LE: Down-converted version GE: Audio-visual high-definition game version GT: The so-called public version... Enhanced version GTS: Super enhanced version GTX: Ultimate Edition (Flagship Edition) PRO: Super enhanced version at a civilian price XT: Super Enhanced Edition The most common characteristics of large-scale manufacturers are strong R&D capabilities, complete product lines, and outstanding quality. Due to the close production processes of motherboards and graphics cards, many major motherboard manufacturers are also major graphics card manufacturers. It should also be mentioned here that the former graphics card giant Hercules, which was originally a first-tier brand, has withdrawn from the graphics card market due to competitive pressure. MSI (MSI): A N MSI has been at the top of the graphics card shipment list for several consecutive years. In 2006, it still ranked first in the world with 8 million units shipped. MSI has strong independent research and development capabilities and is one of the few manufacturers that can independently launch optimized non-public graphics cards. The workmanship and performance of its graphics cards are quite excellent, but MSI's channels are not very smooth. It is not easy to buy in the domestic secondary market, and sometimes it is troubled by shortages. ASUS (ASUS): A N In 2006, ASUS graphics card shipments were approximately 7.9 million units, ranking second with a slight disadvantage. The quality of ASUS graphics cards goes without saying, and its R&D capabilities are even more extraordinary. Its high-end graphics cards are often optimized and enhanced non-public versions. As the overlord of the motherboard industry, Asus certainly cannot tolerate lagging behind in graphics cards. In the past two years, Asus has gradually begun to make efforts in the graphics card business and will launch a strong challenge to MSI's leadership position. PowerColor: A is also a manufacturer from Taiwan, my country. The brand in mainland China is called "Dataland". PowerColor graphics cards are well made, especially high-end. In 2006, Hanxun shipped 4 million pieces, ranking third in the world. It is also one of ATI's three major partners. For those who like A-cards, Huaxun (Dylan Hengjin) is a good choice. Leadtek: N is a senior graphics card manufacturer and nVidia's most important partner. Not only can it produce entertainment-level graphics cards, but it is also the only manufacturer in Asia that can produce nVidia's Quadro series of professional graphics cards. In addition, Leadtek's TVs The card also has a pretty good reputation in the industry. Leadtek graphics cards have always been of excellent quality, and although they are more expensive, they are definitely worth the money. Leadtek's shipment volume in 2006 was 3 million units, ranking among the top five. Gigabyte: A N Compared with MSI and ASUS, Gigabyte has cooperated with ATI earlier and is currently one of ATI's three major partners. The shipment volume in 2006 was 3 million pieces. GIGABYTE's high-end graphics cards have unique designs and outstanding quality, but many mid- to low-end models are shrunk cards manufactured by Tongde (will be introduced below) and have relatively poor workmanship. The current situation is that Gigabyte graphics cards with red PCBs come from Tongde, while Gigabyte graphics cards with blue PCBs are manufactured by Gigabyte itself. In addition, Gigabyte also has a subsidiary, GigaCube, which has been focusing on channel orders and mainly targets the mid-to-low-end graphics card market. Sapphire: A. The company name of Sapphire is PC Partner. PC Partner’s shipment volume in 2006 was as much as Foxconn’s, 10 million pieces. Moreover, PC Partner was established this year. Founded a ZOTAC company that sells N cards. It has now entered the domestic market. However, advertising and sales have not yet been launched. PCN is headquartered in Hong Kong, China. Its predecessor was the foundry of "ATI original graphics cards" and has With ten years of A-card manufacturing experience, it is ATI's largest partner, and the original A-cards currently sold overseas are still manufactured by PC.

The production process, quality control and delivery methods of sapphire graphics cards strictly follow ATI's production standards, using high-quality electronic components and accessories. Their stability and compatibility are excellent, making them a model for A-cards. PCB has not officially announced the exact number of shipments. It is estimated that there are millions of pieces (the number I got from a certain source is 9 million pieces, but it is unconfirmed). In any case, its title as a first-tier manufacturer is well deserved. . The uncrowned king: Hon Hai (Foxconn): A N Hon Hai (Foxconn) has always produced graphics cards for many first-line brand machines such as Dell and HP. Last year, Hon Hai successively acquired two powerful manufacturers, Foxconn and Leadtek, and gradually Turn to OEM for them. Calculating this, Hon Hai Group's total graphics card shipments in 2006 exceeded 10 million units, making it the de facto overlord of the graphics card industry. But so far, Hon Hai has not launched its own brand, so now it can only be the uncrowned king. Gangster Boss: Palit: A N Almost all graphics cards produced by Palit are OEMs for other brands. In 2006, the shipment volume was approximately 6 million units. Although Tongde can also produce high-end graphics cards with excellent quality, it does not have its own brand, and its customers are many channel dealers without production capabilities, including Colorful. This allows it to boldly cut corners and frequently launch low-end graphics cards. Although this may not be his intention, Tongde himself is always lurking behind the scenes, and it is more appropriate to call him a gang boss. Second-tier brands: Although their scale is not as large as that of first-tier manufacturers, they still have strong R&D capabilities, their products have their own characteristics, and their quality is outstanding. In addition, two powerful second-tier brands, Diamond and TerraTec, which are famous for their sound cards, have withdrawn from the graphics card market. Elsa (ELSA): A N Elsa from Germany was once the overlord of the graphics card industry. Almost all of his products were improved non-public versions with extremely excellent workmanship. Moreover, he also had the ability to develop non-public version drivers. This It is unmatched by other graphics card manufacturers. Unfortunately, Elsa Corporation went bankrupt due to investment mistakes. The Elsa graphics cards we can see now are basically from Elsa Asia. They are mainly produced by several Taiwanese manufacturers. The quality is pretty good. At the same time, It can also produce FireGL series professional graphics cards, but it is no longer the same as the previous Elsa. Gainward: N is produced by Gengyu, Taiwan, China. It was renamed Gainward due to squatting in mainland China. Gengsheng graphics cards have always been luxurious in workmanship and have outstanding overclocking capabilities. They are known as "ABIT among graphics cards" and their "magic jumpers" are also unique in the industry. Although Gengsheng was favored by many DIYers, he focused too much on technology and neglected publicity, which led to the gradual erosion of market share and continued losses for the company. Gengsheng was acquired by Palit at the end of 2006, but fortunately the Gengsheng brand has been retained. I believe that the re-integrated Gengsheng will not disappoint many players! XFX:N The manufacturer is Songjing Technology, also from Taiwan. Songjing has been committed to OEM business in the past. Although it has only entered the DIY market for two years, it has grown rapidly. XFX launches new cards very quickly, and its product line is very complete. In addition to regular graphics cards, it also has Personal Cinema series graphics cards and nVIDIA NVTV TV cards. The workmanship is outstanding. XFX is now gradually being loved by more and more players. Sparkle: N Another Taiwanese company with 20 years of experience in graphics card manufacturing, it can be considered a veteran powerhouse. The workmanship and materials used in the graphics card are good, and the price/performance ratio is relatively high. GALAXY: N This brand comes from Hong Kong and is produced by Jiawei Technology. GALAXY graphics cards are very attentive in DIY, the graphics cards are gorgeous in workmanship, and they have put a lot of effort into radiators and overclocking, and their influence in the country is gradually expanding. Inno3D: N is also a Hong Kong brand. The company name is InnoVISION, so some people also call it InnoVISION graphics card, which has excellent workmanship.

In addition, this company can also produce InnoDV series TV/video cards, InnoAX series sound cards and other products, and its technical strength is quite impressive. Tianyang (GrandMars): A N is also from Hong Kong. Unlike several other manufacturers, it sells graphics cards based on two chips at the same time. However, its products are all OEM products. The OEM is mainly the Gigabyte subsidiary mentioned above. Star (GigaCube), good workmanship, and good overclocking capabilities. SuperGrece: A famous graphics card brand from Europe, it is one of ATI's main partners. The quality of the graphics card is excellent. It has done some publicity and promotion in China in the past two years, but it is relatively rare now. Creative: A N The famous sound card brand actually has a high status in innovation in the graphics card industry. The famous 3D Labs is already a subsidiary of Creative. Innovative consumer graphics cards are mainly produced by major manufacturers such as MSI. They are of outstanding quality, but they are not easy to see. Compro: N When we mention this brand, the first thing we think of is its "Apocalypse" series of TV/video products. In fact, this company has been engaged in graphics card OEM production for a long time, and its own brand graphics card promotion efforts have been Not big, but the workmanship is still worthy of recognition. Asmart: N An old brand from Taiwan, China. The manufacturer is Dingshen Technology. The graphics card is pretty good, but relatively rare. Liyuan (Mediamax): N In order to consolidate the market in mainland China, nVidia teamed up with the famous domestic agent Jiadu Group to launch this new brand in April this year, so Liyuan can be regarded as a direct descendant of the N school. At present, its graphics cards are relatively rare. Judging from the pictures, the mid-to-high-end products are good, but some low-end models are slightly worse. Faced with the joint suppression of many incompetent domestic brands, Liyuan's future is uncertain. Second-tier motherboard manufacturers: In the past two years, as the scale gap between motherboard industry manufacturers has continued to expand, second-tier motherboard brands have gradually shown a decline, so they have moved to the graphics card field in order to make up for the losses in the motherboard business. With their experience in motherboards, their graphics cards are also pretty good and can basically be classified as second-tier or quasi-second-tier. TYAN: A is a well-known server/workstation motherboard manufacturer. It cooperated with ATI earlier to launch a series of high-end graphics cards. The quality is naturally impeccable, but the price is also high. Therefore, its graphics cards have always been relatively good but not popular. Later, they gradually Faded out of people's sight. Chaintech: N can be regarded as a long-established graphics card manufacturer with excellent quality and large OEM output. However, its own brand is unknown. Recently, Chaintech has also strengthened its own publicity, and we look forward to its better performance. Performance. Jetway: A N has rich OEM resources. The mobile version 9600 on the market last year was actually produced by Jetway. Relatively speaking, its own brand is not very well-known. Its graphics card price advantage is more obvious, and its workmanship is quite acceptable. Abit: A leveraged its reputation in the motherboard industry to enter the graphics card market. It still sells its products for overclocking and uses excellent workmanship and materials. Albatron: The N graphics card and its motherboard are equally good, but the main problem they face is that they are not recognized, so sales have not been increasing. Soltek: A N Most of its graphics cards are mainstream chips, with few high-end products. The workmanship is quite satisfactory, and there is nothing outstanding about it. Cordia (QDI): N is the previous Lenovo graphics card, which was also OEMed for others. The workmanship and materials were good, but it was just not accepted by people. Volkswagen (FIC): A cooperated with AIT to launch some mid-to-high-end graphics cards. Although the workmanship was outstanding, they also failed to open up the market. Biostar: N is considered a new player in the graphics card industry. It has little experience and is not outstanding in terms of workmanship. EPOX: A N has just entered the graphics card market this year and is obviously unfamiliar with design and production. Compared with his motherboard, the graphics card can be said to be a little rough.

Elite (ECS): A N has always been a foundry manufacturer. It is said that it will return to the graphics card market in the near future and launch its own brand. The graphics card market will be more lively in the future. Baiyu (ACROP): A N There is not much publicity and it is rarely seen in the market, so I won’t say more. Syntax: A N is from California, USA. The boards are pretty good, but no one cares about them. Third-tier brands: Several brands with production capabilities that are smaller in scale, have mediocre workmanship, or have a poor image, and have certain price advantages. TRIPLEX: A N A relatively well-known Taiwanese brand, the silver-plated PCB is also very distinctive. However, at the end of 2004, the incident of TRIPLEX polishing video memory was exposed. This was suspected of commercial fraud, so TRIPLEX's image was greatly affected. Now it can barely be regarded as a third-tier brand. It is estimated that life will be difficult in the future. Baolian (PixelView): A N Taiwanese brand, which has always been mainly OEM, and has recently entered the DIY market. The high-end graphics card has good workmanship but the low-end is slightly worse. Since it is relatively rare, it is temporarily classified as a third-tier card. Ennyah: N is still a Taiwanese brand with little reputation. Its graphics cards are mainly mid-to-low-end and its workmanship is average. ASZ: A N is from Shenzhen and has good manufacturing capabilities. It also does OEM work for some other brands. However, there is a big gap in technical strength with Taiwanese manufacturers. They can only compete on price, and the workmanship and materials used can only be considered average. Eagle: N is also from Shenzhen. It has a lot of OEM business and its own brands are also famous, but they are just cheap and the workmanship is not inferior. Brands: These brands are relatively well-known in China, especially the top few. It is a household name. Some people even refer to graphics cards as colorful, but are they really that good? In fact, these brands are all channel vendors and have no manufacturing capabilities, so we still call them "incompetent manufacturers." The main OEM manufacturers for them include Tongde, Chengqi, Jetway, SPARKLE, QDI, ASL, Golden Eagle, etc. In addition, some high-end A-cards are OEMed by Hanxun and Sapphire. Price war is the specialty of these brands, so even well-known manufacturers can only provide them with shrunk or low-quality graphics cards to reduce costs. In many cases, the workmanship of graphics cards from several brands is exactly the same, and they are obviously produced by the same manufacturer. Working. The main incompetent brands are as follows: Colorful, Shuangmin, Mingxuan, Onda, Yingtong, Qixiang, Spartak, Shuojing, Omega, Sunflower, Meda, Jianbang, Zhimei, Leili, Chuangjia, Kamenka, Shuangjie... Miscellaneous brands: There are a huge number of miscellaneous graphics cards, and their names are extremely confusing: from one character to five characters, and both Arabic numerals and English are used. The workmanship of these brands is poor and the quality is not guaranteed. It is not recommended to buy them. In addition, if the sales volume of off-brand brands increases, they may be packaged and turned into incompetent brands. Meng, Zhongcheng, Zhida, Guanmeng, Jubang, Haichuang, Colorful Butterfly, Shadow Fox, Weishuo, Kemeng, Baijie, Tianhong, Lingzuan, Yupai, Fenglei, Feimeng, Fengshang, Zhongyu, Wanli, Guantong, Xunjia, Hurricane, Tianqing, Dingxin, Taixun, Baisheng, Tangren, Zeling, Liehuo, Maple Leaf, Liying, Bingshan, Mikey, Parkson, Lingfeng, Eagle Rui, Tulong , Lion King, Blue Lightning, Hongshun, King Kong, Jinju, Success, Jingzhi, Liji, Aijia, Silver Star, Speed ??Magic, Meixing, Symphony, Phantom, Haiba, Meixing, Shengyuan, Jintai, Jixin, Fucai, Huanli, Xianwei, Hanwei, Xunlai, Laser, Shengli, Wanbanglong, 99 Degrees and a Half, Xinhuasheng, Xinlucent, Zhifutong, Titanium Wind, Baolongda, Golden Apple, Great White Shark, Red Dragonfly, Cosinda, Deyijie, Puweitong, Jincaiba, E-generation Fengyun, Phantom True Color, Sunshine Phantom, Arthur Albert, Dream Group, Sun Shadow Giant... Junk brands: Only here Two brands are listed. Their quality is basically incompetent or no-name. The key is that people hate Xiaoyingba too much: Shenzhen Xintianxia is the one who rushed to register, even though the Xiaoyingba (Shuangmin) he registered is not as good as it. How much stronger. Xintianxia also misappropriated the two car trademarks of "Mercedes-Benz" and "Shenlong" to grade its graphics cards. It is so shameless! Gengyu: Taiwan Gengyu’s trademark was registered and he was forced to change his name to Gengsheng. Although it is relatively rare, he must be included