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News has filtered out from BrightSideOfNews that Doug Stoakley, Nvidia's Senior Director of Worldwide Sales for Tegra and Mobile is leaving Nvidia, landing a new job in AMD. Our sources today have confirmed that the move is real and he is starting the job very soon. Stoakley will be heading …

Nvidia's GTX Titan is THE flagship graphics card to own right now, but at around £900 it is marketed at the ultra high end enthusiast audience. Moving down a single notch in the Nvidia hierarchy is the GTX780, a card made slightly more affordable, around the £550 mark. Today we …

The SAPPHIRE HD 7700 series is an extensive family of graphics cards targeting the enthusiast on a budget and mainstream users looking for increased graphics performance.  It is based on the latest generation of GPU’s from AMD built in its 28nm process and featuring the highly acclaimed GCN graphics processing …

Earlier this week Nvidia launched their GTX760 graphics card, the direct replacement for the ever popular GTX660 Ti. We focused on the GTX760 reference card at launch but today we get the chance to look at a customised, overclocked solution from KFA2 – the GTX760 EX. This card is modestly …

Yup, that's how non-subtle this AMD advert is. It sees a typical gamer guy plugging in his new, green tinged, generic GPU into his PC and then tapping the space bar, because dammit, it's not working. In walks the slick, 21st century version of Danny Zucko who tells him that the …

If you ever read/saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, you will be familiar with the special golden tickets that super-choco-genius Willy Wonka hides in the wrappers of special sweets. The marketing gurus down at Asus have followed a similar principal. KitGuru gets sticky fingers in the process of investigating. The …

One of Nvidia's greatest success stories in recent years has been their GTX 660 ti. This discrete solution targeted the high end enthusiast gamer – hitting a sweet spot between £200 and £250. Put two GTX660 Ti's in SLi and you had a configuration able to battle head to head …

If you're a geek of a certain age, then you will remember the thrill of vinyl records. Because of the relatively low cost to stamp out a few more, a lot of bands would create limited editions in strange and wonderful coloured plastics. If you were really into a band, …

While Club3D might have been letting the rest of the world get a taste of its 13Series graphics cards, the overclocked, white boxed, cooler, quieter version of the reference 7 series cards from AMD, it's only now that UK customers can pick any one of them up with ease. Club3D is …

Leading international motherboard and graphics card maker MSI has just officially unveiled its latest high-end GTX 780 Gaming graphics card. Featuring NVIDIA's new GeForce GTX 780 GPU with 3GB of high speed GDDR5 memory and PCI Express Gen 3, the MSI GTX 780 also comes with the exclusive MSI Gaming …

While Nvidia has always been “about the PC” in some way or another, it put a lot of time and effort into the current, fading console generation as well, since it was reliving its war with ATI (now AMD) in the battle between the Xbox 360 and PS3. While its …

Today we are looking at a new video card from ASUS – The GTX 670 Direct CU Mini. This is a compact graphics card that should be powerful enough to play the latest Direct X 11 games on a 1080p monitor. This cute little card only measures 170mm and requires a …

Today we look at a customised, overclocked version of the new Nvidia GTX770 graphics card from MSI. The latest GTX770 is based around the same GK104 GPU that was used in the ever popular GTX680.  The GTX770 is priced close to the HD7970 and targets the high end gaming audience …

In a season of continuous launches, one of the most eagerly anticipated events has been the full on drive on Kepler – in all its variations. On 22nd March 2012, an email from nVidia's boss to all of his employees made its way onto the web. It congratulated them on …

We received some queries from Kitguru readers after our initial Radeon Quad HD7990 testing back in January this year. We had a crash happy disaster of monumental proportions and based on emails, we weren't the only users experiencing problems. We had assumed at the time that AMD had not focused …

We reviewed the AMD HD7990 ‘Malta' Graphics card last month. There was no doubt that AMD were back in the high end game, challenging the GTX690 for top performance position. For those who missed the launch the HD7990 it is a dual GPU solution comprising 8.6 billion transistors, 4096 stream …

With gamers and enthusiasts still a crucial part of AMD's mobile GPU strategy, the California-based semiconductor company has launched HD 8900M – a series of products which it touts to include the “world's fastest notebook GPU”. Powered by AMD's GCN architecture and built on a 28nm process, the HD 8900M …

The graphics card landscape is constantly changing as AMD and Nvidia battle for increased market share. While the hot, steamy action always happens in the high end, the majority of sales for both companies are in the less exciting budget sector. With this in mind, AMD released the 1GB HD7790 …

With a worldwide shipment expected at the end of May, Asus has ear-marked today for the launch of its very own Radeon HD 7990 graphics accelerator. In KitGuru Labs' tests, this card stamped its authority at the top of the mountain, so it will be interesting to see what Asus …

From the KitGuru Labs extensive testing, one thing about the Radeon HD 7990 was blindingly clear – it is the fastest card ever made. Now the dust has settled over the initial results, it's time for those with huge pockets and a serious addiction to high-tech to begin the acquisitions …

SAPPHIRE Technology has just announced that it will start shipping the HD 7990 – the fastest graphics card available based on the highly acclaimed graphics GCN (Graphics Core Next) architecture from AMD. The SAPPHIRE HD 7990 has a dual GPU architecture with a total of 4096 Stream processors and core …

The battle for the title of ‘world's fastest graphics card' has been hotly contested for as long as I can remember. This week AMD are releasing their official HD7990 ‘Malta' graphics card – a dual GPU solution comprising 8.6 billion transistors, 4096 stream processors … capable of 8.2 TFLOPS of …

PC hardware enthusiasts have always been about bleeding edge performance. Overclocks, voltage mods, extreme cooling, it's all part of PC aficionado's arsenal. However, while we all know that keeping up with the latest and greatest can be expensive, it rarely gets as pricey as one ebay user's recent acquisition: an engineering …

Sapphire launched their overclocked HD7790 in March, and we reviewed it at the time, over here. Today they announced a sister card for the family, a 2GB version. In addition to a 2GB DDR5 frame buffer, it has an overclocked core and memory, and a specially designed cooler that allows …

AMD recently released their HD7790 to target the budget gaming audience and today we take a look at a modified version of the new Nvidia GTX650 Ti Boost from MSI. This particular card is supplied in an over clocked state and ships with a heavily modified dual fan cooler to …

Today we are following up on our HD7790 launch article with a look at the latest overclocked model from ASUS. This card features a dual fan cooling system and out of the box clock enhancements. Is this a card you should be shortlisting for a cost effective gaming build in …

While graphic card manufacturers across the globe work to create ever bigger and more powerful products to smash the latest games, Asus engineers have taken a step back, drunk some green tea, contemplated their place in the universe and decided to showcase their design skills in a different way. KitGuru …

SAPPHIRE Technology has just announced that purchasers* of the recently launched SAPPHIRE HD 7790 OC and standard models will be entitled to a free installation code for the exciting new game BioShock Infinite, which just launched to rave reviews. Software developers at Irrational Games collaborated extensively with AMD to make …

Johan Anderson is a programmer who has dedicated his life to making games more immersive. From his days developing some of the most famous games on the Sega Mega Drive, he has been focused on creating ‘believability'.  He famously laid out a series of 5 major problems that he would …

If you are looking for a new video card for your system then there has never been a better time to buy. Today we are looking at a cross section of high value for money AMD and Nvidia partner cards in a round up article targeting the budget to the …