October 3, 2010
Nvidia has been soaking up all the positive press lately, and with just cause. The GTX 460 has proven itself to be a solid competitor against the midrange AMD 5000 series GPU’s, and the upcoming launch of the new GT 430 will round out a very capable…
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September 27, 2010
Earlier today we brought you the 20 Most Important Moments in the History of ATI–a look back at the history of one of the companies that made gaming hardware what it is today. For this week’s Old School Monday, we thought we’d share a piece of that hi…
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September 27, 2010
It’s the end of an era, folks. In the coming months, AMD will retire the ATI brand, letting the ATI name ride off into the sunset after a remarkable 25-year run, presumably never to be seen again. Don’t mistake that to mean AMD is getting out of the gr…
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September 22, 2010
Nvidia sells the fastest mobile graphics processor you can buy, but notebook manufactures can fit two of AMD’s top modules in in the same space. Eurocom’s X8100 Leopard answers the question: can two Mobility Radeon HD 5870 modules beat a single GTX…
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September 16, 2010
AMD has made available its ATI Catalyst 10.9 software suite, which you can download directly from AMD or access via your Steam account.
There are only a handful of performance improvements in the latest release, including double digit gains in Stalker:…
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September 15, 2010
Driver updates through Steam? Brilliant! AMD agrees and has now begun offering Catalyst graphics drivers through the Steam platform, an idea we’re shocked no one thought of before.
“Steam gamers will never again have to worry about finding the most rec…
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September 10, 2010
Some things are better late than never, and we’ll let you be the judge if this is one of them. For what it’s worth, AMD has made available a hotfix — Catalyst 10.8b — with little benefit for most users. Here’s all that’s listed:
ATI Radeon HD 4870 X…
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September 9, 2010
We did a double take when we saw the ATI label on AMD’s newest professional graphics card, the FirePro V9800. Wait, haven’t you heard? It was our understanding that everyone had heard. Heard what? A-well a bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word. But we…
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