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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...
NVIDIA Releases 373.06 WHQL Game Ready Driver - Support for Mafia III, GoW 4 and Shadow Warrior 2
Not to miss out on the many releases this fall NVIDIA is working hard to keep our computers ready for the newest and upcoming games. In another iteration of...
10 by Daniel Williams on 10/7/2016AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.10.1 Hotfix - Support for GoW 4 and Mafia III
As the new games continue to roll in I’m sure the driver developers are hard at work keeping up with all the big release. With AMD Radeon Software Crimson...
10 by Daniel Williams on 10/5/2016GTC Europe 2016: NVIDIA Keynote Live Blog with CEO Jen-Hsun Huang
I'm here at the first GTC Europe event, ready to go for the Keynote talk hosted by CEO Jen-Hsun Huang.
40 by Ian Cutress on 9/28/2016AMD Announces Embedded Radeon E9260 & E9550 - Polaris for Embedded Markets
While it’s AMD’s consumer products that get the most fanfare with new GPU launches – and rightfully so – AMD and their Radeon brand also have a solid (if...
16 by Ryan Smith on 9/27/2016NVIDIA Releases 372.90 WHQL Game Ready Driver
Not to be outdone by AMD, NVIDIA also has their own driver release this evening, with the release of driver version 372.90. Among the fixes in this latest drivers includes...
32 by Daniel Williams on 9/22/2016AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.9.2 - Support for Forza Horizon 3
As more games approach this fall, we can expect GPU manufacturers to keep updates rolling out so that our cards can be ready for the latest games as they...
22 by Daniel Williams on 9/22/2016NVIDIA Announces Gears of War 4 Game Bundle for GTX 1080 and 1070
As we enter the AAA blockbuster season and leave the avalanche of GPU releases behind us, we are beginning to see the first game bundles approach. Those considering an...
10 by Daniel Williams on 9/21/2016Discrete Desktop GPU Market Trends Q2 2016: AMD Grabs Market Share, But NVIDIA Remains on Top
We're back once again with our periodic series looking at computer hardware market trends, this time taking a look at GPU sales for Q2 2016. Broadly speaking, unit sales...
72 by Anton Shilov on 9/13/2016NVIDIA Announces Tesla P40 & Tesla P4 - Neural Network Inference, Big & Small
Over the last few months we have seen NVIDIA’s Pascal GPUs roll out among their consumer cards, and now the time has come for the Tesla line to get...
37 by Ryan Smith on 9/13/2016Update: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Settlement Claims Website Now Open
Update 09/12: Bringing this back up, over the weekend the website to submit settlement claims went up. Owners of GTX 970s who purchased the card between its launch and...
105 by Ryan Smith on 9/12/2016AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.9.1, Adds Deus Ex Mankind Divided DX12 Support
AMD has released their first Radeon driver update for September this week with Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.9.1. Notable in this release is that along with the usual batch...
17 by Daniel Williams on 9/9/2016Analyzing Sony’s PlayStation 4 Pro Hardware Reveal: What Lies Beneath
A few months ago near the start of E3, Sony made an interesting revelation: that they would be releasing a higher performing PlayStation 4 console. A console intended to...
207 by Ryan Smith on 9/8/2016NVIDIA Releases GeForce Experience 3.0 - New UI and Features
These past several years NVIDIA has made continued efforts to create a gaming ecosystem that rivals those found in the console market. The venue for these efforts has centered...
39 by Daniel Williams on 9/8/2016IFA 2016: Live Blog of AMD Keynote with Mark Papermaster, CTO
We're here with AMD's CTO on stage for the IFA show.
63 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/3/2016HDMI Alt Mode for USB Type-C Announced
Over the past year we have seen an increasingly number of vendors, associations, and consortiums lay their support behind the USB Type-C port and take advantage of its alternate...
68 by Ryan Smith on 9/2/2016AMD Amends GlobalFoundries Wafer Supply Agreement Through 2020, Gaining New Flexibility & New Costs
This evening AMD has announced that they have updated their long-standing wafer supply agreement with fab parter GlobalFoundries. The new agreement, which makes some notable alterations to wafer order...
17 by Ryan Smith on 9/1/2016NVIDIA Releases 372.70 WHQL Game Ready Driver
It’s driver update time again. This time with a small list of fixes and a relatively large list of game ready titles. Though the list is a bit inflated...
2 by Daniel Williams on 8/31/2016NVIDIA Announces Paragon Game Bundle For GeForce Video Cards
As game releases ramp up and GPU manufacturers build market interest approaching the fall season, bundles seem to be popping up like daisies. The latest to join the fray...
31 by Daniel Williams on 8/24/2016Hot Chips 2016: Memory Vendors Discuss Ideas for Future Memory Tech - DDR5, Cheap HBM, & More
Continuing our Hot Chips 2016 coverage for the evening, along with the requisite presentations on processors, several of the major players in the memory industry are also at the...
11 by Ryan Smith on 8/23/2016Hot Chips 2016: NVIDIA Pascal GP100 Die Shot Released
The first day of conference sessions wrapped up earlier this evening at the annual Hot Chips symposium. One of the computing industry’s lower-key events, the IEEE conference for high...
13 by Ryan Smith on 8/23/2016