In light of the class action lawsuit that accused hardware makers Nvidia and ATI of fixing prices to keep video card prices artificially high, Nvidia proposed a $1.7M settlement.

The settlement, which is pending court approval and would resolve all claims against Nvidia, would see that $1.7 million sum split amongst those that bought hardware directly from ATI or Nvidia websites between December 4, 2002 and November 7, 2007. Read more »

Hardware manufacturer ATI has launched the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, which it boasts as "the fastest and most powerful graphics card available today." That statement, ATI explained, is based on the card's "extreme top score of 6920" in the 3DMark Vantage v.101 benchmarking tool.

The dual-GPU card packs two HD 4800 graphic chips, said to provide "2.4 teraFLOPS of GPU power," and 2GB of GDDR5 memory. To illustrate the card's performance, ATI provided the above benchmarks, comparing the HD 4870 X2 to rival Nvidia's GTX 280. Read more »