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With the RX Vega 64 and RX Vega 56 now out and in the hands of consumers, it looks like it is time for Radeon Technologies Group head, Raja Koduri, to take a break and catch up on family time. Koduri will be taking a three month sabbatical from RTG, …

This week, the PC gaming service ‘Raptr' announced that it would be shutting down at the end of this month, just one year after AMD officially dropped support for the app. Raptr has been around for close to ten years and for a while, it also came bundled with Radeon …

It’s known that AMD’s next line of APUs, dubbed Raven Ridge, will fuse the latest in Zen processing units with Vega graphics. Although they are not expected to arrive until later this year, a recent benchmark has revealed the Vega Mobile tech, codenamed Radeon Vega 8 and 10 Mobile Graphics. …

With Vega firmly upon us - this week we look at an early sample of the upcoming, custom cooled ASUS Vega card.

Can AMD's Radeon RX Vega56 take on Nvidia's immensely-popular GTX 1070?

Can AMD assert its authority with a long-awaited return to the high-end GPU market?

Following on from yesterday's performance preview, today AMD officially launched the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, delivering AMD's latest GPU architecture to consumers for the first time. AMD is pitching this as the world's fastest graphics card for machine learning development and advanced visualization workloads. Pricing is also a bit different …

While the enthusiast gaming audience will need to wait a little longer to get their hands on the RX Vega, we will be getting our first taste of AMD's latest GPU architecture quite soon. The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is supposed to start shipping next week and while it isn't …

While gamers do have to wait a bit longer to get their hands on the upcoming Radeon RX Vega, for Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is launching before the end of the month for the professional crowd. AMD promised a late June launch for this GPU and it seems they will …

Codemasters have returned this week with the launch of Dirt 4 and to mark the occasion, AMD's engineers have been optimising away to make sure Radeon GPU users have the best experience possible. This driver version in particular can improve performance by around 20 percent. Radeon Software Crimson ReLive 17.6.1 …

An eye-catching entry in the TechPowerUp GPU database caught our attention. The data shows the intimate details of none other than the AMD Radeon RX Vega, a card which, just a couple of days ago, AMD had said it would be launched sometime this quarter. If you remember, just last month …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

While the GTX 1080Ti may have been the biggest news to come out of last night, AMD made a few impressive reveals of its own. Not only did AMD officially announce that its next high-end GPU would be the RX Vega, but the company also talked about some key new …

It looks like Vega is more than just a codename as today at AMD's Capsaicin event, the company announced that its next high-end GPU would be called the ‘RX Vega'. However, the presentation didn't stop at simply naming the GPU, AMD also began showing off some of the new features …

It looks like Intel and AMD are getting into the holiday spirit with a new CPU/GPU/Game bundle for Christmas, before January hits and the two have to become rivals once again. This month, AMD Radeon is joining forces with Intel to offer a bundle that includes a Core i5 6600K, …

We have been coming across plenty of leaks from AMD over the last week or so, not only did we get a benchmark for a previously unseen GPU and learn that Intel may license Radeon tech for future iGPUs, but now we have also found references to Polaris 10 XT2, …

AMD has teased an upcoming update to its Crimson driver platform and though nothing official has been said, leaked slides and rumour suggest it could bring performance gains to all Graphics Core Next GPUs. We won't have to wait very long to find out for sure either, as the drivers …

AMD and Firaxis studios have decided to team up for Sid Meier's Civilization VI, creating a new DirectX 12 renderer specifically optimised to bring an in-game performance boost to Radeon graphics cards. This means that Civ Vi will support technologies like Asynchronous Compute and Explicit Multi-Adapter. Right now, AMD's Graphics …

Although AMD's RX 480 has been well received by most, there are a few who experienced unfavourable power draws through the PCIExpress port, leading to questions about its stability and longevity. Fortunately it didn't take long for AMD to address it, as with the new 16.71 driver release, it's claiming …

Although AMD's new RX 480 has reviewed well with most publications, a few issues have arisen in certain circumstances with some cards, namely, that the power can spike for seemingly no reason. AMD has now admitted the flaw and is said to be working on a fix. The flaw in …

In the early hours of this morning AMD finally unveiled its first Polaris graphics card: the RX480. With specifications that peg it as comparable in power, but far more efficient than the R9 390, AMD also twinned up two of the $200 (£140) cards against a Nvidia GTX 1080 and by …

While we still have a few days to wait for AMD's official Polaris unveiling at Computex, it looks like we may already have a good idea of what sort of performance to expect as some GPU benchmarks have made their way online. These benchmark results were obtained by videocardz, who …

The rumour mill has been spinning this week and today, it churned out some information on AMD's next series of graphics cards. Apparently, we may see AMD launch the Radeon R9 490 and R9 490x at the end of June this year, following on from a preview at Computex, which …

Ubisoft has been attempting to boost its efforts on the PC over the last year or so, even going as far as to push PC versions of certain titles back to give developers extra time to ensure it is up to standard. This was the case with Far Cry: Primal, …

Ever since launching Radeon Software late last year, AMD has recommitted itself to driver support with big monthly updates. Today, AMD released Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2, which brings some performance boosts to titles like Rise of the Tomb Raider and Ashes of Singularity, which is currently an excellent benchmarking …