If you’re holding out for one of AMD’s upcoming 68xx series cards, you may want to hold off just a bit longer. Chinese site XFastest.com claims to have the hardware in-house, meaning benchmarks are readily available. I’m sad to announce that initially, performance is pretty underwhelming — the high-end 6870 is 10% less powerful than the outgoing 5870 according to 3d Mark ’06: ATI 5830: 14014 AMD 6850: 14872 ATI 5850: 15593 AMD 6870:...
Not more than a month ago we saw some early shots that claimed to be the upcoming AMD 6870. Even before that however, leaked screenshots of some early AMD 6870 benchmarks moistened our whistles, preparing us for the visual candy that was to follow a couple of days later. Building on that are some new leaked images of the “official” AMD 6870 that show largely the same picture we saw not more than a month ago. Although, this time the cards a tad darker in...
‘Tis that time of year again — Graphics card maker (among other things) AMD is set to unleash a flurry of new GPU hardware to lead us into the winter months and holiday season. For over a year now, their 58xx series in particular has been doing phenomenally well thanks to the ever-sinking prices and lower heatput-per-watt when compared to Nvidia’s finest. However, Nvidia’s latest update did turn up the heat (literally) on AMD once a few driver...
Good news for Steam users powered by ATI/AMD graphics cards: You can now get your Catalyst driver updates through Steam itself. That’s right. No more having to navigate to AMD’s website to download stuff. Of course, doing so in the first place isn’t exactly rocket science nor is it difficult. Still, having drivers downloads consolidated to a portal that you already visit several times per week is pretty handy you have to admit. Anyone given it a shot...
If rendering the world in the fastest time possible is the sole goal of your existence, AMD has something they would like to show you — the FirePro 9800. An obvious step up from the old king, the 8800, the 9800 is a counter to the latest business class offerings from Nvidia, namely the Quadro 5000 and 6000 cards. Most notably, Nvidia’s latest cards are faster than AMD’s good ‘ol 8800. As such, they couldn’t let the competitor trample all over...
