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Samsung Denies HBM Quality Issues
Samsung has firmly denied recent reports alleging that its high-bandwidth memory (HBM) products failed quality tests by Nvidia. According to Business Korea, Samsung’s HBM memory passed all tests and the company emphasized its commitment to quality and reliability. Samsung’s Response to Quality Claims Samsung addressed the rumors, stating it is…
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NVIDIA Announces Quadro GV100 GPU
NVIDIA is known by most as a company defining the standards when it comes to graphics cards. Today at the GPU Technology Conference, the company has moved everything to a completely new level, so far beyond what we’ve seen previously that it seems like science fiction. I’m talking about the…
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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 Raven Ridge APU Details Leaked
Earlier in the year, we got the first leak about Raven Ridge. Set to be a new series of AMD APUs, the lineup was rumoured to combine the new Zen CPU cores with Polaris based GCN graphics cores. A key addition was the supposed use of HBM to act as…
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AMD Vega 10 Will Arrive Before 2017 For Professional Market
From the original roadmaps that AMD released, Vega looked like it had the chance to release within the year. Combined with rumours that suggested Vega 10 might release in October, it looked like AMD would have a GTX 1080 challenger out soon. However, AMD has since debunked their reports, with Vega…
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AMD Grey Hawk APUs Set For 2019 Release
Earlier in the year, we first got rumours about a massive AMD CPU. Codenamed Starship, the rumoured chip would feature up to 48 cores on the 7nm FinFET process with the latest Zen+ x86 architecture. This week, we’re getting reports for the first 7nm FinFET APU is working on. Codenamed…
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Apple May Choose AMD APU For MacBook Pro
Last month, reports came out that AMD has scored a major Apple design win. According to the rumours, AMD’s new Polaris GPUs had been chosen to power the next generation of MacBook Pros. Today’s rumour, however, is a much bigger deal than just a GPU win. According to the report, Apple…
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AMD Radeon Pro Duo Launch Date Revealed?
AMD’s answer to the Titan lineup, the Radeon Pro Duo was first revealed last month at AMD’s Capsaicin event. Navigating a line fine line between the Radeon and FirePro lineups, the new graphics cards combines two of AMD’s top end Fiji GPUs. According to VideoCardz, we may see the first Radeon…
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AMD Raven Ridge APUs May Combine Zen and Polaris With HBM
One of the first applications that came to mind with HBM was pairing it up with an AMD APU. Proven to work as VRAM with the Fiji GPUs last year, HBM also has possible applications to act as a high-speed cache for other applications where density is important. While we’ve…
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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 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 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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SK Hynix Details HBM2 Production Timeline
For the upcoming graphics generation, both Nvidia and AMD are set to use HBM2 for their upcoming Pascal and Polaris graphics cards. While Samsung has already revealed that they have kicked off mass production for HBM2, we’re getting word on competitor SK Hynix’s plans for the new memory technology. According…
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Sapphire Nitro OC R9 Fury Graphics Card Review
Introduction The initial unveiling of AMD’s Fury X was eagerly anticipated due to the advent of high bandwidth memory, and potential to revolutionize the size to performance ratio of modern graphics cards. This new form of stackable video RAM provided a glimpse into the future and departure from the current…
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AMD Rumored to Lower R9 Fury Pricing
When AMD launched their Fiji based lineup last year, many were pleased with the performance. The use of HBM helped the Fiji cards helped them achieve better power efficiency while still maintaining the advantages of GCN. The biggest concern at the time was that Nvidia had just cut prices on…
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