Tag Archives Advanced Micro Devices
Gigabyte G1.Sniper A88X
Been impressed with AMD’s new Kaveri-based APUs? They represent an evolution of the company’s heterogenous computing architecture though, being even-handed, it will be a while before applications can take advantage of the efficiencies baked into the Steamroller core and GCN graphics. A new architecture generally means a new socket form factor – FM2+ is the flavour […]
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 Ti GHz Edition (OC Windforce 3) Graphics Card Review
Yesterday we took a look at a recent addition to the high
end of the GPU market, a custom design overclocked AMD
Radeon R9 290X. It went head to head with the simila [...]
be quiet! Dark Rock 3 Silent Wings CPU Cooler Review
I’ve been looking forward to testing this product ever
since we got back from CES 2014 where we got our first look
at the latest range of be quiet! CPU coolers that will [...]
Sapphire announces passively cooled R7 250 Ultimate GPU
Sapphire Technology has announced the R7 250 Ultimate video
card, a passively cooled video card based on the AMD
Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. No mechanical mov [...]
AMD Mantle Performance Explored
It has been a long time coming but we take a look at early
and initial Mantle performance and a quick and rather basic
initial article. The upcoming AMD Radeon 14.1 Beta dri [...]
AMD Catalyst™ 14.1 Beta Driver for Windows
Based on performance testing by AMD using pre-release beta
software and driver versions. Final released versions of
software/drivers may vary yielding different results. [...]
ASRock FM2A88X-ITX+
AMD launched a trio of new APUs just recently. Codenamed
Kaveri and using an updated CPU architecture (Steamroller)
alongside GCN graphics present in discrete Radeons, [...]
XFX Radeon R9 280X Black Edition Video Card Review
AMD released their new lineup of GCN-based video cards back
in October and the industry manufacturers have since been
adding their own special tweaks and improvements to [...]
MSI Radeon R9-290X Gaming OC review
We review the MSI Radeon R9-290X Gaming OC. The cards
equipped with that Hawaii GPU now is proper cooled thanks to
the TwinFrozr cooler and steadily running and purring [...]
Win a ASUS Matrix R9 280X with OC3D
The latest AMD R9 GPUs have hit the market, and we’re
sure that many of you have been salivating over them,
wanting to get your hands on these fire-spitting graph [...]
AMD Kaveri APU Architecture Overview
Llano put K10 CPU cores and a Radeon HD 6000 series GPU on
the same die and introduced us to the FM1 socket. The Fusion
project was then reformed as the Heterogeneous Syst [...]
AMD A8 7600 Kaveri APU review
We review the all new AMD A8-7600 APU from AMD. This APU is
based on AMD’s new Kaveri architecture bringing the
CPU and the GPU even closer together as the [...]
Nvidia responds to AMD’s ”free sync” demo
CES — On the show floor here at CES today, I spoke briefly
with Nvidia’s Tom Petersen, the executive instrumental
in the development of G-Sync technology, about the [...]
Gigabyte Radeon R9-290X WindForce 3X OC review
We review the Gigabyte Radeon R9-290X WindForce 3X OC
edition. A lot of you guys have been waiting on a custom
cooled version of this product. Armed with the lat [...]
AMD could counter Nvidia’s G-Sync with simpler, free sync tech
CES — During an impromptu meeting in a hotel ballroom this
morning, I got an eye-opening demo orchestrated by AMD
Graphics CTO Raja Koduri. He had a pair of relativ [...]