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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: 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...

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...

TechSpot: Tomb Raider GPU and CPU performance

Julio Franco — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:50:01 +0000

Tomb Raider supports DirectX 11, which brings access to rendering technologies such as depth of field, high definition ambient occlusion, hardware tessellation, super-sample anti-aliasing... Read more...

TechSpot: Crysis 3 Tested, Benchmarked

Julio Franco — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:11:23 +0000

PC gamers won't have to wait for graphical extras. Crysis 3 launched with high-resolution textures, DX11 support and plenty of customization options that set it apart from the diluted consoles builds. 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...

TechSpot: Dead Space 3 Tested, Benchmarked

Julio Franco — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:49:12 +0000

The third installment in the Dead Space series was released this month, and considering the game made our list of 2013's most anticipated PC games we thought we would check it out to see how it... Read more...

Next gen Xbox GPU specs reportedly leak

John Callaham — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:05:15 +0000

The website that leaked what it claimed was the CPU specs of the next Xbox console is at it again, this time with their claim they have the specs for the GPU for Microsoft's next game console. Read more...

TechSpot: MSI GX60 notebook review

Julio Franco — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:51:18 +0000

The MSI GX60 is the latest entry in the company's Gaming Series of notebooks. The unit we tested arrived with a quad-core AMD A10-4600M CPU clocked at 2.3GHz alongside AMD Radeon HD 7970M... Read more...

TechSpot: Full AMD and Nvidia GPU Comparison with Latest Drivers

Julio Franco — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 06:08:45 +0000

With updated pricing and performance across the board, we figured it would be worth revisiting both company's offerings to see where you should spend your hard-earned cash this holiday season and... Read more...

AMD might be putting up a "For Sale" sign [Update]

John Callaham — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:48:04 +0000

A new report claims that PC processor and graphics company AMD has hired JPMorgan Chase & Co to help it explore some future financial options, including putting the company up for sale. Read more...

AMD and NVIDIA release new Windows 8 beta graphics drivers

John Callaham — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:51:07 +0100

Both AMD and NVIDIA have released new beta graphics drivers for their Radeon and GeForce graphics cards, respectively, that support Windows 8 as well as offer better performance in some PC games. Read more...

AMD rumored to be prepping for massive layoffs

John Callaham — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 01:14:49 +0100

AMD is rumored to be preparing for some massive cuts in its workforce, which could result in as many as 30 percent of its employees being laid off in the coming weeks. Read more...

AMD releases Windows 8 RTM Radeon Catalyst drivers

John Callaham — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:43:29 +0100

AMD has released the latest version of its Catalyst drivers for some Radeon PC graphics cards, which include support for the RTM version of Windows 8 as well as other improvements. Read more...

TechSpot: AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Review

Julio Franco — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 07:48:07 +0100

Fast forward to the present day and it'd appear that AMD is desperate to claim the bragging rights of offering the single fastest GPU money can buy. As the name suggests the Radeon HD 7970 GHz... Read more...

AMD to stop monthly Catalyst driver updates

John Callaham — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 08:44:50 +0100

AMD has announced that it will stop its normal practice of releasing new Catalyst drivers for its Radeon graphics chips every month. AMD will now release new updates "when it makes sense." Read more...