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Leaks Point to November 19th Launch for AMD Radeon R9 380X
With more leaks than the Fury launch received, we’re finally getting word on the launch for AMD’s R9 380X. According to various sources, the R9 380X will launch tomorrow on November 19th. This jives with information obtained earlier which pointed to a November 20th launch in Japan. Given the time…
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AMD May Launch New GPU on November 20th in Japan
According to Japanese sources, AMD is set to unveil a multitude of new products in the coming week. Set to occur in an event on November 20th, AMD will be showing off their new Crimson software suite, various partner products as well a new GPU. While Crimson is undoubtedly a major…
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Leaked AMD Radeon R9 380X Benchmarks
With the R9 380X rumoured to launch in just a week or so, we’re now getting some interesting leaks about the card. Earlier, we brought you the images for XFX’s model and what appeared to be the exact specifications for the card. Today we’re getting a Colorfire R9 380X with a…
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AMD R9 380X Exact Specifications Leaked
With just over a month until the expected launch, more information on AMD’s Radeon R9 380X have surfaced. Last time around, we got a glimpse of the XFX Double Dissipation model and today we’re treated to the full specifications Unlike the R9 285/380, the 380X will feature the full Tonda die. Tonga…
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AMD Radeon R9 380X May Land In Late October
Ever since AMD debuted Tonga Pro in the R9 285, everyone had been waiting for the full Tonga XT die. Earlier this week, we got our first hint with the glimpse of the XFX Double Dissipation R9 390X. Today, we’re getting word that the R9 380X will finally arrive in…
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New Utility lets you Unlock Disabled Compute Engines on AMD GPUs
A new utility has emerged, entitled, “CUINFO” on Overclock.net which outlines how many compute units are enabled on Fiji, Hawaii and Tonga GPUs. The tool is designed to provide information on your card’s capabilities and offer the ability to unlock specific disabled compute units. However, many CUs are hardware locked…
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AMD Hawaii GPUs Returning With Radeon 300 Series
It’s not uncommon for current generation graphics cards to be tweaked, improved and rebranded to become part of the next-generation launch. This time around, it seems that the current line-up of Hawaii GPUs, such as the Radeon R9 290 cards, will be treated to an overclock and the addition of…
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Sapphire R9 285 “Tonga” ITX Compact Edition Graphics Card Winner!
It’s that awesome time of the week again where once again I get to make one of you incredibly happy, and with a shiny Sapphire R9 285 Tonga graphics card to play around with, who wouldn’t be! The Tonga is a great card for a compact gaming rig or HTPC…
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AMD Slashes R9 280 & R9 290 Cards
AMD have always strived to offer great value for money and their price vs performance ratios have always proven to be a thorn in the side of Nvidia. While Nvidia may be plowing through the industry with a few higher performance cards, AMD are dropping their prices on higher performance…
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AMD “Tonga” Features a 384-bit Memory Interface
New information about the Tonga memory interface, surely this is news from weeks ago? You would think so, as we already know that the current AMD Radeon R9 285 graphics cards run via a 256-bit wide memory interface, but the actual silicon is hiding its true potential; the GDDR5 memory…
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AMD Shoot Down R9 285X Rumour
Ever since the launch of the AMD R9 285 Tonga graphics card, there has been plenty of rumour that AMD would soon be launching another card in the series; the R9 285X. It was long suspected that the new card would feature 2048 SPs, a 384-bit bus and 3GB of…
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Sapphire R9 285 2GB ITX Compact OC Edition Graphics Card Review
Introduction The popularity of compact graphics cards for small form factor systems has risen in recent years. This is mainly due to AMD and Nvidia making great strides in power and thermal efficiency which allows for more performance in smaller packages. The fact mini-ITX and micro-ATX cases have been popularised…
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Sapphire Dual-X AMD R9 285 “Tonga” 2GB Review
Introduction After much anticipation and speculation we can finally present our review of AMD’s new “Tonga” based graphics card. Today we are reviewing Tonga Pro, that’s the first iteration of Tonga, which forms the R9 285 graphics card. It is expected that a Tonga XT variant will arrive at a…
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Powercolor’s R9 285 TurboDuo “Tonga Pro” Graphics Card Is Revealed
AMD’s Tonga Pro R9 285 is just around the corner, September 2nd to be exact, and so far we’ve seen a compact mini-ITX version from Sapphire as well as a STRIX version from ASUS. Now it is Powercolor’s turn for the spotlight with their TurboDuo R9 285. Powercolor’s card features their…
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ASUS Preparing STRIX Variant of AMD R9 285 “Tonga” GPU
The idea behind the ASUS STRIX range is that it can operate silently up until 65 degrees and then after that the fans will spin up. For that reason ASUS has only equipped it to power efficient GPUs, unsurprisingly that meant the GTX 780 saw a STRIX variant and the…
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