AMD Launches Far Cry 5 Bundle for Pre-Builts with Radeon RX Vega or RX 580
This week, AMD launched a Far Cry 5 Standard Edition bundle for select pre-built PCs with a Radeon RX Vega 56, RX Vega 64, or RX 580, active now...
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Cryptomining Inflated Prices Affect Q4 2017 Discrete Graphics Card Shipments, AMD Climbs to 33.7% Market Share
This week, Jon Peddie Research (JPR) released their much anticipated quarterly discrete video card sales report for Q4 2017. Overall, the research firm is reporting a 4.6% decrease in graphics...
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NVIDIA Releases 391.01 WHQL Game Ready Driver
Ahead of next week’s game launches, NVIDIA today released driver version 391.01 WHQL, featuring Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition (3/6) and Warhammer: Vermintide 2 (3/8) as Game Ready headliners...
17 by on 2/26/2018
Bringing Vulkan to Apple's Platforms: Khronos Group Announces Open Source MoltenVK 1.0 & SDKs
One of the unfortunate outcomes of Apple's desire to build their own top-to-bottom software ecosystems is that the company has gradually pulled away from supporting common APIs, particularly in...
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AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.3
This week, AMD released Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.3, a smaller patch bringing support and/or performance optimizations for three new games: Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age (released 2/1)...
52 by on 2/25/2018
AMD Plans PlayReady 3.0 Support for Polaris and Vega based GPUs in 2018, Vega APUs in Q2
For the recent launch of AMD’s Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G APUs, our review found that AMD raised the low-end integrated graphics bar to a new level...
23 by on 2/16/2018
AMD Releases Radeon Pro Software Enterprise Edition 18.Q1 WHQL: Adrenalin Comes To Enterprise
This week AMD has released the first quarterly Radeon Pro Software Enterprise Edition driver drop of the year, aptly numbered 18.Q1 WHQL. Coming on the heels of December's major...
5 by on 2/15/2018
Google Announces Cloud TPU v2 Beta Availability for Google Cloud Platform
This week, Google announced Cloud TPU beta availability on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), accessible through their Compute Engine infrastructure-as-a-service. Using the second generation of Google’s tensor processing units...
8 by on 2/15/2018
AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.2 & Inaugural Ryzen Desktop APU WHQL Drivers
This week, AMD released Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.2, a smaller patch bringing support for the just-launched Kingdom Come: Deliverance, as well as performance optimizations for Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s...
9 by on 2/14/2018
The GlobalFoundries Fab 8 Tour and a Junior Editor's Thoughts
For those who haven’t noticed the anti-contaminant “bunny suit” pictures floating around Twitter, this past weekend Ian and I took part in a tour of GlobalFoundries Fab 8 in...
18 by on 2/8/2018
AMD & Valve Introduce AMD TrueAudio Next Support for Steam Audio
This week, AMD and Valve announced AMD TrueAudio Next (TAN) support for Steam Audio, introducing it with the newly released Steam Audio 2.0 beta 13. Introduced just about a...
11 by on 2/7/2018
AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.1
Last week, AMD released Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.1, a more minor bugfix-oriented driver update. 18.2.1 also brings support for Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, a remastered version...
5 by on 2/5/2018
The EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti FTW2 Review: iCX Brings the Lights and Sensors
Today, we are taking a look at the EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti FTW2, EVGA's top GTX 1070 Ti model featuring the iCX temperature sensor and cooling system. Launched...
47 by on 1/31/2018
AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.1.1
Opening up the new year, this week AMD released the bugfix-heavy Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.1.1, succeeding the 18.1.1 alpha addressing crashing in certain DX9 games. The instability was...
96 by on 1/22/2018
ATSC Releases ATSC 3.0 Digital TV Standards Suite: Over-The-Air Meets Over-The-Top
LAS VEGAS, NV — At a formal commemoration at CES 2018, the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), industry standards consortium for digital television, announced the release of ATSC 3.0...
25 by on 1/12/2018
ADATA Unveils New XPG RGB DDR4 Kits: Spectrix D60 4600MHz & Spectrix DS40 SO-DIMMs with LEDs
LAS VEGAS, NV — At CES 2018 this week, ADATA is showcasing two new XPG DDR4 memory models with RGB LEDs: the Spectrix D60 RGB DDR4 and Spectrix DS40...
7 by on 1/10/2018
NVIDIA Releases 390.65 WHQL Game Ready Driver, Includes Mitigation Updates for Spectre
In the wake of Meltdown and Spectre essentially every major industry player has issued a security statement, and NVIDIA is no exception, especially as a hardware vendor. Their initial...
10 by on 1/9/2018
Sony Unveils Xperia XA2, Xperia XA2 Ultra, and Xperia L2
LAS VEGAS, NV — Today at CES 2018, Sony announced the addition of three new phones to their Xperia line: the Xperia XA2, Xperia XA2 Ultra, and Xperia L2...
12 by on 1/8/2018
NVIDIA Announces Big Format Gaming Displays: 65-inch 4K@120Hz HDR Display with G-Sync & More
LAS VEGAS, NV — Today at CES 2018, NVIDIA announced a new series of TV-sized 65-inch monitor models called Big Format Gaming Displays (BFGDs). Working with Acer, ASUS, and...
24 by on 1/8/2018
NVIDIA Launches GeForce NOW Game-streaming Service PC Beta
LAS VEGAS, NV — Today at CES 2018, NVIDIA announced PC availability of the GeForce NOW, their cloud-based game-streaming service, as a free closed beta. Not to be confused...
5 by on 1/8/2018
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