Hot on the heels of last month’s expansion of AMD’s Never Settle Reloaded game bundle, which saw Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon added across the board, AMD is back once again with another expansion of their game bundle program. The latest rendition of AMD’s program will see AMD launching a new, smaller game bundle to run alongside the Never Settle Reloaded bundle. The new bundle is to be called the Level Up bundle, with the complete package being dubbed the Level Up with Never Settle Reloaded bundle. Level Up won’t add any new games to AMD’s bundles – the game industry is between major launch periods anyhow – but instead Level Up will see AMD offering a greater number of their bundle games with most...
Sapphire announces the passive HD 5550 Ultimate
Today, Sapphire have announced the latest in their lineup of ATI 5xxx series graphics cards - the passively cooled HD 5550, dubbed the 'Ultimate'. The party piece of...
12 by Ian Cutress on 4/30/2010
Adobe Enables Flash GPU Acceleration in OS X, We Test It
Brandon Hill, Editor in Chief of DailyTech, IMed me an hour ago with this: "OK, stop laying on the couch with your iPad and do some OS X benchmarking"...
38 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/28/2010
Update: NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 400 Series Shows Up Early
Now that the week of the 12th is upon us, let's see how a quick stock check at the usual suspects turns out. April 2010 Video Card Prices Video Card Original MSRP Available...
62 by Ryan Smith on 4/12/2010
Quick Look: Thermalright Spitfire & VRM-R5
Today we have something a bit different for you from the GPU world: aftermarket cooling. Thermalright sent over a complete aftermarket GPU cooling kit for our Radeon 5870 containing...
63 by Ryan Smith on 4/6/2010
AMD's Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition Reviewed
Last September when AMD unveiled its new DirectX 11 GPUs, we were promised the ability to drive a minimum of 3 or a maximum of 6 displays off of...
78 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/31/2010
NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470: 6 Months Late, Was It Worth the Wait?
The 6 month wait for Fermi is finally over. Today NVIDIA is launching their first two Fermi family products: The GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470. Based on...
198 by Ryan Smith on 3/26/2010
AMD’s Radeon HD 5830: A Filler Card at the Wrong Price
To close the 5850/5770 gap, today AMD is introducing the 5830, a further cut-down Cypress. Today we'll see why this card embodies the idea that there is no such...
149 by Ryan Smith on 2/24/2010
Sapphire’s Radeon HD 5850 Toxic Edition: Our First Fully-Custom 5850
With the supply of AMD's Cypress chips picking up, we finally have our first fully-custom board. Today Sapphire is releasing the first such product, the overclocked and overcooled 5850...
72 by Ryan Smith on 2/18/2010
Quick Look: MSI’s GeForce 210
Today we're looking at MSI's N210-MD512H, based on the last 40nm GeForce 200-series part we have yet to see: the G210.
25 by Ryan Smith on 2/16/2010
What's New: AMD's Catalyst 10.2 & 10.3 Drivers
Some big changes are coming for AMD's Catalyst drivers. We have everything you need to know about what's new today with 10.2, along with what's coming next month with 10.3.
75 by Ryan Smith on 2/16/2010
The RV870 Story: AMD Showing up to the Fight
After the RV770 ATI surely must have had an easy time building the RV870, right? Wrong. While we now know that the RV770's strategy paid off, the...
134 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2010The Final Word on the Best Radeon HTPC Card
Since we published our reviews of the Radeon HD 5450 and the Radeon HD 5570, we have been going back and forth with AMD over the results of our...
53 by Ryan Smith on 2/12/2010
AMD’s Radeon HD 5570: Low Profile, Higher Performance
With the bulk of the 5000 series launched, AMD is now launching products to fill in the gaps in their product line. Today we look at one of those...
36 by Ryan Smith on 2/9/2010
AMD’s Radeon HD 5450: The Next Step In HTPC Video Cards
Cedar, AMD's final Evergreen chip, launches today with the Radeon HD 4500. What does bringing Evergreen, audio bitstreaming, and DX11 do for the low-end of the market? We find out
75 by Ryan Smith on 2/4/2010
NVIDIA’s GF100: Architected for Gaming
At long last, the other shoe drops. Over CES NVIDIA told us everything we wanted to know about the GPU that was Fermi. We find out why NVIDIA believes...
116 by Ryan Smith on 1/17/2010
AMD's Radeon HD 5670: Sub-$100 DirectX 11 Starts Today
Today AMD is launching the first Redwood card - the 5670 - bringing DX11 down to its lowest price point yet. While the performance won't set the world on...
73 by Ryan Smith on 1/14/2010
Lucid’s Hydra Unleashed: Part 1
Today the first motherboard with Lucid's Hydra technology launches: The MSI Big Bang Fuzion. Will the Hydra shake up the multi-GPU world as Lucid has been claiming?
48 by Ryan Smith on 1/7/2010
NVIDIA’s GeForce GT 240: The Card That Doesn't Matter
Late last year NVIDIA launched the GT 240, the bigger brother of their first 40nm part, the GT 220. Today we look at its performance, and why NVIDIA has...
56 by Ryan Smith on 1/6/2010
Anand's Thoughts on Intel Canceling Larrabee Prime
Intel's first discrete GPU has been canceled, I explain why it doesn't really matter.
77 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/6/2009
AnandTech Tests GPU Accelerated Flash 10.1 Prerelease
Updated ATI and Intel acceleration results. Do you hate how painfully slow Flash video playback can be even on the fastest PCs? Adobe's prerelease of Flash 10.1 is...
135 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/19/2009