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AMD's Llano Fusion - A Series APUs
By Kyle Bennett June 14, 2011While we have seen previous Fusion APUs, today AMD releases its code named "Llano" Fusion A Series APU processor on the world. The first one of these we get to see is in a notebook and a mere 228 square millimeter of silicon that AMD is counting on changing its balance sheet.
A Sneak Peek at AMD's First Fusion APU
By Kyle Bennett November 09, 2010We got our hands on a working Fusion APU at AMD's Austin campus last week. While embargo restricts us from giving you solid benchmark numbers today, we can relate "high level impressions" about the system to you.
AMD’s Bulldozer and Bobcat Processors Preview
By Kyle Bennett August 23, 2010AMD is starting to talk about its new Bulldozer and Bobcat processors. Today we have some notes on the new processors that will interest you as well as give you a peek under the heatspreader. Not a full blown look, but just a glimpse of what is to come, hopefully.
AMD's ATI Catalyst 10.3a Driver Performance
By Brent Justice March 18, 2010AMD’s new "performance" driver is out in the form of the non-WHQL Catalyst 10.3a. This driver provides performance improvements compared to 10.2 WHQL. We run apples-to-apples test in the latest games to see just how much faster it is in real-world gaming environments.
AMD's ATI 10.3a Catalyst Driver Update
By Kyle Bennett March 15, 2010AMD is putting out a new "performance" driver that sports some very aggressive frame rate increases according to AMD. The new "10.3a" driver will soon be released to the enthusiast with a WHQL driver coming in shortly behind that. Interestingly enough, the non-WHQL will have a couple more tweaks than the WHQL version. Let's give you the details.
AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5830 Review
By Brent Justice February 25, 2010This is the video card gamers have been waiting for, an answer to the gap that exists between the Radeon HD 5770 and Radeon HD 5850 has been delivered. The Radeon HD 5830 launches today, and it offers price and performance right in-between these two video cards. If you are looking for a great value, this is it.
AMD's ATI Catalyst 10.2 and 10.3 Preview
By Brent Justice February 17, 2010AMD’s ATI Catalyst 10.2 and Catalyst 10.3 are receiving many improvements that directly benefit the gameplay experience. CrossFireX profiling system has been completely re-worked, Bezel Compensation is in play, and several other features have been added. If you are an ATI Eyefinity gamer, Bezel Compensation will take the experience one step further.
AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5570 Video Card Review
By Brent Justice February 09, 2010Today, AMD is launching the Radeon HD 5570. At $75-85 MSRP, the Radeon HD 5570 sits in-between the Radeon HD 5450 and Radeon HD 5670. The question on the table is, what is its value when the Radeon HD 5670 sits close in price? We’ll bring this question to bare, and show you our gameplay experiences, and provide our opinions on the value of this video card.
AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5450 Video Card Review
By Brent Justice February 04, 2010AMD's lowest-end discrete GPU to support DX11 is being launched today at $49-$59 MSRP, the ATI Radeon HD 5450. We will give you all the official information on this new video card, plus some power and temperature testing and a simple apples-to-apples DX11 game test using DiRT 2.
AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5670 Review
By Brent Justice January 14, 2010AMD brings DX11 down to the sub-$100 level today with the launch of the ATI Radeon HD 5670. This new video card marks DX11’s entrance into the low-end realm, but does it have the performance needed to use the special DX11 features like Tessellation in games? We run this video card through its paces and use DiRT 2 to find this out. We also compare to the GeForce GT 240 and Radeon HD 5750.
AMD's ATI Radeon Eyefinity Performance Review
By Brent Justice January 05, 2010We’ve covered AMD’s ATI Radeon Eyefinity in terms of the experience provided, and now we will evaluate how Eyefinity actually performs across the entire line of ATI Radeon HD 5000 series video cards. From the Radeon HD 5970 down to the Radeon HD 5750, we review the performance of Eyefinity in some new games and some old.
AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5850 Video Card Review
By Brent Justice September 30, 2009The ATI Radeon HD 5850 is launching today! It is based on the same 5800 architecture as the HD 5870. We aim to find out how it compares to an HD 5870 in single GPU and 5850 CrossFireX configurations. The ATI Radeon HD 5850 is bringing with it an incredible PC gaming value.
AMD's ATI Eyefinity Technology Review
By Kyle Bennett September 28, 2009Multi-display gaming is nothing new to gaming enthusiast but it has been something that was not easily attained. AMD has changed that by delivering Eyefinity Technology will all of is next generation GPUs that are currently being introduced to consumers. Eyefinity delivers great performance on the Radeon HD 5870 video card.
AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5870 Video Card Review
By Brent Justice September 22, 2009AMD’s ATI Radeon HD 5800 series debuts today and the new ATI Radeon HD 5870 is now available. We will give you all the gritty details of the HD 5800 Series, and show you just how well the new flagship ATI Radeon HD 5870 accelerates games. Can you say, “I like twice as much performance in the same power envelope.”
AMD's ATI Radeon HD 4870 with 1GB of GDDR5
By Brent Justice October 08, 2008AMD’s brand new ATI Radeon HD 4870 with 1GB of GDDR5 RAM is on the chopping block today. We throw two brand new games at it; Crysis: Warhead and Stalker: Clear Sky. We will directly compare the new 1GB Radeon HD 4870 to a 512MB Radeon HD 4870 and the newer GeForce GTX 260 video cards.
AMD's ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series Custom Filtering AA
By Brent Justice July 20, 2008AMD’s new ATI Radeon HD 4800 series provides shader powered antialiasing features! We examine in-game IQ and AA scaling. We’ve got all the information on using the Edge-detect Custom Filtering AA and what it will do for you in-game. If you are not sure how to best leverage your new 4870 or 4850 video cards, we show you how.
AMD's ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2
By Brent Justice January 28, 2008One of the more anticipated video cards of this year is finally here, AMD is launching the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2. What will two 3870 GPUs on one board do for you in gaming? We are going to find out exactly that in Crysis, UT3, COD 4 and HL2.
AMD's ATI Hybrid CrossFire Sneak Peek Exclusive
By Kyle Bennett December 13, 2007Can you run CrossFire with only one video card? AMD shows us that they have it working and were confident enough to even let us sit down and play some games and run benchmarks on their new ATI Hybrid CrossFire system. CrossFire gaming for the masses?
AMD's Direction and Next-Gen Bulldozer Revealed
By Kyle Bennett July 26, 2007AMD CTOs chime in this morning on what exactly is AMD's plan for the future. In that we see AMD's next generation desktop and server parts revealed - the BULLDOZER. Along with that, M-SPACE, BOBCAT, and FALCON FUSION Family.
AMD's Griffin Processor & Puma Mobile Platform
By Kyle Bennett May 18, 2007We got the skinny on the upcoming Griffin Mobile platform that will be offered by AMD in the future. While Griffin is not truly an enthusiast body of work, these slides do contain some very forward looking information.
AMD's New Socket AM2 CPU
By Kyle Bennett May 23, 2006Even though AMD is today launching a new processor, we are actually not getting a new processor at all. [H] Enthusiast gives the information you need to know about the AMD's new socket AM2 CPUs.
AMD's Barton @ 3000+
By Kyle Bennett February 10, 2003AMD has a new flagship CPU that is launched today and it seems to be not just on paper. Let's find out what punch the Barton packs compared to the Pentium 4 3GHz and its older brother the Thoroughbred.
AMD's AthlonXP 1800+ Review
By Kyle Bennett October 09, 2001The long wait is over and the CPU that many of us having been saving our pennies for is here and ready for action. How much action? Let's just say that if a CPU could make your Momma proud, this one just might be it.