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Graphic cards
I'm going to start things off on a bad note, as you may or may not know, we took a look at the AMD Radeon 6450 not so long ago, and it was great for the general usage tasks and HTPC purposes but it didn't really get our blood pumping, but it was never really set out to do that in the first place.
Not many people were expecting the HD6870 X2 when it was initially announced. Powercolor have been one of the key players behind the launch and we highlighted some pictures from Computex a while ago. Today we are looking at the VTX3D version of the card. For those of you who haven’t yet heard, Vertex3D are the ‘price aggressive’ brand from TUL Corporation, the parent company of Powercolor.
When I mention the British Phonographic Industry, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Penthouse Magazine? Playboy UK? Well, my advice to you is, let's get your head out of the gutter, because what we are talking about here is the British Phonographic Industry, not the British Pornographic Industry. (On the other hand, it is interesting to point out most people get it wrong at first glance, too.) With that in mind, let me introduce to you the product we are reviewing today. The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560 1GB OC, as its name suggests, is based off one of NVIDIA's latest GPU releases, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560. Wait a second. Hasn't the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 been around since January? Fair enough, but like when we have mentioned British Phonographic Industry earlier, it is one of those things you can easily misread -- the one you are thinking about is probably the GTX 560 Ti. You know, the Titanium version, with more stream processors and texture units, combined with a marginally higher clock speed. The GV-N56GOC-1GI is based off the non-Ti version with a slight overclock to 830MHz core, 1660MHz shader, and 1002MHz memory; followed by a stream-texture-ROP configuration count of 336-56-32, respectively. Situated in the extremely competitive $200 MSRP market, and priced slightly below that at press time, how well does the usual Gigabyte approach of taking a standard GPU, install it on a custom PCB full of high quality components, slap on a custom cooler on top (Or under, depending on your perspective), fare in this ultra competitive market? Read on to find out what we have found!
Although the HIS Radeon HD 6950 IceQ X Turbo X 2GB (H695QNX2G2M) may not be the fastest single card out there still its very good overall performance along with its great overclocking potential, low noise levels and Eyefinity multi-monitor support result in a great product.
PowerColor's a familiar name to the AMD Radeon community. If they don't offer the widest variety of variations on AMD's reference designs, I don't know who does! They have no fewer than eight different versions of AMD's Radeon HD6850 card, ranging from factory-overclocked "PCS+" variants to a single-slot-cooler version to the one Benchmark Reviews is looking at today: the passively-cooled PowerColor SCS3 HD6850 1GB GDDR5. This card uses a massive fan-less heat sink to offer the performance of an HD6850 without any noise at all, and is certainly one of the highest-performing graphics cards I've ever seen with a passive cooler. Will this really work? How far will it overclock? Let's take a look.
Die aktuelle integrierte Intel-Grafik in den Sandy-Bridge-Prozessoren erbringt zwar wesentlich mehr Performance als die früheren integrierten Intel-Grafiklösungen, konnte aber noch immer nicht aus dem LowEnd-Performancebereich ausbrechen und hat nun auch in Form der integrierten Radeon-Grafik von AMDs Llano-Prozessorenarchitektur einen überlegenen Kontrahenten bekommen. Insofern dürfte die Anfangseuphorie um die neue Intel-Grafiklösung von Sandy Bridge inzwischen weit verflogen und Intel wieder in der Pflicht sein, zukünftig besseres aufzulegen (was man mit der 2012er Architektur "Ivy Bridge" auch zu tun gedenkt).
Sapphire bietet eine vollständig passiv gekühlte Radeon HD 6670 zum Verkauf an, während PowerColor gar eine Radeon HD 6850 auf Lager hat. Wie gut schlagen sich die Leisetreter? Wir gehen der Frage auf den Grund. Dabei ist die Temperaturfrage besonders spannend – ein kritischer Punkt bei passiv gekühlten Karten.
Today we will be putting the 6950 PCS+ Vortex 2 and its unique cooler through a selection of real world gaming, multimedia and GPU computing tasks to see how it stacks up against some of the best competitor cards on the market.
HIS are bucking the trend for custom 6950s today with a new version of the 6970, the IceQ Mix. While it has a name which could make people think of a cold drink it is actually a rather interesting take on the 6970 featuring a large, low noise custom cooler and the first real attempt we have seen at implementing Lucids HydraLogix 200 controller on a graphics card.
Graphic cards
HIS are a brand that we've seen over and over again, and usually would see us faced with a fancy card with a fancy cooler and some slightly overclocked speeds, and whilst some of that applies to the review today, we won't see any speed increases on this one.
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