Yesterday, we informed you about the missing DX12 features of NVIDIA’s Maxwell. A lot of people criticized the green team, however it appears that there is more to this story than meets the eye. After all, AMD’s Robert Hallock revealed that FuryX is also missing a number of DX12 features. Continue reading AMD: “There’s no such thing as “full support” for DX12 today”, Lists Missing DX12 Features For FuryX
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AMD Catalyst 15.8 Beta Driver Available – Sports Performance Improvements For Batman: Arkham Knight
AMD has released a new beta driver for its graphics cards. According to the red team, the AMD Catalyst 15.8 Beta Driver comes with performance improvements for both Batman: Arkham Knight and Ashes of the Singularity. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 15.8 Beta Driver Available – Sports Performance Improvements For Batman: Arkham Knight
AMD’s DirectX 12 Advantage Explained – GCN Architecture More Friendly To Parallelism Than Maxwell
Since the release of Ashes of the Singularity, a lot of controversy surrounded AMD’s spectacular results over NVIDIA’s underwhelming ones. Was this DX12 benchmark gimped in order to run faster on AMD’s hardware? Apparently not as Overclock.net‘s member ‘Mahigan’ shed some light on why there are so dramatic differences between AMD’s and NVIDIA’s results. Continue reading AMD’s DirectX 12 Advantage Explained – GCN Architecture More Friendly To Parallelism Than Maxwell
AMD/NVIDIA Market-Share Graph Shows NVIDIA Conquering, 4 Out of 5 PC Gamers Own an NVIDIA GPU
It appears that the gap between NVIDIA and AMD widens as more and more fans are equipping their PC systems with NVIDIA’s GPUs, despite the fact that AMD has recently released a brand new GPU. According to Mercury Research’s latest data, NVIDIA has jumped from 77% of the discrete GPU market in Q4 2014 to 82% in Q2 2015. Continue reading AMD/NVIDIA Market-Share Graph Shows NVIDIA Conquering, 4 Out of 5 PC Gamers Own an NVIDIA GPU
AMD Catalyst 15.7.1 Driver Released – Official Driver For Win10, Offers Full DX12 & WDDM 2.0 Support
AMD has also released a new driver for its graphics cards that supports Microsoft’s Windows 10. According to the red team, the AMD Catalyst 15.7.1 driver offers full WDDM 2.0 and DirectX 12 support which is available on all AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) products, – AMD Radeon HD 7000 and newer graphics products. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 15.7.1 Driver Released – Official Driver For Win10, Offers Full DX12 & WDDM 2.0 Support
AMD Catalyst 15.7 WHQL Driver Released, Includes CrossFire Profile Enhancements For Lots Of Triple-A Games
AMD has released a new driver for its graphics cards. According to its release notes, this driver comes with Performance Optimizations versus AMD Catalyst Omega, AMD FreeSync support, and AMD CrossFire Profile Enhancements for a lot of triple-A games. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 15.7 WHQL Driver Released, Includes CrossFire Profile Enhancements For Lots Of Triple-A Games
AMD Ceases Further Mantle Optimizations For Future Graphics Cards
With Vulkan and DX12 just around the corner, it appears that AMD has officially stopped working on its low-level API, Mantle. While the red team will not be dropping Mantle support for its GCN graphics cards, it has ceased all further Mantle optimizations for its future GPUs. Continue reading AMD Ceases Further Mantle Optimizations For Future Graphics Cards
Rumor: Microsoft in Talks to Buy AMD
According to recent rumors Microsoft is allegedly in talks to acquire semiconductor manufacturer AMD. The talks supposedly began a few months ago. Continue reading Rumor: Microsoft in Talks to Buy AMD
AMD Catalyst 15.6 Beta Driver Released, Optimized For Batman: Arkham Knight
A couple of hours ago, John informed you about NVIDIA’s driver for Batman: Arkham Knight. Well, NVIDIA was not the only company that released a specific driver for Rocksteady’s title. AMD has also released a new beta driver dedicated to it. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 15.6 Beta Driver Released, Optimized For Batman: Arkham Knight
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X – First Official Benchmarks Revealed
AMD has just revealed the first official benchmarks for its latest high-end GPU, the Radeon R9 Fury X. These first benchmarks put the Radeon R9 Fury X against NVIDIA’s GTX980Ti in 4K resolutions, thus giving us an idea of what players can expect from this new GPU. Enjoy the benchies after the jump! Continue reading AMD Radeon R9 Fury X – First Official Benchmarks Revealed