GCN
As AMD is now well into their third generation of RDNA architecture GPUs, the sun has been slowly setting on AMD’s remaining Graphics Core Next (GCN) designs, better known by the architecture names of Polaris and Vega. In recent weeks the company dropped support for those GPU architectures in their open source Vulkan Linux driver, AMDVLK, and now we have confirmation that the company is slowly winding down support for these architectures in their Windows drivers as well. Under AMD’s extended driver support schedule for Polaris and Vega, the drivers for these architectures will no longer be kept at feature parity with the RDNA architectures. And while AMD will continue to support Polaris and Vega for some time to come, that support is being reduced...
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AMD's A10-5750M Review, Part 2: The MSI GX60 Gaming Notebook
In the first part of our review of the AMD A10-5750M, we revealed the chip had a predisposition for better CPU performance. Does that carry over and help MSI's...
69 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/29/2013
AMD Radeon HD 7790 Review Feat. Sapphire: The First Desktop Sea Islands
Launching today is AMD’s second new GPU for 2013 and the first GPU to make it to the retail desktop market: Bonaire. Bonaire in turn will be powering AMD’s...
107 by Ryan Smith on 3/22/2013
AMD Reiterates 2013 GPU Plans: Sea Islands & Beyond
A few minutes ago AMD wrapped up a somewhat impromptu conference call, which had been called together to reiterate the company’s 2013 GPU plans. While there is technically very...
58 by Ryan Smith on 2/15/2013_carousel.jpg)
HP EliteBook 8570w Notebook Review: The Other Side of the Coin
We recently reviewed Dell's top of the line Precision M6700 mobile workstation and found that the overall design left something to be desired compared to HP's high end EliteBooks...
54 by Dustin Sklavos on 12/18/2012
AMD's Holiday Plans: Catalyst 12.11 Performance Driver & New Holiday Game Bundle
Update: Catalyst 12.11 hss been releasd (Release Notes) As October winds to a close, the consumer electronics industry is making its final preparations for the holiday shopping season. Among events...
65 by Ryan Smith on 10/22/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Review: Battling For The Performance Crown
The GeForce GTX 680 launch marked both the closest and the farthest AMD has ever been from outright beating NVIDIA in modern times. On the one hand NVIDIA beat...
110 by Ryan Smith on 6/22/2012
AMD Announces FirePro W600, Sets Their Sights On Digital Wall Market
For AMD’s FirePro customers, they know that with GCN coming up on 6 months old now that this is the time to keep an eye on product announcements. It...
10 by Ryan Smith on 6/13/2012
AMD Announces A New 900MHz Radeon HD 7750
For our final bit of AMD news today, in a bit of an unusual move AMD has informally announced a new Radeon HD 7750. The new 7750, which will not...
31 by Ryan Smith on 6/1/2012
AMD Launches Radeon 7700M, 7800M, and 7900M Mobile GPUs
Late last year, we covered the first part of AMD’s HD 7000M product lineup, the 7400M, 7500M, and 7600M. Today, the other shoe drops as we get the high-end...
53 by Jarred Walton on 4/24/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7870 Launch Recap
It has been a couple of weeks since we reviewed the Radeon HD 7800 series, but as we mentioned earlier this week and in our 7850 recap, that was...
7 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/24/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7850 Launch Recap
It has been weeks since we reviewed AMD's Radeon HD 7870 and 7850 cards, but unlike the 7900 and 7700 series cards, the 7800 series was given the typical...
14 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/24/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition & Radeon HD 7850 Review: Rounding Out Southern Islands
In 2009-2010, AMD launched the entire 4 chip Evergreen series in 6 months. By previous standards this was a quick pace for a new design, especially since AMD had...
173 by Ryan Smith on 3/5/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7750 & Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition Review: Evading The Price/Performance Curve
With the launch of Tahiti behind them, AMD is now firing on all cylinders to get the rest of their Southern Islands lineup out the door. Typically we’d see...
155 by Ryan Smith & Ganesh T S on 2/15/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7950 Review Feat. Sapphire & XFX: Sewing Up The High-End Market
Announced late last month and shipping 3 weeks ago, AMD kicked off the 28nm generation with a bang with their Radeon HD 7970. Combining TSMC’s new 28nm HKMG process...
259 by Ryan Smith on 1/31/2012
AMD Clarifies 7000M Strategy
CES has wrapped up now and we’re all back home, but we’ve still got a few items to cover. While Anand was meeting with AMD on Thursday to go...
16 by Jarred Walton on 1/14/2012
XFX’s Radeon HD 7970 Black Edition Double Dissipation: The First Semi-Custom 7970
Traditionally the launch of a next-generation high-end video card has been a staggered process. In the name of getting cards out as soon as possible the first cards are...
94 by Ryan Smith on 1/9/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7970 Now For Sale
Although they're not officially supposed to go on sale until tomorrow, Newegg already has their selection of 7970s up for sale this evening. Newegg has cards from all of...
12 by Ryan Smith on 1/8/2012
The Radeon HD 7970 Recap
AMD originally told us that we'd have until January 9th to put together our review of the Radeon HD 7970. For a brand new GPU architecture, about three weeks...
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/22/2011
AMD's Graphics Core Next Preview: AMD's New GPU, Architected For Compute
Update: This article was originally posted on June 17, 2011. We are pushing it back up to the top as a quick refresher before upcoming articles... We’ve just returned from...
83 by Ryan Smith on 12/21/2011
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