AMD’s brand new Radeon Software Crimson Edition Drivers appear to have a somewhat major bug where the video cards fan is locked at 20% and it doesn’t matter what state the card is in. We Continue reading “AMD Radeon Software Crimson Driver Hotfix Coming Tomorrow For Fan Fix”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 29, 2015 at 11:48pm
We missed this in the Radeon Software Crimson Edition driver release notes, but it appears that AMD had ended driver support for non-GCN based video cards and older APU’s (Llano, Trinity and Richland). AMD is Continue reading “AMD Ends Driver Support For Radeon HD 8000, 7000, 6000 and 5000 Series Cards”. …more
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Nov. 25, 2015 at 2:57pm
Sapphire Radeon R9 380X Nitro OC 4GB Video Card Review AMD launched this week what is likely their last desktop graphics card of 2015, the AMD Radeon R9 380X. AMD is hopeful that this card Continue reading “Sapphire Radeon R9 380X Nitro Video Card Review”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 20, 2015 at 5:31pm
Overnight we received an official statement from AMD about the class action lawsuit filed against the chip maker alleging the company engaged in fraud and deceptive marketing when it claimed that Bulldozer processors had eight Continue reading “AMD Issues Official Statement Regarding Bulldozer Core Count Suit”. …more
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Nov. 10, 2015 at 1:37pm
Ubisoft has published the official PC minimum and recommended specifications for Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate ahead of the games release on November 19th, 2015. It looks like the system requirements for PC gamers is fairly stout Continue reading “Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate Recommended Specifications For PC Users”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 6, 2015 at 2:12pm
GLOBALFOUNDRIES Achieves 14nm FinFET Technology Success for Next-Generation AMD Products Leading-edge foundrys proven silicon technology poised to help enable significant performance and power efficiency improvements for AMDs next-generation products Santa Clara, Calif., November 5, 2015 Continue reading “GLOBALFOUNDRIES 14nm FinFET Technology Ready For AMD CPUs”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 6, 2015 at 1:58pm
We just learned that AMD is being sued for damages in civil court over the number of cores found on Bulldozer 8-core CPUs. A gentleman named Tony Dickey filed a class-action lawsuit on Oct. 26th, Continue reading “AMD Sued For Bulldozer CPU Core Count”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 6, 2015 at 1:15pm
Chipworks is working on creating a package analysis report detailing the Fiji GPU with Hynix’s High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) that is used by AMD’s Radeon R9 Fury X desktop graphics card. Reports like this usually Continue reading “AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Fiji’s GPU Seen Like Never Before”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 5, 2015 at 10:22pm
AMD today announced that after over 1 billion downloads and being around for 13 years, AMD Catalyst drivers are being retired and will be replaced with AMD Radeon Software later this month. This change is Continue reading “AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition Drivers Will Replace Catalyst”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 2, 2015 at 3:56pm
Microsoft’s DirectX 12 API features support for asymmetric multi-GPU setups as long as the cards support a consistent DX12 feature-level. Ryan Smith over at Anandtech put Microsoft’s claims to the test by running an AMD Continue reading “Anandtech Shows DirectX 12 NVIDIA and AMD GPUs Works Great Together!”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Oct. 26, 2015 at 7:57pm
AMD Achieves High-End Embedded Performance Leadership with New R-Series Processors New Embedded Single-Chip Offerings Deliver Superior Graphics, First DDR4 Memory Support Sunnyvale, California. 10/21/2015 AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) today announced new AMD Embedded R-Series SOC processors that Continue reading “AMD R-Series Processors Debut With Support For DDR4 Memory”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Oct. 21, 2015 at 5:19pm
AMD Reports 2015 Third Quarter Results Strong 13% quarter-over-quarter revenue growth $65 million inventory write-down primarily of older-generation APUs Announced corporate restructuring plan to further reduce operating expenses Announcing a definitive agreement for Assembly, Test, Continue reading “AMD Reports Q3 Loss – Sells Some Assets to China and Predicts Q4 Revenue Decrease”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Oct. 16, 2015 at 1:42pm
AMD has been making some internal changes in recent weeks with the most notable being that they reorganized itself to create the Radeon Technologies Group so that their graphics division and its employees were together Continue reading “NVIDIA Hires Phil Rogers After Being With AMD For 21 Years”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Oct. 14, 2015 at 2:43pm
AMD has released Catalyst 15.10 Beta video card drivers! This driver improves the DX12 quality and performance on Ashes of the Singularity and resolved issues on the aforementioned game title as well as Star Wars: Continue reading “AMD Catalyst 15.10 Beta Video Card Drivers Released”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Oct. 14, 2015 at 2:02pm
AMD Partners with Oculus and Dell to Power Oculus Ready PCs AMD Radeon R9 GPUs to deliver a fully immersive VR experience for future Oculus Ready PCs Sunnyvale, Calif. 10/5/2015 AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced Continue reading “AMD and Dell Roll Out Oculus Ready Desktop PCs”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Oct. 6, 2015 at 1:51pm