It seems that the wide release of GeForce GTX Titan graphics cards has really shaken the people at AMD because the recent announcement of the upcoming Radeon HD 7790 graphics card has been followed by a new report that claims AMD will soon introduce a dual-GPU video card that currently goes under the codename Malta. The upcoming dual-GPU card will be the continuation of the widely rumo...
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AMD plans Radeon HD 7790 video card
21 February 2013 | PC
A few days ago the launch of the GeForce GTX Titan prompted AMD to announce the upcoming release of a number of new Southern Islands graphics cards scheduled for release later this year. It seems the US chipmaker will keep its promise – in order to compete against NVIDIA’s increasing pressure and counter the delay of its Sea Islands GPU family (Radeon HD 8000 series) AMD will soon ...
AMD plans new Radeon HD 7000-series graphics cards this year
19 February 2013 | PC
The ailing chip company AMD has announced the upcoming release of a number of new Radeon HD 7000-series graphics cards expected to hit the market in H1 2013. This move likely comes due to intense pressure from NVIDIA which today launched the GeForce GTX Titan - a new single-GPU high-end graphics card that is about 50 per cent faster than its previous single-GPU champion – the GeForce...
AMD to launch X4 4410 and X2 3450 Kabini APUs this June
18 February 2013 | PC
AMD’s Kabini APUs are scheduled to appear later this year and while most of the specs and APU models have already become known two more Kabini models have surfaced up – the AMD X4 4410 and AMD X2 3450. Scheduled to appear in June of this year the X4 4410 will have four computational cores and AMD Radeon HD 8310G graphics. While clock speeds are unknown the CPU will lie within 15 wa...
AMD Richland benchmark results available
13 February 2013 | PC
AMD’s Richland APUs should arrive on March 19 but growing interest in the chips has prompted the hardware web site OBR-Hardware to find Richland APUs and conduct some preliminary testing. Of course the results are not official but still they give us a pretty good idea what to expect from Richland next month. Richland boasts several key improvements when compared to Trinity, which inc...
AMD delays Sea Islands until the end of 2013
11 February 2013 | PC
Much to the dissatisfaction of gamers AMD has officially announced that it will release the next generation of graphics processing units, codenamed Sea Islands, sometime in Q4 2013. Until this time period the company will rely on its current 7th generation Radeon HD graphics cards. Despite the current performance advantage NVIDIA has over AMD and the upcoming arrival of the 3D graphics...
Apple to update Mac Pro line this spring
8 February 2013 | MAC PC
According to sources close to Apple, the US tech giant will soon introduce an updated line of its high-end Mac Pro desktop computers. The update will solve several important problems for Apple – first, the current generation of Mac Pro computers does not meet European regulations and hence cannot be sold in the European Union; second - it features outdated processors and video cards and ...
Sony’s PlayStation 4 may be more expensive than expected
8 February 2013 | Featured, PS4
A recent price analysis of the upcoming PlayStation 4 gaming console has revealed that the highly-anticipated Sony product may turn out to be much more expensive than previously expected, much to the dismay of gamers. The reason is pretty trivial, yet it is not clearly visible to almost everyone out there. The reason for the expected high initial price of USD 399—USD 499 is the antic...
AMD launches Athlon II X2 280 processor
6 February 2013 | PC
Despite the recent launch of the latest and greatest Vishera core for its AMD FX processors, the US chip maker has introduced a new budget-oriented chip based on the K10 architecture – the Athlon II X2 280. The new chip keeps all the peculiarities of its predecessors – namely two x86-64 cores, 2 MB of L2 cache memory (1 MB of L2 cache per core, not shared) and an integrat...
AMD bundles graphics cards with games in “Never Settle: Reloaded”
4 February 2013 | PC, PC gaming
In case you are looking for a graphics card update AMD may have a sweet deal for you – the US company has continued its “Never Settle” campaign into 2013 albeit under a different name that goes by “Never Settle: Reloaded”. “AMD knows gaming and in 2013 we plan to make a huge mark on the industry. Today we begin that journey by showing the world that the best PC game develop...
PlayStation 4 may be released on February 20
1 February 2013 | PS4
Sony Corporation has sent out mysterious invitations that encourage Sony’s fans to come “see the future” on February 20. There’s no information whatsoever on the PlayStation 4 but it seems that on this day the next generation console will see the light of day after all. The PlayStation 4 should be based on an eight-core system-on-chip with eight AMD Jaguar cores as well as AMD ...
