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...
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Tag: Polaris
Hey Fatboy, way to take on that GTX 1060!
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. …
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The AMD RX 590 Review – Featuring XFX!
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…
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AMD Releases Q3 2018 Financial Results
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…
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AMD Announces Q2 2018 Results
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…
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AMD’s North Star might arrive in time to top Christmas trees around the world
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…
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AMD Announces Q1 2018 Results
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…
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Is the GPU in Intel Kaby Lake-G More Polaris than Vega?
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…
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ASRock Enters Graphics Card Market With Phantom Gaming Series of AMD GPUs
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…
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AMD Reports Stronger Than Expected Q4 Earnings
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…
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CES 2018: Acer Unleashes Nitro 5 Gaming Laptop Powered By Ryzen Mobile
Acer 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…
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Raja Koduri Leaves AMD and Joins Intel to Build Discrete Graphics
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…
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Intel Announces New CPUs Integrating AMD Radeon Graphics
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…
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A Quick Look at the SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 470 Mining Edition
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...
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AMD Radeon RX 580: Prey You’ll Upgrade
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…
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Sapphire Launches New Pulse Series of Graphics Cards
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...
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The RX 580 on Linux, locked stock and overclock
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…
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Teaching an old star new tricks, the Radeon RX 580
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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