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AMD’s 7000 series is made up of 3 segments. Starting with the flagship 7900 which are the high-end cards. Then we have the 7700 series which has budget gamers in mind. Finally we have the 7800 series which sits right in the middle to hit the sweet spot between cost and performance. The 7800 series has 2 cards the 7850 and the 7870, today we are taking a look at the 7850. Not just any 7850 though, the 7850 Overclocked Edition from Sapphire. This card really makes the sweet spot even sweeter with a factory overclock moving the core up to 920MHz and the memory up to 1250MHz. Sapphire has also added their popular Dual-X cooler for better cooling performance. Read on to see what this card is all about.
Today we get to look at the GTX 690, NVIDIAs dual GPU Kepler part, and will be putting it up against some of the best custom GTX 680 and Radeon 7970 cards along with CF and SLI configurations in the latest games such as Battlefield 3, Mass Effect 3 and Skyrim. GPU computing and HD playback will of course make an appearance and to top it off a card like this needs to run on a beefy CPU, so it's time to take the i7-3960X to 5.0GHz...
The GeForce GTX 670 is an average of 10.1 percent slower than the GeForce GTX 680 according to our benchmarks. The price is also about 22 percent lower, however, and you don't need to be a math wiz to realise that the price/performance ratio of the GTX 670 is better than that of the GTX 680.
The most interesting difference is with the similarly priced Radeon HD 7950. Nvidia's GTX 670 performs an average of 14.9 percent better than AMD's card. While you can find some good discounts for AMDs card, at an equal price the Nvidia card gives you more bang for your buck.
In areas other than performance it's a draw. Energy consumption is almost the same and both feature PCI-Express 3.0, support three monitors on one card, an integrated video encoder, excellent video decoder and DirectX 11.1.
With one exception, the GeForce GTX 670 is powerful enough to run games in Full HD on max settings and 4x FSAA. If you plan on using three monitors, then you do need to get a second card to get good frame rates. SLI works fine with the GTX 670. Triple SLI encountered too many compatibility issues for us to be able to recommend it.
NVIDIA recently unveiled two new graphics technologies at the 2012 GPU Technology Conference: NVIDIA GeForce GRID and NVIDIA VGX. You're probably not familiar with either of these 'Cloud Computing' technologies, but in the next few years they'll develop to become quite commonplace. One day in the not so distant future, you could find yourself choosing between a NVIDIA GeForce GRID subscription or NVIDIA GeForce graphics card to play the latest high-end game. In this editorial I explore what these two new technologies offer, and how they will change the graphics industry.
Graphic cards
We take a look at the HIS RadeonHD 7870 IceQ to see how it performs across our benchmarksuite.
MSI expand the Power Edition by introducing the NVIDIA based GTX 670 to the family. Let's check it out and see what it can do when overclocked.
Today we are taking a look at Sapphire's 7950 FleX Edition. With this card, there is no need to use expensive DisplayPort monitors or adapters for Eyefinity. Add to that an upgraded cooler, overclocked core, and the raw power of a 7950, and we may just have a winner here.
AMD have had great success with their latest 7 series of discrete graphics cards. The HD7970 led the performance charts for some time until Nvidia released their flagship single GPU, the GTX680. AMD are attempting to answer the challenge with the HD7970 ‘GHZ’ Edition, earning the moniker from the enhanced default 1ghz+ core clock speed.
Die Geforce GTX 680 stellt bereits in ihrer Standardform die absolute Single-GPU-Speerspitze auf dem Grafikkkartenmarkt dar. Diverse Board-Partner schöpfen jedoch das Potenzial des Kepler-Chips weiter aus und bieten übertaktete Modelle mit einer eigenen Kühllösung an. Auch Asus gehört zu den Herstellern, die eine solche Version in petto haben. Die GTX 680 DirectCU II TOP bildet dabei das absolute Flaggschiff der Taiwanesen und überflügelt auch die luftgekühlte Konkurrenz in Sachen GPU-Takt. Wie die Performance letzten Endes ausfällt und welche weiteren Features der potente Pixelbeschleuniger mit sich bringt, klären wir in diesem Artikel.
We overclock the upcoming GEFORCE GTX 660 Ti 2GB to see what kind of performance we can get out of it.
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