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It looks like the previous rumors were true and there will indeed be a 1GB of version of AMD’s Radeon HD 6950 graphics card. According to HardOCP, here’s what AMD had to say on the matter:
“When we launched the AMD Radeon HD 6900 series in December, AM…
Nvidia today announced the GTX 560 Ti, an updated and beefed up version of the GTX 460, which Nvidia is marketing as a “sweet spot” GPU, much like the 8800GT in the days of yore. Nvidia seized the GPU high end—again—with the introduction o…
Taking a cue from its parent company Palit, which itself has been known to slap more video RAM on a graphics card than the stock configuration calls for, Gainward today introduced its GeForce GTX 580 3072MB Phantom3.
According to Gainward, that supersc…
Let’s start with the good news. For you penny pinchers, AMD apparently plans to release a Radeon HD 6950 videcoard with half the amount of RAM as the original (1GB versus 2GB). It’s a safe bet that cutting the frame buffer in half will impact performan…
Nvidia designs graphics processors and TSMC manufactures them. Between the two, they’ve managed to ship a billion GeForce graphics chips, an impressive milestone that took less than 12 years to reach, the two companies said in a joint statement.
“Since…
If you plug 11188-01-40G into Google, you’ll find it references a Sapphire HD 6950 videocard with 1GB of GDDR5 memory, or half the amount of a standard 6950 part. You can already find a handful of U.K. vendors selling the new card, though it hasn’t…
The fellas over at TechPowerUp have posted a guide detailing how to mod a Radeon HD 6950 (Cayman Pro) videocard into a Radeon HD 6970 (Cayman XT), both of which are based on the same GPU design. The main difference comes down to the number of shaders -…
Futuremark originally delayed the release of its much anticipated 3DMark 11 benchmark in order to “fix a couple of difficult bugs rather than patching the benchmark immediately after launch.” Mission accomplished, as today’s update to version 1.01 does…