AMD Project Hydra Arrives – Full Dual Hawaii GPUs on One Card The AMD Radeon R9 295X2 video card has finally arrived! This is the first dual-GPU graphics card based on AMD’s latest Hawaii architecture Continue reading “AMD Radeon R9 295X2 8GB Video Card Review at 4K Ultra HD”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
BIOSTAR Launches Three Versions of AMDs AM1 Motherboards March 24th, 2014, Taipei, Taiwan BIOSTAR introduced a trio of Socket LGA AM1 motherboards for AMD “Kabini” SoCs, the small form factor AM1MHP, AM1MH and AM1ML. These Continue reading “BIOSTAR Launches Three Versions of AMDs AM1 Motherboards”. …more
By Ken Brown •
AMD Gaming Evolved Expands with Trio of Exclusive Gaming Partnerships SUNNYVALE, Calif. 3/19/2014 AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced three new game developer partnerships for AMD Gaming Evolved, an ISV relationship program that assists developers in Continue reading “AMD Gaming Evolved Expands with Trio of Exclusive Gaming Partnerships”. …more
By Dan Stoltz •
AMD Mantle & TrueAudio Patch for THIEF Mantle & TrueAudio are a pair of new features used by AMD on select Radeon R7 and R9 video cards that are Graphics Core Next (GCN) compatible. Mantle Continue reading “AMD Mantle & TrueAudio Patch for THIEF Tested”. …more
By Steven Kean •
AMD Embraces Gamers with AMD Rewards Program Powered by Raptr, comprehensive loyalty program grants gamers a chance to earn points and claim prizes in the AMD Gaming Evolved community SUNNYVALE, Calif. Feb. 19, 2014 AMD Continue reading “New AMD Rewards Program Gives You Points Through Raptr App”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
AMD Launches New Video Cards and Slashes Prices Ahead of NVIDIA’s Maxwell GPU Release Last week AMD beefed up their entry-level and mid-range graphics cards with the introduction of the AMD Radeon R7 250X and Continue reading “AMD Radeon R7 265 2GB Video Card Review with Sapphire Dual-X R7 265”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
AMD this week beefed up their entry-level and mid-range graphics cards with the introduction of the AMD Radeon R7 250X and the Radeon R7 265. It appears that AMD did this to help fill in Continue reading “AMD Announces Radeon R7 265 Video Card and Cuts R7 260X Prices”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
BIOSTAR Hi-Fi A88W 3D Latest AMD FM2+ Motherboard with 6+ Experience February 10th, 2014, Taipei, Taiwan BIOSTAR has released the Hi-Fi A88W 3D motherboard based on the new AMD FM2+ socket design that will support Continue reading “Biostar Hi-Fi A88W 3D Motherboard Announces w/ AMD A88X Chipset”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Overclocking AMD Mantle API with Catalyst 14.1 On February 1, 2014 AMD released the first public beta of the Catalyst 14.1 drivers as Beta 1.6 with Mantle support. Previously we tested Beta 1.5 drivers, and Continue reading “AMD Mantle BF4 and StarSwarm Testing Part 2 – Overclocking the GPU and CPU”. …more
By Steven Kean •
AMD will be releasing Catalyst 14.1 driver with Mantle API support tonight, but a few of our readers have informed us that AMD has silently made the download links live on AMD.com. You can download Continue reading “AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta v1.6 Drivers Available To Download”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
AMD Mantle Real World Performance AMD has been talking about the potential performance increase that their new Mantle technology is going to provide, we have all seen the numbers that AMD and EA-DICE has been Continue reading “AMD Mantle API Real World BF4 Benchmark Performance On Catalyst 14.1”. …more
By Steven Kean •
SAPPHIRE ULTIMATE IS FIRST SILENT R-SERIES CARD SAPPHIRE Technology has just introduced a passively cooled card in its new R7 series. The SAPPHIRE R7 250 ULTIMATE is the first totally silent card to embody all Continue reading “Sapphire Releases Passively Cooled AMD Radeon R7 250 Video Card”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Hours ago a Battlefield 4 Mantle patch was released by DICE as adds support for the AMD Mantle Graphics API. This means that there is finally a game title that supports AMD Mantle, but AMD Continue reading “AMD Mantle Now Supported in Battlefield 4 – NVIDIA Users Get Game Updates”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
AMD is working overtime this week trying to get the first Mantle driver out for gamers. We were told last night that they were working on another build of it and that build would be Continue reading “AMD Mantle Driver Release Notes Show Huge Performance Gains in BF4 and StarSwarm”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
AMD to Accelerate the ARM Server Ecosystem with the First ARM-based CPU and Development Platform from a Server Processor Vendor Also Announces ARM-based Open Compute Micro-Server Board and OCP Contribution SAN JOSE, Calif. Jan. 28, Continue reading “AMD Unveils its ARM Server Processor – AMD Opteron A1100 Series”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •