AMD
Earlier this month, AMD launched the first two desktop CPUs using their latest Zen 5 microarchitecture: the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Ryzen 5 9600X. As part of the new Ryzen 9000 family, it gave us their latest Zen 5 cores to the desktop market, as AMD actually launched Zen 5 through their mobile platform last month, the Ryzen AI 300 series (which we reviewed). Today, AMD is launching the remaining two Ryzen 9000 SKUs first announced at Computex 2024, completing the current Ryzen 9000 product stack. Both chips hail from the premium Ryzen 9 series, which includes the flagship Ryzen 9 9950X, which has 16 Zen 5 cores and can boost as high as 5.7 GHz, while the Ryzen 9 9900X has 12 Zen...
AMD Announces FirePro W4300: Low Profile FirePro
With the slower release cadence for AMD’s FirePro professional cards, we tend to only hear from the FirePro group once or twice per year. And with the last update...
17 by Ryan Smith on 12/1/2015
AMD Releasing New Crimson Drivers for GPU Fan Issue (Update: Released)
Update: AMD has now released the fixed driver, Crimson 15.11.1 Beta. This release also contains several other fixes according to AMD's notes, including further game fixes and some Radeon...
45 by Ian Cutress on 11/30/2015
AMD Moves Radeon HD 5000 & 6000 Series to Legacy Status - All Pre-Graphics Core Next GPUs Now Retired
Alongside today’s release of the new Radeon Software Crimson Edition driver set, AMD has published a new page on their driver site announcing that video cards based on the...
68 by Ryan Smith on 11/24/2015
AMD's Radeon Software Crimson Driver Released: New Features & A New Look
At the tail-end of 2014 AMD launched their Catalyst 14.12 driver set, better known as the Omega driver set. With Omega, AMD shifted their development process for the Catalyst...
146 by Ryan Smith & Daniel Williams on 11/24/2015
ARM on AMD: The A1100 Seattle Silicon at SuperComputing 15
Anyone loosely following AMD’s efforts with ARM intellectual property would have had on their periphery the noise of the A1100 product aimed at servers, codenamed Seattle. The idea was...
18 by Ian Cutress on 11/24/2015
The AMD Radeon R9 380X Review, Feat. ASUS STRIX
Last week AMD launched the Radeon R9 380X, the company’s latest mid-range video card. Based on a fully enabled GCN 1.2 Tonga GPU – a first for the desktop...
101 by Ryan Smith on 11/23/2015
AMD Launches Radeon R9 380X: Full-Featured Tonga at $229 for the Holidays
Back in September of 2014 AMD released their first Graphics Core Next 1.2 GPU, Tonga, which was the GPU at the heart of the Radeon R9 285. For all...
52 by Ryan Smith on 11/19/2015
AMD Launches Star Wars Battlefront Game Bundle For Radeon R9 Fury
Buying new graphics cards is always fun. Finding game deals while shopping for new graphics cards is even better. This time around AMD is bundling the newly released Star...
9 by Daniel Williams on 11/19/2015
The AMD A8-7670K APU Review: Aiming for Rocket League
Over the past couple of years, AMD has slowly released their mainstream brand of Kaveri processors. In turn, we have reviewed them, and they consistently aim to provide a...
154 by Ian Cutress on 11/18/2015
AMD Releases Catalyst 15.11.1 Beta Drivers
With AMD continuing to deliver beta driver updates left and right lately, today they come to us with another update. Another one of AMD’s point driver updates, Catalyst 15.11.1...
19 by Daniel Williams on 11/17/2015
AMD @ SC15: Boltzmann Initiative Announced - C++ and CUDA Compilers for AMD GPUs
The second in our major SC15 announcements comes from AMD, who is taking to the show to focus on the HPC capabilities of their FirePro S line of server...
20 by Ryan Smith on 11/16/2015
GlobalFoundries and AMD Announce First 14nm FinFET Sample Production Success
GlobalFoundries, AMD’s former chip manufacturing arm, is a fab that has seen some hard times. After being spun-off from AMD in 2009, the company has encountered repeated trouble releasing...
58 by Ryan Smith on 11/5/2015
AMD Announces Radeon Crimson Driver Branding & New Settings Control Panel
It was just under two months ago that AMD announced the major restructuring of their graphics division, which would see the graphics division made whole once again, more than...
88 by Ryan Smith on 11/2/2015
GeForce + Radeon: Previewing DirectX 12 Multi-Adapter with Ashes of the Singularity
Today we'll be taking an initial look into the unorthodox multi-GPU capabilities of DirectX 12. Developer Oxide Games, who is responsible for the popular Star Swarm demo we looked...
180 by Ryan Smith on 10/26/2015
AMD Launches Excavator Based R-Series APUs for Embedded with DDR4 Support
Despite the recent news surrounding AMDs reorganization and financials, today AMD is announcing the launch of its first DDR4 processors. But rather than aiming at the high end or...
34 by Ian Cutress on 10/21/2015
AMD Announces FY 2015 Q3 Results: Decreased Computing And Graphics Sales Hurt Bottom Line
Today AMD has announced their third quarter earnings for fiscal year 2015. AMD saw a 13% increase in revenue over Q2 2015, but revenues were down almost 26% over...
78 by Brett Howse on 10/15/2015
AMD To Spin-Off Back-End Testing & Assembly Operations Into Joint Venture For $371 Million
AMD’s Q3 2015 earnings release just hit the wire a bit ago, and while we’re still working on putting together that story we wanted to immediately jump into what...
41 by Ryan Smith on 10/15/2015
AMD Releases Catalyst 15.10 Beta Drivers
In a manner that appears it may be building momentum, AMD has released another new driver update. As this is a point driver release the changes aren't immense, but...
45 by Daniel Williams on 10/14/2015
AMD Corporate Fellow Phil Rogers Leaves Company, Joins NVIDIA
With respect to both structure and personnel, the last few months have been busy – if not tumultuous – for AMD. The company recently reorganized itself so that their...
83 by Ryan Smith on 10/13/2015
HSA Foundation Update: More HSA Hardware Coming Soon
When AMD set about bringing their CPU/GPU fusion initiative to life with the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) earlier this decade, one point AMD made early-on was that while they...
20 by Ryan Smith on 10/6/2015
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