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Written by Ivan Todorovic
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
  The Radeon HD 5770 is currently praised as a very good choice in the upper middle class of GPUs, since it provides very good performance in resolutions typical for 20” and 22” monitors at a decent price, which is likely to become the optimal choice for gamers today. We rejoiced to see so many manufacturers coming out with their own models so fast, shunning the referent ATI design in order to create a bit pricier, but faster graphics card to start with, a gain which can be increased even further by overclocking, courtesy of high-quality cooling systems implemented by various manufacturers. We’ve received two very interesting models whose overclock range took us by surprise, both cards sporting great looks and an attractive accompanying bundle.
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Written by Marko Nesovic
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Sunday, 28 February 2010 |
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  The technology of implementing a discrete graphics card into a mobile PC which already possesses its own integrated solution (IGP) has been around for a while already. Both ATI and Nvidia have presented their own solutions, both of which have been given a warm welcome because of the advantages they bring to the table. The idea behind this entire technology is to provide top performance by activating the discrete graphics when it’s needed, while providing maximum power consumption savings when ordinary work is being done and image rendered on the IGP. Nvidia has thus far presented models with the “switchable graphics” option, i.e. option which enables you to turn on the discreet graphics card manually when needed in order to use its potential for gaming, GPU rendering, HD material playback and similar tasks (one of the representatives would be ASUS UL50Vt). The next step is called the Optimus platform and it presents us with a technology which offers a new way of combining the integrated GPU and discreet graphics solution on mobile platforms.
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Written by Ivan Todorovic
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Thursday, 25 February 2010 |
  A bit later than expected, the third and final model from AMD’s current top-class offer, as far as single-GPU cards are concerned, arrived to our doorstep. As a reminder, Radeons HD 5850 and 5870 appeared way back at the end of September last year, being the first DirectX 11 cards on the market, but also the most powerful ones. The new HD 5830 is a bit late, but just on time to spoil Nvidia’s plans concerning the release of their first DirectX 11 models. This card’s attractive price point should make the choice easier for many, as those who thought that the previous DirectX 11 Radeons were too expensive now have a good reason to opt for AMD.
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Written by Nebojsa Todorovic
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010 |
 Ever since they were first presented, what may now seem as the long gone 2002, ATI Catalyst have been the most frequently updated graphics drivers. When the company first came out with the Catalyst bundle, which consisted of four components, ATI officially left its troublesome driver history behind. Of course, there have been ups and downs, but the overall quality of ATI graphics card support rose dramatically since. The largest problem for ATI at the time was the fact that NVIDIA Detonator and later ForceWare drivers were much less buggy, whereas the current situation is somewhat reversed. Anyhow, the fact that the Catalyst drivers are refreshed on a monthly basis has produced, according to our calculations, some 95 driver revisions up to now. As the Catalyst 10.1 revision was already completed before the end of 2009, ATI left major developments to be integrated in 10.2 and 10.3 revisions, thus starting the year in a revolutionary manner.
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Written by Ivan Todorovic
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Wednesday, 06 January 2010 |
  We met the strongest AMD's single-GPU graphics card several months ago, when it successfully beated the two-headed behemoth of the previous generation. Raw speed is not the only trump of Radeon 5870 - there is support for the new DirectX, the ability of render 3D graphics on multiple monitors in combined, super-high resolution (ATI Eyefinity), and drastically reduced consumption in idle mode, which makes this card practically negligible load for power supply, considering all day computing.
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Written by Ivan Todorovic
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Sunday, 03 January 2010 |
 We have already compared different versions of drivers for graphics cards in the past, and the reasons are quite natural: after a card comes out on the market, current drivers do not allow it to express all its potential. A card usually shines after the first few revisions of this software. This time we choosed two models that have appeared in the mid 2008th and were quite a popular choice, first in the higher, and then in middle price range. The situation is specific because one of these two models is practically twice "recycled" GeForce 8 series card, and should be in a much better starting position, because the NVIDIA was, at the time, releasing a driver for the well-known chip, so we didn't expect a big improvement in the new version.
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