Intel shows off some more Knight's Landing
Published in PC Hardware


Tech details online

Chipzilla has been publishing more information about its Knight's Landing Xeon Phi (co)processors.

Nvidia wins patent round against rival chipmakers
Published in News


Early days yet

Nvidia is claiming a victory in its patent case against Samsung and Qualcomm in the US after an International Trade Commission has returned a pretrial claim construction ruling that it claims favours the outfit.

AMD announces glorious five year plan
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 30 March 2015 16:09

AMD announces glorious five year plan


GPU and APUs for everyone

AMD shared its glorious five year long GPU and APU roadmap with the world for the first time.

AMD Greenland HBM graphics coming next year
Published in Graphics


In 2016 APU design

The world is still expecting the birth of the High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) boosted Fiji GPU, and the first cards based on the new chip should launch in late June, or the end of Q2 2015 if you prefer. 

Sony set to upgrade PS4 GPU
Published in Graphics
Thursday, 26 March 2015 13:02

Sony set to upgrade PS4 GPU


Calls for more experts

The maker of the PS4, Sony appears to be wanting to update its devkits and is looking for an experienced programmer to work on GPU Profiling and Debugging tools used by PlayStation 4 developers worldwide.

Radeon R9 390X up to 60 percent faster than R9 290X
Published in Graphics


According to leaked slides

According to a new set of leaked slides, which show both the rumored specifications and performance of the upcoming Fiji XT-based Radeon R9 390X graphics card, it appears that AMD might have quite a performer on its hands.

Nvidia launches new GTX 960M and GTX 950M Maxwell mobile GPUs
Published in Graphics


Bringing Maxwell to mid-range notebooks

While the mobile GTX 980M and GTX 970M GPUs  can be seen in plenty of high-end gaming notebooks, Nvidia has now unveiled a couple of new mid-range mobile Maxwell GPUs, the GTX 960M and the GTX 950M.

Nvidia wins market share from AMD
Published in Graphics
Wednesday, 25 February 2015 14:28

Nvidia wins market share from AMD


Year of shrinking

It would appear that the world is rushing to Nvidia to buy its latest GPU at the expense of AMD.

Bandwidth might not be everything for HBM Fiji
Published in Graphics


History lesson

AMD Hawaii came in late 2013 with a 512-bit memory interface, which was surprising, but the card did quite well against Nvidia's Kepler-based Geforce 780 TI in the high-end.

Most AMD Radeon 300 series based on older GCN architecture
Published in Graphics


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.