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With the rise of the handheld gaming PC market, we've seen PC vendors and their partners toy with a number of tricks and tweaks to improve improve framerates in games, with some of their latest efforts on display at this year's Computex trade show. Perhaps the most interesting find thus far comes from ADATA sub-brand XPG, who is demoing their prototype "Nia" handheld PC, which uses eye tracking and dynamic foveated rendering to further improve their rendering performance. For those unfamiliar, dynamic foveated rendering is a graphics technique that is sometimes used to boost performance in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications by taking advantage of how human vision works. Typically, humans can only perceive detailed imagery in the relatively small central area...
AMD AM1 Kabini Part 2: Athlon 5350/5150 and Sempron 3850/2650 Tested
While there is a lot of focus on the mainstream desktop market, we hastily reviewed the new entrant to the low-end socketed desktop from AMD, the AM1 Kabini platform...
87 by Ian Cutress on 5/29/2014
AMD Posts Mantle Whitepaper
As part of a larger Mantle promotion, AMD has posted a number of blogs on their site detailing their low level API. The blog posts themselves are unabashedly closer...
25 by Ryan Smith on 5/29/2014
AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta Drivers Released, Adds New Eyefinity Functionality & More
For our second video card driver update of the week we have AMD, who is releasing their Catalyst 14.6 beta drivers today. Like NVIDIA’s driver release, this is first and...
49 by Ryan Smith on 5/27/2014
AMD Publishes Mobile Kaveri Specifications
In an unexpected (and likely erroneous) move, AMD has published the specifications for their forthcoming mobile Kaveri APUs on their website this morning (scroll down and click on Model...
36 by Ryan Smith on 5/26/2014
AMD Cuts Radeon R9 280 to $249
AMD sends word this afternoon that they’re instituting an official price cut for one of their more recently launched video cards, the Radeon R9 280. The 280, AMD’s lower...
43 by Ryan Smith on 5/13/2014
VESA Adds Adaptive-Sync to DisplayPort 1.2a Standard; Variable Refresh Monitors Move Forward
The last half-year or so has seen the concept of variable refresh desktop monitors advance rather quickly. After sitting on the technology backburner for a number of years, the...
38 by Ryan Smith on 5/12/2014
Sapphire R9 290X Vapor-X 8GB Hits Retail: UK Only, £600
Back at CeBit 2014 we ran a news item regarding a couple of Sapphire branded AMD GPUs that used double the video memory of the standard R9 290X. It...
18 by Ian Cutress on 5/7/2014
AMD is also working on a new 64-bit x86 Core
Jim Keller joined Mark Papermaster on stage at AMD's Core Innovation Update press conference and added a few more details to AMD's K12 announcement. Keller stressed AMD's expertise in...
112 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/5/2014
AMD Announces K12 Core: Custom 64-bit ARM Design in 2016
In 2015 AMD will launch project SkyBridge, a pair of pin-compatible ARM and x86 based SoCs. Leveraging next generation Puma+ x86 cores or ARM's Cortex A57 cores, these SoCs...
22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/5/2014
AMD Announces Project SkyBridge: Pin-Compatible ARM and x86 SoCs in 2015, Android Support
This morning AMD decided to provide an update on its CPU core/SoC roadmap, particularly as it pertains to the ARM side of the business. AMD already committed to releasing...
34 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/5/2014
AMD Mantle Developer Private Beta Begins
Word comes from AMD this morning that the private beta for the Mantle developer program has begun. Up until now the Mantle SDK (not to be confused with the...
51 by Ryan Smith on 5/1/2014
AMD Beema/Mullins Architecture & Performance Preview
When AMD launched its Kabini and Temash APUs last year it delivered a compelling cost/performance story, but its power story wasn’t all that impressive. Despite being built out of...
82 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/29/2014
ASUS A88X-Pro Review: Kaveri, Kaveri, Quite Contrary
Pricing for motherboards varies wildly. While the performance platforms command a premium, those based on significant integrated graphics performance are considerably cheaper. In fact in 2014 it seems relatively...
35 by Ian Cutress on 4/22/2014
AMD Posts Catalyst 14.4 Release Candidate Drivers
Coinciding with this week’s launch of the Radeon R9 295X2, AMD has posted their latest Catalyst drivers, now at version 14.4. Catalyst 14.4 is the first driver set for...
19 by Ryan Smith on 4/21/2014
AMD Announces Refresh of Never Settle Forever Program
After letting their Never Settle Forever gaming bundle program slowly lapse over the past few months, AMD sends word this morning that they’re going to be significantly refreshing the...
11 by Ryan Smith on 4/21/2014
The AM1 Kabini Motherboard Preview: Analyzing the Hardware
One of AMD’s primary feature points for the AM1 Kabini platform was the introduction of low-cost motherboards. The promotional material provided gave a suggested AM1 combined price of $60...
64 by Ian Cutress on 4/19/2014
AMD Q1 2014 Quarterly Earnings Analysis
AMD hosted their quarterly earnings conference call this afternoon to announce their financial results for the quarter ending March 2014. While they still reported a GAAP loss of $20...
37 by Brett Howse on 4/17/2014
The Desktop Kabini Review Part 1: AMD Athlon 5350 (AM1) Tested
Last month AMD announced their Socketed AM1 Kabini platform to focus on the low-end desktop market where low cost, low power and upgradability are important factors for system integrators...
126 by Ian Cutress on 4/9/2014
The AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Review
Launching today is AMD's Radeon R9 295X2. After much consumer speculation and more than a few teasers, AMD is releasing their long-awaited Hawaii-powered entry to their dual-GPU series of...
131 by Ryan Smith on 4/8/2014
AMD Launches FirePro W9100
Kicking off this week is the 2014 NAB Show, the National Association of Broadcasters’ annual trade show for broadcast content and technology. The NAB Show is often a launch...
20 by Ryan Smith on 4/7/2014
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