GPUs

The curtains are drawn and it’s almost showtime for Qualcomm and its Snapdragon X SoC team. After first detailing the SoC nearly 8 months ago at the company’s most recent Snapdragon Summit, and making numerous performance disclosures in the intervening months, the Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus launch is nearly upon us. The chips have already shipped to Qualcomm’s laptop partners, and the first laptops are set to ship next week. In the last 8 months Qualcomm has made a lot of interesting claims for their high-performance Windows-on-Arm SoC – many of which will be put to the test in the coming weeks. But beyond all the performance claims and bluster amidst what is shaping up to be a highly competitive environment for...

ATI Radeon 32MB SDR

ATI's answer to NVIDIA's GeForce2 MX is here. Can ATI's HyperZ technology save it from the same memory bandwidth limitations that have been holding back the GeForce2 MX?

1 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/13/2000

ELSA GLADIAC ULTRA 64MB GeForce2 Ultra

ELSA was the first to bring a GeForce2 GTS card to market with their GLADIAC. Will they do the same now that they're armed with the GeForce2 Ultra...

1 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/12/2000

Video Card Roundup - DVD Quality, Features & Performance - October 2000

A lot of attention is placed on frame rates when it comes to evaluating the latest graphics accelerators, but very rarely is any attention paid to the video playback...

0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/11/2000

Linux Video Card Comparison - October 2000

We have seen the performance of the latest graphics accelerators under Windows 9x/2000, but what about under Linux? Read on to find out how the performance standings are...

0 by Jeff Brubaker on 10/9/2000

Matrox Millennium G450 Under Linux

With the release of the Millennium G450, will Matrox maintain its reputation as being the best supported card under Linux? We compare the G450 with the NVIDIA GeForce2...

0 by Jeff Brubaker on 9/19/2000

ASUS V7100/T GeForce2 MX

ASUS takes another stab at the video card market with the GeForce2 MX based V7100. Does ASUS live up to its reputation of producing high quality, feature packed products...

0 by Matthew Witheiler on 9/7/2000

Matrox Millennium G450

Matrox's first new chip in over a year is finally here. But how "new" is the G450? Can Matrox survive in a market that has been so...

1 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/5/2000

ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 32MB DDR

Finally offering the popular All-in-Wonder card coupled with ATI's powerful Radeon core, ATI is out to convert the computer into the home entertainment center. Can the 32MB DDR All-in-Wonder...

0 by Matthew Witheiler on 8/21/2000

VisionTek GeForce2 MX

For our first GeForce2 MX review, we take a look at VisionTek's version of the card. Finding the VisionTek GeForce2 MX online is not a challenge at all and...

0 by Matthew Witheiler on 8/16/2000

NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

The GeForce series gets another update, this time in the form of a GeForce2 Ultra. Exactly what is the new Ultra and what does it mean for NVIDIA's...

3 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/14/2000

NVIDIA's Detonator3 Drivers - Teaching an "old" dog new tricks

NVIDIA has released new drivers that supposedly boost performance across the board for all GeForce based products. Could this really be true? Read on as we do...

0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/14/2000

3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 PCI

Sick of your integrated video? In need of a video card upgrade but don't have an AGP slot? 3dfx comes to the rescue with one of the...

0 by Matthew Witheiler on 8/4/2000

FSAA & Image Quality Comparison - 3dfx vs ATI vs NVIDIA

We've taken three of the leading video card manufacturers and compared their FSAA settings. If you're fed up with those 'jaggies', disappearing lines and popping pixels this is...

0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/27/2000

ATI Radeon 64MB DDR

It looks like ATI is out for blood. The Radeon is here and it has killer written all over it. With cards shipping to retail locations by...

2 by Matthew Witheiler on 7/17/2000

3dfx Voodoo5 5500

AnandTech takes an in depth look at the Voodoo5 5500, tackling issues like FSAA performance, retail vs pre-production performance, LOD bias, overclocking, and much much more.

1 by Mike Andrawes on 7/11/2000

NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS Roundup - July 2000

Finding the right GeForce 2 GTS card for you may seem like finding a needle in a haystack. Search for that needle no longer. In this roundup...

0 by Matthew Witheiler on 7/10/2000

NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS FSAA Update (Detonator 5.30 Drivers)

Armed with the latest leaked drivers from NVIDIA, we revisited the GeForce2 GTS' Direct3D & OpenGL FSAA performance. The GeForce2 GTS can finally begin to be taken seriously...

0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/7/2000

Guillemot/Hercules 3D Prophet II GTS 64MB GeForce 2 GTS

Being the first 64MB GeForce 2 GTS card that has hit the market, it seems that Guillemot/Hercules has already achieved good market saturation. Although you may be able...

0 by Matthew Witheiler on 6/29/2000

NVIDIA GeForce2 MX

The NV11 that we've been waiting for has surfaced as a GeForce2 MX with a very impressive fill rate as well as the usual memory bandwidth bottleneck that seems...

3 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/28/2000

NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS 64MB

More might comes to the most powerful video card processor currently available. Now available in a 64 MB configuration, the GeForce 2 GTS is out for blood, or is...

1 by Matthew Witheiler on 6/21/2000

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