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  1. Zarathustra[H]

    Very Excited About Upcoming 7nm Ryzen, but...

    ...I am worried. First off, let me be excruciatingly clear. I have been a long time AMD fan. Some of my favorite times in this computer hobby for me came when I started college, which perfectly coincided with the 1999 Athlon launch. Having been a long time PC builder (since I was 11 and...
  2. cageymaru

    Best Buy AMD 50th Anniversary Deals

    I saw a Vega 56 for $299 at the bottom of the page. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/clp-computers-tablets/amd-computing-sale/pcmcat1555428987018.c?id=pcmcat1555428987018
  3. scojer

    AMD Ryzen 7 2700x Gold Edition

    AMD is celebrating it's 50th year, to celebrate, they're releasing a Gold Edition AMD Ryzen 7 2700X.. It's signed by Lisa Su, you get two free games, a fancy case badge, and, a T-Shirt.
  4. cageymaru

    AMD GPU PCB with GDDR6 Analyzed by Buildzoid

    Actually Hardcore Overclocking on YouTube has analyzed an AMD PCB with GDDR6 that was sent to him over Discord. He discusses the memory layout, VRMs, and cooler possibilities that may come on the reference boards. In the comments section, some viewers and Buildzoid noticed USB-C on the board.
  5. Pieter3dnow

    ECS Launches Mini-PC Packing AMD

    Over at Tom's hardware they spotted ECS mini PC with AMD based A320 motherboard.
  6. cageymaru

    AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X Is $679 on Amazon

    Amazon has the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X Processor (YD295XA8AFWOF) for $679.00. https://www.amazon.com/AMD-Ryzen-Threadripper-Processor-YD295XA8AFWOF/dp/B07GFN6CVF
  7. Pieter3dnow

    Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.4.3

    Support For Mortal Kombat XI™ Fixed Issues With AMD Link connected to Radeon Settings the update notifications feature may list incorrect installed versions. Known Issues AMD Radeon VII may experience screen flicker in multi display setups on desktop or while applications are running...
  8. cageymaru

    PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 $239 NewEgg Refurb

    PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 DirectX 12 AXRX VEGA 56 8GBHBM2-3DH 8GB 2048-Bit HBM2 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support ATX Video Card is $239 on NewEgg. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131747 Listing says sold by NewEgg and refurbished. Warranty Limited Warranty...
  9. L

    FS Asus X370-F Strix RMA swap

    Up for sale is an Asus motherboard that I just got back from the RMA center. they just swapped it with new and did not repair. Documentation is there and the seal has not been broken. The board will come with backplate and whatever manuals I had from the original box. asking 120 shipped...
  10. cageymaru

    Sapphire Radeon Pulse RX Vega 56 $299 @Amazon

    Sapphire 11276-02-40G Radeon Pulse RX Vega 56 8GB HBM2 Dual HDMI/DP (UEFI) PCI-E Graphics Card is $299.99 on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-11276-02-40G-Radeon-Pulse-Graphics/dp/B07BGZNTQJ
  11. Pieter3dnow

    ASrock iBOX-R1000

    It seems that ASrock have introduced a NUC featuring AMD Ryzen R1000 Series
  12. euskalzabe

    Semi-official confirmation: Navi to support ray tracing

    This is not directly from AMD, but Sony just gave Wired a few pointers on what to expect from PS5. They mentioned 8-core Ryzen as a CPU, and that they'll use "a custom variant of Radeon’s Navi family, will support ray tracing". Read the interview here...
  13. cageymaru

    PlayStation 5 Revealed in Wired's Mark Cerny Interview

    Nothing to see here! Duplicate thread!
  14. cageymaru

    Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 590 AMD 50th Anniversary Edition

    For those without Twitter here are the pics from the post.
  15. Pieter3dnow

    Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.4.2

    Support For World War Z™ Up to 24% greater performance with AMD Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.4.2, on a Radeon™ VII in World War Z. RS-293 Up to 19% greater performance with AMD Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.4.2, on a Radeon™ RX Vega 64 in World War Z. RS-292 Anno...
  16. cageymaru

    ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 570 4G (ROG-STRIX-RX570) $99 @Amazon

    ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 570 4G Gaming GDDR5 DP HDMI DVI VR Ready AMD Graphics Card (ROG-STRIX-RX570-4G-GAMING) is $99.95 @Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Strix-Radeon-Gaming-Graphics-ROG-STRIX-RX570-4G-GAMING/dp/B071XYPPZT/
  17. Pieter3dnow

    Federal Circuit Overrules PTAB Again in ATI Technologies ULC v. Iancu

    https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2019/04/11/federal-circuit-overrules-ptab-ati-technologies-ulc-v-iancu/id=108182/ This Story is about how patents regarding unified shaders that were claimed by LG are now again owned by AMD.
  18. Zarathustra[H]

    AMD to Simultaneously Launch 3rd Gen Ryzen and Unveil Radeon "Navi" This June

    Our friends over at TechPowerUp have a story up about AMD intending to both Launch their new 7nm Ryzen CPU's and unveil their new Navï based GPU's at the same time this May/June during Computex, presumably during CEO Dr. Lisa Su's Keynote. I think many of us already suspected this might be the...
  19. Zarathustra[H]

    AMD's next Navi GPUs could have the specs (and ray tracing) to beat Nvidia

    From the rumor mill over on Techradar we have a story about what the future of AMD GPU's may look like. It suggests that later this year we may see Navi 10, which will likely be a mid range offering and might be used in consoles. More midrange cards aren't exactly exciting. The...
  20. I

    FS: AMD Sapphire R9 290x Tri-X OC TriX Video Card

    AMD Sapphire R9 290x Tri-X OC Video Card Working great. Recently upgraded to a 1070 and no longer needed. This is one of the most highly rated 290x versions due to it's cooler, Sapphire build quality and factory OC. Comes with retail box, two molex adapters, manuals, driver CD, HDMI cable. NO...
  21. Pieter3dnow

    AMD slashes prices for Ryzen 7 CPUs

    https://fudzilla.com/media/k2/items/cache/6794ec275de6fc17ad8e732c289204e7_XL.jpg At Fudzilla they noticed this happening on Newegg
  22. cageymaru

    Chromebooks Create Demand and Supply Issues for Intel

    Notebook original design manufacturer (ODM) Compal is predicting a worsening of the current supply issues for Intel chips. According to company president Martin Weng and vice chairman Ray Chen, 1Q2019 saw a 10% - 20% supply issue for its clients due to Intel chip shortages and 2Q2019 will be...
  23. AlphaAtlas

    AMD Confirms Stadia Will Run on Intel CPUs

    As one of the world's most pervasive cloud service providers, Google is in a better position to launch a successful game streaming platform than almost anyone. The hardware they choose to use for the launch of their "Stadia" streaming service will undoubtedly influence future game streaming...
  24. cageymaru

    AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.3.3

    The AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.3.3 driver has been released and it adds support for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Generation Zero. Fixed issues include: Rainbow Six Siege may experience intermittent corruption or flickering on some game textures during gameplay. DOTA 2 VR may...
  25. cageymaru

    Linux Gaming Across 9 Distros [Review in Progress]

    Jason Evangelho of Forbes has started a Linux series where he reviews various Linux distributions (distros) for ease of use and performance in regards to Linux gaming. Jason's series isn't about just running benchmarks as he asks questions that everyday users would need to find out. Where am I...
  26. AlphaAtlas

    Digital Foundry Analyzes Google's Stadia Platform

    Following Google's "Stadia" game streaming service announcement yesterday, Digital Foundry decided to take a closer look at the hardware behind the platform. Google says they use a "Custom 2.7GHz hyper-threaded x86 CPU with AVX2 SIMD and 9.5MB L2+L3 cache," and while they didn't mention the...
  27. cageymaru

    Google Partners with AMD for Google Stadia Game Streaming Service

    Google has selected AMD as its partner for the Google Stadia game streaming service. Google will use high-performance, custom AMD Radeon datacenter GPUs for its Vulkan and Linux-based Google Stadia. AMD noted how its commitment to open-source AMD Linux drivers would allow Google and its...
  28. AlphaAtlas

    Apple Launches iMac With Coffee Lake and Vega

    Today, Apple updated its iMac lineup with 9th generation Intel processors and AMD Vega graphics. The 21.5 inch iMac now sports up to 6 cores, while the 27 inch iMac gets what's presumably a fully enabled 8-core Coffee Lake die. Apple also says they're they're offering "Radeon Pro Vega graphics"...
  29. AlphaAtlas

    AMD Talks 3D Stacking at Rice Presentation

    AMD has talked up their "chiplet" based approach used in their upcoming products, and according to some reports, Marvell is already selling products based on the chiplet concept. But the next logical step from that approach is to move from 2D to 3D, where different dies are "stacked" on top of...
  30. cageymaru

    Microsoft Announces Variable Rate Shading Support for DX12

    Variable Rate Shading (VRS) is a powerful new API that gives the developers the ability to use GPUs more intelligently. Shaders are used to calculate the color of each pixel in a screen. Shading rate refers to the resolution at which these shaders are called (which is different from the overall...
  31. cageymaru

    Atari VCS Is Powered by 14nm AMD Ryzen APU with Radeon Vega Graphics

    Atari has announced that the upcoming Atari VCS will now be powered by a 14nm AMD processor featuring high-performance Radeon Vega graphics architecture and two "Zen" CPU cores. The hardware team at Atari has replaced the AMD "Bristol Ridge" processor with the new AMD Ryzen APU. The new AMD...
  32. AlphaAtlas

    What If Zen 2 Actually Sucks?

    In some of his recent videos, Scottish YouTuber AdoredTV mentioned that he's often criticized for having a bias towards AMD. Obviously, he doesn't believe that to be true, as he has no problem with positivity or negativity towards any manufacturer, but the criticism apparently inspired him to...
  33. Pieter3dnow

    AdoredTV reflection (AMD benchmarks) on Zen2

    Here Jim goes where he has not gone before with Zen 2 trying to explain what we have seen so far and reflection on how AMD uses benchmarks to profoundly show their best case scenario for performance.
  34. X

    Okay what's going on here with Asus X470 Pro + TridentZ at rated speed

    Worked on my brother's 2700X + Asus X470 Pro (latest bios). The memory won't run at the actual rated speed of 3200, but it will run one under or one OVER. G.Skill TridentZ 14-14-14-34 (Samsung B die), in ANY of the following configurations same results as below: 2x8, 4x8, 2x16. 2xxx...
  35. cageymaru

    Crytek Demos Real-Time Ray Traced Reflections Running on an AMD Vega 56

    Crytek has released a new video demonstrating the results of a CRYENGINE research and development project called Neon Noir. Neon Noir is based on an advanced version of CRYENGINE's Total Illumination showcasing real-time ray tracing. The demo shown below is running on an AMD Vega 56 and...
  36. S

    Crytek Ray Tracing Demo NOIR out, hardware agnostic!

    Looks VERY good, better than any implementation to date I'd say
  37. cageymaru

    AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.3.2 Supports DX12 on Windows 7

    The AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.3.2 driver has been released and it is optimized for Tom Clancy's The Division 2 and Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm. AMD Radeon VII owners should see a 4% performance uplift in Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm when...
  38. cageymaru

    Alphacool Announces Eisblock GPX-A Plexi Light Cooler for AMD Radeon VII

    Alphacool has announced the release of its Eisblock GPX Plexi Light cooler for the AMD Radeon VII. The cooling block is made of solid copper and is completely nickel-plated. The clear Plexiglas allows owners to view the mesmerizing water flow. The water flow actively cools not only the GPU, but...
  39. cageymaru

    Ubisoft Releases Tom Clancy's The Division 2 Launch Trailers

    Ubisoft has released the latest trailers for Tom Clancy's The Division 2 and the first video showcases many of the AMD optimizations in the game. From high resolution shadows to real-time reflections, the game is shaping up to be a graphical masterpiece. The second trailer showcases the...
  40. cageymaru

    Raja Koduri Discusses Leaving AMD for Intel in Interview

    In an interview with Barron's, Intel Chief Architect, Senior Vice President and GM - Cores & Visual Computing & Edge Computing Solutions, Raja Koduri, discusses the reasons why he left AMD to work at Intel, recruiting Jim Keller, and his 4,500 person graphics team at Intel. Raja Koduri had a...
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