For a long time it seemed that Matrox was content to leave the high-performance 3D graphics card market to others, instead concentrating on mainstream 'DualHead' business chipsets. But now that's changed, with a totally new chipset ...

The never-ending battle for the ultimate in graphic chipsets for the hardcore gamer has heated up once again. ATI snatched top spot from Nvidia with its powerful Radeon 8500; now Nvidia is set to reclaim the ...

It's that time of year again: time for Nvidia to announce a new range of graphics chips. The latest release is the Titanium series, consisting of three products. Two of these are based around the GeForce3 ...

It seems like Matrox has been in the graphics cards business forever, but in recent times the company has been overshadowed by the likes of ATI and Nvidia and has been left behind in the race ...

This GeForce 3 card from Gainward - not a well-known name in the UK, but better established in Germany - is distinct from its competitors in several ways, most notably its colour. It's a rich, deep ...

Leadtek is not a familiar name in the UK, but the company has entered the market with a splash by going straight for top 3D performance, via Nvidia's GeForce 3 chip. This graphics processor sits at ...

AOpen is better known for its motherboard business (an area which seems to be largely dominated by far-eastern countries whose names begin with the letter 'A') than for graphics cards. However, there are increasing moves by ...

At a time when the GeForce 3 graphics chip is dominating the gamers' news pages, here's a cheaper, less ostentatious rival - albeit from the same stable. At the core of this card is Nvidia's GeForce ...

We reviewed an earlier Prophet card here, but this one's based on a faster chip; the Kyro II graphics processor from ST Microelectronics. This chip is set into a blue board with a single heat sink ...

Things have been pretty quiet in the world of graphics card technical development of late, but now that's all about to change thanks to Nvidia and its new GPU - the GeForce3. Designed for DirectX 8 ...

There's one striking difference between this card and the others on review here. This isn't an AGP card, but rather a PCI device. In other words, it's aimed at those with older machines that don't have ...

Nvidia's GeForce chips are the talk of the town these days thanks to their performance, but hushed whispers in the background somewhere also speak of their somewhat outrageous prices. Well, maybe that's a bit strong but ...

The Geforce 2 is the second generation of Nvidia's famous GPU, logically enough, and the GTS stands for Giga-Texel Shading, which basically means the card can render over a billion texels (texture cells) per second. That's ...

Is it a graphics card or a washing powder? Much as the idea of a 32MB Persil and other such nonsense is an enticing one, we think the former. The Radeon (which we reviewed as a ...

Certainly the biggest card in this round up, the Voodoo is much longer than the standard AGP graphics card. It also looks rather imposing, featuring two graphics processing units, with a fan resting on top of ...

We've said it before, but we may not say it again; ATI display cards have tended to lag behind some rivals in terms of ultimate 3D game performance. Now we can report that ATI has stormed ...

If a graphics card were to be judged by appearances alone, the 3D Prophet II would be instantly idolised. It's one cool looking card, from the subtle hue of the blue circuit board, to the bright ...

At the moment, the higher end of the graphics card market is pretty much under the stranglehold of Nvidia's GeForce technology. And with good reason; they're very nice cards, aside from the odd stability issue. There's ...

The chances are you'll already have heard about the nVidia GeForce 256 chipset used in the Erazor X2 and other cards. Some impressive claims have been made for this chipset, which was designed to take much ...

Since graphics chip giant S3 took control of graphics card company Diamond, creating a tidy little one-stop shop, the company has come out with some decent gaming hardware. This, the Viper II, is potentially a little ...