GPUs
AMD has made itself quite a reputation with its bundling campaigns over the years, and every new season we can be sure that the company will be giving away free games with the purchase of its hardware. This summer will certainly not be exception as AMD will be bundling Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and Unknown 9: Awakening titles with its Ryzen 7000 CPUs and Radeon RX 7000 video cards. The latest bundle offer essentially covers all of AMD's existing mid-range and high-end consumer desktop products, sans the to-be-launched Ryzen 9000 series. That includes not only AMD's desktop parts, such as the Ryzen 9 7800X3D, but also virtually their entire stack of Radeon RX 7000 video cards, right on down to the 7600 XT. AMD's laptop...
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT: The Only Card That Matters
NVIDIA has invalidated the existance, not only of AMD's hardware, but of much of their own line up with the release of this incredibly high value card based on...
90 by Derek Wilson on 10/29/2007Unreal Tournament 3 Beta Demo: Top to Bottom GPU Analysis
Hot on the heels of our initial UT3 coverage comes a look at low end and mainstream graphics hardware running under the beta demo.
34 by Derek Wilson on 10/18/2007Unreal Tournament 3 CPU & High End GPU Analysis: Next-Gen Gaming Explored
What can Epic's latest game tell us about CPU and GPU performance? A lot. We start our series on UT3 performance with a CPU and high-end GPU analysis.
72 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on 10/17/2007AMD's Newest TV Wonder: Clear QAM For The Masses
AMD has finally brought us a line of TV tuners that can handle digital cable
23 by Derek Wilson on 10/15/2007UPDATED Half-Life 2: Episode 2 CPU and Graphics Performance
In depth CPU and GPU performance analysis of Valve's latest Source based Half-Life 2 series. UPDATED to include previous generation hardware.
46 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on 10/12/2007AMD's New Gambit: Open Source Video Drivers
AMD has begun development of an open source video card driver, we take a look at what they're doing and why
34 by Ryan Smith on 9/25/2007Where's The Physics: The State of Hardware Accelerated Physics
2006 saw great fanfare over hardware accelerated physics, however that has not carried over in to 2007. We take a look at the state of hardware accelerated physics and...
32 by Ryan Smith on 7/25/2007HD Video Decode Quality and Performance Summer '07
AMD and NVIDIA have recently released hardware and drivers that raise the bar on HD video quality and performance. Here's how things stack up.
63 by Derek Wilson on 7/23/2007Getting the Most Out Of Your Hardware: Video Card Utility Roundup
We take a look at 1st party and 3rd party video card utilities, and why GPU manufacturers could be doing better
17 by Ryan Smith on 7/5/2007Real World DirectX 10 Performance: It Ain't Pretty
With the first three DX10 games out there in the wild, we wanted to take a close look at what we can expect from the first generation of titles...
59 by Derek Wilson on 7/5/2007More Mainstream DX10: AMD's 2400 and 2600 Series
Following a little more than a month after the launch of R600, AMD's budget and mainstream DX10 hardware is hitting the streets.
96 by Derek Wilson on 6/28/2007AMD's UVD Debacle
Recently AMD has stated that UVD is not included in HD 2900. Here is our take on the situation.
53 by Derek Wilson on 6/4/2007ATI HD 2900XT CrossFire: Intel 975X versus Intel P35
Does the new kid on the block have what it takes to knock off the champ? We find out in our performance preview of AMD CrossFire on the P35 chipset.
29 by Gary Key on 5/16/2007ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT: Calling a Spade a Spade
Months after NVIDIA released its DX10 hardware, ATI finally has a chance to respond.
86 by Derek Wilson on 5/14/2007NVIDIA GeForce 8M: DirectX 10 Goes Mobile
Today is a relatively big day for the notebook sector, with Intel launching the Santa Rosa platform and NVIDIA creating the first DirectX 10 mobile graphics solutions. Here we...
18 by Jarred Walton on 5/9/2007New Ultra High End Price Point With GeForce 8800 Ultra
With top to bottom G8x parts, NVIDIA comes back to top itself, launching the new fastest chip around. Is it worth the price?
68 by Derek Wilson on 5/2/2007NVIDIA GeForce 8600: Full H.264 Decode Acceleration
NVIDIA brings full H.264 decode acceleration to mainstream PCs anywhere, we find out exactly how good it is.
64 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/27/20078600 GT/GTS Follow-up Performance
We have more performance tests results for the new NVIDIA 8600 GT/GTS series, as well as further analysis of its price/performance.
41 by Derek Wilson on 4/24/2007DX10 for the Masses: NVIDIA 8600 and 8500 Series Launch
NVIDIA rounds out it's 8 Series lineup with top to bottom DX10 hardware now available. The first to hit the selves is the 8600 GTS.
60 by Derek Wilson on 4/17/2007ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner: AMD and Dell Bring CableCARD to PCs
We bring you a preview of the first CableCARD solution for Vista PCs. Has Vista Media Center finally caught up to set top boxes thanks to OCUR?
29 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/3/2007