GPUs
With NVIDIA’s Turing architecture turning six years old this year, the company has been retiring many of the remaining Turing products from its video card lineup. And today that spirit of spring cleaning is coming to the entry-level segment of NVIDIA’s professional visualization lineup, where NVIDIA is introducing a pair of new desktop cards based on their low-end Ampere hardware. The new RTX A1000 and RTX A400 cards will be replacing the T1000/T600/T400 lineup, which was released three years ago in 2021. The new cards slot into the same entry-level category and finally finish fleshing out the RTX A series of proviz cards, offering NVIDIA’s Ampere-generation professional graphics technologies in the lowest-power, lowest-performance, lowest-cost configuration possible. Notably, since the entry-level T-series were based on NVIDIA’s feature-limited...
Catalyst 5.7 Drivers: Memory Limited Performance Improvements
ATI implements HyperMemory with their latest Catalyst driver. Just how does this new edition affect performance?
23 by Josh Venning on 8/13/2005NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT: Rounding Out The High End
Today, the 7800 GT hits the streets. More powerful than the 6800 Ultra at just about the same prices, the 7800 GT offers quite a punch for the money.
77 by Derek Wilson & Josh Venning on 8/11/2005GeForce 7800GTX: EVGA's KO Edition
We had the chance to play with EVGA's latest 7800GTX this week. With default clock speeds of 490MHz and 1.3GHz (core/mem), this lifetime warrantied card is sure to please.
34 by Josh Venning on 8/9/2005Vendor Cards: BFG GeForce 7800GTX OC
Continuing our GeForce 7800GTX graphics card series, we look at BFG's solution this week. With a factory overclock and a t-shirt, many are interested in this part. Let's see...
20 by Derek Wilson & Josh Venning on 8/4/2005Vendor Cards: MSI NX7800GTX
The second in a series of vendor 7800 GTX reviews, we're looking at the MSI NX7800 GTX. How does this card measure up to the EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GTX?
42 by Derek Wilson & Josh Venning on 7/24/2005AnandTech Exclusive: CrossFire Benchmarks Revealed
CrossFire is still in development at ATI, but Gigabyte was kind enough to lend us a test system with a functional CrossFire master card.
65 by Derek Wilson on 7/22/2005Vendor Cards: EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GTX
First, in a series of vendor 7800 GTX reviews, we bring you the EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GTX. With a default overclock, does this card have what it takes to...
26 by Derek Wilson & Josh Venning on 7/16/2005Battlefield 2 GPU Performance Analysis
UPDATED... With the release of another current generation graphics engine, we investigate graphics performance over multiple classes of cards.
78 by Derek Wilson on 7/7/2005Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PS3 - A Hardware Discussion
We look at both of the recently announced consoles and do our best to separate fact from fiction.
93 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on 6/24/2005NVIDIA's GeForce 7800 GTX Hits The Ground Running
Today marks the release of NVIDIA's latest graphics solution. Is it simply a rework, or is there some real power under the hood?
127 by Derek Wilson on 6/22/2005NVIDIA Announces 16x AA For SLI
In response to ATI's CrossFire, NVIDIA is introducing 16xAA for SLI in a driver soon to be released.
18 by Derek Wilson on 6/9/2005ATI's Next Three Months Of Catalyst
ATI is revealing information about the upcoming features and performance of their next 3 driver releases. Catalyst 5.6, 5.7 and 5.8 look to polish up ATI's software offering.
30 by Derek Wilson on 6/9/2005ATI Mobility Radeon X800 XT: More Pipes in Notebooks
ATI is introducing a 16 pipe version of its M28 graphics processor. This part should be just as powerful as ATI's high end desktop parts. We take a look...
41 by Derek Wilson on 6/6/2005ATI's Multi-GPU Solution: CrossFire
ATI antes up with its own flavor of multi-card gaming. Competing with NVIDIA's SLI technology, CrossFire brings a couple of new ideas to the table.
57 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on 5/30/2005Integrated Graphics: Xpress 200 vs. GMA 950
Having already looked at budget discrete solutions, we break out our integrated solutions to see how the latest on-board technology holds up.
30 by Derek Wilson on 5/26/2005Budget Graphics Strike Back: Revenge of the RAM
We spend some time testing budget graphics cards with slower RAM in order to verify their predicted behavior on cheaper systems.
21 by Derek Wilson on 5/19/2005ATI demos R520 GPU at E3
ATI was demonstrating Remedy's upcoming title Alan Wake on R520 silicon...
32 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/18/2005Bringing Gaming Mainstream - The Xbox 360 debuts on MTV
We take a quick look at the official unveiling of Microsoft's Xbox 360.
57 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/12/2005Budget Battle: HyperMemory vs. TurboCache
We have our hands on a HyperMemory board and some shipping TurboCache parts. Now, it's time to see which solution delivers on its promise of acceptable performance at extreme...
33 by Derek Wilson on 5/12/2005ATI's Radeon X800 XL 512MB - A toe in the 512MB pool
In a surprise to us, ATI decided to release their first 512MB as a member of the X800 XL family. With a $449 price tag, we investigate whether...
70 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/4/2005