AMD Radeon R7 250 1GB GDDR5 Review & Benchmarking

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…

Xbox One eSRAM “Not Complex, Just a Bottleneck”, Claims Developer

The Xbox One’s eSRAM has continued to be in the news since before even the consoles release, but for all of the wrong reasons. It’s often attributed to the systems lower performance “I don’t get this obsession with MS fanboys…

AMD Kevari Architecture GDDR5 Support

AMD have their fingers in many pies recently, pushing PC development along with providing the APU technology residing inside the PS4 and X1. Recently, AMD’s own Developers Guide for the BIOS and Kernels of the Kevari hints of remnants of GDDR5 support…

Exclusive AMD Interview – Discussing GCN Architecture, Compute Performance & The Future Part 1

AMD are one of the biggest forces in next generation gaming right now. AMD are producing the chips for the next generation consoles, the Playstation 4, Wii U and Xbox One. Additionally, the Radeon R9 290X is one of the…

Exclusive AMD Interview – Discussing GCN Architecture, Performance & The Future Part 1 Page 2

Let’s assume I’m a games developer and I’m in the middle of creating a game for the PS4. There are reports that Mantle is similar to the Playstation 4’s API. Since the PS4 uses the GCN technology, Is it relatively…

PS4 – Developers Were Speechless When 8GB GDDR5 Ram Was Announced

Sony’s Playstation 4 is pretty infamous by now for its memory system. The Playstation 4 sports 8GB of GDDR5 memory, giving a total bandwidth of 176GB/s of unified memory, with a robust bus structure to help send data whizzing around…

PS4 Hardware – What’s Inside The PS4

Now that the Playstation 4 has been released we have a good understanding of what lies inside the machine. In this article we’re going to be taking an overall look at the PS4’s internals and doing an analysis of all that…

PS4 Vs Xbox One – GDDR5 Vs DDR3 Memory Latency

GDDR5 vs DDR3 Latency & Bandwidth. Since the Playstation 4’s and Xbox One’s specs were leaked on the internet (but of course, back then the systems were known as Orbis and Durango), there’s been much debate regarding the latency of…

Playstation 4 Memory – 4.5GB Available For Games Developers

Sony have long boasted of the Playstation 4’s 8GB of GDDR5 unified memory. Unfortunately, there was little answer as to how much of the total memory was available for game developers to utilize, and how much was dedicated to the…