AMD’s new R-series GPUs may roll out sooner than expected. The high-end R9 280X and the flagship R9 290X are expected to hit shelves by the middle of October, although exact prices remain unknown.
NVIDIA Takes 62% of Discrete GPU Market Share in Q2 2013
The desktop GPU market is in decline, and is now a statistical two-horse race between AMD and NVIDIA, according to a recent report from Jon Peddie Research. The firm’s analysis revealed a 5.4 percent quarterly decline in shipments for the market overall and a 5.2 percent decline over last year. Looking at overall market share, NVIDIA continued to hold the top spot over beleaguered rival AMD in the second quarter, with 62 percent of the add-in GPU market share compared
AMD Gives Gamers Choice with Never Settle Forever Bundle
AMD may have scored a major victory when it secured its placement as the APU supplier for both the Xbox One and the PS4, but the firm has had a tough time when it comes to the high end PC market. The company’s formerly venerable line of Radeon GPUs has lost ground in recent years to high performance offerings from NVIDIA. In response, AMD late last year began to entice GPU shoppers with impressive game bundles. Dubbed the “Never Settle
Ultimate 4K Gaming System Pushes 1.5B Pixels Per Second at 60fps
Microsoft’s Extreme Windows Blog published a post Thursday showcasing a truly extreme gaming PC with three 4K monitors configured for Eyefinity and powered by AMD GPUs. And you can have it now…for the low, low price of around $18,000. Microsoft’s Gavin Gear used three 32-inch Sharp PN-K321 4K Ultra HD monitors, which currently retail for about $5,000 each. These displays support both 30Hz input via HDMI or standard DisplayPort, and 60Hz using Multi Stream Transport (MST), a new standard available
NVIDIA Sets New Price Tiers With GTX 770 at $400
Following last week’s launch of the GTX 780 GPU, many were confused by NVIDIA’s pricing. At $650, the card was situated in an odd price category between the “ultra-end” GTX Titan and GTX 690 at $1,000 and the “high-end” GTX 680 at $450. The 780 performed better than the 680, but not by a consistently high margin, and NVIDIA’s mindset in terms of pricing was called into question. Today, NVIDIA hopes to address those concerns with the launch of the
NVIDIA GTX 780 Brings “Ultra-End” Performance to the High-End
NVIDIA today released its latest GPU, the 3GB GeForce GTX 780, a card based on the GTX Titan’s GK110 with slightly reduced performance and significantly reduced cost. The GTX 780 features 2,304 CUDA cores operating at a base clock of 863 MHz and a boost clock of 900 MHz. The 3GB of memory is clocked at 6008 MHz and the card has a total of 288.4 GB/s memory bandwidth and can push 165.7 GT/s. With a TDP of 250 Watts,
AMD Launches $999 Radeon HD 7990 GPU
AMD released the long-awaited Radeon HD 7990 Wednesday, finally providing an official dual-GPU product in this generation. While ASUS and PowerColor have had their own unofficial 7990 variants on sale for months, today’s release from AMD is the first in-house look at two Tahiti HD 7970-class GPUs on a single PCB. The card features 8.6 billion transistors (4.3 billion per GPU), over 8 teraflops of raw computing power, 6GB of GDDR5 memory, two 8-pin power connectors, and a custom three-fan
Next Xbox Gains AMD x86 CPU, Loses 360 Backward Compatibility
After earlier rumors suggested that Microsoft’s next Xbox will be powered by an AMD GPU, new information Monday points to an AMD CPU as well, opening the door for an advanced integrated offering from the struggling chip maker. According to sources speaking with Bloomberg, Microsoft will use an AMD solution that combines the company’s Jaguar CPU technology with a 7000 series GPU. This closely matches the hardware specifications for Sony’s PlayStation 4, which was announced in late February. Microsoft’s current
Fix Multi-Monitor Gaming Issues with Flawless Widescreen
Multi-monitor gaming can provide a fun and engrossing experience for users willing to purchase an array of displays and at least one high performance GPU. But despite a strong marketing push by GPU firms AMD and NVIDIA, many games still do not display properly by default across multiple monitors. Issues with some games and multi-monitor displays can often be resolved manually by editing the games’ configuration files, and sites such as WidescreenGaming.net exist to guide users through this process. For