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.

 

Overclock 3D -- nVidia have released the G80, their DirectX 10 compatible hardware. Being the first to release meant all eyes have been on nVidia. Asus sent us their 8800GTX for us to put through it's paces.

Rojak Pot -- Everyone thinks of the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS as merely the cheaper, crippled version of the GeForce 7900 GT. But ASUS changes that perception with their EN7900GS TOP graphics card. Our test results showed that the ASUS EN7900GS TOP graphics card is actually much faster than the GeForce 7900 GT and at least for now, more than twice as fast as the new ATI Radeon X1950 GT.

PCStats -- The ASUS EAH4550 is a half-height entry level videocard suitable for small form-factor, book size and home theatre PCs users that desperately want a dedicated HDMI jack on the cheap. To be frank, the only reason PCSTATS is devoting pixels to this $50 dollar, PCI Express videocard is because it offers very affordable HDMI video and audio which is fully HDCP compliant. That's something a DVI-to-HDMI adaptor will not do. Not everyone can afford $600 monster videocards after all.

bit-tech -- I have to say that I’m impressed with the Asus EAH3870 X2 graphics card – it’s quite a step away from the reference design and innovation like this should be encouraged. The inclusion of four DVI ports will be a welcome addition for anyone looking to run more than a couple of monitors on their workstation and what makes it even better is the fact that, unlike Nvidia’s SLI, ATI CrossFireX technology scales across multiple displays. There is no need to disable CrossFireX in order to enable multi-display mode – and believe me when I say that is a big thing for anyone like me who is a gamer but also runs multiple displays. It’s for that reason alone that I have never used a GeForce 9800 GX2 or GeForce 7950 GX2 in any system that isn’t used for testing purposes – it defeats the object of having a single graphics card for me because it has all the compromises of SLI.

techPowerUp -- NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 470 was announced a few weeks back - now we got the first production sample of the card from ASUS. Compared to the GTX 480 we saw much more reasonable power consumption numbers as well as fan noise and heat.

HOTHardware -- Today at HotHardware, we will be looking at two video cards from Asus. They don't necessarily scream "power user" and they aren't adorned with the flashiest packaging. Instead, these two cards are more like the utilitarian work-horses that one might expect to find in a mid-range PC, or even a DYI build that's catered more to function than fashion. That doesn't mean we won't run any benchmarks with our favorite games to see how they compare to each other, as well as to another mid-level card, but don't focus strictly on the benchmark results in this article. These two cards aren't designed to set records in Half-Life 2, but rather offer some uncommon features not found on many competing products.

Hardware Zone -- Brand recognition is arguably one of the most important goals of every company in almost any industry. Most people do not have the time to follow market trends and developments; for those that lie beyond their specialization or interests, they simply attach a vaguely 'positive' or 'negative' impression to a brand, if they have even heard of it in the first place. You know you have arrived when people recognize your brand and image the way it was meant to be portrayed, like some marketing slogan or jingle. Hence, building a brand is not done in a day. It takes time but all it needs is some bad publicity to reverse all the former hard work.