Tag archive: graphics cards

Graphics developer Nvidia has formally launched its latest high-end PC video card, the GeForce GTX 590. The company is touting the card as the fastest DirectX 11 graphics card ever built, featuring a dual-CPU design that amounts to two GeForce GTX 580 systems glommed together and an innovative new cooling system that Nvidia says makes the GeForce GTX 590 the quietest high-performance card on the planet. “The GTX 590 is the best dual… Read More

Advanced Micro Devices, better known by most as AMD, acquired graphics processor manufacturer ATI in 2006. The company was known best before the acquisition as the creator of the Rage and Radeon lines of computer graphics cards, and its tech provides the graphics processing power for the current-gen Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii gaming consoles. Under the new ownership, ATI has continued to deliver high-quality GPUs as one of the top competitors on… Read More

Graphics developer Nvidia is looking to strike back at ATI in the mainstream gaming market…and it may have a hit on its hands with the new GeForce GTX 460 graphics card, which the company claims offers up to four times the DirectX tessellation performance of competing products while still landing at the $199 sweet spot for affordable graphics cards. The GTX 460 will be available in two versions—on packs 768 MB of dedicated video… Read More

ATI has been enjoying a lot of success with its GPUs for the last year and a half, but it has hit new highs over the last two months by launching four new graphics cards supporting DirectX 11. The Radeon HD 5800 series was first out for enthusiasts in September, followed by the Radeon HD 5700 series for mainstream gamers. As the only provider of DirectX 11 GPUs out there, the graphics division of AMD can afford to take a slower paced approach to… Read More

The AMD/ATI success story in the GPU sector has shown little signs of fading with the transition from the 4000 series to the 5000 series. Continuing its competitive pricing, AMD's 5870, 5850, 5770 and 5750, the world's first DirectX 11 GPUs, are all showing strong sales in their respective price ranges, leaving NVIDIA in a painful wait for its Fermi series to reach market readiness. Now AMD is reportedly preparing to take the… Read More

Ho also confirmed that ATI will start delivering chipsets supporting PCI express technology in the second quarter. Many of ATI's OEM clients of motherboards and graphics cards have already verified the company's PCI express-based chipsets and have decided to use the products, Ho said. Read more at DigiTimes.