Club3D HD 7870 XT jokerCard review
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Right now, the HD 7870 XT is the bargain card of this gen, and the jokerCard is a perfect example.
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Right now, the HD 7870 XT is the bargain card of this gen, and the jokerCard is a perfect example.
Get ready for some three-way SLI action with the world's fastest single GPU card.
Can this fairly large slab of silicon and whirry bits shake AMD's unjust reputation for flaky drivers and weak performance?
We decided to find out if the HD 7850 in 1GB dress can compete with the pricier, bigger and badder Pitcairn Pro cards toting 2GB.
The performance of the HD 7850 when it first came out, combined with its relatively low price tag, made for a very enticing mid-range card. That impressive start has only gotten better as time has moved on.
This far down the pecking order of graphics cards you will really struggle to get anything close to decent gaming frame rates out of a normal 1080p screen.
What both iterations of the GTX 650 have going for them is their diminutive size. They're both pleasingly small little graphics cards, ideal for the wee PC. But has too much been sacrificed in order to save space?
Can you really get good gaming frame rates for under £100? In the case of the MSI HD 7770, the answer is an affirmative yes.
Featuring an only slightly cut-down GK104 GPU compared to the top-end GTX 680, we were big fans of the GTX 670 when it first tipped up. It was only a little slower than the top GeForce card and was much cheaper.
UPDATED Thanks to Nvidia finally getting its act together with its own mid-range cards, AMD has started aggressively pricing and now the HD 7870s, and even this overclocked edition, are sitting below the £200 mark.
The HD 6990 then was the last beefy multi-GPU card straight out of the state of Texas. Luckily we don't have to rely on the ten-gallon-hatwearers for all our AMD goodies though.
There's a tremendous sense of value when you get this Asus version of AMD's HD 7950 out of the box. It really is rather massive.
Zotac's GeForce GTX 650 Ti has the same layout as the basic GTX 660, using the same GK106 GPU, but with a few changes.
Nvidia graphics cards have recently become a lot like buses. You wait around for one for ages... then you're a little disappointed when it finally arrives and costs a lot more than you'd hoped.
This is Nvidia's most powerful iteration of the new Kepler architecture, pushed even further than its reference GTX 680 - a card so powerful only AMD's HD 7970 can look it in the eye.
Sapphire's Vapor-X HD 7970 aims to push AMD's Graphics Core Next hardware to its very limits by boosting the core and memory clocks, and managing the excess heat with its top-of-the-line air cooling.
UPDATED Gigabyte isn't particularly well known for its GPUs in the UK, and when you look at the OC version we have in our test bench right now you might think that's a bit of a shame.
Nvidia laid the groundwork for the next generation of PC graphics with Kepler, and now it's been made affordable
We've been impressed by the overclocked AMP! cards from Zotac before - most recently the fantastic GTX 670 AMP! - and it's trying to continue that trend with the GTX 660 Ti AMP! edition.
This Superclocked EVGA GTX 660 Ti is factory overclocked, but because of its policy of cherry-picking GPUs and leaving the reference cooling in place, the EVGA isn't clocked as high as it could be.
Silence, they say, is golden. Personally I'm more concerned with gaming frame rates, but when something comes around offering zero dB sound levels and decent gaming speed, I'm going to sit up and take notice.
The massive cooler strapped onto the HIS HD 7870 IceQ GHz Edition makes it look like a graphics card from 2005, when bigger was unashamedly better.
The GTX 660Ti looks almost exactly like its bigger brothers, and performs like them as well.
We've been waiting for the mainstream-oriented GTX 660 Ti since we first saw the Kepler architecture way back in March this year.
Game Capture HD is incredibly easy to set up, and is a great video capture device for gamers or websites.