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AMD has made itself quite a reputation with its bundling campaigns over the years, and every new season we can be sure that the company will be giving away free games with the purchase of its hardware. This summer will certainly not be exception as AMD will be bundling Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and Unknown 9: Awakening titles with its Ryzen 7000 CPUs and Radeon RX 7000 video cards. The latest bundle offer essentially covers all of AMD's existing mid-range and high-end consumer desktop products, sans the to-be-launched Ryzen 9000 series. That includes not only AMD's desktop parts, such as the Ryzen 9 7800X3D, but also virtually their entire stack of Radeon RX 7000 video cards, right on down to the 7600 XT. AMD's laptop...
AMD 50th Anniversary: Ryzen 7 2700X and Radeon VII Gold Edition Products
Set to celebrate its 50th anniversary on May 1, AMD is rolling out two limited edition products to memorialize the date. The AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Gold Edition CPU...
24 by Anton Shilov on 4/29/2019
NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 1650: Budget Turing For $149, Available Today
A bit over 8 months after it all began, the tail-end of NVIDIA’s GeForce Turing product stack launch is finally in sight. This morning the company is rolling out...
55 by Ryan Smith on 4/23/2019
Razer Launches Core X Chroma TB3 eGFX Enclosure: 700 W, GbE, USB
Razer has introduced a new enclosure for external graphics cards. The new Core X Chroma Thunderbolt 3 enclosure is compatible with bulky graphics cards, integrates a high-wattage power supply...
12 by Anton Shilov on 4/18/2019
Intel's Interconnected Future: Combining Chiplets, EMIB, and Foveros
While Intel works on getting its main manufacturing process technology on track, it is spending just as much time and effort in researching and developing the rest of the...
117 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/17/2019
Sony Teases Next-Gen PlayStation: Custom AMD Chip with Zen 2 CPU & Navi GPU, SSD Too
After years of speculation about what could be and what Sony may be up to, the company is finally starting to ramp up the long launch cycle for their...
187 by Ryan Smith on 4/16/2019
NVIDIA Releases DirectX Raytracing Driver for GTX Cards; Posts Trio of DXR Demos
Last month at GDC 2019, NVIDIA revealed that they would finally be enabling public support for DirectX Raytracing on non-RTX cards. Long baked into the DXR specification itself &ndash...
18 by Ryan Smith on 4/11/2019
The AI Race Expands: Qualcomm Reveals “Cloud AI 100” Family of Datacenter AI Inference Accelerators for 2020
This morning at their first AI Day, the 800lb gorilla of the mobile world, Qualcomm announced that they are getting into the AI accelerator market, and in an aggressive...
26 by Ryan Smith on 4/9/2019
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su to Deliver Computex 2019 Lead Keynote
With CES 2019 barely in the mirror behind us, the consumer electronics industry is already barreling towards its next major trade show, Computex 2019 in Taiwan. And, as it...
48 by Ryan Smith on 4/2/2019
Intel Releases New Graphics Control Panel: The Intel Graphics Command Center
Making their own contribution to this busy week of GPU and gaming news, this evening Intel took the wraps off of their previously teased new graphics control panel. Dubbed...
50 by Ryan Smith & Billy Tallis on 3/20/2019
Samsung HBM2E ‘Flashbolt’ Memory for GPUs: 16 GB Per Stack, 3.2 Gbps
Samsung has introduced the industry’s first memory that correspond to the HBM2E specification. The company’s new Flashbolt memory stacks increase performance by 33% and offer double per-die as well...
25 by Anton Shilov on 3/20/2019
Google Announces Stadia: A Game Streaming Service
Today at GDC, Google announced its new video game streaming service. The new service will be called Stadia. This builds on the information earlier this year that AMD was...
147 by Ian Cutress on 3/19/2019
Quick Note: NVIDIA’s “Einstein” Architecture Was A Real Project
While it was never an official NVIDIA codename as far as roadmaps go, the name “Einstein” came up in rumors a few times earlier this decade. At the time...
15 by Ryan Smith on 3/19/2019
NVIDIA To Bring DXR Ray Tracing Support to GeForce 10 & 16 Series In April
During this week, both GDC (the Game Developers’ Conference) and GTC (the Game Technology Conference) are happing in California, and NVIDIA is out in force. The company's marquee gaming-related...
38 by Ian Cutress & Ryan Smith on 3/18/2019
The NVIDIA GPU Tech Conference 2019 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 2pm PT/21:00 UTC)
Kicking off a very busy week for tech events in California, my first stop for the week is NVIDIA's annual GPU Technology Conference in San Jose. As always, CEO Jensen...
36 by Ryan Smith on 3/18/2019
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Review, Feat. EVGA XC GAMING: Turing Stakes Its Claim at $219
Launching today is NVIDIA's next mainstream video card, the GeForce GTX 1660. The card is based on the a cut-down version of the TU116 Turing GPU used in the...
80 by Ryan Smith & Nate Oh on 3/14/2019
AMD Launches China-only Radeon RX 560 XT
This evening – or rather this morning in China – AMD is rolling out a new mid-to-entry level Radeon RX video card. Dubbed the Radeon RX 560 XT, the...
22 by Ryan Smith on 3/12/2019
NVIDIA To Acquire Datacenter Networking Firm Mellanox for $6.9 Billion
Starting off the week bright and early, NVIDIA this morning announced that they’re acquiring datacenter networking and interconnect Mellanox. With a price tag of $6.9 billion, NVIDIA’s acquisition will...
34 by Ryan Smith on 3/11/2019
CXL Specification 1.0 Released: New Industry High-Speed Interconnect From Intel
With the battleground moving from single core performance to multi-core acceleration, a new war is being fought with how data is moved around between different compute resources. The Interconnect...
48 by Ian Cutress on 3/11/2019
Best Video Cards for Gaming: Q1 2019
For gaming PCs that push the pretty pixels on the screens, the video card is the most important component. And given the sheer amount of custom options, choosing the...
19 by Nate Oh on 3/11/2019
NVIDIA To Move Mobile Kepler GPUs to Legacy Status in April 2019 (& 3D Vision Too)
In a note on their support website published earlier this afternoon, NVIDIA has announced that they are preparing to move their mobile (laptop) Kepler GPUs to legacy status, ending...
18 by Ryan Smith on 3/8/2019
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