Future Looks-AMD Performance Edition 1600 MHz DDR3 2x4GB Memory Kit Review
The AMD Performance Edition memory kit is the middle child so to speak as AMD will offer three memory kits. One for the entry level user, one for the performance user, and one more suited to enthusiast and overclockers. As noted earlier, AMD’s product is manufactured by US based Patriot Memory LLC. The Performance Edition memory I am testing is DDR3 1600 MHz (PC 12800) with 8-9-8 timing at 1.65V. It has a all black aluminum heat spreader, RoHS Compliant, and designed to work with either Intel or AMD systems. The black aluminum heat spreader is complemented by the all black PCB used for the memory as well.
Guru3D- MSI Radeon HD 7870 TwinFrozr III OC review
MSI releases their Radeon HD 7870 TwinFrozr III OC series, a factory overclocked (50 MHz higher at 1050 MHz) Radeon HD 7870 solution with room for even higher tweaks.
As its name implies the graphics card utilizes MSI’s proprietary TwinFrozr III cooling system that packs 8mm thick nickel-plated copper heatpipes to convey heat drawn directly from the GPU to a large aluminum fin array, ventilated by two 80 mm fans.
PureOC-Sapphire HD 7770 Vapor-X
That's certainly the case today, as the Sapphire HD 7770 Vapor-X hits the shelves. The Vapor-X has long been a popular lineup in Sapphire's product arsenal, and with good reason: Vapor-X cards typically come overclocked and run very cool temperatures. That's a very attractive combination to gamers, but perhaps moreso to the ones on a tighter budget, as the 7770 Vapor-X retails for about $150.
Legit Reviews has tested out a Trinity A10-4600M laptop.
At the end of the day the AMD Trinity APU is an improvement over the Llano APU in pretty much every way possible with the exception of the memory bandwidth. The battery life of our reference design notebook lasted 7-8 hours under light use, which was impressive and is a reflection of the 8.8 Watts of power use that we saw at an idle. AMD has made the Trinity APU very energy efficient and that is great as everyone loves to have long battery life. The AMD Radeon HD 7000 series graphics bring amazing DX11 performance to the mainstream notebook market and really raise the bar with one can expect from a notebook.
Tech Spot has posted performance details for Diablo III with the latest CPUs and GPUs. It shows basically that the CPU doens't matter much, and that you can get away with a budget GPU as well.
We tested 26 graphics card configurations from AMD and Nvidia, which are installed alongside an Intel Core i7-3960X to remove any CPU bottlenecks. The latest official drivers were used for every card.
BSN notes that AMD PR is questioning the availability of Nvidia's Kepler class GPUs.
"With so many product launches happening in the last few weeks, we felt you’d find it useful to have a look at this recap of some of the benefits of our current AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 series graphics products. Both the AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 and AMD Radeon™ HD 7950 graphics cards are available in volume from all major etailers, with plenty of overclocked and AMD Eyefinity Technology designs from our AIBs. The AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 is available for as low as $479, while the AMD Radeon™ HD 7950 is available for as low as $399. We expect to continue to have strong supply on all of our 28nm GPUs going forward. In contrast,both GTX 680 and GTX 690 have not been supplied in any significant volume and continue to be unavailable at major stores like Newegg in the US and Alternate Europe (as of noon, Wednesday May 8th).
BSN discusses AMD's short term future, or in other words later this year, and 2013.
Regarding the server segment, analysts were concerned about ASP erosion. They apparently failed to understand that due to its performance characteristics, Bulldozer had to be priced competitively and couldn't help increase ASPs. Bulldozer-based CPUs now make up over 50% of AMDs server shipments. According to the CEO the company has worked out a strategy that allows them to grow their share without going all out on a low price strategy to capture more share. He especially highlighted the strategic acquisition of SeaMicro that will help them to that end. Of course for now there is no product based on the SeaMicro fabric from AMD, so this can be considered another way of saying "Shhhh move along, there is nothing to see here". But AMDs executives see this more as a long term strategy, so we will see how it plays out in the future.
Here's a list of Trinity reviews that are coming in. Enjoy!
If you think that shiny new Ivy Bridge laptop is the bees knees for playing Diablo III you would be wrong. Legit Reviews shows that an AMD Trinity based laptop
If you want to play Diablo III on a laptop and want the best graphics performance possible without a discrete graphics card, the AMD Trinity APU is your best bet. AMD has been leading when it comes integrated graphics performance for many years and nothing has changed with the latest launch of processors. Now stop reading and get back to playing Diablo III!
The Austin American Statesman details AMD's upcoming Trinity APU.
Su said AMD is going through a cultural change.
"We don't want to be dictated to by what Intel is doing. We shouldn't want to be second-best. That is not that much fun," she said. "We are one of the leading companies in the industry. We have excellent technology. We have the capability to be a leader in where the market is going versus just trying to gain a couple of (market share) points on somebody else.
Anand talks to AMD's Manju Hegde who I talked to years ago at E3 when Ageia was just getting PhysX off of the ground.
That brings us to today. In advance of this year’s AFDS, Manju has agreed to directly answer your questions about heterogeneous compute, where the industry is headed and anything else AMD will be covering at AFDS. Manju has a BS in Electrical Engineering (IIT, Bombay) and a PhD in Computer Information and Control Engineering (UMich, Ann Arbor) so make the questions as tough as you can. He'll be answering them on May 21st so keep the submissions coming.
Get those questions in guys!
Semi Accurate has a story with video of AMD's demo of Leo and GDC.
The GPU compute portion of Leo is fairly simple to explain, as you can see in the video below. Lights are one of the most complex parts of a 3D scene to render properly, and various techniques have evolved to allow complex lighting to, well, basically work. Some work better than others, but most are computationally painful, or have other rather serious drawbacks like deferred rendering.