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The Hawaii GPU that's behind AMD's latest R9 series of cards, is clearly among the highest-performing chips available at the moment. However, a new die shot of the chip implies that the graphics processor may actually be more powerful than AMD publicly disclosed. Today AMD sells two graphics adapters based on …

When it comes to technology, value is everything. While some products can command any amount of money – most things in life come down to a balance. Looks like the balance point for Sapphire's Radeon R9 290 has moved. KitGuru packs a first aid kit as it checks for cuts. …

AMD's Radeon 7 series cards have been kicking around for a while at this point, so it's about time we got a look at what's coming next. Fortunately, Club3D is here to save the day, with its custom back plates (which we saw at i49 earlier this year) on the …

In the coming weeks, we will be speaking with some senior folks from both AMD and nVidia about the benefits of running major campaigns for game giveaways. One thing is for sure, no matter whether you bought a graphic card or not, it would have been hard to miss ‘Never …

It has been an amazing week in the land of GPU price cuts, with wave after wave of deal lashing the inbox shores of the UK's hard core enthusiasts. Almost all of the action has been coming from NVidia, but now it seems that AMD is ready to get in …

With a worldwide shipment expected at the end of May, Asus has ear-marked today for the launch of its very own Radeon HD 7990 graphics accelerator. In KitGuru Labs' tests, this card stamped its authority at the top of the mountain, so it will be interesting to see what Asus …

From the KitGuru Labs extensive testing, one thing about the Radeon HD 7990 was blindingly clear – it is the fastest card ever made. Now the dust has settled over the initial results, it's time for those with huge pockets and a serious addiction to high-tech to begin the acquisitions …

As any Guru of the Kit knows, your performance parts are only as good as the cooling solution you provide to take the excess energy away from the vital components. From its new-found position as ‘Number one for AMD graphics', Asus has great cooling technology and it's bringing it to …

AMD has affirmed its position in the mid-range graphics market with the successful Radeon HD 77xx and 78xx GPUs. With so many individual graphics cards to choose from, how do you decide which is best? Cooler, factory overclock, VRAM and display outputs are all valid reasons for picking one card …

Learning to ‘follow the money' is one of life's most important lessons. It helps answer so many questions – in every walk of life. Sure sex and drugs and rock-n-roll plus the need for weapons and violence figure into the equation, but the money trail is crucial. For graphics, that …

Cyberpower has always tended to the needs of every gamer with its pre-configured systems. Targeting mid-range gamers with a tighter budget, does the Cyberpower Gaming Battalion 502 PC have what it takes to become a competitor in today's ever-growing system market? Cyberpower has chosen the Gaming Battalion 502 PC's hardware …

Most of the noise around the AMD brand recently has focused on the low share price, the redundancies and the company's overall prospects for the future. Today, we're taking a look at one of its recent technology launches, Radeon RAMDisk. KitGuru gets up close and personal with AMD memory guru, …

For years, nVidia has enjoyed a huge lead in workstation graphics. No secret. Quadro brings in serious profit. The connection from workstation to desktop was tenuous – as both had very different brands, markets, drivers and sales strategies. But there's one thing that Quadro gives nVidia, which could be crucial …

From the time of AMD's graphics price cut announcement, it took all of 24 hours for the first resellers to implement the drops. KitGuru happens across a forum announcement that indicates the price war has not finished. Not yet at any rate. Whatever your opinion on the GTX660 and the …

There's nothing that floats a KitGuru's boat like an intelligent bundle and that's appealing and does not add to the cost of a product you wanted to buy anyway. nVidia did a great bundle with Lost Planet in the past and it's something that we try to take into account …

With the nVidia GTX 660 Ti's release imminent, AMD's popular HD 7950 graphics card will soon be the recipient of a clock speed-boosting BIOS update. The update is intended to better prepare the 6 month old card for the stiff competition that it should receive from nVidia's GeForce GTX 660 Ti. The …

Leading graphics card manufacturer, AFOX, has introduced its single-slot HD 7850 claiming it to be "the world's most powerful single-slot graphics card".

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The next SKUs to appear in AMD's HD 7000 series lineup target the upper mid-range segment. These will be the Radeon HD 7850 (in both 1 and 2GB GDDR5 flavours) and the HD 7870, all of which are said to be on track for arrival in March. The ‘Pitcairn' 28nm …

A report has surfaced over at AnandTech that the Corporate VP & CTO of AMD's Graphics Division, Eric Demers is finishing up with the company at the end of this week for reasons unknown at this time. Anand said that, “he's not going to Intel or NVIDIA but I suspect …

Thanks to a freshly leaked GPU-Z screenshot we can ascertain the specifications of one of AMD's next desktop cards in line, the mid-range HD 7770 which is on the verge of release. Based on the new “Cape Verde” GPU, the card will feature a lesser number of better-configured Graphics CoreNext …

As promised at CES by CEO Steve Ballmer earlier in the month, Microsoft's commercial Kinect for Windows (v1.0) SDK along with its accompanying, slightly customized hardware has just officially been launched and for a suggested MSRP of $249.99 you might be quick to scream out “Madness!” in line of the …

Thanks to a conspicuous document making it's way onto the internet, we can learn more about AMD's plans for the HD 7000 series of cards beyond the now launched HD 7970 and HD 7950 models. We knew the line-up would (eventually) be as busy as prior generations were, if not …

Gabe of Swiftech has kindly given us a treat over at the XtremeSystems Forums in the form of some pre-release CGI drawings of the company's upcoming waterblock to suit the new Radeon HD 7970. The block gives full coverage, making physical contact with the entire PCB area of the card …

The first retail listing for the soon to be launched HD 7950 has popped up, that being from online distributer PROVANTAGE who are advertising a model from GIGABYTE (GV-R795WF3-3GD) for pre-order at quite the inflated price indeed – ‘Only' $481.58. The specs provided are minimal in the advertisement – HD …

OK, it's gone from a love-fest to a blood-bath in a matter of minutes. KitGuru recently reported that Bolton-based Scan had pushed hard on Radeon pricing to offer the world a 1GB XFX 6850 for £128. Now it seem that might not be enough to capture top spot. KitGuru uses …

Last October, AMD launched the first cards in their Radeon HD 6000 series, the HD 6850 and HD 6870.  In the six months since then we've seen the release of the top end HD 6950, HD 6970 and HD 6990 cards which are targeted at serious gamers.  But until now, …

Public hero and driver guru Terry Makedon, known to everyone as ‘Catalyst Maker' will be moving jobs within AMD. He wanted to let our readers know of his plans and he is excited about what lies ahead in 2011. I had a chat with him earlier today. He told us …

Our reports show that AMD are due to drop the user price of their HD5970 graphics card in reaction to the launch of the nVidia GTX580. nVidia's new card is a monster, so AMD feel the need to bring their own monster in direct conflict. While this has yet to …

The world of graphics has been a fantastic battleground over the past two months, with launch and counter-launch in quick succession. Our recent Radion HD 6800 reviews have drawn a huge amount of interest and KitGuru has responded by hunting high and low for a cool competition. We believe we …