Radeon
Among the slew of announcements from AMD today around their 2022 Financial Analyst Day, the company offering an update to their client GPU (RDNA) roadmap. Like the company’s Zen CPU architecture roadmap, AMD has been keeping a 2 year horizon here, essentially showing what’s out, what’s about to come out, and what’s going to be coming out in a year or two. Meaning that today’s update gives us our first glace at what will follow RDNA 3, which itself was announced back in 2020. With AMD riding a wave of success with their current RDNA 2 architecture products (the Radeon RX 6000 family), the company is looking to keep up that momentum as they shift towards the launch of products based on their forthcoming RDNA...
AMD's Radeon HD 6790: Coming Up Short At $150
The last couple of weeks after the recent GeForce GTX 550 Ti launch have been more eventful than I had initially been expecting. As you may recall the GTX...
69 by Ryan Smith on 4/5/2011Eurocom Racer: Why the Radeon HD 6970M Rocks
When Eurocom offered to send us their latest Racer notebook, we were mildly intrigued. Then they upped the ante by giving us the chance to put AMD’s latest and...
48 by Jarred Walton on 3/17/2011Toshiba Satellite L645D: Mobile AMD at 3GHz
While the drought of Sandy Bridge notebook hardware is thankfully approaching its sweet, merciful end, there are still a healthy amount of AMD-based notebooks on the market at good...
61 by Dustin Sklavos on 3/9/2011AMD Teases Radeon HD 6990
AMD just sent over a bunch of shots of an upcoming product that we may or may not be presently benchmarking: the Radeon HD 6990. Check out the gallery...
62 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/1/2011HP's Business Notebook Hat Trick
It's fair to say the refreshes HP announced for their consumer computers earlier this month seemed fairly lackluster. While nobody can complain about improved notebook speakers and the triumphant...
47 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/23/2011Puget Systems Serenity SPCR Edition: Blissful Silence
We've had the opportunity to look at a few custom builds from different boutiques so far. While most have generally been well-rounded builds using cherry picked off-the-shelf parts and...
139 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/10/2011AMD’s GTX 560 Ti Counter-Offensive: Radeon HD 6950 1GB & XFX’s Radeon HD 6870 Black Edition
Today was originally supposed to be about the newly released GeForce GTX 560 Ti – NVIDIA’s new GF114-based $250 video card. Much as was the case with the launch...
111 by Ryan Smith on 1/25/2011HP Envy 17: HP's MacBook Pro Killer?
You demanded them, we listened, and finally some fruit fell from HP's tree. We have an Envy 14 in house getting tested right now, and today we bring you...
85 by Dustin Sklavos on 12/16/2010AMD's Radeon HD 6970 & Radeon HD 6950: Paving The Future For AMD
In 2009 AMD launched the highly successful Radeon HD 5800 series to great fanfare and even greater shortages. With a 6 month lead on NVIDIA, AMD had the high-end...
168 by Ryan Smith on 12/15/2010ASUS X72D/K72DR: Three Cores, No Waiting
Up to this point, our experiences with AMD's Phenom II mobile line haven't been very favorable. In the desktop world AMD's chips can compete and succeed based on price...
38 by Dustin Sklavos on 10/25/2010AMD’s Radeon HD 6870 & 6850: Renewing Competition in the Mid-Range Market
All things considered, the Radeon HD 5000 series has gone very well for AMD. When they launched it just over a year ago, they beat NVIDIA to the punch...
205 by Ryan Smith on 10/21/2010New Acer Aspire TimelineX Laptops
Acer is launching a series of new notebooks in their Aspire TimelineX range boasting mobile form factors, Intel Arrandale processors, and up to 8 hours of battery life. These...
44 by Balraj Sandhu on 9/27/2010Toshiba Satellite A660D-ST2G01: AMD's Quad-Core Phenom II P920 Joins the Mobile Party
We've looked at AMD's slightly older Tigris platform in the form of their M300 and M600 processors. While performance of those parts was better than previous AMD designs, Intel...
33 by Jarred Walton on 8/31/2010Farewell to ATI, AMD to Retire the ATI Brand Later this Year
Four years ago AMD did the unthinkable: it announced the 5.4 billion dollar acquisition of ATI in a combination of cash and stock. What followed was a handful of...
84 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/30/2010Dell Studio 17: When Gaming Isn't Enough
Usually when we get to the 17"-class notebooks here, we're dealing with machines designed almost exclusively for gaming. The problem is that these machines also tend to be prohibitively...
41 by Dustin Sklavos on 8/26/2010Quick Look: PowerColor’s Radeon HD 5770 PCS+ Vortex Edition
With the recent rise in the number of triple-slot cards, we have a few different cards in-house that we’re going to be looking at over the next few weeks...
28 by Ryan Smith on 8/25/2010Dell Studio 14: Defining Solid
With the back to school season in full swing now, manufacturers are all competing for a slice of a particularly delicious pie: college students. This is a group of...
53 by Dustin Sklavos on 8/19/2010Good From the Factory? The Dell Studio XPS 7100
The tricked-out Dell Studio XPS 7100 is an interesting beast. It lacks any overclocking extras and exotic cooling, but it comes priced to move. Packing AMD's latest hex-core Phenom...
69 by Dustin Sklavos on 7/7/2010MSI GX640: $1100 for a Speedy DX11 Laptop
Finding a reasonable gaming laptop without spending a ton of money can be difficult; finding one with DX11 support and high quality components for $1100? That's just being greedy...
28 by Jarred Walton on 6/13/2010ASUS G73Jh: Today's Top Gaming Laptop
ASUS has made it a goal to increase their retail presence in the mobile market. With their successful Eee PC and UL series, they cover the netbook and entry-level...
72 by Jarred Walton on 4/17/2010