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AMD has made itself quite a reputation with its bundling campaigns over the years, and every new season we can be sure that the company will be giving away free games with the purchase of its hardware. This summer will certainly not be exception as AMD will be bundling Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and Unknown 9: Awakening titles with its Ryzen 7000 CPUs and Radeon RX 7000 video cards. The latest bundle offer essentially covers all of AMD's existing mid-range and high-end consumer desktop products, sans the to-be-launched Ryzen 9000 series. That includes not only AMD's desktop parts, such as the Ryzen 9 7800X3D, but also virtually their entire stack of Radeon RX 7000 video cards, right on down to the 7600 XT. AMD's laptop...
JEDEC Updates HBM2 Memory Standard To 3.2 Gbps; Samsung's Flashbolt Memory Nears Production
After a series of piecemeal announcements from different hardware vendors over the past year, the future of High Bandwidth Memory 2 (HBM2) is finally coming into focus. Continuing the...
24 by Ryan Smith on 2/3/2020
Next-Gen NVIDIA Teslas Due This Summer; To Be Used In Big Red 200 Supercomputer
Thanks to Indiana University and The Next Platform, we have a hint of what’s to come with NVIDIA’s future GPU plans, with strong signs that NVIDIA will have a...
38 by Ryan Smith on 1/31/2020
Matrox Unveils D-Series Graphics Cards with NVIDIA Quadro GPUs
Matrox Graphics is one of the oldest graphics card manufacturers still in business today. It started to make video cards in 1978, several years before ATI, and 15 years...
29 by Anton Shilov on 1/29/2020
Quick 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 1/28/2020
AMD's 4Q/FY19 Financial Report: Revenue up 50% from 4Q18, Debt Halved
AMD just announced its Q4 2019 and Financial Year 2019 Earnings Report. Here are the key points, along with AMD's presentation.
123 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/28/2020
AMD New Hires: Dan McNamara from Intel, Joshua Friedrich and Brad McCredie from IBM
There is always a fairly fluid movement of engineers in the companies we cover, but recently AMD has made a number of substantial hires into several of its biggest departments.
43 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/21/2020
The 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 1/21/2020
NVIDIA Cuts Price of GeForce RTX 2060 To $299
With AMD set to launch their new 1080p-focused Radeon RX 5600 XT next Tuesday, NVIDIA isn’t wasting any time in shifting their own position to prepare for AMD’s latest...
60 by Ryan Smith on 1/16/2020
Vulkan 1.2 Specification Released: Refining For Efficiency & Development Simplicity
While the initial fervor over low-level graphics APIs has died down quite a bit since they first hit the scene in the middle of the last decade, API development...
24 by Ryan Smith on 1/15/2020
Seeing Is Believing: Intel Teases DG1 Discrete Xe GPU With Laptop & Desktop Dev Cards At CES 2020
While CES 2020 technically doesn’t wrap up for another couple of days, I’ve already been asked a good dozen or so times what the neatest or most surprising product...
84 by Ryan Smith on 1/9/2020
AMD at CES 2020: Q&A with Dr. Lisa Su
This week AMD took the wraps off of its latest generation of mobile processors. The company is being aggressive, offering up to eight cores for both the traditional ultra-portable...
93 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/7/2020
AMD 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
AMD Keynote Presentation Press Event at CES 2020: The AnandTech Live Blog
We're here ready to Live Blog the annual CES keynote from AMD. We expect to see Lisa Su, Frank Azor, and others take to the stage to discuss what's...
20 by Dr. Ian Cutress & Gavin Bonshor on 1/6/2020
NVIDIA Releases CES Game Ready Driver: Variable Rate SSAA for VR, Max Frame Rate Control, & More
While NVIDIA doesn’t have any new GPU hardware to show off at this year’s CES, the company is not coming entirely empty-handed. Along with a couple of monitor announcements...
6 by Ryan Smith on 1/6/2020
An Interconnected Interview with Intel’s Ramune Nagisetty: A Future with Foveros
I’ve constantly stated for the last two years that the next battleground in performance for the semiconductor market is going to be in the interconnect – whether we’re speaking...
19 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/3/2020
Imagination and Apple Renew IP Licensing Agreement
Today Imagination Technologies has announced that Apple has signed a new multi-year licensing with the company, giving the Cupertino company continued access to Imagination’s IP.
27 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/2/2020
An Interview with AMD’s CTO Mark Papermaster: ‘There’s More Room At The Top’
On the back of a very busy 2019, AMD is gaining market share and is now a performance leader in a lot of CPU segments. The company has executed...
68 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/30/2019
Analyzing Intel’s Discrete Xe-HPC Graphics Disclosure: Ponte Vecchio, Rambo Cache, and Gelato
It has been a couple of weeks since Intel formally provided some high-level detail on its new discrete graphics strategy. The reason for the announcements and disclosures centered around...
49 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/24/2019
In The Lab: ASRock Radeon RX 5700 XT Taichi X 8G OC+ Graphics Card
Since AMD unveiled its products on the 7 nm process node, we've seen numerous CPU launches and announcements with the Ryzen 3000 series of processors. Not only processors but...
15 by Gavin Bonshor on 12/23/2019
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super Review, Feat. Zotac Gaming: Bringing Balance To 1080p
Bringing 2019 to a close in the GPU space, we have one final video card review for the year: NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1650 Super. The last of the company’s...
67 by Ryan Smith on 12/20/2019
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