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Tag Archives: GCN

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Charlie Demerjian
Jan 17, 2017

AMD talks about Vega at a high level

CES 2017: Enough teasers to actually get excited about

AMD’s new Vega GPU architecture changes things on two fronts, on die and off.
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Thomas Ryan
May 5, 2016

AMD’s A10-7890K: Socket FM2+’s Final Flagship

AMD Breaks through the Teraflop barrier…

In this review we’ll be comparing AMD’s new 95W APU flagship the A10-7890K to the first socket FM2+ flagship the A10-7850K and its replacement the 65W A10-7860K.
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Thomas Ryan
Mar 3, 2015

AMD Breaks New Ground With the LiquidVR SDK

Solving the performance issues holding virtual reality back…

Today at GDC AMD’s Raja Koduri introduced the LiquidVR SDK aimed at enabling new virtual reality (VR) solutions using AMD’s technologies.
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Thomas Ryan
Sep 19, 2014

Nvidia’s GTX 980 Takes the Triple Crown

Just like SemiAccurate predicted in August…

Today’s the day and Nvidia’s GM204 in the guise of the GTX 980 and GTX 970 is finally here.
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Thomas Ryan
Jan 15, 2014

Why are AMD’s GPUs so good at Mining?

It’s all about the int’s…

The performance gap is a product of AMD’s focus on integer compute performance, and Nvidia’s relative lack of interest in that aspect of GPU performance.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 23, 2013
1

A long look at AMD’s Hawaii and Volcanic Islands architecture

Start with GCN and add lots of goodies in the uncore

AMD is announcing their newest GPU called Hawaii or R9 290X today, say welcome to the Volcanic Islands (VI) Family.
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Leo Yim
Jul 2, 2013

Thunderbolt is sparse at Computex 2013

WWDC 2013: So Intel+Apple introduced Thunderbolt 2.0 just a few days later

During Computex 2013, we came across a Taiwanese company, showing their latest Thunderbolt devices, next to them were some Intel Thunderbolt leaflets, one particular tri-fold “Thunderbolt Technology Product Showcase” leaflet caught our eyes.
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Leo Yim
Aug 26, 2012
6

Two Tahiti GPUs walked into a bar, meets the FirePro sticker…

…the GPUs talked to each other through a bridge…

…stores their short-term memory in many of their memory boxes, they worked out the problem together and they liked each other…

AMD FirePro Logo
Leo Yim
Jun 14, 2012
11

Even more GCN-based FirePro model numbers shows up

Covers all members of the Southern Islands GPU family

AMD just gave a sneak peek for their top-end GCN-based FirePro professional graphics cards on the closing keynote of their AFDS 2012 event.
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Leo Yim
Jun 13, 2012
25

AMD launches first GCN-based professional graphics

6 outputs and 4k display goodness

Consider multi-monitor configurations for commercial applications like digital signage, menus in large fast food chains and airport information displays, to large projection screens for theatres or large tradeshow/exhibition events, with active contents like 3D transitions, video and sound to present to the audiences.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 24, 2012
6

AMD launches mobile HD7000 GPUs

Welcome the new HD7700M, HD7800M, and HD7900M

AMD has finally launched the HD7000M line we told you about last August with three new chips.
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Leo Yim
Apr 24, 2012

GCN-based Radeon HD 7000M series featuring “Enduro”

Levelling the playing field, oh and Windows 7-friendly

28nm GCN-based AMD Radeon HD 7000M series continues AMD’s mission to get some more check marks in terms of feature sets, and compete with NVIDIA offerings.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 4, 2012
46

AMD launches the last two HD7000 cards, HD7870 and HD7850

Filled in the gaps days before the competition start out

Reviews are always made quicker and easier by the utter lack of driver to run the product, so the AMD HD7800 series was a snap.
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Leo Yim
Feb 14, 2012
45

AMD HD7770 Cape Verde with “Verdetrol 1GHz”

You don’t need pills for “extra performance”, just overclock it

AMD is launching its Radeon HD 7700 series discrete GPU today as the world’s first one GHz GPU for the $99 to $199 mainstream market segment.
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Charlie Demerjian
Dec 13, 2011
47

AMD unchains Tahiti Pro cards from day one

Reference designs are for the weak

A few weeks ago, we brought you a few more tidbits on the AMD HD7000 line, and there is one more important bit.
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