ATI is now offering a new mid-range graphics card, the Radeon X1950 Pro. While it's definitely not the X1950XTX, it claims to offer a 10-35% increase in performance when compared to its NVIDIA counterpart, the GeForce 7900GS (which is its counterpart in terms of pricing).
The X1950 Pro is the first graphics card to implement native CrossFire technology. What this means is that you don't need a special "CrossFire Edition" card, as long as the motherboard works with a CrossFire configuration. AMD is really playing catch-up with NVIDIA's SLI, but so far they've been doing a good job of keeping up.
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Nvidia is getting ready to demonstrate their latest graphics wonder at the introduction of the "definitive gaming platform" on 8 November in California according to Toms Hardware. The new cards boast 128 pixel pipelines - a whopping 80 pipelines over the highest currently available. A massive performance increase is inspected over the Geforce 7950 series and current ATI flagship models thanks to this increase. Power requirements for the top of the range model, the 8800 GTX, in SLI mode are expected to require a minimum 800w PSU! Considering the 8800GTX has two PCI-Express power connectors, if you plan on running two of these babies you'll probably need to upgrade that PSU.
Of course the real show stopper is the Direct X10 support making it the first card on the market to be ready for Vista and the new API. So far no games are available that require Direct x10 but with plenty in production such as jaw dropping Crysis, it shouldn't be long before we see a new wave in gaming eye candy.
ATI are taking things easy and don't expect to have anything available until late in the first quarter of next year. Good tactics perhaps, as the rush to adopt direct x10 cards will be slow until the software is there.
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Sapphire has announced two new ATI-based graphics cards designed with those who like high performance with low noise in mind. Their new TOXIC X1950XTX and TOXIC X1950 CrossFire Edition cards greatly improve the cooling performance over ATI's stock cards by taking out the standard heatsink and fan and replacing them with a custom version of Thermaltake's Tidewater water-cooling solution.
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NVIDIA's new video cards using the G80 core are coming soon. The first two varieties will be available at launch and are called the GeForce 8800GTX and 8800GTS. Interesting, it's like NVIDIA refuses to use the same lettering scheme for two different generations of cards. Now we have a GTS instead of just a GT? Anyway, both cards will be compatible with the DirectX 10 specification and feature Shader Model 4.0, which should definitely bring some improvements to the gaming experience.
Both cards are HDCP-compliant and can support DVI, VIVO, and HDTV outputs. They are expected to launch in the second week of November. Pricing doesn't seem to be available yet, but don't expect them to be cheap.
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NVIDIA's first DirectX 10-compatible GPUs, codenamed G80, are expected to be launched in the middle of November. Graphics card makers have said that GeForce 8800-based cards should show up around this time. While these cards will be available soon, DirectX 10 will not immediately be available, as it's planned as a Vista-only feature.
The GeForce 8800 utilizes Shader Model 4.0, improving the rendering capabilities of the card. ATI's competiting R600 GPU, which will also support DirectX 10, will most likely show up sometime next year. Of course, until DirectX 10 is available, they aren't at much of a disadvantage.
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ATI announced a new technology called Stream Computing. This revolutionary new technology allows your graphics card (currently supporting X1900 GPUs) to accelerate time-consuming computing tasks at the enterprise level. Applications ranging from security, weather forecasts, financial predictions, database searching, and more will all see performance increases with the use of an idle GPU.
One way this might affect you is physics calculations in video games. Up until recently, no one cared about non-essential physics in a game engine, but now it's really in the spotlight as a way to increase the visual appeal of a game. When things look like they could actually happen, you'd probably enjoy watching them (imagine a game where the tires of a car DIDN'T sink into the ground randomly). We can hope that gaming physics and other similar applications appear soon, to take advantage of hardware we already have.
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Written by WoobiaEroveva
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Gainward Bliss 7950GT 512 MB
Graphics card manufacturer Gainward announced a total of 4 new cards based on nVidia's newest graphics chipsets, namely the 7950GT and 7900GS. 2 versions of each card will be made, featuring 512 MB and 256 MB of GDDR3 RAM respectively.
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Foxconn 7950GX2
Foxconn is one of the leading manufacturers of computer components, mainly supplying parts to OEMs. The firm today announced that nVidia GeForce graphics cards with the Foxconn brand name would soon be hitting retail shelves.
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nVidia has released the GeForce 7100 GS, which will replace the GeForce 6200 as the company's entry level graphics card.
The GeForce 7100GS is built with nVIDIA PureVideo technology which is the combination of high-definition video processors and decoder software that delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate colour and precise image scaling for all video content. With minimal CPU usage 7100GS is the best way to turn your PC into a high-end home entertainment theater. Further more NVIDIAâ PureVideoä technology delivers high-quality VMR pipeline for best-in-class video for Windows Vista.
Specifications:
Core Clock (MHz) - 350
Memory Interface - 64-Bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) - 5.3
Fill rate (billion texels/sec) - 1.4
Vertices/sec (million) - 263
Pixels per clock (peak) - 4
RAMDACs (MHz) - 400
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Looking for a mid-range graphics card? The all new ATi Radeon X1650 Pro may just be your thing. The refreshed version of the currently available X1600 Pro runs at 600/1400 Mhz (Core/Memory) and sports 256 MB of GDDR3 RAM.
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Gigabyte just announced a brand new HDMI passively cooled graphics card based on the nVidia GeForce 7600 GS GPU. The new card, gived a very long and odd name - GV-NX76G256HI-RH is HDCP compliant and also sports a S/PDIF passthrough.
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