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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...
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 & GTX 1070 Founders Editions Review: Kicking Off the FinFET Generation
It has taken about 2 years longer than we’d normally see, but the next full generation of GPUs are finally upon us. Powered by FinFET based nodes at TSMC...
201 by Ryan Smith on 7/20/2016Futuremark Releases 3DMark Time Spy DirectX 12 Benchmark
Today Futuremark is pulling the covers off of their new Time Spy benchmark, which is being released today for all Windows editions of 3DMark. A showcase of sorts of...
75 by Daniel Williams on 7/14/2016Doom Vulkan Patch Released
Bethesda PR has sent over a quick note this morning that the long-awaited Vulkan patch for Doom is now available, allowing the game to be played with either the...
73 by Ryan Smith on 7/11/2016ASUS, Inno3D, & Gigabyte Tease Custom GeForce GTX 1060 Cards
Yesterday we saw the announcement of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1060. Though NVIDIA is producing a reference Founders Edition card, as this is a more mainstream product, NVIDIA is leaving...
55 by Daniel Williams on 7/8/2016AMD Posts Radeon 16.7.1 Drivers, Fixes RX 480 Power Consumption Issues
In what’s hopefully the final chapter on AMD’s saga over the last week with the Radeon RX 480’s power consumption, AMD has posted the previously promised 16.7.1 driver set...
105 by Ryan Smith on 7/7/2016NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 1060: Starting at $249, Available July 19th
Excitingly, GPU Season 2016 is now in full swing. In the last two months we have seen NVIDIA launch a pair of high-end cards – the Pascal-based GeForce GTX...
228 by Ryan Smith on 7/7/2016NVIDIA Releases 368.69 WHQL Game Ready Driver
NVIDIA is back once again with their first driver release for the month of July. This latest update, 368.69 WQHL, is focused on the usual mix of fixes, along...
3 by Daniel Williams on 7/7/2016AMD's Tuesday Radeon RX 480 Status Update: New Driver By Late Thursday
Following up on this weekend's statement from AMD about a potential power issue with the reference Radeon RX 480, AMD has just sent over their previously promised update on...
121 by Ryan Smith on 7/6/2016GIGABYTE Announces GeForce GTX 1070 Mini ITX OC
As the various board partners finally begin unveiling their custom GTX 1000 series designs, GIGABYTE has arrived with their latest entry in the Mini ITX game. GIGABYTE’s GeForce GTX...
21 by Daniel Williams on 7/5/2016AMD Releases Statement On Radeon RX 480 Power Consumption; More Details Tuesday
Following up on this week's Radeon RX 480 launch, there has been some questions raised about the power consumption of the card. This is after some sites whom directly...
181 by Ryan Smith on 7/2/2016AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson 16.6.2 Drivers
AMD has now brought us their latest card in the Radeon RX 480. With new cards comes new drivers. We are also getting fixes and a list of new...
4 by Daniel Williams on 6/30/2016ASUS Reveals Their New RX 480 GPU Design
After a lengthy tease from AMD we are finally seeing the new AMD Radeon RX 480 roll out. As we saw in our preview the card successfully makes leaps...
33 by Daniel Williams on 6/30/2016The AMD Radeon RX 480 Preview: Polaris Makes Its Mainstream Mark
Back in December of last year, AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group began slowly trickling out the plans for what would be their first GPU architecture built for the now-modern FinFET...
449 by Ryan Smith on 6/29/2016NVIDIA Announces PCI Express Tesla P100: Shipping In Q4’16
Kicking off this week in Frankfurt, Germany is the annual International Supercomputing Conference, better known as ISC. One of the two major supercomputing conferences for the year, ISC is...
56 by Ryan Smith on 6/20/2016ARM Announces Mali Egil Video Processor: VP9 Encode & Decode For Mobile
Earlier this month we took a look at ARM’s new Mali-G71 GPU. Based on the company’s equally new Bifrost architecture, Mali-G71 marks a significant architectural change for the Mali...
24 by Ryan Smith on 6/16/2016A Bit More on AMD’s Polaris GPUs: 36 & 16 CUs
Along with this week’s teaser of the forthcoming Radeon RX 470 and RX 460 at E3, AMD also held a short press briefing about Polaris. The bulk of AMD’s...
102 by Ryan Smith on 6/15/2016AMD Teases Future Radeon RX 470 & Radeon RX 460 Cards
With the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo once again upon us, this week has been a flood of gaming hardware and software news. On the PC front, AMD is once...
105 by Ryan Smith on 6/13/2016NVIDIA Releases 368.39 WHQL Game Ready Driver, Adds GTX 1070 Support
As the GeForce GTX 1070 approaches, NVIDIA has prepared a driver release for the upcoming card. Along with support to the coming GPU and a list of fixes, we...
30 by Daniel Williams on 6/8/2016AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.6.1
Here we are with AMD's next driver update, Radeon Sofware Crimson Edition 16.6.1. This brings the driver version to 16.20.1025. With the changes that come along with the update...
20 by Daniel Williams on 6/7/2016AMD Teases Radeon RX 480: Launching June 29th For $199
Kicking off at this moment is AMD’s Computex 2016 keynote. The company has multiple announcements scheduled this evening, but we’re going to jump right into an area that has...
377 by Ryan Smith on 5/31/2016