AMD today released Catalyst 13.12 WHQL video card drivers. We aren’t exactly sure what is new as the release notes compare the new Catalyst 13.2 WHQL drivers against AMD Catalyst 13.9 drivers. We have no Continue reading “AMD Releases Catalyst 13.12 WHQL Video Card Drivers”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Dec. 19, 2013 at 1:59am
AMD Radeon R7 260 GPU Brings Graphics Performance, Efficiency and Value With Mantle API Support and Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture, the AMD Radeon R7 260 GPU Is an Ideal Mid-Range Gaming Graphics Card ** Continue reading “AMD Radeon R7 260 GPU Launched At $109”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Dec. 17, 2013 at 1:44pm
AMD Cuts Bonaire GPU Features To Get The Price To $109 The AMD Bonaire XT GPU was first used on the AMD Radeon HD 7790 video card in March 2013 and then more recently on Continue reading “AMD Radeon R7 260 1GB Video Card Review”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Dec. 17, 2013 at 5:07am
Are you wondering what AMD is up to with their frame pacing fixes? AMD just e-mailed Legit Reviews and let us know that that a new Catalyst beta driver is coming in January 2014 that Continue reading “AMD Gives Quick Update on Frame Pacing Solution”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Dec. 11, 2013 at 11:36pm
Water Cooling Your Video Card With Asetek Style Coolers When we heard that NZXT was coming out with a low-cost water cooling kit for video cards we were ecstatic and couldn’t wait to get one Continue reading “NZXT Kraken G10 GPU Water Cooler Review on an AMD Radeon R9 290X”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Dec. 10, 2013 at 2:13pm
It looks like our article about the performance variance wasn’t enough to get AMD to issue a statement on the matter, but Scott Wasson’s article over at The Tech Report did the trick. After sites Continue reading “AMD Issues Statement on Radeon R9 290X Speed, Heat and Variance Issues”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Dec. 6, 2013 at 7:15pm
The AMD Radeon R9 290X reference card has taken some serious heat for being a hot graphics card with a poor reference GPU cooler design. ASUS hopes to correct that situation with the ASUS R9 Continue reading “ASUS Shows Off Custom AMD Radeon R9 290X Video Card – ASUS R9 290X DirectCU II”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Dec. 5, 2013 at 8:52pm
AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta V9.5 have been released and are now available to download! These drives fix this issue where AMD Overdrive is missing on AMD’s high-end Radeon R9 290 series cards that we told Continue reading “AMD Releases Catalyst 13.11 Beta V9.5 Drivers”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Dec. 3, 2013 at 9:59pm
Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X OC Video Card – GV-R927XOC-2GD The Radeon R9 270X graphics card was released by AMD in October 2013 and quickly became a favorite for gamers wanting a new card at the Continue reading “Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X OC Video Card Review”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Dec. 2, 2013 at 10:29pm
Don’t expect anything for Christmas, but it appears that AMD is working on a dual-GPU graphics card called Vesuvius. The upcoming flagship video card was recently added to product roadmaps and is named after Mount Continue reading “AMD Working on Dual Hawaii GPU Card Called Vesuvius”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 28, 2013 at 1:48am
Rebellion announced today that they will be using AMD’s Mantle graphics API to get the very best hardware performance with their in-house game engine, Asura. The Asura game engine powers all of the Rebellion game Continue reading “Rebellion Announces They Will Be Using AMD Mantle In their Games”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 21, 2013 at 8:38pm
U.S. Government Awards AMD Contract to Research Interconnect Architectures for High-Performance Computing $3.1 Million Public-Private Partnership to Accelerate R&D of Critical Technologies Needed for Extreme-Scale Computing SUNNYVALE, CA–(Marketwired – Nov 19, 2013) – AMD (NYSE: Continue reading “U.S. Government Awards AMD $3.1 Million For HPC Research”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 19, 2013 at 7:30pm
We told you yesterday that AMD was launching a new game bundle promotion called Never Settle Forever. The new holiday game bundle was exciting as all AMD Radeon R9 Series cards sold after the program Continue reading “AMD Battlefield 4 Game Bundle Not All-Inclusive – 1,000 BF4 Copies To Be Given Away”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 14, 2013 at 11:01pm
Designed for Big Data Applications, AMD Announces Industry’s First “Supercomputing” Server Graphics Card With 12GB Memory New AMD FirePro S10000 12GB Edition Graphics Card Is Designed for Heterogeneous Compute Applications Built on OpenCL and Delivers Continue reading “AMD FirePro S10000 12GB Edition Graphics Card Coming Spring 2014”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 14, 2013 at 7:09pm
A few sites have posted up articles about performance variances on the new R9 290 series and AMD is working on a new driver that will help reduce the variances people have been seeing. Basically, Continue reading “AMD Preparing New Catalyst Graphics Driver For R9 290 Series”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 7, 2013 at 10:04pm