While Sony has been dominating console sales, Microsoft has been steadily adding notable new features with tangible benefits to its consoles, bringing both current and future functionality to its ecosystem. The latest feature to join the ranks is the addition of AMD’s FreeSync 2 technology, a variable refresh rate tech that promises to make just about any game on the console look...
A peripheral product Acer today announced that its XR431KC ultra-wide curved monitor with a QHD (3440×1440) panel, zero-frame design, and AMD Freesync support is headed to the United States. That’s a lot of visual goodness packed into a single display. We’ll start with the curved screen, which is quickly becoming popular in the display market. According to Acer, the benefit of having a...
Ultra high resolution display options for gamers Samsung on Monday announced a couple of new 4K (UHD) monitors with AMD FreeSync support. They include the 23.6-inch U24E590D and 28-inch U28E590D. Though they both boast a 4K resolution and AMD FreeSync capabilities, there are some key differences other than just display size. The main difference is panel type — the smaller display uses...
Improvements to be enabled via DX12 and Vulkan APIs Graphics cards are currently “not living up to their full potential,” says AMD, and the company is adamant that the forthcoming DX12 and Vulkan APIs will change that. Specifically, the red team says that these APIs will be able to take advantage of AMD’s asynchronous compute engines (ACE), which are inherent to AMD’s GCN architecture...
There’s a new mobile sheriff in town. Mobile gamers rejoice, for AMD hasn’t forgotten about you. On the contrary, the Sunnyvale chip designer just unveiled its Radeon 8970M, which AMD claims is the fastest laptop GPU on the entire planet. And not only is it smoking fast, it’s also more efficient than previous designs, which means you can expect longer battery life, according to AMD....
Chip maker AMD has accused four former employees, now with Nvidia, of stealing trade secrets and other confidential files and handing them over to its competitor last year. AMD filed suit in Massachusetts claiming that former VP Robert Feldstein and managers Manoo Desai, Nicolas Kociuk and Richard Hagen grabbed an array of documents — including details of upcoming technologies,...
Some of the rumors on the Internets are easier to vet than others. You can tell it's shopped because of the pixels, the claim is completely outrageous, or maybe a PR person is nice enough to come out and say something. Digital Foundry, though, dug up a weird one. A post appeared on the AssemblerGames forums advertising a Durango devkit for the low-low price of $10,000. The Durango is...
If you ask an everyday gamer, he’ll probably tell you the PC graphics market is basically a two-horse race between AMD’s Radeon and Nvidia’s GeForce. Ask a financial analyst and you’ll get a different answer: the beancounters think that the graphics market is less of a race and more of a massacre, with Intel playing the role of Leatherface and Ivy Bridge’s integrated graphics acting as...
Could we be looking at a new PlayStation in time for the 2013 holiday season? Will Sony dump the numbering system for its consoles? It sure looks that way. Sources tell Kotaku that the successor to Sony's PlayStation 3 gaming console is to be named the PlayStation Orbis, and it is going to be released in 2013. Of course, there is no way of telling if Orbis is going to be the console's...
After months of speculation regarding the specifics of Nintendo’s next console, codenamed Project Cafe, we finally have valid proof that a successor to the massively-successful Wii does exist. Most consoles and handhelds have some sort of working nickname while in development. Wii was infamously called “Revolution.” GameCube was known as “Dolphin” for many months. Nintendo’s next...