There was a reason that I was excited about AMD/ATi releasing the Catalyst 8.3 drivers yesterday - and that's because I had (waiting in the wings) a dual-GPU Sapphire Radeon 3870 X2 dual GPU graphics card which I wanted to fit into my main system along with a Radeon 3870 using CrossfireX Quad technology.
AMD has conformed that its next-generation Radeon HD 4800 GPU series will feature Graphics Double Data Rate version 5 (GDDR5) memory.
From July, the price of an Intel quad-core Q6600 processor will fall to $266.
A $180 Core 2 Duo E6400 CPU can outperform an AMD Athlon FX-62 (which costs $1,059). Not only that, but it thrashes the Intel Extreme Edition 965 too. At that end of the Conroe scale, the performance differences are small (but not when you factor in the price), but take it to the other end of the scale, the Core 2 Extreme X6800 has everything eating it's dust.
Microsoft is embarking on what I believe to be its biggest challenge yet ... the end of the road for the x86 architecture.
Great AMD hardware to give away!
Your wait for AMD Threadripper Ryzen chips is over.
For almost a decade AMD has yielded ground to Intel when it comes to processors, but the new Ryzen 7 chips change all that.
Moore's law has remained relevant for over half a century, but evidence is mounting to suggest that it is coming to an end. What will the end of Moore's law mean to the tech industry?
The parts you need to build a budget PC for under $360 built around AMD excellent A8 Llano APU (Accelerated Processing Unit).