iXBT Labs: Technology Reviews

i3DSpeed, April 2012

The i3DSpeed informs you about performance of popular graphics cards and the best price/performance deals in the market. This time we retested all graphics cards with NVIDIA Drivers 301.24 and AMD CATALYST 12.4 and added test results of the reference and overclocked AMD Radeon HD 7850, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 SLI, AMD Radeon HD 7970 CrossFireX, AMD Radeon HD 7770/7870/7950/7970.

i3DSpeed, March 2012

The i3DSpeed informs you about performance of popular graphics cards and the best price/performance deals in the market. This time we retested all graphics cards with NVIDIA Drivers 295.73 and AMD CATALYST 12.3 and added test results of the reference and overclocked AMD Radeon HD 7870 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680.

i3DSpeed, February 2012

Palit GeForce GTX 560 Ti Twin Light Turbo 1024MB GDDR5, KFA2 GeForce GTX 560 Ti LTD OC 1024MB V2.0 Graphics Cards

Today we shall (perhaps for the last time) review GeForce GTX 560 Ti. This time we have a couple of custom cards which promise to make this review interesting.

i3DSpeed, January 2012

71 CPU Roundup

The year 2011 has ended, so it's high time to sum up the results and see the general picture. If you're looking to upgrade, we hope this will make choosing a processor easier.

i3DSpeed, December 2011

ASUS Sabertooth 990FX Motherboard

ASUS is probably the only vendor who can afford more than one series of 'elite' motherboards. One of those is obviously intended for gamers, the other one that we're going to review today is dubbed "TUF," which sounds like "tough," and is positioned as super reliable. In technical terms this means high-quality power circuitry, heat dissipation and such.

AFOX GeForce GT 430 1GB LP, AFOX GeForce GT 440 D5 1GB, AFOX GeForce GTS 450 1GB, AFOX GeForce GTX 560 2GB and AFOX Radeon HD 6850 1GB LP Graphics Cards

Today we shall review as many as five low and mid-end graphics cards: four based on NVIDIA GPUs and one on an AMD Radeon GPU. All five have custom design and coolers, so let's see if this provides any benefits.

Sapphire Vapor-X HD 6850 1GB GDDR5 Graphics Card

Today we shall review a Radeon HD 6850 graphics card from Sapphire that belongs to the Vapor-X series thanks to the custom cooler it has. Let's see how efficient this solution is.