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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 Celebrates 30 Years of Gaming and Graphics Innovation
AMD sent us word that tomorrow they will be hosting a Livecast celebrating 30 years of graphics and gaming innovation. Thirty years is a long time, and certainly we...
32 by Jarred Walton on 8/22/2014
Intel Demonstrates Direct3D 12 Performance and Power Improvements
Since the introduction of Direct3D 12 and other low-level graphics APIs, the bulk of our focus has been on the high end. One of the most immediate benefits to...
42 by Stephen Barrett & Ryan Smith on 8/15/2014
NVIDIA Launches Next GeForce Game Bundle - Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
After letting their previous Watch Dogs bundle run its course over the past couple of months, NVIDIA sends word this afternoon that they will be launching a new game...
8 by Ryan Smith on 8/12/2014
NVIDIA Refreshes Quadro Lineup, Launches 5 New Quadro Cards
Continuing today’s spate of professional graphics announcements, along with AMD’s refresh of their FirePro lineup NVIDIA is announcing that they are undertaking their own refresh of their Quadro lineup...
24 by Ryan Smith on 8/12/2014
AMD Completes FirePro Refresh, Adds 4 New FirePro Cards
Kicking off a busy day for professional graphics, AMD is first up to announce that they will be launching a quartet of new FirePro cards. As part of the...
28 by Ryan Smith on 8/12/2014
Intel Broadwell Architecture Preview: A Glimpse into Core M
Typically we would see Intel unveil the bulk of the technical details of their forthcoming products at their annual Intel Developer Forum, and with the next IDF scheduled for...
158 by Ryan Smith on 8/11/2014
Khronos Announces Next Generation OpenGL Initiative
As our regular readers have already seen, 2013 and 2014 has been one of the most significant periods for graphics APIs in years. While OpenGL and Direct3D have not...
22 by Ryan Smith on 8/11/2014
OpenGL SIGGRAPH 2014 Update: OpenGL 4.5, OpenGL ES 3.1, & More
Taking place this week is SIGGRAPH 2014, the graphics industry’s yearly professional event. As the biggest graphics event of the year this show has become the Khronos Group’s favorite...
4 by Ryan Smith on 8/11/2014
Khronos Announces OpenCL SPIR 2.0
The last time we talked to Khronos about the OpenCL Standard Portable Intermediate Representation (SPIR) was back at SIGGRAPH 2013. At the time Khronos was gearing up for the...
2 by Ryan Smith on 8/11/2014
NVIDIA FY 2015 Q2 Financial Results
On Thursday August 7th, NVIDIA released their results for the second quarter of their fiscal year 2015. Year-over-year, they had an excellent quarter based on strong growth in the...
16 by Brett Howse on 8/10/2014
NVIDIA GeForce 340.52 WHQL Drivers Now Available
Joining today’s launch of the SHIELD Tablet is a new GeForce driver set from NVIDIA. After last month’s release of the first R340 beta driver, 340.43, NVIDIA is back...
4 by Ryan Smith on 7/29/2014
AMD Gaming Evolved Client 4.0 Released
Just over a month ago, AMD and their partner Raptr pushed out the first version of their video recording Game DVR utility, which ships as a part of AMD’s...
12 by Ryan Smith on 7/28/2014
Imagination Posts PowerVR Rogue Specification Summary
Being in the business of licensing out GPUs rather than building them directly, Imagination’s PowerVR group has always walked a fine line in how they communicate with their direct...
7 by Ryan Smith on 7/17/2014
Watch our Hangout with ARM GPU Fellow Jem Davies
For those of you who weren't able to catch the live stream be sure to watch our interview with ARM Fellow and all around GPU expert Jem Davies. In...
5 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/9/2014
Join us for a Live Hangout with ARM Fellow Jem Davies and Chat about GPUs at 12PM ET Today
After answering your questions in our Ask the Experts post, ARM Fellow and GPU expert Jem Davies agreed to join a live video discussion with me. At 12:00PM ET...
6 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/7/2014
ARM’s Mali Midgard Architecture Explored
This year then has been especially productive for learning more about SoC GPUs, and as of today it’s going to get even better. After we took a look at...
66 by Ryan Smith on 7/3/2014
Ask the Experts - ARM Fellow Jem Davies Answers Your GPU Questions
When we ran our Ask the Experts with ARM CPU guru Peter Greenhalgh some of you had GPU questions that went unanswered. A few weeks ago we set out...
99 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/30/2014
Best Video Cards: June 2014
We’re back once again with our monthly guide to video cards and video card industry recap, this time for June of 2014. June has been another quiet month from a...
51 by Ryan Smith on 6/30/2014
Hands On With AMD’s Gaming Evolved Client Game DVR
Over the last few years we have seen both AMD and NVIDIA become increasingly interested in developing and nurturing software ecosystems around their products. Born out of a desire...
17 by Ryan Smith on 6/27/2014
Intel’s "Knights Landing" Xeon Phi Coprocessor Detailed
Continuing our ISC 2014 news announcements for the week, next up is Intel. Intel has taken to ISC to announce further details about the company’s forthcoming Knights Landing processor...
41 by Ryan Smith on 6/26/2014
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