AMD GPU Roadmap: Capsaicin Names Upcoming Architectures
On March 14 at the Capsaicin event at GDC AMD disclosed their roadmap for GPU architectures through 2018. There were two new names in attendance as…
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AMD Catalyst 15.5 to 15.15 Performance Check – Validating AMD R9 390 Testing
During the course of our review of the new Sapphire Nitro R9 390 8GB card earlier this week, a question came up on driver support. For testing the R9 300-series...
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Sapphire Nitro Radeon R9 390 8GB Review
The new AMD Radeon R9 and R7 300-series of graphics cards are coming into the world with a rocky start. We have seen rumors and speculation about what…
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Live Blog: AMD E3 2015 Press Conference June 16th, 9am PT / 12pm ET
Join us tomorrow to learn all about AMD's plans for the next generation of GPUs! AMD is hosting a live stream of the event at 9am PT / 12pm ET and…
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Podcast #353 – Seiki Pro 4k Display, More News from Computex, and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #353 - 06/11/2015 Join us this week as we discuss the Seiki Pro 4k Display, More News from Computex, and more! You can subscribe to…
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Report: AMD Radeon 300-Series Pricing and GPU Details Leak
Here we go again... Image credit: WCCFtech Even more information has allegedly leaked out ahead of AMD’s official announcement of new 300-series Radeon GPUs, this time from rumor site WCCFtech. This...
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AMD R9 390X Confirmed Hawaii Rebrand via Leaked Box Shot
On the XFX R9 290X Double Dissipation product page something very curious appears when you scroll all the way down to the bottom… What’s this image over here...
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Podcast #325 – Samsung 850 Pro Roundup, MSI’s GTX 760 ITX, 8GB R9 290X and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #325 - 11/06/2014 Join us this week as we discuss our Samsung 850 Pro Roundup, MSI's GTX 760 ITX, 8GB R9 290X and more! You can…
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AMD Gaming Evolved Goes Beyond Earth with Hawaii
Why settle for space, when you can go Beyond Earth too (but only if you go to Hawaii)! The Never Settle promotion launched itself into space a couple of...
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AMD Radeon R9 290X Now Selling at $299
When NVIDIA launched the GTX 980 and GTX 970 last month, it shocked the discrete graphics world. The GTX 970 in particular was an amazing performer and undercut the price...
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Civilization: Beyond Earth Performance: Maxwell vs. Hawaii, DX11 vs. Mantle
Turn-based strategy games have long been defined by the Civilization series. Civ 5 took up hours and hours of the PC Perspective team's non-working hours (and likely…
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AMD Dropping R9 290X to $399, R9 290 to $299
On Saturday while finishing up the writing on our Shadow of Mordor performance story, I noticed something quite interesting. The prices of AMD's flagship Radeon products had all come down...
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MSI Radeon R9 290X Lightning Graphics Card Review
With the GPU landscape mostly settled for 2014, we have the ability to really dig in and evaluate the retail models that continue to pop up from NVIDIA and AMD board…
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PowerColor Teasing Dual GPU Graphics Card With Massive Air Cooler
PowerColor has been teasing a new graphics card on its Facebook page. The photos show a macro shot of the Devil 13 logo along with captions hitting at the new...
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Sapphire Launches Factory Overclocked R9 295X2 OC Graphics Card
Early last month, AMD launched a new flagship dual GPU graphics card called the Radeon R9 295X2. This new card features two Hawaii-based GPUs paired with 8GB of GDDR5 memory. Since the…
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The AMD Radeon R9 295X2 8GB Graphics Card Review
AMD likes to toot its own horn. Just a take a look at the not-so-subtle marketing buildup to the Radeon R9 295X2 dual-Hawaii graphics card, released today. I had
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MSI’s R9 290X GAMING 4G sports a variety of overclocked settings and a Twin Frozr IV
The familiar Twin Frozr IV cooler has been added to the R9 290X GPU on MSI's latest AMD graphics card. The R9 290X GAMING 4G sports 4GB of GDDR5 running at an…
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Using the NZXT Kraken G10 to Watercool a Radeon R9 290
When the Radeon R9 290 and R9 290X first launched last year, they were plagued by issues of overheating and variable clock speeds. We looked at the situation...
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