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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...
GeForce 3D Vision: Stereoscopic 3D From NVIDIA
Though stereoscopic shutter glasses have been around for a while, the time is ripe for a resurgence if hardware and software makers get on board. NVIDIA is making the...
56 by Derek Wilson on 1/8/2009
OpenCL 1.0: The Road to Pervasive GPU Computing
NVIDIA and AMD have been moving toward GPU Computing for a long time with CUDA and what became ATI Stream. How do things change with an API that runs...
37 by Derek Wilson on 12/31/2008
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 Coming in January
We don't have any performance details, but we do have hardware specifications. This part looks lean, mean, and poised to take the single card multi-GPU crown from AMD.
69 by Derek Wilson on 12/18/2008
NVIDIA's Ion Platform: Bringing High Def to Netbooks
Take Intel's Atom processor and pair it with NVIDIA's GeForce 9400M chipset and you've got the Ion platform. The latest bold move from NVIDIA offers an alternative to...
61 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/17/2008
GPU Transcoding Throwdown: Elemental's Badaboom vs. AMD's Avivo Video Converter
Two applications, both running parts of their code on the GPU are now available for end users to transcode video. As of Catalyst 8.12, all AMD Radeon HD...
36 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on 12/15/2008
The RV770 Story: Documenting ATI's Road to Success
It was the biggest launch for ATI since the memorable R300 (Radeon 9700 Pro), yet we failed to get the full story on how RV770 (Radeon HD 4800) came...
116 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/2/2008
Far Cry 2 Dissected: Massive Amounts of Performance Data
We delve into Far Cry 2 performance across multiple settings and DX versions. Beyond this we do a full top to bottom hardware analysis using the game.
78 by Derek Wilson on 11/21/2008
NVIDIA Fall Driver Update (rel 180) and Other Treats
NVIDIA has released a new driver that adds a few new PhysX and SLI features and should improve performance in some cases. There are also recent developments in PhysX...
63 by Derek Wilson on 11/20/2008
Guitar Hero World Tour: The Best, The Worst, and Everything in Between
After last week's review of Rock Band 2 and this weeks launch of Guitar Hero World Tour, we had some unanswered questions to ... well ... answer. So here...
29 by Derek Wilson on 10/31/2008
MSI R4350 - First Look
We take a first look at a HD4350 solution for those HTPC owners with the multi-channel LPCM blues.
24 by Gary Key on 10/29/2008
Retesting the Radeon HD 4830: Too Few SIMDs Enabled
UPDATED... Some review samples and RETAIL versions of the Radeon HD 4830 were sent out with one too many SIMDs disabled. This resulted in lowered performance in our (and...
24 by Derek Wilson on 10/25/2008
Music Gaming Goodness: Rock Band 2 Rocks The House
We've had some time to play with Rock Band 2 along with the new standard and premium drum kits and the new guitar. Take a look at what we...
25 by Derek Wilson on 10/24/2008
AMD Radeon HD 4830: Affordable Performance And Heavy Competition
UPDATED -- With AMD's introduction of a $130 part that can handle high quality settings at decent resolutions, we also see an escalation in the price war NVIDIA is...
56 by Derek Wilson on 10/23/2008
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Xbox 360, PS3)
We unleash the force in Lucas Arts' latest Star Wars game.
24 by Eddie Turner on 10/6/2008
ATI Radeon HD 4350 and 4550: Great HTPC Solutions
While these lower end cards aren't all that great for gaming (in spite of major advantages over integrated graphics), they offer a great set of features for those who...
56 by Derek Wilson on 9/30/2008
PURE (PC, Xbox 360) Review
Join us as we stray from the beaten path and review the latest entry in the off-road racing genre...
22 by Eddie Turner on 9/29/2008
The Radeon HD 4870 1GB: The Card to Get
Many have been waiting for the higher memory variant of AMD's 4870 since it's launch. It is now available, and at very good prices. Our tests show performance improvement...
78 by Derek Wilson on 9/25/2008
Understanding 8-channel LPCM over HDMI: Why it Matters and Who Supports it
Recent GPU and chipset launches have started including support for 8-channel LPCM audio over HDMI. I explain what that is and why you should want it.
53 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/17/2008
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216: Competition for the 4870
Priced at $279 there's a new GTX 260 in town and it's got one purpose: to compete with the Radeon HD 4870. NVIDIA manages to close the performance...
66 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on 9/16/2008
AMD Radeon HD 4670: Ruling from Top to Bottom
AMD took the world by storm with its $200 - $300 killers earlier this summer, but can they do it again at $79 with the new Radeon HD 4670...
90 by Derek Wilson on 9/10/2008
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