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• NV45 Hits Retail, Finally : XFX’s GeForce 6800 GT PCI Express   [Review, GamePC]
  nVidia's NV45 graphics processor, what would eventually became the heart of their new GeForce 6800 GT and GeForce 6800 Ultra PCI Express graphics cards, was actually "launched" by nVidia roughly four months ago. The chip first received press right about the same time in which ATI's first Radeon X800 XT PCI Express cards were hitting the market, leading many to believe that nVidia's PCI Express cards would be out in a similar time frame in order to compete with ATI's top of the line card. While ATI has been able to push out batch after batch of their X800 XT PCI Express cards, nVidia fans have been forced to wait it out. The cards simply never materialized.
   Sat, 04 Dec, 2004 | 31 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• ABIT Radeon 9600 XT 256MB   [Review, Hexus]
  In summary, ABIT's done a decent enough job with its 9600 XT card. It's quiet, efficient, benchmarks well for a midrange card and carries basic VIV0 functionality. Compared to other cards running similar GPUs, and I'm thinking of other 9600 XTs, FX5700 / Ultras, it's not a bad buy. What condemns it graphics card limbo is the significant increase in performance users can get by spending just a few pounds more. All in all, a good 9600 XT that's a victim of aggressive R350 pricing.
   Sat, 20 Nov, 2004 | 28 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Crucial Radeon X800 PRO 256MB   [Review, Hexus]
  It's safe to say that any card, and I mean any card, based on the R420 GPU will be a good one. Greater rendering parallelism and higher core and memory speeds ensure that benchmark performance will be stellar. That point of view is corroborated by decent benchmark results from Crucial's X800 PRO. If, then, all X800 PROs are considered to be 'good', what makes one better than another?. What immediately springs to mind are cards that arrive pre-clocked at higher-than-default levels, or ones that bundle in the very latest games, or, for most buyers, the ones that are the cheapest.
   Sat, 20 Nov, 2004 | 12 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Half Life 2 GPU Roundup Part 1 - DirectX 9 Shootout   [Roundup, AnandTech]
  The first part of our Half Life 2 GPU series focuses on the performance of today's latest and greatest GPUs, but we will have follow up articles for owners of older hardware as well. There's quite a bit to talk about here so let's just get right to it.
   Sat, 20 Nov, 2004 | 54 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Half Life 2 GPU Roundup Part 2 - Mainstream DX8/DX9 Battle   [Roundup, AnandTech]
  The golden rule of Half Life 2 is this – regardless of what sort of graphics card you have (within reason), the game will run well, but at varying levels of image quality. Here’s an example: in our at_canals_08 benchmark at 1280 x 1024, the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro averages 54.2 frames per second. A GeForce4 MX440, averages 45.6 frames per second - pretty close considering the 9700 Pro was one of ATI's most powerful GPUs and sold for $400, and the GeForce4 MX is basically a GeForce2 MX. Now both of these cards were run at their maximum detail settings, but here’s where the two cards differ: the best image quality settings the GeForce4 MX can achieve are significantly lower than what the Radeon 9700 Pro can achieve. It is this type of situation that lays the foundation for our comparison here today.
   Sat, 20 Nov, 2004 | 53 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT AGP Review   [Review, Beyond3d]
  Here Beyond3D takes a look at the AGP version of the GeForce 6600 GT. While the AGP board has an interesting board layout, it doesn't retain the exact same specifications as its PCI Express counterpart.
   Sat, 20 Nov, 2004 | 74 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• NVIDIA PCI-Express GeForce 6800 GT   [Review, Bjorn3d]
  PCI-Express video cards have been available for a little while now, but the high-end cards are not widely available yet. ATi's Radeon X800 and X800 XT cards are starting to show up on e-tailers' virtual shelves, but the newest NVIDIA card you'll find in retail form is a GeForce 6600 GT. Demand for PCI- Express cards probably hasn't been really high yet, though. However, now that nForce4 is about to hit the streets, I'm sure we'll see a spike in demand.
   Sat, 20 Nov, 2004 | 18 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• NVIDIA's GeForce 6600GT AGP: The Little Bridge that Could   [Review, AnandTech]
  Even though NVIDIA has gone to manufacturing native PCI Express GPUs (e.g. GeForce 6600GT), they already have a working chip to bridge back down to an AGP interface, which is what makes today's launch possible. Thanks to the use of NVIDIA's PCI Express-to-AGP bridge chip, NVIDIA is able to not only launch but also begin selling an AGP version of their GeForce 6600GT today. We are told by NVIDIA that cards should be available for sale today continuing a very recent trend of announcing availability alongside a product launch, which we greatly applaud.
   Sat, 20 Nov, 2004 | 38 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• NVIDIA's GeForce 6800 Go vs. ATI's M28: The Mobile GPU Wars Begin   [Review, AnandTech]
  Not too long ago, NVIDIA's mobile GPUs were a joke as far as market penetration was concerned. More recently, NVIDIA has made some gains but still yields to ATI as the dominant force in the discrete mobile GPU market. Today, NVIDIA is hoping to start to further erode ATI's mobile market share with the release of their very first NV4x derived mobile GPU - the GeForce 6800 Go.
   Sat, 20 Nov, 2004 | 138 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• ATI's Radeon X700 XT and Radeon X700 PRO   [Review, Hexus]
  This article serves two purposes. We'll take a look at the new XT, paying close attention to its thermal characteristics before looking at performance, and I'll also publish some numbers and thoughts from that initial look at the PRO. It was only 5MHz away on the core clock from matching ATI's final set clocks, so while its results are gleaned using an older driver build that ATI aren't especially happy with, it'll serve as a nice reference point for when we get a final PRO board to look at.
   Sat, 13 Nov, 2004 | 68 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Not Platinum, But Close : Gigabyte’s Radeon X800 XT 256MB   [Review, GamePC]
  The catalyst (no pun intended) for us running a new GPU roundup is in part due to a new graphics card we received a few days back, that being Gigabyte's Radeon X800 XT. Until now, we've only tested cards which run on ATI's Radeon X800 Pro and the X800 XT Platinum Edition GPU's, whereas this new X800 XT seems to be taking a middle ground between these two chips. The pure Radeon X800 XT has been a rare beast on the market, although within the last two weeks, we've seen a tremendous influx of these products on the market. With the X800 XT Platinum Edition and GeForce 6800 Ultra cards nearly impossible to get on the market, the stock Radeon X800 XT might turn out to the best solution out there today for somewhat looking for a high-end AGP 8x card.
   Sat, 13 Nov, 2004 | 25 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT vs. ATI RADEON X800 Pro   [Review, rojakpot]
  PsYkHoTiK explores the capabilities of these two fine pieces of hardware from the two titans that are ATI and NVIDIA in a quest to find out which is the better one for YOU in this classic Clash of the Titans comparison!
   Sat, 13 Nov, 2004 | 51 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• ASUS AX800XT/2DT PCI-Express   [Review, Hexus]
  The ASUS AX800XT/2DT package has a number of positive features going for it. The card is small, well-built, quiet, and looks damn good. The very fact that you can pop it into a small PCIe-based system is a real bonus. ATI/ASUS also use a native PCI-Express design with no bridge chip in between. The benefits of the faster PCIe link won't manifest themselves until applications require massive streaming from motherboard to GPU (and vice-versa), but it's nice to know that architectural bottlenecks aren't going to hold up progress.
   Sat, 06 Nov, 2004 | 32 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• GALAXY GeForce 6600 256MB   [Review, Hexus]
  I like NVIDIA's NV43 and I like GALAXY's GeForce 6600 card. What NVIDIA has done is harness current top-end technology into a GPU and card that, depending upon manufacturer and RAM arrangement, will cost between £90-£120. GALAXY's card comes in at the upper end of that scale, thanks to a healthy 256MB of onboard RAM. Looking at our benchmark numbers that include a few older titles, it's apparent that NV43 performance makes looking at previous generation's midrange cards, and I'm thinking of Radeon 9600s and GeForce 5700/5900 XTs, almost pointless. What's more, GALAXY's PCI-Express 6600 card doesn't require auxillary power and the GPU's fan is pretty damn quiet, although a few sacrifices have to be made for the cheaper NV43 part, as there's no SLI capability and a distinct lack of memory bandwidth from the 128-bit interface.
   Sat, 06 Nov, 2004 | 65 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• GeCube Radeon X800 PRO   [Review, Hexus]
  X800 PRO pricing sits around the £280 mark in the U.K. at the time of writing and GeCube promise us that if you find the X800 PRO CS:CZ Limited Edition in the U.K. or indeed elsewhere, it'll be competitive with any and all X800 PRO pricing from other manufacturers. Given that, and the derivative PRO performance (no bad thing!), it's hard not to recommend the card to anyone who asks. If you're desperate for X800 PRO, if NVIDIA's hardware isn't your thing or you're annoyed with GT availability at the moment, GeCube's board is as good as any to spend your money on.
   Sat, 06 Nov, 2004 | 28 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• BFG GeForce 6800 GT OC Graphics Card Review   [Review, Rojakpot]
  But with the NV40 GPU, it looks like they have finally put the past behind them; and are finally on the right path. So today, we will be looking at the BFG GeForce 6800 GT OC, which is BFG Technology’s version of the new NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT GPU.
   Sat, 30 Oct, 2004 | 56 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• BFG GeForce 6800 Ultra Overclocked   
  Any and every GeForce 6800 Ultra is an excellent gamers' card. BFG's effort is above average, as the company offers a pre-overclocked core at default core prices. BFG's popularity is on the rise and it's easy to see why. If BFG can beef up the entire bundle, add, say, basic VIVO, and keep a keen price, its range of 6800-series cards will be hard to beat. As it is, you can literally place the names of NVIDIA's AIBs into a hat and pick any one. Most cards keep to the reference design and most range between 400-450MHz core.
   Sat, 30 Oct, 2004 | 36 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• NVIDIA's GeForce 6200 Launch   [Article, Hexus]
  Think 6600 and NV43. Think the same 0.11µ process production at TSMC. Think half the pixel power at the same clocks, without some optimisations before pixels are generated (Z opts) and after they're written to their render buffers (colour opts), no SLI, but complete SM3.0. If that makes sense, you're most of the way there.
   Sat, 30 Oct, 2004 | 32 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• PCIe Ramps Up : Seven PCI Express Graphics Cards Compared   [Roundup, GamePC]
  The transition to PCI Express has indeed been a painful one for the computing industry, causing confusion and frustration for both system builders and consumers. While changing computer connection standards is never easy, the pain of moving to PCI Express graphics cards from the well known AGP 8x standard has been made heightened by simultaneous releases of new graphics processors from both ATI and nVidia. Some of these new chips are for PCI Express, some are for AGP, some can be run on either connection type. If you don't follow this stuff on a daily basis, the situation can get really confusing, really fast.
   Sat, 30 Oct, 2004 | 61 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• PowerColor X800 PRO Limited Assassin Edition   [Review, Bjorn3d]
  If you recall back in 2002, R300 (RADEON 9700) was blasting at full speed with its full availability. Although it was still a .15µ micron process it was a very mature silicon (ATI's first .15µ chip was the R200) with very few if no flows. R300 was ATI's greatest success which accounted for best performing DirectX 9 chip. During 2002, ATI was already working on a new design -- the R400 which was later canned mainly because of beyond DirectX specifications which could make the chip a bit too avant garde if you will.
   Sat, 30 Oct, 2004 | 18 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail