GPUs & Graphic Cards

5 August 2008 - Elitegroup Computer Systems(ECS),the world's leading motherboard,graphics card, barebone system, and notebook manufacturer, launches the latest N9500GT-512MU-F graphics card based on the latest NVIDIA® GeForce® 9500 GT graphics processing units .

27 July 2008 - ATI's Radeon HD 4870 in CrossFire ran circles around NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 280, but XFX has a GTX 280 in their factory-overclocked XXX flavor. Is the added raw power enough to make the GTX 280 look not so unconvincing against ATI's dual card solution before NVIDIA's rumored (not-so-impressive) GT200b appears?

17 July 2008 - Delivering higher performance to the enthusiast for only a small price premium over the standard model, the SAPPHIRE HD 4850 TOXIC Edition has been designed by SAPPHIRE to run significantly faster – shipping with core clock speeds of 675MHz and fitted with 512MB of high speed memory operating at 1100MHz. It also features a Zalman heatpipe fan, providing more efficient cooling - running at much lower temperatures than the standard design – as well as quieter operation and more headroom for performance tuning.

8 July 2008 - Palit today announces Palit GeForce® 9800 GTX+. The Palit GeForce® 9800 GTX+ features a core speed of 738MHz, a 1836MHz shader clock and 2,200 MHz on its 512 MB of GDDR3 memory with a 256bit interface, supports for the latest NVIDIA PhysX® technology enables real-time physics simulations in leading edge PC and console games.

30 June 2008 - Gainward officially announced HD4870 and Gainward HD4850 graphics cards to the market. From performance point of view, the new ATI® RADEON® HD4870 (RV770 XT) graphics chip is designed with 512MB high speed DDR5 memory and a 256bit memory bandwidth, supports PCI-express 2.0 interface with 750 MHz core clock, 3600MHz memory clock and 800 units of stream processors.

25 June 2008 - TUL today announced the new generation enthusiast graphics card – PowerColor HD 4870 and HD4850. Based on RV770 core chip, PowerColor HD 4870/4850 support GDDR3/GDDR5 high-speed memory, aim to deliver a superior visual performance. “PowerColor HD 4800 series brings the latest and greatest technology into a competitive product lines.” says Ted Chen, CEO of TUL Corporation. “PowerColor aims to satisfy the toughest customers’ demand; I believe we can do it with this new generation graphics.”

20 June 2008 - The RV770 supersedes its predecessor, the RV670, and is designed to give NVIDIA a tough time in the midrange consumer graphics arena. Will this new offering breathe new life into ATi's range? We'll walk you through with our cards from Powercolor, Asus and Sapphire.

19 June 2008 - Nvidia has informed their partners of a new GeForce 9800 GTX+ graphics card that will offer better competition against the ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics card. GeForce 9800 GTX+ will be clocked at 738MHz core and 1836MHz shader compared to 675/1688MHz for the current 9800 GTX card. It will be priced at $229 while the GeForce 9800 GTX price will fall to $199 level. The card will offer support for GeForce PhysX and CUDA-based applications, including Folding@Home and Badaboom video transcoding applications. Expected to launch on June 26th and available in mid July.

31 July 2008 - We have rounded up several brands of the GeForce 9500 GT cards from Chaintech, Biostar, Leadtek, Galaxy, Inno3D, ZOTAC.

17 July 2008 - NVIDIA has been sitting at the top for a little too long without much competition. That resulted in the somewhat disappointing G92 and GT200 designs, which allowed AMD/ATI to launch a surprise attack on the green camp. Does the GT200 actually have enough to hold back the ATI resurgence led by their new RV770?

10 July 2008 - Albatron recently unveiled three new “PCI” graphics cards at Computex 2008. You read it right - “PCI” and not “PCI Express”! The PCI8600GT-256X, the PCI8500GT-256X and the PCI8400GS-256 are all VGAs that retrofit recent GeForce 8 Series graphics onto older PCI technology. These cards all offer a significant graphics boost along with dual monitor capabilities for an entire generation of integrated-graphics, PCI-only mainboards.

8 July 2008 - CJ let us know that the Nvidia PhysX driver changes some DLL files files within 3DMark Vantage and overwrites them with new versions. These versions cause your PPU to stop working, but will offload work to the GPU if you have a PhysX capable graphics card like GF9/GTX 200. When you install a Radeon you can't get your PPU back to work since NV overwrote the original DLLs.

28 June 2008 - Palit announces the much anticipated Radeon™ HD 4800 series products, Palit Radeon™ HD 4870 and HD 4850, which deliver a cinematic gaming experience with unprecedented performance while intuitively conserving energy at idle. Palit Radeon™ 4870 is equipped with 512MB/256 bit of GDDR5 memory operating at a blazingly fast 3600MHz and a stunning 750MHz core speed. Palit Radeon™ 4850, with 512MB/256bit of GDDR3 memory operates at 1986MHz and 625MHz core speed.

24 June 2008 - Force3D officially announced their latest HD 4850 and HD 4870 graphics card, bringing the power of visual computing to the next level.

19 June 2008 - We received a ASUS EAH4850 TOP card which is factory overclocked to 680MHz core and 1050MHz memory and we ran it on a QX9770 3.2GHz and P45 DDR2 system. We got hold of another card from Sapphire so we crossfired it and we got a nice scaling on the GPU score; 6702 to 11159. Seems like HD 4850 is a nice card with good price but runs pretty hot though.

18 June 2008 - BFG and EVGA both announced their water cooled GTX 280 cards today. BFG GeForce GTX 280 H2OC™ 1GB card is cooled by their ThermoIntelligence water cooling solution while EVGA GeForce GTX 280 HC is cooled by Hydro Copper 16 Waterblock. BFG clocked their card at 680MHz core, 1458MHz shader and 2450MHz memory while EVGA clocked their card at 690MHz core, 1458Mhz shader and 2430MHz memory.