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With AMD’s first-wave of Zen 4 CPUs now in the books with the Ryzen 7000 series, the consumer arm of AMD is now shifting its attention over to its graphics business. In a presentation that ended moments ago dubbed “together we advance_gaming”, Dr. Lisa Su and other AMD leaders laid out the future of AMD’s graphics products. And that future is the RDNA 3 architecture, which will be the basis of the new Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Radeon RX 7900 XT video cards. The two cards, set to be released on December 13th, will be the first products released using the RDNA 3 architecture. According to AMD, the new flagship 7900 XTX will deliver up to 70% more performance at 4K than their previous...
Launching Today: AMD's Radeon RX 6900 XT - A Whole Lot of Radeon for $1000
This morning AMD is releasing the final and most elusive member of their initial wave of Radeon RX 6000 series cards: the Radeon RX 6900 XT. The flagship part...
54 by Ryan Smith on 12/8/2020AMD Reveals The Radeon RX 6000 Series: RDNA2 Starts At The High-End, Coming November 18th
Preparing to close out a major month of announcements for AMD – and to open the door to the next era of architectures across the company – AMD wrapped...
276 by Ryan Smith on 10/28/2020AMD's "Where Gaming Begins" Radeon Live Blog: Starts At Noon Eastern (16:00 UTC)
AMD's second and final product keynote of the month is taking place today, with an event AMD has dubbed "Where Gaming Begins". Hosted as always by AMD CEO Dr...
56 by Ryan Smith on 10/28/2020AMD Teases Radeon RX 6000 Card Performance Numbers: Aiming For 3080?
As part of today’s Zen 3 desktop CPU announcement from AMD, the company also threw in a quick teaser from the GPU side of the company in order to...
179 by Ryan Smith on 10/8/2020AMD Teases First Radeon RX 6000 Video Card Picture
In a very brief teaser, AMD this afternoon has released a picture of their first Radeon RX 6000 video card. No further details about the card are given, but based...
97 by Ryan Smith on 9/14/2020AMD Announces Ryzen "Zen 3" and Radeon "RDNA2" Presentations for October: A New Journey Begins
AMD today has announced that they will be making a pair of consumer product presentations in October. The chipmaker, who has been fairly quiet since the spring, will be...
145 by Ryan Smith on 9/9/2020AMD Publishes First Beta Driver With Windows 10 Hardware GPU Scheduling Support
Following last week’s release of NVIDIA’s first Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling-enabled video card driver, AMD this week has stepped up to the plate to do the same. The Radeon Software...
29 by Ryan Smith on 6/29/2020ASRock Unveils Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger ITX 8 GB Graphics Card
ASRock has announced its latest ITX graphics card for small form factors, the Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger ITX. This new mini-ITX card is based on AMD's Navi 14...
65 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/16/2020AMD COVID-19 HPC Fund: Initial $15m Donation of EPYC and Radeon Hardware
One element to the recent pandemic has been the number of organizations banding together to unite for specific research into SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. We are in an era now...
20 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/16/2020AMD Officially Launches the Radeon RX 590 GME For China: RX 580 Rides Again
While AMD’s Polaris family of GPUs have surprised us in a few different ways, perhaps the most impressive aspect has been their sheer longevity. First introduced in 2016 as...
15 by Ryan Smith on 3/11/2020AMD Financial Analyst Day 2020 Round-Up: Laying A Path For Bigger & Better Things
AMD’s first Financial Analyst Day since 2017 has just wrapped up. In the last three years AMD has undergone a dramatic change, launching its Zen CPU architecture, and greatly...
51 by Ryan Smith on 3/5/2020AMD's RDNA 2 Gets A Codename: “Navi 2X” Comes This Year With 50% Improved Perf-Per-Watt
While AMD’s Financial Analyst Day is first and foremost focused on the company’s financial performance – it’s right there in the title – this doesn’t stop the company from...
46 by Ryan Smith on 3/5/2020AMD's 2020-2022 Client GPU Roadmap: RDNA 3 & Navi 3X On the Horizon With More Perf & Efficiency
As has become something of a tradition for AMD, this year’s Financial Analyst Day included a high level update to the company’s GPU roadmap. The last roadmap we saw...
5 by Ryan Smith on 3/5/2020AMD Posts Radeon Software 20.2.2 Drivers: Focusing on Bug Fixes and Stability
Finding themselves under some fire as of late for driver quality, AMD has released their second Radeon driver update for February. Focused on improving driver stability, today's release, 20.2.2...
29 by Ryan Smith on 2/28/2020AMD Launches Updated “Raise the Game” Game Bundle for Radeon RX 5500 & RX 5700 Series
Following last month’s launch of the new Radeon RX 5600 series of video cards, AMD is not done tweaking their product stacks quite yet. Today the company is launching...
20 by Ryan Smith on 2/4/2020Quick Notes: Navi Refresh and RDNA2 Both In 2020, According to AMD
As part of today’s FY2019 earnings call, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su had a few words to say about AMD’s future GPU plans – an unexpected nugget of information...
89 by Ryan Smith on 1/28/2020Corsair’s Introduces Vengeance 6100 Gaming PCs: AMD Ryzen & Radeon Powered
Corsair has introduced its first line of AMD-based gaming PCs, the Vengeance 6100-series. The systems are powered by AMD’s eight-core Ryzen 7 3700X processor as well as AMD’s Radeon...
21 by Anton Shilov on 1/24/2020The AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT Review, Feat. Sapphire Pulse: A New Challenger For Mainstream Gaming
While at this point we’ve pretty much reached the “mid-generation” point in the GPU space, that doesn’t mean activity in the GPU market is slowing down. Indeed, just three...
203 by Ryan Smith on 1/21/2020CES 2020: Dell’s G5 15 SE Gaming Laptop Gets 8-Core Ryzen 4000 & Radeon RX 5600M dGPU
AMD has just introduced its new Ryzen 7 4000H-series mobile APUs as well as the Radeon RX 5600M GPUs and Dell is among the first companies to use both...
27 by Anton Shilov on 1/7/2020AMD Announces Radeon RX 5600 Series: A Lighter Navi To Rule 1080p Gaming
With the launch of the Radeon RX 5700 series and Radeon RX 5500 XT under their collective belt, AMD is now getting ready to fill in the divide between...
83 by Ryan Smith on 1/6/2020