GPUs
With NVIDIA’s Turing architecture turning six years old this year, the company has been retiring many of the remaining Turing products from its video card lineup. And today that spirit of spring cleaning is coming to the entry-level segment of NVIDIA’s professional visualization lineup, where NVIDIA is introducing a pair of new desktop cards based on their low-end Ampere hardware. The new RTX A1000 and RTX A400 cards will be replacing the T1000/T600/T400 lineup, which was released three years ago in 2021. The new cards slot into the same entry-level category and finally finish fleshing out the RTX A series of proviz cards, offering NVIDIA’s Ampere-generation professional graphics technologies in the lowest-power, lowest-performance, lowest-cost configuration possible. Notably, since the entry-level T-series were based on NVIDIA’s feature-limited...
GPU Shootout with Unreal Tournament 2003 - July 2002
We're all about to get a brand new game to play that will stress our video cards beyond anything that has come before it. We compared 19 different...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/1/2002Matrox's Parhelia - A Performance Paradox
After weeks of anticipation we were finally able to put a Parhelia to the test. Less talk, more benchmarks - read on.
2 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/25/2002NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 Roundup - June 2002
It's the most desirable GPU under $200, but what card should you get? We compared a handful of Ti 4200s we had around the lab and answered some...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/24/2002A Torrid Affair with Graphics: June 2002 3D Market Update
There's a lot going on in the graphics biz right now and we want to talk about it. Read on as we review ATI's HDTV Output dongles, talk...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/18/2002Matrox's Comeback Kid - The Parhelia-512
The wait is over, after two long years of nothing more than G400 refreshes, Matrox is a month away from delivering a high-performing GPU. Find out everything there is...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/14/2002Gainward GeForce4 Ti 4200: The First Retail 4200
Let's kick off the week with a look at the first retail GeForce4 Ti 4200 card from Gainward.
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/13/20023DLabs' P10 Visual Processing Unit - When a CPU & GPU Collide
What will a 256-bit DDR bus, 16 vertex processors and an incredible amount of hardware flexibility give you? 3DLabs' next-generation graphics technology that will be making its way...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/3/2002NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400/4600 Roundup - April 2002
If you're in the market for the fastest 3D accelerator money can buy, look no further. We tell you everything there is to know about the 11 most...
2 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/29/2002ATI's Best: All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500 128MB & TV/Capture Card Roundup
Today ATI released the latest member of their All-in-Wonder line with the highest level of gaming performance ever offered by ATI in an AIW card. We took this...
3 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/22/2002Sub-$200 Video Card Roundup - April 2002
ATI's 128MB Radeon 8500LE goes head to head with NVIDIA's GeForce4 Ti 4200. Benchmarked on everything from the engine behind Unreal Tournament 2003 to Jedi Knight 2 on...
1 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/16/2002NVIDIA's Quadro4 Preview: Threatening the Competition
With NVIDIA's fourth generation Quadro part the Santa Clara based firm is continuing to torment ATI and 3DLabs but now adds a third company to their hit-list: Matrox. ...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/19/2002NVIDIA GeForce4 - NV17 and NV25 Come to Life
NVIDIA's GeForce4 is finally here. Consisting of 6 different chips, from the high end GeForce4 Ti 4600 to the low end GeForce4 MX 420, we put NVIDIA's latest...
1 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/6/2002NVIDIA GeForce2/3 Titanium Roundup - January 2002
We have collected 17 of the most popular NVIDIA GeForce2/3 Titanium video cards and determined 3 winners. Interested to see where the cards stand and which Titanium based card...
0 by Matthew Witheiler on 1/30/2002Next-Generation Game Performance with the Unreal Engine: 15-way GPU Shootout
Armed with a true next-generation game engine we have compared everything from the original GeForce 256 to the Radeon 8500. Find out how today's cards will perform in...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/24/2002Digital Visual Interface (DVI) Explained & Improving GeForce2/3 Image Quality
With the falling price of Digital Flat Panels, it's time that we took a look at the DVI standard and why it will be widely used in the future...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/17/2002NVIDIA's NV17M: A Brief Update
NVIDIA answered our remaining questions about the NV17M. Find out if this new core has pixel and vertex shader support as well as what else sets it apart...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/27/2001ATI's SMOOTHVISION - The key to its "success"
ATI's latest drivers finally enabled SMOOTHVISION Anti-Aliasing support for the Radeon 8500, but there's actually a lot more to this feature that Radeon 8500 owners should know about.
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/26/2001ATI's Radeon 8500 - New drivers expose potential
ATI's latest drivers for the Radeon 8500 not only make the card competitive with the GeForce3 Ti 500 but they also enable support for the best looking anti-aliasing we've...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/14/2001ATI's Visit to AnandTech: All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500DV Preview & more
ATI recently paid us a visit in order to give us a sneak peak at the upcoming All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500DV. ATI also answered some questions that you, our...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/6/2001ATI's Radeon 8500: She's got potential
ATI's flagship Radeon 8500 is finally in stores and has been shipping for over a week now. Today we are finally able to bring you a review of...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/17/2001