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AMD Roadmap Details Raven Ridge APUs with Zen and Vega
Earlier in the week, we got word about AMD’s upcoming roadmap. According to that report, Raven Ridge would arrive sometime in late 2017 to fill the APU gap. We also learned about Pinnacle Ridge which will replace Summit Ridge in early 2018 for the CPU side. Today, we have more…
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AMD Elaborates on Vega Architecture and High Bandwidth Cache Controller
During the Capsaicin and Cream event yesterday, AMD once again showed off key elements of their upcoming Vega architecture. Set to replace the current GCN based designs, the new architecture aims to offer a full leap ahead in terms of performance and features. While the event was somewhat developer focused,…
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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 Vega GPUs Reportedly Launching May
During the recent Vega Next Generation Architecture Preview event, AMD revealed a whole host of new information on their new GPU designs. At the same time, no concrete launch date was given other than the fact that it would happen sometime in Q1 of 2017. According to a new leak…
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AMD Details Vega Next-Gen GPU Architecture
After releasing their Vega architecture teaser earlier in the week, AMD has finally shared some details for their next-generation GPU Architecture. Unlike Polaris which was merely a sizeable update for GCN, Vega appears to be taking GCN to an entirely new level with new hardware unit never before seen. Frist, let’s start…
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AMD Teases Vega Architectural Upgrades
Ahead of the new Vega Architecture Preview, AMD has dropped some more hints about their upcoming GPUs. Along with the new countdown timer on the teaser page, AMD has also uploaded a word cloud with some key tags. A quick look at these keywords tells us a whole lot of information…
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AMD Polaris 12 and Vega 12 Pass RRA Certification
Over the past couple of weeks, various leaks have been coming out about Polaris 12 and Vega 10. Both are reported to be upcoming GPUs from AMD, with Vega 10 being confirmed by AMD for a launch in 2017. Other these few tidbits, more information about the new chips has…
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AMD Polaris 12, 10XT2 & Vega 10 Outed in macOS Drivers
Just in time for the launch of the new Crimson ReLive drivers, new leaks have popped up purporting to several of AMD’s unlaunched graphics cards. While most leaks generally come with a Windows PC focus, this time around they’re from Apple. In the latest macOS Sierra drivers, mention is made…
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AMD Accused of Disabling Async Compute on Older GPUs
Since the release of the Radeon Crimson Software Driver 16.9.2, it seems that AMD may have disabled DirectX 12 Asynchronous Compute technology on graphics cards that run first-generation Graphics CoreNext (GCN) architecture, despite the hardware supposedly being able to Aync Compute. While AMD has blamed developers for disabling Async Compute…
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AMD Teases Vega Launch Venue
After launching Polaris this summer, AMD is expected to follow-up with a new set of GPU releases called Vega. Alternatively rumoured for either a late 2016 or early 2017 launch, the new GPUs are set to use HBM2 combined with GCN 4.0 for top tier performance. In a surprise twist, AMD…
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AMD RX 470 and RX 460 Launch Slides Reveal All
With just over a week to go until the RX 460 and RX 470 launch, we’ve just gotten our first leak of official slides. As expected the new Polaris 11 and Polaris 10 graphics cards fit with other leaks and official information we’ve seen so far. The slides also confirm that…
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AMD RX 470 and RX 460 Launch Dates Leaked
Over the next month or so, both Nvidia and AMD will be launching a number of highly anticipated graphics cards. While Nvidia is focusing on the high-end with the new Pascal Titan X, AMD is going the other way with their RX 460 and RX 470 Polaris GPUs. According to the latest…
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AMD Confirms RX 480 is Full Polaris 10
When the RX 480 launched with 2304 shaders, some were surprised at the odd shader count. Based off of previous naming conventions, some expected that there would be an RX 480X utilizing a full Polaris 10 die. Given the information that AMD has revealed about their naming conventions, it now…
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AMD RX 480 Core Specifications Leaked
So far from the various leaks out on the net and AMD’s official releases, all we’ve found out are the clock speeds and shader counts. The clock speed has been pegged to 1266 MHz with a total of 36 CUs and 2304 Shader Processing Units. Now that GPU-Z has added…
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AMD Scores Triple Strike with Computex Event
With Computex wrapped up now, we have some time to reflect on what we saw at this year’s event. As with every year, we saw a showcase of all the new tech that’s about to come out over the next year or so. Chief among them was the AMD announcement…
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