Tag: Graphics Cards
Graphic Cards for PC: Tips for Choosing the Right One
AMD "Never Settle Forever" GPU bundles will offer you your pick of free PC games
On the face of things, free games bundled in with PC graphics cards seem like great deals, regularly popping in top games alongside the hardware to power them. The problem is, if you're a hardcore PC gamer to begin with,…
AMD Radeon HD 6990M revealed – the fastest notebook GPU on the planet
AMD have just revealed the Radeon HD 6990M, claiming that it's the world's fastest single mobile graphics processor. Set to hit a string of high-end gaming rigs including the Alienware M18x, it comes just weeks after NVIDIA claimed the…
AMD breaks the 1GHz barrier with the ATI Radeon HD 4890
AMD seems to release a new chunk of silicon every five minutes but when they break the 1GHz barrier with a graphics card, it’s worth taking notice.
The ATI Radeon HD 4890 is the first standard air-cooled GPU to reach the clock speed milestone, nine years after they managed with CPUs, and it offers 1.6 TeraFLOPS of graphics crunching power.
AMD claims this factory over-clocked unit is 50% faster than the competition. What we do know for sure is that it’s going to make video transcoding, post processing and, of course, gaming that little bit smoother.
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NVIDIA slyly reveals the new 9600 GSO: low end graphics card for the masses
NVIDIA normally likes to make a big fan fare of its new graphics card announcements, using words like ‘ultimate visual computing experience’ and ‘visual computing revolution’. But this rousing lingo is reserved for its top end models; the ones designed for people who build PCs costing nearly as much a small family hatchback.
The poor old 9600 GSO gets no such honour; NVIDIA just made do by dumping the details on its website and pretending like it had no idea how it all got there. In spite of that though, this could be a pretty important card for the PC gaming market…
CES 2007: ASUS XG Station
Every so-called gaming laptop struggles with one very simple problem; to get the graphical muscle that modern games demand, you have to squeeze a pretty enourmous GPU, a decent processor and plenty of RAM (and then cool it down), which…
