Fiji Radeon 390X comes with 8GB frame buffer
Published in Graphics


4GB was a limitation, coming in early summer

AMD Fiji is definitely an exciting chip, and many AMD fans are on their toes, eager to see AMD’s first interposer 2.5D High Bandwidth Memory HBM chip.

MediaTek to license AMD graphics
Published in Graphics
Monday, 09 March 2015 09:16

MediaTek to license AMD graphics

For high-end SoCs

One of the hottest things we learned at the Mobile World Congress is that MediaTek is working with AMD on mobile SoC graphics.

Most AMD Radeon 300 series based on older GCN architecture
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Only Fiji is an all-new chip

While we are getting close to the launch of AMD's new Radeon 300-series lineup, a new report suggest that most of the upcoming Radeon 300 series will be based on older GCN 1.1 and GCN 1.2 architecture while Fiji GPU will actuallly be the only new chip.

More AMD R9 300 series details show up
Published in Graphics
Monday, 09 February 2015 13:01

More AMD R9 300 series details show up


Grenada is refined Hawaii

There have been plenty of rumors regarding AMD's upcoming R9 300 series and today we have a fresh set of leaks that not only talks about the Hawaii GPU refresh, but also puts all recent rumors and details in context.

BenQ asks $580.99 for 24 inch monitor
Published in Graphics
Tuesday, 03 February 2015 09:38

BenQ asks $580.99 for 24 inch monitor


Reality check needed

BenQ  is having problems with reality. We were happy to see yet another G-Sync capable monitor shipping but we were shocked by the price of it. 

AMD fights GTX 960 with R9 280/285
Published in Graphics
Tuesday, 27 January 2015 10:12

AMD fights GTX 960 with R9 280/285


Geforce GTX 960 faces stiff competition

Last week was all about the Geforce GTX 960 launch and we had a chance to take a closer look at this Maxwell GPU from Nvidia. 

AMD Carrizo launch in Q2 2015
Published in AI
Wednesday, 21 January 2015 13:03

AMD Carrizo launch in Q2 2015


AMD CEO confirms


AMD released its earnings today and one cool question came up about the upcoming Carrizo mobile APU. 

AMD Free Sync works well in real world
Published in Graphics
Tuesday, 20 January 2015 10:54

AMD Free Sync works well in real world


BenQ, Samsung & LG monitors coming soon


We had a chance to see a demo of AMD FreeSync, a new DisplayPort 1.2 standard that gets rid of screen tearing in games. 

AMD's Fiji GPU graphics card to feature High-Bandwidth Memory
Published in Graphics


The Radeon R9 380X coming with HBM

New evidence coming from two LinkedIn profiles of AMD employees suggest that AMD's upcoming Radeon R9 380X graphics card which is expected to be based on the Fiji GPU will actually use High-Bandwidth Memory.

Vapor-Chamber Tri-X cooler and 8GB of GDDR5 memory