If there’s one thing that makes inexpensive laptops less than appealing is their tendency to include integrated graphics chips that can’t cut it past playing some video. AMD’s Vision processor lineup will be the company’s first chips that combine a graphics chip and processor for the consumer market. Normally the integrated graphics solutions are hosted […]
Read more AMD Vision Fusion processors to bring about cheap and powerful notebooks
A reference design is a reference design meaning all things are pretty much equal regardless of what manufacturer you’re looking at so you’re going to be choosing your fancy new AMD Radeon HD 6870 based on price, warranty, software bundle, or by non-reference cooler which seemingly showed up out of nowhere to catch your eye. […]
Multi GPU performance relies quite a bit on how well the graphics chips handle communicating with each other and the quality of the drivers that are available for the setups. The AMD Radeon HD 6870 and 6850 offer an intriguing combination of pricing, power consumption, temperature, and driver maturity that somehow manages to push their […]
Read more AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series CrossFireX scales quite nicely
Those expecting miracles from the AMD Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 graphics cards should instead hold on to their hopes for the 6900 series. Everyone else has a lot to look forward to with AMD’s latest chip refresh which takes the tried and true design of last year’s ground breaking 5800 series and does some […]
Graphics chip manufacturers tend to make minor tweaks to their previous generation’s design and roll it out as a whole new product lineup which allows them to stretch their research and development efforts over several years and gives them some time to work on their next architecture. AMD’s upcoming Radeon HD 6000 series seems to […]
An under-served market leads to all sorts of opportunities for somebody to swoop in and grab themselves a sizable chunk of any industry which is exactly what AMD did when they saw some gaps in the CPU market between the mid-range and insanely high end processor choices so they rolled out a handful of new […]
Keeping your graphics drivers up to date is an exciting time for those that like to tinker with the untapped performance of your video card…for the other 99.97% of the PC gaming populace it’s a chore. Valve and AMD are helping gamers stay up to date by loading up Radeon graphics driver updates to the […]
You tend to tune out on future technologies when companies mention their forward looking product maps and how excited they are to be working on them seemingly every week but AMD has definitely stepped up their game. The company was showing off their “Zacate” APU (previously known as a CPU with an integrated GPU) which […]
Read more AMD Fusion will pack plenty of power
AMD has announced its new ATI FirePro V9800 graphics card for professional applications. The board is designed for all of that no-nonsense 3D modeling and GPU enhanced programs that are just screaming for as much processing power as possible. The board is capable of outputting to six displays through Mini DisplayPorts using the company’s EyeFinity […]
Read more AMD ATI FirePro V9800 offers EyeFinity for the professional
LucidLogix’s Hydra graphics engine allows any motherboard infused with its awesome powers to accept graphics cards from the two major manufacturers and allows them to work in tandem as a Multi-GPU solution that doesn’t take into account CrossFireX or SLI capabilities. The technology does have its merits but it required motherboard manufacturers to add quite […]
Read more Lucid UNITY enables HYDRALOGIX Multi-GPU graphics processing possible for all
Getting the most out of your system usually means quite a bit of overclocking so that a processor’s cores can chew through as much data as possible and has been the case for quite a while now but a resurgence of some fine tuning could eek out a bit more performance. AMD’s Phenom II X6 […]
Read more AMD Phenom II X6 memory performance confuses and astounds
