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NVIDIA’s GeForce 700 series of cards are made up of the GTX 760, GTX 770 and GTX 780. The GTX 770 is actually based on the same GPU as the GeForce GTX 680. It makes use of the 28nm GK104 chip. This chip features 8 streaming multiprocessors (SMX units), 1536 stream processors, 1218 texture units and 32 ROPs. The GTX 770 is clocked a little higher than the GTX 680 with a 1049 MHz core clock and a boost clock of 1085 MHz. The memory is also higher at 7010 MHz (effective). With these improvements and since many companies are already used to working with the GK104 chip this should make for better performance and a more powerful card. Today we are taking a look at a GTX 770 from MSI. It is their GTX 770 Twin Frozr Gaming OC Edition which features MSI’s own Twin Frozr IV cooling solution, Military Class III components and 3 different operating modes (silent, gaming & OC). Read on to see if this is the GTX 770 for you.
Crossfire = teuer, stromhungrig und verhältnismäßig ineffizient? Muss nicht sein. AMD brachte 2012 die Radeon HD7770 auf den Markt, die als einzelne Karte leistungstechnisch dem Mainstreambereich zugeordnet werden kann. Was geschieht jedoch wenn man die HD7770 um ein weiteres Exemplar zu einem CrossfireX-System erweitert? Was passiert wenn man das Duo dann durch eine Taktsteigerung zusätzlich die Sporen gibt? Reicht die Performance der zwei Karten dann auch für den Eintritt in den High-End-Bereich? Beziehungsweise: Können es die zwei Karten für nur 230 EUR mit den großen Brüdern HD7950 und GTX670 aufnehmen?
Mit der Radeon R9 280X hat AMD eine neue Grafikkarte in ein interessantes Preissegment gesetzt. Das sehr leistungsfähige Modell wurde inzwischen auch von den Boardpartnern angenommen und erste Sonderlösungen erreichen den Markt. Eine davon ist die stark übertaktete R9 280X Black OC von XFX, welche neben höherem GPU-Takt auch mit höherem Speichertakt antritt. Dazu hat der Hersteller einen neuen Kühler am Start. Unser Test klärt alle Details.
ZOTAC has an incredible GeForce GTX 970 video card on its hands with the AMP! Extreme Edition, which has some hidden, untapped power.
AMD’s R9 270 graphics card is arguably the single most important GPU release of this year from AMD. It offers a never before seen level of performance at its $179 price point, more or less totally beating Nvidia’s GTX 660 – especially when overclocking comes into play. The reason it is so important is because, despite all the media hype, the sub $200 price point is where the vast majority of graphics cards are bought – the R9 270 is going to be very important for AMD’s competitiveness.Today we have another one of those important R9 270 GPUs and the one we have is from renowned AMD partner Sapphire Technology. This is only the second AMD R9 270 to come through the doors here at eTeknix, for those who follow our reviews you may have already read the launch-day review of the ASUS R9 270 Direct CU II OC graphics card we produced. Sapphire’s R9 270 variant is quite different to the ASUS model we reviewed in that this will be hitting the UK shelves at £135, 10% less than the ASUS model which fetches £150. That said we can see what Sapphire are doing – producing a super-aggressively priced R9 270 to target the masses. Yet this graphics card doesn’t skimp on a lot because for its highly affordable pricing you still get a custom cooler and a factory overclock of 945MHz core, up from 925MHz stock.
Out of the five GTX 970 cards we tested it is a draw between the ASUS Strix and MSI Gaming kaarten, both have excellent performance, are priced competitive and are quiet. The Gigabyte and Inno 3D kaarten are slightly faster out of the box than the ASUS and MSI but are also noisier. The Zotac card looks special, but has a price to match that and we could not see the value or get the results from the special overclock PCB as you have seen in the test. Out of all GeForce GTX 980 cards tested we prefer the Palit Super JetStream, its fast, affordable, the quietest and has plenty of overclocking headroom to boot. Should you want to look at three or four way SLI we would not use the Pali as it takes up three slots. The EVGA Superclocked ACX 2.0 is almost as good as the palit and can be easily used in a multi GPU setup. The new fans used on this EVGA card should last longer as well, but we can not prove this at the moment. The Strix and Gaming cards from ASUS and MSI are both good cards, but the Gigabyte and Inno3D GTX 980 cards are to loud for our liking. The Zotac card deserves a special mention as this is the fastest card in our test with excellent overclocking headroom and not too noisy under load.
When the AMD R9 280X launched the first R9 280X we tested was Sapphire’s Vapor-X model. In our review we noted that the while the performance was good and the temperatures were reasonable, the acoustic performance was far from impressive. Here we are 6 months later and Sapphire have revised their R9-280X Vapor-X to include their renowned Tri-X triple fan cooling solution which boasts better cooling performance and quieter operation as well as fantastic aesthetics. We aren’t 100% sure if the old model is going to be discontinued or not, because it is certainly confusing having two R9 280X Vapor-X models in our opinion so discontinuing the older model would make sense. There are some key differences between the old and new models though, such as the new model has a faster GPU core clock speed, a triple fan cooler, is a lot bigger, is more expensive and, strangely, has a lower memory clock speed. Sapphire’s R9 280X Vapor-X Tri-X sits just below the Toxic model (which we reviewed here) as it has (almost) the same cooling solution but isn’t overclocked as high, hasn’t been speed binned to the same extent and doesn’t have a backplate. Sapphire’s new R9 280X Vapor-X Tri-X currently fetches around $359 meaning it is directly priced up against high performance GTX 770s like EVGA’s SuperClocked ACX GTX 770 and most of the 4GB GTX 770s which cost on average about $30-50 more than the 2GB variants. Does Sapphire’s Tri-X cooler give the R9 280X Vapor-X a new lease of life? Let’s find out!
So last week was basically all about budget gaming with our first R7 370 review as well as the launch of the GTX 950. Well this week isn’t going to be any different. Today I’m going to take a look at another R7 370, this time the Asus Strix 4GB model. This gives us a chance to compare the Sapphire that I previously took a look and find out how the cards compare. It also is a good chance to see where the R7 370 sits now that the GTX 950 is out. To sit back and I’m going to see what the Asus R7 370 Strix 4GB has going on and then how it performs.
We check out the brand new and very sexy looking R9 280X 3GB TOXIC from Sapphire. Let's see how our first custom 280X review sample performs.
We take a look at the overclocking side of things with the upcoming GTX 660 to see what kind of performance we can expect.
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