The top video cards for gaming enthusiasts

Various computer game are being released and as time flies, each newly released computer games tend to require a higher video card to have it run smoothly in your computer. Therefore, how will you know if your video card is suitable for the kind of computer games that you want to play?

We have listed some of the top video cards intended for computer gaming below. Hope this list will help you decide in purchasing for the right video card for your computer to run your desired games without any glitches at all.

ATI Radeon HD 5870 – ATI Radeon video cards are known to be one of the best video cards available. Its 5800 chipset is one of the top performers for long. ATI Radeon’s HD 5870 has 1 Gigabytes of GDDR5 onboard and its core speed is 850MHz. This power video card also has full support for DirectX 11. The only minor drawback for this card is it huge size that has the ability to occupy two of your system’s card slots.

ATI Radeon HD 5850 – this series is the second type of card released by ATI Radeon. It has the same feature as the HD 5870 but it is a little slower as compared to the precious released card. The HD 5850 also supports DX11, Eyefinity, HDMI bitstreaming, supersample anti-aliasing, and has 1Gigabytes of GDDR5 memory. Another great advantage of this card is its lower price compared to the HD5870 and it requires less power. However, retailers come out of stock very often.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 – with the release of the ATI’s dual GPU Radeon HD 4870 X2, Nvidia has released another dual GPU card last January of 2009 in order for them not to be outshined by ATI. The newly released Nvidia video card is the GTX 295 and is a 2 GTX 260 GPUs running on SLI on a single card type of power video card for gaming. These chips come in 240 stream processors each instead of 216 and they are also made with a smaller 55 nm process. In addition, Nvidia uses the 2 PCB approach instead of the 2 GPUs by ATI. One minor drawback of this video card is its expensive price, but surely has an impressive performance.

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 – this series is another top performing dual GPU card from ATI. One of the unique features this card has is its 2 HD 4870 graphics processor and a stunning 2 Gigabytes of memory onboard. It has a close performance and competition with the GeForce 9800 GX2 and the GeForce GTX 280 as it shows strength in various computer games. Like many of the dual GPU cards, the HD 4870 X2 consumes more power, but the price comes lower, which is very favorable to many of the power users or shall we say gamers around the globe.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 – a few months after the release of GeForce 9800, Nvidia release another power card, the GTX 285. It is a 55nmbersio of 280 and is a true graphic powerhouse with its 1.4 billion transistors. Being in close competition with Radeon HD 5000 card, the GTX 285 comes at a cheaper price compared to the GTX 280.