Graphics Cards - Page 270

Two websites are reporting that NVIDIA will launch two brand spankin' new graphics cards on the first day of the International CES in Las Vegas on January 8th next month.

EVGA's E-LEET Tune Utility has been captured on camera, courtesy of VR-Zone, according to this report from TechConnect Magazine.

While thumbing through the news this morning I found an interesting read on some 5870 (RV870) rumors that are showing up. Theo Valich (formerly of the Inquirer and TG Daily) took a look at these an injected some logic into the mad ramblings that abound.

He points out that the going claim that ATi will add 25% more shaders just to get a 50% performance boost flies in the face of the way ATi currently engineers their GPUs.

Theo also makes a bold claim that the RV870 will have a 256 bit memory interface and not the 512 bit one that most seem to think will show up.

To read more take a look at Theo's new blog here.

Over the past few months, there has been plenty of speculation on whether or not SLI would be supported on Intel X58 Express motherboards.

At first it was believed that motherboard makers would need to add one or two nForce 200 chips to their boards, but that was not a good solution - too expensive, too hot and a PCB space-eater.

AMD may have made a fairly major mistake this week with the launch of its Radeon HD 4830 graphics card.

W1zzard over at techPowerUp! reckons that AMD may have sent out bad HD 4830 reference review samples to members of the press. The issue was discovered when shader counting support for the new HD 4830 was added to GPU-Z and partner cards showed a count of 640 stream processors (or shaders) and the reference sample from AMD which was sent to techPowerUp! and another site only had 560 shaders.

Sapphire sent word today that it has taken the covers off its Radeon HD 4870 TOXIC Edition graphics card.

From what we have seen, heard and observed over the past few weeks or so and even much longer actually, it was clear one of two things was going to happen to NVIDIA's SLI technology when we came to a cross roads like it is at now.

We once heard from a certain NVIDIA employee two years ago who sits quite high up in the company after quite a few a lot of drinks at a certain Taipei hang-out that and we quote, "Intel will only get SLI on its chipsets in exchange for allowing us (NVIDIA) to make chipsets without any licensing fees". That chances of that happening were obviously really slim. That didn't happen, so...

NVIDIA launched its latest GPU, the GeForce 9500GT, with very little fanfare and next week they will launch an even cheaper GPU, the GeForce 9400GT. You should be able to buy cards based on this new chip from August 26th or soon after.

NVIDIA has officially enabled PhysX support on all GeForce 8 and beyond graphics cards today by means of its first Power Pack.

A desire to play the field may be a costly exercise, on the part of motherboard manufacturers, pondering the implementation of SLI support into their, upcoming, Intel X58 powered solutions according to this report, from Fudzilla.

During his rounds at QuakeCon 2008, Chris spotted a big piece of ATI lovin' in the form of the 4870 X2 which is set for release early next week.

Expreview has spotted a picture and some brief info on AMD's mid-range HD 4650 Series graphics cards over at the Chiphell forums.

Many of us are in strong anticipation of AMD's upcoming Radeon HD 4870 X2 (RV770) dual-GPU graphics card, especially now that we've seen what the HD 4850 and 4870 is capable of.

It's been mentioned that the 4870 X2 is expected to arrive towards the end of Q3 this year. Apart from that, we've heard or seen very little about the RV770 monster thus far.

However, the folks at Chiphell have a nice treat for us early on; some nicely presented nude shots of the card, revealing some of its inner talents.

We just found out about this now and we're not sure exactly what it does to be entirely honest with you.

If you've got your heart set on picking up one of NVIDIA's new GTX 260 or 280 graphics cards and you're mighty serious about your cooling, you may like to take note of what eVGA has designed specifically for these cards in the way of its new Hydro Copper 16 waterblock.

Charlie Demerjian over at the INQ also knows the pain of what it feels like for NVIDIA not to include you on a new product launch. It actually works out alright though as you get to post your scores early and have hundreds of thousands of readers come to your website.

Of course we know the same feeling too but during Computex we were suckered into signing an NVIDIA NDA, which means we have to play nice this time around or NVIDIA would quickly let its dogs out on us - even though we already have five different models in our hands - for the past week or so.

Charlie didn't sign an NDA and has been busy over the past while testing the GeForce GTX 280 against a factory overclocked GeForce 9800 GTX.

Go grab your early results over here. We love you Charlie and understand your decision to post early fully.

Our GT200 content will be online when the NDA expires in about two hours from now. Prepare yourself for it - we have three articles ready to go live!

While we got a first look at ZOTAC's GeForce 9800 GTX ZONE Edition at Computex in Taipei last week, it has now been officially released.

Donanimhaber is renowned for getting hold of official documents and picture before launch and posting it early. This time they managed to get hold of the official benchmark data compiled by AMD for its range of upcoming RV770 based graphics cards.

According to reports which have been posted online recently, Nvidia is set to launch its upcoming high-end GeForce GTX 280 (codenamed GT200) next month on June 18th just ahead of the launch of the ATI RV770 series of graphics cards from AMD.

PCPOP over in China managed to get a hold of a reference designed GTX 280 graphics card and strip it completely naked for public viewing.

From the pictures, it looks as if it will be roughly the same size as the current high-end GeForce 9800 GTX and you will need to hook up one 6-pin and one 8-pin power adapter to make it run at full speed.