NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 Video Card Preview

The GeForce GT 240 is NVIDIA’s latest performance-class GPU that can be picked up for under $99. With 96 processor cores and with a frame buffer of either 512MB or 1024MB these little budget cards should perform pretty well, but obviously still lack support for DirectX 11. Read on to see what one of these cards will get you in our preview.

By bgiacoletti

New Need For Speed: Shift Patch Boosts AMD GPU Performance

Legit Reviews got their hands on the upcoming Need For Speed: Shift game update as well as some upcoming ATI CATALYST drivers. The game patch is said to offer improved ATI graphics card support and multi-GPU performance for those that are lucky enough to be running SLI or CrossFire. Read on to see what you can expect when the patch and drivers become public.

By Nathan Kirsch

Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X Video Card

Sapphire has added their Vapor-X vapor chamber cooling technology to the Radeon HD 5870 series and has launched a doozy of a card today. Read on to see how this factory overclocked Radeon HD 5870 does with a superior cooling solution in place to keep the RV870 core nice and cool. You might just be surprised to see how well this card does!

By Nathan Kirsch

Unigine ‘Heaven’ – The First DirectX 11 Benchmark

Last week on October 22, Unigine Corp. announced the release of the World’s first true DirectX 11 benchmark “Heaven” that is based on its proprietary Unigine engine. This is fairly big news as we can finally get to see how DirectX 11 will look and run on the latest DirectX 11 graphics cards from AMD. Read on to see how the Radeon HD 5870, 5850, 5770 and 5750 do on this tough DX11 benchmark!

By Nathan Kirsch

Gigabyte GTX 260 Core 216 Super Overclock Video Card Review

The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Super Overclock Video Card comes factory overclocked if you couldn’t figure that out by the name. The standard core clock of 576MHz has been bumped up to 680MHz, which is an 18% frequency boost over the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 reference design. With clock speeds like this you can expect 3% better performance than standard GTX 275 graphics cards!

By brian

ATI Radeon HD 5870 + 5850 Crossfire – Mixing Video Cards

Today, we are looking at ATI’s flagship Radeon HD 5870 video card and will be pairing it together with the Radeon HD 5850 video card to seeing how they work together in mixed CrossFire. We’ve previously reviewed both of these series in CrossFire before, but never dared to look at them mixed together and running CrossFire.

By Nathan Kirsch

XFX Radeon HD 4890 1GB Video Card Review

The XFX Radeon HD 4890 has been designed to smoothly play the latest DirectX 10.1 games with extreme HD resolutions and high-performance anisotropic filtering cranked way up. Read on to see how the XFX Radeon HD 4890 does and to see if the company is hits the target with this now sub $200 gaming graphics card!

By brian

ATI Radeon HD 5770 and 5750 CrossFire Video Cards

AMD released the ATI Radeon HD 5700 series of graphics cards this week, which means that AMD has successfully launched four brand new DirectX 11 graphics cards in less than a month! Read on to see how the Radeon HD 5770 and Radeon HD 5750 perform as we test them individually and in CrossFire!

By Nathan Kirsch

ASUS EAH5870 Voltage Tweak Video Card

The ASUS EAH5870 graphics card with Voltage Tweak Technology offers up to 38% more performance by unlocking the overclocking potential of the Radeon HD 5870. Read on to see how this card does when overclocked and what the SmartDoctor utility offers. It also comes with a product key for Colin McRae: DiRT 2 for those that like off-road racing games.

By Nathan Kirsch

NVIDIA Announces CUDA GPU Architecture – Fermi

NVIDIA today introduced its next generation CUDA GPU architecture, codenamed “Fermi” at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California. Fermi is an entirely new from the ground-up design architecture and is said to be the foundation for the world’s first computational graphics processing units (GPUs)! Read on to see actual pictures of one of these cards!

By Nathan Kirsch

ATI Radeon HD 5850 CrossFire Video Card Review

At just $259 the ATI Radeon HD 5850 is ready to give any graphics card on the market a run for its money. Our readers that value good minded price versus performance products need to take a look at this mainstream video card to see if it is right for your next system build or upgrade.

By Nathan Kirsch

AMD Radeon HD 5870 Video Card Overclocking

With the launch of the AMD Radeon HD 5870 graphics card fresh on our minds, we couldn’t help but wonder how far we could overclock the card if we weren’t limited by what Catalyst Control Center capped us at? Read on to see what we can do with the AMD GPU Clock Tool on our 5870 that comes stock at 850MHz GPU and 1200MHz Memory.

By brian

XFX Radeon HD 4850 1GB Video Card Review

Featuring a full TeraFLOP of compute power, the XFX ATI Radeon HD 4850 is true power player. The single slot design enables easy three- and four-way CrossFire assembly and the sub $125 price tag doesn’t hurt either. Will the XFX ATI Radeon HD 4850 with 1GB of memory have enough to play the latest game titles? Read on to find out!

By brian

AMD Shows off 24 Panel Eyefinity on DirectX 11 Graphics Cards

AMD is showing off a brand new technology today called Eyefinity. AMD’s next-generation of DirectX 11 graphics cards come with support for up to to six independent displays, which allows you the ability to connect anywhere from one to six displays to just one video card. AMD says that the experience is unlike anything you have ever seen before.

By Nathan Kirsch

Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 2GB Vapor-X Video Card Review

The SAPPHIRE Vapor-X Radeon HD 4890 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 video card is one of the fastest single slot graphics cards on the market today. This versatile and powerful card has 2GB of high-performance GDDR5 memory running at 1050MHz, while the core operates at 870MHz. Read on to see how this factory overclocked card does on our 30″ display.

By brian