AMD Releases App SDK 3.0 with OpenCL 2.0
Apart from manufacturers with a heavy first-party focus, such as Apple and Nintendo, hardware is useless without developer support. In this case, AMD has updated their App SDK...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 31, 2015 | Graphics Cards, Processors | 7
Apart from manufacturers with a heavy first-party focus, such as Apple and Nintendo, hardware is useless without developer support. In this case, AMD has updated their App SDK...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 27, 2015 | Graphics Cards | 20
While GeForce Hotfix driver 355.80 is not certified, or even beta, I know that a lot of our readers have issues with SLI in Windows 10. Especially in games like Battlefield…
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 25, 2015 | General Tech | 3
Triple-A games with a long shelf life, regardless of how pretty they are, will probably get a graphics mod on the PC. A ridiculous number of them exist for Skyrim and Grand…
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 25, 2015 | Systems | 13
Sony's PC manufacturing division, VAIO, was spun out and sold off to Japan Industrial Partners last year. In the process, it shrunk down to about 250 employees and exited every...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 20, 2015 | Displays, Graphics Cards | 19
DisplayPort Adaptive-Sync is a VESA standard, pushed by AMD, that allows input signals to control when a monitor refreshes. A normal monitor redraws on a defined interval because old CRT monitors needed…
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 19, 2015 | General Tech | 8
While just the first episode has been released, The iBook Guy is creating a series of videos that explains the limitations of “oldschool” graphics. When you have just a handful of kilobytes…
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 19, 2015 | General Tech | 6
As CD Projekt Red promised before the game launched, The Witcher 3 received mod tools last week. This was done in partnership with Nexus Mods, allowing users to install and configure…
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 19, 2015 | General Tech | 14
Almost exactly a month ago, Windows 10 Build 10240 was released to both Fast and Slow. This build served as the milestone for an everyperson's operating system, and it gave OEMs something…
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 10, 2015 | Editorial, Graphics Cards | 21
Mantle, Vulkan, and DirectX 12 all claim to reduce overhead and provide a staggering increase in “draw calls”. As mentioned in the previous editorial,...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 10, 2015 | Graphics Cards, Mobile, Processors, Shows and Expos | 2
When the Khronos Group announced Vulkan at GDC, they mentioned that the API is coming this year, and that this date is intended to under promise and over deliver....
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 8, 2015 | Processors | 39
PC Watch, a Japanese computer hardware website, acquired at least one Skylake i7-6700K and removed the heatspreader. With access to the bare die, they took some photos and tested a...
Read MorePosted by Scott Michaud | Aug 7, 2015 | General Tech | 2
MOBAs tend to be focus on gameplay mechanics with three to five players per team. The concept is that a handful of players will need to balance between the various attack paths,…
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