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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...
SK Hynix Lists GDDR6 Memory as ‘Available Now’, Publishes Final Specs
SK Hynix has updated its product catalogue and now lists its GDDR6 memory chips as “available now”. In addition, the company published final specifications of its GDDR6 product family...
9 by Anton Shilov on 2/6/2018AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.1
Last week, AMD released Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.1, a more minor bugfix-oriented driver update. 18.2.1 also brings support for Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, a remastered version...
5 by Nate Oh on 2/5/2018AMD Tech Day at CES: 2018 Roadmap Revealed, with Ryzen APUs, Zen+ on 12nm, Vega on 7nm
Updated Feb 1st! To mark the start of the annual CES trade show, AMD invited the press in early to sample the latest technologies coming to its portfolio in 2018...
136 by Ian Cutress on 2/1/2018The EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti FTW2 Review: iCX Brings the Lights and Sensors
Today, we are taking a look at the EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti FTW2, EVGA's top GTX 1070 Ti model featuring the iCX temperature sensor and cooling system. Launched...
47 by Nate Oh on 1/31/2018AMD to Ramp up GPU Production, But RAM a Limiting Factor
One of the more tricky issues revolving around the GPU shortages of the past several months has been the matter of how to address the problem on the GPU...
34 by Ryan Smith on 1/31/2018AMD Announces Q4 FY 2017 Results
This afternoon, AMD announced their earnings for the fourth quarter of 2017. AMD ended the 2017 fiscal year on a high note, with earnings that beat their initial estimates...
20 by Brett Howse on 1/30/2018Getting Radeon Vega Everywhere: An Exclusive Media Interview at AMD Tech Day, with CEO Dr. Lisa Su
In what is becoming an annual tradition, during AMD’s Tech Day here at CES we were given the opportunity to spend some time with Dr. Lisa Su, AMD’s CEO...
65 by Ian Cutress on 1/24/2018AMD Reassembles the Radeon Technologies Group: New Leadership Hired & Semi-Custom Folded Into RTG
Ever since Raja Koduri abdicated his leadership post at AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group in favor of a similar post at Intel, the big question on everyone’s mind has been...
50 by Ryan Smith on 1/23/2018AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.1.1
Opening up the new year, this week AMD released the bugfix-heavy Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.1.1, succeeding the 18.1.1 alpha addressing crashing in certain DX9 games. The instability was...
96 by Nate Oh on 1/22/2018Samsung Starts Mass Production of 16Gb GDDR6 Memory ICs with 18 Gbps I/O Speed
This week, Samsung has announced that it has started mass production of its GDDR6 memory chips for next-generation graphics cards and other applications. The new chips will be available...
27 by Anton Shilov on 1/18/2018NVIDIA Releases 390.65 WHQL Game Ready Driver, Includes Mitigation Updates for Spectre
In the wake of Meltdown and Spectre essentially every major industry player has issued a security statement, and NVIDIA is no exception, especially as a hardware vendor. Their initial...
10 by Nate Oh on 1/9/2018NVIDIA Announces Big Format Gaming Displays: 65-inch 4K@120Hz HDR Display with G-Sync & More
LAS VEGAS, NV — Today at CES 2018, NVIDIA announced a new series of TV-sized 65-inch monitor models called Big Format Gaming Displays (BFGDs). Working with Acer, ASUS, and...
24 by Nate Oh on 1/8/2018NVIDIA Launches GeForce NOW Game-streaming Service PC Beta
LAS VEGAS, NV — Today at CES 2018, NVIDIA announced PC availability of the GeForce NOW, their cloud-based game-streaming service, as a free closed beta. Not to be confused...
5 by Nate Oh on 1/8/2018VESA Announces That Work Has Begun On Next DisplayPort Standard; Display Bandwidth To Double
In an interesting turn of events this week, the VESA has announced that work has begun on the next generation DisplayPort standard. Citing the need for even greater amounts...
19 by Ryan Smith on 1/5/2018VESA Announces DP8K Certified DisplayPort Cables
Along with the announcement that work has begun on a new DisplayPort standard, the VESA this week is also announcing that they have launched a new certification program for...
3 by Nate Oh on 1/5/2018NVIDIA to Cease Driver Development for 32-Bit Operating Systems
NVIDIA has announced plans to cease developing drivers supporting 32-bit operating systems for any GPU architecture in the near future. All NVIDIA GPU drivers published after the release 390...
33 by Anton Shilov on 12/28/2017ZOTAC Unveils AMP Box and AMP Box Mini eGFX TB3 Chassis
ZOTAC has been working on its external chassis for graphics cards with a Thunderbolt 3 interconnection for well over a year now. Apparently, according to ZOTAC, the time it...
13 by Anton Shilov on 12/22/2017AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 17.12.2
Last Tuesday, AMD rolled out their major display driver update for 2017: Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 17.12.1. Not long since, this week AMD has released Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition...
3 by Nate Oh on 12/22/2017Micron Finishes GDDR6 Internal Qualification, Eyes H1'2018 Mass Production
With rumors swirling pretty widely that the next generation of video cards from both vendors will be based around GDDR6 memory, there’s understandably a lot of interest in the...
15 by Ryan Smith on 12/21/2017The NVIDIA Titan V Preview - Titanomachy: War of the Titans
Today we're taking a preview look at NVIDIA's new compute accelerator and video card, the $3000 NVIDIA Titan V. In Greek mythology Titanomachy was the war of the Titans...
113 by Ryan Smith & Nate Oh on 12/20/2017