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AMD Bristol Ridge APU Lineup Leaked
Ever since the launch of the APU back in 2011, both AMD and Intel have continued down this path. While CPU performance hasn’t grown much, the iGPU side of the chips continues to improve every generation. On June 1st at Computex, AMD will launch their 7th generation APUs, Bristol Ridge.…
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AMD Annouces Inside Polaris Event
From all the rumours flying around, the latest indication is that the Polaris lineup will be revealed sometime in late May, just before Computex. The Macau, China event may be limited to select members of the press though, meaning the public might not get any concrete information till Computex. To tide us through,…
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AMD 14nm SoC May Power PlayStation Neo
Last month, we reported that AMD was expecting $1.5 billion in revenue in relation to custom gaming SoCs. At the same time, reports have come out from Sony about the PlayStation Neo using a new and improved AMD SoC. Putting them together, we are also getting a new report today about…
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AMD Moves Vega Up to October
With the Nvidia GTX 1080 out now, all that awaits is for AMD to launch their Polaris based GPUs. Unfortunately for enthusiasts, Polaris 10, the top end Polaris GPU to come out in May won’t be enough to challenge the Pascal flagship. Based on current rumours, the AMD GPU only…
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AMD Launches Polaris Architecture Website
With both Pascal and Polaris coming out so close to each other, we’ve been bombarded by many leaks over the past few weeks. Despite a few vague hints, most of our information comes from leaks and the few official tidbits tossed our way. We’re finally getting a little bit of…
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AMD Polaris 10 Offers GTX 980Ti Performance
With only a month to go till Computex, things are heating up in the rumour wars between AMD and Nvidia. Suitability held in Taiwan, AMD has reportedly shown off the true power of Polaris 10 to a select few ahead of the planned May launch. While we have all seen…
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AMD Reveals Polaris 10 and 11 Market Positioning
While we’ve pretty much confirmed that GP104 will replace the current Maxwell chips with the new GTX 1080 and 1070, things are less clear from AMD. We got some clarification yesterday from the release of a new roadmap that appeared to show Polaris 10 replacing current Fiji cards. With a…
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AMD Graphics Roadmap Reveals Fiji Replacement
One of the biggest concerns about Polaris 10 has been whether or not it will be a true replacement for Fury X. With the latest leaks out, most of the information points to about 100W TDP with 2304 shaders and clock speeds around 1050Mhz. Compared to Nvidia’s Pascal GP104, this doesn’t sound…
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AMD May Launch Polaris R9 470 and R9 480 at Computex
Polaris 10 and 11 have long been tagged as releasing at Computex later this year. As we know from AMD directly, Polaris 10 will be the flagship chip while Polaris 11 will fill in the gap below. Previously, the expectation has been that Polaris 10 would do battle against GP104/GTX…
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AMD Polaris Project F GPU Revealed
With Polaris only months away, more details about what Polaris 10 and 11 will look like are coming out. According to an ex-AMD employee profile on LinkedIn, a dGPU codenamed Project F is set to be built on GlobalFounrdies and Samsung 14nm LPP process. What’s more, the Project F GPU will…
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AMD Polaris Will use HBM2 and GDDR5
Ever since HBM1 was revealed and launched with Fury X, many have been looking forwards to what HBM2 would bring along in 2016. While HBM1 brought large power savings and a major boost in memory bandwidth, it was largely limited to a relatively low 4GB capacity. HBM2, however, is set…
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AMD Polaris GPUs Spotted Shipping
When AMD unveiled their new Polaris architecture last week, details about the timeline were a bit scarce. Other than previous confirms about a mid -2016 launch for one of the Polaris cards, AMD had been mum about when Polaris would actually arrive. Now information has surfaced about Polaris shipments has been…
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AMD Polaris GPU Architecture Offically Unveiled
First leaked yesterday, we’re now able to bring you the full AMD presentation on their upcoming Polaris GPU architecture. Set to ship mid-2016, Polaris will be using a 14/16nm FinFET process and bring massive power consumption and efficiency improvements. According to RTG SVP Raja Koduri, AMD says the massive potential…
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AMD Polaris Next-Gen GPU Details Leaked
Despite the Polaris launch still some time away, AMD is set to start releasing details for their upcoming graphics architecture. According to the leak, AMD will be revealing some key details to their post-GCN plans tomorrow. The biggest takeaway so far from Polaris is that AMD is moving onto their…
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