AMD A10-7860K and A8-7670K Review: The Godavari Refresh
AMD is in a strange position in that there is a lot of excitement about their upcoming Zen architecture, but we are still many months away from that introduction. …
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Tag: Steamroller
AMD Zen Diagram Leaked and Analysis
There are some pretty breathless analysis of a single leaked block diagram that is supposedly from AMD. This is one of the first indications of what the Zen architecture looks like from…
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AMD Announces Carrizo and Carrizo-L SOCs
AMD has certainly gone about doing things in a slightly different manner than we are used to. Today they announced their two latest APUs which will begin shipping in the first half…
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Final Thoughts on AMD’s Core Technology Update Presentation
In my old age I am turning into a bit of a skeptic. It is hard to really blame a guy; we are surrounded by marketing and hype, both from…
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AMD Spills more Kaveri Beans: AMD APU13
The executives at AMD like to break their own NDAs. Then again, they are the ones typically setting these NDA dates, so it isn’t a big deal. It…
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AMD’s Processor Shift: The Future Really is Fusion
There is an inevitable shift coming. Honestly, this has been quite obvious for some time, but it has just taken AMD a bit longer to get here than many have…
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hUMA has come with a weapon to slay the memory latency dragon
AMD may have united GPU and CPU into the APU but one hurdle had remained until now, the the non-uniformity of memory access between the two processors. Today we learned about one…
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AMD Details hUMA: HSA in Action!
Several years back we first heard AMD’s plans on creating a uniform memory architecture which will allow the CPU to share address spaces with the GPU. The promise here…
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Intel’s Broadwell Goes BGA Only: Implications for Future Desktops
The sky is falling. Does this mean that Chicken Little is panicking for no reason or is Chicken Little the Cassandra of our time? It has been widely reported…
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Piledrivers are elegant in comparison to Bulldozers
The FX-8350 Vishera processor from AMD has finally arrived with 8 fully unlocked cores of polished Piledriver processing power. With Piledriver there are no huge changes to the existing Bulldozer architecture, this…
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AMD FX-8350 and FX-6300 Processor Review: Vishera Breaks Cover
Bulldozer is the word. Ok, perhaps it is not “the” word, but it is “a” word. When AMD let that little codename slip some years back, AMD enthusiasts and tech…
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Finally, the real Trinity reviews arrive
The NDA is over and we can finally tell you all about the new generation of Trinity, especially the compute portion which we were not allowed to discuss in the...
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AMD Trinity Review: The A10 5800K and A8 5600K Break Cover
Trinity. Where to start? I find myself asking that question, as the road to this release is somewhat tortuous. Trinity, as a product code name, came around…
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Come on AMD, spill the beans on Steamroller already
You've seen the slides everywhere and read through what Josh could observe and predict from those slides but at the end of Hot Chips will still know little more about...
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Podcast #216 – GTX 660Ti Roundup, AMD Steamroller Details, Multi GPU Graphics Card Rumors and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #216 - 08/30/2012 Join us this week as we talk about our GTX 660Ti Roundup, AMD Steamroller Details, Multi GPU Graphics Card Rumors and more! You can subscribe to...
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AMD Unveils Steamroller Improvements
Ah, the end of August. School is about to start. American college football is about to get underway. Hot Chips is now in full swing. I guess the end of August…
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AMD, Vishera, and Beyond: New Design Philosophy Dictates a Faster Pace
There have been quite a few articles lately about the upcoming Bulldozer refresh from AMD, but a lot of the information that they have posted is…
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AMD Processor and GPU Roadmaps Through 2013
AMD has released an updated roadmap for these next two years, and the information contained within is quite revealing of where AMD is going and…
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