AMD formally announces RX 470 GPU
Published in Gaming
Thursday, 04 August 2016 16:07

AMD formally announces RX 470 GPU

Games without front ears

It has been a while in the coming but AMD today said it’s released its Radeon RX470 card at a price of $179.

AMD’s cash cow is being milked
Published in News
Monday, 01 August 2016 19:18

AMD’s cash cow is being milked

Opinion It’s on some kind of a roll - bacon roll, sausage roll?

It takes a lot of money to make and sell microprocessors  - it always has done and it probably always will, but it seems to some that Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is burning an awful lot of that rare commodity.

Nintendo gives NX contract to Nvidia
Published in Gaming
Friday, 29 July 2016 13:05

Nintendo gives NX contract to Nvidia


Poisoned chalice

After AMD appeared to have sewn up the console market, it had been widely tipped to have its GPUs under the bonnet of the Nintendo NX, however the former maker of playing cards has given the contract to Nvidia.

AMD cuddling up to Samsung
Published in PC Hardware
Thursday, 28 July 2016 12:43

AMD cuddling up to Samsung


Might be seeing other people

AMD’s relationship with GloFlo has always been described as “complicated” and appears to be getting more open.

AMD Radeon Pro hits tops 90FPS on 8k raw
Published in News
Tuesday, 26 July 2016 20:52

AMD Radeon Pro hits tops 90FPS on 8k raw

It's a miracle!

AMD's Radeon Technologies Group made the world’s first public demonstration of its upcoming Radeon Pro SSG solution. 

AMD sticks an SSD into a GPU
Published in Graphics
Tuesday, 26 July 2016 13:13

AMD sticks an SSD into a GPU


1TB close to hand

AMD ‘s Radeon Pro Solid State Graphics (SSG) card will have a 1TB SSD onboard for storage or as a supplement to on-board volatile memory.

Kaby Lake ships to PC builders
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 25 July 2016 12:18

Kaby Lake ships to PC builders

 Ready for Late 2016

Chipzilla's CEO Brian Krzanich has claimed that Kaby Lake CPUs have been finalised and shipping to PC builders for use in complete systems.

AMD mulls GPU and CPU superchip for datacenres
Published in PC Hardware


Able to leap Nvidia and Intel in a single bound

AMD is drawing up a cunning plan to build a "super-chip" with a CPU and a GPU in a single box to put the fear of god into Nvidia and Intel in the data centre.

AMD is on the up
Published in News
Monday, 25 July 2016 11:36

AMD is on the up

Opinion Intel must be worried

Last week’s AMD results show that the company is set to make more headway this year and next, with its upcoming Zen processors definitely giving Intel the heebie jeebies.

Sapphire officially unveils RX 480 Nitro+ graphics cards
Published in Graphics


Coming in 4GB and 8GB versions

Sapphire has now officially announced its custom Radeon RX 480 graphics card, the Sapphire RX 480 Nitro+, that will be available in both 4GB and 8GB versions and come with a fully-custom cooler, high factory-overclock and plenty of other features.