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For gaming PCs that push the pretty pixels on the screens, the video card is the most important component. And given the sheer amount of custom options, choosing the right graphics card for your budget can be very difficult. In our Video Cards for Gaming guides, we give you our recommendations in terms of GPU models and current prices representative of an affordable non-blower custom card. Our guide targets common gaming resolutions at system-build price points similar to our CPU guides.
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson 16.6.2 Drivers
AMD has now brought us their latest card in the Radeon RX 480. With new cards comes new drivers. We are also getting fixes and a list of new...
4 by Daniel Williams on 6/30/2016ASUS Reveals Their New RX 480 GPU Design
After a lengthy tease from AMD we are finally seeing the new AMD Radeon RX 480 roll out. As we saw in our preview the card successfully makes leaps...
33 by Daniel Williams on 6/30/2016The AMD Radeon RX 480 Preview: Polaris Makes Its Mainstream Mark
Back in December of last year, AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group began slowly trickling out the plans for what would be their first GPU architecture built for the now-modern FinFET...
449 by Ryan Smith on 6/29/2016AMD Teases Future Radeon RX 470 & Radeon RX 460 Cards
With the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo once again upon us, this week has been a flood of gaming hardware and software news. On the PC front, AMD is once...
105 by Ryan Smith on 6/13/2016AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.6.1
Here we are with AMD's next driver update, Radeon Sofware Crimson Edition 16.6.1. This brings the driver version to 16.20.1025. With the changes that come along with the update...
20 by Daniel Williams on 6/7/2016AMD Teases Radeon RX 480: Launching June 29th For $199
Kicking off at this moment is AMD’s Computex 2016 keynote. The company has multiple announcements scheduled this evening, but we’re going to jump right into an area that has...
377 by Ryan Smith on 5/31/2016AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.3
New technologies come along, new games release, things break, and developers fix them. As this cycle continues we are brought to this latest update from AMD which gives us...
10 by Daniel Williams on 5/24/2016AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.4.2 Hotfix
With a couple of weeks since their last driver release, AMD has handed us another update. Alongside a list of fixes, and a focus on a narrow set of...
5 by Daniel Williams on 4/26/2016AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.4.1 Hotfix - Game Ready Support for Quantum Break
Another week another driver release, at least that feels like the way of it now. While some of AMD’s driver releases lately have been light on features and fixes...
12 by Daniel Williams on 4/5/2016AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3.1 Hotfix
Following last week's release of Radeon Software 16.3 Hotfix, AMD is back again with a quick update to their driver set, bringing it to 16.3.1 Hotfix. The list of resolved...
7 by Daniel Williams on 3/18/2016AMD Unveils GPU Architecture Roadmap: After Polaris Comes Vega
Although AMD’s GDC 2016 “Capsaicin” event was primarily focused on game development – it is the Game Developers Conference, after all – AMD did spend a brief moment discussing...
54 by Ryan Smith on 3/15/2016AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3 Hotfix: Support for Vulkan and TB3 Enclosures
With the driver update floodgates not closing yet, we are given a massive update from AMD that brings Radeon Software Crimson Edition to version 16.3 (driver version 16.15). Incoming...
18 by Daniel Williams on 3/10/2016AMD To Showcase Latest Innovations at “Capsaicin” Press Event & Webcast
Capsaicin, whether you call it the essence of flavor or the distillation of pain (ed: it's the latter), at its core capsaicin is what drives everything we call spicy...
47 by Daniel Williams on 3/8/2016AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson 16.2 Drivers
It didn't take long at all, but AMD has come in with another driver update full of performance enhancements, compatibility fixes, and bug fixes. With continued efforts on their...
16 by Daniel Williams on 2/25/2016AMD Releases Crimson 16.1 Hotfix Drivers
This week AMD has pushed out their first video driver release of the year, Crimson 16.1 Hotfix. Between this latest hotfix and their previous Crimson update, AMD is making...
35 by Daniel Williams on 1/12/2016AMD Cuts Price of Radeon R9 Nano to $499
Word comes from AMD via a press release this morning that they are giving the Radeon R9 Nano a price cut. AMD’s diminutive flagship, which launched in September 2015...
74 by Ryan Smith on 1/11/2016AMD Reveals Polaris GPU Architecture: 4th Gen GCN to Arrive In Mid-2016
For much of the last month we have been discussing bits and pieces of AMD’s GPU plans for 2016. As part of the Radeon Technology Group’s formation last year...
153 by Ryan Smith on 1/4/2016AMD Releases Crimson 15.12 WHQL Drivers
Just last month we saw the release of AMDs new Radeon Software Crimson Edition. This release included the brand new Radeon Settings and promised a new commitment to more...
33 by Daniel Williams on 12/18/2015AMD's 2016 Linux Driver Plans & GPUOpen Family of Dev Tools: Investing In Open Source
Earlier this month AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group held an event to brief the press of their plans for 2016. Part of a larger shift for RTG as they work...
49 by Ryan Smith on 12/15/2015