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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 Enduro Beta, Take Three!
We've been discussing AMD's Enduro 5.5 update for a few months now; when last we checked in, everything was almost in place...everything except fully optimized DX9 support. A little...
35 by Jarred Walton on 11/27/2012Radeon HD 7850 Prices Fall Again
Update 10/07: AMD sent us a clarification this morning stating that they were not the ones responsible for the recent reduction in 7850 prices, bur rather that it was...
52 by Ryan Smith on 10/5/2012
Fall Budget System Buyer's Guide
Most of the systems I build for friends and clients are destined to spend their days performing basic computing tasks like checking email and Facebook accounts, shopping for shoes...
39 by Zach Throckmorton on 9/1/2012
PowerColor Announces Their Custom Devil13 HD7990 Dual-GPU Video Card
While AMD’s official Radeon HD 7990 (New Zealand) continues to be missing in action, we’ve known for some time now that PowerColor has been working on their own custom...
15 by Ryan Smith on 8/27/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series Price Cuts, New Game Bundle Inbound
In another quick shift in the hyper-competitive performance video card market, AMD sends word this afternoon that they are enacting some price cuts that will be taking effect later...
120 by Ryan Smith on 8/20/2012
AMD Announces New, Higher Clocked Radeon HD 7950 with Boost
August is not typically a busy time of the year for the GPU industry. But this is quickly turning out to be anything but a normal August. Between professional...
58 by Ryan Smith on 8/14/2012
AMD Discontinues Monthly Driver Updates, Releases Catalyst 12.6 Beta
The last month or so has been one of transition for AMD’s Catalyst driver crew. Alongside the launch of AMD’s Trinity APU – complete with what’s only AMD’s 2nd...
77 by Ryan Smith on 6/1/2012
AMD Releases Catalyst 12.3 Drivers, Adds 7800 Series Support
AMD has released the latest version of its Catalyst graphics driver package for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, and 7. This version of the drivers introduces...
25 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/29/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7870 Launch Recap
It has been a couple of weeks since we reviewed the Radeon HD 7800 series, but as we mentioned earlier this week and in our 7850 recap, that was...
7 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/24/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7850 Launch Recap
It has been weeks since we reviewed AMD's Radeon HD 7870 and 7850 cards, but unlike the 7900 and 7700 series cards, the 7800 series was given the typical...
14 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/24/2012
AMD Radeon 7770 Launch Recap
We got off pretty easily with our 7750 launch recap earlier today - with only three cards, it was pretty simple to compare and contrast them and be done...
9 by Andrew Cunningham on 2/20/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7750 Launch Recap
Unlike some of our launch recaps (including the 7770 recap article, which covers a whopping ten cards and should come later today), we have only a handful of cards...
20 by Andrew Cunningham on 2/20/2012
Sony Vaio Z2: Everything is Peripheral
Users who want everything out of their notebook, no matter how ridiculous the demands, are probably more than at least a little curious about Sony's VAIO Z2. There's good...
88 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/13/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7950 Launch Recap
I'm going to be honest with you: the Radeon HD 7970 launch recap was pretty boring, with its wall-to-wall stock coolers and stock clocks. Like many high-end GPU launches...
16 by Andrew Cunningham on 1/31/2012
The Radeon HD 7970 Reprise: PCIe Bandwidth, Overclocking, & The State Of Anti-Aliasing
With the release of AMD’s Radeon HD 7970 it’s clear that AMD has once again regained the single-GPU performance crown. But while the 7970’s place in the current GPU...
47 by Ryan Smith on 1/27/2012
XFX’s Radeon HD 7970 Black Edition Double Dissipation: The First Semi-Custom 7970
Traditionally the launch of a next-generation high-end video card has been a staggered process. In the name of getting cards out as soon as possible the first cards are...
94 by Ryan Smith on 1/9/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7970 Now For Sale
Although they're not officially supposed to go on sale until tomorrow, Newegg already has their selection of 7970s up for sale this evening. Newegg has cards from all of...
12 by Ryan Smith on 1/8/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7970 Review: 28nm And Graphics Core Next, Together As One
At AMD’s Fusion Developer Summit 2011 AMD announced Graphics Core Next, their next-generation GPU architecture. GCN would be AMD’s Fermi moment, where AMD got serious about GPU computing and...
292 by Ryan Smith on 12/22/2011
AMD's Graphics Core Next Preview: AMD's New GPU, Architected For Compute
Update: This article was originally posted on June 17, 2011. We are pushing it back up to the top as a quick refresher before upcoming articles... We’ve just returned from...
83 by Ryan Smith on 12/21/2011
AMD Releases Catalyst 11.11 Drivers
AMD yesterday released its 11.11 Catalyst driver package, not three weeks after last month's 11.10 release. As usual, supported operating systems include 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7, Windows Vista...
21 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/19/2011
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