GPUs
AMD has made itself quite a reputation with its bundling campaigns over the years, and every new season we can be sure that the company will be giving away free games with the purchase of its hardware. This summer will certainly not be exception as AMD will be bundling Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and Unknown 9: Awakening titles with its Ryzen 7000 CPUs and Radeon RX 7000 video cards. The latest bundle offer essentially covers all of AMD's existing mid-range and high-end consumer desktop products, sans the to-be-launched Ryzen 9000 series. That includes not only AMD's desktop parts, such as the Ryzen 9 7800X3D, but also virtually their entire stack of Radeon RX 7000 video cards, right on down to the 7600 XT. AMD's laptop...
GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB Roundup
We are finishing out our retail roundups of GeForce 8800 hardware with a look at the 320MB GTS parts from different vendors.
24 by Derek Wilson on 3/27/2007The Future of Anti-Aliasing Settings in Question: NVIDIA Discussion
Times are changing and the fate of AA settings in NVIDIA's driver is at stake. Find out what the problem is, what's being considered and what you can...
50 by Derek Wilson on 3/15/2007Factory Overclocked 8800 Roundup
We pit multiple factory overclocked 8800 cards against each other to find out which offer the most value.
20 by Derek Wilson on 3/12/2007Performance Scaling with OCZ's 8800 GTX
OCZ has decided to augment its memory, cooling and power supply business with a high end graphics product. Today we test OCZ's graphics hardware and dive deeper into 8800...
12 by Derek Wilson on 2/16/2007Power Within Reach: NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB
NVIDIA has launched a cheaper G80 based 8800 GTS with half the RAM of the original. We explore the performance and memory size impact.
55 by Derek Wilson on 2/12/2007Coming Soon to HD DVD: Silicon Optix HD HQV
Silicon Optix has provided us with an early version of their HD HQV test. We test AMD and NVIDIA hardware to get an idea of HD image quality on...
27 by Derek Wilson on 2/8/2007HD-DVD Playback - On the Xbox 360 & on NVIDIA GPUs
As a follow up to our recent articles on HD media playback, we will now take a look at a couple HD-DVD movies using the Xbox 360 player.
51 by Derek Wilson & Manveer Wasson on 12/15/2006HD Video Playback: H.264 Blu-ray on the PC
We now have Blu-ray titles that make use of H.264 encoding in order to put our hardware to the test.
86 by Derek Wilson on 12/11/2006Splinter Cell: Double Agent: A Performance Analysis
The newest addition to the Splinter Cell series has recently been released for the PC. We'll take a look at the game and see how it runs on several...
28 by Josh Venning on 12/8/2006NVIDIA and ATI HDCP Compatible Graphics Cards Roundup
Today we have a hefty roundup of NVIDIA and ATI cards which all have HDCP capability. We'll talk about HDCP and what it's going to mean for you, as...
48 by Josh Venning on 11/16/2006GeForce 8800 Roundup: The Best of the Best
You know you want G80, now it's time to find out which card is the best.
34 by Josh Venning on 11/13/2006NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 (G80): GPUs Re-architected for DirectX 10
The DirectX 10 wars have begun, and NVIDIA just fired the first shot.
111 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on 11/8/2006Introducing the Radeon X1650 XT: A New Mainstream GPU from ATI
ATI has just launched their new Radeon X1650 XT. Looking to compete against NVIDIA's 7600 GT, will it fit the bill whenever it finally becomes available?
33 by Josh Venning on 10/30/2006ATI Radeon X1950 Pro: CrossFire Done Right
By integrating the compositing engine onto RV570, ATI has vastly improved the CrossFire user experience for it's X1900 GT replacement.
45 by Derek Wilson on 10/17/2006Fall '06 NVIDIA GPU Refresh - Part III: GeForce Go 7950 GTX
NVIDIA's fall refresh concludes with an updated mobile part, offering the expected CPU and memory speed upgrades.
11 by Ryan Smith on 10/16/2006The GPU Advances: ATI's Stream Processing & Folding@Home
Another step has been taken in the evolution of the GPU, with ATI's R500 series now providing a significant performance boost for distributed computing.
43 by Ryan Smith on 9/30/2006ASUS P5B Deluxe: ATI CrossFire and Intel P965 Tango
We preview the performance potential of the Intel P965 with ATI CrossFire. Is it all it can be?
22 by Gary Key on 9/22/2006The NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS: A Closer Look
Today we're taking a closer look at NVIDIA's 7900 GS with a mini-roundup from five manufacturers: Albatron, BFG, EVGA, Leadtek and XFX.
42 by Josh Venning on 9/19/2006Fall '06 NVIDIA GPU Refresh - Part II: GeForce 7950 GT and SLI
NVIDIA's recently launched overclocked 7900 GT replacement has arrived. Will the 7950 GT have what it takes to compete with the X1900 XT in value?
31 by Derek Wilson on 9/14/2006PhysX Performance Update: City of Villains
With the City Of Villains Issue 7 update, PhysX support has now moved out of beta and into full production. What has changed, what remains the same, and...
33 by Ryan Smith on 9/7/2006