Those looking to spend a little more also have the GTX 460 1GB at $220, which we have found to be comparable to the more expensive Radeon HD 5850 on most scenarios. As we’ve been mentioning in our recent GPU reviews, it’s not just the value and sheer performance of the GTX 460 that has helped to make it a hit, but the combination of that with wide availability, low power draw, and cool operating temperatures....
At 2560x1600 with any form of anti-aliasing enabled the Radeon HD 5870 graphics cards just failed to work likely due to a driver bug. A single GeForce GTX 480 averaged 24fps, while adding a second card increased performance by a margin of 92%, with the average frame rate now reaching an impressive 46fps. We ran an additional test with anti-aliasing disabled so we could properly test the Radeon-based boards. With anti-aliasing disabled at 2560x1600 a single Radeon HD 5870 managed to average 28fps, matching the performance of the GeForce GTX 480....
To measure performance we are using Fraps, recording the minimum and average frame rates for each pair of graphics cards. As in our previous GPU shootout, we are including a frame rate timeline that should suggest how each graphics card performed at a given moment compared within the benchmark run.
When testing at 1920x1200 the GeForce GTX 560 Ti averaged 63fps, which made it just 15% slower than the GTX 570 while it also trailed the Radeon HD 6950 by a 6% margin. Despite this it was 11% faster than the old GeForce GTX 470 and 13% faster than the competing Radeon HD 6870. Call of Duty: Black Ops Fraps was used to benchmark CoD: Black Ops in single-player mode....
Skyrim saw the GTX 650 Ti render 50fps at 1680x1050, setting it 7% behind the HD 6870 while outpacing the GTX 560 Ti by 2% and the HD 7770 by 39%. When testing The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings at 1680x1050, the GTX 650 Ti averaged 46fps, 7% faster than the HD 7770, 19% slower than the 6870, 10% slower than the GTX 560 Ti and 27% slower than the GTX 660....
The GTX 660 looked sharp in Battlefield 3, averaging 51fps at 1920x1200, matching the HD 7870 and beating the 7850 by a convincing 21% margin, though it was 15% slower than the GTX 660 Ti. Unsurprisingly, the GTX 660 made short work of Modern Warfare 3, producing a sweat-free 90fps at 1920x1200 and landing 3% ahead of the HD 7870, 11% ahead of the HD 7850 and 23% of the GTX 560 Ti, while placing 23% behind the GTX 660 Ti....
Playing The Witcher 2 at 1920x1200 produced an average of 51fps when using the GTX 660, placing it 6% behind the HD 7850 and 19% behind the HD 7870. For whatever it’s worth, Gigabyte’s overclocked card managed to close the gap and meet the HD 7850 at 54fps. The GTX 660 performed well in Skyrim, rendering 65fps at 1920x1200 versus the HD 7850’s 54fps and the HD 7870’s 63fps. It also outpaced the GTX 560 Ti by 51%....
Finishing up, the R7 265 and GTX 750 Ti delivered the same results of 51fps in Resident Evil 6, with both being 11% faster than the GTX 650 Ti and HD 7850.
Nvidia’s RTX 4090 could be the only graphics card that will make it to store shelves in time for the holiday season, at least according to the rumor mill. This has invited speculation that the rest of the Ada Lovelace lineup might need more time in the oven, but that remains to be seen. We already know that Intel’s Arc GPUs are unlikely to challenge next-generation graphics cards from both Team Green and Team Red, as even the high-end Arc A770 card is only designed as a competitor for mid-range cards like the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and the Radeon RX 6650 XT....
Eventually, Petersen parlayed the store’s success into a mainstream PC component business, which became OCZ Technology. The San Jose-based firm rapidly expanded into multiple categories, including branded video cards, keyboards, mice, and even explored more exotic offerings like the Cryo-Z phase change cooling system. OCZ Technology RevoDrive 3 PCIe SSD In 2007, OCZ shored up its power supply business by acquiring PC Power & Cooling, one of the most well-respected firms in the industry at the time....
There isn’t a significant difference in the PCMark 8 storage scores, though the Trion series along with the BX200 did deliver the lowest scores. Despite the similar storage scores the storage bandwidth results do vary quite dramatically. The Trion 150 was able to match the BX200 but was around 100MB/s slower than the 850 Evo. The Crucial BX200 proved horribly slow in this test and while the Trion 150 was considerably faster it was still slow overall....
The Octane drives demonstrated impressive stability and speed, boasting read and write performance of 520MB/s and 410MB/s, which is competitive with today’s high-end SATA 6Gb/s SSDs. Despite being a solid series, it hasn’t been a particularly popular option among enthusiasts because of pricing. Even today, the 256GB model costs $300, while the 240GB Vertex 3 can be had for as little as $210. Since the Octane’s launch, OCZ has whipped up a second-gen Everest controller, the silicon behind the company’s new Vertex 4....
Earlier this week, a review of the Arc A380 desktop graphics card revealed why Intel isn’t keen on releasing it worldwide. Performance is worse than AMD’s slowest RX 6000 series card and even Nvidia’s GTX 1650 which made its debut three years ago. Part of this is to be expected, as Nvidia and AMD have been perfecting their drivers for years and a first-gen discrete GPU architecture from Intel is unlikely to challenge their current offerings on anything other than price or energy efficiency....
The performance of the F1 is one of the standout features at this price point. The Snapdragon 616 is a definite step above the Snapdragon 410 that typically is seen in smartphones around the $200 mark, particularly when it comes to the GPU, which is several times more powerful. Multitasking is reasonably fluid thanks to 3 GB of RAM, and features like dual-SIM support and a microSD card slot are appreciated....
So if you’re looking for the skinny on this latest development in graphics technology, you’ve come to the right place. Let’s dive into the world of rendering and follow a path of light and learning. What is path tracing? The short and sweet answer to this question is… “path tracing is just ray tracing.” The equations for modelling the behavior of light are the same, the use of data structures to accelerate the searching for ray-triangle interactions are the same, too, and modern GPUs use the same units to accelerate the process....
Because the Box Office is designed to be taken apart, this has been made easy by design. You will be able to crack this product open in mere seconds by removing a pair of screws on the back. Of course, we didn’t stop there, as we proceeded to remove the internal drive tray. Doing so exposed a green PCB roughly as wide and long as the unit itself. Here you’ll find a small silver heatsink that cools dowm the Realtek RTD1073DD video processor....
The creator of SteamDB recently discovered code indicating Valve is working on peer-to-peer Steam game transfers. The feature would let users copy games between PCs on the same local area network (LAN), which is usually faster than downloading and doesn’t chew up internet bandwidth. Djundik speculates that Valve is primarily adding the functionality so Steam Deck owners can copy games to the handheld from their primary PCs without re-downloading from the internet....
What would you rate this device? Keep that number in mind. Display: Poor-quality display. 1,366 x 768 screen [where if you] dip the screen too far forward, everything very quickly becomes washed out. Keyboard: Underlying panel will bend a bit if you type vigorously enough. If you hit them too gently, you’re likely to suffer some missed key presses. The keyboard probably won’t recognize every single keystroke. Performance: The performance gains here aren’t so huge....
During the mining craze, it was really hard to find even budget Radeons, so we turned to the 3GB GTX 1060 as its limited memory buffer made it useless for most mining operations. This meant pricing held steady and as a result it was the best value budget mid-range option for quite some time. Today though, the GTX 1060 3GB is commonly found at $200. The RX 570 is around $150-170, which matches the GTX 1050 Ti (~$170) though it recently got destroyed in a head to head comparison with the RX 570....
