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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...
Inno3D announce triple slot GTX 470 Hawk
The Fermi cards have now been out (and only just available) for the just over a month. Like the AMD 5xxx series, the first cards used reference PCBs...
24 by Ian Cutress on 5/7/2010Galaxy GTX 470 GC - The world's first non-reference Fermi
Galaxy have pleasantly surprised us, and the folks at vr-zone. To the table, they bring their GTX 470 GC, a 100% non-reference design graphics card utilising an NVIDIA...
22 by Ian Cutress on 5/7/2010Zotac ZBOX HD-ID11 Review: Next Gen ION is Better & Worse than ION1
The nForce 2 was one of the best chipsets to come out of NVIDIA. It was NVIDIA’s second attempt at a desktop chipset yet it cemented NVIDIA’s position as...
44 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/6/2010This Just In: Zotac's ZBOX HD-ID11 Next Gen ION
Two months ago NVIDIA unveiled its next-generation ION GPU. Sporting either 8 or 16 SPs (or CUDA cores if you bleed green), the next-generation ION is strictly a GPU...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/30/2010Sapphire announces the passive HD 5550 Ultimate
Today, Sapphire have announced the latest in their lineup of ATI 5xxx series graphics cards - the passively cooled HD 5550, dubbed the 'Ultimate'. The party piece of...
12 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/30/2010Adobe Enables Flash GPU Acceleration in OS X, We Test It
Brandon Hill, Editor in Chief of DailyTech, IMed me an hour ago with this: "OK, stop laying on the couch with your iPad and do some OS X benchmarking"...
38 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/28/2010Update: NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 400 Series Shows Up Early
Now that the week of the 12th is upon us, let's see how a quick stock check at the usual suspects turns out. April 2010 Video Card Prices Video Card Original MSRP Available...
62 by Ryan Smith on 4/12/2010Quick Look: Thermalright Spitfire & VRM-R5
Today we have something a bit different for you from the GPU world: aftermarket cooling. Thermalright sent over a complete aftermarket GPU cooling kit for our Radeon 5870 containing...
63 by Ryan Smith on 4/6/2010AMD's Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition Reviewed
Last September when AMD unveiled its new DirectX 11 GPUs, we were promised the ability to drive a minimum of 3 or a maximum of 6 displays off of...
78 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/31/2010NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470: 6 Months Late, Was It Worth the Wait?
The 6 month wait for Fermi is finally over. Today NVIDIA is launching their first two Fermi family products: The GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470. Based on...
196 by Ryan Smith on 3/26/2010AMD’s Radeon HD 5830: A Filler Card at the Wrong Price
To close the 5850/5770 gap, today AMD is introducing the 5830, a further cut-down Cypress. Today we'll see why this card embodies the idea that there is no such...
149 by Ryan Smith on 2/24/2010Sapphire’s Radeon HD 5850 Toxic Edition: Our First Fully-Custom 5850
With the supply of AMD's Cypress chips picking up, we finally have our first fully-custom board. Today Sapphire is releasing the first such product, the overclocked and overcooled 5850...
72 by Ryan Smith on 2/18/2010Quick Look: MSI’s GeForce 210
Today we're looking at MSI's N210-MD512H, based on the last 40nm GeForce 200-series part we have yet to see: the G210.
25 by Ryan Smith on 2/16/2010What's New: AMD's Catalyst 10.2 & 10.3 Drivers
Some big changes are coming for AMD's Catalyst drivers. We have everything you need to know about what's new today with 10.2, along with what's coming next month with 10.3.
75 by Ryan Smith on 2/16/2010The RV870 Story: AMD Showing up to the Fight
After the RV770 ATI surely must have had an easy time building the RV870, right? Wrong. While we now know that the RV770's strategy paid off, the...
134 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2010The Final Word on the Best Radeon HTPC Card
Since we published our reviews of the Radeon HD 5450 and the Radeon HD 5570, we have been going back and forth with AMD over the results of our...
53 by Ryan Smith on 2/12/2010AMD’s Radeon HD 5570: Low Profile, Higher Performance
With the bulk of the 5000 series launched, AMD is now launching products to fill in the gaps in their product line. Today we look at one of those...
36 by Ryan Smith on 2/9/2010AMD’s Radeon HD 5450: The Next Step In HTPC Video Cards
Cedar, AMD's final Evergreen chip, launches today with the Radeon HD 4500. What does bringing Evergreen, audio bitstreaming, and DX11 do for the low-end of the market? We find out
77 by Ryan Smith on 2/4/2010NVIDIA’s GF100: Architected for Gaming
At long last, the other shoe drops. Over CES NVIDIA told us everything we wanted to know about the GPU that was Fermi. We find out why NVIDIA believes...
116 by Ryan Smith on 1/17/2010AMD's Radeon HD 5670: Sub-$100 DirectX 11 Starts Today
Today AMD is launching the first Redwood card - the 5670 - bringing DX11 down to its lowest price point yet. While the performance won't set the world on...
73 by Ryan Smith on 1/14/2010