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With the rise of the handheld gaming PC market, we've seen PC vendors and their partners toy with a number of tricks and tweaks to improve improve framerates in games, with some of their latest efforts on display at this year's Computex trade show. Perhaps the most interesting find thus far comes from ADATA sub-brand XPG, who is demoing their prototype "Nia" handheld PC, which uses eye tracking and dynamic foveated rendering to further improve their rendering performance. For those unfamiliar, dynamic foveated rendering is a graphics technique that is sometimes used to boost performance in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications by taking advantage of how human vision works. Typically, humans can only perceive detailed imagery in the relatively small central area...
AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition Review
AMD has hardly kept quiet on the CPU front these past several months. At the beginning of the year AMD put the nail in Atom's netbook coffin with the...
79 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/2/2011
AMD Launches Radeon E6760: The Next Embedded Radeon
Lately we’ve been working on expanding our GPU coverage to include more GPUs that aren't directly sold to consumers discretely or as part of a package. Up until now...
28 by Ryan Smith on 5/2/2011
AMD’s Radeon HD 6770 & Radeon HD 6750: The Retail Radeon 5700 Rebadge
We haven’t talked about it beyond a passing comment, but AMD still has some Radeon 6000 series cards that are OEM-only. We are of course referring to the Radeon...
44 by Ryan Smith on 4/28/2011
Nettop and Mini-ITX Buyer’s Guide
Most of our Buyer's Guides focus on full desktop builds, but what about something a little smaller? Perhaps you're looking for an inexpensive yet sufficiently powerful system to function...
101 by Zach Throckmorton on 4/22/2011
AMD’s Radeon HD 6670 & Radeon HD 6570: Two’s Company, Sub-$100’s A Crowd
Two weeks ago we saw the paper launch of the Radeon HD 6450, the low-end member of AMD’s Northern Islands family of GPUs. It was a solid product for...
53 by Ryan Smith on 4/19/2011
AMD's Radeon HD 6450: UVD3 Meets The HTPC
AMD’s Northern Islands family is composed of four GPUs, roughly divided into two categories. At the top is the 6900 series powered by Cayman, AMD’s first VLIW4 GPU. Below...
47 by Ryan Smith on 4/7/2011
AMD's Radeon HD 6790: Coming Up Short At $150
The last couple of weeks after the recent GeForce GTX 550 Ti launch have been more eventful than I had initially been expecting. As you may recall the GTX...
69 by Ryan Smith on 4/5/2011
A Look At Triple-GPU Performance And Multi-GPU Scaling, Part 1
It’s been quite a while since we’ve looked at triple-GPU CrossFire and SLI performance – or for that matter looking at GPU scaling in-depth. While NVIDIA in particular likes...
97 by Ryan Smith on 4/3/2011
Gateway's New Notebooks for the Extreme Budget: 15.6" with AMD Fusion
Gateway announced this past Moday that they're releasing to the market a trio of value-oriented desktop (well, really nettop) replacement notebooks built around AMD's Fusion platform. Brazos has been...
37 by Dustin Sklavos on 3/25/2011
Eurocom Racer: Why the Radeon HD 6970M Rocks
When Eurocom offered to send us their latest Racer notebook, we were mildly intrigued. Then they upped the ante by giving us the chance to put AMD’s latest and...
48 by Jarred Walton on 3/17/2011
More of AMD’s Brazos E-350 with the MSI X370 and Sony VAIO YB
It may have taken some time for AMD’s Fusion to finally arrive, but now it’s here and we’re starting to see a decent number of Brazos laptops. We’ve already...
43 by Jarred Walton & Dustin Sklavos on 3/14/2011
Toshiba Satellite L645D: Mobile AMD at 3GHz
While the drought of Sandy Bridge notebook hardware is thankfully approaching its sweet, merciful end, there are still a healthy amount of AMD-based notebooks on the market at good...
61 by Dustin Sklavos on 3/9/2011
AMD's Radeon HD 6990: The New Single Card King
The AMD Radeon HD 6990, otherwise known as Antilles, is a card we have been expecting for some time now. In what’s become a normal AMD fashion, when they...
132 by Ryan Smith on 3/8/2011
Balancing Power, Price, and Performance in the Server CPU World
Our last comprehensive server and server CPU review focused on some of the best and fastest x86 servers on the market. This time, we focus on more humble servers...
40 by Johan De Gelas on 3/3/2011
HP's Business Notebook Hat Trick
It's fair to say the refreshes HP announced for their consumer computers earlier this month seemed fairly lackluster. While nobody can complain about improved notebook speakers and the triumphant...
47 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/23/2011
Sony EE34: Sony Makes Budget AMD Laptops?
You can't buy it from Sony's website. If you blinked you might have missed the news popping up on a couple of different sites about its existence. If you...
53 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/22/2011
HP dm1z: Taking Fusion on the Road
HP's been on board AMD's ultraportable bandwagon since the chipmaker first shipped the underwhelming Congo platform, and HP continued to produce reasonably compelling not-quite-netbooks with the Athlon/Turion II Neo-equipped...
108 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/21/2011
Dell Zino HD 410 HTPC Review
Dell is one of the leading vendors in the PC market to have a play in the SFF HTPC (small form factor home theater PC) space. In 2009, they...
69 by Ganesh T S on 2/19/2011
Budget System Builder’s Guide February 2011
With the recent launch of Sandy Bridge, we had hoped to put together some Buyers' Guides covering the changes in the market. Unfortunately, with the recall/bug of the 6-series...
58 by Zach Throckmorton on 2/14/2011
Mobility Sector Updates: Waiting for Sandy Bridge and Market Analysis
The past week shook up the whole computer industry with Intel’s announcement that a potential flaw in their Cougar Point chipset required a respin to fix. In the ensuing...
49 by Jarred Walton & Vivek Gowri on 2/7/2011
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