A year, almost to the day, after launching the original Radeon Pro Duo dual-chip workstation-class graphics card, AMD has announced a refresh to its professional line-up. During the NAB 2017 show (an event for the broadcasting industry) in Las Vegas yesterday, AMD announced a new version of the Radeon Pro Duo …
Read More »SK Hynix details plans for GDDR6, will feature on a high-end GPU coming early 2018
It looks like Micron won't be the only company pushing out GDDR6 graphics memory this year as over the weekend, SK Hynix announced its own plans to introduce 8 Gigabit GDDR6 DRAM modules. SK Hynix's GDDR6 modules run at a data rate of 16Gbps, which is currently the fastest in …
Read More »AMD stealth-launches Radeon RX 550, partners make noise
While we've been on a steady flow of Polaris RX 580- and 570-series reviews this week, these have been stolen the attention from other entries in AMD's line-up. AMD did launch something else on the 18th of April, only it passed by very discreetly because it was overshadowed by AMD's …
Read More »EVGA rolls out GTX 1080 FTW2 and SC2 GPUs with iCX and upgraded RAM
Back when Nvidia first announced the GTX 1080Ti, the company also announced some improvements coming to its older Pascal cards. The GTX 1080 and GTX 1060 were both due to get faster RAM modules and now, add-in board partners are catching up. We've already seen ASUS and MSI release their …
Read More »Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11GB Review
A monstrous graphics card for a monstrous budget. We check out the Aorus GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition.
Read More »Corsair and MSI team up again for Hydro GFX GTX 1080Ti
Corsair and MSI are teaming up once again to release a new Hydro GFX graphics card this year. This time around, Corsair has applied its AIO liquid cooling expertise to the GTX 1080Ti, creating an easy to install liquid cooled GTX 108Ti. The Corsair Hydro GFX GTX 1080Ti is developed …
Read More »The Radeon RX 480 can be flashed to RX 580
After many weeks of sifting through early/leaked information, the RX 500 series has officially landed and as we have known for a while, the new range is a Polaris refresh. Given that the chips under the hood are so similar, it looks like some are experimenting with flashing their older …
Read More »Here are the most affordable RX 580 and RX 570 cards in the US at launch
With the official announcement of AMD's Radeon 500-Series GPUs yesterday, its partner ecosystem has followed suit and delivered on the goods. But there's more to the cards than meets the eye, if we consider that AMD is already putting them on sale. If you are a follower of graphics cards news, …
Read More »MSI is offering up to £94 cashback on motherboards and GPUs
Whenever you are looking to upgrade or build a whole new rig, it is always important to shop around for offers. This week, MSI has announced that it is running a cashback promotion on some of its graphics cards and motherboards, which could net you a saving of up to …
Read More »Sapphire RX 580 Nitro+ Limited Edition 8GB Review
Sapphire makes the best of AMD's RX 580 refresh with its Nitro+ version.
Read More »ASUS RX 570 STRIX Gaming OC 4GB Review
The RX 470 is back except faster, and don't forget to swap that 4 for a 5, RX 570, that's better.
Read More »AMD moving to dual-fan design for reference GPUs, RX 500 presentation leaks
It seems that all of the recent RX 500 series leaks are finally coming to a head as this week, AMD's RX-500 series announcement presentation leaked onto the web, giving us a look at the all-new reference design and some performance numbers. For starters, AMD is moving away from the …
Read More »Opinion: If you’ve never used Nvidia Ansel, you should
I'll confess – I have only just started using Ansel. Yep, Ansel being the technology from Nvidia that lets you take super high-resolution screenshots, or even 360-degree images, within supported games. I will be the first to admit I am well behind the curve here. In actual fact, when I was in …
Read More »AMD RX 580 and RX 570 confirmed to be using Polaris 20
Following several weeks of leaks and a tiny bit of conflicting information regarding the GPU used on AMD's upcoming RX 580 and RX 570 graphics cards, we finally have confirmation of Polaris 20 XTX and Polaris 20 XL. Thanks to a driver leak this week, we now know that AMD's …
Read More »Apple is seeking out graphics engineers in latest hiring spree
Earlier this month we learned that Apple would be abandoning its use of IMG's graphics technology for iOS devices in two years time. At the time, Imagination Technologies (IMG) had some doubts about Apple's ability to produce its own mobile GPU but it looks like Apple is looking to prove …
Read More »Nvidia has stealthily replaced the Titan X with an upgraded Titan Xp
Well there were certainly no leaks about this. Today, it seems that Nvidia has officially replaced the Titan X (Pascal) with the Titan Xp, featuring faster memory, more CUDA cores and faster clock speeds over the previous version. For starters, the most obvious and immediate change to the Titan Xp is …
Read More »AMD’s RX 500-Series starts its slow leak to fame
Right now, the Internet is rife with rumours and screen grabs of AMD's latest reincarnation (or rebrand, or rebadge) of its totally vanilla and mainstream RX 400-Series-come-500-Series GPUs. According to one site, someone has been benchmarking the RX 500-Series Radeons on 3DMark and posting their results. The benchmarking event, documented at …
Read More »AMD RX 500 series GPUs are starting to pop up at retail
Rumours and leaks over the past month have all led us to believe that AMD's RX 580, RX 570 and RX 560 reveal would be happening by the middle of April. Now, it seems that we are very close to launch indeed as retailers have begun leaking listings for AMD's …
Read More »Apple to start designing its own GPUs following planned split from Imagination Technologies
Over the years, while Apple has been designing its own processors for its iOS devices, the company has heavily relied on third-party graphics technology. Right now, Apple is partnered up with Imagination technologies for all of its iOS GPU needs, which means Imagination gets a cut from every iPhone and …
Read More »ASUS showcase ROG Poseidon GTX 1080ti
The Greek god of the sea and earthquakes will strike you down if you don't check this reveal out ...
Read More »ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1050 Ti OC 4GB Review
ASUS puts a dual-fan cooler and sizeable overclock onto GTX 1050 Ti.
Read More »AMD RX 500 series leaks continue as new details and images land on the web
Over the last few weeks, we have been hearing more and more about AMD's upcoming Radeon RX-500 series. These new graphics cards are set to be a refresh of the Polaris lineup and according to what we have heard previously, they are set to be announced in just a couple …
Read More »ASUS to refresh GTX 1080 and GTX 1060 with faster memory
Back when Nvidia first announced the GTX 1080Ti, the company also announced some improvements coming to its older Pascal cards. The GTX 1080 and GTX 1060 were both due to get faster RAM modules and now, it looks like board partners are catching up with that, as ASUS has revealed …
Read More »Nvidia ‘Prepare for Battle’ promo now includes the GTX 1060
Over the last couple of months, Nvidia and Ubisoft have been teaming up to run a ‘Prepare for Battle' promotion. This essentially meant that anyone buying a GTX 1080 or a GTX 1070 would be able to redeem a free copy of either For Honor or Ghost Recon Wildlands. While …
Read More »61% of KitGuru readers polled own Nvidia graphics
On Monday we ran a little public poll on our Facebook page. Around 2,000 readers answered and today, as promised, we share the results. No, This is not an AMD versus Nvidia editorial because that always gets much too heated and people end up arguing over nothing. We simply wanted …
Read More »AMD’s RX Vega will come in 4GB and 8GB HBM2 versions, launch is just around the corner
With the second quarter of 2017 now at our doorstep, it is about time to start counting down the days to AMD's launch of the RX Vega. We've already seen some details through various leaks and demonstrations over the last few months and this week, we learned that the RX …
Read More »We want to know what graphics card you are running in 2017
Every now and then, we like to check in with our readers and see what you guys are running in your gaming rigs, so today, over on our Facebook page, we are running a poll to see which of you are running an AMD or an Nvidia graphics card. We …
Read More »ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1080 Ti OC (O11G) 11GB Review
ASUS has slapped a triple-fan cooler and 115MHz overclock onto GTX 1080 Ti. Is this the best graphics card you can buy?
Read More »MSI GTX 1080Ti Gaming X is on the way, out of the box clock speeds unveiled
Earlier this month, MSI officially began teasing its GTX 1080Ti Gaming X graphics card. This was one of the first custom GTX 1080Ti boards we saw announced and while it won't begin shipping until April, we do know some additional details, like out of the box overclock speeds. The MSI …
Read More »ITC agrees to investigate AMD’s graphics patent complaint against LG, Vizio and others
Back in February, we first heard that AMD had filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission (ITC), calling for it to investigate and possibly ban several products sold by the likes of LG, MediaTek, Vizio and Sigma Designs due to patent infringements on graphics technology. Since then the ITC …
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