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AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 technology package introduced a plethora of enhancements to the FSR technology on Radeon RX 6000 and 7000-series graphics cards last September. But perfection has no limits, so this week, the company is rolling out its FSR 3.1 technology, which improves upscaling quality, decouples frame generation from AMD's upscaling, and makes it easier for developers to work with FSR. Arguably, AMD's FSR 3.1's primary enhancement is its improved temporal upscaling image quality: compared to FSR 2.2, the image flickers less at rest and no longer ghosts when in movement. This is a significant improvement, as flickering and ghosting artifacts are particularly annoying. Meanwhile, FSR 3.1 has to be implemented by the game developer itself, and the first title to support this...
AMD Launches Radeon R9 380X: Full-Featured Tonga at $229 for the Holidays
Back in September of 2014 AMD released their first Graphics Core Next 1.2 GPU, Tonga, which was the GPU at the heart of the Radeon R9 285. For all...
52 by Ryan Smith on 11/19/2015
AMD Launches Star Wars Battlefront Game Bundle For Radeon R9 Fury
Buying new graphics cards is always fun. Finding game deals while shopping for new graphics cards is even better. This time around AMD is bundling the newly released Star...
9 by Daniel Williams on 11/19/2015
AMD Releases Catalyst 15.11.1 Beta Drivers
With AMD continuing to deliver beta driver updates left and right lately, today they come to us with another update. Another one of AMD’s point driver updates, Catalyst 15.11.1...
19 by Daniel Williams on 11/17/2015
AMD Announces Radeon Crimson Driver Branding & New Settings Control Panel
It was just under two months ago that AMD announced the major restructuring of their graphics division, which would see the graphics division made whole once again, more than...
88 by Ryan Smith on 11/2/2015
GeForce + Radeon: Previewing DirectX 12 Multi-Adapter with Ashes of the Singularity
Today we'll be taking an initial look into the unorthodox multi-GPU capabilities of DirectX 12. Developer Oxide Games, who is responsible for the popular Star Swarm demo we looked...
180 by Ryan Smith on 10/26/2015
AMD Releases Catalyst 15.10 Beta Drivers
In a manner that appears it may be building momentum, AMD has released another new driver update. As this is a point driver release the changes aren't immense, but...
45 by Daniel Williams on 10/14/2015
AMD Announces FirePro Mobile W7170M, W5170M, & W5130M
In what’s turning out to be a busy week for mobile workstation announcements, AMD is announcing this week that they are launching three new FirePro Mobile parts. This latest...
12 by Ryan Smith on 10/2/2015
AMD Releases Catalyst 15.9.1 Beta Drivers
In a rare episode for AMD we get to see a second beta driver release in the same week. Earlier this week (Tuesday September 29th) AMD had released their...
11 by Daniel Williams on 10/2/2015
AMD Updates Embedded Radeon GPU Line, Releases Radeon E8950, E8870, & E6465
Given the long-term nature of AMD’s embedded graphics business, updates to the Embedded Radeon lineup of discrete video cards are fewer and farther between for AMD. But in turn...
7 by Ryan Smith on 10/1/2015
Update: AMD Releases Catalyst 15.9 Beta Drivers
Today AMD has released AMD Catalyst 15.9 Beta as their latest driver update, with display driver version 15.201.1151. This driver provides optimizations for the upcoming Star Wars: Battlefront Beta...
28 by Daniel Williams on 9/29/2015
The AMD Radeon R9 Nano Review: The Power of Size
While there never really was an era where video cards were small, the focus on size and power efficiency over the last couple of years feels a bit like...
284 by Ryan Smith on 9/10/2015
AMD Reorganizes Graphics Division - Radeon Whole Once More, Led By Raja Koduri
It was a bit over nine years ago when AMD announced that they would acquire ATI, the Canadian graphics firm, developer of Radeon GPUs, and constant competitor to NVIDIA...
72 by Ryan Smith on 9/9/2015
AMD Quietly Releases Radeon R9 370X, China-Only For Now
Back in June when AMD launched the Radeon 300 series, AMD made the unusual move of only releasing refresh SKUs for around half of their products. While the 390...
26 by Ryan Smith on 8/28/2015
AMD Announces Radeon R9 Nano; mini-ITX Card Shipping September 10th
Back in June at AMD’s R9 Fury X/Fiji GPU launch event, the company unveiled that there would be four products based on Fiji. Fury X and Fury – which...
95 by Ryan Smith on 8/27/2015
The AMD Radeon R9 Fury Review, Feat. Sapphire & ASUS
A bit over two weeks ago AMD launched their new flagship video card, the Radeon R9 Fury X. Based on the company’s new Fiji GPU, the R9 Fury X...
288 by Ryan Smith on 7/10/2015
On Radeon R9 Fury X Pump Noise & Replacements
On a meta note this evening, over the last week I have received a number of questions about last week’s Radeon R9 Fury X review. Several of these questions...
47 by Ryan Smith on 7/9/2015
AMD Releases Catalyst 15.7 WHQL Drivers: Crossfire Freesync, Win10 Support, & More
After a brief detour for AMD’s driver team where they diverged their drivers for the Radeon 300 series and R9 Fury X launch, AMD has reunified their drivers with...
68 by Ryan Smith on 7/8/2015
The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Review: Aiming For the Top
Having launched last week and being reviewed today is AMD’s Radeon R9 Fury X, the company’s new flagship single-GPU video card. Featuring a fully enabled Fiji GPU, the R9...
458 by Ryan Smith on 7/2/2015
AMD Launches Retail Radeon 300 Series: A Prelude To Fury
Earlier this week AMD held their 2015 GPU product showcase, dubbed “The New Era of PC Gaming.” As the latest stage in AMD’s master plan, AMD held a public...
290 by Ryan Smith on 6/18/2015
AMD Shows Off Dual-GPU Fiji Card At PC Gaming Show
Briefly announced and discussed during AMD’s 2015 GPU product presentation yesterday morning was AMD’s forthcoming dual Fiji video card. The near-obligatory counterpart to the just-announced Radeon R9 Fury X...
133 by Ryan Smith on 6/17/2015
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