Driverheaven -- Today we will be taking a look at the Powercolor Radeon HD 5970 2GB and putting it through its paces in a selection of real world gaming tests, including the recently released Modern Warfare 2. In addition to this we will cover GPU computing and high definition playback as well as having a play with the surprise inclusion of an official voltage tweaking tool. This little application may well make this product a favourite with enthusiasts who want to get the most from their purchase.

 

The Tech Lounge -- Interestingly, there seem to be few, if any drastic, architecture changes for HD 4000. It's all scale down, add more. PowerColor, a long-time board partner, shows just how well this strategy pays out for the HD 4850.Even side-by-side, this card looks just like a 3850. That's really superb, because not only was its predecessor small, clean, and fast, it was also quiet. The sticker's adornment is a busty, armored model in Viking chic. But it's a stock card, with the same design that you'd get with any 4850 currently available.

techPowerUp -- PowerColor's new HD3850 Xtreme is full of customization compared to the reference design. Instead of two DVI ports it has one DVI and one HDMI port which supports HD video playback with HDCP and digital audio straight off the GPU. In addition to that a custom cooler by Zerotherm ensures that the card stays cool no matter what you throw at it. Another bonus is that the memory size has been doubled to 512 MB of 1.0 ns GDDR3 memory.

MVKTech -- One of PowerColor's latest high-end multimedia gaming video processing unit is the new and improved PowerColor X800XL. The model we are going to scrutinize is the R43C-TVD3D. The R43C-TVD3D is the nomenclature for a Dual DVI-I / HDTV / VIVO X800XL, PCI-Express x16, 256bit - 256MB GDDR3, 16 pixel pipeline power house! The PowerColor Radeon X800 XL VIVO is an excellent cost effective high-end multimedia video card and today we are going analyze and test this bad boy on both Intel and AMD platforms.

The Tech Zone -- Part of the irony of this, though, is because the PowerColor X1550 is an entry-level card, it very rarely actually makes full use of the 512MB of dedicated graphics memory: the rest of the card can't exactly keep up. If you're hoping to achieve the same kinds of results as cards that cost three or four times the asking price of the $99 X1550, you're going to be sorely disappointed. By contrast, if you're a light gamer or you're willing to run your first-person shooters and other graphic intense games at less than their maximum capable resolutions and frame rates, the PowerColor X1550 will certainly save you a few bucks while still being able to do an adequate, budget-minded job.

Overclock 3D -- High performance without the high price tag? We take a look at PowerColor's HD4870 to see how it fairs against the green teams GTX260.

XYZ Computing -- The late release of the X1900s caused everyone to expect something special. The upgrade of the R520 GPU, the R580, was expected to bring a few considerable changes to the table and there was little doubt that it would have an effect on which video card is at the top of the food chain. If nothing else, the time may have come for ATI's next-generation chip process to be make some serious strides forward. From an enthusiast standpoint ATI has been having a tough go of it lately. Because of this its partners have certainly had to tighten up and wait until ATI was back on top, or at least more competitive than it has been. Though the highest level of video cards only account for small percentage of total sales, they set the tone for the entire product line and give consumers an idea of what technology will be trickling down to more reasonably priced cards in the upcoming months. The cards in the current Radeon X1900 line are the XTX, XT, and Crossfire. PowerColor currently offers all three. The differences between these are not entirely that large, save for the inclusion of a Crossfire output on one model, past that there are just a few small changes in speed. PowerColor's X1900 XTX does not look much different ATI's model, or that offered by the ATI's other partner companies, so this card should be a good representative of the X1900 XTX at large, though many partners throw in a tweak here and there. The single factor which sets the X1900 series apart from any other video card on the market is that is has 48 pixel shaders. That's right, you read correctly- 48.

[H]ard|OCP -- We’ve got a retail PowerColor RADEON X700 256MB based video card for review today. Read inside to see which card is actually better for gaming, a 256MB PowerColor X700 or a 128MB GeForce 6600. This should prove to be interesting…