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Written by Nebojsa Todorovic
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Monday, 15 June 2009 |
  With its HD 4890 model ATI raise a lot of dust and made huge impact on
graphics card market. Despite the fact that this card should have been
“just” optimized Radeon HD 4870, it was much, much more than that.
RV790 is capable of withstanding frequencies that were unimaginable for
“old” RV770, and just the fact that it can operate at 1GHz is
completely different story. It is clear that this kind of overclocking
freedom made this card a very interesting purchase for all enthusiasts.
Some of you might think that because of this overclocking capabilities,
HD 4890 is overrated, but, actually it isn’t. It is clear that HD 4890
is faster than GTX260+, and its real competitor is GeForce GTX275.
Reason why we didn’t compare these two earlier is unavailability of
GTX275 in larger quantities on the market but now even that parameter
has been satisfied. So, this time, we have in the red corner ASUS
Radeon HD4890 1GB Vtweak and in green corner ASUS GeForce ENGTX275
896MB, which is actually an Kramer vs. Kramer situation.
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Written by Nebojsa Todorovic
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Monday, 25 May 2009 |
 Few months ago we reviewed GeForce GTX285 and GTX 295. GTX 295 was fastest graphics card that you could find at that moment and GTX 285 was “strange” model that could get negative or positive criticism depending on what are you searching for. Since then, situation on the graphics card market has changed. GeForce GTX 285 got serious competitor in form of Radeon HD 4890 that isn’t in same price range but it offers similar performance levels which make this card much more interesting choice for many gamers. Of course it is not too farfetched that AMD (ATI) will soon launch HD 4890X2 that should be fastest graphics card at that moment. Depending on moment at which ATI will present HD 4890X2, NVIDIA will have longer or shorter period in which will have faster graphics card on the market. While we wait for “summer heat” to come, we will present you two ASUS graphics cards based on fastest NVIDIA GPUs.
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Written by Nebojsa Todorovic
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009 |
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 Matrix series of graphics cards from ASUS belongs to ROG (Republic of Gamers) product lineup that is also consisted of numerous motherboards. Although these graphics cards have elevated frequencies compared to reference models, this is not the only advantage of Matrix series of graphics cards. Besides great design they are equipped with marvelous cooling system and numerous optimizations that resulted in maximum efficiency and minimal heating up. Last time we had a chance to test one of the Matrix graphics cards - NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT , and this time we have an Matrix graphics card based on ATI GPU: ASUS Radeon HD 4870 Matrix.
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Written by Nebojsa Todorovic
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Monday, 04 May 2009 |
 When ATI/AMD presented new generation of graphics cards based on RV770 chip, first model was Radeon HD 4850. This model, despite few problems, became mega popular when it comes to HD 4XXX series of graphics cards that now consists out of so many models. Although it was first presented, Radeon HD 4850 was far from top-performance model. Nevertheless even today its sale rates are high because its main advantage was price. For relatively small amount of currency you will get GPU with 800 stream processors (Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3) that is enough to run all new games.
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Written by Nebojsa Todorovic
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Monday, 13 April 2009 |
 NVIDIA continues to use well known system of price drops and remarking of old graphics card models which resulted in “new” NVIDIA products that are better positioned on the market. This praxis had created situations where certain models, like GeForce 8800GTS with G92 chip, have achieved very long shelf life. Model that was presented at the end of the year 2007 isn’t too much different compared to new mid-class model: GTS250.
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Written by Nebojsa Todorovic
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Thursday, 02 April 2009 |
 Last few months rumors about new redesigned ATI’s GPU that should replace HD4870 were appearing on regular bases. Reason is simple: price for GeForce GTX260 has dropped significantly so, logically, HD4870 has to follow the same trend to keep up the pace. Of course when something like this happens, very often “a gap” in product lineup is created because price for HD4870X2 hasn’t change significantly. Since ATI’s single GPU high-end graphics card operates at relatively high 750MHz, it is obvious that without redesign in GPU architecture higher frequencies and performance levels cannot be achieved. ATI tackled this problem differently from its previous practice.
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