AMD
Earlier this month, AMD launched the first two desktop CPUs using their latest Zen 5 microarchitecture: the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Ryzen 5 9600X. As part of the new Ryzen 9000 family, it gave us their latest Zen 5 cores to the desktop market, as AMD actually launched Zen 5 through their mobile platform last month, the Ryzen AI 300 series (which we reviewed). Today, AMD is launching the remaining two Ryzen 9000 SKUs first announced at Computex 2024, completing the current Ryzen 9000 product stack. Both chips hail from the premium Ryzen 9 series, which includes the flagship Ryzen 9 9950X, which has 16 Zen 5 cores and can boost as high as 5.7 GHz, while the Ryzen 9 9900X has 12 Zen...
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.8.2 Hotfix
In very short order AMD has dropped another driver update in response to the latest. The 16.8.2 hotfix gives the driver version a minor bump to 16.30.2511.1001. With only...
3 by Daniel Williams on 8/16/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.8.1 Hotfix
Hardly a week and a half has gone by and AMD has released another driver update. Of course with the flood of newly released cards we have seen released...
11 by Daniel Williams on 8/9/2016
TUL Shuts Down VTX3D Graphics Cards Brand
TUL Corp., the company behind graphics cards sold under PowerColor and VTX3D trademarks, has decided to shut down one of its brands. From a post on the company website...
35 by Anton Shilov on 8/5/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.7.3
AMD's Radeon Technologies Group has released another driver update with a healthy list of fixes. On the list today are fixes for CrossFire, flickering in both rendering and the...
17 by Daniel Williams on 7/29/2016
AMD Announces Radeon RX 470 & RX 460 Specifications; Shipping in Early August
Back before Radeon RX 480 even launched, AMD briefly teased the next two cards in their lineup at E3 2016’s PC Gaming Show. These cards, the Radeon RX 470...
56 by Ryan Smith on 7/28/2016
MSI Shows New Radeon RX 480 Gaming Cards, with an 8-pin
Today MSI is announcing the latest entry in the Gaming X GPU line with the Radeon RX 480 Gaming X 8G/4G cards as well as non-X variants. The main...
34 by Daniel Williams on 7/26/2016
AMD Announces Radeon Pro WX Series: WX 4100, WX 5100, & WX 7100 Bring Polaris to Pros
It’s been a while since we’ve last seen a new workstation graphics card from AMD. With their Fiji GPU not being a good fit for the market, the company...
30 by Ryan Smith on 7/26/2016
Updated: AMD Announces Radeon Pro SSG: Fiji With M.2 SSDs On-Board
As part of this evening’s AMD Capsaicin event (more on that later), AMD’s Chief Architect and SVP of the Radeon Technologies Group has announced a new Radeon Pro card...
120 by Ryan Smith on 7/25/2016
Battle of The CPU Stock Coolers! 7x Intel vs 5x AMD, plus an EVO 212
End users need to be aware of the performance of their current cooling solutions in order to reasonably assess the upgrade that will fit their needs. In this review...
82 by E. Fylladitakis on 7/22/2016
SAPPHIRE Announces NITRO+ Radeon RX 480
This morning SAPPHIRE is announcing their latest card in the NITRO+ family, the NITRO+ Radeon RX 480. Some key features of SAPPHIRE’s new NITRO+ RX 480 cards include higher...
57 by Daniel Williams on 7/22/2016
AMD Releases Q2 FY 2016 Financial Results
This afternoon, AMD announced their second quarter earnings for the 2016 fiscal year. It’s been a while, but AMD finds itself in the black for this quarter, with higher...
42 by Brett Howse on 7/21/2016
AMD Carrizo Part 2: A Generational Deep Dive into the Athlon X4 845 at $70
Prior to the announcement for AMD's 7th Generation of APUs, Bristol Ridge, the latest micro-architecture from AMD based on the x86 instruction set was given the codename Excavator, using...
131 by Ian Cutress on 7/14/2016
Doom Vulkan Patch Released
Bethesda PR has sent over a quick note this morning that the long-awaited Vulkan patch for Doom is now available, allowing the game to be played with either the...
73 by Ryan Smith on 7/11/2016
AMD Posts Radeon 16.7.1 Drivers, Fixes RX 480 Power Consumption Issues
In what’s hopefully the final chapter on AMD’s saga over the last week with the Radeon RX 480’s power consumption, AMD has posted the previously promised 16.7.1 driver set...
105 by Ryan Smith on 7/7/2016
AMD's Tuesday Radeon RX 480 Status Update: New Driver By Late Thursday
Following up on this weekend's statement from AMD about a potential power issue with the reference Radeon RX 480, AMD has just sent over their previously promised update on...
121 by Ryan Smith on 7/6/2016
AMD Releases Statement On Radeon RX 480 Power Consumption; More Details Tuesday
Following up on this week's Radeon RX 480 launch, there has been some questions raised about the power consumption of the card. This is after some sites whom directly...
181 by Ryan Smith on 7/2/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson 16.6.2 Drivers
AMD has now brought us their latest card in the Radeon RX 480. With new cards comes new drivers. We are also getting fixes and a list of new...
4 by Daniel Williams on 6/30/2016
ASUS Reveals Their New RX 480 GPU Design
After a lengthy tease from AMD we are finally seeing the new AMD Radeon RX 480 roll out. As we saw in our preview the card successfully makes leaps...
33 by Daniel Williams on 6/30/2016
The AMD Radeon RX 480 Preview: Polaris Makes Its Mainstream Mark
Back in December of last year, AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group began slowly trickling out the plans for what would be their first GPU architecture built for the now-modern FinFET...
449 by Ryan Smith on 6/29/2016
A Bit More on AMD’s Polaris GPUs: 36 & 16 CUs
Along with this week’s teaser of the forthcoming Radeon RX 470 and RX 460 at E3, AMD also held a short press briefing about Polaris. The bulk of AMD’s...
102 by Ryan Smith on 6/15/2016
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