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With AMD’s first-wave of Zen 4 CPUs now in the books with the Ryzen 7000 series, the consumer arm of AMD is now shifting its attention over to its graphics business. In a presentation that ended moments ago dubbed “together we advance_gaming”, Dr. Lisa Su and other AMD leaders laid out the future of AMD’s graphics products. And that future is the RDNA 3 architecture, which will be the basis of the new Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Radeon RX 7900 XT video cards. The two cards, set to be released on December 13th, will be the first products released using the RDNA 3 architecture. According to AMD, the new flagship 7900 XTX will deliver up to 70% more performance at 4K than their previous...
The Sapphire R9 280X Toxic Review
Today we're taking a look at Sapphire's Radeon R9 280X Toxic, the latest of the custom 280X cards to come rolling through our labs. With the Toxic series of...
85 by Ryan Smith on 10/10/2013The Radeon R9 280X Review: Feat. Asus & XFX - Meet The Radeon 200 Series
After being announced back at AMD's 2014 GPU Product Showcase, today AMD is finally launching the Radeon 200 series. Today we’ll be looking at the new series in detail...
151 by Ryan Smith on 10/8/2013AMD Catalyst 13.10 Beta2 Drivers Now Available
With the highly anticipated Battlefield 4 beta test kicking off today, AMD has pushed out their own driver update to coincide with the release of DICE’s multiplayer shooter. Catalyst 13.10...
19 by Ryan Smith on 10/1/2013AMD Comments On Upcoming Crossfire Eyefinity Frame Pacing Driver
For AMD owners currently wondering when AMD’s Crossfire frame pacing improvements will make their way to multi-monitor Eyefinity configurations, we finally have some additional news on the matter. While...
19 by Ryan Smith on 9/30/2013Understanding AMD’s Mantle: A Low-Level Graphics API For GCN
Wrapping up our AMD product showcase coverage, AMD’s final announcement of the day was a very brief announcement about a new API called Mantle. Mantle is something of an...
246 by Ryan Smith on 9/26/2013AMD Announces TrueAudio Technology For Upcoming GPUs
As part of today’s public session for AMD’s 2014 GPU product showcase, AMD has announced a new audio technology for some of their upcoming GPUs. Dubbed TrueAudio, Although technical...
62 by Ryan Smith on 9/25/2013AMD Announces Next Generation Radeon R7 and R9 Video Cards
At AMD’s 2014 GPU Product Showcase, AMD has just announced their upcoming next generation product lineup. In an unusual move they’re announcing a complete top-to-bottom of products at all...
72 by Ryan Smith on 9/25/2013AMD 2014 GPU Product Showcase Live Blog
We're seated for the start of AMD's 2014 GPU product showcase. We're expecting to see new GPUs from AMD, along with updates on Crossfire, Eyefinity, and AMD's Linux driver efforts.
60 by Ryan Smith & Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/25/2013AMD Offers A Taste Of Tomorrow’s GPU Showcase
We’re here at Kapolei, Hawaii in preparation for tomorrow’s AMD product showcase. While the bulk of AMD’s announcements will be centered around that and NDA sessions to follow, AMD...
30 by Ryan Smith on 9/24/2013AMD Catalyst 13.9 WHQL Drivers Available
Going along with this morning’s NVIDIA drivers announcement, AMD has released their latest 13.9 WHQL drivers today. AMD’s way of doing driver releases can frankly get a bit confusing...
12 by Jarred Walton on 9/19/2013AMD Announces 2014 GPU Product Showcase Webcast: Sept. 25, 3pm EDT
Picking up from where we left off this morning, AMD has unveiled their plans for their next GPU tech day, including plans for a product showcase webcast. AMD’s GPU 2014...
14 by Ryan Smith on 9/18/2013AMD Teases Next Enthusiast GPU: Still 28nm, 23% Smaller Than GK110
Rumors aside, after AMD’s unexpected preview of their 2013 GPU plans back at the start of this year the company has been mum-as-usual on the matter of their future...
49 by Ryan Smith on 9/18/2013Saints Row IV Added to AMD’s Never Settle Forever Gold Tier
AMD sends word this morning that they are making the first of their planned additions to their recently announced Never Settle Forever bundle program. Previously launched in August, Never...
3 by Ryan Smith on 9/10/2013AMD Catalyst 13.10 Beta Drivers Released
AMD has released another set of Catalyst beta drivers for their GPUs, this time ratcheting the version number up to 13.10. Catalyst 13.10 is a continuation of last month’s Catalyst...
5 by Ryan Smith on 9/9/2013Apple Initiates Video Card Replacement Program for Radeon HD 6970M Equipped Mid-2011 27” iMacs
In a somewhat baffling piece of news this weekend, word comes that Apple has initiated an internal replacement program for the video cards on some of their mid-2011 27&rdquo...
46 by Ryan Smith on 8/17/2013AMD Announces Never Settle Forever Bundle, Introduces Selectable Rewards
With AMD’s existing Never Settle Reloaded bundle set to wind-down this summer, AMD is announcing this morning that they are once again refreshing their popular Never Settle bundle program...
23 by Ryan Smith on 8/14/2013AMD's Radeon HD 7990 Gets an Official Price Cut: $799 and Below
We don’t typically run pipeline stories on video card price cuts, but then again most price cuts are gradual affairs that even the manufacturers themselves rarely draw attention to...
34 by Ryan Smith on 8/7/2013AMD Frame Pacing Explored: Catalyst 13.8 Brings Consistency to Crossfire
In the continuing saga of AMD's efforts to improve their framerate consistency, back in March AMD set a deadline of this summer to deliver their first driver implementing advanced...
102 by Ryan Smith on 8/1/2013AMD's A10-5750M Review, Part 1: The APU and Radeon HD 8650G Performance
While AMD's Richland update has been of modest benefit on the desktop, improved power consumption and turbo features tend to go over much better in mobile. Is the AMD...
82 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/28/2013MSI GX70 3BE: Richland A10 APU and Neptune 8970M Gaming Notebook
This is one of the more interesting pieces of hardware to keep an eye on if you're looking at a reasonably priced gaming notebook. I've toyed around with MSI's...
23 by Jarred Walton on 5/13/2013