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Following the recent RX 7900 XT and 7900 GRE sales that we covered, AMD's RX 7700 XT, which originally launched for $449, has now received a price cut and it is currently at least $50 off.

AMD slashed the prices of its RX 7900 XT and GRE once Nvidia revealed its RTX 4000 Super cards. The 7900 XT is now down to one of its lowest prices ever, meanwhile, the GRE is also discounted.

AMD's FreeSync managed to outshine Nvidia's G-SYNC as the former offered a cheaper yet excellent alternative for adaptive sync. However, AMD has just increased the requirements for FreeSync.

Nvidia has issued yet another hotfix this week which now fixes NVENC video recording or streaming issues on certain GeForce GPUs. This comes in just days after AMD pushed back its AV1 fix date.

With its latest WHQL driver, AMD has confirmed it has delayed a bug fix to Q3 of 2024 which it had initially intended to release in Q2. The issue is related to AV1 video recording.

AMD Radeon Software version 24.2.1 is now available for download with support for Helldivers 2, Skull and Bones, and Nightingale, plus a big list of fixed issues and other improvements.

AMD and Nvidia are starting to bring in great deals in the mid-range segment of the market. Following price drops on the 7900 XT, 4070 Ti, and 4070, the RX 7800 XT is also getting discounts.

The PowerColor Hellhound AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT graphics card, with three nine-blade cooling fans and 16GB of GDDR6 video RAM, just hit a new all-time low price of only $499.99 at Amazon.

The Sapphire AMD 20GB VRAM RX 7900 XT graphics card that normally sells for $849.99 is now available on Amazon for only $669.99 if you click on the digital coupon that's on the listing,

Ever since its launch, AMD was criticized for pricing the RX 7900 XT at a very high price of $899. With the Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super reviews coming up soon, AMD has now officially price-cut the XT.

AMD, at CES 2022, launched one of its worst GPUs ever in the form of the RX 6500 XT. The card has several major limitations and Nvidia is looking to kill it off with its upcoming RTX 3050 6GB.

Although not as eventful as the upcoming Nvidia RTX 4000 Super launch or its own Ryzen 8000G series APU launch, AMD has launched an important GPU in the form of the 16GB Radeon RX 7600 XT.

AMD has revealed the highly anticipated DDR5 desktop APUs for the AM5 platform. The specs and release date for the new Ryzen 8000 G-series APUs, headlined by the 8700G, are now out.

AMD and Nvidia are currently trying to offer the best 12GB GPU on the market with the RX 6700 XT/6750 XT and the RTX 3060 12Gig variant. VRAM has become a vital spec in the last year or so.

Black Friday deals are starting to go live and AMD Radeon graphics cards, the RX 6000 series are continuing to sell for the cheapest prices. Although last gen, they are still very capable.

An AMD spokesperson has confirmed that the company is reducing driver support for Vega and Polaris-based graphics cards. From now on, those GPUs will only get separate drives with critical updates.

AMD has unveiled the RX 7900M, its "fastest laptop graphics ever developed." Based on the AMD RDNA3 architecture, it delivers, on average, 7% more performance than competing mobile GPUs.

AMD has released a new Radeon driver, and you better install it to avoid a ban in your favorite multiplayer game. Version 23.10.2 delivers fixes and turns off the Anti-Lag+ feature.

AMD has released a new Adrenalin Edition Technical Preview driver that adds its Fluid Motion Frames technology to all DirectX 11 and 12 games when using Radeon RX 7000 and 6000 series GPUs.

Valve has announced that AMD has put in support for its Anti-Lag+ GPU feature in the recent Counter-Strike 2 game, but that players should not turn that feature on or they will receive a VAC ban.

Samsung's partnership with AMD to bring RDNA2 graphics to Exynos chips may be coming to an end sooner than expected. A new rumor suggests that Samsung is exploring making its own mobile GPUs.

Scott Herkelman, who has been with AMD as the General Manager of its Graphics Business Unit, revealed today he will depart the company. No specific reason was given for his decision.

A massive leak of confidential documents containing a ton of hardware details and specifications for Microsoft's next-gen Xbox reveals how the company plans to become console king by 2030.

AMD's Zen 5, which will power the Ryzen 8000 series processors, is already getting support from popular monitoring software AIDA64. This is alongside the support for next-gen PCIe 6.0 SSDs.

Although AMD is the exclusive partner of Starfield, and though its GPUs are performing better than Nvidia's, the users are not getting the full experience due the sun being completely missing.

AMD's newest toys, the RX 7800 XT and 7700 XT, are good performers. However, they are either overpriced or not in stock. Hence, this should be a great time to pick up the 6800 XT, now under $500.

AMD has released its newest Windows driver today with Adrenalin 23.9.1 driver. The driver adds support for the RX 7800 XT and 7700 XT graphics cards and also adds new features like HYPR-RX.

The popular CPU benchmarking tool Cinebench has received its latest update today and it's a pretty big one. The software brings back GPU measurement, gets Windows on Arm, and Apple M1/M2 support.

Leaked benchmarks show that AMD's RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT beat NVIDIA's RTX 4070 and RTX 4060 Ti in rasterization performance. The mid-range Radeon RX 7000 cards trail in ray tracing workloads.

AMD has somewhat justified its higher power consumption on the Radeon RX 7000 series compared to those on Nvidia's side. A senior exec feels that many gamers don't care about power draw much.

AMD has released a Radeon graphics driver focused at optimizing its graphics cards range for Bethesda's upcoming RPG Starfield. Players may see double digit performance uplifts with this.

AMD has reportedly stopped production of the Radeon RX 6650 XT, likely because of the RX 7600. It offers similar specs with 2048 cores and 8GB of memory, but is built on the RDNA3 architecture.