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Put simply, NVIDIA's Frame Generation technology, introduced with its Ada Lovelace graphics cards and DLSS version 3, offers an increase in visual fluidity with very little downside to gamers. Yes, there's an increase in input lag compared...
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Surprise—exactly as rumored, AMD has just announced its mid-range RDNA 3 Radeon graphics cards. They've been a long time coming. The Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT launched way back in December of last year, more than nine months ago at...
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PowerColor has been busy on social media in the run-up to AMD's Gaming Festival event at Gamescom, which is scheduled for Friday (tomorrow). What AMD is going to reveal isn't yet set in stone, as far as outsiders know, but the wise money...
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In case you somehow hadn't already heard, over in Cologne, Germany, the biggest in-person gaming event in the world is going on. It's Gamescom time, and nearly every single vendor who has even the most tenuous connection to gaming is...
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ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17 X3D: As Configured TBD - Likely $3,599+ The AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D powered ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17 X3D gaming laptop, with its GeForce RTX 4090 GPU, is the most powerful mobile PC gaming platform in the world...
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Rumors are bubbling up that AMD is preparing to launch a new Radeon graphics card using its previous-gen RDNA 2 graphics architecture. According to Chinese tech social media site Weibo, during a conversation the Yeston boss purportedly...
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A Geekbench 5 benchmark listing has appeared, revealing the existence of a new Zen 4 Storm Peak Ryzen Threadripper Pro CPU known as the 7995WX. The specs do not disappoint, apparently this new chip will have a whopping 96 Zen 4 cores and a...
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AMD is evidently chomping at the bit (technically champing, for your grammar purists—look it up!) to unveil a "major product" at Gamescom, which is just around the corner, but is keeping mostly mum until the event. We say "mostly" because...
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AMD Radeon Pro W7900 & W7800: $2,499 (W7800), $3,999 (W7900) The RDNA 3-based AMD Radeon Pro W7900 And W7800 pack a ton of memory and are the company's most powerful and feature-rich professional GPUs yet. Excellent Performance Lots Of...
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It's been a bit of a rough stretch for the PC processor market, with CPU shipments falling to the lowest point in a decade during the first quarter of 2023. The thing about hitting rock bottom, though, is there's no way to go by up. Or so...
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Bethesda Softworks has released shockingly few games for the cultural clout that it has. As creators of the Elder Scrolls series and stewards of the Fallout franchise, Bethesda has released a grand total of four games in the former series...
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While AMD's Radeon GPUs aren't as renowned for their ray-tracing prowess as competitor NVIDIA's, they're fully capable of handling the effects, particularly when games are programmed to match the hardware—just take a look at how Metro:...
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A newly unearthed regulatory listing shows that AMD graphics card partners are in an advanced stage of new product launch readiness. AIBs like ASRock have prepared their "new enthusiast-class Radeon 7000 series cards," as recently touted...
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Some automakers are accelerating towards a future in which certain features sit behind a software paywall, sort of like how microtransactions and DLC work in the PC and console gaming space. Tesla is one of them—for example, Model Y Long...
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AMD's "Phoenix Point" processors are only now becoming widely-available in the marketplace, but enthusiasts are already looking ahead to Phoenix's Zen 5-based successor, Strix Point. Not that there's anything wrong with Phoenix; that's the...
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Rumors can be a lot of fun when you're not the subject, and extrapolating from incomplete data is always an entertaining exercise when we're talking about upcoming hardware. It's ultimately nice to have confirmation from the manufacturer...
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This one's a bit of a weird one, and it's going to require some analysis to understand, so pay close attention. The rumor this time around is that AMD's RDNA 4 graphics card line-up "will not have any high-end GPUs." The leaker compares...
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AMD Radeon Pro W7600 & W7500: SEP $429 (W7500), $599 (W7600) The new Radeon Pro W7600 and W7500 are affordable single-slot, low-power RDNA3-based professional workstation GPUs for content creators and graphics pros. Efficient, Low...
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AMD shared some exciting news about the expansion of the Radeon RX 7000 series of consumer graphics cards yesterday evening. During a call with investors, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su said that the company plans to release new “enthusiast-class...
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Shares of AMD rose in after-market trading hours last night and are down slightly this morning this morning after the chip designer posted better-than-expected financial results for the second quarter of 2023, including $5.36 billion in...
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One criticism that some folks have had about AMD's RDNA 3-based Radeon RX 7000-series graphics cards is one of relatively-high idle power usage, on the order of 100 watts. We didn't observe this in our testing, but some users have...
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AMD's current-generation desktop and laptop processors are fundamentally based on two designs: Raphael, also known as Dragon Range in laptops, and then Phoenix (or possibly Phoenix Point), created specifically for portable PCs. The former...
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