AMD has officially released a new set of drivers for its GPUs. AMD’s Catalyst 13.4 come with support for AMD Radeon HD7790 and AMD Radeon HD 7990, and feature optimizations to improve performance in Far Cry 3, Crysis 3, and 3DMark. In addition, there are significant latency performance improvements in Skyrim, Boderlands 2, Guild Wars 2, Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.4 Released, Performance Improvements In Several Games Noted→
Now this is great. Almost two weeks ago, Nvidia claimed that it was not worth investing on consoles and that was precisely why they did not bother with PS4 and X720. As Tony Tamasi, Senior VP of content and technology at Nvidia, stated back then, Nvidia came to the conclusion that it didn’t want to do the business at the price Sony was willing to pay. And as you’d expect, AMD decided to stand up and face Nvidia, claiming that they were able to offer PS4 the hardware Nvidia couldn’t. Continue reading Nvidia: PS4 & X720 are 3X slower than the GeForce Titan – AMD: We gave PS4 what Nvidia couldn’t→
We are pretty sure that a lot of gamers were impressed – graphically – with what DICE has showcased yesterday. Even though we knew that Battlefield 4 ran on the PC, we did not have any information about the specifications behind the PC system that was used. Thankfully, AMD has unveiled that its upcoming dual-GPU card, HD 7990, codenamed ‘Malta’ was used to demonstrate Battlefield 4. Continue reading AMD Unveils New Dual-GPU At This Year’s GDC 2013, Battlefield 4 Ran On The HD 7990 ‘Malta’→
AMD has released a new set of beta drivers for its graphics cards. According to its key release notes, AMD’s Catalyst 13.3 Beta come with improved performance on both SimCity and Far Cry 3. In addition, these new drivers sport improvements in both Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution. You can find the download link, as well as the full release notes, below. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.3 Beta Driver Released→
It appears that AMD has been up to something lately, as the red team teased today a ‘super-secret project’ that is said to be ‘super cool’. Although AMD could not reveal much, it released two Work-In-Progress screenshots from that project that can be viewed below. AMD will unveil more information about this project in the coming weeks. For now, enjoy the screenshots and stay tuned for more! Continue reading AMD teases ‘super cool, super-secret project’ with these two screenshots→
As promised, AMD has unveiled its TressFX technology today and as we suspected, this new tech will be used in Crystal Dynamics’ upcoming Tomb Raider game. AMD’s TressFX is a hair technology and the company has released some before/after screenshots from Tomb Raider to show off what can be achieved with it. Continue reading AMD TressFX Technology Unveiled, To Be Featured In Tomb Raider [UPDATE]→
AMD has posted an interesting image on its blog. According to this image, a new feature will be unveiled on March February 26th. This feature will be called tressfx and is said to be a new frontier of realism in PC gaming. The aforementioned image shows a girl (or more importantly her hair), suggesting that this could very well be AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s PhysX technology. In other words, we’re most probably looking at some new hair/character physics technology. Continue reading AMD teases tressfx: “a new frontier of realism in PC gaming”→
AMD has released a new beta driver for its graphics cards. According to the changelog, the sixth beta version of AMD’s Catalyst 13.2 resolves minor anti-aliasing corruption seen in Crysis 3 and improves Hitman Absolution Crossfire scaling. Moreover, AMD users have been reporting gains on various games and on Unigine’s latest benchmark tool, the Valley, so be sure to upgrade if you want to benefit from these gains. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 6 Released, Resolves Minor AA Corruption In Crysis 3→
Man, AMD is on fire lately. A couple of days ago, the company has released yet another beta driver for its graphics cards. This is the fifth beta of the 13.2, and it’s perhaps the first time we’ve seen so many updates in so little time. Ironically, Nvidia (who was known for doing something similar in the past) has not been rolling out as many beta drivers these past months as AMD. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 5 Released; Further Improves Crysis 3 and Far Cry 3 Performance→
