for its...

31 July 2008
10:13 GMT

Force3D Equips AMD's Latest Radeons with Accelero Twin Turbo

A little while ago, Artic Cooling released a new VGA cooling solution, which was designed to provide support for the latest high-end graphics cards from both NVIDIA and AMD. Dubbed the Accelero Twin Turbo, its design features two fans which are meant to provide an optimum cooling solution even for the highest perform...

31 July 2008
06:01 GMT

Did NVIDIA Secretly Shrink 9600GT to 55nm?

According to a recent post on the Expreview website, NVIDIA has secretly equipped its GeForce 9600GT graphics cards with some new 55nm GPUs. Apparently, this took place after the Santa Clara-based graphics manufacturer rolled out its 9800GTX cards, which were the first to be built using the 55nm fabrication technolo...

30 July 2008
10:59 GMT

Rumors of 55nm GeForce 9500GT-Based Cards Make the Rounds

As you might have heard, a short while back, NVIDIA was rumored to be preparing to bring a second 55nm graphics card based on the GeForce 9500GT GPU. Unfortunately, the Santa-Clara-based graphics manufacturer has already released the card, but has equipped it with a 65nm graphics processor. Still, rumors of a future ...

30 July 2008
07:02 GMT

The GeForce 9800GT and 9500GT Have Landed

It looks like the much anticipated GeForce 9800GT and 9500GT are finally out, with several of NVIDIA's channel partners having already introduced their own versions based on them. As expected, the new GeForce cards are designed for the entry-level and mid-range segments, which means that they will be affordable ...

29 July 2008
11:02 GMT

NVIDIA to Launch New Notebook Chips

Despite all the recent articles that claim that NVIDIA is due to launch its latest GeForce cards today, the Santa Clara chip manufacturer might actually have a little surprise in store for everybody. The company could actually release some notebook chips today, pushing the desktop GeForce range back for a later relea...

29 July 2008
09:05 GMT

GeForce 9500GT Is NVIDIA's Second 55nm Card

NVIDIA's upcoming graphics cards, based on the G92 graphics processor, have been the topic of most of last week's news reports coming in. And, while we're not talking about high-end products, these mainstream, G92-based cards are still interesting enough. On that note, more news about NVIDIA's car...

28 July 2008
04:41 GMT

EVGA Keeps Them Coming

If you are an NVIDIA fan and you are looking to acquire a new graphics card, then you will probably want to check out EVGA's offer. First off, it has one of the most comprehensive GT200-series offers on the market, so you are bound to find something that comes to meet your every requirement. On top of that, the ...

28 July 2008
03:09 GMT

ASUS Preps Two 9500GT Cards

As you might have learned by now, NVIDIA is expected to add a couple of new graphics cards to its GeForce lineup, some of which are designed for mainstream and entry-level users. Since the launch date is getting noticeably closer (the GeForce 9800GT is set to arrive next week, on July 29), various versions of the car...

25 July 2008
05:12 GMT

NVIDIA's GeForce 9800GT Spotted

Reports on unreleased products sometimes get to be quite overwhelming and the fact that, in most cases, they refer to a release date set in a vague and undetermined future (generally described with the equally vague "soon" term) certainly does not help. This is also the case with NVIDIA's 9800GT, which is expect...

24 July 2008
09:23 GMT

Zotac Goes Wild on Connectivity

It looks like Sapphire isn't the only graphics manufacturer that likes to experiment with a certain GPU. In fact, one of NVIDIA's partners seems to be doing the same thing with a GeForce 9600 GT card. The partner in question is Zotac, which is rumored to release a new custom-built card, based on the 65nm G9...

24 July 2008
05:52 GMT

Sapphire Adds New HD 4850-Based Card

Because AMD's recently released Radeon graphics cards have been highly appreciated by both the media and the users, all of the company's partners must be doing very well. This is but a natural conclusion, if we only take in consideration the number of manufacturers that have already released custom-built ca...

23 July 2008
08:22 GMT

High Hopes for NVIDIA's 9800GTX+ Cards

As we reported in a previous article, NVIDIA's GeForce 9800GTX edition has become available at a number of its board partners. However, even if details such as the specs, pricing and photos of the new graphics card have already been revealed, the green company is yet to officially launch it. Not that this in it...

23 July 2008
05:14 GMT

RV710 and RV730 Ready Ahead of Schedule

No one can really say that AMD is doing all that well these days but, as far its graphics business is concerned, things appear to be shaping the way the Sunnyvale-based company wants them to. And that's mainly because, for the first time in years, ATI, AMD's graphics subsidiary has managed to bring out a ca...

22 July 2008
10:38 GMT

NVISION 08: New 55nm Card to Take On the HD 4870 X2

As most of you might know by now, ATI, AMD's graphics subsidiary, will release a new video card that is said to position AMD as the leading graphics card manufacturer. And this is exactly why NVIDIA's current GeForce lineup has recently underwent a series of price cuts, which, looking at things on their bri...

21 July 2008
03:17 GMT

NVIDIA and ATI Have Been Lying to Us

It's safe to say that most of us believe that the rivalry between the two biggest chip manufacturers is pretty much real and intense. Over time, countless words have been spent on said rivalry, all of them claiming that big players like NVIDIA and ATI have never seen eye to eye. But they do say that, more often ...

19 July 2008
04:30 GMT

Summer 2009: Intel Launches Larrabee

What with the abundance of rumors surrounding Intel's upcoming discrete graphics card, the Larrabee, it's only understandable if some of you have already grown a bit weary of it, especially as none has revealed, so far, an estimated release date and all we had to make do with was pure speculation. Today bri...

18 July 2008
04:33 GMT

New Hydra Technology to Eclipse SLI and CrossFire

If we are to take a close look at the current graphics market, we can easily say that it lacks a competitive edge, as there are only two dominant players, NVIDIA and AMD. And while these two are battling, Intel is preparing to unleash its own discrete solution in the form of the Larrabee chip. But until that happens,...

17 July 2008
09:18 GMT

Sapphire's HD 4850 TOXIC Finally Lands

We had to wait quite some time before we finally got to see the latest Sapphire graphics card, but chances are it may have all been worth it. Of course, we are talking about the highly anticipated HD 4850 TOXIC Edition, a card that has been so hyped that it should practically sell the moment it hits the store shelves...

17 July 2008
06:29 GMT

Intel's Larrabee Goes Against Everything Else

Intel is undoubtedly the worldwide leading chip manufacturer and, as NVIDIA is disputing AMD for the highest-performance graphics card crown, the company might be planning to change the graphics scene altogether. Development for the upcoming Larrabee processor is currently underway and it is precisely it that got peo...

17 July 2008
05:39 GMT

Prices for NVIDIA's Latest Card Continue to Drop

By now, most of you have already found out that NVIDIA is currently going through a rough patch, especially as far as the GeForce lineup is concerned. This mostly comes as a direct consequence of the fact that AMD's graphics subsidiary has finally succeed in putting forward a more than interesting product. Even ...

17 July 2008
03:18 GMT

Early Benchmarks of NVIDIA's 9500GT

Although these days everybody is talking about AMD's upcoming graphics "champion," the dual-GPU Radeon HD 4870 X2, it seems that some still found the time to have a look at one of NVIDIA's upcoming cards. The conclusion was that, even if it is far from being a top performer, the card does provide some level...

15 July 2008
03:22 GMT

Radeon HD 4850 X2 to Be Launched in September

It seems like AMD's graphics subsidiary is receiving an impressive amount of attention from the online media. Unlike in the previous years, the latest news places ATI in a very favorable light, something that the red team hasn't seen in years. The most recent reports coming in talk about a number of Radeon ...

14 July 2008
11:02 GMT

AMD Finally Confirms HD 4870 X2 Launch

After the series of rumors that have surfaced, saying that AMD's upcoming high-end graphics card would be released either in July or in August, there's finally something official coming from one of the company's representatives. According to Raja Koudri, worldwide CTO (Products Group) at AMD, the new "...

14 July 2008
10:07 GMT

The Latest Radeon Graphics Cards Are Doing Well, but AMD Isn't

Contrary to what some might believe, AMD isn't doing very well with its chip business at the moment. Sadly, this holds true even if we take in consideration the favorable articles that have been recently written in support of the company's latest Radeon graphics cards. In fact, it is exactly the graphics se...

14 July 2008
08:27 GMT

AMD's Radeon HD 4870 X2 Slated for an August Release

It appears that AMD's upcoming graphics monster is still on for an August release, contrary to the rumors we told you about just yesterday. Apparently, AMD will not go official with its new graphics card until next month, which means that enthusiast users will have to wait for a while longer before getting to pu...

11 July 2008
09:34 GMT

More Bad News for NVIDIA: Sued by Rambus

Here is a business plan that some might consider twice before putting into practice: create a company that can obtain numerous technology patents and license technologies for which it has no production facilities to work on. Said company will then engage in a number of lawsuits that will be quickly settled through a ...

11 July 2008
05:16 GMT




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