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Radeon HD 4870 X2 Preview

By Mathieu • Jul 14th, 2008 • Category: Articles

Introduction:
To be released on August 12th, the codename R700, also known as the Radeon HD 4870 X2, is ATI’s next flagship card. Today, you get to read on a preview of this card and discover the ace that ATI have in its sleeve.
The Radeon HD 4870 X2 card is AMD’s answer to NVIDIA’s high-end GTX […]



Pictures and specs of the Radeon HD 4650

By Mathieu • Jul 12th, 2008 • Category: News

Chiphell published pictures of the upcoming Radeon HD 4650, as well as a picture of its cooling system.

Equipped with a RV730 which contains 320 stream processors, just like the RV670 that equips the Radeon HD 3800 series, it will allow up to 1GB of GDDR3, linked to the GPU by a 256 bits bus. The […]



The Best Video Card for your money: July 2008

By Mathieu • Jul 4th, 2008 • Category: Best of

This post has been updated: See Best video card for your money: October 2008 for the updated version, thanks!
(Edit: Due to the recent prices drops by both ATI and Nvidia and the sudden popularity of this article (Over 25,000 hits in two days!), I’ve decided to update the prices before publishing the follow-up.)
Howdy! First of […]



Radeon HD 4870 X2 Pictures

By Mathieu • Jun 30th, 2008 • Category: News

I’ve chose to share with you pictures of the upcoming R700, which will be sold under the name of Radeon HD 4870 X2. Thanks to Chiphell for the pictures.

This card, equipped with 2 RV770 gpus uses the same concept that was used on the Radeon HD 3870 X2, which is a PCI Express PLX […]



Nvidia’s New Flagship: The Geforce GTX 280 Review

By Mathieu • Jun 18th, 2008 • Category: Articles

Introduction
Almost two years after the release of the 8800 GTX, here’s the newest and latest flagship from Nvidia, the Geforce GTX 280. We finally have a succesor, after the highly successful Geforce 8000 series and the not so popular 9000 series. Here it is, in pictures:

At 1.4 billion transitors and with a size of 576mm2, […]