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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...
June GPU Market Update: Price Compression Benefits
It's a great time to buy a GPU, especially if you're in the market for an AMD part. Prices are low and performance is high.
132 by Derek Wilson on 6/19/2009AVIVO Video Converter Redux and ATI Stream Quick Look
AMD released a new version of the AVIVO Video Converter and has support for GPU acceleration of Cyberlink's transcoder. Let's take a look at what we get.
32 by Derek Wilson on 6/11/2009Stereoscopic 3D Monitor From iZ3D: Passive Glasses and Polarized Screens
As a company who has been making stereo drivers for a while, iZ3D offers a hardware solution that in many ways gives NVIDIA's GeForce 3D Vision some competition. But...
31 by Derek Wilson on 6/8/2009Overclocking Extravaganza: GTX 275's Complex Characteristics
Today we round out our overclocking coverage by testing the GTX 275 and turning up it's core memory and shader clocks. Find out how competitive it is with Radeon 4890.
43 by Derek Wilson on 6/4/2009AMD Evergreen: 40nm DirectX 11 GPU Silicon Arrives
At Computex, AMD has demonstrated working next generation DX11 hardware and shows of their first wafer of codename Evergreen parts.
34 by Derek Wilson on 6/3/2009Zotac's Ion: The World's First mini-ITX Ion Board
NVIDIA finally delivered on its promise to release Ion products in 2009. It first started with Acer's Aspire Revo but now Zotac is taking care of the...
93 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/12/2009PhysX: What Readers Think
We spend a lot of time giving our readers our opinions about different features, but this time we're asking for your input as well.
55 by Derek Wilson on 5/6/2009Overclocking Extravaganza: Radeon HD 4890 To The Max
We push the limits of the new Radeon HD 4890 and see how it performs. Memory and core overclocking are both investigated.
61 by Derek Wilson on 4/29/2009Faster Graphics For Lower Prices: ATI Radeon HD 4770
AMD introduces the 40nm RV740 based Radeon HD 4770 raising the bar for parts near the highest volume price point.
89 by Derek Wilson on 4/28/2009Caustic Graphics: Hardware Raytracing
Today we have a new add-in board coprocessor in town. Caustic Graphics has announced their CausticOne hardware and CausticGL API which will enable hardware accelerated raytracing.
48 by Derek Wilson on 4/20/2009ATI Radeon HD 4890 vs. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275
Two new GPUs at the $250 price point battle it out. Guess what? Both GPUs perform about the same. We take this opportunity to go through...
295 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on 4/2/2009NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250: A Rebadged 9800 GTX+
First it was the 8800 GT, then the 8800 GTS 512, then the 9800 GT then the 9800 GTX and shrunk down to the 9800 GTX+. Now it's...
107 by Derek Wilson on 3/3/2009MultiGPU Update: Finding the True Halo with 4-way
We round out our series on multiGPU performance with a look at 4-way SLI and CrossFire. Who will come out on top? The answer will surprise you.
44 by Derek Wilson on 2/28/2009MultiGPU Update: Does 3-way Make Sense?
For those who want the most graphics power they can pack in to a computer, 3-way multiGPU technology can seem very attractive. But is the Siren call of the...
46 by Derek Wilson on 2/25/2009MultiGPU Update: Two-GPU Options in Depth
With both AMD and NVIDIA fully invested in both single and multiple card multiGPU solutions, we have dedicated some time to testing the landscape starting with two GPU configurations.
95 by Derek Wilson on 2/23/2009NVIDIA's Ion Platform: Performance Preview
NVIDIA sent us a fully functional Ion platform. As expected, pairing up Intel's Atom processor with the GeForce 9400M provides a much better user experience than current Atom...
69 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/3/2009Revealing The Power of DirectX 11
DirectX 11 isn't quite out yet, but samples and specifications are out and we've had the opportunity to comb over the many presentations on the API over the past...
109 by Derek Wilson on 1/30/2009GeForce GTX 285: 55nm Enabling Higher Performance
With higher performance, a larger price tag, and smaller die sizes, NVIDIA is hoping to capitalize on a new 55nm part. Here's the low down.
76 by Derek Wilson on 1/15/2009NVIDIA's Ion Platform: Hands on at CES 2009
NVIDIA gave us some additional time with its recently announced Ion platform. We help explain its positioning as well as clear up some confusion about Intel's Atom processor naming.
29 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/13/2009NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295: Leading the Pack
NVIDIA enters this round of single-card dual-GPU graphics solutions with a reclaiming of the halo.
96 by Derek Wilson on 1/12/2009