Although it's not a major player on the graphics market, Axle has been making cards for the last twenty years, and it looks like that these guys are coming back. Axle has released both Nvidia's GT 240 as well as ATI's crown jewel, the HD 5970.

Axle's Geforce GT 240 isn't anything new as all cards on the market are pretty much the same. They all feature a GT 215 40nm GPU with 96 stream processors, 128-bit memory interface and DirectX 10.1 and SM 4.1 support. The card from Axle works at reference 550MHz for the core and 1340MHz for shaders. The card uses GDDR5 memory although the exact clock hasn't been detailed, we suspect that it could be the reference 3600MHz.

In addition to the latest Nvidia 40nm refresh, Axle has also released ATI's crown jewel card, the HD 5970. The card that has 3200 stream processors, dual 256-bit memory interface with 2GB of GDDR5 memory and one massive overclock via overvolt, is certainly a nice catch and it is no surprise that Axle decided to be a part of it.

As every other HD 5970 on the market this one has a different sticker and Axle's logo on the fan, so no surprises here as well. Two RV870 GPUs clocked at 725MHz, DirectX 11 and ATI Eyefinity support and bunch of other goodies loaded under a massive fansink.

Axle has working hard to get back on the market and it looks like they have scored couple of worldwide distributors, so we are sure that some will show up in Europe as well as in the States.