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Advanced Micro Devices began to fight back its market share from Nvidia Corp. in the third quarter of the year, a financial analyst revealed on Wednesday. While Nvidia still dominates the market, the launch of AMD’s latest graphics cards helped the company to improve its sales a bit. “Graphics processor …

Sapphire Technologies has introduced a new entry-level graphics card designed for mini-ITX systems. The new Sapphire Nitro R7 360 is powered by “Bonaire” graphics processing unit and may be used as an inexpensive upgrade for older PCs or building of home-theater personal computers (HTPCs). The Sapphire Nitro R7 360 graphics …

In the recent years both Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia Corp. sold similar graphics processing units under completely different names, a practice many consider as deceiving. While stagnation in the market of graphics adapters and rebranding of graphics cards is hardly a good thing for the consumer, both GPU developers …

Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday revealed all the details about its new family of graphics cards, the Radeon R9 and the Radeon R7 300-series. As reported, the whole lineup is based on existing graphics processing units with minor speed-bumps to improve performance in certain cases and games. The flagship Radeon …

Advanced Micro Devices has published specifications of its Radeon R9 300-series graphics cards intended for OEMs on its web-site. As it appears, despite of new model numbers, the graphics adapters will be powered by GPUs that are already available commercially. The company has also added two new Radeon R7 300-series …

After over a year of development, preparations, testing and other work, AMD’s FreeSync technology will officially be enabled in AMD’s drivers later this month. At present graphics cards, APUs and displays supporting FreeSync technology are already available in select regions, which means that it is about time for AMD to …

Acer Group has introduced one of the world’s first displays featuring AMD FreeSync technology that supports 144Hz refresh rate. The new monitor could become a good choice for gamers looking for AMD FreeSync tech and extreme refresh rates. The Acer XG270HU uses 27” TN+film panel with 2560*1440 resolution with up …

Samsung Electronics and Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday revealed that the former will release its first displays featuring AMD’s FreeSync technology in March, 2015. Initially there will be five monitors from Samsung that will take advantage of AMD’s screen synching technology, but eventually a lot of Samsung’s displays will support AMD’s FreeSync. …

One of the main advantages of the FreeSync technology that Advanced Micro Devices has been communicating for many months now is the fact that since FreeSync is based on open-standards and does not require custom hardware, monitors supporting the feature will not be too expensive. According to a new claim …

Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday said that has partnered with leading suppliers of display-scalers – MStar, Novatek and Realtek – in order to ensure industry-wide support of DisplayPort’s Adaptive-Sync as well as AMD’s FreeSync technologies. The collaborations will allow makers of displays to build monitors supporting both technologies next year. …

Although many game developers have decided to support AMD’s proprietary Mantle application programming interface (API), whereas Intel Corp. even expressed interest in exploring the API, Nvidia Corp. has been relatively quiet about one of its arch-rival’s key technologies. This does not mean that the company does not have any opinion …

At the Computex 2014 trade-show this week Advanced Micro Devices demonstrated the industry’s first prototype of a monitor that features the company’s FreeSync technology, which is largely based on the recently announced Adaptive Sync technology from VESA. While the monitor works pretty fine, it seems that it has certain limitations, …

In life, people walk in a lot of different directions. It's often said that a leader without followers is just a bloke taking a walk. You know you're leading when you look over your shoulder and find that the next person is right behind you – taking the same steps/turns …