GPUs
VESA this morning is taking the wraps off of the next iteration of its DisplayHDR monitor certification standard, DisplayHDR 1.2. Designed to raise the bar on display quality, the updated DisplayHDR conformance test suite imposes new luminance, color gamut, and color accuracy requirements that extend across the entire spectrum of DisplayHDR tiers – including the entry-level DisplayHDR 400 tier. With vendors able to begin certifying displays for the new standard immediately, the display technology group is aiming to address the advancements in the display technology market over the last several years, while enticing display manufacturers to make use of them to deliver better desktop and laptop displays than before. Altogether, the DisplayHDR 1.2 is easily the biggest update to the standard since it launched in...
Getting the Most Out Of Your Hardware: Video Card Utility Roundup
We take a look at 1st party and 3rd party video card utilities, and why GPU manufacturers could be doing better
17 by Ryan Smith on 7/5/2007Real World DirectX 10 Performance: It Ain't Pretty
With the first three DX10 games out there in the wild, we wanted to take a close look at what we can expect from the first generation of titles...
59 by Derek Wilson on 7/5/2007More Mainstream DX10: AMD's 2400 and 2600 Series
Following a little more than a month after the launch of R600, AMD's budget and mainstream DX10 hardware is hitting the streets.
96 by Derek Wilson on 6/28/2007AMD's UVD Debacle
Recently AMD has stated that UVD is not included in HD 2900. Here is our take on the situation.
53 by Derek Wilson on 6/4/2007ATI HD 2900XT CrossFire: Intel 975X versus Intel P35
Does the new kid on the block have what it takes to knock off the champ? We find out in our performance preview of AMD CrossFire on the P35 chipset.
29 by Gary Key on 5/16/2007ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT: Calling a Spade a Spade
Months after NVIDIA released its DX10 hardware, ATI finally has a chance to respond.
86 by Derek Wilson on 5/14/2007NVIDIA GeForce 8M: DirectX 10 Goes Mobile
Today is a relatively big day for the notebook sector, with Intel launching the Santa Rosa platform and NVIDIA creating the first DirectX 10 mobile graphics solutions. Here we...
18 by Jarred Walton on 5/9/2007New Ultra High End Price Point With GeForce 8800 Ultra
With top to bottom G8x parts, NVIDIA comes back to top itself, launching the new fastest chip around. Is it worth the price?
68 by Derek Wilson on 5/2/2007NVIDIA GeForce 8600: Full H.264 Decode Acceleration
NVIDIA brings full H.264 decode acceleration to mainstream PCs anywhere, we find out exactly how good it is.
64 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/27/20078600 GT/GTS Follow-up Performance
We have more performance tests results for the new NVIDIA 8600 GT/GTS series, as well as further analysis of its price/performance.
41 by Derek Wilson on 4/24/2007DX10 for the Masses: NVIDIA 8600 and 8500 Series Launch
NVIDIA rounds out it's 8 Series lineup with top to bottom DX10 hardware now available. The first to hit the selves is the 8600 GTS.
60 by Derek Wilson on 4/17/2007ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner: AMD and Dell Bring CableCARD to PCs
We bring you a preview of the first CableCARD solution for Vista PCs. Has Vista Media Center finally caught up to set top boxes thanks to OCUR?
29 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/3/2007GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB Roundup
We are finishing out our retail roundups of GeForce 8800 hardware with a look at the 320MB GTS parts from different vendors.
24 by Derek Wilson on 3/27/2007The Future of Anti-Aliasing Settings in Question: NVIDIA Discussion
Times are changing and the fate of AA settings in NVIDIA's driver is at stake. Find out what the problem is, what's being considered and what you can...
50 by Derek Wilson on 3/15/2007Factory Overclocked 8800 Roundup
We pit multiple factory overclocked 8800 cards against each other to find out which offer the most value.
20 by Derek Wilson on 3/12/2007Performance Scaling with OCZ's 8800 GTX
OCZ has decided to augment its memory, cooling and power supply business with a high end graphics product. Today we test OCZ's graphics hardware and dive deeper into 8800...
12 by Derek Wilson on 2/16/2007Power Within Reach: NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB
NVIDIA has launched a cheaper G80 based 8800 GTS with half the RAM of the original. We explore the performance and memory size impact.
55 by Derek Wilson on 2/12/2007Coming Soon to HD DVD: Silicon Optix HD HQV
Silicon Optix has provided us with an early version of their HD HQV test. We test AMD and NVIDIA hardware to get an idea of HD image quality on...
27 by Derek Wilson on 2/8/2007HD-DVD Playback - On the Xbox 360 & on NVIDIA GPUs
As a follow up to our recent articles on HD media playback, we will now take a look at a couple HD-DVD movies using the Xbox 360 player.
51 by Derek Wilson & Manveer Wasson on 12/15/2006HD Video Playback: H.264 Blu-ray on the PC
We now have Blu-ray titles that make use of H.264 encoding in order to put our hardware to the test.
86 by Derek Wilson on 12/11/2006