Hidden Secrets: Investigation Shows That NVIDIA GPUs Implement Tile Based Rasterization for Greater Efficiency
As someone who analyzes GPUs for a living, one of the more vexing things in my life has been NVIDIA’s Maxwell architecture. The company’s 28nm refresh offered a huge...
191 by on 8/1/2016
AMD Announces Radeon RX 470 & RX 460 Specifications; Shipping in Early August
Back before Radeon RX 480 even launched, AMD briefly teased the next two cards in their lineup at E3 2016’s PC Gaming Show. These cards, the Radeon RX 470...
56 by on 7/28/2016
AMD Announces Radeon Pro WX Series: WX 4100, WX 5100, & WX 7100 Bring Polaris to Pros
It’s been a while since we’ve last seen a new workstation graphics card from AMD. With their Fiji GPU not being a good fit for the market, the company...
30 by on 7/26/2016
Updated: AMD Announces Radeon Pro SSG: Fiji With M.2 SSDs On-Board
As part of this evening’s AMD Capsaicin event (more on that later), AMD’s Chief Architect and SVP of the Radeon Technologies Group has announced a new Radeon Pro card...
120 by on 7/25/2016
NVIDIA Announces Quadro Pascal Family: Quadro P6000 & P5000
If there was one word to describe the launch of NVIDIA’s Pascal generation products, it’s “expedient.” On the consumer side of the business the company has launched 3 different...
40 by on 7/25/2016
Updated: NVIDIA Announces “NVIDIA Titan X” Video Card: $1200, Available August 2nd
In 2014/2015, it took NVIDIA 6 months from the launch of the Maxwell 2 architecture to get GTX Titan X out the door. All things considered, that was a...
228 by on 7/25/2016
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 & GTX 1070 Founders Editions Review: Kicking Off the FinFET Generation
It has taken about 2 years longer than we’d normally see, but the next full generation of GPUs are finally upon us. Powered by FinFET based nodes at TSMC...
201 by on 7/20/2016
Doom Vulkan Patch Released
Bethesda PR has sent over a quick note this morning that the long-awaited Vulkan patch for Doom is now available, allowing the game to be played with either the...
73 by on 7/11/2016
AMD Posts Radeon 16.7.1 Drivers, Fixes RX 480 Power Consumption Issues
In what’s hopefully the final chapter on AMD’s saga over the last week with the Radeon RX 480’s power consumption, AMD has posted the previously promised 16.7.1 driver set...
105 by on 7/7/2016
NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 1060: Starting at $249, Available July 19th
Excitingly, GPU Season 2016 is now in full swing. In the last two months we have seen NVIDIA launch a pair of high-end cards – the Pascal-based GeForce GTX...
228 by on 7/7/2016
AMD's Tuesday Radeon RX 480 Status Update: New Driver By Late Thursday
Following up on this weekend's statement from AMD about a potential power issue with the reference Radeon RX 480, AMD has just sent over their previously promised update on...
121 by on 7/6/2016
AMD Releases Statement On Radeon RX 480 Power Consumption; More Details Tuesday
Following up on this week's Radeon RX 480 launch, there has been some questions raised about the power consumption of the card. This is after some sites whom directly...
181 by on 7/2/2016
The AMD Radeon RX 480 Preview: Polaris Makes Its Mainstream Mark
Back in December of last year, AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group began slowly trickling out the plans for what would be their first GPU architecture built for the now-modern FinFET...
449 by on 6/29/2016
NVIDIA Announces PCI Express Tesla P100: Shipping In Q4’16
Kicking off this week in Frankfurt, Germany is the annual International Supercomputing Conference, better known as ISC. One of the two major supercomputing conferences for the year, ISC is...
56 by on 6/20/2016
ARM Announces Mali Egil Video Processor: VP9 Encode & Decode For Mobile
Earlier this month we took a look at ARM’s new Mali-G71 GPU. Based on the company’s equally new Bifrost architecture, Mali-G71 marks a significant architectural change for the Mali...
24 by on 6/16/2016
A Bit More on AMD’s Polaris GPUs: 36 & 16 CUs
Along with this week’s teaser of the forthcoming Radeon RX 470 and RX 460 at E3, AMD also held a short press briefing about Polaris. The bulk of AMD’s...
102 by on 6/15/2016
Apple Announces macOS Sierra: Siri, Better iOS Convergence, New Metal Features, & More
With Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in full swing, as part of the company’s annual festivities they have unveiled the next version of their venerable Macintosh operating system...
32 by on 6/14/2016
AMD Teases Future Radeon RX 470 & Radeon RX 460 Cards
With the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo once again upon us, this week has been a flood of gaming hardware and software news. On the PC front, AMD is once...
105 by on 6/13/2016
AMD Briefly Shows Off Zen “Summit Ridge” Silicon
After an already packed Computex 2016 event with Radeon Polaris and Bristol Ridge/Stoney Ridge news, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su had one final surprise to close out the company’s...
89 by on 5/31/2016
AMD Teases Radeon RX 480: Launching June 29th For $199
Kicking off at this moment is AMD’s Computex 2016 keynote. The company has multiple announcements scheduled this evening, but we’re going to jump right into an area that has...
377 by on 5/31/2016
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