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AMD Catalyst 12.11 boosts speed, Radeon game bundle delights

AMD Catalyst 12.11 boosts speed, Radeon game bundle delights
  • Posted October 22, 2012, 6:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
  • If bad news from AMD recently left red team fans feeling a little blue, the chipmaker is offering two items which may help brighten their spirits: a new Catalyst driver which boasts significant improvements and an impressive holiday games bundle…

AMD preparing to lay off 20-30% of workforce

AMD preparing to lay off 20-30% of workforce
  • Posted October 15, 2012, 12:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
  • Chipmaker AMD is purportedly preparing to lay off up to one-third of its workforce, according to All Things D and its sources familiar with the company's plans. Amongst positions proposed for elimination are sales and engineering -- a category which…

AMD's Radeon-branded RAMDisk software now available for download

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  • Posted October 11, 2012, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software
  • AMD seems to believe that consumers are taking advantage of record-low memory prices and would like to help them put that RAM to good use. The semiconductor company has partnered with Dataram to create a branded RAMDisk software that can…

AMD intros Z-series APU for Windows 8 tablets with Radeon graphics

AMD intros Z-series APU for Windows 8 tablets with Radeon graphics
  • Posted October 9, 2012, 11:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • AMD formally announced its Z-60 "Hondo" APU this morning as it attempts a second stab at the tablet market. The chip uses the same basic architecture as the current E-series APUs found in AMD-powered netbooks and low-end laptops, but optimized…

AMD offers Catalyst 12.9 beta with mobile graphics switching support

AMD offers Catalyst 12.9 beta with mobile graphics switching support
  • Posted September 27, 2012, 5:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Software, Gaming
  • As anticipated, AMD has released a new beta driver for Radeon owners this week, bringing a handful of new features and enhancements. Improved support for Enduro, a technology that's akin to Nvidia's Optimus graphics switching solution, is perhaps the most notable addition...

Catalyst 12.8 CAP 3 improves support for Guild Wars 2, Borderlands 2

Catalyst 12.8 CAP 3 improves support for Guild Wars 2, Borderlands 2
  • Posted September 18, 2012, 4:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Gaming, Software
  • Ahead of next week's expected release of the Catalyst 12.9 beta, AMD has updated its existing WHQL driver with a fresh set of Catalyst Application Profiles. Although it's not a major overhaul, Catalyst 12.8 CAP 3 offers a few improvements that are worthwhile if you're playing...

AMD plans new round of Radeon price cuts, Sleeping Dogs bundle

AMD plans new round of Radeon price cuts, Sleeping Dogs bundle
  • Posted August 21, 2012, 11:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Gaming, Hardware
  • As expected, it didn’t take long for AMD’s response to Nvidia’s new GeForce GTX 660 Ti to arrive. According to Anandtech, the company will be enacting a new round of price cuts later this week, which will be affecting the…

JPR: GPU shipments up 2.5% despite 1.5% decline in PC market

JPR: GPU shipments up 2.5% despite 1.5% decline in PC market
  • Posted August 16, 2012, 6:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Industry News
  • Despite a decline in computer shipments, the second quarter of 2012 proved to be "good" if not "great" for the graphics hardware industry according to Jon Peddie Research (JPR). GPU shipments totaled 126 million units, up 2.7% from the same…

AMD's response to GTX 660 Ti: new drivers, HD 7950 BIOS update

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  • Posted August 16, 2012, 3:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Software
  • With the Windows 8 RTM now available through official avenues, AMD has updated its display drivers to offer the first unified Catalyst release for Microsoft's last three operating systems. Radeon users running Windows 8 will benefit from support for DirectX…

AMD cuts Radeon HD 7000-series pricing ahead of dual-GPU launch

AMD cuts Radeon HD 7000-series pricing ahead of dual-GPU launch
  • Posted July 16, 2012, 9:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
  • AMD is following up from the launch of its Radeon HD 7970 GHz edition graphics card, which sought to take the single-GPU performance crown from Nvidia’s GTX 680 late last month, with a new round of price cuts that will…

Best of Graphics Cards: Gaming at 1920x1200 and 2560x1600

Best of Graphics Cards: Gaming at 1920x1200 and 2560x1600
  • Posted July 11, 2012, 2:00 AM by Steven Walton | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware Breaking News
  • A powerful graphics card is likely the most expensive component in your PC if you're a gamer, but with all current and past-gen GPUs available in the range of $100 to $500, it can be tough to pick the right solution for your needs.

    In an effort to narrow things down, we're about to compare today's most relevant gaming cards that sell for $200 or more, testing them in a slew of games to see how it breaks down as we look for the best graphics cards for gaming at resolutions of 1920x1200 and 2560x1600.

Catalyst 12.6 drivers improve performance, plug security hole

Catalyst 12.6 drivers improve performance, plug security hole
  • Posted June 29, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Software, Gaming
  • The official release of AMD's Catalyst 12.6 driver has finally hit the scene. As expected, the unified driver features a long list of bug fixes and improvements for users with video cards dating back to the Radeon HD 2400 series.…

AMD Goes For The Crown: Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Review

AMD Goes For The Crown: Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Review
  • Posted June 22, 2012, 1:33 AM by Steven Walton | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware Breaking News
  • Having successfully launched their first 28nm GPU last January, AMD went on to release an entire family of Radeon HD 7000 GPUs over the next few months. The last of the series were the Radeon HD 7870 and 7850 graphics cards, which were closely followed by the launch of Nvidia’s next generation flagship part, the GeForce GTX 680.

    Fast forward to the present day and it'd appear that AMD is desperate to claim the bragging rights of offering the single fastest GPU money can buy. As the name suggests the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition features a core clock speed of 1GHz, along with overclocked GDDR5 memory running at 1500MHz. But is it worth it?

Dual-GPU AMD graphics card makes appearance at AMD summit

Dual-GPU AMD graphics card makes appearance at AMD summit
  • Posted June 15, 2012, 3:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Gaming, Hardware
  • At AMD's Fusion Developer Summit 2012, the company announced a brand new, high-end workstation offering labeled the AMD FirePro W9000. While the top-shelf graphics solution is a noteworthy announcement on its own, there was one curious inconsistency which caught the…

AMD is moving to a dynamic Catalyst release schedule

AMD is moving to a dynamic Catalyst release schedule
  • Posted June 1, 2012, 9:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Gaming, Software
  • AMD is doing away with their monthly Catalyst driver updates in favor of a more traditional release strategy. Starting with driver release 12.6, the company is now planning to only issue driver updates when there is a significant performance boost…

AMD prepping Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to compete with Kepler

AMD prepping Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to compete with Kepler
  • Posted May 9, 2012, 10:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Gaming, Hardware
  • Sources say that AMD is keen on keeping pace with Nvidia’s recently released Kepler-based 680 GPU in the high-end graphics market with plans to introduce a higher-performance version of their Radeon HD 7970 graphics card. The new card will be…

Catalyst 12.4 brings anti-aliasing improvements, XP support for HD 7000

Catalyst 12.4 brings anti-aliasing improvements, XP support for HD 7000
  • Posted April 25, 2012, 5:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Gaming, Software
  • Like clockwork, AMD has unleashed its monthly driver update for Radeon owners, bringing new features and the obligatory list of bug fixes. Among the more notable additions is support for the Radeon HD 7000 series on Windows XP -- something missing in previous versions...

AMD drops Windows 8 support for Radeon HD 4000 and older

AMD drops Windows 8 support for Radeon HD 4000 and older
  • Posted April 24, 2012, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Microsoft, Industry News
  • Alongside recent news that AMD is dropping official legacy card support for Linux, it appears that AMD will also be dropping support for aging Radeon products in Windows 8. Although the next iteration of Windows is expected to ship with…

AMD intros Radeon HD 7700M, 7800M, 7900M mobile GPUs

AMD intros Radeon HD 7700M, 7800M, 7900M mobile GPUs
  • Posted April 24, 2012, 2:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
  • Following up from the release of its next-generation desktop GPUs earlier this year, AMD is now bringing its 28nm GCN (Graphics Core Next) architecture to notebooks with three new series arriving in May or June: the 7700M (“Chelsea”), 7800M (“Heathrow’),…

Weekend tech reading: AMD cutting HD 2000/3000/4000 support on Linux?

Weekend tech reading: AMD cutting HD 2000/3000/4000 support on Linux?
  • Posted April 22, 2012, 4:02 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in NATW
  • In what will certainly be controversial and disappointing to some Radeon Linux desktop users, AMD will soon announce that they will effectively be discontinuing support for several Radeon product families from their proprietary Catalyst driver. After that point...

AMD cuts Radeon HD 7900 series prices, bundles three free games

AMD cuts Radeon HD 7900 series prices, bundles three free games
  • Posted April 16, 2012, 10:35 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Gaming
  • The Radeon HD 7970 arrived as the world's fastest single-GPU graphics cards early this year and the lack of competition from Nvidia at the time allowed AMD to have its way with the market, stamping it with an uncharacteristically high…

EVGA launches simplified serial-based global warranty program

EVGA launches simplified serial-based global warranty program
  • Posted April 3, 2012, 6:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware
  • EVGA has announced a revamped warranty program that promises to improve services for both first and secondhand shoppers. Instead of issuing warranties to buyers and requiring them to register their graphics cards and motherboards, EVGA's warranty is now bound to…

Catalyst 12.3 supports HD 7000 series, squashes various bugs

Catalyst 12.3 supports HD 7000 series, squashes various bugs
  • Posted March 28, 2012, 6:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Software
  • Radeon owners have a fresh driver update today, courtesy of Catalyst Software Suite 12.3. As usual, the release covers cards spanning back as far as the HD 2000 series and introduces full support for the latest HD 7000 products (except on Windows XP)...

AMD Radeon HD 7990 details leaked as Nvidia GTX 680 launches

AMD Radeon HD 7990 details leaked as Nvidia GTX 680 launches
  • 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…

AMD releases WHQL-certified Catalyst 12.2 drivers

AMD releases WHQL-certified Catalyst 12.2 drivers
  • Posted March 8, 2012, 7:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Gaming, Software
  • Folks who couldn't muster the courage to install AMD's "pre-certified" driver can now download a Microsoft-approved version. Catalyst 12.2 brings several worthwhile updates over the last stable release, though there doesn't seem to be any changes from last month's pre-certified…

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