GPUs
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...
Spotted at Computex: The Ultimate GPU Air Cooling Solution
Graphics cards and PCIe cards come with a limited set of cooling options. Some of the low TDP models are passive, before going up to active cooling on higher...
25 by Ian Cutress on 6/5/2019ASRock’s Internal External GPU: No Box Needed
If you say ‘Thunderbolt GPU’, it makes it sound like a PCIe device with a Thunderbolt output. Rather than go in this direction, ASRock has developed a GPU +...
16 by Ian Cutress on 6/5/2019AMD To License Out Radeon GPU IP to Samsung For Use In SLSI Mobile GPUs
Today Samsung and AMD announced a new multi-year strategic partnership between the two companies, where Samsung SLSI will license graphics IP from AMD for use in mobile GPUs.
47 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/3/2019Sapphire Shows Off 10-Way GPU Compute System with AMD EPYC 3000
Cryptocurrency mining boom may be over, but there are many applications that can take advantage of GPU compute horsepower besides mining. Sapphire has demonstrated its upcoming GPU compute system...
21 by Anton Shilov on 5/31/2019NVIDIA Releases Quadro RTX, Quadro T, and Quadro P620/P520 GPUs for Notebooks
Along with today’s NVIDIA Studio branding announcement, NVIDIA is also using Computex to update their lineup of Quadro GPUs for notebooks and mobile workstations. Along with bringing some of...
5 by Ryan Smith on 5/27/2019NVIDIA Launches Studio Branding Program: High Performance Content Creation Laptops
As part of their Computex press briefing this afternoon, NVIDIA is taking the wraps off of a new laptop branding program, which they are calling NVIDIA Studio. Under the...
21 by Ryan Smith on 5/27/2019Arm's New Mali-G77 & Valhall GPU Architecture: A Major Leap
Along today’s announcement of the new Cortex-A77 CPU microarchitecture, the arguably bigger announcement is Arm’s unveiling of the new Valhall GPU architecture and the new Mali-G77 GPU. It’s been...
42 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/27/2019AMD Teases First Navi GPU Products: RX 5700 Series Launches in July, 25% Improved Perf-Per-Clock
While the bulk of this morning’s AMD Computex keynote has been on AMD’s 3rd generation Ryzen CPUs and their underlying Zen 2 architecture, the company also took a moment...
99 by Ryan Smith on 5/26/2019Intel Teases Ice Lake-U Integrated Graphics Performance
Another snippet of information from Intel today relates to the company’s future mobile platform CPU. We know it’s called Ice Lake-U, that it is built on Intel’s 10nm process...
72 by Ian Cutress on 5/26/2019Report: Arm Suspends Business with Huawei - Future Chip Development In Jeopardy
In the latest event in the quickly moving saga that is Huawei’s technology export blacklisting by the United States Government, the BBC has published a report this morning claiming...
116 by Ryan Smith on 5/22/2019NVIDIA Q1 FY 2020 Earnings Report: Post-Crypto Reset
This week NVIDIA announced their earnings for the first quarter of their 2020 fiscal year, and although the crash in crypto-currency has been a boom for gamers wanting to...
31 by Brett Howse on 5/17/2019AMD Reiterates 7nm Roadmap: Navi, Matisse, & Rome to Launch in Q3
AMD this week held its Annual Shareholder Meeting where it reiterated its current technology roadmap and once again confirmed that that its major products set to be released this...
55 by Anton Shilov on 5/17/2019Hot Chips 31 (2019) Programme Announced: Zen, Navi, POWER, Lakefield, Gen-Z, Turing, Lisa Su Keynote
There are two trade shows every year that I love. Computex in June is great, because the scale of the industry it covers, and Taipei is a wonderful location...
17 by Ian Cutress on 5/16/2019AMD To Host “Next Horizon Gaming” Event & Product Unveil at E3 2019: June 10th, 3pm PT
After taking a break from the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo for a few years, AMD is going to be returning to one of their own haunts. This morning the...
15 by Ryan Smith on 5/14/2019AMD Releases Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 19.Q2: Gaming Driver Support for Radeon Pro
AMD this week has released their Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 19.Q2 WHQL, bringing support for the Windows 10 May 2019 Update due later this month, as well as...
13 by Nate Oh on 5/10/2019US Dept. of Energy Announces Frontier Supercomputer: Cray and AMD to Build 1.5 Exaflop Machine
The history of the computing industry is one of constant progress. Processors get faster, storage gets cheaper, and memory gets denser. We see the repercussions of this advancement through...
77 by Ryan Smith on 5/7/2019The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Review, Feat. Zotac: Fighting Brute Force With Power Efficiency
Following up on last week’s launch of NVIDIA’s new budget video card, the GeForce GTX 1650, today we’re taking a look at our first card, courtesy of Zotac. Coming...
126 by Ryan Smith & Nate Oh on 5/3/2019Intel to Support Hardware Ray Tracing Acceleration on Data Center Xe GPUs
In a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, tucked inside of a larger blog post about announcements relating to this week’s FMX graphics conference, Intel has made its first official comments about hardware...
31 by Ryan Smith on 5/1/2019AMD Q1 FY 2019 Earnings Report: Revenue Down But Margins Up
Today AMD announced their Q1 FY 2019 earnings. Revenues were down 23% year-over-year, coming in at $1.27 billion. Gross margin for the quarter was 41%, up 5% from a...
17 by Brett Howse on 4/30/2019AMD: 7nm ‘Navi’ GPU & 'Rome' CPU to Launch in Q3
Offering a brief update on the state of future products as part of its post-earnings conference call this afternoon, AMD has confirmed that both their upcoming Rome (Zen 2...
38 by Ryan Smith & Anton Shilov on 4/30/2019