Tag archive: Sapphire

What can you buy for $100,000 dollars? Well, if your a journalist, you're probably used to living for 3-4 years on that amount of money or if you're a parent, you may consider using it to put a kid through college. But for the monetarily inclined and highly vain readers in our audience, may we suggest this lovely $100,000 shaving razor? The Zafirro Iridium is the world's most expensive razor, with a body made of iridium and… Read More

Hot on the heels of its latest Radeon HD 4550 and 4350 budget graphics cards, ATI debuted its mid-ranged Radeon HD4830 on Thursday. Unlike the earlier entries that hit the rock-bottom $39 price point, the new card will slide in just under the $150 level, but offer many of the same capabilities as its high-end cards. Like the more expensive Radeon 4850 and 4870 models that share the same architecture, the 4830 uses a 55nm chip with 956… Read More

Having just expanded the budget end of its Radeon line on Thursday, AMD turned its attention back to the bleeding edge on Monday with the release of its new flagship GPU, the Radeon HD 3870 X2. The company claims it is the first graphics processor to break the teraflop processing level of one trillion floating point calculations a second, thanks to a dual-processor design. By linking two 55nm chips on a single board with… Read More

The gaming setup is very similar to Nvidia's. You need two video cards (one of them a new Crossfire ATI card) and a new motherboard with two video card slots. The two cards work in conjunction to offer better performance in your games and graphics applications. ATI claims that the advantage they have is that their Crossfire systems do not need updated drivers or application updates, they work with every program. You will need a… Read More

Further, the introduction of 512MB graphics cards allows game developers to raise the visual quality bar for their next-generation games currently in development. The Radeon X800 XL 512MB is currently being used by today's top developers including BioWare; Crytek; Digital Extremes; Funcom; Gas Powered Games; Grin; id Software, inc; Juice Games; Lionhead; NCsoft; Remedy and Valve. Hungry for new advanced platforms to drive development,… Read More

In addition to offering gamers three days of top-notch gaming, the event will include an overclocking demonstration and a PC modding event. Attendees will get the opportunity to preview the world'sfirst 512MB gaming card and one lucky gamer will even get to take one home. “Participating in events like this gives us the opportunity to find out what gamers want and need for competitive gaming,” said Rich Heye, Vice President… Read More

Delivering a gaming experience that is anything but mainstream, the RADEON X700 visual processing units (VPUs) include the advanced, cutting-edge features previously introduced in ATI's RADEON X800family of VPUs and a higher level of performance than some of last year's high-end visual processors, but for less than $200. “The RADEON X700 has been designed to deliver amazing gaming performance in all of today's popular… Read More

A Website calling for the boycott of video card maker Sapphire seems to have made its point, as the company has changed the naming scheme of one of its graphics cards based on the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. The issue stems from the Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro labelled cards using a 128-bit memory bus, as apposed to other Radeon 9800 Pro's that use a 256-bit bus. According to the site www.boycottsapphire.com, “The card was originally… Read More

From ATI's press release: ATI Technologies Inc. today launched its RADEON X800, RADEON X600 and RADEON X300 Visual Processing Units (VPUs), the first PCI Express graphics chips in the industry. ATI's new RADEON X-series products are built using leading-edge process technologies and deliver the best graphics performance at every price point - from the best entry-level performance with the RADEON X300 to the absolute best… Read More

From ATI's press release: ATI Technologies Inc. today announced the introduction of RADEON 9100 PRO IGP, a high performance platform product for both Intel Pentium 4 and Celeron Processors. The official launch of the RADEON 9100 PRO IGP will take place at Gartner's System Builder Summit in Barcelona, Spain on May 5, 2004. Launch partners for the event include such industry leaders as Gigabyte, MSI, Sapphire, Shuttle PC, FIC,… Read More

Quote from the review: “After getting to use these cards from Sapphire for a while we have come away very impressed with them. They are a solid design and we can tell a lot of thought was put into making these cards work well. It is nice to see a company taking the initiative and innovating new designs and cooling systems.” Read the full review

Quote from the review at GotApex:

The success of the handheld console continues apace this Christmas, with the GBA occupying a comfortable second place behind the PS2 in terms of unit sales in the UK, and showing no sign of the year-on-year sales decline which has afflicted most other consoles. Nintendo is keen to promote the system as an ideal Christmas gift, and expects to bring the total catalogue of software available for the GBA to over 400 titles within the coming… Read More

The RADEON 9800 XT, the most powerful visual processor available, takes the award-winning RADEON 9800 architecture, the first and only to feature eight full pixel pipes, and makes it even faster. Shipping immediately, the graphics cards will feature 256MB of graphics memory and a wide, 256-bit memory interface. In addition to the brute-force capabilities of the visual processor, the architecture is efficiently designed to process… Read More

Digit-Life Review: Albatron Gigi GeForce FX 5900PV 128MB Video Card Review “Let  me  point it out once again that the FX 5900 and RADEON 9800 PRO cards are approximately equal. It's for you to choose. In future complicated shader-filled games ATI's cards can have more prospects, but when should we expect such games? When  the FX 5900 and R9800PRO become the mainstream solutions? At that time the… Read More