New Graphics card Specs and Price

Graphic cards are becoming essential component of a PC or Laptop. Hence many new graphic cards are available in market with various features and price. Below are the some of the new graphic cards with its specs and price.

1. ZOTAC GEFORCE GTX 590 Graphics Card:It is a performance graphic card best suited for ultimate gaming PC.

ZOTAC GEFORCE GTX 590

Pros and Cons of ZOTAC GEFORCE GTX 590:

Pros GTX590:

• Incredible performance.
• Very silent

Cons: None.

Specs of ZOTAC GEFORCE GTX 590:

GPU: Geoforce GTX 590.

Memory: 3GB

Memory type: GDDR5

Memory bus width: 2*384Bit.

Speed(Core|Memory): 607Mhz|854Mhz.

Stream processor:2*512MP

Video outputs: Dual link DVI and mini DP.

Price of ZOTAC GEFORCE GTX 590:44,900Rs(Indian currency).

2. ASUS GTX 550 Ti Direct CU Graphics card:It is ideal GPU for budget gaming PC. It is value for money graphic card with its performance.

ASUS GTX 550 Ti Direct CU

Pros and Cons of ASUS GTX 550 Ti Direct CU:

Pros of GTX 550 Ti Direct CU:

•  Good value for money.
• Much more improved than its predecessor GTX450.

 Cons:None.

Specs of ASUS GTX 550 Ti Direct CU:

GPU: GTX 550Ti.

Memory: 1GB

Memory type: GDDR5

Memory bus width: 192Bit.

Speed(Core|Memory): 900Mhz|1250Mhz.

Stream processor:1408

Video outputs: Dual link DVI,HDMI and mini DP.

Price of ASUS GTX 550 Ti Direct CU:9,600Rs(Indian currency).

XFX RADEON HD 6950 Graphics card: This is best suited graphic card for high end gaming PC. However the PhysX performance is not upto mark.

XFX RADEON HD 6950

Pros and Cons of XFX RADEON HD 6950:

Pros of XFX RADEON HD 6950:

• Tessellation performance.
• Very good overall performance.

Cons:

• Poor PhysX performance.

Specs of XFX RADEON HD 6950:

GPU: RADEON HD 6950

Memory: 1GB

Memory type: GDDR5

Memory bus width: 256Bit.

Speed(Core|Memory): 800Mhz|1250Mhz.

Stream processor:1408

Video outputs: Dual link DVI,HDMI,1.4a and mini DP.

Price of XFX RADEON HD 6950:30,000Rs(Indian currency).

Galaxy Geforce GTX 460 Review

The Geforce  GTX 460 is available in 768 MB and 1 GB. The 768 MB and 1GB the difference is just 1200 Rs. The Galaxy geforce GTX 460 features the leaner variant with factory  overclocked core and memory. This card also features a custom cooling system which almost similar to Geforce GTX 480 and GTX 470. The shroud covering the heat sink and fan in the reference design is fastened by clamps.
  The core runs at 800Mhz which is 100 Mhz faster than the stock speed. The memory is clocked a meagre 24Mhz. faster at 924 Mhz. As the memory is less, the bus width is 192 bit as compared to 256 it in the 1 GB card. The card features a pair of dual-link DVI ports and a mini HDMI port., and bundles with it an HDMI cable with a mini _HDMI connector. It scored 11898 in 3D Mark vantage in performance mode, making it as powerful as the GTX 465. At 1920*1080, it handled just Cause 2 at 37 fps with all effects on maximum. Crysis Warhead ran at 26fps in Enthusiast mode with AA disabled.

Pros: Good Cooling, Easy to clean, value for money, good performance.
Cons:  None

Price of  Galaxy Geforce GTX 460 is around ` 14500.

XFX Radeon HD 5830

Pros: Good Cooling, power efficient
Cons: None

XFX Radeon HD 5830 Review: The radeon HD 5830 is comes within HD 5770 and HD 5850. It is a derivative of the HD 5870 with fewer stream processors and texture units. This HD 5830 is churned out of the HD 5870 silicon chips.  In contrast to the HD 5850, which has 1440 stream processors and 32 ROPs, this has 1120 stream processors(22 percent less)  and half the number ROPs.  To make up for fewer stream processors and  ROPs to some extent, the HD 5830 is clocked 10.3 percent faster than the HD 5830.

   1GB of GDDR5 memory tied to the 256-bit wide bus runs at the same speed of 1000Mhz. Like the HD 5850, the card draws power from a pair of 6- pin PCIe connectors. The cooler is slightly different than that on the HD 5850. This one's much lighter, with a 75 mm fan in the middle of the heat carried by four copper pipes emerging from the base.

 The HD 5830 is around 33 percent slower than the HD 5850 and around 12 percent slower than the 1GB variant of GTX 460. At 1920*1080, it churned out 27 fps in just Cause 2 (Very high and 8*CSAA), and 26 fps in Crysis Warhead(Enthusiast mode and no AA). It took a very bad hit in the Unigine Heaven 2.1 benchmark and tessellation enabled, in which both the GTX 460 and HD 5850 were 30 percent faster.

Specifications:

GPU:  ATI Radeon HD 5830
Core: 800Mhz
Memory speed: 1000Mhz
Video Memory: 1 GB GDDR5
Memory bus width: 256-Bit
Stream Processor: 1120
Power: 2*6-pin PCIe

Price in India: 15500 approximately.

Note: This article is originally from Anand Tullani which was published in Chip magazine. I am not the original owner of this review.
 

Palit GTX 460 1GB Sonic Edition Review

The Palit GTX 460 Sonic edition is priced around Rs. 14,500.This Palit GTX 460 is having the same price range of  other 1GB graphic card versions are  priced. The real differentiating factor will be the package and build of the card since the performance won't vary much.

When compared to ZOTAC's offering, the Palit GTX 460 does come with a better cooler that gives you lower temperatures and also runs silent. In terms of overclocking both have the same potential and they both come with an easy to use OC tools. In terms of the bundle, this is where ZOTAC has a slight advantage since they are bundling a free game along with the card.


Pros:

• Good performance, efficient cooler, silent operation, connectivity, overclocks well

Cons:

• RAM chips aren't cooled, not all that faster than the 768MB version

Specifications:
Fabrication: 40nm
Shader Units: 336
ROPs: 32
GPU: GF104
Transistors: 1950M
Memory Size:1GB
Memoru Bus Width:256-Bit
Core Clock: 700Mhz
Memory Clock: 3600Mhz
Memory Type: GDDR5

This card comes with a bundle of :

• Installation Manual
• Driver CD
• DVI to VGA Adaptor
• Two 6-pin to molex power adaptor.

ZOTAC GTX 460 1GB Review

Nvidia released 1 GB version of GTX 460 after a long time. Unlike Nvidia previous version of cards, this card not only have increased memory it has many more features. In this card they have cut down the memory bus width and the number of raster operation units(ROPs) on the 768MB version.

Pros:

    * Good bundle. Well priced. Full sized HDMI and DP connectors. It can be overclocked. Very good performance when overclocked.

Cons:

• Fan makes noice when there is a load. Memory chips are not actively cooled.

Specifications:

Model: ZT-40402-10P

Cooler: Active with fan

Core Clock: 675Mhz.

Core Processor: 336 Stream processor

Dimention: 4.376in*8.25in-111.15mm*209.55mm

Direct X: Direct X 11

Dual Link DVI supported: Yes.

DVI: 2(DVI-I)

GPU: Geforce GTX460

HDCP Ready: Yes.

HDMI: 1(HDMI 1.3a w/audio(8-Channel LPCM & amp; bit stream)+Display port)


Package bundle consist of :

    * ZT-40402-10P
    * Driver Disk
    * Zotak boost premium
    * Prince Of Persia: the forgotten sands game
    * User Manual
    * DVI to VGA Adapter
    * 2 Dual Molex to 6 pin PCIe power cables.

MSI N460GTX Cyclone 768D5 Review

 MSI N460GTX Cyclone 768D5

This is a new graphic card released by MSI. This card come with MSI custom cyclone cooler for better overclocking. This version of coller is also called as Afterburner.

The specification of   MSI N460GTX Cyclone 768D5:
It has clock speed of 725MHz on the core, 900MHz on the memory and 1450MHz for shaders or CUDA cores. 

Pros: It has very effective cooler, Good OC software, design and build. It maintains low temperature. 
Cons: Slightly over priced. There is no mini HDMI to HDMI adapter bundled.

The pack consist of :

• Installation Guide.
• Driver CD
• DVI to HDMI adapter.
• DVI to VGA adapter.
• 2 6 pins to Molex power adapter.