AMD Unleashes Special Catalyst Driver for Windows 8 Consumer Preview |
Along with the release of Windows 8 Preview, AMD also rolls out its special Catalyst Driver for Windows 8 Consumer Preview.
A8-3870K Pushed Memory Overclocking to 1868.3MHz |
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The play recently used A8-3870K APU pushed the memory frequency to 1868.3MHz (DDR3-3736), which is 68MHz higher than previous record (1800MHz).
AMD Rolls out FX-6200 and FX-4170 Processors |
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AMD has officially launched two new FX series processors——hexa-core FX-6200 and quad-core FX-4170. They are all based on 32nm manufacturing process, features Socket AM3+, 125W TDP as well as 8MB L3 cache.
AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series to Launch at CeBIT 2012 |
There once rumored that HD 7800 series graphics cards will arrive in March 1st, however, the latest information revealed that they will arrive at CeBIT 2012 (between March 6th and March 10th).
AMD Three New FX-series CPUs to Arrive in Q1 |
AMD will announce three new FX-series CPUs in Q1, the three models are FX-8140, FX-6120 and FX-4150, according to the report from Donanimhaber.
AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series Specifications Surfaced |
Along with the release of Cape Verde based HD 7770/HD 7750, AMD gradually accelerates the step to introduce its new products based on 28nm GCN architecture. It’s predicted that HD 7800 series graphics cards will arrive in March.
AMD Radeon HD 7800 Coming in March, while NVIDIA Kepler in April |
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According to the report from Digitimes, NVIDIA is going to launch Kepler in April, while AMD’s Radeon HD 7800 series performance GPUs will arrive in the first half of March.
AMD Catalyst 12.2 Pre-Certified Driver Available |
AMD has released its Catalyst 12.2 Pre-Certified Driver, the new driver supports Radeon HD 7700 series, while WHQL version will be posted in late February or very early March 2012.
NVIDIA Prepares GeForce GTX 560 SE against HD 7770 |
As we know, AMD earlier has released HD 7770/7750 graphics cards based on Cape Verde core, which come with decent performance in power consumption, however, in order to be against HD 7770, NVIDIA is said to prepare for its GTX 560 SE.
AMD Announced Radeon HD 7700 Series Graphics Cards |
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AMD finally launches its Radeon HD 7700 series graphics cards——Radeon HD 7770 and Radeon HD 7750. The cards are based on GCN architecture and 28nm manufacturing process, targeting mainstream middle-end market.
AMD Radeon HD 7770 3DMark 11 Performance Surfaced |
We have just seen the GPU-Z screenshot of Radeon HD 7770 graphics card, now its 3DMark 11 Performance was surfaced in VR-Zone website.
Radeon HD 7770 Specs Revealed in GPU-Z Screenshot |
After the release of GPU-Z v0.5.9, the specs of HD 7770 were revealed in GPU-Z screenshot, showing that the card features 640 stream processors, totaling 10 CUs, 40 texture units, and 16ROPs, which is consistent with the report from 3Dcenter.
AMD 2012 CPU and APU Roadmap Unearthed |
AMD 2012 CPU roadmap (Click to enlarge)
Donanimhaber recently let out AMD 2012 CPU roadmap, revealing that the company will release its Trinity APU and FX-x300 high-end processors based on Piledriver architecture.
The Story between Voltage and Power Consumption in HD 7970 |
MSI R7970 graphics card
This test is related with the review of HD 7950, as we changed test platform when doing power consumption test, so we had to retest it. At that time, though frequency and performance of HD 7950 is close to that of HD 7970, but the former featured much lower power consumption. In spite of four CUs disabled, it’s impossible to get such a big change, what happened with it?
Radeon HD 7700 Series Specifications Revealed |
We have known something about Verdetrol 1GHz pills sent by AMD, while now the specifications of HD 7700 and HD 7750 are revealed in 3Dcenter. In compliance with our previous report, the code name for new GPU is Cape Verde, and HD 7770 features 1GHz core clock speed.
