ATI Radeon HD 4550, one of the junior solutions in the latest Radeon lineup, boasts pretty attractive features: it supports DirectX 10.1, advanced second generation Avivo HD video processor, hardware video streams acceleration, 7.1 sound over HDMI, and consumes very little power. But this is all the promises from the developers. In our turn, we are going to find out if Radeon HD 4550 is really as good for playing new gaming titles and functioning as part of HTPC system for playing back Blu-ray movies.

Even though graphics processing units are very complex these days and take years to develop, just as central processing units, the right GPU at the right time can completely reshape the market in just one or two quarters. This is why it is crucial to make the right business decisions for the next month and right technology decisions for the next two-three years. With these rules in mind, we decided ask ATI, graphics products group of Advanced Micro Devices, a dozen of question regarding current state of the business and future products.

Not so long ago a continuation of the popular strategy series, Command & Conquer: Red Alert, saw the light of day. After Tiberium Wars, the third part has become completely 3D and sprite-free. Our today’s article will show what the owners of contemporary can expect from Red Alert 3.

Intel Corp. is the world’s largest supplier of graphics adapters, despite of the fact that it has not introduced a single new discrete graphics chip in the last decade. The company still has hopes for the market of standalone graphics processors and plans to introduce its Larrabee product in 2009 – 2010 timeframe. Since the new player on the market of graphics cards poses a great interest, we decided to ask Intel a number of questions about the market of discrete graphics processors, the company’s vision of the GPU design as well as Larrabee project.

In this review we will be benchmarking the GeForce GTX 260 with different versions of the GeForce driver and also cover the image quality aspect. Our today's hero will be Zotac GeForce GTX 260 AMP2! Edition 896MB graphics card.

The fans of the world famous post-apocalyptic Fallout series have finally got what they have been waiting for – the third part of the game. Since it was created using contemporary graphics technologies, it makes sense to find out what the owners of graphics cards from different price segments can hope to get in Fallout 3 game in terms of performance and image quality.

While Nvidia doesn’t yet have a new generation graphics processor, it can only oppose ATI with the good old G92 architecture that proved worthy over time. Today we are going to talk about two warriors from this camp offered by Palit Company.

Until recently, there used to be a gap in the product line-up of ATI graphics accelerators. ATI Radeon HD 4830 should patch it up and strengthen the front line between ATI Radeon HD 4670 and ATI Radeon HD 4850.

Fall is not the best time for active vacationing. Summer activities are no longer available and winter ones are still a few months ahead. Moreover, the weather is not always very encouraging this time of year. An exciting computer game may become a great entertainment for a rainy day. Our today’s article is going to tell you about a few latest choices like that.

What will have greater effect on graphics cards’ performance – twice the amount of video memory or a more powerful GPU? Find out from our new review featuring Palit Radeon HD 4870 Sonic Dual Edition 1024MB and Leadtek WinFast GeForce GTX 260 Extreme+ 896MB!

Although almost a year has passed since the launch of the G92 graphics processor, Nvidia still uses it for inexpensive mainstream graphics accelerators. In our today’s GeForce 9800 GT review we are going to find out if this approach is successful or not.

New dual-chip ATI Radeon HD X2 graphics card family proved that AMD graphics division deserves to be a technology leader. Today we are going to talk about HIS HD 4870 X2 HDMI 2GB GDDR5 graphics card and will find out if overclocking helps this flagship solution to increase its performance even more.

The logics of the graphics card market and simplistic design should have sooner or later born unique Radeon HD 4800 modifications that would stand out among the numerous ATI reference solutions. One of solutions like that will be discussed today. It is the new Sapphire Toxic HD 4850 512MB GDDR3.

As a rule, sub-$100 graphics adapters are hardly of any interest to gamers, especially taking into account how demanding some of the contemporary gaming titles are. New budget graphics cards from ATI promise to break this rule.

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card is the fastest solution in the market these days. However, it is pretty expensive and the card itself is so large that may not fit in some system cases. Today we decided to discuss the performance of two ATI Radeon HD 4870 solutions - from VisionTek and Club 3D - in order to determine if a CrossFire tandem like that could become an alternative to the top-of-the-line ATI Radeon solution.

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 showed what multi-processor graphics solutions are actually worth having taken the leadership away from Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 in no time. However can factory overclocking help G200 based graphics accelerators to take revenge? Read our review to answer this question!

We have long waited for the new dual-GPU ATI graphics cards to come out and finally it happened. Our today’s article should at last determine what strategy turned out more efficient: multi-GPU concept supported by ATI/AMD or a single-GPU concept chosen by Nvidia.

It has been a traditional assumption that the monitor and system case should be priced comparably. However, the arrival of expensive processors and graphics accelerators made this statement very doubtful. Today we are going to check how well 300-dollar graphics cards can perform in video games in 2560x1600 resolution. We will test Force 3D Radeon HD 4870 and Nvidia GeForce GTX 260.

Will extreme overclocking help Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX to defeat ATI Radeon HD 4800 and how greatly? Will an extremely overclocked GeForce 9800 GTX be able to complete against the new GeForce GTX 260? Answers to all these questions in our new article!

Although Nvidia still has the fastest graphics card, new ATI’s strategy implies an asymmetric response. Let’s take a closer look at its advantages and drawback with the help of two Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 graphics cards.