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AMD have been taking all the headlines in the last month, releasing a slew of graphics cards – including the class leading (but noisy) R9 290 and R9 290X. The R9 290X managed to take the performance crown from Nvidia’s GTX 780 and GTX Titan in the ultra high end at both 1600p and Ultra HD 4K resolutions. Nvidia have been hard at work behind the scenes however and today they release their new GTX780 Ti. The big question we need to answer … is it enough to push the formidable R9 290X into second place?
Graphic cards
We get our hands on the XFX HD 7770 Black Edition factory overclocked 1gb graphics card, but can it keep up?
As we mentioned before the GTX 590 is the world's fastest GPU, but what makes it the fastest GPU?? Is it a mystery chip discovered in the basement graphics lab? Or is it an innovative product that leverages the best that nVidia has to offer in a compact package? Actually, it's a little of both.
Like the previous Dirt game, Dirt 2, the latest iteration from Codemasters, Dirt 3, is another big release for AMD. While maybe not quite as big as the second one which saw the implementation of DirectX 11, one would argue that this one could be even bigger because of the rave reviews the game has received, making it not only a game that looks good, but also a game that's good to play.
Graphic cards
We all knew that AMD were going to launch the 7000 series graphics cards, but not many anticipated that it would be quite this soon, with AMD bringing the date forward from the 9th January 2012 to 22nd December 2011.
By AMD bringing the date forward, the major downside to this is that it doesn't give us much time as writers to get you the very best content possible, as we have to aim to test the card to its full capacity in a limited time frame, so that we're ready for launch.
That aside, we are pleased to tell you that the 7000 series is here, or at least the 7970 is, with a reference design, while 7950 and 7970 partner cards will still be launched on 9th January 2012, so be sure to look out for that one. Not a lot of information was leaked about the 7970, but if previous card launches were anything to go by, we had a feeling that this could go horribly wrong and we say that for two main reasons. Generally when AMD launch a graphics card, they forget a vital thing, and that is to actually have the cards to launch. That involves making sure the reviewers have the cards, and so that stock is plentiful in stores and sadly this has happened again, but without digressing too much, we find one major flaw that tends to hiccup every time; rebadging.
When we've seen cards launch before, we've typically seen a bit of a rehash of an older card, much like we saw with the 5770/6770 and 5850/6850 and generally when they have launched, the performance has been slightly worse, so you can understand our downward view when we heard about the 7970.
From looking at the architecture however, it does seem that this card is a little bit different with a completely new GPU core and new technologies to back it up, and I can honestly say, from a first glance, it does seem as though AMD are learning from their mistakes.
The new GPU, codenamed "Tahiti" is part of the "Southern Islands" range of graphics cores and is now currently dubbed as their flagship graphics card with the 7970. Other cards are due to be released in the near future and with January 9th becoming ever so close to the present, we should see the 7970 being customised with different coolers and unique overclocks, but for now, let's take a look at the reference Radeon 7970 from AMD.
Mit der Vorstellung der GeForce GTX 780 hat Nvidia bereits vor einigen Wochen den Startschuss für die GTX 700 Familie gegeben. Während dieser Ableger der rasanten GTX Titan entsprang und entsprechend gut performte, legt man mit der GeForce GTX 770 im Leistungsbereich zwischen GTX 680 und GTX 780 nach. Um diesen Zweck zu erfüllen, basiert das neue 770er Modell nicht auf Titan-Hardware (GK110-GPU), sondern setzt auf eine übertaktete Variante des GK104 (GTX 680). Dennoch darf sich die GTX 770 über ein wenig Flair der großen Titan freuen, denn das Kühlsystem samt Boost 2.0 wurde übernommen. Alles in Allem soll dieser Nvidia-Sprössling der Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition von AMD einheizen – wir dürfen gespannt sein ob dies gelungen ist! Hierzu haben wir uns die ZOTAC GeForce GTX 770 mit 2 GB GDDR5-Speicher zum ausführlichen Praxistest eingeladen und umfangreich auf Herz und Nieren geprüft!
HIS sent over some new video cards and the first one we look at is the Radeon HD 7850 IceQ 2GB.
We take a look at the PCS wielding Radeon HD 7950 video card from PowerColor and see what it can do when overclocked.
Graphic cards
We take a look at the IceQ XTurbo X version of the Radeon HD 7870 from HIS, but is itjust a gimmick?
We take a look at Hitman: Absolution with Sapphire's Radeon HD 7970 in both single and multi-monitors in AMD EyeFinity mode up to 5760 x 1080.
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