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Alongside today’s release of their new Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.6.1 driver – the first to bring support for FidelityFX Super Resolution tech – AMD is also using this opportunity to clean house on supported graphics products. As announced in a new blog post and effective immediately, AMD is moving all of its 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation Graphics Core Next (GCN) based GPUs and APUs to legacy status. As a result, pre-RX 400 series video cards and pre-Ryzen APUs are no longer supported by AMD’s current drivers, and AMD’s previous 21.5.2 driver set will be the final release for those products. 21.5.2 will also be the final driver that supports Windows 7, as AMD is also using this opportunity to drop support for that...
AMD Quietly Releases Low-End OEM Radeon 600 Series: Radeon Rebadge 2019
While AMD’s focus with the launch of their Radeon RX 5000 series “Navi” product stack has been on midrange desktop cards – and rightfully so – it’s not the...
28 by Ryan Smith on 8/13/2019
Phantom Gaming: ASRock Unveils as an AMD GPU Partner
ASRock has officially introduced its first graphics cards. The Phantom Gaming family will initially include four GPU models based on the Radeon RX 500-series GPUs and are aimed at...
12 by Anton Shilov on 3/29/2018
The AMD Vega GPU Architecture Teaser: Higher IPC, Tiling, & More, Coming in H1’2017
As AMD was in the process of ramping up for the Polaris launch last year, one of the unexpected but much appreciated measures they took was to released a...
155 by Ryan Smith on 1/5/2017
AMD Quietly Unveils Radeon M400 Series: Starting With Rebadges
As our long-time readers are keenly aware, the product cycles followed by PC OEMs and ODMs for their laptops and desktops are rarely perfectly in sync with the development...
49 by Ryan Smith on 5/14/2016
AMD Expands G-Series Embedded SoCs with Excavator Microarchitecture
Back in October 2015, AMD’s embedded business unit announced the first SoCs from AMD using DDR4, combining AMD’s Excavator cores found in the Carrizo notebook platform but fully...
6 by Ian Cutress on 2/23/2016
AMD Reveals Polaris GPU Architecture: 4th Gen GCN to Arrive In Mid-2016
For much of the last month we have been discussing bits and pieces of AMD’s GPU plans for 2016. As part of the Radeon Technology Group’s formation last year...
153 by Ryan Smith on 1/4/2016
AMD Dives Deep On Asynchronous Shading
Earlier this month at GDC, AMD introduced their VR technology toolkit, LiquidVR. LiquidVR offers game developers a collection of useful tools and technologies for adding high performance VR to...
72 by Ryan Smith on 3/31/2015
AMD Radeon R9 285 Review: Feat. Sapphire R9 285 Dual-X OC
Last month AMD held their 30 years of graphics celebration, during which they announced their next Radeon video card, the Radeon R9 285. Designed to be AMD’s new $249...
86 by Ryan Smith on 9/10/2014
AMD Announces Radeon R9 285, Shipping September 2nd
During their 30 years of graphics celebration, today AMD announced a forthcoming addition to the Radeon R9 200 graphics card lineup. Launching on September 2nd will be the company’s...
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HP ZBook 14 Review: Mobile Workstation Meets Ultrabook
What do you get when you cross an Ultrabook with enterprise features including an optional professional OpenGL GPU? This is apparently the question HP's engineers were asking, and the...
66 by Jarred Walton on 6/20/2014
AMD Launches Mobile Kaveri APUs
A couple weeks back, AMD briefed us on their upcoming mobile Kaveri APUs. We've known for a while that mobile Kaveri was coming, and after five months the wait...
125 by Jarred Walton on 6/4/2014
AMD Launches FirePro W9100
Kicking off this week is the 2014 NAB Show, the National Association of Broadcasters’ annual trade show for broadcast content and technology. The NAB Show is often a launch...
20 by Ryan Smith on 4/7/2014
AMD Announces FirePro W9100
In what’s proving to be a busy week for GPU news, AMD has just wrapped up their webcast announcing their next flagship FirePro product. Dubbed the FirePro W9100, AMD’s...
32 by Ryan Smith on 3/26/2014
AMD’s Kaveri: Pre-Launch Information
On the back of AMD’s Tech Day at CES 2014, all of which was under NDA until the launch of Kaveri, AMD have supplied us with some information that...
133 by Ian Cutress on 1/6/2014
AMD Kaveri APU Launch Details: Desktop, January 14th
Kicking off today is AMD’s annual developer conference, which now goes by the name APU13. There will be several APU/CPU related announcements coming out of the show this week...
97 by Ryan Smith on 11/11/2013
Maingear and CyberPowerPC Prepping R9-290X Desktop Systems
During the past week, AMD revealed their new R7 and R9 desktop GPUs, which mostly consist of rebranded 7000-series parts (e.g. the R9-280X). The one exception is the R9-290X...
20 by Jarred Walton on 10/9/2013
Understanding AMD’s Mantle: A Low-Level Graphics API For GCN
Wrapping up our AMD product showcase coverage, AMD’s final announcement of the day was a very brief announcement about a new API called Mantle. Mantle is something of an...
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CyberPowerPC Gamer Xtreme 5200 Desktop Review
The CyberPowerPC Gamer Xtreme 5200 system comes with this generation's best and brightest in a shiny new Intel Core i7-4770K and an AMD Radeon HD 7990. So why were...
18 by Dustin Sklavos on 8/22/2013_carousel.jpg)
AMD's A10-5750M Review, Part 2: The MSI GX60 Gaming Notebook
In the first part of our review of the AMD A10-5750M, we revealed the chip had a predisposition for better CPU performance. Does that carry over and help MSI's...
69 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/29/2013
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