amd
PC

Here Come The 8-Core AMD Bulldozer Powered Gaming PCs

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.

October 7, 2011
PC

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

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.

September 14, 2011
PC

AMD Sets A World Record With A 8.429GHz Processor

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

September 6, 2011
PC

Whoops, 3 Million Copies Of Dirt 3 Just Went Missing

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.

July 27, 2011
PC

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

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.

July 18, 2011
Xbox

Report: The Next Xbox Can Render Avatar Graphics

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

June 8, 2011
News

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

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

March 29, 2011
PC

AMD Calls Out NVIDIA On ‘Fastest Graphics Card’ Claim

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]

October 28, 2010

AMD Radeon HD 6870 Review

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.

August 31, 2010
News

Goodbye, "ATI"

Nvidia vs ATI. To PC gamers who are big on their hardware races, it’s like Ford vs GM, Packers vs Bears or Sony vs Microsoft. Sadly, it’s a fight that’s about to get a name change.

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