Neowin News Feed for: Graphics card

TechSpot: History of the GPU #3 - The Nvidia vs. ATI era begins

Julio Franco — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:27:07 +0100

Prior to the Voodoo 5's arrival, ATI had announced the Radeon DDR as “the most powerful graphics processor ever designed for desktop PCs.” Previews of the card had already gone public... Read more...

TechSpot: History of the GPU, 3Dfx Voodoo - the game-changer

Julio Franco — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 02:04:52 +0100

Launched on November 1996, 3Dfx's Voodoo graphics consisted of a 3D-only card that required a VGA cable pass-through from a separate 2D card to the Voodoo, which then connected to the display... Read more...

TechSpot: AMD Radeon HD 7790 Review

Julio Franco — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:16:25 +0000

The latest member of the Southern Islands family, the new Radeon HD 7790 is designed to fill the gap between the Radeon HD 7770 and 7850. Set to precisely target the $150 price tag, the HD 7790... Read more...

TechSpot: GeForce GTX Titan Review

Julio Franco — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:08:21 +0000

After wearing the single-GPU performance crown for 12 months, the GTX 680 has been dethroned by the new GTX Titan. The Titan carries a GK110 GPU with a transistor count that has more than doubled... Read more...

TechSpot: Triple Monitor Gaming on a Budget

Julio Franco — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:50:25 +0000

Considering next-gen cards are still months away, we didn't expect to bring any more GPU reviews until the second quarter of 2013. However, we realized there was a gap: triple monitor gaming. Read more...

TechSpot: Dead Space 3 Tested, Benchmarked

Julio Franco — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:49:12 +0000

The third installment in the Dead Space series was released this month, and considering the game made our list of 2013's most anticipated PC games we thought we would check it out to see how it... Read more...

TechSpot: Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti Review

Julio Franco — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:27:05 +0100

Having attacked the mid-range and upper-end markets, Nvidia has its sights set on the sub-$200 range, unleashing its GTX 650 Ti. At $150, the new arrival is roughly 34% cheaper than the GTX 660. Read more...

NVIDIA WHQL driver now available for Windows 8

Tim Schiesser — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:56:48 +0100

Several weeks after the RTM launch of Windows 8, NVIDIA has finally gotten around to releasing new WHQL-certified non-beta drivers for Windows 8 users, through the 306.23 driver update. Read more...

NVIDIA says, "It's coming" on Facebook page

John Callaham — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:26:40 +0100

A new teaser image posted on NVIDIA's Facebook page shows off a tiny portion of what is likely an unannounced product, with the words, "It's coming" to further tease fans. Read more...

NVIDIA Geforce GTX 680 video shows off new features

John Callaham — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:32:55 +0000

A newly revealed video from graphics chip maker NVIDIA shows off some new features that are being used for its latest and most powerful PC graphics card yet, the GeForce GTX 680. Read more...

TechSpot: AMD Radeon HD 7870 & Radeon HD 7850 Review

Julio Franco — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 06:40:15 +0000

Today marks the release of the 'Pitcairn' GPUs which make up the the Radeon HD 7800 series. As you would expect the series consists of two GPUs: the Radeon HD 7870 and Radeon HD 7850 Read more...

TechSpot: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7950 3072MB Review

Julio Franco — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:11:53 +0000

AMD offers a potentially valid alternative to its flagship with its Radeon HD 7950, which is essentially a lower-specced and lower-priced version of the HD 7970. Read more...

TechSpot: Graphics Card Overclocking, Is It Really Worth It?

Julio Franco — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:26:12 +0000

Overclocking plays a vastly different role in the computer industry today than it did 10 years ago, a time when overclockers were considered outlaws by manufacturers. Back then even mentioning... Read more...

TechSpot: AMD Radeon HD 7970 Review

Julio Franco — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:41:28 +0000

The Radeon HD 7970 is the first of a series of upcoming graphics cards that are making the jump to the 28nm fabrication process. The new HD 7970 will effectively become AMD's new flagship single GPU.. Read more...

TechSpot: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 'Super Overclock' Review

Julio Franco — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:15:44 +0100

With most manufacturers scared to push the GTX 580 far beyond its reference spec, we were surprised when Gigabyte announced its solution which treads on deeper water than the competition dares to. Read more...

TechSpot: Budget Graphics Card Comparison, 13 sub-$150 Boards Tested

Julio Franco — Thu, 12 May 2011 09:52:29 +0100

In the last few months, AMD and Nvidia released what will likely be the last additions to their current generation graphics cards: the Radeon HD 6990 and GeForce GTX 590. Although both products deliver incredible... Read more...

TechSpot: Top Budget to Mainstream Graphics Cards

Julio Franco — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:52:40 +0100

The last few months we've seen both AMD and Nvidia turn their attention to the high-end segment of the graphics market. In addition to launching their latest single-GPU flagship boards, both companies just recently launched... Read more...

TechPowerUp GPU-Z v0.5.2

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:52:11 +0000

TechPowerUp has released version 0.5.2 of GPU-Z, our popular graphics hardware information and diagnostic utility that gives you information about the installed graphics hardware in your computer, and lets you monitor various parameters such as... Read more...

TechSpot: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 570 (1280MB) Review

Julio Franco — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:59:37 +0000

Nvidia's GeForce GTX 580 may be the current king of the hill, but this could change before the end of the year when AMD launches their new Radeon HD 6900 series. So with the real... Read more...

Nvidia moves into direct card sales

Owen Williams — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:29:36 +0100

HardOCP is reporting that nVidia has started to release self-built nVidia graphics cards. This comes after years of the company licensing its graphics technology out to third party manufacturers such as Asus to build the... Read more...