The most complex processor in the semiconductor history will reportedly have 7.1 billion transistors and will be complemented by up to an amazing 24 GB of GDDR5 video memory. Nvidia’s Co-Founder and CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang recently confirmed that the GK110 will actually have just a “little” bit more than 7 billion transistors. That’s 100...
AMD’s soon to become available Radeon HD 7970 graphics card seems to be a beast of an overclocker as recently two enthusiasts have managed to increase the card’s GPU clock from the standard 925MHz, to an impressive 1700MHz. The graphics card, which was provided by Asus, reached this 83% GPU overclock by being cooled...
Just a couple of weeks ago, we learned about AMD’s plans to introduce a new six-core processors based on the Bulldozer architecture, the FX-6200, and now it appears that this new CPU was made official by the Sunnyvale-based chip maker who has listed the new SKU on its website. Donanim Haber has spotted the...
It seems like AMD’s Phenom brand is not yet ready to pass into oblivion, as it now seems like the chip maker is preparing a new series of eight-core CPUs that will use this moniker. The chips have popped up in the support list of some Jetway and ECS motherboards , and according to...
Soon after the introduction of the Radeon HD 7970 and HD 7950, AMD will release the now mandatory dual-GPU Radeon HD 7990 graphics card which makes use of the company’s just introduced Tahiti GPU based on the Graphics Core Next architecture. The HD 7990 will arrive by the end of the first quarter of...
Just a few more hours are left until AMD makes official the Radeon HD 7970, but for those of you not wanting to wait for the first reviews of the card to arrive you can now check out AMD’s own benchmarks for this GPU, which were just recently leaked on the Web. The results...
We already talked about AMD’s upcoming A8-3870K and A6-3670K Llano APUs in several articles published earlier this month, but now AMD has made the existence, as well as the specifications of these unlocked chips, official. Both of these APUs were recently added by the Sunnyvale-based company to its product database, where the processors were...
One by one, AMD’s slides from the company’s media deck for the Radeon HD 7900 make their appearance, and the latest of these focus on the energy-efficiency achieved by this cards.This time too, the slides have originated from Donanim Haber, and they go to show AMD’s advancement into adopting new fabrication nodes as well...
Microsoft’s recent patch for AMD Bulldozer processors was expected to bring a significant performance boost to CPUs using this architecture, but early tests seem to suggest that in most cases the “fix” doesn’t deliver any benefits to systems using it. Soon after the patch was announced, SweClockers has started testing it to see how...
Even though Bulldozer has proven be to a disappointment for many, AMD isn’t going to let this architecture go and until the end of this year will release another FX-series CPU into the market, dubbed the FX-6200. Just as its name implies, AMD’s upcoming processor will feature three Bulldozer modules for a total of...
