Not so long ago, adding a passively-cooled graphics card to your system meant sacrificing performance for quietness, with manufacturers only willing to use low powered components that were easy to cool without fans. Not so Sapphire. ...

The GT is easy enough to spot as it's a new model and it comes with 512MB of memory instead of the weird 320MB or 640MB that we've seen on the older G80 models. The most ...

The Asus EN8800GTS looks very similar to existing GTS models as it uses a double-slot design, however it also comes with 512MB of memory. The cooling package is similar to the current GTS and GTX, but ...

Well, it's that time of year again. Santa's putting the old sleigh in for its post-Christmas MOT and both the two giants of the graphics card market have started throwing even more mud at each other. ...

Whenever the big two in the graphics game launch a new card, there's the usual bluster about how fast this is against that, and this card can do such-and-such while that card can run the latest ...

The HD2600XT is the latest addition to Sapphire's Ultimate range of passively-cooled graphics cards and is worth looking at if you are building any sort of media PC, not so much for its gaming performance but ...

Launched at just the right time to deflect people's attention away from AMD's long, long awaited R600 core, Nvidia confirmed its position as king of the hill by launching the fastest standard version of the G80 ...

Asus has taken the concept of passively-cooled graphics cards seriously for a number of years and offers a good range of such cards based around both ATI and Nvidia GPUs. Each new generation of passive cards ...

After waiting an eternity and then some for the AMD (ATI) response to Nvidia's mighty G80 core, various flavours of the new R600 have been quick to hit the shelves to try to claw back some ...

In the event that you took a wild guess about the position of GeForce 8500GT in Nvidia's 8000 series of graphics chips, you'd probably guess it lies in the middle - and you'd be correct, but ...

Every graphics card manufacturer that uses Nvidia chips has made the most of the GeForce 8600 GTS. This chip-off-the-GeForce 8800 offers full support for DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4, so while it's rash to claim ...

After months of anticipation and many delays, AMD's answer to nVidia's mighty G80 - and the first new product to be launched since AMD's acquisition of ATI - has arrived in the shape of the DirectX ...

When Nvidia unleashed the mighty G80 core on an unsuspecting world, the first choruses of approval for the DirectX 10 capable card were dampened down by the fierce price tag it carried (around the £400 mark) ...

You can tell plenty from the model code of this new MSI graphics card. The 'NX8600GTS' part tells you that it uses the new Nvidia GeForce 8600GTS graphics chip along with 256MB of fast GDDR-3 graphics ...

Sapphire already has a reputation for producing fast, overclocked graphics cards based on ATI designs, and is well on the way to getting the same reputation when it comes to silently-cooled cards, with several designs in ...

PNY might not be a familiar name to some, but it has been around since 1985 and is one of Nvidia's authorised board partners. As well as offering consumer Nvidia cards it also produces cards for ...

Right, hold on to your hats: here's the CrossFire card with the technology that should have been embedded right from the start. CrossFire without the need for a Master card. Yep, that's right: no more hunting ...

Like many graphics card companies, Gainward offers a series of factory-overclocked graphics cards, but the difference is that Gainward has been doing it for a good few years. Its special overclocked cards fall under the 'Golden ...

Graphics card manufacturers employ every trick in the book to reduce the cost of their budget graphics cards and the Gigabyte NX73G256D-RH is a good case in point. Across the box it states in large print ...

The top two graphics manufacturers still find gaps in the market, real or imaginary, to fit products into, which is great for them but mighty confusing to the rest of us. One of the benefits that ...