Nvidia has just come out with the new GeForce 310 graphics card, an entry-level graphics solution that supports 64-bit systems, HD movies, and Windows 7’s graphics-heavy interface.
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Nvidia outs budget GeForce 300 series GPU
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009Radeon HD 5970: the current king of the pixel hill
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
AMD has officially unveiled the ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics card, which currently sits on top of the company’s performance scale. The graphics card runs dual GPU chips for a total of 4.3 billion 40nm transistors and GDDR5 memory for the highest-end of high-end performance, and features 3200 stream processing units and 160 texture units, as well as support for DirectX 11 and OpenGL 3.2.
Maingear outs DX11-compatible gaming rigs
Monday, September 28th, 2009
Maingear has just released new desktop gaming PC configurations that come equipped with ATI’s Radeon 5870 series graphics cards. Just released last week, the Radeon HD 5870 offers full support for DirectX 11, enhanced 3D visual effects, ATI Stream parallel processing, and ATI’s Eyefinity tech that allows for multi-display setups (for linking up to three monitors).
Sapphire intros HD5850, HD 5870 graphics cards
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Sapphire is number two on the list of “partners to issue a release of ATI’s DirectX 11-compatible HD 5800 series.” The packaging and exterior design is different, but the features for Sapphire’s Radeon HD 5870 and HD 5850 are still similar to ATI’s reference design, with support for ATI’s Eyefinity multi-display tech and ATI Stream technology for parallel GPU-CPU processing. Both also come with 1GB of GDDR5 memory and enough processing power to make us feel a little bad about springing for last season’s batch of graphics cards.
Like XFX’s release, Sapphire’s HD 5800 series cards also come with a coupon for a free download of DiRT2, but also adds a free copy of Interactive Entertainment’s Battlestations Pacific.
XFX launches HD 5800-based GPUs
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
As expected, one of ATI’s partners, XFX, has launched their own version of graphics cards based on the HD 5800 series GPUs. The two new graphics cards feature ATI’s reference HD 5870 and HD 5850 designs, although the cooling chamber’s shell has been stylized with the XFX design and logo.
ATI intros DX11-compliant Radeon HD 5800 graphics cards
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
AMD’s graphics brand ATI has just come out with their most technologically advanced and feature-rich GPUs, the Radeon HD 5800 series. The company’s first set of graphics cards to fully support Windows 7’s DirectX 11, the HD 5800 series boasts twice the power over the previous generation of GPUs with up to 2.72 TeraFLOPS of processing power.
Intel licenses Nvidia SLI Technology for Core i5, i7 platforms
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Nvidia has just announced that Intel Corporation and other Intel motherboard manufacturers including Asus, EVGA, Gigabyte, and MSI, have all licensed Nvidia’s multi-GPU SLI technology for upcoming motherboards based on Intel’s Core i5 and i7 platforms with an LGA1156 socket. This announcement updates Nvidia’s SLI support to include all consumer PC platforms, including Intel’s Core i7, i5, Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Duo platforms, as well as new AMD systems based on the AMD Phenom II CPU.
BFG launches water-cooled GTX 285/295 graphics cards
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
In a way, we’ve seen it all before: high-end graphics card slapped with high-end cooling solution. It’s a bit different this time though; these graphics cards aren’t just fitted with a big fan with lights. Featuring Nvidia’s high-end GeForce GTX 285 and flagship GTX 295 GPUs, BFG’s new graphics cards feature a self-contained water-cooling kit to keep things chilly and quiet.
AMD releases WHQL Win7 drivers for ATI Radeon graphics
Friday, July 24th, 2009
AMD has just announced that they’ve released their first WHQL-certified ATI Catalyst graphics drivers for Windows 7. The newest version (Catalyst 9.7) promises better stability and compatibility for AMD platforms running Windows 7 (and Vista), as well as full support for the Win7 desktop interface’s effects. It also promises performance improvements for gamers playing on Win7 compared to Vista in both single card and multi-GPU configurations, and it makes sure that the new OS supports ATI’s video technologies such as ATI Stream.
Anyone (with an ATI Radeon graphics card, of course) looking to update their drivers for Windows 7, you can download it from here.
Club 3D announces HD 4890-based graphics card
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Euro-based graphics company Club 3D has just released their own build based on ATI’s HD 4890 graphics processor. Of course, the HD 4890 itself has been out for quite some time now, but it’s still one of the most powerful gaming graphics cards on the planet at the moment. Nothing much has been changed over ATI’s reference model except for the cooling chamber’s design, but it does feature an active fansink kit for cooling.
