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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...
Apple Deprecates OpenGL Across All OSes; Urges Developers to use Metal
As has long been the story at One Infinite Loop, what Apple giveth is what Apple taketh, and Apple’s latest rendition of OSes is going to be no exception...
52 by Ryan Smith on 6/5/2018ASUS ROG Press Event at Computex 2018 (6:30pm Taiwan, 10:30am UTC)
ASUS' Press Event. For Those Who Dare, apparently. We've got some tasty news lined up, and we're coving the press event with a Live Blog.
7 by Ian Cutress on 6/4/2018Computex 2018 NVIDIA Live Blog (1pm TW, 5am UTC)
We're here at NVIDIA for our first Live Blog of Computex. Event starts in a few minutes.
29 by Ian Cutress on 6/4/2018“NVIDIA’s Next Generation Mainstream GPU” Presentation Briefly Listed for Hot Chips in August
On Wednesday, when Hot Chips officially announced the program and list of talks for the upcoming Hot Chips 2018 conference in August, among them was the tantalizingly named “NVIDIA’s...
19 by Nate Oh on 6/1/2018ARM Announces Mali-V76 Video Processor: Planning For the 8K Video Future
Alongside today’s 76-series CPU and GPU announcements from Arm, the company also has one last product announcement for the day. Joining Arm’s video processor family is a new encode/decode...
8 by Ryan Smith on 5/31/2018Arm Announces Mali-G76 GPU: Scaling up Bifrost
It’s been two years since Arm announced their first “next-generation” GPU architecture based on Bifrost and alongside with it its first implementation the G71. Following its release in the...
25 by Ryan Smith & Andrei Frumusanu on 5/31/2018NVIDIA Releases 397.93 WHQL Game Ready Driver: Telemetry Changes for GDPR
Today, NVIDIA released driver version 397.93 WHQL, featuring Game Ready support for the recently-launched State of Decay 2 and the upcoming closed beta of The Crew. Additionally, the release...
10 by Nate Oh on 5/24/201816GB NVIDIA Tesla V100 Gets Reprieve; Remains in Production
Back in March at their annual GPU Technology Conference, NVIDIA announced the long-anticipated 32GB version of their flagship Tesla V100 accelerator. By using newer 8-Hi HBM2 memory stacks, NVIDIA...
21 by Ryan Smith on 5/24/2018AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.5.1 WHQL: Official Unified Driver for APUs & dGPUs, with PlayReady 3.0
Today, AMD released Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.5.1 WHQL, bringing official support for Windows 10 April 2018 Update, as well as official PlayReady 3.0 support for desktop Polaris products...
11 by Nate Oh on 5/23/2018Razer Launches Core X TB3 eGFX Enclosure: Cost-Down Version Complements Core v2
Razer launched the Core v2 eGFX enclosure in Q4 2017. It came with a unique industrial design and dual Thunderbolt 3 controllers that justified its price premium over other...
34 by Ganesh T S on 5/22/2018NVIDIA Releases the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB: More RAM, Fewer ROPs?
Adjusting their GeForce GTX 1050 Family info page over the weekend, NVIDIA quietly announced that the expansion of the GeForce 10-series of cards with another entry: the GeForce GTX...
49 by Nate Oh on 5/21/2018AMD Releases Unified Graphics Driver for dGPUs & Desktop APUs: Radeon Software Q2 2018
Although AMD’s Ryzen desktop APUs released back in February with the Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G, official driver support has been limited to the inaugural WHQL launch...
16 by Nate Oh on 5/18/2018PowerColor Confirms Plans for Mini-ITX Radeon RX Vega: Due Next Month
Over the past few months, we have seen two makers of video cards laying the groundwork for Mini-ITX graphics adapters based on the Radeon RX Vega GPU. This week...
11 by Anton Shilov on 5/18/2018NVIDIA Updates on G-Sync HDR: 4Kp144 Monitors On Sale at End of May, Other Models Coming Later This Year
While NVIDIA's upcoming ultra-premium G-Sync HDR monitors have been in the public eye for some time now, the schedule slips have become something of a sticking point, prompting the...
47 by Nate Oh on 5/16/2018VESA and MIPI Announce VDC-M 1.1: Display Compression Standard for Mobile Devices
As of late, the pursuit for higher resolutions, faster refresh rates, better contrasts, higher brightness, and more colors in displays, has created bandwidth demands that are pushing the limits...
17 by Nate Oh on 5/15/2018Intel NUC8i7HVK (Hades Canyon) Gaming Performance - A Second Look
The Intel NUC8i7HVK (Hades Canyon) was reviewed back in late March, and emerged as one of the most powerful gaming PCs in its form-factor class. Our conclusion was that...
40 by Ganesh T S on 5/14/2018NVIDIA Announces Record Q1 FY 2019 Results
In what seems like a never-ending trend, NVIDIA today announced record results for their first quarter of their 2019 fiscal year. NVIDIA had revenue of $3.21 billion for the...
15 by Brett Howse on 5/10/2018AMD Releases Radeon Pro Software Enterprise Edition 18.Q2 WHQL: Support for Windows 10 April 2018 Update
Not long after Windows 10’s first semi-annual major update of the year, AMD today has released Radeon Pro Software Enterprise Edition 18.Q2 WHQL, bringing full support for the April...
0 by Nate Oh on 5/9/2018AMD 18.4.1 Driver Brings Beta PlayReady 3.0 Support for Polaris; Support for Vega GPUs & APUs Still to Come
Undocumented in last week’s release of Radeon Software 18.4.1 Adrenalin Edition, AMD’s newest driver has brought beta support for PlayReady 3.0, Microsoft’s video playback DRM solution, to Polaris GPUs...
8 by Nate Oh on 5/7/2018NVIDIA Terminates GeForce Partner Program
Just as quickly as it came into being, NVIDIA’s GeForce Partner Program has come to an end. In a short article posted to their website today, NVIDIA’s Director of Product...
92 by Ryan Smith on 5/4/2018