It’s finally here. As promised (and after months of teasers), AMD is unleashing FidelityFX Super Resolution upon the world on Tuesday, promising substantial frame rate boosts in PC games that support the image upscaling technology. AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s killer DLSS differs from the GeForce feature in some crucial ways, however, and that’s driven home […]
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AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT review: A good GPU that (understandably) costs too much
“There are no bad products, only bad prices.” That well-worn adage, attributed to Anandtech founder Anand Shimpi, kept popping into my head as I reviewed AMD’s Radeon RX 6700 XT. This is a barn-burning graphics card for 1440p and 1080p gaming, but at $479 the price is far too high—at least in theory. In reality, […]
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT: 3440×1440 ultrawide benchmarks
The Radeon RX 6900 XT is finally here and it is magnificent, as you’d expect from a graphics card that costs a staggering four figures. At $1,000, AMD’s first enthusiast-class gaming flagship doesn’t come cheap—but it’s a lot cheaper than its primary competition, the $1,500 GeForce RTX 3090. The Radeon RX 6900 XT wins some […]
AMD Takes The Cover Off Their RX 6000 Big Navi GPU Today
Today at 12 PM, EST (9 AM PST), AMD will finally take the cover off their Radeon RX 6000-series of video cards featuring RDNA 2 gaming architecture. Similar tech is featured in the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5, and it’s expected that these new GPUs will compete favorably with NVidia’s recently released RTX 3000-series […]
AMD Reveals Ryzen 5000 Series, The "World's Best Gaming CPU"
AMD has officially revealed its slate of Zen 3-powered desktop CPUs, skipping the 4000 series and jumping right into the new Ryzen 5000 series. The company revealed 4 new CPUs in total, boasting that the Ryzen 5900 is now the “world’s best gaming CPU.” The big difference with the new Zen 3 architecture is the […]
AMD reveals Ryzen 5000-series chips with towering gaming performance
As promised, AMD is preparing to launch its next generation of Ryzen CPUs. These chips have the Zen 3 architecture, which reuses a lot of what makes the Zen 2 so speedy. But AMD’s engineers have made revisions that should lead to a significant performance gain. In a presentation today, AMD chief executive officer Lisa […]
AMD Reveals "World's Best Gaming CPU" With Ryzen 5000 Series
AMD has officially revealed its slate of Zen 3-powered desktop CPUs, skipping the 4000 series and jumping right into the new Ryzen 5000 series. The company revealed 4 new CPUs in total, boasting that the Ryzen 5900 is now the “world’s best gaming CPU.” The big difference with the new Zen 3 architecture is the […]
An Estimated 58 Million Steam Users Now Have VR Ready GPUs
The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox. Email Address High PC hardware requirements are one reason why VR is often touted as being highly expensive, but as GPUs have gotten more powerful […]
AMD gives fans first look at new RX 6000 graphics cards … in Fortnite
AMD has finally shown off its newest series of graphics cards, the RX 6000 line, but it probably didn’t do it in the way you might expect. Ahead of the card’s actual reveal event, which is scheduled for Oct. 28, AMD decided to debuted the RX 6000’s hardware design inside of a Fortnite level. On […]
AMD reveals Radeon RX 6000 design with three fans
Seeking to derail the roaring hype train for Nvidia’s imminent GeForce RTX 3080 launch, AMD teased the reference design for its own upcoming Radeon RX 6000-series “Big Navi” graphics cards on Monday, and it looks like nothing AMD has ever released before. AMD has caught a lot of flack for the design of its awful […]