AMD: We're not abandoning socketed CPUs
If you were reading the news last month, you might have noticed those slightly worrying rumors about Intel ditching socketed CPUs in 2014. Intel hasn't sought to confirm or deny the speculation. AMD, however, has now chimed in, saying its plans are quite different.
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Radeon HD 7950 vs. GeForce GTX 660 Ti revisited Ah, it's the eternal battle, the unending duopoly duel: GeForce versus Radeon, Radeon versus GeForce. The skirmishes are ongoing, but the victor is never decided for long. Today, another chapter in the story unfolds. Doesn't seem that long ago, back in August, when the GeForce GTX 660 Ti first hit the scene and squared off against the Radeon HD 7950. That match-up ushered in a new generation of competition among ridiculously powerful video cards at around 300 bucks. Nvidia had the advantage going in, since it was facing off against an already established competitor; it knew what the GTX ... Read more...
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Win8 adoption low among web surfers, Steam gamers Microsoft says it's sold 40 million licenses for Windows 8. However, the new OS made up only 1.3% of web traffic in November according to Web analytics firm StatCounter. That figure is lower than the 4.9% Windows 7 enjoyed one month after its launch. Web stats don't really target early adopters, though; Windows XP made up 26.5% of web traffic in November despite being over a decade old. Gamers tend to be on the cutting edge, and the results of Valve's latest Steam survey provides some insight on how quickly that crowd is adopting Win8. The opt-in survey pegs Windows 8's share at 4.7%, which is higher than that of ... Read more...
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Piledriver trickles down to Opteron 4300 and 3300 CPUs AMD has released a fresh batch of Opteron processors with Piledriver inside. These chips are based on the same "Abu Dhabi" microarchitecture as the Opteron 6300 series that was announced last month. However, the Opteron 4300 and 3300 processors sport fewer cores, less cache, lower prices, and more conservative TDP ratings. Here's how the various model stack up: All of the chips have 8MB of L3 cache. The Opteron 4300 offerings can support up to six DIMMs and 192GB of memory per CPU, while the 3300 series is limited to four ... Read more...
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New Catalysts fix bugs, improve Far Cry 3 performance I don't know if AMD was totally serious when it announced plans to slow down its driver release cycle earlier this year. The company has been churning out incremental updates to its Catalyst 12.11 beta release like there's no tomorrow lately. Radeon users can now grab the Catalyst 12.11 beta 11 release along with a matching 12.11 CAP2 application profile update. All of the goodies of past releases are included, and AMD has added a handful of new bug fixes and Far Cry 3 performance enhancements. According to AMD, Far Cry 3 performance can go up by as much as 25% if you crank up multisampled antialiasing and ambient ... Read more...
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New 3DMark scene has fire, brimstone, particles The folks at Futuremark say they're "deep into final testing" of the next 3DMark, and they've posted a fresh trailer to get us all hyped up. This clip shows a new DirectX 11 scene, dubbed Fire Strike, which 3DMark calls its "most ambitious and technical benchmark ever." Ooh... ... Read more...
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Our dual Radeon HD 7870 giveaway has a winner The winner of our dual Radeon HD 7870 giveaway is Mahmoud Shmaitelly. Mahmoud, check your email and reply to our message to claim your prizes. If we don't hear from you by the end of the week, we'll have to pick a new winner. Everybody else, keep your browsers pointed to ... Read more...
Radeon HD 7950 vs. GeForce GTX 660 Ti revisited Ah, it's the eternal battle, the unending duopoly duel: GeForce versus Radeon, Radeon versus GeForce. The skirmishes are ongoing, but the victor is never decided for long. Today, another chapter in the story unfolds. Doesn't seem that long ago, back in August, when the GeForce GTX 660 Ti first hit the scene and squared off against the Radeon HD 7950. That match-up ushered in a new generation of competition among ridiculously powerful video cards at around 300 bucks. Nvidia had the advantage going in, since it was facing off against an already established competitor; it knew what the GTX ... Read more...
Win8 adoption low among web surfers, Steam gamers Microsoft says it's sold 40 million licenses for Windows 8. However, the new OS made up only 1.3% of web traffic in November according to Web analytics firm StatCounter. That figure is lower than the 4.9% Windows 7 enjoyed one month after its launch. Web stats don't really target early adopters, though; Windows XP made up 26.5% of web traffic in November despite being over a decade old. Gamers tend to be on the cutting edge, and the results of Valve's latest Steam survey provides some insight on how quickly that crowd is adopting Win8. The opt-in survey pegs Windows 8's share at 4.7%, which is higher than that of ... Read more...
Piledriver trickles down to Opteron 4300 and 3300 CPUs AMD has released a fresh batch of Opteron processors with Piledriver inside. These chips are based on the same "Abu Dhabi" microarchitecture as the Opteron 6300 series that was announced last month. However, the Opteron 4300 and 3300 processors sport fewer cores, less cache, lower prices, and more conservative TDP ratings. Here's how the various model stack up: All of the chips have 8MB of L3 cache. The Opteron 4300 offerings can support up to six DIMMs and 192GB of memory per CPU, while the 3300 series is limited to four ... Read more...
New Catalysts fix bugs, improve Far Cry 3 performance I don't know if AMD was totally serious when it announced plans to slow down its driver release cycle earlier this year. The company has been churning out incremental updates to its Catalyst 12.11 beta release like there's no tomorrow lately. Radeon users can now grab the Catalyst 12.11 beta 11 release along with a matching 12.11 CAP2 application profile update. All of the goodies of past releases are included, and AMD has added a handful of new bug fixes and Far Cry 3 performance enhancements. According to AMD, Far Cry 3 performance can go up by as much as 25% if you crank up multisampled antialiasing and ambient ... Read more...
New 3DMark scene has fire, brimstone, particles The folks at Futuremark say they're "deep into final testing" of the next 3DMark, and they've posted a fresh trailer to get us all hyped up. This clip shows a new DirectX 11 scene, dubbed Fire Strike, which 3DMark calls its "most ambitious and technical benchmark ever." Ooh... ... Read more...
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