ATI has been strong in recent months with a slew of new video card offerings that have been well received by gamers offering good performance at a good price. ATI has been offering NVIDIA strong competition and costing NVIDIA some of the market share lead that it typically holds over ATI. Today some pics of a new ATI video card have been leaked online.
Apple may have told us that the new MacBook, Mac mini and iMac updates finalize their holiday 2009 line-up, but that doesn’t mean they’re not thinking ahead. Digging through the configuration files in the 10.6.2 update of OS X 10C531, Spanish site Applesana.es have spotted two references to new MacBook Pro notebooks, and believe that they might bring with them quadcore processors and ATI Radeon 4500-series graphics.
ATI has gone official with its new line of HD 5770 and 5750 video cards today. We already know just about all there is to know about the cards thanks to a leaked specifications and benchmark results last week. The leaked information got the specifications for the cards right.
Acer have announced their first touchscreen notebook, the Acer Aspire AS5738PG-6306, complete with Windows 7 and a 15.6-inch 1,366 x 768 multitouch-capable display. The AS5738PG supports one- or two-finger gestures on the screen, such as pinch-zoom, and is based on Intel’s 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo T6600 processor with 4GB of DDR2 memory and ATI Radeon HD 4570 512MB graphics.
HP have also updated their business notebooks and desktop range today, in the shape of the HP ProBook 6445b and ProBook 6545b laptops and the HP Elite 7000 Business Desktop PC. The two notebooks each offer a choice of AMD Turion II, Athlon II or Sempron processors, together with up to 8GB of RAM, up to 500GB HDD/128GB SSD, and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 graphics. The ProBook 6445b has a 14-inch display running at 1,366 x 768 while the ProBook 6545b has a 15.6-inch display running at either 1,366 x 768 or 1,600 x 900.
HP have gone touch-crazy in the run-up to Windows 7’s release, pushing out several new touch-sensitive products including a 42-inch widescreen LCD. The HP TouchSmart tx2 updates the original convertible tx2, and has a 12.1-inch capacitive touchscreen which also accepts stylus input; meanwhile there are two new TouchSmart desktop ranges, in the shape of the consumer-oriented HP TouchSmart 300 and 600 – at 20- and 23-inches respectively – and the business-centric HP TouchSmart 9100, a 23-inch model targeted at the hospitality and retail markets.
ATI has been working hard to bring the fight to NVIDIA in the discrete desktop GPU market and it is doing a decent job with video cards offering good performance at a good price. We mentioned back in September that ATI had new 5700 series desktop GPUs coming and today specs and photos of the Radeon HD 5750 and HD 5770 video cards have been revealed.
ATI is really bringing it to NVIDIA with the launch of its new video cards with more performance than past ATI offerings. Today some new images of a heretofore unseen ATI HD 5850 X2 and HD 5870 X2 video cards have hit the web.
It’ll come as little to no surprise that, with the new ATI Radeon HD 5870 video cards fresh on the scene, gaming PC manufacturers are already updating their wares to include the DirectX 11 capable GPU. Maingear is one of the first into the SlashGear inbox, with their Ephex, F131, Prelude, and X-Cube systems all getting friendly with AMD’s newest graphics card.
With a press conference imminent, ATI’s new DirectX 11 video cards are beginning to make their appearance on retailer shelves. Two cards – the Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 and the ASUS Radeon HD 5870, each marked “Cyprus HT” and with 1GB of memory – have shown up for sale at Newegg, while over at Hexus and The Tech Report they’ve each been reviewing the new Radeon HD 5870.
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