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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...
Apple’s A9 SoC Is Dual Sourced From Samsung & TSMC
Picking up from our conversation this morning on Apple’s A9 SoC, the crew over at Chipworks has been working hard over the weekend to decap A9 and their first...
99 by Ryan Smith on 9/28/2015
Fable Legends Early Preview: DirectX 12 Benchmark Analysis
DirectX 12 is now out in the wild as a part of Windows 10 and the updated driver model WDDM 2.0 that comes with it. Unlike DX11, there are...
141 by Ryan Smith, Ian Cutress & Daniel Williams on 9/24/2015
NVIDIA Releases 355.98 Game Ready WHQL Drivers
NVIDIA has recently announced the launch of its latest WHQL driver set - 355.98. This update brings to the table the game ready drivers for Killing Floor 2, an...
41 by Daniel Williams on 9/23/2015
Desktop NVIDIA GTX 980 Coming To Gaming Notebooks
For as long as NVIDIA has been putting GPUs into notebooks, they would always have a separate lineup of GPUs which were designed for the thermally constrained environment of...
58 by Brett Howse on 9/22/2015
Corsair Partners with MSI, Enters High-End Video Card Market With The Hydro GFX
Closed loop liquid cooled (CLLC) video cards have become an increasingly important part of the video card industry over the past couple of years. Though liquid cooling isn’t by...
32 by Ryan Smith on 9/16/2015
NVIDIA Releases GeForce Share & GameStream Co-Op Early Beta
Last month alongside the release of the GeForce GTX 950, NVIDIA also announced that they would be releasing a new suite of updates for GeForce Experience called Shared. The...
7 by Ryan Smith on 9/15/2015
The AMD Radeon R9 Nano Review: The Power of Size
While there never really was an era where video cards were small, the focus on size and power efficiency over the last couple of years feels a bit like...
284 by Ryan Smith on 9/10/2015
AMD Reorganizes Graphics Division - Radeon Whole Once More, Led By Raja Koduri
It was a bit over nine years ago when AMD announced that they would acquire ATI, the Canadian graphics firm, developer of Radeon GPUs, and constant competitor to NVIDIA...
72 by Ryan Smith on 9/9/2015
Updates to Skylake Discrete Graphics Performance: PCIe Optimizations Incoming
In our initial review of the two 6th Generation Intel Skylake-K processors launched on August 5th, the i7-6700K and the i5-6600K, our comparative analysis to the previous generations of...
37 by Ian Cutress on 9/8/2015
NVIDIA Announces GRID 2.0, Tesla M60 & M6 Server Cards
Kicking off this week in San Francisco is VMware’s annual VMworld conference. One of the major yearly virtualization conferences, it’s also host to a number of virtualization-related product announcements...
6 by Ryan Smith on 8/30/2015
AMD Quietly Releases Radeon R9 370X, China-Only For Now
Back in June when AMD launched the Radeon 300 series, AMD made the unusual move of only releasing refresh SKUs for around half of their products. While the 390...
26 by Ryan Smith on 8/28/2015
AMD Announces Radeon R9 Nano; mini-ITX Card Shipping September 10th
Back in June at AMD’s R9 Fury X/Fiji GPU launch event, the company unveiled that there would be four products based on Fiji. Fury X and Fury – which...
95 by Ryan Smith on 8/27/2015
Intel's Skylake GPU - Analyzing the Media Capabilities
At IDF in San Francisco last week, Intel provided us with lots of insights into Skylake, the microarchitecture behind the 6th generation Core series processors. Skylake marks the introduction...
37 by Ganesh T S on 8/26/2015
NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 950; GM206 The Lesser For $159
It still doesn’t seem like it was all that long ago, but at this point it was 18 months ago when NVIDIA launched the first member of their Maxwell...
81 by Ryan Smith on 8/20/2015
NVIDIA Announces GameStream Co-Op, Beta Next Month
Alongside today’s launch of the GeForce GTX 950, NVIDIA is also announcing a new streaming mode for GeForce Experience, the company’s multi-feature game streaming and optimization tool. The new...
10 by Ryan Smith on 8/20/2015
NVIDIA Releases 355.60 Drivers; GameWorks VR Now In Beta
As the week starts to wind down NVIDIA is back with another driver release, 335.60. This latest release is notable for a few different reasons. Officially NVIDIA is releasing this...
18 by Ryan Smith on 8/13/2015
NVIDIA Announces Quadro M5000 & M4000 Video Cards, DesignWorks Software Suite
Back in March at GTC 2015, NVIDIA announced the first member and flagship of their Maxwell 2 generation of Quadro cards, the Quadro M6000. Packing a fully-enabled GM200 GPU...
27 by Ryan Smith on 8/11/2015
OpenGL @ SIGGRAPH 2015: OpenGL ES 3.2 & OpenGL Extensions Announced
Kicking off this week in Los Angeles is SIGGRAPH 2015, the computer graphics industry’s annual professional conference. As the biggest graphics event of the year this show has become...
5 by Ryan Smith on 8/10/2015
Vulkan Status Update: Will Use Feature Sets, Android Support Incoming
Along with updates on OpenGL, Khronos is also offering a status update on the development of Vulkan at this year’s SIGGRAPH show. Khronos’s next-generation low-level API was announced last...
28 by Ryan Smith on 8/10/2015
NVIDIA FY 2016 Q2 Results: GPU Sales Are Strong But Write Downs Hurt Bottom Line
Today NVIDIA released its quarterly results for the second quarter of their fiscal year 2016 (yes, 2016) and they had excellent sales of their GeForce GPUs, but have decided...
55 by Brett Howse on 8/7/2015
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