If you built a PC today and chose AMD for your processor/platform, chances are you’ll only have the option of getting an AMD (formerly ATI) video card if you want to go multi-GPU. Nvidia’s announcement today gives you the option of having SLI on the next generation of AMD chipsets. According to Nvidia, SLI support [...]
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 is the fastest single card GPU
April 1st, 2011 
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AMD has just released it’s current flagship card, the dual GPU Radeon 6990 and it didn’t take long for Nvidia to respond with it’s own single-card, dual GPU solution. Meet the GeForce GTX 590. If the Radeon 6990 is basically two 6970 in crossfire configuration, embedded into a single chip, then the GeForce GTX 590 [...]
Nvidia ships One Billionth GeForce chip
January 15th, 2011 sylv3rblade 2011 is shaping up to be a good year for Nvidia as the company reaches the one billionth GeForce GPU milestone mark. Note that the achievement states 1 billion GPUs shipped, not just manufactured. Who knows how many chips Nvidia currently has . Nvidia sends it’s thanks to everyone of it’s customers and to it’s [...]
ATI Beats Nvidia in GPU Shipment Battle in Q2
July 31st, 2010 sylv3rblade 
AMD is doing quite well with the GPU market thanks to ATI’s lead in DirectX 11 parts, the Radeon 5000 series. As always, ATI’s offerings have offered the best price to performance ratio across all models of their GPU line (unless of course you include the just released Nvidia GeForce 460).
Nvidia’s $200 GPU King: GeForce GTX 460
July 12th, 2010 sylv3rblade 
The release of the very first Fermi cards brought in mixed reactions. While it received praise for the architecture, speed and raw power, a lot more were disappointed at the cost and power consumption of these cards. Nvidia’s newest Fermi card, The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 packs a lot of punch for just $200.
Nvidia’s FERMI GF100 chips have arrived
March 27th, 2010 sylv3rblade 
After deliberately being late for a full cycle and the launch of Windows 7, NVIDIA has finally announced it’s new-generation graphics solution; Fermi-based GeForce GTX480 and GTX470. I’m quite sure fanbois from the green and red camp are eager for benchmarks with the latest NVIDIA GF100 cards and ATI’s 5000 series flagship cards so I [...]
NVIDIA GeForce 197.13 Drivers Fix Fan Speed Issues
March 17th, 2010 sylv3rblade After confirming the problems GeForce 196.75 Drivers had with fan speeds, Nvidia releases GeForce 197.13 for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300-series and ION desktop GPUs, but not for the new GTX400 series. Aside from fixing the fan speed/overheating bug, there’s also quite a few additions bundled in.
NVIDIA 196.75 breaks fan speed control, Overheat Problems
March 7th, 2010 sylv3rblade Not soon after NVIDIA released the latest GeForce/ION drivers, version 196.75, came in a surge of complaints from users that installed said update and fried their GPU.
