Next-generation consoles bring with them a myriad of improvements, an assortment of raw spec upgrades (such as more GPU grunt, additional RAM and such things), but new hardware features and optimization is just as important. The Xbox Series X and…
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RX 6800 XT & Intel i9 10900K Smart Access Memory Benchmarks & Analysis
Smart Access Memory or SAM if you prefer, was a feature AMD touted heavily as it marketed both its Radeon RX 6000 series of graphics cards, and the Ryzen 5000 series processors. This feature AMD claimed, offered a nice bump…
Radeon RX 6900XT Photos EXCLUSIVE
Here’s just a quick article for those who to see AMD’s RDNA 2 based RX 6900XT graphics card in the flesh. These photos were sent to us awhile ago, but I was asked to hold off posting them until just…
Is the Radeon RX 5600 XT Better Value Than The RX 5700 ? Featuring MSI
Chances are pretty good that if you’re in the market for a graphics card for under $300, you’ve been considering AMD’s Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics card. Priced about $100 cheaper than the RX 5700 (which it shares many of…
AMD RDNA 3 Is Chiplet Based and RDNA 4 Already in Development
In July 2019, after much anticipation, AMD launched the first generation of RDNA based graphics cards, with the RX 5700 XT sporting 40 Compute Units, and the RX 5700 snipping 4 of those (leaving just 36 active). Both of these…
Big Navi Release Date & Naming Scheme is RX 6000 | Exclusive
If you’ve been following AMD’s GPU plans for any length of time, you’ll know that the current latest line of graphics cards from the company is based on the first generation of RDNA architecture, with the highest-end graphics card in…
Navi 12 Isn’t ‘Big Navi’ But Instead Navi 10 With HBM2 | Rumor
Over the past few months, there’s been a lot of mystery to what is going on with AMD’s ‘Big Navi’ GPU, which we assumed to be Navi 12. AMD launched Navi 10 in the form of the Radeon RX 5700…
Radeon RX 5700 Review – AMD Comes Back Strong
There was certainly lots of hype surrounding the launch of AMD’s Navi graphics cards, with buyers eager to know what alternatives the company would bring to Nvidia’s rather expensive Turing offers. AMD’s strategy with the RX 5700 and the RX…
An Investigation Of AMD’s Navi GPU & Ray Tracing Plans
I think it’s a great time to talk about AMD’s GPU plans, given that the lower end Navi 14 cards will soon be on the market (AMD have announced them but they’re not out as of the time I’m writing…
Navi 20 Series is Known Internally As ‘The Nvidia Killer’ | EXCLUSIVE
AMD currently have an answer to Nvidia’s mid-range offerings with their RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT graphics cards, and in the next few weeks, custom variants of those GPUs will be filtering onto store shelves from AIBs such as…
AMD Arcturus & Navi 12/14 Support Appears In Linux
If you’ve not been keeping up with the news for the past few months, AMD launched their RX 5700 and 5700 XT graphic cards back in the 7th July of this year. These GPUs are based on the RDNA architecture,…
AMD VEGA Radeon Instinct MI25 | The Company Finally Unveil Vega For Professional Use
Details for AMD’s upcoming range of Vega powered graphics cards have started to emerge, with the top dog, the Radeon Instinct MI25 outperforming Nvidia’s Pascal powered Titan X graphics cards handily in certain applications, and crushing Maxwell without issue. Currently, there…
AMD Polaris 10 XT2 and Polaris 12 Listed In Drivers | Vega Listed Too
AMD’s Polaris range of graphics cards perhaps represents one of the companies most successful and also frustrating products for a number of years for hardware enthusiasts. While all of the cards (perhaps most notably the RX 480) are damn impressive…
Interview With AMD’s Robert Hallock | Polaris, Graphics Technology, VR, DX12 & More
This year is shaping up to be an incredible year in gaming and technology, seeing the release of 14nm graphics cards, the first DirectX 12 and Vulkan titles, Virtual Reality headsets and a whole lot more. With this in mind,…
AMD Radeon Polaris 11 SKU Compute Units & Performance
As regularly readers and viewers will know, there are two known Polaris based Radeon GPU’s to be released this year, the Polaris 11 and the Polaris 10, with Vega 10 (the Fury / Fiji replacement cards) to see release during…