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Watch the Full AMD Capsaicin Presentation at Siggraph 2017
AMD held an hour and a half long presentation at Siggraph in LA to officially launch their new Ryzen Threadripper CPUs and Vega GPUs. While most keynote speeches at these types of events are padded with a lot of promotional content, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su instead packed it top…
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AMD Announces Capsaicin Siggraph With Radeon RX Vega
Over the past couple of years, AMD has started a new series of events. All under the Capsaicin branding, the presentations always end with product launches, revealing architectural details or teasers. The latest Capsaicin event, Capsaicin SIGGRAPH is expected to be no different than the rest. AMD previously promised that Radeon…
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AMD Capsaicin & Cream Event Live Coverage
Live blog of AMD’s Capsaicin & Cream Event 10:35: Raja Koduri opens event and claims no Vega announcement today 10:40: Review of previous Vega architecture reveals 10:42: AMD partnering with film studio to do live rendering motion capture for VR 10:44: Live capture and rendering done on Ryzen + Vega system…
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Watch AMD’s “Capsaicin & Cream” Vega & Ryzen Live Event Here
In just over an hour, AMD is set to host their Capsaicin & Cream Event at GDC. AMD has been on fire lately with their impressive Ryzen Zen based CPU launch last week. Keeping up the momentum, this event draws a number of parallels to last year’s GDC Capsaicin event where we saw…
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AMD Confirms Radeon RX 500 & Vega Preview at GDC
In just 10 days, AMD is set to hold their Capsaicin and Cream live stream event at GDC. As you might already notice from the title, the event is focused on the Radeon GPU side of the business. While there were rumours about more product reveals, AMD has now more or…
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AMD Holding Capsaicin Livstream Event At GDC Feb 28th
Over the past several weeks, much of our attention has been on AMD’s upcoming Ryzen CPUs and rightly so. At the same time, the Sunnyvale company is also gearing up to launch their new Vega GPUs. So far, the only detailed timeline we have received is the first half of 2017.…
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AMD Announces DX12 Game Engine Partnerships
One of the biggest changes DX12 brings to the table is the increased reliance on developers to properly optimize their code for GPUs. Unlike DX11, there will have fewer levers to tweak in the GPU driver, with more work being needed in the game engine and the game itself. To…
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More AMD Polaris 10 Details Revealed
In the few days after AMD first demoed Polaris 10 to us at Capsaicin, more details about the upcoming graphics cards have been revealed. Set to be the big brother to the smaller Polaris 11, the better performing chip will drop sometime after June this year. First off, we’re now able to…
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AMD Reportedly Has 83% of VR Hardware Marketshare – Capsaicin
2016 may well go down as the year VR finally takes off for real. Sony and Microsoft have both been making progress towards VR and augmented reality while Oculus and HTC are set to launch the Rift and Vive respectively. Given the efforts and lengths AMD has gone to push VR,…
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AMD Unveils Upcoming GPU Roadmap – Capsaicin
Even as Polaris approaches us quickly within 3 months, the planning for its successor has long been in the works. At their Capsaicin event, AMD took off the wraps for their upcoming GPU plans with a roadmap detailing the planned releases up till 2019. In keeping with the star nomenclature…
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AMD Capsaicin Event Showcases VR and GPUOpen
Just yesterday, AMD hosted their Capsaicin live stream event from GDC. While there were some product announcements like the Radeon Pro Duo and the teasing of the upcoming Polaris 10 GPU, most of the time was spent on reiterating past statements. The key to this was VR and AMD spent a…
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AMD Announces Radeon Pro Duo Dual Fiji GPU
After many months of waiting, AMD has finally unveiled their dual Fiji graphics card. Though not called FuryX2 as we originally expected, the name Radeon Pro Duo is just as fitting. For now, AMD still has not revealed the full specifications but the most important one, price, is a lofty…
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AMD May Launch Radeon Polaris in June – Sneak Peak at Capsaicin
Prepare your wallets for summer 2016 because both AMD and Nvidia are going to release their new GPUs then. Yesterday, we got the first hint about Nvidia’s GTX 1080 which is reportedly launching May 27th. For AMD, the details for Polaris have always been a bit vague, with only mid-2016…
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