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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...
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX Titan, Part 1: Titan For Gaming, Titan For Compute
Last year's launch of the Titan supercomputer was a major win for NVIDIA, and likely the breakthrough they’ve been looking for. A fledging business merely two generations prior, NVIDIA...
157 by Ryan Smith on 2/19/2013
High-End Meets Small Form Factor: GeForce Titan in Falcon Northwest's Tiki
Today NVIDIA officially unveiled its first consumer facing GK110 graphics card: the GeForce Titan. Although GK110 launched last year, gamers didn't have access to it as it launched exclusively...
33 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/19/2013
NVIDIA GeForce 314.07 WHQL Available
NVIDIA's beta R313 driver with performance enhancements for Crysis 3 (among other titles) has now received WHQL certification. We wouldn't expect much of a difference in performance relative to...
10 by Jarred Walton on 2/18/2013
AMD Reiterates 2013 GPU Plans: Sea Islands & Beyond
A few minutes ago AMD wrapped up a somewhat impromptu conference call, which had been called together to reiterate the company’s 2013 GPU plans. While there is technically very...
58 by Ryan Smith on 2/15/2013
NVIDIA's New F2P Bundle: The First Hit Is Free
Last week AMD announced their Never Settle Reloaded gaming bundle, with several high-profile games available with the purchase of AMD GPUs. This week, NVIDIA follows suit with their own...
51 by Jarred Walton on 2/11/2013
3DMark for Windows Launches; We Test It with Various Laptops
After a two-year hiatus, Futuremark is back with a new version of 3DMark, and in many ways this is their most ambitious version to date. Instead of the usual...
69 by Jarred Walton on 2/5/2013
AMD Announces New Winter Video Game Bundle: Never Settle Reloaded
Although game bundles are nothing new for the video card industry, in the last couple of years they’ve come back into vogue in a way we haven’t seen in...
13 by Ryan Smith on 2/2/2013
Cineca’s Tesla K20-Based “Eurora” Supercomputer Unveiled; Water Cooling Unlocks Extra Efficiency
We typically don’t cover a lot of supercomputing news outside of the major Top500/Green500 announcements due to the fact that the launches of so many supercomputers are clustered around...
17 by Ryan Smith on 1/31/2013
AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 3 Drivers Released
As promised alongside last week’s release of the Catalyst 13.1 WHQL drivers, AMD has shipped out the first public beta for the next version of their drivers this week...
6 by Ryan Smith on 1/29/2013
NVIDIA GeForce R313.95 Beta Drivers Available
It seems ironic that after years of their monthly releases when AMD/ATI has now switched to a "when it's necessary" release schedule--something NVIDIA has been doing via official beta...
2 by Jarred Walton on 1/28/2013
Whither 3DMark—Updates on the Cross-Platform Launch
Early in December 2012, I posted a short article about the Fire Strike trailer for the next 3DMark with the note that the full release was promised before the...
15 by Jarred Walton on 1/23/2013
AMD Q4’12 and FY 2012 Earnings: Closing Out a Rough Year, Looking Towards the Next
Continuing the spate of earnings announcements this week we have both AMD’s Q4’12 and fiscal year 2012 earnings. The 4th quarter presents something of a culmination of several events...
34 by Ryan Smith on 1/23/2013
Addendum Regarding AMD’s Mobility Catalyst 13.1 Drivers
Late last week AMD release their first drivers for 2013, the Catalyst 13.1 drivers. The drivers as noted already are available for both desktops and laptops, but I did...
16 by Jarred Walton on 1/22/2013
AMD’s Mobility Catalyst 13.1 Update, Enduro Edition
We posted earlier today about the public availability of AMD’s latest Catalyst 13.1 WHQL drivers, but being available and installing properly and without problems on Enduro laptops are sadly...
20 by Jarred Walton on 1/18/2013
AMD Catalyst 13.1 WHQL Drivers Available
Having refined their 12.11 beta drivers, AMD has recently released their Catalyst Software Suite Version 13.1 update. This WHQL update includes all the performance improvements found in the previous...
43 by Chris Hansen on 1/18/2013
The Tegra 4 GPU, NVIDIA Claims Better Performance Than iPad 4
At CES last week, NVIDIA announced its Tegra 4 SoC featuring four ARM Cortex A15s running at up to 1.9GHz and a fifth Cortex A15 running at between 700...
60 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/14/2013_carousel.JPG)
Sapphire mITX and a Budget Tahiti GPU
Like most graphics companies, Sapphire didn’t have anything major to announce at CES. Their suite was mostly dedicated to showing off their Mini-ITX Edge VS boxes, which were launched...
7 by Jarred Walton on 1/12/2013NVIDIA’s Annual GPU Rebadge Begins: GeForce GT 730M and GeForce 710M Partial Specs Published
As we discussed yesterday with AMD’s latest round of GPU rebadges, both AMD and NVIDIA are locked into playing the OEM rebadge game in order to fulfill their OEM...
25 by Ryan Smith on 1/8/2013
AMD Releases Full Product Specifications For Radeon HD 8000M Series
Along with their announcement of their annual desktop GPU rebadge, AMD has also released the full product specifications for their new Radeon HD 8000M mobile GPUs. These GPUs were...
15 by Ryan Smith on 1/8/2013
AMD’s Annual GPU Rebadge: Radeon HD 8000 Series for OEMs
In an effort to mimic the model year nature of cars and other durable goods, in recent years PC OEMs have increasingly moved to updating their wares both on...
38 by Ryan Smith on 1/7/2013
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