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AMD has made itself quite a reputation with its bundling campaigns over the years, and every new season we can be sure that the company will be giving away free games with the purchase of its hardware. This summer will certainly not be exception as AMD will be bundling Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and Unknown 9: Awakening titles with its Ryzen 7000 CPUs and Radeon RX 7000 video cards. The latest bundle offer essentially covers all of AMD's existing mid-range and high-end consumer desktop products, sans the to-be-launched Ryzen 9000 series. That includes not only AMD's desktop parts, such as the Ryzen 9 7800X3D, but also virtually their entire stack of Radeon RX 7000 video cards, right on down to the 7600 XT. AMD's laptop...
AMD Launches Radeon 7700M, 7800M, and 7900M Mobile GPUs
Late last year, we covered the first part of AMD’s HD 7000M product lineup, the 7400M, 7500M, and 7600M. Today, the other shoe drops as we get the high-end...
53 by Jarred Walton on 4/24/2012
Of Crowbars and Countdowns
It’s not often that we cover marketing teasers, but then it’s not often that we get crowbars in the mail either… Earlier this afternoon the following crowbar unexpectedly showed up...
32 by Ryan Smith on 4/24/2012
AMD Radeon HD 2000, HD 3000, & HD 4000 Video Cards Being Moved To Legacy Status In May
Late last week word began circulating that AMD would be dropping driver support for their DX10 generation GPUS – HD 2000, HD 3000, and HD 4000 – based on...
38 by Ryan Smith on 4/23/2012
AMD Q1’12 Earnings Report: $1.59B Revenue, $590M Net Loss
It’s the middle of April and that means it’s once again earnings season for the prior quarter. Late yesterday AMD released their earnings report for Q1 2012, and it turned...
27 by Ryan Smith on 4/20/2012
AMD's Godfrey Cheng Joins Rick Bergman at Synaptics
A couple of weeks ago one of my oldest friends in the industry, Godfrey Cheng, announced his resignation from AMD. Godfrey came over from the ATI side of the...
11 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/17/2012
Radeon HD 7000 Series Price Cuts & Promos Announced
For those of you in the market for a new video card, some price relief is on its way. Earlier today AMD sent out an announcement that they’ll be...
53 by Ryan Smith on 4/16/2012
AMD Partners With PTC for Creo Parametric 2.0
A few months ago during the Radeon HD 7970 launch we discussed how AMD would be revising their Independent Software Vendor (ISV) relations. While their efforts with ISVs in...
9 by Ryan Smith on 4/13/2012
AMD Releases Catalyst 12.3 Drivers, Adds 7800 Series Support
AMD has released the latest version of its Catalyst graphics driver package for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, and 7. This version of the drivers introduces...
25 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/29/2012
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Launch Recap
If the numbers are true, then most of you have already read our Kepler review, and you know that the card has made quite a splash - it's the...
29 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/24/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7870 Launch Recap
It has been a couple of weeks since we reviewed the Radeon HD 7800 series, but as we mentioned earlier this week and in our 7850 recap, that was...
7 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/24/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7850 Launch Recap
It has been weeks since we reviewed AMD's Radeon HD 7870 and 7850 cards, but unlike the 7900 and 7700 series cards, the 7800 series was given the typical...
14 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/24/2012
Jen-Hsun's Email to NVIDIA Employees on a Successful Kepler Launch
The road to any new microprocessor design is by no means simple. Planning for a major GPU like NVIDIA's Kepler starts four years prior to the chip's debut. In...
31 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/22/2012
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Review: Retaking The Performance Crown
“How do you follow up on Fermi?” That’s the question we had going into NVIDIA’s press briefing for the GeForce GTX 680 and the Kepler architecture earlier this month...
404 by Ryan Smith on 3/22/2012
NVIDIA's GeForce 600M Series: Mobile Kepler and Fermi Die Shrinks
While the desktop-bound GeForce GTX 680 is undoubtedly the most exciting release from NVIDIA today and the true flagbearer for their new Kepler microarchitecture, NVIDIA actually has a whole...
25 by Dustin Sklavos & Jarred Walton on 3/22/2012
The Retail Radeon HD 7870 Review: HIS 7870 IceQ Turbo & PowerColor PCS+ HD7870
Two weeks ago AMD officially unveiled the Radeon HD 7800 series. Composed of the Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and Radeon HD 7850, AMD broke from their earlier protocol...
57 by Ryan Smith on 3/19/2012
This Just In: PowerColor PCS+ HD7870
Though AMD announced the Radeon HD 7800 series nearly two weeks ago, it won’t be until Monday that the cards officially go on sale. While we’re still at work...
27 by Ryan Smith on 3/18/2012
NVIDIA Releases 296.10 GeForce Driver, Introduces Windows 8 Driver Support
NVIDIA has just posted the WHQL-certified GeForce driver 296.10 for Windows 7 and Vista desktops and laptops and Windows XP desktops, and has also released a 296.17 driver specifically...
6 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/13/2012
AMD Releases Catalyst 12.2 Drivers, Supports Radeon HD 7000 Series
AMD has released the WHQL-certified version of its Catalyst 12.2 driver package for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, and 7. In addition to the fixes and...
13 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/12/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition & Radeon HD 7850 Review: Rounding Out Southern Islands
In 2009-2010, AMD launched the entire 4 chip Evergreen series in 6 months. By previous standards this was a quick pace for a new design, especially since AMD had...
173 by Ryan Smith on 3/5/2012
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