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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...
DirectX 12 to Be Unveiled At GDC 2014
Picking up from where we left off with last week’s discussion of GDC presentations, Microsoft has released a short teaser regarding their GDC presentation. The previously mentioned “DirectX: Evolving...
59 by Ryan Smith on 3/5/2014
AMD Announces Radeon R9 280: Radeon HD 7950 w/Boost Returns
With the launch of the Radeon R9 series back in October of 2013, AMD began the process of releasing a number of their existing GCN 1.0 7000 cards as...
43 by Ryan Smith on 3/4/2014
AMD updates driver and programming tools roadmap for supporting HSA features in Kaveri
In our Kaveri review, we discussed HSA and that Kaveri brings many exciting hardware features such as true CPU/GPU shared memory (hUMA) and others such as heterogeneous queueing (hQ)...
22 by Rahul Garg on 3/3/2014
Low Level Graphics API Developments @ GDC 2014?
With the annual Game Developer Conference taking place next month in San Francisco, the session catalogs for the conference are finally being published and it looks like we may...
63 by Ryan Smith on 2/26/2014
AMD Catalyst 14.2 Beta Drivers Now Available
Just a bit over 3 weeks since the release of AMD’s Catalyst 14.1 beta drivers, AMD is back again with their first update to the Catalyst 14 series with...
15 by Ryan Smith on 2/25/2014
AMD Announces Embedded Radeon E8860 GPU
For the integrated market, there are several levels of capability that manufacturers need to consider. This is a market driven by sales, thus OEMs that require specific resources...
7 by Ian Cutress on 2/25/2014
Imagination's PowerVR GX6650: Competition for Mobile Kepler
Ryan touched on this in his excellent deep dive on Imagination's PowerVR Series 6XT GPU architecture earlier today, but I wanted to specifically call out the new high-end from...
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/24/2014
Imagination's PowerVR Rogue Architecture Explored
In what should prove to be an extremely eventful and important day for our coverage and understanding of SoC GPUs, Imagination chosen to share more details about the inner...
95 by Ryan Smith on 2/24/2014
Sapphire Combines the R7 250X with a Vapor-X Cooler
In order to differentiate yourself in the GPU market, a GPU vendor has to be creative and provide a feature that no-one else does. On the high end...
8 by Ian Cutress on 2/23/2014
NVIDIA GeForce 334.89 WHQL Drivers Now Available
After the previous 332.21 WHQL drivers became a part of my 2014 test setup over a month ago, NVIDIA have quickly turned around a new set of WHQL drivers...
13 by Ian Cutress on 2/21/2014
AMD Center Giveaway: ASUS Radeon R7 250
Lately there's been a lot of excitement around value video cards. Part of it is due to the simple fact that for low resolution gaming, you can generally approximate...
1570 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/20/2014
Red Harbinger tests the Cryptocurrency Chassis Market: The DopaMINE
With the ups and downs of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dogecoin now part of the zeitgeist; notable trends are starting to happen. The software is being probed...
27 by Ian Cutress on 2/19/2014
AMD Announces "AMD Rewards" Program for the Gaming Evolved Application
We normally don’t cover contests and giveaways, but this one is just a bit different than the others and sheds some light on the inner workings of AMD, so...
25 by Ryan Smith on 2/19/2014
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti and GTX 750 Review: Maxwell Makes Its Move
As the GPU company who’s arguably more transparent about their long-term product plans, NVIDIA still manages to surprise us time and time again. Case in point, we have known...
184 by Ryan Smith & Ganesh T S on 2/18/2014
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX Titan Black: No Compromises for Gaming & Compute
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX Titan was an absolute beast when it launched. With 7.1 billion transistors and an architecture that separated itself from high-end consumer GPUs, the Titan was worthy...
45 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/18/2014
Radeon R9 290X Retail Prices Hit $900
Though we keep track of video card pricing regularly on an internal basis, it’s not something we normally publish outside of our semi-regular buyer’s guides. More often than not...
135 by Ryan Smith on 2/14/2014
The AMD Radeon R7 265 & R7 260 Review: Feat Sapphire & Asus
The launch of the Radeon R7 250X earlier this week and today the Radeon R7 265 are part of a larger refactoring of AMD’s mainstream desktop product family. AMD...
52 by Ryan Smith on 2/13/2014
AMD Announces Radeon R7 250X; Shipping Today
As it turns out, February is going to be a busy month for GPUs. Normally February is something of a quiet month, surrounded by CES on one side and...
27 by Ryan Smith on 2/10/2014
AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta Drivers Now Available: Mantle, Frame Pacing, & More
Picking up from where we left off yesterday afternoon, word comes from AMD that they have finally squashed the installation bug on their Catalyst 14.1 beta drivers, resolving the...
48 by Ryan Smith on 2/2/2014
Battlefield 4 Mantle Performance Preview
After a false start or two, AMD is finally getting the first beta of Mantle out the door. With EA DICE having shipped their Mantle patch for Battlefield 4...
135 by Ryan Smith on 2/1/2014
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