Vega
As AMD is now well into their third generation of RDNA architecture GPUs, the sun has been slowly setting on AMD’s remaining Graphics Core Next (GCN) designs, better known by the architecture names of Polaris and Vega. In recent weeks the company dropped support for those GPU architectures in their open source Vulkan Linux driver, AMDVLK, and now we have confirmation that the company is slowly winding down support for these architectures in their Windows drivers as well. Under AMD’s extended driver support schedule for Polaris and Vega, the drivers for these architectures will no longer be kept at feature parity with the RDNA architectures. And while AMD will continue to support Polaris and Vega for some time to come, that support is being reduced...
Apple Starts iMac Pro Sales on Dec. 14: 8/10-Core Models At Launch, 14/18-Core Models Due in 2018
Apple has announced that sales of its previously announced iMac Pro all-in-one workstations will start on Thursday, December 14. On that day, the company is expected to make its...
76 by Anton Shilov on 12/13/2017
EKWB Launches EK Fluid Gaming A240R Kit: Full-Cover Vega GPU Cooling & Supremacy AX CPU Block
EKWB is launching a new liquid cooling kit designed to support AMD Radeon RX Vega based video cards, which the company is dubbing the EK Fluid Gaming A240R kit...
5 by Joe Shields on 12/7/2017
Gigabyte Unveils Radeon RX Vega 64 Gaming OC Windforce 2X, To Release RX Vega 56 Version Soon
Adding on to the recent slew of custom RX Vega announcements, last week Gigabyte announced the Radeon RX Vega 64 Gaming OC 8G, featuring their dual-fan Windforce cooling system...
9 by Nate Oh on 12/7/2017
XFX to Release Custom Radeon RX Vega 56 and Radeon RX Vega 64 Double Edition Cards
XFX has quietly introduced its first new custom Radeon RX Vega 56 and RX Vega 64 video card designs. The custom Radeon RX Vega Double Edition graphics adapters from...
22 by Anton Shilov on 11/28/2017
Ryzen Mobile Now On Sale: HP’s ENVY X360
The biggest question when AMD formally launched its Ryzen Mobile platform was all about ‘when’. At the time AMD announced three primary partners and three systems, with the aim...
65 by Ian Cutress on 11/14/2017
AMD Releases Radeon Pro Software Enterprise Driver 17.Q4 WHQL: Unified Vega Pro Driver
Last Thursday, the fourth Thursday of Q4, AMD has released Radeon Pro Software Enterprise Driver 17.Q4 WHQL, one year after AMD launched the Enterprise Driver program with 16.Q4. 17.Q4...
1 by Nate Oh on 10/30/2017
Now (and Almost) Shipping: Radeon Pro WX 9100 and SSG, with New Vega Pro Drivers
Last week, AMD quietly announced the availability of the Radeon Pro WX 9100 and Radeon Pro Solid State Graphics (SSG), the former card shipping now and the latter shipping...
15 by Nate Oh on 10/26/2017
HP Announces ENVY x360 15 With Ryzen Mobile
As part of the launch for the new Ryzen Mobile platform from AMD, HP is today announcing a refresh of their HP ENVY x360 15-inch laptop which features the...
43 by Brett Howse on 10/26/2017
Ryzen Mobile is Launched: AMD APUs for Laptops, with Vega and Updated Zen
The final piece of AMD’s return to high-performance computing is in laptops. While Ryzen, Threadripper, and EPYC have used the 8-core Zeppelin building block for their products, the laptop...
141 by Ian Cutress on 10/26/2017
GlobalFoundries Adds 12LP Process for Mainstream and Automotive Chips; AMD Planning 12LP CPUs & GPUs
GlobalFoundries on Wednesday announced its new 12LP (leading performance) fabrication process. The new manufacturing technology was designed to increase transistor density and improve frequency potential compared to GlobalFoundries’ current-gen...
32 by Anton Shilov on 9/21/2017
The AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 & RX Vega 56 Review: Vega Burning Bright
We’ve seen the architecture. We’ve seen the teasers. We’ve seen the Frontier. And we’ve seen the specifications. Now the end game for AMD’s Radeon RX Vega release is finally...
215 by Ryan Smith & Nate Oh on 8/14/2017
AMD Announces Radeon Pro Software for Vega: Crimson ReLive Edition Vega Pro
Update (7/31/17): The original version of this article incorrectly stated that AMD had released this software update. Radeon Pro Software Crimson ReLive Edition for Vega-based Radeon Professional Graphics is...
11 by Nate Oh on 7/31/2017
Radeon RX Vega Unveiled: AMD Announces $499 RX Vega 64 & $399 RX Vega 56, Launching August 14th
At this point, one must give credit to AMD for their marketing program for the Radeon RX Vega. The company has opted to drip feed information over many months...
162 by Ryan Smith on 7/30/2017
Spotted: AMD's Radeon RX Vega, Air & Liquid Cooled
In a very brief update this evening, as part of their trickle marketing campaign, AMD has allowed us to release photos of two of their upcoming Radeon RX Vega...
48 by Ryan Smith on 7/29/2017
AMD Announces Q2 2017 Results: Ryzen Makes An Impact
This afternoon, AMD announced their second quarter results for their fiscal year 2017, and the news is promising. AMD still has some work to do in order to get...
60 by Brett Howse on 7/25/2017
Samsung Increases Production Volumes of 8 GB HBM2 Chips Due to Growing Demand
Samsung on Tuesday announced that it is increasing production volumes of its 8 GB, 8-Hi HBM2 DRAM stacks due to growing demand. In the coming months the company’s 8...
34 by Anton Shilov on 7/19/2017
AMD’s Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Formally Launches: Air Cooled For $999, Liquid Cooled for $1499
After what appears to be a very unusual false start, AMD has now formally launched their new Radeon Vega Frontier Edition card. First announced back in mid-May, the unusual...
68 by Ryan Smith on 6/27/2017
AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Retail Listings Appear: Cards at $1199 and $1799
Eagerly anticipated for later this month is the launch of AMD’s first wave of Radeon Vega cards, the first-run workstation/early adopter-focused Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. To date, AMD has...
61 by Ryan Smith on 6/16/2017
AMD Vega Updates: Vega Frontier Edition Available June 27th, Vega RX to be launched at SIGGRAPH at end of July
With Computex in full swing this week, AMD’s press conference just wrapped up for the morning. While the bulk of the news in the conference was on AMD’s CPU...
23 by Ryan Smith on 5/30/2017
Computex 2017: AMD Press Event Live Blog
AMD is having a press conference here in Taipei for Computex 2017. We plan to get as near to the action as possible - come back at 10am Taiwan...
31 by Ian Cutress on 5/30/2017
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