The first specs and pictures of the upcoming AMD Radeon HD 8970 graphics card have made it online. The pics show a typical AMD graphics card in red and black that looks almost like a regular HD 7990 video card but the magic is inside the new hardware that the HD 8970 will come with. The new AMD card will be based on a 28 nm GPU known as Curacao XT. Based on GCN 2.0 architectu...
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AMD releases Athlon X4 760K Richland CPU
13 June 2013 | PC
Just a day after the official release of the rumoured 5 GHz processors by AMD, the US company has added another interesting processor to its price list – the Athlon X4 760K. The new chip belongs to the latest Richland APU family and supports the new FM2 and the upcoming FM2+ sockets. A peculiarity of the new Athlon X4 760K is that it comes without an integrated GPU. Otherwi...
Sony reveals final PlayStation 4 details
12 June 2013 | Gaming
The Japanese tech giant Sony has presented the final specs of its upcoming PlayStation 4 gaming console. The new device measures 162 x 52 x 98 mm and weighs 210 grams. The PlayStation 4 will bet on a minimalist design and will come in a chassis that will include shiny and matte plastics. The PS4 will be based on an eight-core AMD chip with AMD Radeon graphics core that will r...
AMD officially launches FX-9000 series processors
12 June 2013 | PC
The rumored 5 GHz chips by AMD have finally become reality – the US chipmaker has officially unveiled the AMD FX-9000 series line of processors that offer staggering clock speed. Much of the specs are known already – the FX-9000 line consists of two chips – the FX-9370 and FX-9590. Both chips feature eight Piledriver cores, AMD Turbo Core 3.0 technology, support for soc...
AMD confirms 5 GHz processors
11 June 2013 | PC
Advanced Micro Devices has officially confirmed the rumors that the company will release a chip operating at full 5 GHz of clock frequency. According to the latest news surrounding the US chipmaker AMD will soon release two new FX chips that will belong to an entirely new CPU line and will operate at extremely high clock speed. The new AMD FX-9000 series will offer two chips ...
MSI demonstrates AMD-based tablet
7 June 2013 | Tablets
MSI has demonstrated a new Windows 8-based tablet at the on-going Computex 2013. The tablet is known as W20 3M and the interesting thing about this one is that it comes with an AMD processor. The MSI W20 3M offers an 11.6-inch IPS display that works at 1366 x 768 pixels. Apart from the display the new tablet comes with an AMD dual-core A4-1200 Temash APU with AMD Radeon HD 81...
AMD releases desktop Richland APUs
7 June 2013 | PC
The on-going Computex 2013 exhibition has given AMD the opportunity to introduce its long awaited Richland APU family for desktop computers. The new APU family consists of 11 models but unfortunately the chips do not introduce new technologies. Instead they arrive with somewhat higher clock speeds and no architectural improvements. Thus the new desktop Richland family consist...
AMD Kaveri APUs to use FM2+ socket
4 June 2013 | Notebooks
The next generation of AMD APUs codenamed Kaveri will require a new socket that will be known as FM2+ AMD has announced. This is sad news to owners of Trinity and Richland chips, because the new socket will require new motherboards so owners of Trinity and Richland-based systems do not have an upgrade path. The reason for the introduction of the FM2+ socket is rather simple â...
AMD prepares 5 GHz processor
3 June 2013 | PC
Earlier this year rumors around AMD suggested that the chip company is working on the so-called Centurion CPU that will be based on the Vishera core and will run at the staggering 5 GHz stock clock speed. Now it appears that we are one step closer to having such a chip as AMD has designed two new FX lines that may as well reach the stellar speed of 5 GHz. The Swedish website ...
AMD Volcanic Islands info leaked on the Internet
29 May 2013 | PC
Sources close to AMD have leaked unofficial information on the upcoming AMD Radeon Volcanic Islands family. According to this information the new video card line will arrive in Q3 2013 and will consist of four models – the HD 8970 (Curacao XT), HD 8950 (Hainan XT), HD 8870 (Hainan Pro) and HD 8850 (Hainan LE). Here's a quick specs list - the HD 8970 should come with 2304 s...
AMD debuts Opteron X processors
29 May 2013 | PC
AMD has officially presented a new family of server Opteron processors with low energy consumption. The new family is known as Opteron X and its first representatives are said to be the world's most energy efficient processors based on a small x86 compatible core. AMD says the new Opteron X processors beat Intel’s Atom chips in both performance and power consumption while offering features t...
