March 8, 2011
Double the GPUs, double the performance, at almost double the price.
AMD’s dual GPU cards have come a long way in the past several years. The original Radeon HD 3870 was noisy, ran hot and didn’t always perform up to snuff. Since then, AMD’s Cata…
Tags: AMD, ATI, double gpus, Features, gpus, hardware, Preview, Radeon HD, videocards
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February 2, 2011
Wait a minute, didn’t AMD take the ATI brand behind the shed and give it the Old Yeller treatment? Sort of. Barring a special edition throwback or a mulligan of sorts, you won’t ever see a new graphics card in the home desktop market carrying an ATI la…
Tags: AMD, ATI, build a pc, firefpro 2270, firepro, firepro v5800 dvi, GPU, graphics, hardware, News Worthy, videocard
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December 27, 2010
The fellas over at TechPowerUp have posted a guide detailing how to mod a Radeon HD 6950 (Cayman Pro) videocard into a Radeon HD 6970 (Cayman XT), both of which are based on the same GPU design. The main difference comes down to the number of shaders -…
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December 14, 2010
AMD tries to play catch-up to Nvidia on performance, but sticks to its efficiency mantra with the new Radeon 6900 series GPUs
When AMD launched the Radeon 6800 series back in October, we suggested that some people might be confused by the naming scheme…
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December 14, 2010
Today AMD released their Radeon HD 6900 series of video cards that use the new Cayman GPU. The Radeon HD 690 series consists of the Radeon HD 6950 and Radeon HD 6970 video cards and we have an in-depth review of them for you today. We also run them …
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November 15, 2010
AMD made it clear that the ATI brand was living on borrowed time, and with the introduction of AMD’s Radeon HD 6800 series, we figured ATI was officially dead. We may have been wrong.
Credit goes to Fudzilla for spotting a page in AMD’s Developer Centr…
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October 21, 2010
The development of PC display technologies over the last 30 years has taken us through many chapters: from IBM, the creator of the IBM PC, pioneering color display technologies (and ceding development to third-parties ATI, 3dfx, and nVidia); to the que…
Tags: 16:10, 16:9, 3D, 3dfx, 4:3, AMD CrossFire X, CGA, CRT, display, EGA, Features, graphics, Hercules, HGC, ibm, lcd, LED backlit, MDA, monitor, nec, sli, Super VGA, vga, white paper, XGA
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October 15, 2010
For those of your running multiple ATI Radeon videocards in a CrossFire configuration, AMD this week posted a new ATI Catalyst Application Profile (10.9a). The update includes CrossFire performance boosts for a handful of titles, including:
DX9
Mulitp…
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