


We begin this concise graphically pertinent piece with a literary dispute. A multitude of expressions I use to interpret facts, qualify opinions and provide the occasional twist of linguistic amusement are accompanied by a supercilious red squiggle. You know the one. The grammatical equivalent of a security guard in an Apple Store, silently scrutinizing your […]
“x-treme” “x-plosive” “x-traordinary”. What was it about the letter X that attracted designers of anything targeted at the technologically inspired and improbably rich? It might be hard to believe, but there are commercially viable words beginning with every letter of the alphabet that could yet secure status as equally influential marketing tools and scorch similarly […]
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 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 […]