AMD’s Developer Summit is currently underway and yesterday the company showcased its new APU, the Kaveri. AMD’s Kaveri – the A10-7850K – was put against an Intel i7-4770K paired with an Nvidia GeForce GT630. Without a discrete GPU – and without taking advantage of the Mantle API – the A10-7850K has double the performance of the aforementioned combo in Battlefield 4. There is a video from that demonstration that can be viewed below. AMD’s Kaveri APU was running Battlefield 4 at 1080p and medium settings with 28-40fps while the i7-4770K + GeForce GT630 combo was running it with 12-15fps. AMD’s Kaveri APU will be released in the first quarter of 2014. Enjoy! Continue reading AMD Kaveri APU Showcased, Has Double The Performance Of Intel 4770K With A GeForce GT630→
AMD’s Developer Summit will begin shortly, and we’ve already got some interesting news for you. A couple of days ago, Square Enix stated that it would support AMD’s Mantle, though we had no official word on Thief supporting it. Well, we just got a confirmation. During AMD’s event, Nixxes Software’s Jurjen Katsman (yeap, once again Nixxes is handling the PC version of EIDOS Montreal’s title) will speak about Thief, Mantle, 4K gaming and AMD’s TrueAudio. Continue reading Thief Will Officially Support AMD’s Mantle, TressFX 2.0 Announced→
AMD has released a new set of beta drivers for its graphics cards. According to its changelog, AMD’s Catalyst 13.11 Beta9.2 (weird name, we know) improve anti-aliasing performance and update the AMD CrossFire profile for Call of Duty: Ghosts. In addition, these new drivers resolve intermittent crashes seen in legacy DirectX 9 applications. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta9.2 Released, Improves Performance In Call of Duty: Ghosts→
AMD announced today that Cloud Imperium Games, Eidos Montreal and Oxide Games are the latest game developers will be using its latest API, Mantle, in order to optimize the way PC games are developed as a means to ‘extract maximum performance from a modern graphics architecture that spans desktop PCs, notebooks and consumer devices like tablets‘. Continue reading AMD Mantle News – Cloud Imperium, Eidos Montreal & Oxide Will Support It→
A couple of days ago, we informed you about a new AMD beta driver that was packed with a number of improvements. Well, yesterday AMD released another beta driver, specifically made for Battlefield 4. Battlefield 4 has just been released, and AMD’s Catalyst 13.11 BETA7 increases AMD CrossFire? scaling up to an additional 20% for it. Continue reading AMD Releases New Beta Driver That Improves Performance In Battlefield 4→
In around 20 days, AMD will reveal more details about its low-level API, Mantle, during its Developers Summit event. And it seems that it will be worth the wait, as a lot of developers are currently praising this new API. Among those developers is Project CARS engineer programmer, who claimed that Mantle will offer 70-80% of next-gen console performance in terms of submitting draw calls. Continue reading pCARS developer: Mantle will offer 70-80% of next-gen console performance (regarding draw calls)→
A new set of beta drivers for AMD’s graphics cards has been leaked onto the Internet. Although there is no release notes at this moment, AMD users claim to have gained better performance in a number of benchmarking tools. Moreover, this driver seems to be working fine, meaning you won’t brick your GPUs if you install it. Still, we advice you to use these drivers at your own risk (the same thing applies to all beta drivers coming from the green team). Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.11 BETA3 Drivers Leaked→
Nvidia’s G-Sync technology seems to be the next big thing according to both reporters and developers that attended the green team’s recent Montreal event. However, it seems that customers will have to rely solely on Nvidia’s GPUs in order to enjoy this new tech, as G-Sync won’t work with other GPUs in the foreseeable future. Continue reading Nvidia’s Tom Petersen: We don’t expect G-Sync to work with other GPUs anytime soon→
