techPowerUp -- Today marks the day that AMD takes back the graphics card performance crown from NVIDIA. The new AMD Radeon HD 5970 comes with two fast Cypress GPUs on a single PCB. Using their latest power saving features, AMD achieved a very modest power consumption for this card which right now is the fastest money can buy.

 

[H]ard|OCP -- ASUS is well known in the industry. They are one of the largest, most successful motherboard manufacturers in the world. They make products for hardcore gamers, mainstream users, corporate desktops, workstations, servers, and just about every other x86 based platform you can think of. They are also in the markets of notebooks, barebones systems, optical drives, video cards, physics cards, and network switches and routers, just to name a few. ASUS’ highly acclaimed A8N and M2N series of

HOTHardware -- Like most other HD 4870s on store shelves, the EAH4870 TOP sports 512MB of GDDR5 memory and a 256-bit memory bus. Additionally, the card features support for DirectX 10.1, Shader Model 4.1, and CrossFireX multi-GPU technology. What differentiates the EAH4870 TOP from most other 4870s is its factory overclock: the core clock pushes pixels at 815 MHz (ATI's reference spec is 750 MHz) while the memory is set to 925 MHz (ATI reference is 900 MHz). Come on by the site and check it out...

Legion Hardware -- The Radeon X1800 series was more than just another generation of graphics cards for ATi, it saved them from an impending dooms day. Although the series was tremendously late on arrival, the fact that the series did come to light saved the day. Ironically as successful as the X1800 series was for ATi, it has also been the shortest lived flagship series in history. Just months after X1800 supportive cards began to hit shelves, ATi announced the X1900 series. Nevertheless, this is all still very good news for ATi and also the consumer.

TrustedReviews -- As a general rule of thumb when it comes to graphics cards you get more noise the faster the GPU is, as more speed means more heat. But noise isn’t a good thing, especially not in a home PC and it is a problem with many computers. Stock graphics card coolers tend to be quite cheap as the board manufacturers want to keep their cost down and the end users are the ones that end up suffering.

Think Computers -- ASUS is a name mainly known for motherboards, but over the past few years they have expanded their product link to include video cards, monitor's, laptops, and other consumer electronic devices. Today we will be looking at one of their video cards the EAX1950 Pro. The card features ATI's X1950 Pro GPU, 256MB of GDDR3, CrossFire Support, and HDCP support. We will be testing it against the recently reviewed Sapphire X1900 XT video card.

NeoSeeker -- The RV570 GPU shown above is used in the EAX X1950 Pro and is essentially a remastering of the RV520 from back in the day. The "Pro" is different from X1950 XT and XTX variants in a couple ways. First, the die is fabricated using a 80nm process which would explain its minimal cooling design, and secondly the GPU uses less texture units and pixel shaders then the higher end cards. Where the XT and XTX use 16:48:8 (Texture Units:Pixel Shaders:Vertex Shaders), the EAX X1950 Pro has 12:36:8.

PCStats -- Asus has embraced the nVIDIA GeForce 7600GT GPU and released a videocard which is not only ideally suited towards the occasional gamer and even hardcore gamer on a budget, but also doubles up the value by offering 100% silent operation which makes it ideal for home theatre PC's or just anyone who wants a quiet computer. Looking at this PCI Express videocard, we see that the Asus EN7600GT Silent/2DHT/256M/A features two dual link DVI output connectors, a socket for Component output (y, Pb, Pr), the SLI bridge connector, and the all important SilentCool thermal solution.