Upgrading Ain’t Easy, Stick With An RX 580 Or Buy An RX 5600 XT
The RX 580 was released three years ago at an MSRP of $199, the RX 5600 XT (new BIOS or not) is supposed to be $279 and thankfully remains...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 6, 2020 | General Tech | 11
The RX 580 was released three years ago at an MSRP of $199, the RX 5600 XT (new BIOS or not) is supposed to be $279 and thankfully remains...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Nov 15, 2018 | Graphics Cards | 2
AMD released an interesting update to the RX 580 today, the aptly named RX 590. It sports the same internals as the current card, with one significant difference which are the clocks. …
Read Moreby Ken Addison | Nov 15, 2018 | Graphics Cards | 27
While 2018 so far has contained lots of talk about graphics cards, and new GPU architectures, little of this talk has been revolving around AMD. After having launched their long-awaited Vega GPUs…
Read Moreby Josh Walrath | Oct 25, 2018 | Editorial | 3
This evening AMD announced their Q3 2018 results. Things were at the lower end of the guidance scale from last quarter, but the company still had some solid results. Q3…
Read Moreby Josh Walrath | Jul 26, 2018 | Editorial | 14
Today AMD has released their Q2 results for 2018 and they have fallen in line with previous estimates. The company reported revenue of $1.76B, up $110M from last quarter’s $1.65B. Their net…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 3, 2018 | General Tech | 12
The rumour around the 'net today concerns AMD's new generation of GPUs, the 12nm Polaris 30 update and the 7nm Navi chip. If these rumours are correct, we will see Polaris before…
Read Moreby Josh Walrath | Apr 26, 2018 | Processors | 3
Today AMD announced their latest financial results for Q1 2018. We expected it to be a good quarter with their guidance earlier this year, but I doubt many thought it would be…
Read Moreby Ryan Shrout | Apr 9, 2018 | Graphics Cards, Processors | 26
Over the weekend, some interesting information has surfaced surrounding the new Kaby Lake-G hardware from Intel. A product that is officially called the “8th Generation Intel Core Processors with Radeon RX Vega…
Read Moreby Tim Verry | Mar 29, 2018 | Graphics Cards | 8
ASRock, a company known mostly for its motherboards that was formerly an Asus sub-brand but is now an independent company owned by Pegatron since 2010 is now getting into the graphics card…
Read Moreby Josh Walrath | Jan 31, 2018 | Editorial | 24
January 30th has rolled around and AMD released their Q4 2017 results. The results were positive and somewhat unexpected. I have been curious how the company fared and…
Read MoreAcer is showing off a new 15.6" gaming laptop at CES using both AMD's Ryzen Mobile processors and RX 560 discrete graphics cards. The Acer Nitro 5 is a stylized gaming notebook…
Read Moreby Josh Walrath | Nov 9, 2017 | Editorial, Graphics Cards | 75
Last night we first received word that Raja had resigned from AMD (during a sabbatical) after they had launched Vega. The initial statement was that Raja would come back to…
Read Moreby Josh Walrath | Nov 6, 2017 | Processors | 132
In what is probably considered one of the worst kept secrets in the industry, Intel has announced a new CPU line for the mobile market that integrates AMD’s Radeon graphics. For the…
Read Moreby Ken Addison | Jul 10, 2017 | General Tech, Graphics Cards | 21
There has been a lot of news lately about the release of Cryptocurrency-specific graphics cards from both NVIDIA and AMD add-in board partners. While we covered the currently cryptomining phenomenon...
Read Moreby Ryan Shrout | May 17, 2017 | Graphics Cards | 47
Testing commissioned by AMD. This means that AMD paid us for our time, but had no say in the results or presentation of them. Earlier this…
Read Moreby Tim Verry | Apr 25, 2017 | Graphics Cards | 2
Earlier this month Sapphire announced a new budget-oriented series of graphics cards it calls PULSE. The new series slides in below the premium Nitro+ series to offer cheaper graphics cards...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 24, 2017 | Graphics Cards | 1
Phoronix have had a chance to test out the refreshed Polaris RX 580 on the Linux 4.11 kernel and Mesa 17.1-devel, initially the AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 driver update was not included thanks to…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 18, 2017 | Graphics Cards | 6
Ryan covered the improvements over the previous Polaris based cards the RX 580 offers, a higher Rated Clock and standardizing memory frequency of all RX 580 models to 8GHz. That...
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