First, a little transparency: having started at IGN just last week, my test lab is still in a fledgling state. Testing acoustics and power consumption extends beyond the equipment I have at the moment ...

Splinter Cell Conviction also proves to be relatively lightweight when using medium settings, especially with anti-aliasing disabled. The Radeon HD 6790 averaged 56fps at 1680x1050, which was 17% ...

When testing Just Cause 2 we reduced the graphics settings to what we consider medium quality. The shadow, water and object quality were set to medium while high-res shadows and SSAO were disabled – ...

There was a time when no PC could play a decent game unless it was outfitted with a discrete graphics processor. Today, most off-the-shelf desktop rigs—and nearly all notebook PCs—rely entirely on the ...

As we roll through our review samples, we find ourselves today pulling another video card out of the pile. The new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 700 series has done a good job of impressing us so far thanks to ...

For a long time we used to see AMD and NVIDIA release similar models at the same time, but over the past few years, we've seen new GPU launches become separated. The only time that has changed in ...