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...
Fall '06 NVIDIA GPU Refresh - Part I: GeForce 7900 GS
NVIDIA is announcing two new cards here and hard launching one of them, meet the X1900 GT competitor: NV's GeForce 7900 GS.
29 by Derek Wilson on 9/6/2006Silence is Golden: Silent GPU Roundup
Today we have a massive roundup of 20 silent graphics cards from seven different card manufacturers. We'll put them all in order and see what kind of performance these...
49 by Josh Venning on 8/31/2006ATI's New High End and Mid Range: Radeon X1950 XTX & X1900 XT 256MB
As a last hurrah before the onslaught of DX10 parts the X1950 launches with a more reasonable price tag, and a 256MB X1900 XT arrives at less than $300.
74 by Derek Wilson on 8/23/2006Mid Range GPU Roundup - Summer 2006
Tired of only hearing about $600 graphics cards? If you've got $200 - $300 we'll tell you what to spend it on.
74 by Derek Wilson on 8/10/2006TripleHead2Go: The Latest External Multi-Display Upgrade from Matrox
The new multi-display box from Matrox adds another display over the previous DualHead2Go. We'll take a look at this "surround gaming" device and see how well it works.
23 by Josh Venning on 7/31/2006NVIDIA's PureVideo HD: HD-DVD Playback on the PC
Upcoming drivers will add support for NVIDIA PureVideo GPUs to accelerate the playback of HDCP protected content from HD-DVD and Blu-Ray devices. We take a first hand look at...
45 by Derek Wilson on 7/22/2006NVIDIA's Latest Drivers: The 90 Series Control Center
Today we are looking at NVIDIA's recently released beta ForceWare drivers. The user interface has been completely overhauled, but how does it compare with the current NVIDIA UI?
24 by Josh Venning on 6/9/2006NVIDIA Single Card, Multi-GPU: GeForce 7950 GX2
NVIDIA has taken the core technology behind its quad SLI initiative and rolled it out in the form of a single card with 2 GPUs on board. While others...
60 by Derek Wilson on 6/5/2006BFG PhysX and Performance Updates
AGEIA released a new driver last week to fix some of the framerate issues with GRAW. Today we'll take a look at our first retail boxed PhysX card and...
67 by Derek Wilson on 5/17/2006ASUS: The EN7600 GS Silent, and EN7800 GT TOP Silent
Today we take a look at two noiseless graphics cards from Asus based on the established 7800 GT as well as the more recent 7600 GS.
39 by Josh Venning on 5/12/2006Looking Back Pt. 3: The 6800 Ultra, ForceWare, and the Future
We wrap up our driver investigation series with a look at ForceWare performance on the NVIDIA 6800 Ultra.
24 by Ryan Smith on 5/11/2006Exclusive: ASUS Debuts AGEIA PhysX Hardware
ASUS has given AnandTech the opportunity to bring you the very first preview of actual PhysX PPU (Physics Processing Unit) hardware. We'll take a look at performance under a...
100 by Derek Wilson on 5/5/2006The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion GPU Performance
We compared virtually all of the high end and mid range PCI Express GPUs under Oblivion and looked at performance in this immersive title. Oblivion is now the...
100 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/26/2006Connect 3D and Sapphire Blizzard Radeon X1900 XTX
Today we're looking at two more of ATI's X1900 XTXs, one of which utilizes a radical cooling design.
24 by Josh Venning on 4/10/2006Black and White 2 v.1.2 Performance Update
With the 1.2 patch for Black and White 2, we wanted to check on the performance improvements that were promised, especially on ATI's side of things. We'll see...
22 by Josh Venning on 4/5/2006NVIDIA's Tiny 90nm G71 and G73: GeForce 7900 and 7600 Debut
Today NVIDIA is hardlaunching its 7900 GTX, 7900 GT and 7600 GT parts based on the G71 and G73 ICs. The new chips are a process shrink to 90nm...
97 by Derek Wilson on 3/9/2006Looking Back Pt. 2: X800 & Catalyst Under The Knife
We continue our driver investigation series with a look at Catalyst performance on the X800 Series
24 by Ryan Smith on 2/22/2006The EVGA 7300 GS: A New Quality Budget Card From NVIDIA
Today, we take a look at EVGA's version of the 7300 GS, the recent budget card from NVIDIA.
48 by Josh Venning on 2/20/2006X1900 XT/XTX Roundup: A Closer Look at the Performance Leader in Graphics
Today, we take a closer look at some X1900 XT and X1900 XTXs. How do these high-performance cards by Sapphire, HIS, PowerColor and GeCube stack up?
25 by Josh Venning on 2/15/2006ATI's All-In-Wonder X1900 Performance And DVD Decoding Quality
Today we take a look at the AIW X1900, the newest AIW from ATI. We'll also look at HQV DVD decoding for both ATI and NVIDIA.
43 by Josh Venning on 2/10/2006