What is the newest and most up to date video cards for both Nvidia and ATI?
Q. What is the newest and most up to date video cards for both Nvidia and ATI? I’ve googled it quite a few times but can’t find anything specific, thank you in advance!
~ and what are the newest features of said cards.
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NVIDIA is still outdated while comparing with ATi
In NVIDIA the latest is NVIDIA GeForce 310 which is an entry level GPU for integrated motherboard graphics.
The Most powerful one presently is GTX 295 which is a Dual Chip graphics and DX10 and costs $600.
In ATi, with similar power as GTX 295 is the ATi Radeon 5870 which costs $400 and has DX11.
And the fastest and baddest and most recent graphics card of ATi is Radeon 5970 which is Dual Chip, DX11, and which costs $600 and has no match presently.
ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 is “The fastest graphics card on the planet”
nVidia recently released the 310, claiming it to be the newest tech…but it is a pure 100% unaltered clone of the 210.
nVidia’s last new release was the 260 216.
Their best two cards are the single core 285 (which is almost 3 years old), and the dual core (technically dual *card*) 295 (which is also almost 3 years old).
ATi, however, has the HD 3000 series cards released two years ago, the HD 4000 series cards released last fall, and the HD 5000 series cards released this Quarter.
nVidia has only just been able to emulate Dx10 compatability, and is having issues with Dx10.1, whereas ATi has had full Dx10 compatability in reality since the release of the HD 2000 series cards a few months after Vista launched.
The ATi 5000 series cards are currently the world’s *only* Dx11 capable cards. nVidia *claims* to have Dx11 capable silicon in production, and has projected a January release…that is, however, assuming that they were able to create faultless designs and perfect chips from the get go (fat chance). So, if you’re waiting for nVidia to buy a Dx11 chip, you’ll be lucky to see it by March.
That being said, right now, there are only 4-5 games at most that are fully Dx11 compatable (rumour has it Sapphire is shipping Dirt 2 – essentially the first Dx11 game – with all 5800 series cards).
In any case, the 2xx nVidia and the 5xxx ATi cards both ship with the ability to “back-up” the CPU. Essentially they have been set-up as “Parallel Processors” to take some of the load off the CPU when the computer is facing a high CPU demand situation.
Good Luck!