http://www.xgcdb.com/reviews/ XGCDB Reviews en Copyright 2009, xgcdb.com Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:16:23 -0700 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:16:23 -0700 reviews http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 50 http://www.xgcdb.com/cards/asus/radeon-hd-4770-eah4770htdi512md5.html RV740 GPU from ATI is a derivative from the RV770 core. The new gpu runs at 750MHz and has GDDR5 memory clocked at 800MHZ. This numbers give this card a memory bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s. Radeon HD 4770 is a 128-bit graphics card. The reviewed model from... reviews http://www.xgcdb.com/cards/xfx/radeon-hd-4830-hd-483x-ydfc.html This time we discovered a real pearl among Radeon HD4830 adapters, XFX Radeon HD4830 512MB who proved himself again how to make quality and highly aesthetic cards. Let's start from the beginning. Card comes in a bit bigger package, tucked in a firm ... reviews http://www.xgcdb.com/cards/xfx/radeon-hd-4890-hd-489a-zdf7.html Looking from the outside, XFX Radeon HD4890 cards look a lot like the standard RV770XT (HD4870) accelerators with a reference dual-slot cooler. As we already know, the card uses the new RV790 graphics chip and a somewhat changed PCB compared to the s... reviews http://www.xgcdb.com/cards/xfx/geforce-9400-gt-512mb-ddr2-standard-pv-t94g-ya1z.html After we had got properly familiar with GeForce 9500 GT model, there comes another GeForce nine which uses the same graphics processor - G96. GeForce 9400 GT uses a weaker version of this chip whose number of Stream Processors and TMU units has halve... reviews http://www.xgcdb.com/cards/xfx/geforce-295-gtx-1792mb-ddr3-standard-gx-295n-hhf9.html Another XFX for testing and it bears the marks of the famous company which has recently taken on its Radeon buddies. The package doesn't have many accessories concerning software, but the most important ones are there, including an HDMI adapter and S... reviews http://www.xgcdb.com/cards/xfx/geforce-285-gtx-1024mb-ddr3-standard-gx-285n-zdfa.html Chip frequency of this standard XFX model is 648 MHz, although there are already overclocked models of XXX and Black series that will have slightly higher prices. Shader domain is settled on 1476 MHz, which is almost 200 MHz faster than GTX 280 model... reviews http://www.xgcdb.com/cards/evga/geforce-gtx-295.html So, what exactly is a GeForce GTX295? Well, basically, its a pair of two 55nm GTX 260 cards joined by a SLI connector. Those two have been enhanced with some additional texture filter units and extra stream processors. Each GPU has 896MB of GDDR3 mem... reviews http://www.xgcdb.com/cards/msi/n9800gt-t2d1g-oc.html It can be freely declared that after this model everything changes. Since the beginning of 3D revolution, both companies have been focused on the cheapest cards. More expensive models were a little bit faster, but a lot more expensive, so the price d... reviews http://www.xgcdb.com/cards/evga/geforce-7900gt-ko-superclocked-256-p2-n567-ax.html The EVGA 7900 GT KO Superclocked graphics card is the fastest 7900 GT period! Not even XFX and BFG have got to offer anything even close. EVGA 7900 GT KO Superclocked can even be compared to the 7900 GTX. The PCB is reference one (as instructed by NV... reviews http://www.xgcdb.com/cards/evga/geforce-gtx-260-core-216-superclocked-896-p3-1267-ar.html The new GTX 260 GPUs are made to be loved. Maybe the 24 extra cores dont show their full potential, but after overclocking they sure do come in handy. Thats why we are happy to see an overclocked product from EVGA. These overclocked models are a bit ... reviews http://www.xgcdb.com/cards/asus/engtx280-tophtdp1g.html ASUS ENGTX280 TOP has 7-phase power unit, regulated by Volterra VT1165MF control chip. Part of power unit assined for stability of memory chips is controlled by Richtek RT9259A, and it is powered directly from PCI Express x16 slot. GPU and other chip... reviews http://www.xgcdb.com/cards/gigabyte/gv-r487-512h-b.html Gigabyte GV-R487-512H-B is AMD/ATIs Radeon HD4870 (RV770 XT) graphics card. It is built on a reference design. GPU runs at 750MHz and has 512MB of GDDR5 RAM. The memory consists of 8 Qimonda GDDR5 memory chips that are all located on one side of the ... reviews http://www.xgcdb.com/cards/gainward/geforce-gtx280-1024mb.html Gainward Geforce GTX280 1024MB is visually almost the same as all the other GTX models which can be found today. There is no manufacturer who presented its own version of this card, including the Gainward, so that means that everyone uses standard PC... reviews http://www.xgcdb.com/cards/gainward/bliss-9600gso-768mb-gs.html GeForce 9600GSO, actually a 8800GS, uses G92 GPU, that has 96 stream processors and three out of four memory controllers for 192-bit memory bandwidth. Working clocks are 550 MHz for GPU, 1375 MHz for shaders and 800 MHz (1600 MHz) for memory. It is p... reviews http://www.xgcdb.com/cards/msi/r4850-t2d512.html ATIs RV770 core GPU has a big number of 965 million transistors. Both HD 4870 and HD 4850 graphics cards share the same GPU but at different clock speed. The older Radeon HD 4870 runs at 750MHz and Radeon HD 4850 runs at 625MHz (this is also the cloc... reviews