Radeon Crimson driver 16.7.1 is out
Fixes PCIe current draw and improves performance
AMD promised us a driver within 48 hours and after two sleepless nights the developers have delivered one. The driver fix needed doing urgently and will draw less current from the motherboard.
Julia Herd joins Deezer
Like another semi geezer
HTC executive Julia Herd has joined music streaming outfit Deezer as VP of Communications.
AMD details Radeon RX 480 driver fixes
Fixes the problem and increases performance by 3 percent
AMD has an update for everyone who has a Radeon RX 480 and is afraid that the card might fry the PCIe slot on the motherboard. The new driver, that solves the problem and increases performance by up to 3 percent should be out today, July 7th.
AMD improves its Linux drivers
Day one support for Radeon RX 480
It looks like AMD has finally got the memo when it comes to Linux machines. Its new AMDGPU-PRO 16.30 driver offers day-one support for its new Radeon RX 480 from day one.
Leaked GTX 1060 benchmarks show it cleans RX 480’s clock
Spoilers
I had a small wager sitting on the fact that when the RX 480 was released that there would be a mysterious leak of benchmarks that proved that Nvidia’s Pascal-based GTX 1060 was much better even when it had not been released.
AMD promises emergency driver update by Thursday
Sorting out RX 480's shocking power problem
AMD has promised that it will roll out a driver update will will sort out the power issues with the RX 480 by Thursday.
Some Radeon RX 480 4GB can be unlocked to 8GB
With a simple BIOS flash
It appears that some reference retail/e-tail Radeon RX 480 4GB graphics cards are actually shipping with 8GB of VRAM that can be unlocked using a simple BIOS flash.
Zen APU will have a Polaris GPU
Exclusive: Comes in 2017
AMD’s CEO Lisa Su said both publicly and to Fudzilla exclusively that its desktop Zen comes first, followed by server, notebook and embedded products. We have some exclusive news about the first Zen based APU that will come with four Zen cores and Polaris graphics.
Vega 10 AMD HBM 2 could launch in 1H 2017
March 2017 launch possible
Vega 10 is the successor to Polaris and if all goes well you will see the world’s first HBM 2.0 based GPU from the house of AMD – RTG in the first part of 1H 2016, possibly even in Q1 2017.
AMD’s power problem is a problem after all
Company burning the midnight oil
AMD is burning the midnight oil fixing a problem on its new Polaris card which it thought was not an issue last week.