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AMD has made itself quite a reputation with its bundling campaigns over the years, and every new season we can be sure that the company will be giving away free games with the purchase of its hardware. This summer will certainly not be exception as AMD will be bundling Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and Unknown 9: Awakening titles with its Ryzen 7000 CPUs and Radeon RX 7000 video cards. The latest bundle offer essentially covers all of AMD's existing mid-range and high-end consumer desktop products, sans the to-be-launched Ryzen 9000 series. That includes not only AMD's desktop parts, such as the Ryzen 9 7800X3D, but also virtually their entire stack of Radeon RX 7000 video cards, right on down to the 7600 XT. AMD's laptop...
AMD Announces Radeon RDNA 3 GPU Livestream Event for November 3rd
Following on the heels of AMD’s CPU-centric event back in August, AMD today has sent out a press release announcing that they will be holding a similar event in...
18 by Ryan Smith on 10/20/2022NVIDIA Scrubs GeForce RTX 4080 12GB Launch; 16GB To Be Sole RTX 4080 Card
In a short post published on NVIDIA’s website today, the company has announced that it is “unlaunching” their planned GeForce RTX 4080 12GB card. The lowest-end of the initially...
100 by Ryan Smith on 10/14/2022Microsoft: DirectStorage 1.1 with GPU Decompression Finally on Its Way
As part of this week’s Microsoft Ignite developers conference, Microsoft’s DirectX team has published a few blog posts offering updates on the state of various game development-related projects. The...
45 by Ryan Smith on 10/14/2022AMD Issues Early Q3’22 Financial Results: Misses Guidance By $1B as Client Revenue Craters
Underscoring a difficult second half of the year that seems to be shaping up for the entire tech industry, AMD this afternoon has become the latest tech company to...
33 by Ryan Smith on 10/6/2022NVIDIA: H100 Hopper Accelerator Now in Full Production, DGX Shipping In Q1’23
With NVIDIA’s fall GTC event in full swing, the company touched upon the bulk of its core business in one way or another in this morning’s keynote. On the...
9 by Ryan Smith on 9/20/2022The NVIDIA GeForce Project Beyond and GTC Fall 2022 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 8am PT/15:00 UTC)
Kicking off a bit later this morning will be NVIDIA’s GTC 2022 fall keynote, which should prove to be a very interesting event. Besides NVIDIA’s usual run-through of business announcements...
48 by Ryan Smith & Gavin Bonshor on 9/20/2022EVGA and NVIDIA To Split: EVGA Won’t Make Next-Gen NVIDIA Cards
In a move that will have significant repercussions for the video card industry in North America and Europe, EVGA today has announced that the company is parting ways from...
119 by Ryan Smith on 9/16/2022Compute Express Link (CXL) 3.0 Announced: Doubled Speeds and Flexible Fabrics
While it’s technically still the new kid on the block, the Compute Express Link (CXL) standard for host-to-device connectivity has quickly taken hold in the server market. Designed to...
4 by Ryan Smith on 8/2/2022AMD: Combining CDNA 3 and Zen 4 for MI300 Data Center APU in 2023
Alongside their Zen CPU architecture and RDNA client GPU architecture updates, AMD this afternoon is also updating their roadmap for their CDNA server GPU architecture and related Instinct products...
16 by Ryan Smith on 6/9/2022AMD’s 2022-2024 Client GPU Roadmap: RDNA 3 This Year, RDNA 4 Lands in 2024
Among the slew of announcements from AMD today around their 2022 Financial Analyst Day, the company offering an update to their client GPU (RDNA) roadmap. Like the company’s Zen...
21 by Ryan Smith on 6/9/2022AMD RDNA 3/Navi 3X GPU Update: 50% Better Perf-Per-Watt, Using Chiplets For First Time
Continuing our coverage of AMD's 2022 Financial Analyst day, we have the matter of AMD's forthcoming RDNA 3 GPU architecture and the Navi 3X GPUs that will be built...
11 by Ryan Smith on 6/9/2022Intel Unveils Rialto Bridge: Second-Gen Xe-HPC Accelerator to Succeed Ponte Vecchio
With ISC High Performance 2022 taking place this week in Hamburg, Germany, Intel is using the first in-person version of the event in 3 years to offer an update...
38 by Ryan Smith on 5/31/2022NVIDIA To Release Liquid Cooled A100 and H100 PCIe Accelerators
Among NVIDIA’s slate of announcements tonight at Computex 2022, the company has revealed that it is preparing to launch liquid cooled versions of their high-end PCIe accelerator cards. Being...
1 by Ryan Smith on 5/24/2022Computex 2022: NVIDIA Keynote Live Blog (11pm ET/03:00 UTC)
Kicking off day two of our Computex coverage is NVIDIA, who will be delivering an hour-long keynote for the show. The untitled keynote is slated to run for an hour...
14 by Ryan Smith on 5/23/2022AMD Prepares New "Raise The Game" Bundle - Rushing to Counter Falling Card Prices
As retail video card prices drop back down to more normal prices following 18 months of cryptocurrency-fueled madness, AMD and its partners are quickly finding themselves with a new...
31 by Ryan Smith on 5/12/2022Intel: Desktop Arc A-Series Launch Now Staggers in to Q3'22
Ahead of Intel’s Vision event this morning, the company has published a short update on the status of the ongoing launch of their Arc family of GPUs. Penned by...
32 by Ryan Smith on 5/10/2022AMD Releases Radeon RX 6950 XT, 6750 XT, and 6650 XT: A Bit More Speed For Spring
AMD this morning is taking the wraps off a trio of new Radeon RX 6000 series video cards to round out its product stack. Aimed at everything from the...
33 by Ryan Smith on 5/10/2022VESA Launches Variable Refresh Display Performance Standards: AdaptiveSync and MediaSync
Kicking off what’s set to be a busy May, this morning the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA), the PC display industry’s primary consortium, is rolling out a new set...
45 by Ryan Smith on 5/2/2022NVIDIA Releases GeForce RTX 3090 Ti: Ampere the All-Powerful
Back in January during their CES 2022 keynote, NVIDIA teased the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, an even more powerful version of NVIDIA’s flagship card for the high-end gaming and...
88 by Ryan Smith on 3/29/2022NVIDIA Hopper GPU Architecture and H100 Accelerator Announced: Working Smarter and Harder
Depending on your point of view, the last two years have either gone by very slowly, or very quickly. While the COVID pandemic never seemed to end – and...
88 by Ryan Smith on 3/22/2022