Amd

Here Come The 8-Core AMD Bulldozer Powered Gaming PCs

7:30AM October 13, 2011 | Mike Fahey

AMD launched its new FX line of processors today, and two gaming hardware builders have already jumped at the chance to provide the world’s first gaming rig powered by a native 8-core desktop processor. More »

How To Get Rage To Run On Your PC, An id Software Guide

4:00AM October 7, 2011 | Brian Crecente

The computer version of Rage hasn’t exactly been trouble free for some folks trying to play id Software’s latest creation. I haven’t run into any over issues, but I’ve got a high-end tower that I just ran through a massive driver update. That’s not the norm. More »

AMD Sets A World Record With A 8.429GHz Processor

1:30AM September 14, 2011 | Joel Johnson

And according to the pictures in Venturebeat’s write-up of AMD’s Guinness Success, they did it in a nightclub. Oonsk!

Whoops, 3 Million Copies Of Dirt 3 Just Went Missing

4:30PM September 6, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Publishers Codemasters and graphics card manufacturer AMD have been running a promotion lately whereby purchasers of a card got a free copy of excellent racer Dirt 3. That offer has now been, uh, slightly expanded. More »

Yes, But Can A Ten-Core PC Run Crysis?

4:30PM July 27, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

According to reports from China, AMD will next year be releasing a new CPU called Piledriver. Appropriately, given its name, it may well go Zangief all over your games (or at least the games of the future that are actually coded for it), because it’s got ten cores. More »

XboxBrought to you by

Report: The Next Xbox Can Render Avatar Graphics

10:00PM July 18, 2011 | Brian Ashcraft

No, it won’t be wall-to-wall digital blue people. Well, I hope it won’t, because, man, I did not like Avatar. More »

News

AMD Is Making The GPU Under The Wii U’s Hood

2:18PM June 8, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Like IBM, hardware company AMD has also issued a release boasting of its support for Nintendo’s new Wii U console. More »

AMD Calls Out NVIDIA On ‘Fastest Graphics Card’ Claim

1:38AM March 29, 2011 | Brian Crecente

AMD says they want NVIDIA to put their money where their mouth is and prove that the NVIDIA GTX 590 really is the world’s fastest graphics card. Of course AMD believes their recently released Radeon HD 6990 is the world’s fastest graphics card. I hope this throwdown involves sharks or something bitey. [AMD blog]

AMD Radeon HD 6870 Review

1:00AM October 28, 2010 | Steven Walton

AMD has enjoyed a terrific run with the Radeon HD 5000 series as it took Nvidia no less than six months to counter with its initial Fermi products. More »