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TechSpot: AMD A4-5000 review, the affordable ultraportable APU

Julio Franco — Fri, 24 May 2013 10:43:23 +0100

AMD are releasing their first Kabini based processors today with the launch of the A6-5200 and the A4-5000. The A4-5000 that we are reviewing features four Jaguar cores clocked at 1.5GHz... Read more...

AMD confirmed as co-designer of Xbox One APU chip

John Callaham — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:58:43 +0100

It's now been confirmed that AMD is indeed the co-designer behind the single-chip APU hardware inside Microsoft's upcoming Xbox One console, something Microsoft did not mention in its press event. Read more...

Everything we think we know about the next Xbox: Part 1 - Hardware

John Callaham — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:48:15 +0100

In this first article in a multi-part series, we go over everything we think we know about Microsoft's next version of the Xbox game console, starting with the rumors about its hardware specs. Read more...

TechSpot: AMD Radeon HD 7990 Review, Dual GPU Comeback

Julio Franco — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:33:49 +0100

The Radeon HD 7990 takes a pair of 7970 GPUs with overclocked cores and memory, packing 8.2 TFLOPS computer power, 6GB GDDR5 and an upgraded PEX bridge to connect the two GPUs. Read more...

AMD executive confirms company will make ARM chips

Anthony Tosie — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:02:31 +0100

AMD's corporate vice president and general manager of its embedded solutions group confirmed the chip maker will develop and manufacture ARM chips going forward as part of a new strategy. Read more...

TechSpot: Sapphire Edge VS8 review, the $500 Mini PC

Julio Franco — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:42:08 +0100

This idea of shrinking hardware hasn't been overlooked by manufacturers as several now feature space-saving designs based on mobile hardware. Such is the case with Sapphire's new Edge VS8 mini-PC... Read more...

AMD Q1 results indicative of slumping PC market?

Ben Buffone — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 02:02:25 +0100

AMD's Q1 results show huge operating losses among a "difficult market environment". With PC sales slumping and tablet sales on the rise, can the company ever hope to draw a profit in the future? Read more...

TechSpot: History of the GPU #4 - The Coming of General Purpose GPUs

Julio Franco — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:47:00 +0100

Until the advent of DirectX 10, there was no point in adding undue complexity by enlarging the die area, which increased vertex shader functionality in addition to boosting the floating point... Read more...

Rumor: AMD to launch super-fast 5 GHz 'Centurion' FX processor?

John Callaham — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0100

A new report claims, via unnamed sources, that AMD will be launching a limited number of new FX processors, code name "Centurion" that will have a clock speed of 5 GHz. Read more...

TechSpot: History of the GPU #3 - The Nvidia vs. ATI era begins

Julio Franco — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:27:07 +0100

Prior to the Voodoo 5's arrival, ATI had announced the Radeon DDR as “the most powerful graphics processor ever designed for desktop PCs.” Previews of the card had already gone public... Read more...

AMD shows a teaser of its answer to NVIDIA's Titan graphics card

John Callaham — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:08:43 +0000

AMD has released a teaser image for its upcoming Radeon HD 7990, a massive dual-GPU card that will compete with NVIDIA's already announced $999 GeForce GTX Titan PC graphics card. Read more...

TechSpot: AMD Radeon HD 7790 Review

Julio Franco — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:16:25 +0000

The latest member of the Southern Islands family, the new Radeon HD 7790 is designed to fill the gap between the Radeon HD 7770 and 7850. Set to precisely target the $150 price tag, the HD 7790... Read more...

TechSpot: SimCity Tested, Benchmarked

Julio Franco — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:21:37 +0000

Normally when we benchmark a first person shooter, finding a good portion of the game to test with is simply a matter of playing through the game until we find a section that is rather demanding... Read more...

AMD driver code shows Halo 3 PC support but Microsoft says, "No"

John Callaham — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:08:58 +0000

A new AMD PC beta driver shows that it adds support for Halo 3 in its code, but an official statement from Microsoft insists there are no plans to bring the Xbox 360 shooter to the PC platform. Read more...

Aviary photo editing company launches Windows 8 SDK

John Callaham — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:28:15 +0000

The well known photo editing software company Aviary has announced it has launched an SDK for Windows 8 software developers to access, along with its own free Windows 8 photo editor. Read more...

AMD shows cool PC case mods, including a rocket launcher, at SXSW

John Callaham — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:45:00 +0000

AMD is using the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas this week to showcase an exhibit of some very cool PC case mods, including one that's also a working rocket launcher. Read more...

New rumors about next-gen Xbox CPU specs hit the web

John Callaham — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:08:11 +0000

A new and detailed list of the rumored CPU hardware specs inside Microsoft's "next Xbox" has been posted on the Internet, claiming that the AMD-made CPU has two modules, each with four x86 cores. Read more...

AMD's TressFX: It's all about the hair for Lara Croft

John Callaham — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:44:27 +0000

AMD has announced it has worked with developer Crystal Dynamics to create more realistic hair for Lara Croft in the new Tomb Raider game using a new rendering system called TressFX Hair. Read more...

TechSpot: Triple Monitor Gaming on a Budget

Julio Franco — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:50:25 +0000

Considering next-gen cards are still months away, we didn't expect to bring any more GPU reviews until the second quarter of 2013. However, we realized there was a gap: triple monitor gaming. Read more...

More PS4 tech details revealed; AMD barely mentioned

John Callaham — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:14:53 +0000

Sony has offered some more tech details on the upcoming PlayStation 4 game console, but AMD's important involvement in the console's hardware is barely mentioned. Read more...