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<p><span style="font-size: small;">The Fermi cards have now been out (and only just available) for the just over a month. Like the AMD 5xxx series, the first cards used reference PCBs and reference coolers - the only way you could distinguish between the different companies was by the branded sticker on the large chunky cooler. Given time, and knowledge of the system, custom coolers were just around the corner. This is what we see in the new Inno3D GTX 470 Hawk.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/3707/inno3d-announce-triple-slot-gtx-470-hawk-">Read more...</a><br />
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Galaxy have pleasantly surprised us, and the folks at </span><span style="font-size: small;">vr-zone</span><span style="font-size: small;">. To the table, they bring their GTX 470 GC, a 100% non-reference design graphics card utilising an NVIDIA GeForce Fermi 470 GPU. Measuring 9 inches (compared to the reference 9.5 inches) and featuring a blue PCB, Galaxy have essentially mated a graphics card with a robot figurine.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/3706/galaxy-gtx-470-gc-the-worlds-first-nonreference-fermi">Read more...</a><br />
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By launching their Radeon HD 5830 Advanced Micro Devices closed the empty spot between Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 5770. Today we are going to talk about one of the mass production solutions based on this GPU. It will be represented by XFX Radeon HD 5830.
For half a year since AMD's release of their latest ATI Radeon series we have been waiting for Nvidia to offer an alternative. The long wait is finally over. Let's have our very first look at the new graphics card with Nvidia's GF100 “Fermi” processor.
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Last September when AMD unveiled its new DirectX 11 GPUs, we were promised the ability to drive a minimum of 3 or a maximum of 6 displays off of a single card. Every single AMD DX11 graphics card that has launched since has delivered on that promise, even down to ridiculously low price points. The one thing we've been missing is a card that we can hook up to six displays. Until now that is.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">This is the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition. It's a standard 5870 with 2GB of GDDR5 memory instead of the default 1GB, all clock speeds are the same (850MHz core, 1.2GHz memory). Power requirements go up slightly due to the increase in memory size, and thus the card requires a 6-pin and an 8-pin power connector. The big difference is the Eyefinity 6 Edition's 6 mini Display Port connectors which allowed us to drive one ridiculous display in today's review.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/3621/amds-radeon-hd-5870-eyefinity-6-edition-reviewed">Read more...</a><br />
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The 6 month wait for Fermi is finally over. Today NVIDIA is launching their first two Fermi family products: The GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470. Based on the GF100 GPU, the GTX 400 series is targeted directly at the high of the market, competing against AMD’s Radeon 5800 series.
NVIDIA has promissed a great deal about the Fermi family. It's supposed to be a compute monster, a tessellation powerhouse, and of course great at games. A 3 billion transistors and over 500mm2 in die size it's certainly some kind of giant.
So how does it stack up? We've run NVIDIA's latest through our new GPU test suite to see if NVIDIA can deliver on their promises, justify their pricing, and take back their single-GPU performance crown.
Not so long ago we talked about the multimedia capabilities of the new Budget solutions from Nvidia and they proved to be quite impressive. Today time has come to check out their competitors from the AMD camp: Radeon HD 5670, 5570 and 5450. Which one will be the winner of another round in this never-ending battle for technological superiority ?
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<p>When AMD was launching the 5700 series last year, I asked AMD whether they were concerned about the pricing gap between the 5700 series and the 5800 series. The MSRP on the 5770 was $159, the MSRP on the 5850 was $259 - there was a $100 price gap, cutting right through the $200 sweet spot. AMD said they weren’t concerned, citing the fact that there were still products like the 4890 to cover that gap.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Things have changed since then. AMD hasn’t been getting quite the yield they were hoping for from TSMC’s 40nm process. Meanwhile a lack of pricing competition from NVIDIA has lead everyone in the chain to do some profit-taking that rarely gets to occur. The 5850 is now a $300 card, and the 5770 hovers between $160 and $170. That pricing gap that was $100 has become $130-$140. AMD has a hole.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Today they’re going to try to plug that hole with the Radeon HD 5830, the third and lowest member of the Cypress/5800 family.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3750">Read more...</a><br />
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This new graphics accelerator fits very logically into the new lineup of ATI solutions. However, it is primarily ATI/AMD pricing strategy in respect to older graphics cards that will determine the marketing success or failure of this newcomer.
All contemporary Nvidia solutions support PhysX, but in return some of the GPU resources are assigned to physics effects acceleration. Is it possible to avoid performance losses without adding more cards? EVGA’s answer is "yes". We in our turn will try to answer the question if there is an alternative for the owners of ATI Radeon HD solutions.