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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...
NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 965M
In a rather unusual turn of events, the first I officially knew of the GeForce GTX 965M was when I saw it in some of MSI’s new gaming notebooks...
16 by Jarred Walton on 1/8/2015
NVIDIA Tegra X1 Preview & Architecture Analysis
In the past few years, we’ve seen NVIDIA shift their mobile strategy dramatically with time. With Tegra 2 and 3, we saw multiple design wins in the smartphone space...
194 by Joshua Ho & Ryan Smith on 1/5/2015
Samsung/NVIDIA Case Progresses: US ITC Begins NVIDIA Investigation
The legal battle between Samsung and NVIDIA over GPU licensing has turned another page this week, with the announcement from the United States International Trade Commission that it is...
30 by Ryan Smith on 12/24/2014
NVIDIA 347.09 Beta Drivers Available
After the last 344.75 NVIDIA driver update, I thought maybe we might not get any more updates until the New Year. Certainly I wasn't expecting to move from the...
15 by Jarred Walton on 12/19/2014
Win7 Driver Issues? Microsoft, AMD Recommend Uninstalling KB3004394
Though we don’t normally report on Windows updates, we’ll make an exception on this one. AMD sends word this evening that they are advising users to remove update KB3004394...
50 by Ryan Smith on 12/11/2014
Benchmarked - Assassin's Creed: Unity
The fifth game in the Assassin's Creed series (depending on how you want to count), Assassin's Creed: Unity is perhaps one of the most demanding games to ever hit...
122 by Jarred Walton on 11/20/2014
Intel's Xeon Phi: After Knights Landing Comes Knights Hill
As SC’14 rolls on this week, taking part in the show’s events is Intel, who was at the show to deliver an update on the Xeon Phi lineup. As...
15 by Ryan Smith on 11/18/2014
NVIDIA 344.75 Drivers - MFAA Arrives for Maxwell
When NVIDIA initially briefed us on their new GM204 GPUs (aka Maxwell 2.0), there were several new features discussed. Most of these are now publicly available – Dynamic Scalable...
28 by Jarred Walton on 11/18/2014
NVIDIA Launches Tesla K80, GK210 GPU
Kicking off today is the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, better known as SC. For NVIDIA, next to their annual GPU Technology Conference...
29 by Ryan Smith on 11/17/2014
NVIDIA Volta, IBM POWER9 Land Contracts For New US Government Supercomputers
The launch of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan Supercomputer was in many ways a turning point for NVIDIA’s GPU compute business. Though already into their third generation of Tesla...
29 by Ryan Smith on 11/17/2014
Benchmarked: Lords of the Fallen
Officially launched on October 28, Lords of the Fallen had a bit of a rocky start so it took longer for me to finish running benchmarks on the game...
54 by Jarred Walton on 11/12/2014
Apple A8X’s GPU - GXA6850, Even Better Than I Thought
Working on analyzing various Apple SoCs over the years has become a process of delightful frustration. Apple’s SoC development is consistently on the cutting edge, so it’s always great...
114 by Ryan Smith on 11/11/2014
Samsung Files Counter-Suit & Patent Infringement Claims Against NVIDIA & Velocity Micro
Back in September NVIDIA filed patent infringement complaints against Samsung and Qualcomm. The crux of the issue being that NVIDIA believes that GPUs from Qualcomm, ARM, and Imagination all...
59 by Ryan Smith on 11/11/2014
AMD Catalyst 14.11.1 Beta Drivers Available
As we've noted in a few recent NVIDIA driver articles, there are a ton of new games coming out right now, which of course means we'll need to drivers/profiles...
28 by Jarred Walton on 11/11/2014
NVIDIA VXGI Apollo 11 Demo Available
When NVIDIA held their press briefing on the upcoming GM204 Maxwell GPUs back in September, one of the big new features for Maxwell 2.0 was VXGI – Voxel Global...
13 by Jarred Walton on 11/11/2014
NVIDIA 344.65 Drivers and GeForce Experience 2.1.4.0
NVIDIA has updated their drivers to version 344.65 drivers and they're available now. These are Game Ready drivers for Assassin's Creed: Unity, and they're ready one week in advance...
18 by Jarred Walton on 11/10/2014
Imagination Announces PowerVR Series7 GPUs - Series7XT & Series7XE
Taking place this week are Imagination Technologies’ Chinese idc14 and Imagination Summits developer events. While Imagination holds these events in multiple countries over the year, the Chinese event is...
49 by Ryan Smith on 11/10/2014
NVIDIA FY 2015 Q3 Financial Results: Record Revenue For Quarter And Year To Date
This afternoon NVIDIA announced record revenue for their fiscal year 2015 quarter three, which ended October 26th of this year. For those that do not follow financial data, fiscal...
25 by Brett Howse on 11/6/2014
AMD Civilization: Beyond Earth and Never Settle Space Edition Promotion
AMD is updating their Never Settle bundles in a different fashion today, effectively doubling down on the bundles. In addition to the existing Never Settle: Space Edition, AMD will...
11 by Jarred Walton on 11/6/2014
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