Earlier today NVIDIA announced that it would begin licensing its Kepler GPU architecture to 3rd parties. This is a sensible next step for NVIDIA, but an unprecedented one among the two remaining discrete PC GPU suppliers. Note that what NVIDIA is announcing today is contrary to AMD’s semi-custom approach to SoC production. AMD is offering to build (semi) custom tailored silicon to customer needs, while NVIDIA is taking a more ARM-like approach and offering its GPU IP to 3rd parties for integration on their own. In other words, NVIDIA is looking to compete with ARM and Imagination Technologies rather than AMD or Qualcomm. In addition to its GPU architecture, NVIDIA is now also open to licensing its visual computing patents to 3rd parties. The visual computing...
Sapphire’s Radeon HD 5850 Toxic Edition: Our First Fully-Custom 5850
With the supply of AMD's Cypress chips picking up, we finally have our first fully-custom board. Today Sapphire is releasing the first such product, the overclocked and overcooled 5850...
72 by Ryan Smith on 2/18/2010
Quick Look: MSI’s GeForce 210
Today we're looking at MSI's N210-MD512H, based on the last 40nm GeForce 200-series part we have yet to see: the G210.
25 by Ryan Smith on 2/16/2010
What's New: AMD's Catalyst 10.2 & 10.3 Drivers
Some big changes are coming for AMD's Catalyst drivers. We have everything you need to know about what's new today with 10.2, along with what's coming next month with 10.3.
75 by Ryan Smith on 2/16/2010
The RV870 Story: AMD Showing up to the Fight
After the RV770 ATI surely must have had an easy time building the RV870, right? Wrong. While we now know that the RV770's strategy paid off, the...
134 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2010The Final Word on the Best Radeon HTPC Card
Since we published our reviews of the Radeon HD 5450 and the Radeon HD 5570, we have been going back and forth with AMD over the results of our...
53 by Ryan Smith on 2/12/2010
AMD’s Radeon HD 5570: Low Profile, Higher Performance
With the bulk of the 5000 series launched, AMD is now launching products to fill in the gaps in their product line. Today we look at one of those...
36 by Ryan Smith on 2/9/2010
AMD’s Radeon HD 5450: The Next Step In HTPC Video Cards
Cedar, AMD's final Evergreen chip, launches today with the Radeon HD 4500. What does bringing Evergreen, audio bitstreaming, and DX11 do for the low-end of the market? We find out
75 by Ryan Smith on 2/4/2010
NVIDIA’s GF100: Architected for Gaming
At long last, the other shoe drops. Over CES NVIDIA told us everything we wanted to know about the GPU that was Fermi. We find out why NVIDIA believes...
116 by Ryan Smith on 1/17/2010
AMD's Radeon HD 5670: Sub-$100 DirectX 11 Starts Today
Today AMD is launching the first Redwood card - the 5670 - bringing DX11 down to its lowest price point yet. While the performance won't set the world on...
73 by Ryan Smith on 1/14/2010
Lucid’s Hydra Unleashed: Part 1
Today the first motherboard with Lucid's Hydra technology launches: The MSI Big Bang Fuzion. Will the Hydra shake up the multi-GPU world as Lucid has been claiming?
48 by Ryan Smith on 1/7/2010
NVIDIA’s GeForce GT 240: The Card That Doesn't Matter
Late last year NVIDIA launched the GT 240, the bigger brother of their first 40nm part, the GT 220. Today we look at its performance, and why NVIDIA has...
56 by Ryan Smith on 1/6/2010
Anand's Thoughts on Intel Canceling Larrabee Prime
Intel's first discrete GPU has been canceled, I explain why it doesn't really matter.
77 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/6/2009
AnandTech Tests GPU Accelerated Flash 10.1 Prerelease
Updated ATI and Intel acceleration results. Do you hate how painfully slow Flash video playback can be even on the fastest PCs? Adobe's prerelease of Flash 10.1 is...
135 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/19/2009
The Radeon HD 5970: Completing AMD's Takeover of the High End GPU Market
With 2 Cypress chips on 1 card, today marks the day where AMD completes their takeover of the high-end video card market. It's the fastest single card on...
114 by Ryan Smith on 11/18/2009
NVIDIA's Bumpy Ride: A Q4 2009 Update
A much delayed Fermi, pulling out of the chipset business coupled with GTX availability woes made conditions ripe for us to talk about NVIDIA. We explain what all...
108 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/14/2009
AMD’s Radeon HD 5770 & 5750: DirectX 11 for the Mainstream Crowd
The next phase begins. AMD is launching the 5700 series, their mainstream line of cards based on Juniper. Do these new cards follow in the 5800 series legacy?
117 by Ryan Smith on 10/13/2009
NVIDIA’s GeForce GT 220: 40nm and DX10.1 for the Low-End
NVIDIA's first DX10.1/40nm part finally gets a retail launch after a 3 month OEM-only stint. How does NVIDA's latest part part stack up to the competition?
82 by Ryan Smith on 10/12/2009
Gigabyte's GTX 260 Super Overclock: A GTX 275 on the Cheap?
What happens when you overclock a GTX 260 Core 216 by 20%? As Gigabyte has discovered, you get a GTX 275 for less.
30 by Ryan Smith on 10/11/2009
AMD’s Radeon HD 5850: The Other Shoe Drops
Hot on the heels of their launch of the 5870 last week, AMD is launching the value version, the 5850. With it, AMD has captured the high-end.
95 by Ryan Smith on 9/30/2009
NVIDIA's Fermi: Architected for Tesla, 3 Billion Transistors in 2010
Last week we saw AMD's first DX11 GPU, today we have NVIDIA's response: Fermi. Weighing in at 3 billion transistors with a 384-bit GDDR5 memory bus, we won't...
416 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/30/2009