AMD unveils CPUs, mobile GPUs at CES 2023
The new product reveals in a condensed summary from Dr. Lisa Su’s keynote address.
AMD ‘in hot water’?
Some RX 7900 XTXs have an attitude problem.
AMD introduces its flagship add-in board from the new line of RDNA 3-based graphics cards
The RX 7900 XTX delivers more than a 40% performance gain over the previous generation.
Back to the future—full-circle on GPU construction
AMD and Intel have been leading with the adoption of chiplets for GPUs. Nvidia recently published another paper on how they plan to do it. The era of monster chips may be over. AMD will also migrate their APUs to chiplets with GPU and CPU separated. That is ironic. Part of the motivation of Hector Ruiz and Dave Orton for … Read more
Back to the future—full-circle on GPU construction
We went from small chips to larger ones, to multi-chip, and then gigantic chips, and now back to a cluster of smaller ones, smaller chips with tiny process nodes.
Q4’21 sees a nominal rise in GPU and PC shipments quarter-to-quarter
The PC GPU market shipments increased by 0.8% sequentially from last quarter and decreased by -15% year-to-year.
AMD backfills workstation lineup with the Radeon Pro W6400 and W6300 Pro graphics boards
AMD is all about the sweet spot, and the company’s latest entries into the workstation market are aimed at a good-sized market: mainstream CAD. As promised in an enigmatic Twitter promo, AMD has rolled out new boards in its Radeon Pro W6000 workstation series targeting CAD designers, engineers, and creatives. The new products include the new Radeon Pro W6400 graphics … Read more
Back 4 Blood—a shooter’s shooter
Non-stop team play dash through zombie land
AMD introduces its next mainstream card based on RDNA 2
The RX 6600 is targeted at the 1080P gaming.
Q2 GPU shipments soar year-to-year
The PC GPU market shipments increased by 3.4% sequentially from last quarter and increased by 37% year-to-year.
Chernobylite
Somewhere between Stalker and FO76
Famous Graphics Chips: ATI’s Radeon 8500
The Radeon 8500 AIB launched by ATI in August 2001 used a 150-nm manufacturing process, for its R200 (codename, Chaplin) GPU. The AIB worked with DirectX 8.1 and OpenGL 1.3 APIs. The R200 introduced several new and enhanced features, but the most noteworthy was the ATI TruForm feature. TruForm was a Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP) block developed by ATI (now AMD) … Read more