Video Cards
ATI’s Next Gen GPU
ATI’s HD 4870X2 is a few weeks away from official launch, and although the R700 generation seems to be one of ATI’s best realizations thus far, the Canadians aren’t going to stop here. Some new info on the next generation has been recently leaked and it seems ATI wants to improve the performance per watt [...]
GeForce 9800GTX+ Hydra Pack
I can hardly wait to get my hands on the HD 4870X2 video card from ATI. I’m not really an ATI fanboy, since I currently own an NVIDIA 8800 GTS card. It even crossed my mind to get a second card and try the SLI mode. That was because of Crysis, but now I’m set [...]
PCI Lives!
Here we are, in 2008, heading for the PCI Express 3.0 standard and Albatron Technology comes along and claims that millions of integrated motherboards without AGP or PCI Express slots are still produced. OK, you might find a few AGP cards these days, but cards for the old PCI slot? Are there millions of PC [...]
Intel Larrabee - the Lone Wolf?
Intel still thinks it can revolutionize the GPU market with their upcoming Larrabee solution. Of course Intel is capable of doing that and with the help of GDDR 5 memories, they can easily come to par with ATI’s and NVIDIA’s solutions. However, a 12-layer PCB (4 more layers then current graphics card PCBs) will most [...]
More on Quad-CrossFire
Surprisingly enough, AMD is not doing that well these days, although ATI is starting to catch up on NVIDIA. CPUs don’t seem to represent AMD’s ace in the sleeve for the moment and that’s why the company is concentrating more on the GPU sector. Techtree.com managed to interview Raja Koduri, worldwide CTO (Products Group) [...]