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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...
SIGGRAPH 2011: NVIDIA’s Upcoming Workstation Technologies - Project Maximus & Monterey Technology
SIGGRAPH tends to be an interesting mix of announcements and demonstrations. Major vendors like NVIDIA like to make their announcements at their own trade shows – or at the...
12 by Ryan Smith on 8/12/2011
OpenGL 4.2 Specification Released
Coenciding with the start of SIGGRAPH 2011, Khronos has released version 4.2 of the OpenGL specification. Khronos routinely updates the OpenGL specification to add new features to the API...
6 by Ryan Smith on 8/8/2011
Update: Kepler GPUs Shipping This Year? NVIDIA Says No
Although we're barely into August, both AMD and NVIDIA are already making their first moves for their next generation products due at the end of this year and into...
13 by Ryan Smith on 8/3/2011
Village Instruments CEO Promises Graphics Card Enclosure for Thunderbolt
Village Instruments CEO Hubert Chen wrote an open letter to Facebook last week, attempting to gague customer interest in an external PCI Express graphics card enclosure for Thunderbolt. He...
19 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/3/2011
28nm Radeon Chips This Year? AMD Says Yes
During its Q2 2011 earnings conference, AMD’s interim-CEO Thomas Seifert revealed that AMD already has working samples of GPUs using a 28nm fabrication process. AMD claims it is on...
17 by Saumitra Bhagwat on 7/28/2011
Nintendo 3DS Gets $80 Price Cut on August 12
Those of you on the fence about Nintendo's 3DS, your wait may soon be over: Starting August 12, the price of the system will fall from its current $249.99...
10 by Andrew Cunningham on 7/28/2011
AMD Raises the Mobile Performance Bar with Radeon HD 6990M
AMD’s last update to their mobile GPU lineup is now over six months old, which means we’re about due for another new part. Right on cue, and not long...
35 by Jarred Walton on 7/12/2011
AnandTech Mobile Graphics Guide, Summer 2011
If desktop graphics hardware can be more than a little confusing, deciphering performance of mobile graphics parts can be (and has historically been) an absolute nightmare. Way back in...
86 by Dustin Sklavos on 7/5/2011
AMD A8-3850 : An HTPC Perspective
Today is all about Lynx, the desktop version of the Llano platform from AMD. Anand is reviewing the A8-3850 from a generic PC perspective, and Ian is covering its...
107 by Ganesh T S on 6/30/2011
The AMD A8-3850 Review: Llano on the Desktop
Ever since the arrival of Conroe back in 2006, we've only really recommended AMD for its (sometimes incredible) value. Recommending AMD for those looking for absolute performance pretty much...
100 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/30/2011
Sony Updates Vaio Z: Light Peak and An External GPU
Sony has announced an updated Vaio Z lineup today. Vaio Z is Sony’s premium 13” laptop series which essentially packs performance of a 15” laptop into a smaller form...
99 by Kristian Vättö on 6/28/2011
Optimus Top to Bottom: NVIDIA Releases the GeForce GTX 570M and 580M
While our recent review of the Alienware M17x R3 proved you could have a gaming notebook that was still capable of halfway decent battery life, the hybrid solution found...
27 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/28/2011
Discrete HTPC GPU Shootout
The popularity of Intel's HD Graphics amongst HTPC enthusiasts and the success of the AMD APUs seem to indicate that the days of the discrete HTPC GPU are numbered...
70 by Ganesh T S on 6/12/2011
Computex 2011: Silent and Single Slot GPUs
In general, we see a trend in the market preference for quieter, smaller, cheaper, and more powerful GPUs. In reality, we might see two or three of these...
25 by Ian Cutress on 6/7/2011
Computex 2011: AMD Bulldozer, Llano, Trinity, & New VISION Branding
AMD’s Computex 2011 conference just wrapped up. Computex is not AMD’s traditional grounds for major new announcements – they’d rather have their own events for that – but alongside...
26 by Ryan Smith on 6/1/2011
Computex 2011: Battle of the 600W GPUs
It wouldn’t be a trade show without a little bit of extreme thinking, to grab some headlines and show the punters how creative their engineers are. As part...
13 by Ian Cutress on 5/31/2011
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M: High-End Mobile Graphics with Optimus
Our collective wishes have been granted by the fine folks at NVIDIA: you can now buy a notebook with high-end graphics that supports Optimus and thus is capable of...
11 by Dustin Sklavos on 5/29/2011
Computex 2011: NVIDIA Announces Wired 3D Vision Glasses
Technically Computex 2011 doesn’t start for another day, but already companies are announcing new hardware right ahead of the event in order to try to beat the rush. NVIDIA...
15 by Ryan Smith on 5/29/2011
YouTube Adds Stereoscopic 3D Video Support (And 3D Vision Support, Too)
For those of you with a 3D TV or a 3D Vision kit, this will likely be of interest to you. Today Google will be officially activating stereoscopic 3D video...
20 by Ryan Smith on 5/26/2011
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 560: The Top To Bottom Factory Overclock
NVIDIA’s GF104 and GF114 GPUs have been a solid success for the company so far. 10 months after GF104 launched the GTX 460 series, NVIDIA has slowly been supplementing...
66 by Ryan Smith on 5/17/2011
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