A couple of years ago Nvidia was busy developing the fastest gaming graphics chips in the world so that it could take on the might of 3dfx, and at that time it seemed to be happy ...

Today's high end games demand more and more from graphics cards, with both the two main chip producers, ATI and Nvidia, forever raising the bar in terms of sheer performance and features, leading to a bewildering ...

As you may have guessed from its name, MSI's Geforce NX6800 Ultra is the first retail card we have seen based on Nvidia's new high-end graphics core, the 6800 Ultra. Code-named NV40, the 6800 Ultra is ...

The packaging is lovely. It seems fair to start there, as XFX - née Pine - has clearly worked hard to make sure you feel like you're getting your money's worth here. From the slightly squashed ...

To create its latest all-conquering GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), the Radeon 9800XT, ATI simply took the speed demon that is the Radeon 9800Pro and tweaked it to make it even faster. In doing so the company ...

Well, it's that time of year again; the time when the big two graphics chip vendors try to wrestle your hard-earned cash out of your wallet. Both ATI and Nvidia have come out with new, high-end ...

Replacing the FX5900 Ultra as the high-end product in Nvidia's line-up, and representing its answer to ATI's 9800XT, the new FX5950 Ultra graphics controller in this AOpen card uses the NV38 core; a tweaked version of ...

The clue is in the model name. The Sapphire 9600 Pro Atlantis is a faster version of the Radeon 9600, and the results are impressive. You can play games at a standard resolution with high quality ...

The PNY Verto FX5200 Ultra is very closely related to the PNY Verto FX5200, as you may have guessed from the name. The FX5200 Ultra chip has the same features as the basic FX5200 but it ...

Head down to PC World and you'll see shelves and shelves of PNY graphics cards lined up, ready to beguile the Sunday shopper. You'll find the Verto FX5200 on sale there for £90, although it is ...

Cosmetically we feel that the Leadtek A310TD My Vivo is the most striking graphics card in this group by a fair margin. The cast aluminium heatsink covers the GPU and memory chips, and there is a ...

Hercules chose to use the Radeon 9600 chip in its 3D Prophet 9600 but it chose to go completely over the top by specifying 256MB of memory, rather than the usual 128MB. Technically this makes no ...

Connect3D makes a point of packaging its graphics cards in a small, plain box, which we assume is part of a drive to keep its costs low. There is no doubt that this Radeon 9600 card ...

Asus uses the Nvidia GeForce FX5600 chip in its V9560 card, which puts it firmly in the middle of the league for performance, when you consider the whole spectrum of graphics cards on sale today. As ...

Not content to just sell memory, Crucial Technology has for some time been selling a small range of graphics cards based on ATI's Radeon GPUs (Graphics Processing Units). Its latest card takes over from the Radeon ...

There is no doubt that the arrival of the first Nvidia GeForce graphics card was a landmark for serious PC gamers who wanted to make the most of the lavish backgrounds in their first-person shoot-'em-ups. Having ...

ATI's All-in-Wonder series combines 2D/3D performance with the ability to play DVDs, CDs, MP3s and VideoCDs, as well as watching TV on your computer, without taking up any of your spare PCI slots. The basic ...

AGP 8X has even reached cards which fall into the budget category, so now no matter how (relatively) little you have to spend there is an 8X card available. Built on a bright red PCB, the ...

Gigabyte's Maya II GV-R9700 PRO is the fastest performing graphics card in the main section of this group test, which comes as no great surprise since it uses ATI's Radeon 9700 PRO chip. The Radeon 9700 ...

Gigabyte's GV-9500 PRO is laid out in an identical fashion to the reference ATI design but with Gigabyte's own gold anodisied aluminum heatsink. The card looks identical to a Radeon 9700 PRO. The only give-away at ...