Following prolonged speculation, Nvidia finally elected to unleash its 28mn pixel devourer, the Kepler, at the end of March 2012. The GTX 680 proved to be a more than worthy response to rival AMD’s HD 7970, which had made its way into the retail channel two months earlier. With both companies having now played their […]

So, here we go again! Not having access to an HD 7970, I’ve decided that this particular series of benchmarks will focus primarily  on comparing the GTX 680 with the card it is intended to displace, its older sibling, the 580. Having three cards available in each case will also allow us to determine scaling […]

A few days ago, a certain Dutch e-tailer caused something of a stir by including amongst its offerings what will doubtless soon become old Giant Green Eyes’ weapon of choice in the eternal battle for GPU domination.  Only a few days later, several further listings, this time from American suppliers, had made footprints in Google’s cache, […]

In March of last year, AMD/ ATI introduced us to the last and most powerful of its “Cayman” based family of video cards, the dual GPU HD 6990. Though significant refinements to the companies 40nm chip design led to a healthy increase in performance, it was one that came at the price of efficiency. Just […]

A constructive comparison of the 6990’s performance should ideally feature its predecessor, the HD 5970, a pair of 6970’s to test in both single and crossfire configurations and Nvidia’s direct response to ATI’s latest creation, the dual GPU GTX 590. However, at the time of testing, the only other card at my disposal in the same […]

Welcome to a detailed comparison of two enthusiast grade video card configurations.  The first features three Nvidia GTX 580s running in tri-SLI, while the second includes a pair of ATI Radeon HD 5970s setup to operate in crossfire.  This extensive analysis is intended to show how both platforms perform in a series of individual tests made up […]