Creative Labs Announces X-Fi Chip E-MU 20k1, Nvidia Brings GTX 670 (PCGH Retro, May 10)

… 2005: With the most complex sound chip for the consumer market to date, Creative Labs wants to secure a strong market position for its own sound cards. The E-MU 20k1 has 51 million transistors, operates at 400 MHz and is said to achieve over 10,000 MIPS (millions of instructions per second) – compared to the values ​​of the predecessor on the Audigy (4.6M transistors, 424 MIPS) impressive values. According to Creative Labs, this even beats the Pentium 4 560 with 3.6 GHz, which manages a few dozen MIPS less. Although the creativepress release dated May 13, 2005, the non-disclosure agreement and thus the blocking of information about the new audio processor fell on May 10, 2005.

Take a look at our gallery with legendary input devices and sound cards – there you will also find some Creative models.

… 2012: With the Kepler architecture, Nvidia eliminated the main criticism of the successful Geforce 400 and 500 series: the high power consumption. The provisional top model, the Geforce GTX 680, also placed itself (nearly) ahead of the previous leader, the Radeon HD 7970, in the PCGH performance index at the time The small and frugal card is very fast in terms of gaming, as our GTX 670 launch test shows, but seems a bit “rickety” for the asking price of around 390 euros – which is also the tenor of the following comments, whether from editors or forum usersis.