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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...
Lucid’s Hydra Unleashed: Part 1
Today the first motherboard with Lucid's Hydra technology launches: The MSI Big Bang Fuzion. Will the Hydra shake up the multi-GPU world as Lucid has been claiming?
48 by Ryan Smith on 1/7/2010
NVIDIA’s GeForce GT 240: The Card That Doesn't Matter
Late last year NVIDIA launched the GT 240, the bigger brother of their first 40nm part, the GT 220. Today we look at its performance, and why NVIDIA has...
56 by Ryan Smith on 1/6/2010
Anand's Thoughts on Intel Canceling Larrabee Prime
Intel's first discrete GPU has been canceled, I explain why it doesn't really matter.
77 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/6/2009
AnandTech Tests GPU Accelerated Flash 10.1 Prerelease
Updated ATI and Intel acceleration results. Do you hate how painfully slow Flash video playback can be even on the fastest PCs? Adobe's prerelease of Flash 10.1 is...
135 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/19/2009
The Radeon HD 5970: Completing AMD's Takeover of the High End GPU Market
With 2 Cypress chips on 1 card, today marks the day where AMD completes their takeover of the high-end video card market. It's the fastest single card on...
114 by Ryan Smith on 11/18/2009
NVIDIA's Bumpy Ride: A Q4 2009 Update
A much delayed Fermi, pulling out of the chipset business coupled with GTX availability woes made conditions ripe for us to talk about NVIDIA. We explain what all...
108 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/14/2009
AMD’s Radeon HD 5770 & 5750: DirectX 11 for the Mainstream Crowd
The next phase begins. AMD is launching the 5700 series, their mainstream line of cards based on Juniper. Do these new cards follow in the 5800 series legacy?
117 by Ryan Smith on 10/13/2009
NVIDIA’s GeForce GT 220: 40nm and DX10.1 for the Low-End
NVIDIA's first DX10.1/40nm part finally gets a retail launch after a 3 month OEM-only stint. How does NVIDA's latest part part stack up to the competition?
80 by Ryan Smith on 10/12/2009
Gigabyte's GTX 260 Super Overclock: A GTX 275 on the Cheap?
What happens when you overclock a GTX 260 Core 216 by 20%? As Gigabyte has discovered, you get a GTX 275 for less.
30 by Ryan Smith on 10/11/2009
AMD’s Radeon HD 5850: The Other Shoe Drops
Hot on the heels of their launch of the 5870 last week, AMD is launching the value version, the 5850. With it, AMD has captured the high-end.
95 by Ryan Smith on 9/30/2009
NVIDIA's Fermi: Architected for Tesla, 3 Billion Transistors in 2010
Last week we saw AMD's first DX11 GPU, today we have NVIDIA's response: Fermi. Weighing in at 3 billion transistors with a 384-bit GDDR5 memory bus, we won't...
415 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/30/2009
AMD's Radeon HD 5870: Bringing About the Next Generation Of GPUs
At roughly twice the computing power of the RV770, the world's first DirectX 11 GPU is here. It's called the Radeon HD 5870 and it is, without a doubt...
327 by Ryan Smith on 9/23/2009
Lucid Hydra 200: Vendor Agnostic Multi-GPU, Available in 30 Days
Want to run multiple GPUs in parallel regardless of vendor, make or model? Lucid wants to enable that and the first implementation is due out in 30 days.
95 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/22/2009
Beginnings of the Holodeck: AMD's DX11 GPU, Eyefinity and 6 Display Outputs
Later this month we'll be able to talk about AMD's next-gen GPU, but today we can unveil one feature: Eyefinity. Use up to six displays, have them treated...
138 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/10/2009
Auzentech HomeTheater HD Preview: Bitstreaming True HD/DTS-HD MA
A year ago I talked about HDMI equipped sound cards that were going to bring high-def audio codecs to your receivers via your HTPC. Auzentech has finally delivered...
77 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/2/2009
Catalyst 9.7 Graphics Drivers: New UI and Win 7 Updates
The first Windows 7 WHQL drivers from AMD hit the internet this week. Here's what to expect.
32 by Derek Wilson on 7/23/2009
EVGA's GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition: The Best for OS X?
It's EVGA's first Mac video card and it's good, but is it useful under OS X? And is this a trend we can expect to see from other manufacturers?
48 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/17/2009
How Much Video Memory Do You Need in OS X?
A quick investigation into how much video memory you need when running Mac OS X.
30 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/16/2009
Exploring Input Lag Inside and Out
High speed cameras for observation and technical detail for understanding. Read on to really grok input lag.
85 by Derek Wilson on 7/16/2009
Triple Buffering: Why We Love It
Going in depth on an often misunderstood and disregarded setting to show gamers why they should enable triple buffering.
186 by Derek Wilson on 6/26/2009
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