AMD releases Radeon Software 18.3.4 driver
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One to have for Far Cry 5

AMD has released its latest Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.3.4 driver which brings day-one support for the Far Cry 5 game as well as fixing some earlier problems.

AMD and Nvidia to suffer from increased competition
Published in Graphics


Susquehanna Financial warns about the rise of Bitmain's bitmining chips

Susquehanna Financial has warned that AMD and Nvidia are about to lose a big chunk of the cash that they have been making from crypto-miners.

AMD announces details of Chimera flaws
Published in PC Hardware


So it probably was a dodgy short-selling move

Last week AMD was hit by claims that its chips had a security flaw which would take years to fix, however it is starting to look like the security outfit which identified the flaws was singling out the chipmaker.

MSI pulls back after "lone employee" attacks AMD
Published in Graphics


Comments did not have our blessing


MSI Gaming has gone into damage control mode after its official Facebook page for India waded into AMD Radeon graphics cards, saying that "Nvidia currently are ahead in the GPU experience" and suggesting the competition is sub-par.

AMD cuts some Ryzen and Threadripper CPU prices
Published in PC Hardware


Ahead of Pinnacle Ridge launch

Ahead of the rumored launch of its second-generation Ryzen CPUs next month, AMD has announced a price cut for some of its current Ryzen-desktop and Ryzen Threadripper processors.

AMD rolls out Radeon Software 18.3.3 driver
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One to have for Sea of Thieves and A Way Out

AMD has released its newest Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.3.3 driver update which brings support for Sea of Thieves and A Way Out games, support for Vulkan 1.1, as well as fixing a couple of bugs.

AMD releases real-time ray tracing support for ProRender
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And Radeon GPU Profiler 1.2.

AMD has announced real-time ray tracing support for the company's ProRender rendering engine, and Radeon GPU Profiler 1.2.

AMD Ryzen 5 2600X shows up briefly on Amazon.de
Published in PC Hardware


Said it should ship on April 19th

German Amazon has leaked one of the AMD's upcoming Pinnacle Ridge CPUs, the Ryzen 5 2600X, with the shipping date set for April 19th.

Was AMD security announcement gaming Wall Street?
Published in News


CTS Labs and Viceroy Research spark conspiracy theory

The announcement by a security firm called CTS Labs had found severe vulnerabilities and backdoors in some AMD processors appears to have sparked a full-on internet conspiracy theory.

AMD Ryzen 5 2600X and Ryzen 7 2700X spotted in Geekbench
Published in PC Hardware


Higher-clock and higher scores

Both the upcoming Ryzen 5 2600X and the Ryzen 7 2700X have been spotted in the Geekbench database, revealing most of the details about these two upcoming Ryzen 2000 series CPUs based on 12nm Zen+ CPU architecture.