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AMD Reveals DirectX 12 Performance Stats in 3DMark Benchmark
Futuremark has released a new update for 3DMark that adds 3DMark API Overhead benchmark. It didn’t take long for AMD to get straight into showing its performance stats for the Radeon R9 290X graphics and the FX-8370 octa-core CPU scaling. Futuremark has added draw calls on different APIs in its Overhead…
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Sapphire R7 260X OC 1GB Graphics Card Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging Gaming on a strict budget has become easier in recent years as entry level offerings from AMD and Nvidia have become increasingly more affordable with increasingly more power. The $100 price point is a good example of this with the R7 250X, R7 260 and R7…
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HIS R7 260X iPower IceQ X² 2GB Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging AMD’s R7 260X graphics card has become infinitely more popular since AMD reduced initial launch pricing down from $140 to $120. Of course the competitiveness of the R7 260X has been helped by the fact its biggest rival, Nvidia’s GTX 650 Ti Boost, has been discontinued…
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AMD Drops R7 260X Pricing With R7 265 Launch
With AMD introducing lots of new cards to the R7 series they’ve decided it is time to readjust pricing. Today the R7 265 has been launched and with a price of $149 it makes the R7 260X uncompetitive at $139. As a result AMD have made the wise decision to drop…
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Battlefield 4 Graphics Performance Overview With Current Generation GPUs
Introduction Battlefield 4 has been one of the biggest game releases so far this year for gamers on all gaming platforms. The FPS title from EA and DICE has got off to a relatively shaky start with numerous audio, graphical and gameplay problems across the various platforms it was released…
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Nvidia Cut GTX 660 And GTX 650 Ti Prices In Response To AMD Launches
If you’re wondering why AMD’s R7 260X received such lacklustre reception both here at eTeknix and at many other review sites, well it is down to the fact that Nvidia have aggressively cut the prices of their cards which compete with the R7 260X – namely the GTX 650 Ti…
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AMD Radeon R9 280X, R9 270X, R7 260X, R7 250 and R7 240 Launch Details
Introduction Launch day is finally among us for AMD’s hotly anticipated RX 2XX series. Today AMD unveils the R9 280X, R9 270X, R7 260X, R7 250 and R7 240. That’s two cards from the enthusiast R9 series, shown above, and three from the entry R7 series, shown below. We’ve already…
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AMD Radeon R7 260X 2GB Graphics Card Review
Introduction Having already checked out the AMD R9 280X and AMD R9 270X for today’s launch it is now time to take a look at something from the mainstream R7 series and in particular we have the R7 260X with us in this review. The AMD R7 260X is another…
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Nvidia Preparing Two Sub-$250 SKUs And Price Cuts For GTX 700 Series
Digitimes reports that Nvidia is planning new GPUs and price cuts in its GTX 700 series to combat the launch of AMD’s R9 and R7 series of graphics cards. Firstly Nvidia is expected to provide price cuts across the whole range of GTX 700 series GPUs in order to compete…
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AMD Reveals TrueAudio Technology To Improve Gaming Audio
AMD revealed a new technology at its GPU 14 press event which it will be launching for three of its new GPUs. The AMD R9-290X, R9-290 and R7-260X GPUs will all support AMD’s new TrueAudio technology. AMD claims that its programmable audio engine will revolutionise gaming audio by giving game…
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AMD Details Improved 4K Support For RX 2XX Series GPUs
AMD has revealed at its GPU 14 LiveStream event that the new RX 2XX series will bring improved compatibility and support for 4K monitors. AMD claims that in most cases there will be “out of the box” compatibility for 4K monitors with their new series of GPUs. The new drivers…
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AMD Announce R9 2XX And R7 2XX Series Graphics Cards
At the GPU 14 event (which you can watch live coverage of here) AMD announced its newest series of graphics cards with the R9 290X, R9 280X and R9 270X all forming the R9 series and the R7 260X and R7 250 forming the R7 series. AMD briefly details the…
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HIS Website Leaks Details Of Upcoming AMD GPUs
The guys over at WCCFTech have managed to grab some details of AMD’s upcoming Volcanic Islands GPU family via the HIS website. We tried to explain the new GPU naming system a while back but now we can bring you the exact naming of these new graphics cards from AMD. The…
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