GPUs

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...

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (PC, Xbox 360, PS3) Review

Join us as for a show and tell session as we review Pandemic's latest action game...

19 by Eddie Turner on 9/9/2008

NVIDIA 9500 GT: Mainstream Graphics Update

The 9500 GT has been out for a while now, and today we take a look at what it has to offer.

37 by Derek Wilson on 9/5/2008

Bargain Bin Games Revue - Round One

We explore the depths of the bargain bin in an attempt to wet those dry spells between big name releases...

36 by Eddie Turner on 9/1/2008

Lucid's Multi-GPU Wonder: More Information on the Hydra 100

Derek sat down with Lucid and answered some more questions on the Hydra 100, a chip that enables multi-GPU on any platform.

57 by Derek Wilson on 8/22/2008

Badaboom: A Full Test of Elemental's GPU Accelerated H.264 Transcoder

It's finally here, a GPU accelerated H.264 transcoder that promises to speed up one of the most time intensive things you can do on your desktop. Unfortunately the...

39 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/18/2008

AMD's Radeon HD 4870 X2 - Testing the Multi-GPU Waters

AMD officially unveils its highest performing single-card to date: the Radeon HD 4870 X2. How will the first multi-GPU R7xx series card fare against the price reduced GeForce...

94 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on 8/12/2008

Race Driver: GRID (PC)

We hit the pavement with Codemasters' latest offering in the racing genre, Race Driver: GRID.

42 by Eddie Turner on 8/7/2008

Intel's Larrabee Architecture Disclosure: A Calculated First Move

While not giving away much if any info about future products, Intel has cracked the door open just a bit on their Larrabee project. As expected, the information was...

102 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on 8/4/2008

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 - R700 Preview: AMD's Fastest Single Card

Hot on the heels of the launch of the Radeon HD 4800 series, AMD sent out 10 cards into the wild based on its new R700 GPU. Despite...

56 by Derek Wilson on 7/14/2008

Games Missing In Action

We know there are tons of titles coming out, but there are always a few that crop up, make waves, and then disappear without ever seeing the light of...

36 by Eddie Turner on 6/26/2008

The Radeon HD 4850 & 4870: AMD Wins at $199 and $299

Last week we showed that AMD offered the best $199 GPU on the market. Today we're able to show you that AMD has the best $299 GPU as...

215 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on 6/25/2008

NVIDIA's First 55nm GPU: GeForce 9800 GTX+ Preview

NVIDIA quietly die-shrunk its G92 GPU last week, just 12 hours before AMD's launch of the Radeon HD 4870 we've got a preview of the GeForce 9800 GTX+. ...

37 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on 6/24/2008

More Details on Elemental's GPU Accelerated H.264 Encoder

After our GT200 review went live we got up with Elemental's CEO and asked a few questions about their GPU accelerated H.264 video encoder. Due out for release...

51 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/23/2008

ATI Radeon HD 4850 Preview: AMD Delivers Performance for the Masses

In stark contrast to NVIDIA's $650 GPU launch earlier this week, AMD is letting us make an early introduction of the Radeon HD 4850 today. Priced at $199...

116 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on 6/19/2008

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 Pipeline Update

A quick update on one of the unknown variables in NVIDIA's GT200 architecture.

21 by Derek Wilson on 6/18/2008

NVIDIA's 1.4 Billion Transistor GPU: GT200 Arrives as the GeForce GTX 280 & 260

Today NVIDIA introduced the most compute-intensive microprocessor we've ever reviewed. Built out of 240 simple cores, using a total of 1.4 billion transistors and with a 512-bit interface...

109 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on 6/16/2008

Penny Arcade Adventures Episode 1

Penny Arcade and Hothead have joined forces to create a new episodic game series. Join us, as we step boldly over the precipice of dorkness.

21 by Jarred Walton on 6/16/2008

Assassin's Creed PC

Assassin's Creed has made its way to the PC, and we have a review and performance analysis plus a dash of DX10.1 controversy thrown into the mix. Controversy aside...

33 by Jarred Walton on 6/2/2008

Mario Kart Wii

Nintendo's latest Mario Kart makes its way to the table, and with it as usual comes change. Not all changes are for the better, unfortunately.

24 by Laura Wilson on 5/30/2008

Haze - PS3 Exclusive

In the modern multi-platform landscape, the exclusives can help one game system rise above the rest. Haze is the latest PS3 exclusive, but does it elevate the platform or...

29 by Eddie Turner on 5/26/2008

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