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Sapphire and PowerColor Add Their Names to the List of Purveyors of HD 7990 Cards

Today will end with quite a few versions of the AMD Radeon HD 7990 graphics card out on sale. Then again, that isn't quite true. While AMD and a bunch of its partners have all released Radeon HD 7990 dual-GPU graphics adapters, none of them had anything unique to contribute. This, of course, is AMD's ow...

24 April 2013
11:01 GMT

Factory-Overclocked HD 7790 OC V2 Graphics Card Prepared by PowerColor

While Advanced Micro Devices is busy updating the Never Settle game bundle, its partners continue to release graphics cards based on its reference designs. PowerColor is the one making a move, having prepared the AX7790 1GBD5-DHV2/OC, or the Radeon HD 7790 OC V2. Obviously, the OC in the name means the card is fa...

12 April 2013
03:32 GMT

PowerColor Releases Yet More Radeon HD 7790 Cards

The stream of custom-cooled Radeon HD 7790 graphics cards is winding down, but there are still a few models that need people to know of them. PowerColor has two adapters to offer: the HD7790 OC and TurboDuo HD7790 OC. The former has a 1030 MHz GPU clock speed, 1 GB of GDDR5 memory at 6 GHz, an interface of 128 bits...

22 March 2013
16:01 GMT

New Radeon HD 7850 Graphics Card Released by PowerColor

While Gigabyte is releasing NVIDIA-based graphics cards, PowerColor, one of the brands owned by TUL Corporation, is helping the other camp. The company has officially introduced the PowerColor HD7850 Fling Force Edition [APAC Limited] graphics card. Fling Force is the name of the new cooler, which has extra fan bla...

6 December 2012
08:45 GMT

As Expected, PowerColor Intros Tahiti LE Video Card, PCS+ HD7870 Myst

The number of brands that made video cards powered by AMD's latest graphics processing unit, Tahiti LE, is low, and three of them are actually the same company under different names: Club 3D, PowerColor and VTX3D. We haven't seen VTX3D's new Radeon HD 7870 graphics adapter yet, but Club 3D's Rad...

22 November 2012
03:40 GMT

Dual-GPU PowerColor HD 7990 Graphics Card Released

Seeing a vendor of branded video cards announcing a new dual-GPU graphics adapter would come across as impressive most of the time, but PowerColor's move isn't all it's cracked up to be. Sure, there is no doubt about whether or not this is a dual-Tahiti XT video adapter, but the fact remains that the...

4 October 2012
02:23 GMT

PowerColor Launches Single-Slot Radeon HD 7750 4GB Video Card

Traditional AMD add-in-board (AIB) partner PowerColor has just launched no less than three new video cards featuring single-slot cooling systems. The cards are all AMD Radeon HD 7750 models but the memory chips used for the video buffer are not what we were expecting. We reported here on Gigabyte’s similar HD ...

17 September 2012
11:45 GMT

PowerColor Launches AMD Radeon PCS+ HD 7950 Boost State Edition

AMD is preparing for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 video card launch and, in the war for the $300 price point, the new Radeon HD 7950 Boost State Edition is the weapon of choice. Those who expect heaps of more GDDR5 memory or more shader cores active are in for a disappointment. AMD’s Radeon HD 7950 Boost State E...

4 September 2012
14:01 GMT

PowerColor Devil 13 HD7990, First Dual-Tahiti AMD Graphics Card

The murmurs of dual-Tahiti graphics cards seemed to have died down, but now we see that it was just a means of luring NVIDIA customers into a false sense of security and vindication, regardless of whether or not it was intentional. Conspiracy theories aside, we can now behold the first AMD dual-Radeon HD 7990 graph...

24 August 2012
04:17 GMT

PowerColor Launches 850/925 MHz AMD Radeon HD 7950 Graphics Card

PowerColor's latest product announcement could qualify as either a very well-placed press release or an unfortunate case of trying to be opportunistic. TUL Corporation (the owner of the PowerColor brand) has launched the PowerColor HD7950 Boost State Edition video board. Normally, we'd call this a logic...

16 August 2012
03:20 GMT

PowerColor HD7970 X2 Devil13 Clocked Over 1 GHz and Priced

PowerColor’s Vortex III cooling system will take care of cooling the video card and your banker should take care of the funds needed to purchase the monster. The Taiwanese video card company is reportedly planning to charge $1,200 for the PowerColor HD7970 X2 Devil13 graphics adapter in the United States. In ...

8 June 2012
05:32 GMT

PowerColor Shows Radeon Cards with 6 miniDisplayPort Connectors

We haven’t heard about AMD’s Radeon embedded video solutions in a while, but PowerColor has just reminded us that these are a great alternative those huge pre-overclocked Radeon cards. We’re talking about Tul Corporation’s latest edition of Embedded Radeon cards that feature the E6000 series ...

7 June 2012
09:01 GMT

PowerColor’s HD 7970 X2 Devil13 Has 17 Phases and DualBIOS

PowerColor’s Tahiti X2 initiative never ceases to amaze us. We’ve already seen it before here and here, but now the monster reveals its naked muscles. The card is reportedly controlled by a PLX PEX8747 PCIe 3.0 bridge chip and a VRM comprised of 5+2+1 for each graphics processing unit (GPU). All the com...

6 June 2012
11:51 GMT

Power Color Presents the Radeon HD 7870 Eyefinity 6

TUL Corporation, owner of the PowerColor brand, has announced today on its official website a multi-monitor edition of the AMD Radeon HD 7870 card.  The latest edition of PowerColor HD7870 Eyefinity 6 is optimized for multi-display, the Eyefinity technology being able to drive up to six monitors from a single c...

25 April 2012
04:31 GMT

PowerColor Unveils PCS+ HD7850 Video Card

A new video card will soon show up for order, if it hasn't already, courtesy of PowerColor. After so many high-end cards from NVIDIA's partners, PowerColor is offering something different. Long story short, the company has completed its latest AMD-powered card: PowerColor PCS+ HD7850. As the name implies...

7 April 2012
05:39 GMT

1150MHz Factory Overclocked PowerColor PCS+ HD7770 Now Official

A little more than a month after AMD introduced the Radeon HD 7770, PowerColor announced a new custom video card based on this design, which utilizes the company’s high-performance PCS+ cooling system and comes factory overclocked to an impressive 1150MHz. The graphics card in question is called the PCS+ HD777...

15 March 2012
19:01 GMT

CeBIT 2012: PowerColor Radeon HD 7970 Vortex II Makes Its Appearance

Well known to overclockers and enthusiasts, PowerColor’s Vortex II product line will soon get a new member as the company is currently working on releasing a new Radeon HD 7970 graphics card that will use this advanced cooling solution. The so called Radeon HD 7970 Vortex II was presented by PowerColor at this...

7 March 2012
05:15 GMT

PowerColor Launches Overclocked Radeon HD 7870, Reference Cards Too

Like more or less all of its peers, PowerColor, or TUL Corporation as the Taiwanese company is otherwise known, has released some Radeon HD 7800 Series graphics cards. Unlike HIS, PowerColor did play around with the clock frequencies a little bit, even if only on one of three video cards. For those unsure of what...

5 March 2012
10:01 GMT

PowerColor Radeon HD 7970 LCS Graphics Card Up for UK Pre-Order

AMD's Radeon HD 7970 video adapter is very powerful even in its base form, but PowerColor decided to make it stronger and tougher, by giving it a special cooling mechanism. The adapter easily stands apart from most of its peers primarily by virtue of its cooling module, rather than the clock rates. Where the ...

21 February 2012
02:50 GMT

PowerColor Delivers Single-Slot Radeon HD 7750 Graphics Card

PowerColor has just announced the expansion of its graphics card line with a new model based on AMD’s recently introduced Radeon HD 7750 design that relies on a single-slot cooler to keep the card’s temperatures in check. The redesigned PCB appears to be just slightly longer than that of the reference HD...

15 February 2012
16:01 GMT

PowerColor Radeon HD 7770 Graphics Card Now Official

PowerColor, one of AMD’s closest add-in board (AIB) partners, has announced recently the introduction of its own graphics card based on the Radeon HD 7770 design which works at AMD’s recommended 1GHz GPU clock rate. PowerColor’s graphics card doesn’t seem to differ in any way from AMD’s...

15 February 2012
09:01 GMT

PowerColor Radeon HD 7970 Packs Custom Dual-Fan Cooler

More than a month after AMD’s Radeon HD 7970 reached retail, add-in board makers still come out with new solutions based on this graphics card design, the latest to do so being PowerColor which just launched the HD7970 Dual Fan. The card is based on a proprietary PowerColor design and includes two large fans (p...

11 February 2012
04:20 GMT

PowerColor Readies Custom-Cooled Radeon HD 7970 Card

PowerColor is currently working on yet another graphics card based on the Radeon HD 7970 GPU, which will use an in-house developed cooler meant to make PowerColor’s solution more efficient than AMD’s reference design. The yet unnamed graphics card was recently pictured by TechPowerUp and it seems to rese...

9 February 2012
03:00 GMT

PowerColor Builds LCS HD7970 Liquid Cooled AMD Graphics Card

Over the past week, the video market has been filled with news about AMD's latest graphics card, Radeon HD 7950, but PowerColor is now going back to the stronger HD 7970, even giving it liquid cooling. Going right to the point, PowerColor has revealed the LCS HD7970, a new iteration of the AMD Radeon HD 7970 g...

3 February 2012
06:02 GMT

PowerColor Has a Pair of AMD Radeon HD 7950 Graphics Cards Too

Since Advanced Micro Devices finally made the official introduction of the Radeon HD 7950, PowerColor decided to reveal its own two cards. We have already seen the video controllers prepared by VTX3D and Micro-Star International (with and without Twin Frozr III cooling). Now, we are looking at PowerColor, otherwi...

31 January 2012
10:21 GMT

PowerColor Radeon HD 7950 PCS Pictured Ahead of Launch

PowerColor is getting ready for the imminent launch of AMD’s Tahiti Pro GPU and one of its most impressive graphics cards to use this new core, the Radeon HD 7950 PCS, has just made its appearance thanks to a leaked picture published just recently.The card was designed to use a custom cooling solution developed...

19 January 2012
03:10 GMT

CES 2012: PowerColor Shows Custom Radeon HD 7970 Graphics Card

Wanting to improve the reference Radeon HD 7970 design, PowerColor has developed a custom version of AMD’s graphics card that packs both an improved cooling system as well as an in-house designed PCB.The so called Radeon HD 7970 Vortex II was presented by PowerColor at this year’s CES fair and on a first ...

12 January 2012
20:01 GMT

Another HD 7970 Card Appears, from PowerColor

Like several others of AMD's partners, PowerColor has announced its own Radeon HD 7970 graphics adapter. Alas, anyone interested in buying it will have to wait for a while. This isn't because PowerColor isn't ready to sell them, but because the cards are already sold out, on Newegg at least. Like...

9 January 2012
16:31 GMT

PowerColor's Heavily Customized Devil 13 HD 6970 Listed in Europe

Back at the beginning of October, PowerColor announced us that they have finalized the design of a high-end custom HD 6970 graphics card known under the name of Devil 13, and now this GPU has finally made it to retail in Europe.Pricing for the card seems to be set at €428, about $599 US, which makes it quite a b...

31 October 2011
05:58 GMT

PowerColor Outs the SlingIt, a Full HD Wireless Video Streaming Device

PowerColor isn't the first company that comes to one's mind when thinking about wireless multimedia streaming solutions, but this hasn't stopped the maker from releasing such a device, which it calls the SlingIt.Like most other wireless streaming devices, the SligIt is comprised of two units, a transmi...

20 October 2011
09:40 GMT

PowerColor Unleashes Devil 13 HD 6970 Graphics Card

PowerColor has just announced the release of a new high-performance graphics card based on the AMD Radeon HD 6970 design, which uses a custom design in order to deliver higher gaming performance as well as silent operation.The new card is dubbed the Devil 13 HD6970 and doesn't seem to resemble in any way AMD...

5 October 2011
04:21 GMT

Next-Gen AMD GPUs Come in Early 2012, PowerColor Says

Reports concerning AMD's future series of graphics adapters have emerged in the past, but a recent one appears to contradict them, at least as far as the estimated time of arrival is concerned.As end-users must be aware, Advanced Micro Devices, like NVIDIA, has been working on its next range of graphics adapter...

19 August 2011
07:29 GMT

Club 3D Has a Dual-GPU HD 6870 Graphics Card of Its Own to Show

Hot on the heals of PowerColor's announcement of the Radeon HD 6870 X2 graphics cards, Club 3D has also introduced a dual-GPU solution based on the Barts XT core which should also become available in the first week of July.Even though the news may seem surprising at a first glance, the explanation is quite simpl...

23 June 2011
02:41 GMT

PowerColor Makes Official the Radeon HD 6870 X2, Expected in Early July

Showcased for the very first time during the Computex 2011 fair, PowerColor's dual-GPU Radeon HD 6870 graphics card was now made official and the initial shipments are expected to reach store shelves in the first week of July.The card is based on a custom PowerColor design and it uses a dual-fan cooling system t...

22 June 2011
06:11 GMT

PowerColor HD 6870 X2 to Arrive Next Month, HD 6970 X2 Will Follow Soon

Showcased at the recent Computex 2011 fair, the dual-GPU PowerColor Radeon HD 6870 X2 and HD 6970 X2 graphics cards, are expected to be launched later this summer, with the former scheduled to arrive at the end of June. Both cards use custom PCBs and cooling solutions, since PowerColor wanted to improve their over...

6 June 2011
02:48 GMT

AMD E-450 APU Gets Computex 2011 Preview

There has been quite some talk about what Intel has begun to show off at this year's Computex trade show, but AMD is no less prepared having brought forth, among other things, a new accelerated processing unit.Since Computex is such a large computer and electronics trade show, it stands to reason that there wou...

1 June 2011
03:50 GMT

PowerColor Shows Off Dual-GPU Radeon HD 6870

Outside of the monstrous Radeon HD 6970 X2 graphics card that we presented a short while ago, PowerColor is also working on developing a dual-GPU HD 6870 solution, which was also on display at Computex. The card is based on a custom PowerColor design and it uses a dual-fan cooling system that packs a massive alumi...

1 June 2011
02:35 GMT

PowerColor Challenges Asus Mars II with HD 6970 X2

Not contempt with AMD's own dual-GPU solution based on the Cayman XT core, PowerColor has developed a Radeon HD 6970 X2 solution of its own, which the company has created in order to challenge the supremacy of Asus' Mars II graphics card. Just like its GTX 580 counterpart built by Asus, the card uses a c...

31 May 2011
09:49 GMT

PowerColor Counters NVIDIA's GTX 560 with Radeon HD 6850

It looks like NVIDIA video cards aren't the only ones gracing the consumer market with their presence, as AMD partners, in this case PowerColor decided to offer a sort of response to the new 500 series model.By now, end-users will no doubt be aware of the fact that NVIDIA, and its partners, have released the Ge...

19 May 2011
04:44 GMT

PowerColor's PCS+ HD6770 Vortex II Edition Graphics Card Comes Factory Overclocked

PowerColor has just announced the introduction of a new graphics card built on the Radeon HD 6770 design which uses the company's second generation Vortex custom cooling system in order to deliver up to 25% better operating temperatures when compared to reference designs.The new graphics card, which is dubbed th...

12 May 2011
06:00 GMT

PowerColor to Release Dual GPU Radeon HD 6870 Graphics Card

PowerColor, one of AMD's most important graphics cards partners, is working to develop a special version of the Radeon HD 6870 that will use two Barts XT GPUs connected together in an internal CrossFire mode. The graphics card, which hasn't been yet named, is based on a custom PowerColor design and will ...

9 May 2011
02:55 GMT

PowerColor Makes Official the Liquid Cooled Radeon HD 6990 LCS

In mid-April, PowerColor has showed the world the first images of its upcoming liquid cooled Radeon HD 6990 LCS graphics card and now the Taiwanese company has officially announced that it started shipping this solution to its distributors. The PowerColor Radeon HD 6990 LCS combines AMD's flagship video card ...

6 May 2011
06:11 GMT

PowerColor Readies Single Slot Radeon HD 6850, Comes 4-Way CrossFireX Ready

PowerColor has started to develop a new single slot graphics card based on the Radeon HD 6850 design which is compatible with 4-way CrossFireX configurations and uses a custom-printed circuit board (PCB) as well as an in-house developed cooling solution.The redesigned PCB is just slightly longer than that of the refe...

21 April 2011
02:10 GMT

PowerColor Gets Ready to Release the Passively Cooled SCS3 Radeon HD 6850

PowerColor has been teasing us with pictures of its passively cooled SCS3 Radeon HD 6850 graphics card for more than six months now, and it finally seems that the company is getting ready to launch this new solution into the wild. The delays were most probably caused by design issues that came to light during the ...

14 April 2011
06:11 GMT

PowerColor Readies Liquid Cooled Radeon HD 6990 with EK Waterblock

Over the course of the last few years, many have argued that dual-GPU graphics cards should drop the regular air cooling employed in such solutions in favor of more advanced liquid cooling setups, so PowerColor has decided to develop the LCS Radeon HD 6990 model which pairs AMD's dual-GPU flagship card with an E...

13 April 2011
06:11 GMT

PowerColor's Vortex Line Welcomes Radeon HD 6950

Though the AMD Radeon HD 6950 was released quite a while ago, it looks like OEMs are still not done with making custom versions of it, as proven, most recently at least, by PowerColor.It looks like companies from around the world really are quite focused on promoting their graphics cards, both new and old.Just a sho...

13 April 2011
03:25 GMT

PowerColor Radeon HD 6790 Up for Grabs on Newegg, Priced at $150

With just a day to go until the Radeon HD 6790 becomes official, the very first graphics cards based on the Barts LE core are already up for grabs from various online stores, as the PowerColor Radeon HD 6790 has been listed on popular retailer Newegg.com for $149.99 US. Compared to most of the company's Radeo...

4 April 2011
02:53 GMT

PowerColor PCS+ Radeon HD 6870 Formally Unleashed

It appears that MSI is not the only company to release a Radeon-branded video controller, even though some might expect all focus to be on promoting the new, dual-chip graphics adapter from NVIDIA. With NVIDIA having released the GeForce GTX 590, its partners have released the floodgates, so to speak, and provided t...

25 March 2011
07:28 GMT

PowerColor Also Offers Warranty Support for the Radeon HD 6990 OC Mode

Soon after AMD said that the Radeon HD 6990 warranty wouldn't cover the cards that were damaged when the special OC switch was activated, XFX has announced that it will offer its customers full support no matter what mode the cards were run in. Now, just two days after this news was made public, PowerColor has i...

17 March 2011
06:30 GMT

Radeon HD 6870 Eyefinity 6 Edition Unleashed by PowerColor

Both NVIDIA and AMD are getting ready to officially launch their respective dual-GPU DirectX 11 cards but, in the meantime, their partners have to keep themselves busy, like PowerColor did recently with a new Radeon board.NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices don't often launch new consumer-oriented or professional...

3 March 2011
05:29 GMT


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