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.

 

Benchmark Reviews -- NVIDIA and AMD build such great products that it's not always easy for their partners to improve upon the initial design. A perfect example is the ATI Radeon HD 5850, which has earned accolades from consumers and critics alike. While the original ATI design worked well, there's always room for improvement. Offering a robust PCS+ (Professional Cooling System Plus) feature that adds better thermal management over the Cypress GPU, the PowerColor Radeon HD5850 is designed with overclocker enthusiasts in mind. Delivered with a factory overclock, Benchmark Reviews tests the HD5850 PCS+ AX5850-1GBD5-PPDHG model against the original reference ATI design, and a large collection of competing graphics cards.

Overclockers Club -- When looking for a new video card, there are a few things to take into consideration, budget and performance. And According to the specs, this card appears to be a combination of both. Powercolor being a well reputed video card company was kind enough to send over one of their X1300 128MB HM2 video cards for review. Powercolor has been a major manufacturer of video cards since their debut in 1999, bursting onto the market and securing a foothold in the industry. We will soon be seeing whether or not this x1300 HM2 will be able to hold its own against other entry level cards.

Big Bruin -- The PowerColor X1650 XT 256MB AGP Video Card breathed some new life into a solid system that really only shows its age due to AGP graphics being featured. Performance in benchmarks and many games was better than expected, and showed that there really is no reason to retire a system simply due to the fact that it doesn't support PCI-Express.

Hexus -- Today, we're looking at a product what you might once have called 'high-end', but would probably now see as 'performance range'. We're talking hardware that isn't king of the hill, but is still quite up to the task of handling whichever game you might throw at it, with plenty of eye candy and with a more modest price tag. X850 Pro is the SKU we're taking a little look at today and PowerColor is the add-in-board partner.

techPowerUp -- Powercolor's Radeon HD 2400 Pro uses AMD's new RV610 GPU with 256 MB of DDR2 memory. With its special video acceleration features and low-profile PCB design the card seems to be a good choice for small form factor media PC systems.

MVKTech -- A bit over a month ago we saw the introduction of the first graphics card featuring the high speed GDDR4 memory chips with the launch of the Radeon X1950 XTX accelerator. At the same time the CrossFire edition was announced featuring the same clock rates as the XTX version. In the meantime ATI hasn't been waiting for the next big thing to happen. Instead they have been working hard on expanding the Radeon X1950 series with a slightly slower version. As the Radeon X1950 XTX had to withstand the GeForce 7950 GX2 power, the GeForce 7900 GS had still not found its match when looking at a price and performance index. To regain its position, ATI has designed the Radeon X1950 PRO version to go up against the GeForce 7900 GS video cards.

PCStats -- The powerfull little Radeon X1600 XT VPU is built on TSMC's 90 nm manufacturing process, and contains 157 million transistors, slim by today's standards. The Radeon X1600 XT core has a total of 12 pixel pipelines and 5 vertex pipelines to keep the triangles flowing along smoothly. At stock settings, we're looking at a videocard core which runs along at about 587 MHz, with 256MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.3GHz (effective: 693 MHz).