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Posted April 23, 2013, 11:00 PM by Steven Walton | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware Breaking News
The current generation AMD GPU series collectivelly known as "Southern Islands" were released over a year ago, with the beginning of its rollout in January 2012. Sixteen months later, the Radeon HD 7000 series is still very much relevant, as AMD continues to release new models under the same GPU family.

Although it's been over a year since AMD launched the Radeon HD 7970, we are just getting an official dual-GPU version. The Radeon HD 7990 takes a pair of 7970 GPUs with overclocked cores and memory, packing 8.2 TFLOPS computer power, 6GB GDDR5 and an upgraded PEX bridge to connect the two GPUs.
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Posted March 12, 2013, 7:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Gaming, Hardware
It's no surprise AMD plans to fill the ill-strategized void left somewhere between its Radeon HD 7700 and 7850 offerings -- a space where Nvidia's GTX 650 Ti is likely getting comfortable. According to hardware.info though, at a recent CeBIT conference…
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Posted January 8, 2013, 2:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing With Video
AMD's Radeon HD 8000M family was officially announced last month, but with CES now underway the company has taken the chance to inform us that their latest generation mobile GPUs are now shipping in products from Asus and Samsung, with…
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Posted December 10, 2012, 9:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in IT Security
Jeremi Gosney, the founder and CEO of Stricture Consulting Group, recently showcased a GPU-based computer cluster capable of brute forcing its way through any standard eight-character Windows password (including upper- and lower-case letter, digits and symbols) in less than six…
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Posted March 22, 2012, 9:00 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News
AMD has been on a roll of late, with six new 7000-series graphics cards in the first quarter of this year alone. Now we’re hearing details about team red’s upcoming range-topping, dual GPU Radeon HD 7990 model, which could be…
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Posted February 22, 2012, 2:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Gaming, Hardware
As first noted in a leaked roadmap last month and now seemingly confirmed by Chinese website EXPreview.com, AMD is scheduled to release their mid-range HD 7870 and 7850 series graphics cards based on the Pitcairn GPU in March. The latest…
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Posted January 3, 2012, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware, Gaming
AMD has reportedly decided to push back the launch of the Radeon HD 7950 until early February. According to the Guru of 3D, AMD made the decision to avoid another paper launch and have the card available on the market when it actually launches.
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