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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...
Basemark & Crytek To Develop New VR Benchmark
After a very public development process over the last couple of years, this year we have seen the consumer release of virtual reality headsets become a matter of when...
8 by Ryan Smith on 8/6/2015
Windows 10 Launch Day GPU Support Summary
With Windows 10 launching today, the first half of the path to DirectX 12 has at last been laid down. The GPUs have been here for some time, and...
68 by Ryan Smith on 7/29/2015
NVIDIA Launches Summer GeForce Game Bundle - Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
As the month of July begins to wind down, so does NVIDIA’s existing Two Times the Adventure Game Bundle. With Batman: Arkham Knight having been something of a technical...
26 by Ryan Smith on 7/23/2015
AMD Posts Q2 2015 Results: Revenue Falls Once More
As financial week rolls along this week, today AMD announced their second quarter 2015 financial results. Earlier this month ahead of today’s announcement the company issued a warning for...
125 by Ryan Smith on 7/16/2015
Quick Note: Intel “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi & Omni-Path 100 @ ISC 2015
Taking place this week in Frankfurt, Germany is the 2015 International Supercomputing Conference. One of the two major supercomputing conferences of the year, ISC tends to be the venue...
53 by Ryan Smith on 7/13/2015
The AMD Radeon R9 Fury Review, Feat. Sapphire & ASUS
A bit over two weeks ago AMD launched their new flagship video card, the Radeon R9 Fury X. Based on the company’s new Fiji GPU, the R9 Fury X...
288 by Ryan Smith on 7/10/2015
On Radeon R9 Fury X Pump Noise & Replacements
On a meta note this evening, over the last week I have received a number of questions about last week’s Radeon R9 Fury X review. Several of these questions...
47 by Ryan Smith on 7/9/2015
AMD Releases Catalyst 15.7 WHQL Drivers: Crossfire Freesync, Win10 Support, & More
After a brief detour for AMD’s driver team where they diverged their drivers for the Radeon 300 series and R9 Fury X launch, AMD has reunified their drivers with...
68 by Ryan Smith on 7/8/2015
NVIDIA @ ICML 2015: CUDA 7.5, cuDNN 3, & DIGITS 2 Announced
Taking place this week in Lille, France is the 2015 International Conference on Machine Learning, or ICML. Now in its 32nd year, the annual event is one of the...
27 by Ryan Smith on 7/7/2015
AMD Confirms 20nm Products Moved to FinFET, Warns on Q2’15 Earnings
A little bit ago AMD sent out an announcement updating their official outlook for the second quarter of 2015. Though we don’t typically publish financial projections, the long and...
62 by Ryan Smith on 7/6/2015
The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Review: Aiming For the Top
Having launched last week and being reviewed today is AMD’s Radeon R9 Fury X, the company’s new flagship single-GPU video card. Featuring a fully enabled Fiji GPU, the R9...
458 by Ryan Smith on 7/2/2015
AMD Launches Retail Radeon 300 Series: A Prelude To Fury
Earlier this week AMD held their 2015 GPU product showcase, dubbed “The New Era of PC Gaming.” As the latest stage in AMD’s master plan, AMD held a public...
290 by Ryan Smith on 6/18/2015
AMD Shows Off Dual-GPU Fiji Card At PC Gaming Show
Briefly announced and discussed during AMD’s 2015 GPU product presentation yesterday morning was AMD’s forthcoming dual Fiji video card. The near-obligatory counterpart to the just-announced Radeon R9 Fury X...
133 by Ryan Smith on 6/17/2015
NVIDIA Acquires Game Porting Group & Tech From Transgaming
While NVIDIA’s core businesses and gaming have been inseparable since the start, it’s only relatively recently that NVIDIA has become heavily involved in game creation itself, and not just...
56 by Ryan Smith on 6/13/2015
Apple’s Metal API Comes to OS X Desktops
At last year’s WWDC, Apple introduced their Metal API for iOS 8. A low-level graphics API, Metal was originally designed to bring the benefits of low-level graphics programming to...
63 by Ryan Smith on 6/10/2015
AMD Confirms June 16th Date for Upcoming GPU Announcement
After an earlier vague deadline of Q2’15 and more than a few teases in the interim, AMD has finally announced when they’ll be revealing their forthcoming high-end video card. AMD...
41 by Ryan Smith on 6/2/2015
AMD Picks Up Jim Anderson from Intel To Lead Computing and Graphics Business Group
Word comes from AMD this afternoon that they have finally found a new Senior VP and General Manager for the company’s Computing and Graphics business group. The group has...
30 by Ryan Smith on 6/1/2015
NVIDIA Launches Mobile G-Sync, Enables Windowed G-Sync, & More
With Computex kicking off today NVIDIA has a number of announcements hitting the wire at the same time. The biggest news of course is the launch of the GeForce...
37 by Brett Howse & Ryan Smith on 5/31/2015
NVIDIA Announces GameWorks VR Branding, Adds Multi-Res Shading
Alongside the GeForce GTX 980 Ti and G-Sync announcements going on today in conjunction with Computex, NVIDIA is also announcing an update for their suite of VR technologies. First off...
9 by Ryan Smith on 5/31/2015
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