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Deals of the week: IPS displays, graphics cards, storage, and games
— 5:14 PM on May 17, 2013

We've gathered a pretty nice selection of deals this week. We've got a heavily discounted 23" IPS monitor, a Radeon that's on sale and bundled...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Storage Displays

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Which game is the new champ of PC visuals?
— 2:12 PM on May 17, 2013

If you've seen the latest round of games, you'll know what I mean when I say that we've clearly entered a new era in PC...

Poll Question: • What's the best-looking PC game?

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Gaming

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AMD expands Crysis 3, Tomb Raider availability in Never Settle bundle
— 11:08 AM on May 15, 2013

AMD's game bundling deals keep getting more and more tantalizing. Last month, the company added Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon to the mix. Now,...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Gaming

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AMD claims fastest mobile GPU crown with Radeon HD 8970M
— 10:31 AM on May 15, 2013

Late last year, when the Radeon HD 8000M series was announced, AMD alluded to upcoming, higher-end offerings that would be out later in 2013....

Type: News story Tags: Graphics

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Nvidia's cool human head demo now available to download
— 9:19 AM on May 13, 2013

At Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference in March, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveiled the "Digital Ira" demo: an impressively realistic real-time simulation of a human head,...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Gaming

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Nvidia beats Street forecast with modest revenue, margin growth
— 4:44 PM on May 9, 2013

Ah. Nothing to occupy one's Thursday afternoon like a new round of financial results. This time, it's Nvidia who's reported earnings for the first quarter...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Mobile computing

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Passive cooling silences PowerColor's SCS3 Radeon HD 7850
— 9:42 AM on May 9, 2013

PowerColor has developed a new spin on AMD's Radeon HD 7850 graphics card. The simply named SCS3 HD7850 has stock clock speeds and 1GB...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Cooling

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Rumor: Existing GPUs may power GeForce GTX 760 Ti, 770, 780
— 9:10 AM on May 6, 2013

Expecting a new generation of GPUs from Nvidia soon? Well, don't hold your breath. Fuad Abazovic over at Fudzilla says he's gleaned some details about...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics

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Release roundup: Mobo audio, bay adapters, and superclocked Titans
— 5:15 PM on May 2, 2013

This week in our look at miscellaneous tidbits and announcements, we bring you fresh news from ASRock, Cougar, Noctua, Scythe, and Zotac: ...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Motherboards Power Cooling Storage

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AMD says frame pacing beta driver due in June/July timeframe
— 6:00 AM on May 2, 2013

Earlier this week, we showed you how microstuttering taints the appeal of AMD's latest Radeon HD 7990 graphics card. We also saw a...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics

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Intel dubs Haswell IGP 'Iris,' promises 2-3X performance increase
— 10:23 PM on May 1, 2013

So long, Intel HD Graphics! Well, kind of. At a press event earlier today, Intel revealed that the faster variants of Haswell's integrated GPU will...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics

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Radeon buyers may get Blood Dragon codes up to a week late
— 3:21 PM on April 30, 2013

Earlier this month, AMD added Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon to its Never Settle Reloaded game bundle. The addition is retroactive, which means that...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Gaming

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Deal of the week: Graphics cards, IPS displays, and more
— 5:17 PM on April 26, 2013

This week's deal post is all about eye candy—or, rather, graphics cards and monitors. Some mid-range Radeons have gotten quite a bit cheaper since our

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Displays

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PS4 architect discusses console's custom AMD processor
— 11:55 AM on April 26, 2013

Since February, we've known that Sony's upcoming PlayStation 4 console will have a "supercharged PC architecture" based on a custom AMD processor with GCN-derived...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Game consoles

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New PhysX fluid simulation demos are impressive
— 4:52 PM on April 25, 2013

Games have included basic object physics for years, but real-time fluid simulations have remained elusive. Sure, we've seen some tech demos of tentative approaches,...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Gaming

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AMD releases Catalyst 13.5 beta, 13.4 WHQL graphics drivers
— 4:38 PM on April 24, 2013

AMD has released two new sets of graphics drivers, both of which support the latest Radeon HD 7790 and Radeon HD 7990 graphics cards. The...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Software

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Etc.
— 10:59 AM on April 24, 2013

Hey, guys. This post is almost too painful to write, but yes, I am indeed working on a Radeon HD 7990 review. And...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics The Tech Report

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Haswell to have Intel-built embedded DRAM for graphics
— 5:30 PM on April 23, 2013

We've known for some time—through unofficial sources—that some of Intel's next-generation Haswell processors will have dedicated graphics memory on the CPU package. What we...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Memory

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