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Talk that left many Nvidia graphics card owners worried last night has been roundly dismissed by EA and AMD. Word spread across the internet last night that EA and AMD had joined forces for a PC gaming collaboration. The talk was that EA’s entire slate of Frostbite 3-powered games – …
Read More »AMD reveals 5GHz FX CPU, but won’t be selling it to the public
A new flagship PC processor is on the way from AMD… although you won’t be able to buy it. The freshly announced AMD FX-9590 offers eight unlocked cores with an incredible boost clock of 5GHz. Also on the way is a slightly toned down version called the FX-9370 that offers …
Read More »Video: AMD sends next-gen APUs to PC
Company teases a new line of APUs based on those found in the Xbox One and PS4
Read More »Surprise – Radeon HD 8000 series PC GPUs tipped for Q3 release
It looks like the PC graphics card battle of 2013 is far from over. Yesterday’s release of Nvidia’s GTX 770 (and last week’s release of the GTX 780) had seemingly signalled an end to the PC GPU wars for the foreseeable future, but talk now suggests AMD is rallying a …
Read More »PS4 and Xbox One’s AMD Jaguar CPU examined
The AMD Jaguar CPU that lies at the heart of both PS4 and Xbox One may not be the gaming beast we had expected. Rock Paper Shotgun got its hands on an 4-core 1.5Ghz variant of the 8-core 1.6Ghz chip found in both consoles. It speculates that once the multitasking …
Read More »AMD reveals Radeon HD 8000 series
Graphics card manufacturer AMD has at last revealed the Radeon HD 8000 series of GPUs… but it’s likely not what many consumers were expecting. Gamers had been hoping for a new line of desktop cards to rival the upcoming GTX 700 series from Nvidia. Instead, the HD 8000 series is …
Read More »AMD confirms new ‘Volcanic Island’ GPUs for 2013 launch
The long-awaited Radeon 8000 series will be released this year, AMD has confirmed. It has also revealed the name the graphics card architecture will be known by – ‘Volcanic Islands’. The Sea Islands codename encompasses the PS4 chip, as well as the new mobile chips announced at CES, and the …
Read More »AMD’s transformation "into a gaming company"
For a long time it has played second fiddle to Nvidia and Intel in the PC components space, but AMD now has other plans. Being signed as the component supplier for the PS4 (and according to a litany of sources the New Xbox as well), AMD’s position amidst the games …
Read More »New Xbox won’t be backwards compatible – report
Microsoft’s new Xbox will not be backwards compatible with Xbox 360 games, according to a new report. Bloomberg says that the upcoming console will be built using an AMD X86 board – a PC standard that houses both the CPU and GPU on a single assembly. This means that Microsoft …
Read More »Report: Next Xbox to use AMD
Microsoft to ditch backwards-compatibility with next-gen console
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