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AMD has made itself quite a reputation with its bundling campaigns over the years, and every new season we can be sure that the company will be giving away free games with the purchase of its hardware. This summer will certainly not be exception as AMD will be bundling Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and Unknown 9: Awakening titles with its Ryzen 7000 CPUs and Radeon RX 7000 video cards. The latest bundle offer essentially covers all of AMD's existing mid-range and high-end consumer desktop products, sans the to-be-launched Ryzen 9000 series. That includes not only AMD's desktop parts, such as the Ryzen 9 7800X3D, but also virtually their entire stack of Radeon RX 7000 video cards, right on down to the 7600 XT. AMD's laptop...
GIGABYTE Announces AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce Xtreme Edition 11G and Waterforce WB Xtreme Edition 11G
Following up after last week’s teasers, GIGABYTE has officially announced two ultra-high-end graphics cards under its AORUS brand: the AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce Xtreme Edition 11G and...
26 by Nate Oh on 6/30/2017NVIDIA Releases 384.76 WHQL Game Ready Driver
Update: On 7/4/17, NVIDIA released the 384.80 hotfix driver resolving Watch Dogs 2 crashes on startup. A few weeks have passed since driver version 382.53, and it’s time again for...
4 by Nate Oh on 6/29/2017AMD’s Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Formally Launches: Air Cooled For $999, Liquid Cooled for $1499
After what appears to be a very unusual false start, AMD has now formally launched their new Radeon Vega Frontier Edition card. First announced back in mid-May, the unusual...
68 by Ryan Smith on 6/27/2017ASUS & Sapphire Release Pascal & Polaris-based Cryptocurrency Mining Cards
Even during the most bullish Bitcoin days, video card partners had shied away from creating specific SKUs for the purpose of cryptocurrency mining, and that has remained the case...
30 by Nate Oh on 6/27/2017Imagination Technologies Formally Puts Itself Up For Sale
The fate of Imagination Technologies has become something of a saga in recent months. The prolific IP vendor, Apple’s right-hand supplier for GPU designs and IP over the last...
36 by Ryan Smith on 6/22/2017MSI Announces GeForce GTX 1080 Ti LIGHTNING Z
After posting a teaser video last week, MSI has followed up by announcing their latest ultra-high-end Lightning-branded graphics card: the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti LIGHTNING Z. The triple-slot-width...
25 by Nate Oh on 6/21/2017NVIDIA Formally Announces PCIe Tesla V100: Available Later This Year
Similar to last year, at this year's International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) NVIDIA has announced and detailed a PCI Express version of their latest Tesla GPU accelerator, the Volta-based V100...
27 by Nate Oh on 6/20/2017Micron Discusses GDDR: 16 Gbps GDDR5X, 16 nm GDDR6 and GDDR5
Micron has made a number of announcements in recent weeks regarding its GDDR memory for graphics cards, game consoles and networking applications. The company is reporting that they've been...
20 by Anton Shilov on 6/18/2017AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Retail Listings Appear: Cards at $1199 and $1799
Eagerly anticipated for later this month is the launch of AMD’s first wave of Radeon Vega cards, the first-run workstation/early adopter-focused Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. To date, AMD has...
61 by Ryan Smith on 6/16/2017PathForward: US Dept. of Energy Awards $258M in Research Contracts To Develop Exascale Supercomputer Technology
Even though the major US national laboratories are just now starting to take delivery of the supercomputers they ordered a few years back, due to the long and complex...
22 by Ryan Smith on 6/15/2017NVIDIA Announces Destiny 2 Bundle for GeForce GTX 1080 & 1080 Ti Cards
NVIDIA has announced yet another game bundle, this time pairing Bungie’s much-anticipated Destiny 2 with NVIDIA’s highly performant GeForce GTX 1080 and 1080 Ti. Systems (including NVIDIA’s own GeForce...
18 by Nate Oh on 6/13/2017NVIDIA Releases 382.53 WHQL Game Ready Driver
With enough updates to fill another plate, NVIDIA is here with another driver update. This round continues release 381 with driver version 382.53, hands us some fixes, and prepares...
7 by Daniel Williams on 6/10/2017AMD Releases Radeon Software ReLive Crimson Edition 17.6.1: Improved Performance in Dirt 4 & Prey
Summer approaches and big budget games releases are slowing to a trickle. More importantly, school is closing meaning more gaming time for those not yet entrenched in the workforce...
3 by Daniel Williams on 6/9/2017MSI Shows Off GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X Card with USB Type-C Port
Back when the VESA announced the DisplayPort alt mode for USB Type-C, one of the most common questions was whether we’d see USB ports on a video card. As...
45 by Ryan Smith on 6/4/2017AMD Announces Radeon Pro WX 3100 & WX 2100: Entry-Level Polaris Pro Cards
A couple of months back AMD announced their third (and presumably final) Polaris GPU, the diminutive Polaris 12. Designing for early-level video cards and laptops, in the consumer space...
14 by Ryan Smith on 6/4/2017Zotac Showcases Mini GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Video Cards
Zotac, well known for its small form factor PCs, motherboards, and graphics cards, is showcasing a pair GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics cards at Computex. What's so special about...
7 by Ryan Smith on 6/2/2017Aorus Announces the GTX 1070 Gaming Box eGFX Adapter
To date, the designs we’ve seen for Thunderbolt 3 eGFX chassis have all been just that – an empty chassis. This lets the user install any GPU they want...
14 by Ryan Smith on 6/1/2017EVGA Unveils its GeForce GTX 1080 Ti K|NGP|N Edition
EVGA has once again collaborated with extreme overclocker Vince "K|NGP|N" Lucido to develop the new EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti K|NGP|N Edition. As EVGA’s ultra-high-end overclocking card, EVGA is...
21 by Ryan Smith on 5/31/2017NVIDIA Announces Rocket League Bundle for GeForce GTX 1060 & 1050 Cards
The Rocket League World Championship is just around the corner, running from June 2nd through June 4th in Los Angeles. In celebration NVIDIA has partnered with Psyonix for a...
2 by Daniel Williams on 5/31/2017AMD Vega Updates: Vega Frontier Edition Available June 27th, Vega RX to be launched at SIGGRAPH at end of July
With Computex in full swing this week, AMD’s press conference just wrapped up for the morning. While the bulk of the news in the conference was on AMD’s CPU...
23 by Ryan Smith on 5/30/2017