Been impressed with AMD’s new Kaveri-based APUs? They represent an evolution of the company’s heterogenous computing architecture though, being even-handed, it will be a while before applications can take advantage of the efficiencies baked into the Steamroller core and GCN...
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Yesterday we took a look at a recent addition to the high end of the GPU market, a custom design overclocked AMD Radeon R9 290X. It went head to head with the similarly priced GeForce GTX in a selection of...
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I’ve been looking forward to testing this product ever since we got back from CES 2014 where we got our first look at the latest range of be quiet! CPU coolers that will be hitting the market this year. The...
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Sapphire Technology has announced the R7 250 Ultimate video card, a passively cooled video card based on the AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. No mechanical moving parts and a passive heat pipe and heat sink cooler that is quiet...
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It has been a long time coming but we take a look at early and initial Mantle performance and a quick and rather basic initial article. The upcoming AMD Radeon 14.1 Beta driver will receive many improvements, the one most...
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Based on performance testing by AMD using pre-release beta software and driver versions. Final released versions of software/drivers may vary yielding different results. AMD Radeon R9 290X discrete graphics card using the ‘Mantle’ graphics API performed at 55 FPS in...
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AMD launched a trio of new APUs just recently. Codenamed Kaveri and using an updated CPU architecture (Steamroller) alongside GCN graphics present in discrete Radeons, the premium mainstream A8 and A10 chips offer solid performance in most applications. But there...
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AMD released their new lineup of GCN-based video cards back in October and the industry manufacturers have since been adding their own special tweaks and improvements to the initial designs. XFX has recently released their latest version of the Radeon...
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We review the MSI Radeon R9-290X Gaming OC. The cards equipped with that Hawaii GPU now is proper cooled thanks to the TwinFrozr cooler and steadily running and purring at just over 70 Degrees C, that’s under full gaming load....
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The latest AMD R9 GPUs have hit the market, and we’re sure that many of you have been salivating over them, wanting to get your hands on these fire-spitting graphics cards. Unquestionably the best of the R9 280X’s comes from...
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Llano put K10 CPU cores and a Radeon HD 6000 series GPU on the same die and introduced us to the FM1 socket. The Fusion project was then reformed as the Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA). After Llano came Trinity, the...
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We review the all new AMD A8-7600 APU from AMD. This APU is based on AMD’s new Kaveri architecture bringing the CPU and the GPU even closer together as the two “segments” now really have been merged into the die....
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CES — On the show floor here at CES today, I spoke briefly with Nvidia’s Tom Petersen, the executive instrumental in the development of G-Sync technology, about the AMD “free sync” demo we reported on yesterday. Alongside the demo, a...
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We review the Gigabyte Radeon R9-290X WindForce 3X OC edition. A lot of you guys have been waiting on a custom cooled version of this product. Armed with the latest revision of the WindForce 3X cooler and will get that...
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CES — During an impromptu meeting in a hotel ballroom this morning, I got an eye-opening demo orchestrated by AMD Graphics CTO Raja Koduri. He had a pair of relatively inexpensive laptops sitting side by side running a simple graphics...
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