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ASUS Devises Dual-GTX 480 Monster 'MARS II'

NVIDIA hasn't exactly detailed its plans to create a Fermi-based dual-GPU card, but it definitely intends to make one, based on the GF104 GPU that powers the recently launched GTX 460. Still, even though it has no plans for a dual-GF100 product, its partners aren't prohibited from making some of their own....

16 July 2010
10:25 GMT

NVIDIA Dual-GTX 460 Card With Two GF104 Comes This Year

NVIDIA recently launched its GeForce GTX 460 DirectX 11 video board. This graphics card is powered by the GF104 graphics processing unit, the second Fermi GPU that the company made and the one that was received quite well by reviewers. Not long ago, Fudzilla even managed to uncover the fact that this chip actually ha...

14 July 2010
06:21 GMT

ASUS Rams Market With 4GB Dual-GPU ARES Graphics Card

NVIDIA may have regained the performance crown for single-GPU graphics when it unleashed the GeForce GTX 480, but the real top position was kept by AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5970 dual-GPU model. As such, in order to push performance to even more ridiculous heights, some of AMD's partners thought they would make a...

8 July 2010
06:34 GMT

Galaxy Dual-GPU GTX 480 Has a Dedicated PhysX Processor

Having had the DirectX 11 market to itself for about six months, ATI, business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, sold a significant number of cards. During that time, NVIDIA sales declined, forcing hardware makers to take unusual measures in order to reduce their GT 200 Series inventories, among other things. This did ...

4 June 2010
03:10 GMT

NVIDIA Dual-GTX 470 Demoed at Computex

Before NVIDIA had unveiled its GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480, it was assumed that the dual-GPU adapter that the Santa Clara company would eventually create would be based on the same GF100 GPU as these high-end offerings. After the launch, however, the high TDPs of them both made it almost completely clear that this w...

2 June 2010
03:47 GMT

Dual-Fermi Card Dubbed GTX 490, Battles 4GB HD 5970

AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5970 has been selling for more than half a year now, and the CPU and GPU maker's partners have already demonstrated 4GB versions of it. This puts NVIDIA in a rather tight position, considering it has yet to even develop a dual-Fermi adapter. Had research proceeded more smoothly, NVIDIA m...

25 May 2010
03:54 GMT

NVIDIA Scraps Dual-Fermi Graphics Card Plans

Though the GeForce GTX 480 is the fastest single-GPU card on the market at this time, the performance leader is still the dual-GPU ATI Radeon HD 5970. Of course, considering that GF100 is NVIDIA's strongest GPU so far, it was assumed that the graphics-solution developer would build a dual-GPU card based on it. U...

14 May 2010
06:04 GMT

ASUS to Squash Graphics Market with 4GB HD 5970 Ares

NVIDIA may have finally introduced its GeForce GTX 400 Series of DirectX 11-capable graphics adapters but it can only sigh as AMD grins, because the latter, even though it lost the single-CPU performance crown, still has the dual-GPU HD 5970 to keep its rank as overall performance king. Now, to make matters even more...

12 April 2010
05:33 GMT

Dual-Fermi NVIDIA Card Not Coming Anytime Soon

There is no doubt that the currently most highly anticipated consumer products, at least as far as graphics are concerned, are the upcoming GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 graphics cards from NVIDIA. These two devices are set to debut at the end of the month and have been on the minds of most end-users that follow the ne...

11 March 2010
09:58 GMT

Galaxy Also Readies Dual-GTS 250 Card

It seems that Fermi GF100-based graphics adapters aren't the only NVIDIA-based products that will come out soon. Even though graphics card makers are mainly focused on raising the hype of their new, still unreleased DirectX 11 cards, some are also working on making new kinds of products based on older graphics ...

11 March 2010
09:34 GMT

VIA's Dual-GPU Card to Boast Support for 8 Monitors

Even though Advanced Micro Devices seems to be preparing, with great anticipation, to launch the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eeyfinity 6 edition next month, it appears that the company is not the only one putting together graphics cards with two GPUs or multi-monitor support. In fact, VIA will use the opportunity provided by ...

18 February 2010
08:47 GMT

ASUS Planning Dual-HD 5870 Ares

Not such a long time after the web was hit by rumors that Galaxy was working on a dual-GTS 250 graphics card, another report, this time from o.v.e.r.clockers.at, has ASUS allegedly planning on putting together a dual-GPU card of its own, albeit AMD-based. The rumors make the rather ambitious claim that ASUS is devisi...

30 January 2010
07:20 GMT

Galaxy Working on Dual-GPU GTS 250

Most graphics-card news in the past few months has revolved around the DirectX 11-capable cards from AMD and the still-unreleased Fermi-based GF100 video card from NVIDIA. However, an as-of-yet unheard of and rather unexpected development has taken the form of another dual-GPU card, this time NVIDIA-based. Galaxy has...

20 January 2010
06:39 GMT

NVIDIA's Dual-GPU Fermi in April, Mainstream Cards in June

Following the recent details on the upcoming Fermi GPU architecture that NVIDIA made available, news of the company's future GeForce cards continues to surface. Despite the outfit's secrecy regarding the clocks of its next-generation GF100 cards, there are reports claiming that NVIDIA is already working on ...

19 January 2010
07:01 GMT

Galaxy Starts Working on a Dual-GPU Graphics Card

Although known for its restrictive policies concerning just how much its partners can use from its portfolio, NVIDIA seems to have had a change of heart and may have started allowing them to craft dual-GPU adapters. This is probably due to just how well AMD has been doing lately, with its many recent DirectX-compatib...

19 November 2009
09:51 GMT

AMD's Radeon HD 5970 Is Here, World's Fastest Graphics Card

It appears that the recent reports on the Internet have been correct and that the Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has now detailed its latest Radeon graphics card, the much-anticipated HD 5970, a dual-GPU monster designed to be the fastest graphics card in the world. Featuring full support for Mic...

18 November 2009
04:07 GMT

Radeon HD 5970 'Hemlock' Card Specifications

AMD's next-generation, dual-GPU graphics cards, the much-anticipated Radeon HD 5970, codenamed Hemlock, is just around the corner, given the increasing number of leaked details that have recently surfaced the Internet. While we still aren't certain when the new card becomes available, with TSMC's 40nm...

11 November 2009
06:38 GMT

New Radeon X2 Graphics Card Could Be the HD 5950

For those who keep a close eye on what's going on in the world of graphics cards, the end of last month brought them a couple of leaked pictures of AMD's next-generation dual-GPU card, the rumored HD 5970. Earlier this month, an updated rumor also provided us with some of the technical specifications of th...

10 November 2009
08:35 GMT

AMD's Radeon HD 5970 Shows Up in Leaked Pictures

Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices is expected to up the performance ante with the release of a new Radeon graphics card, which will boast a dual-GPU design and will be launched under the Radeon HD 5970 branding. While the card is expected to be released sometime next month, no specific details have y...

30 October 2009
07:18 GMT

New Dual-GPU EVGA Graphics Card to Be Launched on Halloween

EVGA and NVIDIA, two of the world's biggest names in the graphics card industry, have jointly announced that they will host a Halloween party where they will make public the launch of a new graphics card. Unfortunately, the specific technical details of the new product haven't yet been announced, but there ...

22 October 2009
08:20 GMT

GeForce 55nm GTX 295 Already Sampled

It appears that NVIDIA has already begun sampling its first 55nm graphics cards, which are expected to provide users with the power of a GT200 graphics processor, capable of higher performance rates than the company's current GT200-based graphics cards. The new 55nm GPU, developed by the Santa Clara, California-...

15 December 2008
04:29 GMT

NVIDIA GTX260 GX2 Named GTX295

As previously reported, the Santa Clara-based NVIDIA graphics chip manufacturer is preparing the launch of a 55 nanometer card, which has been so far known under the name of GeForce GTX260 GX2. The upcoming part, as its name suggests, is expected to be a dual-GPU card, based on the company's GT200 graphics core,...

8 December 2008
05:27 GMT

ATI Sheds Light on Radeon HD 4850 X2

Back in August, Advanced Micro Devices graphics group ATI promised to the world the Radeon HD 4850 X2 graphics card, a new solution that would put NVIDIA's GTX 280 on its knees. As ATI stated at the moment, the card was supposed to come to the market by the end of September, yet that didn't happen, as we a...

17 October 2008
05:07 GMT

Asetek Claims First Liquid Cooling Solution for AMD's 'Spartan'

Yesterday will go down in history as the day when AMD's graphics subsidiary, ATI, finally succeeded in releasing a card that is impressively better than NVIDIA's high-performance GeForce cards. After the official release, a number of AMD's board partners also announced their implementation of the compa...

13 August 2008
05:35 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

AMD's HD 4870 X2 Launches Tomorrow - NVIDIA's Worst Nightmare

The countdown has begun, and we are getting closer to the release of ATI's "Spartan," the dual-GPU Radeon HD 4870 X2. For those who are not in the know, this is a card expected to be released tomorrow, when it will finally take NVIDIA's crown in the high-end graphics market and, at the same time, position A...

11 August 2008
10:11 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

Asustek Reportedly Working on ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

Taiwanese manufacturer Asustek is reportedly working on a new edition of ATI Radeon HD 3850, that will come with two graphics cores. Following the immediate success of the company's Radeon 3870 X2 dual-GPU behemoth, the Taiwanese manufacturer will pitch the new offering at the performance-mainstream graphics ent...

2 April 2008
06:32 GMT

AMD: the Radeon 3870 X2 Has Just Landed!

The short delay in the launch of the AMD Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics card surely let users sweat cold for a few days. It wouldn't be the first time for the chipmaker to first delay the product for a few days then announce that it is completely wrecked and useless, so it would arrive six months later. Fortunately,...

28 January 2008
03:42 GMT

Incoming Dual-GPU Radeon HD 2600 Cards

Dual-GPU graphics cards are the new trend these days as they allow users to build pretty powerful gaming machines even on mainboards that are not equipped with multi card capabilities like SLI or CrossFire. While Nvidia-based multi graphics processing unit cards are not common it looks like AMD just discovered a whol...

18 September 2007
02:52 GMT


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