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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...
Asus Announces ROG ARES II Video Card: Dual Radeon HD 7970GE On A Single Card
Dual GPU video cards are nothing new, but there are very few companies that do it with the level of flair (and dare we say overkill) of Asus. Along...
13 by Ryan Smith on 1/7/2013More Details on NVIDIA's Tegra 4 & i500: 5th core is A15, 28nm HPL, UE Category 3 LTE
We just finished NVIDIA's CES press conference where it introduced the Tegra 4 SoC and Shield mobile gaming console. Immediately following the press event we snagged some more information...
34 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 1/7/2013NVIDIA Rolls Their Own Handheld Console: Project Shield, Powered By Tegra 4
NVIDIA Rolls Their Own Handheld Console: Project Shield, Powered By Tegra 4 Though most of the important launch details of Tegra 4 were leaked weeks in advance, NVIDIA did manage...
26 by Ryan Smith on 1/7/2013NVIDIA CES 2013 Press Event: Live Blog
We just sat down for NVIDIA's Pre-CES press event. Things are running a bit late now, but we expect the event to start in the next 15 minutes. Keep...
42 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 1/6/2013AMD Announces Their First 8000M GPUs
AMD held a press briefing today on their upcoming 8000M graphics chips, which they are calling the "second generation GCN architecture" parts. We’ll have more on that in a...
88 by Jarred Walton on 12/17/2012AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta 11 Drivers Available
Continuing their work on the 12.11 drivers, AMD has recently released their 12.11 beta 11 driver update. This driver fixes several system hangs while including the previous improvements to...
23 by Chris Hansen on 12/4/2012NVIDIA GeForce 310.70 Beta Drivers Available
Seeking a candidate for WHQL certification, NVIDIA has just released their 310.70 beta driver update for desktops and laptops. The driver continues to iterate on the 310.33 beta driver...
9 by Chris Hansen on 12/4/20123DMark Fire Strike Trailer
This isn't major news, but I find the periodic updates to the 3DMark suite at least interesting if only to see what Futuremark is up to. They have released...
22 by Jarred Walton on 12/3/2012AMD Enduro Beta, Take Three!
We've been discussing AMD's Enduro 5.5 update for a few months now; when last we checked in, everything was almost in place...everything except fully optimized DX9 support. A little...
35 by Jarred Walton on 11/27/2012The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 10
We've made it to 10 episodes of the AnandTech Podcast! As promised, this week's episode is a bit more PC focused as we discuss the future of AMD. Intel's...
32 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/21/2012Nintendo Wii U Teardown
When Nintendo announced the Wii U there was a lot of interest in its hardware specs. The new console could very well end up the fastest kid on the...
133 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/18/2012Green500 Supercomputer List Released: Intel Takes Top Spot, Followed By AMD, NVIDIA
Coinciding with the publication of the Top500 supercomputer list earlier this week, the Top500’s sister list, the Green500, was published earlier this morning. The Green500 is essentially to power...
11 by Ryan Smith on 11/14/2012Titan Takes #1 Spot on Top500 List with 17.59 Petaflops in LINPACK
Last month I took a tour of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and visited the final stages of the assembly of the Titan supercomputer. Titan brings together 18,688 compute nodes...
20 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/12/2012NVIDIA Launches Tesla K20 & K20X: GK110 Arrives At Last
Continuing our SC12 related coverage today, while AMD was the first GPU announcement of the day they are not the only one. NVIDIA is also using the venue to...
73 by Ryan Smith on 11/12/2012AMD Announces FirePro S10000
Kicking off this week is the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, better known by its shortened name: SC. This year’s conference takes place...
15 by Ryan Smith on 11/12/2012iPad 4 GPU Performance Analyzed: PowerVR SGX 554MP4 Under the Hood
As always, our good friends over at Kishonti managed to have the first GPU performance results for the new 4th generation iPad. Although the new iPad retains its 2048...
114 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/2/2012Inside the Titan Supercomputer: 299K AMD x86 Cores and 18.6K NVIDIA GPUs
Earlier this month I drove out to Oak Ridge, Tennessee to pay a visit to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). I'd never been to a national lab before...
130 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/31/2012NVIDIA Releases 310.33 Beta Drivers; GeForce 6 & 7 Series Moved To Legacy Status
It would appear that on top of everything else going on this week, this is also a big week for video drivers. Following AMD’s major release of Catalyst 12.11...
34 by Ryan Smith on 10/24/2012AMD's Holiday Plans: Catalyst 12.11 Performance Driver & New Holiday Game Bundle
Update: Catalyst 12.11 hss been releasd (Release Notes) As October winds to a close, the consumer electronics industry is making its final preparations for the holiday shopping season. Among events...
65 by Ryan Smith on 10/22/2012AMD Q3 2012 Earnings: $157M Loss; 15% of Workforce To Be Cut
Picking up from where we left off with Intel, earnings week has continued to roll along with most of the major tech companies having reported their Q3 earnings. As...
59 by Ryan Smith on 10/18/2012