AMD are getting set to release their new GPU known by the codename ‘Tonga’, and the Radeon R9 285 will be the first in the Tonga product line. If you’re expecting a massive cooler and the a card which dwarfs the Titan Black, you’ll be disappointed. Instead we have a smaller card that possibly.

AMD’s shiny new API is out in the wild, already developers such as DICE are embracing Mantle and users who’ve opted for certain AMD GPU’s are taking advantage of the performance gains. But let’s say you’re torn between buying an AMD Radeon GPU or one of Nvidia’s Geforce lines – should Mantle be a.

Let’s face it, while the bleeding edge cards are certainly the most impressive in performance, the £150 to £250 pounds market segment is generally the one representing the best value to gamer’s. Both AMD and Nvidia are hard at working to win the hearts and minds of gamer’s who’re looking for an upgrade to.

For something that won’t be seeing the light of day until next year, DirectX 12 is in the news an awful lot. Whether it be on the PC or the Xbox One, a week doesn’t go by without the new API popping up on the radar. And for good reason, its release will certainly.

Since the Playstation 4 or Xbox One’s specs were leaked online both gamer’s and media have placed a lot of their focus on both the resolution a game runs at, along with its frame rate. Much of the the Xbox One vs Playstation 4 debate revolves around resolution and if a game runs at.

For PC owners, DirectX 12’s release next year will solve a long running issue with PC gaming – lack of a low level GPU access via the API. Sure, right now we’ve got AMD’s awesome Mantle API, but there are developers who’re a little cautious to stray away from the well supported DirectX API..

Just yesterday we’d reported on an interview Forbes had with AMD’s Robert Hallock where he’d mentioned Nvidia’s GameWorks is harmful to the PC gaming marketplace as a whole. There were numerous reasons cited, including the lack of optimization on GPU’s that weren’t from Nvidia (in other words, Intel or AMD graphics performance suffers) and.

As we’ve established by now, Microsoft certainly aren’t the first to offer a low level API solution to PC developers, and likely won’t be the last (don’t be surprised when we hear the OpenGL low level announcement). DirectX 12 will almost certainly have the largest impact on PC games developers for a plethora of.

Microsoft’s GDC 2014 announcement of DirectX 12 came as little surprise to those in the tech industry, MS had boasted and teased about its released in advance after all. Rather, the surprise came with just how similarly it seemed to resemble AMD’s Mantle technology, and that it would work on current graphics cards. If.

The news of Microsoft’s new API has spread around the internet rather quickly, and despite there still being a little confusion regarding the API it’s going to be great news for PC gamer’s. In theory, it should provide huge reductions in the overheads which have long been associated with PC gaming, allowing a more.

The Radeon R7 250 surprised me – I wasn’t expecting great performance for what is marketed towards the lower end of the performance segment as the R7 250 can be had for around the 60 pounds mark, which represents a fantastic deal for those who’re looking to play modern titles on something more than.

Thief has just been released and AMD aren’t letting the opportunity slip by. To coincide with Thief’s PC release, AMD have put out the 14.2 Beta’s of the Catalyst drivers. Thief is actually an AMD optimized title, and in March will receive an update which will allow the title to use both TrueAudio and.

AMD’s long awaited Mantle technology has been released with the Catalyst 14.1 BETA, and we can try it out with a new client update for BF4. While we’re certainly seeing improvements in Battlefield 4 there has been some confusion as to what the Mantle API actually does and does not do.  It was widely.

Excitement has been building over the release of AMD’s Mantle API for months, and after Dice and AMD delayed the Mantle Patch for Battlefield 4, things went quiet on release. Aside from whispers from both companies that we’d be seeing it some time this month (January). But now, reports are popping up that AMD’s.