AMD may have got a spanking with NVIDIA's GTX 590 - on paper at least - eclipsing their own Radeon HD 6990, but the company isn't wasting time weeping and applying cooling balm. Instead it's apparently readying the AMD Radeon HD 6790, according to NordicHardware, set to take on NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 550 Ti in the lucrative mid-range segment, with a Barts LE core based on the GPUs used in the Radeon HD 6800 series.
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‘Video Card’ Stories
AMD Radeon HD 6790 tipped to bring mid-range battle to GeForce GTX 550 Ti
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 official, attempts to wear world’s fastest and quietest crowns
Poor old AMD; the company got to hold on to the "world's fastest graphics card" title for all of two weeks with the Radeon HD 6990, and now here comes NVIDIA to try to snatch it away. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 is finally official, and as we expected it's a dual-GPU masterpiece of CUDA grunt folded into a super-quiet chassis.
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Asus launches new GTX550 Ti DirectCU graphics cards
Asus has announced that it is now shipping some new video cards that use the NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti GPU inside. The cards support HD Blu-ray playback and 3D content as well. The GTX550 Ti DirectCU has 192 CUDA cores and a design that is tweaked for increased performance while running color and with less noise production than older card versions.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti offers mid-range grunt
NVIDIA has outed its latest video card, the mid-range NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti. Expected to come in at around $149, the GTX 550 Ti packs 192 CUDA cores, a 1,800MHz clock speed and a 900MHz graphics clock, along with 1GB of GDDR5 memory, good for DirectX 11 support, OpenGL 4.1 and 3D Vision support.
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Beastly NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 release dated
AMD was originally tipped to be waiting on NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 590 to arrive before launching the Radeon HD 6990, but the company pulled the trigger on the "world's fastest graphics card" earlier this week. That leaves the coast clear for the GTX 590, which according to Expreview is scheduled to arrive on March 22 2011.
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iBUYPOWER crams Radeon HD 6990 video card into gaming rigs
With AMD launching the new Radeon HD 6990 and laying claim to the title of world's fastest video card you know that lots of gaming computers running the new video card are inbound. iBUYPOWER has announced that it is now cramming the powerful AMD video card inside its gaming rigs and you can run over and customize one with the new card right now.
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MSI offers up new R6950 Twin Frozr III Power Edition video card
MSI has whipped out a new version of the AMD Radeon HD 6950 video card that uses a new and custom cooling solution to allow the card to run faster with better overclocks that other cards using the GPU. The new card is called the R6950 Twin Frozr III Power Edition. That fancy cooling solution promises a 21% improvement in performance.
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AMD Radeon HD 6990 official: World’s fastest graphics card
We've been tracking AMD's beastly Radeon HD 6990 for a few months now, and the company has finally seen fit to make it official. Billed as the world's fastest graphics card, the AMD Radeon HD 6990 packs 3,072 Stream Processors, 64 ROPs and 4GB of GDDR5 memory, together good for a borderline-ridiculous 11,865 score in 3DMark11.
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AMD Radeon HD 6990 officially pictured
AMD's beastly Radeon HD 6990 video card has officially broken cover, with the company seeding shots of the dual-GPU monster ahead of its expected launch in early Q2 2011. Hexus was handed a trio of official pics of the HD 6990, and while exact specifications are still unknown, we can deduce a little from the shots.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 in March and AMD Radeon HD 6990 in April as high-end graphics heat up
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 590 video card is expected to arrive in mid-March 2011, followed a month later by AMD's new Radeon HD 6990, with the staggered launch supposedly an intentional strategy AMD is adopting. According to DigiTimes' sources at graphics card manufacturers, AMD has decided to delay the HD 6990's commercial release so that NVIDIA can't review it and subsequently change its GTX 590 design.
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Club3D unveils new Radeon HD 6950 video card
If you are in the market for a new AMD branded video card for your gaming rig, Club 3D has a new offering that you might be interested in. The video cars is the Radeon HD 6950 and it has a dual fan cooling solution and supports 3D graphics.
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Asus unveils new GT 440 video card with Super Alloy Power tech
A new video card from NVIDIA surfaced this week called the GT 440 and so far, many of the big card partners for NVIDIA have been rolling their own version of the video card out for us to check out this week. Asus is among the companies that are offering the GT 440 to consumers and its version has some interesting sounding Super Alloy Power technology inside.
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