The graphics card market has become a very complex market for various reasons. The first is the multiplication of references with that side largely to blame for NVIDIA. There are the more variations of the G80 which had originally given birth to the GeForce 8800 GTX, Ultra and GTS, without forgetting the "rename" old wild cards. The second reason which makes it difficult to find on the market: the price. Since that ATS has struggled to keep the pill high NVIDIA at the exit of the Radeon HD 2900 XT, there has been an erosion of prizes to be awarded by AMD so. Unable to fight on performance, the smelter had no other choice but to fight on prices. The result ranges of tariffs much closer than where we often spoke of cards below Rs-6500 to Rs-13000, Rs-19500 and others. Today, it would rather work in increments of Rs-4000.
In this hyper competitive market, instead of partners ATI and NVIDIA is not easy either. They should make sure to follow the pace of the two tenors sector and should especially try to distinguish themselves from other partners to attract potential consumers in their net. At this level, impossible to change the layout and PCBs in high-end products while in the middle and low-end, the margin for maneuver is greater. But a new PCB implies a cost and only large brands such as Asus can afford it. There is easier ways to distinguish themselves as offering a bundle complete with numerous cables, utilities and other video games. Some opt for adding memory sometimes aberrations materialize by low-end cards with a gigabyte of memory. More intelligent is to offer cards that offer a real gain in performance. The problem with these models is against a price increase, which puts them in competition with the industry tariff cards superior range. Last way to distinguish: propose an alternative cooling system with the aim less heating and more silence.
The map that we offer today in test has three points that we have set forth: overclocking, more memory and an alternative cooling system. This is the Connect 3D Radeon HD 4870 Extreme 1024 DDR5. As its name suggests, it doubles the amount of memory DDR5 from 512 to 1024 Mb . It also benefits to increase the frequency of GPU 750 to 770 MHz and memory from 900 to 950 MHz. Shy. Finally, the cooling system comes from Arctic Cooling: the Accelero Twin Turbo. All this of course inflates the price that goes to ... Rs 20000. It remains to be seen what gains to expect. Response in a test where we evaluate this card but also overclock frequency standards to isolate the interest of "giga" memory.
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