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AMD Retires CrossFire & Limits mGPU Capability
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AMD Retires CrossFire & Limits mGPU Capability
When AMD announced the ability to run two Radeon RX Vega cards simultaneously, they conspicuously called ...
When AMD announced the ability to run two Radeon RX Vega cards simultaneously, they conspicuously called it mGPU (short for multiple GPU) instead of the far more familiar CrossFire. That's because the ...
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Review – 1440p Gaming FTW!
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Review – 1440p Gaming FTW!
The road to Vega has been a rather long one. We first saw the AMD Vega prototype running DOOM in December ...
The road to Vega has been a rather long one. We first saw the AMD Vega prototype running DOOM in December 2016. Not unlike a baby, it took AMD nine months to give birth to the AMD Radeon RX Vega. Toda ...
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HP & Acer Introduce AMD Ryzen Gaming Desktops!
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HP & Acer Introduce AMD Ryzen Gaming Desktops!
Intel processors have always been the de facto CPUs for gaming desktops. But recently, AMD has been makin ...
Intel processors have always been the de facto CPUs for gaming desktops. But recently, AMD has been making real inroads with their new Ryzen processors. In fact, they just announced that HP and Acer h ...
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AMD Radeon RX 580 Performance Comparison
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AMD Radeon RX 580 Performance Comparison
The gaming enthusiast community may be eagerly waiting for AMD Vega to arrive, but AMD breathed life into ...
The gaming enthusiast community may be eagerly waiting for AMD Vega to arrive, but AMD breathed life into the AMD Polaris microarchitecture with a refreshed line-up, which they called the AMD Radeon R ...
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The GeForce GTX 1050 & 1050 Ti Performance Comparison
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The GeForce GTX 1050 & 1050 Ti Performance Comparison
On 20 October 2016, NVIDIA officially launched the new GeForce GTX 1050 and GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics ...
On 20 October 2016, NVIDIA officially launched the new GeForce GTX 1050 and GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics cards. Built around the new NVIDIA GP107 GPU, the two new GeForce cards are designed for entry- ...
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AMD Doubles Down On mGPU Frame Pacing
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AMD Doubles Down On mGPU Frame Pacing
Adding to Radeon Software Crimson Edition’s enhancements for DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and DirectX 11, Radeo ...
Adding to Radeon Software Crimson Edition’s enhancements for DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and DirectX 11, Radeon Software 16.9.1 enables multi-GPU frame pacing support to DirectX12 on all GCN-enabled GPUs a ...
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AMD Radeon RX 480 CrossFire Performance Comparison
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AMD Radeon RX 480 CrossFire Performance Comparison
You have seen our Radeon RX 480 review, so today, we are going to take a look at its CrossFire performanc ...
You have seen our Radeon RX 480 review, so today, we are going to take a look at its CrossFire performance. For the uninitiated, that's two Radeon RX 480 graphics cards running together. You may recal ...
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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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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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Sapphire & XFX Radeon RX 480 Available In Malaysia
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Sapphire & XFX Radeon RX 480 Available In Malaysia
Local tech retailer, TECH Armory, just revealed the local pricing for the new AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics ...
Local tech retailer, TECH Armory, just revealed the local pricing for the new AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics card. They brought in the 8 GB model of the Radeon RX 480 from Sapphire and XFX. Unfortunately, ...
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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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AMD Radeon RX Series Pre-Launched @ E3
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AMD Radeon RX Series Pre-Launched @ E3
Los Angeles, California, 13 June 2016 — Today at Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) AMD CEO Lisa Su deliv ...
Los Angeles, California, 13 June 2016 — Today at Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) AMD CEO Lisa Su delivered a pre-launch showcase of the full line of forthcoming Radeon RX Series graphics cards set ...
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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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AMD Technologies Revealed at Computex 2016
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AMD Technologies Revealed at Computex 2016
On the second day of Computex 2016, AMD held a press conference at the Westin Taipei. In that hour-long p ...
On the second day of Computex 2016, AMD held a press conference at the Westin Taipei. In that hour-long press conference, they announced multiple updates on their latest and upcoming processor and gra ...
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