GPUs
As GPU families enter the later part of their lifecycles, we often see chip manufacturers start to offload stockpiles of salvaged chips that, for one reason or another, didn't make the grade for the tier of cards they normally are used in. These recovered chips are fairly unremarkable overall, but they are unsold silicon that still works and has economic value, leading to them being used in lower-tier cards so that they can be sold. And, judging by the appearance of a new video card design from MSI, it looks like NVIDIA's Ada Lovelace generation of chips has reached that stage, as the Taiwanese video card maker has put out a new GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super card based on a salvaged AD102 GPU. Typically...
Retail X700 Pro Roundup
ATI pushed its X700 XT solution out a couple months back, but left its partners holding nothing but the X700 Pro. We haven't seen a retail X700 XT in...
22 by Derek Wilson on 12/13/2004Retail Geforce 6600GT Exploration
With all the options on the market, is there any real reason to pick one card over another? How much extra power can you squeeze out of a 6600GT...
84 by Derek Wilson on 12/9/2004ATI's New Radeon X850 and X800 Lines: A Smorgasbord of GPUs
With less than a month left in 2004, ATI pulled the largest end-of-year product release we've seen from a GPU maker. How do these 5 new GPUs perform...
69 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on 12/1/2004NVIDIA's GeForce 6 SLI: Demolishing Performance Barriers
If you've got the money, SLI is definitely worth it. But how does it fare as an upgrade path?
74 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/23/2004Mobility Radeon X800 and X300 Launch to Low Availability
Two weeks ago we saw the M28 leading the NVIDIA based mobile solution in most of benchmarks we ran. But when will we see notebooks with MR X800?
7 by Derek Wilson on 11/23/2004Half Life 2 GPU Roundup Part 2 - Mainstream DX8/DX9 Battle
You've seen what the best of the best can do, now it's time to see how older cards run Half Life 2.
62 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/19/2004Half Life 2 GPU Roundup Part 1 - DirectX 9 Shootout
With Half Life 2 out we spent the past two days play testing and benchmarking the game on the latest DX9 hardware. Find out how performance stacks up...
79 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/17/2004NVIDIA's GeForce 6600GT AGP: The Little Bridge that Could
Today NVIDIA announced and marked the first day of sales of the GeForce 6600GT for AGP platforms. The mainstream performance crown is back and it's in NVIDIA's hands.
66 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/16/2004NVIDIA's GeForce 6800 Go vs. ATI's M28: The Mobile GPU Wars Begin
The high-end GPU battles ensue, this time in notebooks.
24 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/8/2004NVIDIA SLI Performance Preview with MSI's nForce4 SLI Motherboard
Four graphics cards, two PCI Express slots and one happy Anand in Taiwan is all it took to get a first hand look at the performance of NVIDIA's nForce4...
84 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/29/2004NVIDIA's GeForce 6200 & 6600 non-GT: Affordable Gaming
The launch of NVIDIA's GeForce 6200 has given us a chance to look at the non-GT 6600 and ATI's non-XT X700.
44 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/11/2004Behind the Mask with Optimization and Catalyst AI
ATI recently revealed that they would be wrapping all their optimizations into one bundle called Catalyst AI, which the user will have control over enabling or disabling. Here, we...
10 by Derek Wilson on 9/26/2004ATI Radeon X700 XT: More PCIe Midrange
With NVIDIA's offering already out in the open, ATI fires back with a solution of their own. Who will come out on top?
40 by Derek Wilson on 9/21/2004NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT: Bringing NV4x to the Masses
The introduction of NV4x based GPUs at $200 and less signals a new era of affordable power.
45 by Derek Wilson on 9/7/2004GPU Cheatsheet - A History of Modern Consumer Graphics Processors
For our next installment of the Cheatsheet series, we explore modern graphics processors and their relative performance, die size and other tidbits.
43 by Jarred Walton on 9/6/2004New ATI Driver UI: The Catalyst Control Center
ATI has launched a new and improved user interface to their Catalyst display driver. This marks the biggest upgrade in ATI's driver interface since the introduction of Catalyst.
51 by Derek Wilson on 9/2/2004Source Engine: Counterstrike Beta Hits The Street
Previewing the game engine for one of the most anticipated titles of all time, we take a look at Valve's Counterstrike: Source Beta.
50 by Derek Wilson on 8/26/2004ATI Mobility Radeon 9800: Notebooks Get Next Generation Graphics
ATI is breaking new ground when it comes to bringing new technology to the mobile space. The MR9800 is a scaled down R420 for the desktop replacement graphics segment.
31 by Derek Wilson on 8/19/2004Doom 3 Graphics Deathmatch
After a long night of testing Doom 3 with every graphics card we could find in the lab, we have the details on how your card (and your dream...
71 by Derek Wilson on 8/3/2004Intel 915 Graphics: Graphics Media Accelerator 900
Intel has once again updated their integrated graphics platform, leaving behind the "extreme" name for better performance.
18 by Derek Wilson on 8/2/2004
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