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News – AMD Reveals Vega 20 – World’s First 7nm GPU with 1TB Per Second Memory Bandwidth

AMD revealed the world’s first 7nm GPU yesterday evening during its Next Horizon event in San Francisco. The AMD Radeon Instinct MI60 graphics accelerator utilises a 7nm Vega 20 GPU, the first of its kind. While the Vega 20 GPU is aimed squarely at high-performance computing (HPC) usage, for now, it does provide us with a tantalizing preview of w
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News – AMD Won’t Use DirectX Raytracing Until Even Low-End Radeon GPUs Can Support It

If you’re a tooled-up member of Team Red staring at Nvidia’s RTX ray-tracing capabilities like a green-eyed monster, there’s a spot of bad news for you. AMD senior VP of engineering for Radeon Technologies Group, David Wang, has said AMD will not be implementing DirectX ray tracing into its Radeon graphics cards until all of its GPUs from top to b
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News – AMD CES 2019 Keynote, Watch it Live Here – Zen 2, Navi and 7nm Vega Rumoured

While Nvidia has been hogging the limelight with the RTX 2060 this week, AMD has been waiting patiently in the wings for its own CES 2019 keynote. There’s a lot of big question marks over this AMD keynote which makes it interesting in and of itself. AMD could feasibly announce a ton of new stuff or it could feed us scraps, it’s difficult to say.
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Ryzen 5 3600X 8-Core 4.0GHz News – AMD Ryzen 3000 Series 7nm Zen 2 Processors Leaked, Includes Flagship 16-Core Ryzen 3800X

A Russian retailer appears to have leaked AMD’s upcoming Zen 2-based Ryzen 3000 series desktop processors. Retailer ‘E-Katalog’ has listed a grand total of five Ryzen 3000 CPUs for pre-order, covering Ryzen 5, Ryzen 7, and the top-tier Ryzen 9. It’s now looking extremely likely that AMD is planning some sort of Ryzen 3000 reveal during CES 2019, w
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Radeon RX 590 8GB News – First AMD Radeon RX 590 Benchmarks – Out Tomorrow With RE2, DMC5 and The Division 2 Bundle

AMD has revealed both the official specs plus the first benchmarks for its upcoming AMD Radeon RX 590 graphics card and the results are pleasantly surprising. Specs-wise, the Radeon RX 590 is along the lines of what had been rumoured all along – extremely similar to the Radeon RX 580 that’s already been on the market for over a year. The Rad
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Radeon VII 16GB News – AMD Radeon VII Flagship GPU Revealed. 16GB HBM2, 1TB Memory Bandwidth – First Benchmarks

One of the undoubted highlights of AMD’s CES 2019 showcase was the unveiling of its next high-end graphics card – the Radeon Vega VII. The world’s first 7nm gaming GPU finally puts AMD back in contention for enthusiasts, offering a stonking 16GB of HBM2 and performance which AMD claims to rival that of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2080. “AMD Radeo
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Radeon RX 590 8GB News – AMD RE2, Devil May Cry 5, The Division 2 Bundle Also Available for Vega, RX 580 and RX 570

AMD officially launched its Radeon RX 590 graphics card yesterday, and also unveiled a new AAA game bundle for participating GPUs. At the time we’d assume this just applied to the Radeon RX 590 but AMD is also rolling out new games bundles to any prospective Radeon RX Vega 64, Vega 56, RX 590, RX 580, or RX 570 customers. There are three games up
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