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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...
SK Hynix to Ship GDDR6 Memory for Graphics Cards by Early 2018
In a surprising move, SK Hynix has announced its first memory chips based on the yet-unpublished GDDR6 standard. The new DRAM devices for video cards have capacity of 8...
28 by Anton Shilov on 4/30/2017
NVIDIA & Netflix Now Previewing 4K Streaming Support on GeForce GTX 10 Series Cards
Way back in May of 2016 when NVIDIA launched the Pascal architecture powered GeForce GTX 10 series, one of the notable features they announced for the product family was...
40 by Ryan Smith on 4/29/2017
NVIDIA Releases 381.89 WHQL Driver
I wouldn’t claim NVIDIA is keeping up the pressure with their driver releases, but they are keeping a good pace releasing their second driver update this month. The beginning...
4 by Daniel Williams on 4/26/2017
AMD Announces Radeon Pro Duo (Polaris) - Double Polaris for Content Creation
Back in 2016 AMD launched the Radeon Pro Duo, an interesting take on a semi-pro workstation card. As a dual-GPU Fiji card wasn’t going to be viable for the...
36 by Ryan Smith on 4/25/2017
AMD Announces the Radeon RX 500 Series: Polaris Refreshed, Starting Today
This morning AMD is taking the wraps off of their next line of video cards, the Radeon RX 500 series. Like past video card lineup refreshes, the RX 500...
54 by Ryan Smith on 4/18/2017
The AMD Radeon RX 580 & RX 570 Review: A Second Path to Polaris
Launching today is AMD’s new Radeon RX 500 series. As we’re covering in our companion launch article, the RX 500 series is a refresh of Polaris, bringing about newer...
130 by Ryan Smith on 4/18/2017
AMD Acquires 60 GHz Wireless IP and Staff from Nitero
AMD on Tuesday announced that it had acquired millimeter wave radio-related intellectual property and key engineers from Nitero. Nitero specialized in radio technology for the 60 GHz range, which...
19 by Anton Shilov on 4/15/2017
NZXT Releases Kraken G12 Liquid Cooler GPU Mounting Kit
NZXT has announced its Kraken G12 mounting kit, which is designed to allow video cards to mount a closed-loop liquid cooler. In junctionwith a cooler, the adapter can significantly...
12 by Anton Shilov on 4/14/2017
GALAX and KFA2 Katana: Single-Slot GTX 1070 GPUs Coming Soon
GALAX and KFA2 have added single-slot GeForce GTX 1070 Katana video cards to their lineups, which is usually an indicator that the graphics adapters are going to hit the...
61 by Anton Shilov on 4/13/2017
ASUS Launches GeForce GTX 1080 & GTX 1060 Models With Faster RAM
ASUS has released graphics cards based on NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1060 and 1080 GPUs that are equipped with faster memory. The new add-in-boards (AIBs) are designed to offer greater...
21 by Anton Shilov on 4/11/2017
NVIDIA to Release Pascal Drivers for macOS
Capping off a crazy week for Apple-related GPU news, we have one more important development for the week. Buried in their announcement of the NVIDIA Titan Xp, NVIDIA has...
31 by Ryan Smith on 4/7/2017
NVIDIA Announces NVIDIA Titan Xp Video Card: Fully Enabled GP102 for $1200
If you’ve followed NVIDIA’s video card launches over the last few years, then there’s a pretty clear pattern to the company’s release schedule. If the company starts things off...
70 by Ryan Smith on 4/7/2017
AMD Releases Radeon Software ReLive Crimson Edition 17.4.1
The game releases trickle this time of year, but the progression of technology marches on. More specifically VR is still a developing phenomenon, and 8K is just cresting the...
8 by Daniel Williams on 4/5/2017
Apple to Redesign Mac Pro, Comments That GPU Cooling Was A Roadblock
In what’s turning out to be an oddly GPU-centric week for Apple, this morning the company has revealed that they will finally be giving the long-neglected Mac Pro a...
84 by Ryan Smith on 4/4/2017
Apple To Develop Own GPU, Drop Imagination's GPUs From SoCs
In a bombshell of a press release issued this morning, Imagination has announced that Apple has informed their long-time GPU partner that they will be winding down their use...
144 by Ryan Smith on 4/3/2017
Cosemi Announces 328-Feet ‘8K-Ready’ OptoDP Active DisplayPort 1.4 Optical Cable
Cosemi has announced its first OptoDP active optical cable that supports a DisplayPort 1.4 connection. That in itself isn't newsworthy, but up to 328 feet, or 100 meters, it...
22 by Anton Shilov on 3/29/2017
NVIDIA Adds GeForce GTX 1060 To “Prepare for Battle” Bundle
In a brief announcement this morning, NVIDIA is expanding their "Prepare for Battle" bundle to include the GeForce GTX 1060. NVIDIA's latest bundle launched nearly two months ago, at the...
17 by Daniel Williams on 3/28/2017
Quick Look: Comparing Vulkan & DX12 API Overhead on 3DMark
Earlier this week the crew over at Futuremark released a major update to their API Overhead testing tool, which is built into the larger 3DMark testing suite. The API...
48 by Ryan Smith on 3/25/2017
NVIDIA Releases 378.92 WHQL Driver: Mass Effect and Dolby Vision for Games
This week in a relatively brief driver update, NVIDIA has released their Game Ready driver for the newly released Mass Effect: Andromeda. Following with the 378 branch, 378.92 adds official...
21 by Daniel Williams on 3/21/2017
AMD Releases Radeon Software ReLive Crimson Edition 17.3.2
Continuing their momentum in update frequency, we have another driver release form AMD. This latest update is a minor "point update" for the month, and it includes only two...
3 by Daniel Williams on 3/16/2017
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