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AMD Radeon RX 590 Unveiled – The Last Of The Polaris?
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AMD Radeon RX 590 Unveiled – The Last Of The Polaris?
AMD just unveiled the latest and probably the last of the Polaris - the AMD Radeon RX 590 graphics card! ...
AMD just unveiled the latest and probably the last of the Polaris - the AMD Radeon RX 590 graphics card! Let's find out what AMD is squeezing out of their Polaris microarchitecture! The AMD Rad ...
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The AMD Radeon Pro 500 Series for iMac Revealed!
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The AMD Radeon Pro 500 Series for iMac Revealed!
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — June 05, 2017 — Today AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) unveiled the high-performance, power-efficien ...
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — June 05, 2017 — Today AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) unveiled the high-performance, power-efficient Radeon Pro 500 series graphics, fueling beyond-UHD creativity in All-In-One computing. ...
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The Dell Computex 2017 Product Launch Coverage
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The Dell Computex 2017 Product Launch Coverage
The third major event at Computex Taipei 2017 was the Dell Computex 2017 product launch event. This year, ...
The third major event at Computex Taipei 2017 was the Dell Computex 2017 product launch event. This year, Dell restricted themselves to only three new models, with a twist - they are all powered by an ...
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The AMD Ryzen 5 & Radeon RX 500 Series Tech Briefing
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The AMD Ryzen 5 & Radeon RX 500 Series Tech Briefing
The year 2017 is definitely The Year Of AMD Rising, with the launch of the AMD Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 proces ...
The year 2017 is definitely The Year Of AMD Rising, with the launch of the AMD Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 processors and the forthcoming launch of AMD Radeon Vega. Even before the Radeon Vega arrives, AMD in ...
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The 27 New AMD Radeon RX 500 Graphics Cards Revealed!
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The 27 New AMD Radeon RX 500 Graphics Cards Revealed!
AMD just announced the new Radeon RX 500 Series graphics cards. Dubbed Polaris Refined, they run the same ...
AMD just announced the new Radeon RX 500 Series graphics cards. Dubbed Polaris Refined, they run the same Polaris GPUs as the Radeon RX 480 graphics card. They basically offer higher clock speeds and/ ...
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The AMD Radeon RX 500 Series Tech Report
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The AMD Radeon RX 500 Series Tech Report
Last week, Adam Kozak, Radeon Product Marketing Manager, flew in to brief us on the Polaris Refined graph ...
Last week, Adam Kozak, Radeon Product Marketing Manager, flew in to brief us on the Polaris Refined graphics cards. In this tech report, we will share with you the details of the new AMD Radeon RX 500 ...
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The Complete AMD Radeon Instinct Tech Briefing Rev. 3.0
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The Complete AMD Radeon Instinct Tech Briefing Rev. 3.0
The AMD Tech Summit held in Sonoma, California from December 7-9, 2016 was not only very exclusive, it wa ...
The AMD Tech Summit held in Sonoma, California from December 7-9, 2016 was not only very exclusive, it was highly secretive. The first major announcement we have been allowed to reveal is the new AMD ...
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The AMD Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition Revealed!
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The AMD Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition Revealed!
Last week, we were invited to a tech briefing by AMD's Radeon Technologies Group on the latest evolution ...
Last week, we were invited to a tech briefing by AMD's Radeon Technologies Group on the latest evolution of the Radeon Software driver - the Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition. Today, we are final ...
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Deus Ex Mankind Divided DirectX12 Patch Released
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Deus Ex Mankind Divided DirectX12 Patch Released
Eidos-Montreal and Square Enix have announced their official Deus Ex Mankind Divided DirectX 12 patch, sc ...
Eidos-Montreal and Square Enix have announced their official Deus Ex Mankind Divided DirectX 12 patch, scaling performance to a whole new level with DirectX 12 multi-GPU and frame pacing support on Ra ...
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AMD Radeon Pro 400 Series Graphics MacBook Unveiled
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AMD Radeon Pro 400 Series Graphics MacBook Unveiled
Sunnyvale, California - 27 October 2016 — Today AMD unveiled a new family of power-efficient graphics pr ...
Sunnyvale, California - 27 October 2016 — Today AMD unveiled a new family of power-efficient graphics processors, Radeon Pro 400 Series Graphics. Available first in the all-new 15-inch MacBook Pro, s ...
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AMD Radeon RX 470 & RX 460 Price Cuts Announced!
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AMD Radeon RX 470 & RX 460 Price Cuts Announced!
Ahead of the global availability of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 and GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics cards, A ...
Ahead of the global availability of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 and GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics cards, AMD pre-emptively slashed US$10 off the Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 460 graphics cards. Here are ...
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The XFX Radeon RX 470 RS Black Edition Review
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The XFX Radeon RX 470 RS Black Edition Review
AMD launched their Polaris GPU architecture to great fanfare with the introduction of the Radeon RX 480. ...
AMD launched their Polaris GPU architecture to great fanfare with the introduction of the Radeon RX 480. It offered an affordable 1440p gaming alternative to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070. The AMD Radeo ...
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The Radeon Technologies Group’s First Year Achievements
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The Radeon Technologies Group’s First Year Achievements
On September 9, 2015, AMD spliced off their Radeon graphics team into a separate Radeon Technologies Grou ...
On September 9, 2015, AMD spliced off their Radeon graphics team into a separate Radeon Technologies Group. They also promoted Raja Koduri to Senior Vice President and Chief Architect of the new Radeo ...
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ASUS Republic of Gamers Announces Strix RX 470
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ASUS Republic of Gamers Announces Strix RX 470
10 August 2016 — ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced Strix RX 470, an all-new gaming graphics c ...
10 August 2016 — ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced Strix RX 470, an all-new gaming graphics card with ultra-fast performance, advanced cooling and reliability, and personalized styling. Po ...
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GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC Announced
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GIGABYTE Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC Announced
Taipei, 8 August 2016 – GIGABYTE today announced Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC graphics cards based on the l ...
Taipei, 8 August 2016 – GIGABYTE today announced Radeon RX 460 WINDFORCE OC graphics cards based on the latest Polaris 11 GPU with two memory variants of 4GB and 2GB models. Powered directly from the ...
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Sneak Peek Of The AMD Radeon RX 460 In Action Rev. 2.0
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Sneak Peek Of The AMD Radeon RX 460 In Action Rev. 2.0
During the AMD Polaris & 7th Generation APU tech briefing here in Malaysia, we stumbled upon an actua ...
During the AMD Polaris & 7th Generation APU tech briefing here in Malaysia, we stumbled upon an actual Radeon RX 460 graphics card. AMD was using it to power a virtual reality demo of a space turr ...
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GIGABYTE RX 480 G1 GAMING Launched
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GIGABYTE RX 480 G1 GAMING Launched
Taipei, 19 July 2016 – GIGABYTE, the world’s leading gaming hardware brand, today announced the launch of ...
Taipei, 19 July 2016 – GIGABYTE, the world’s leading gaming hardware brand, today announced the launch of Radeon RX 480 G1 GAMING graphics cards that come in variants of 4GB (RX480G1 GAMING-4GD) and 8 ...
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AMD Polaris GPU & 7th Generation APU Tech Briefings
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AMD Polaris GPU & 7th Generation APU Tech Briefings
AMD officially revealed the AMD Polaris GPUs and the 7th Generation AMD APUs at Computex 2016. The first ...
AMD officially revealed the AMD Polaris GPUs and the 7th Generation AMD APUs at Computex 2016. The first graphics card based on the AMD Polaris architecture was the AMD Radeon RX 480, and that was off ...
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Vulkan Support For DOOM Now Available
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Vulkan Support For DOOM Now Available
Today, id Software announced the availability for the Vulkan version of DOOM that relies on innovative fe ...
Today, id Software announced the availability for the Vulkan version of DOOM that relies on innovative features to deliver incredible performance. As many of you already know, the Vulkan API is a desc ...
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True Performance Of The Radeon RX 480 Examined
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True Performance Of The Radeon RX 480 Examined
True Performance Of The Radeon RX 480 Examined After the Radeon RX 480 was found to draw excessive power ...
True Performance Of The Radeon RX 480 Examined After the Radeon RX 480 was found to draw excessive power from the PCI Express bus, AMD released the Radeon Software 16.7.1 driver. This is a non-WHQL dr ...
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HiAlgo Brings New Capabilities To Radeon
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HiAlgo Brings New Capabilities To Radeon
Sunnyvale, 7 July 2016 — AMD today announced the acquisition of software company HiAlgo Inc., a developer ...
Sunnyvale, 7 July 2016 — AMD today announced the acquisition of software company HiAlgo Inc., a developer of unique PC gaming technologies designed to help Radeon RX Series GPUs transform gaming exper ...
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Radeon Software 16.7.1 Performance Comparison
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Radeon Software 16.7.1 Performance Comparison
Radeon Software 16.7.1 Following the Radeon RX 480 power draw controversy, AMD released the Radeon Softwa ...
Radeon Software 16.7.1 Following the Radeon RX 480 power draw controversy, AMD released the Radeon Software 16.7.1 driver. This is a non-WHQL driver that was pushed out quickly to fix the Radeon RX 48 ...
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AMD Radeon RX 480 Power Draw Controversy Rev. 3.0
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AMD Radeon RX 480 Power Draw Controversy Rev. 3.0
After the AMD Radeon RX 480 was officially launched, several websites reported that their cards were draw ...
After the AMD Radeon RX 480 was officially launched, several websites reported that their cards were drawing substantially more power from the PCI Express bus than the 75 W allowed by the PCI Express ...
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4GB Radeon RX 480 A Better Deal After 8GB Price Hike
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4GB Radeon RX 480 A Better Deal After 8GB Price Hike
When AMD first revealed the Radeon RX 480 during Computex 2016, they announced that it will come with 4GB ...
When AMD first revealed the Radeon RX 480 during Computex 2016, they announced that it will come with 4GB or 8GB of GDDR5 memory. They also revealed that the 4GB Radeon RX 480 will cost US$199, while ...
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The AMD Radeon RX 480 Graphics Card Review
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The AMD Radeon RX 480 Graphics Card Review
On the 23rd of June 2016, we received a surprise delivered by a special courier - the AMD Radeon RX 480 g ...
On the 23rd of June 2016, we received a surprise delivered by a special courier - the AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics card! This is one of the first few samples in the country. W00t! Due to our existing co ...
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AMD Radeon RX 400 Series Revealed
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AMD Radeon RX 400 Series Revealed
During Computex 2016, AMD revealed the AMD Radeon RX 480 - the first graphics card powered by the new AMD ...
During Computex 2016, AMD revealed the AMD Radeon RX 480 - the first graphics card powered by the new AMD Polaris 10 GPU. Today, AMD officially reveals the full details and specifications of the new A ...
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AMD Radeon RX 480 Hands-On Preview
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AMD Radeon RX 480 Hands-On Preview
Yesterday, we received a surprise delivered by a special courier - the upcoming AMD Radeon RX 480 graphic ...
Yesterday, we received a surprise delivered by a special courier - the upcoming AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics card! This is one of the first few Radeon RX 480 graphics cards in the country. W00t! The det ...
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Odd Radeon RX 480 AOTS Benchmark Results Explained
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Odd Radeon RX 480 AOTS Benchmark Results Explained
When we posted about the revelation of the AMD Radeon RX 480, RX 470 and RX 460 graphics cards, we pointe ...
When we posted about the revelation of the AMD Radeon RX 480, RX 470 and RX 460 graphics cards, we pointed out the odd Radeon RX 480 AOTS benchmark results that were presented by Raja Koduri, Senior V ...
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AMD Radeon RX 480, RX 470 and RX 460 Revealed
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AMD Radeon RX 480, RX 470 and RX 460 Revealed
On the second day of Computex 2016, AMD unveiled the AMD Radeon RX 480, the first salvo of their "Water D ...
On the second day of Computex 2016, AMD unveiled the AMD Radeon RX 480, the first salvo of their "Water Drop" strategy for the upcoming AMD Polaris architecture. Their "Water Drop" strategy is focused ...
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14nm FinFET AMD Polaris GPU Architecture Revealed
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14nm FinFET AMD Polaris GPU Architecture Revealed
Jan 4, 2016 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) has recently provided customers with a glimpse of its upcoming 2016 Polar ...
Jan 4, 2016 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) has recently provided customers with a glimpse of its upcoming 2016 Polaris GPU architecture at CES 2016, highlighting a wide range of significant architectural improve ...
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