AMD Catalyst Omega 14.12 Driver Performance AMD worked on the Catalyst Omega Driver (Catalyst 14.12) that was released earlier this week for nearly six months. These new drivers bring new features, a ton of bug fixes and of course the usual performance and quality improvements that gamers expect from each new driver release. AMD put so much …more

  The AMD Catalyst Omega Drivers have been released! These new drivers have been in the works for the past six month and deliver many new features, a ton of bug fixes and of course the usual performance and quality improvements that gamers expect from each new driver release. AMD put so much time and …more

Ubisoft The Crew NVIDIA Gaming Performance Benchmarked Developed by Ivory Tower, The Crew is Ubisoft’s latest game and is an open but persistent environment for races that take place across the United States.  You play as Alex Taylor, an elite driver that goes to prison after being framed for murder. When the FBI offers you …more

New NVIDIA Driver Enables MFAA for Maxwell GPUs NVIDIA today released GeForce Game Ready Driver 344.75 WHQL drivers and with the driver comes support for Multi-Frame Sampled Anti-Aliasing (MFAA). MFAA is an implementation of Anti-Aliasing (AA) that NVIDIA hopes will replace MSAA in the years to come. MSAA is one of the oldest and most popular …more

ASUS ROG Swift PG278Q – Our First G-Sync Gaming Monitor The ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) SWIFT PG278Q 27-inch WQHD G-Sync display has been lauded as the best gaming monitor for the second half of 2014. This monitor boasts a 27-inch WQHD LED display boasts a 2560 x 1440 (16:9) screen resolution on a TN panel with …more

Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth – AMD DX & Mantle Versus NVIDIA DX   Civilization is without a doubt one of the most successful strategy games ever released and chances are you are anticipating the release of Civilization: Beyond Earth this week. Civilization: Beyond Earth reimagines the expansive franchise in a new sci-fi setting where …more

NVIDIA Maxwell Brings GeForce GTX 980 Earlier this year NVIDIA gave us our first look at the Maxwell GPU architecture with the release of the GeForce GTX 750 Ti video card. We were thoroughly impressed by the little card and have been waiting for more than half a year for the ‘larger’ GPU cores to …more

Sapphire Dual-X R9 280 3GB Overclock Edition The AMD Radeon R9 2xx series has been out since October 2013, and we are continuing to see new versions of the R9 200 series.  The R9 280 series is basically a rebranded Radeon HD 7950 with a few tweaks.  Powered by a single 28nm Tahiti XTL GPU, …more

Sapphire R9 290X Vapor-X OC with AERO 10 VRM The Sapphire R9 290X Vapor-X OC is one of the most recent AMD Radeon R9 290X video cards to come to market. The Radeon R9 290X became the flagship single-GPU card for AMD nearly 8 months ago (released in October 2013) and it has been a …more

AMD Mantle Patch for THIEF on Intel 3570K CPU Battlefield 4 was the first game to support Mantle, and Legit Reviews found that with just a driver update and patch by EA-DICE, Mantle did provide a significant performance increase.  Now, Square Enix has stepped up and patched Thief to support Mantle and AMD’s TrueAudio.  Recently, we …more

Sapphire Vapor-X R9 290 Overclock Edition The Radeon R9 290 GPU came out in November 2013, making it almost 6 months old, and while it isn’t the top of the line model it still has some impressive specifications.  Powered by a single 28nm AMD Hawaii GPU, it features 2560 Stream processors running at 947MHz, and …more

Trying out an AMD Radeon R9 290 CrossFire Setup If you are looking for a graphics card for a high-end gaming system that can push a 4K Ultra HD display or triple panel configuration you have a number of choices from both AMD and NVIDIA. More than likely the AMD Radeon R9 290 series and …more

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 and just happens to use two fully enabled Hawaii XT GPUs. With 5,632 stream processors (2 x 2,816) running …more

XFX Throws Some DDs Up On the Radeon R9 290 The AMD Radeon R9 290X graphics card came out in October 2013 and gets a ton of attention due to the fact that it is the flagship single-GPU card by AMD. The AMD Radeon R9 290 came out a month later and doesn’t get much …more