46.4 million systems ready for VR
Published in Graphics
Wednesday, 16 March 2016 18:31

46.4 million systems ready for VR

Jon Peddie research counted

AMD made many announcements at the Games Developers Conference and we wanted to follow up the claim that 83 per cent of the total addressable market for dedicated Virtual Reality HMD, Head Mounted Displays figures would be AMD. 

AMD behind yet another VR headset
Published in Graphics
Wednesday, 16 March 2016 16:19

AMD behind yet another VR headset


Unannounced headset to bring 4K per-eye display

During the announcement of the Radeon Pro Duo at the Capsaicin event at GDC 2016, Roy Taylor from AMD actually teased yet another VR headset which will offer 4K-per-eye screen.

AMD reveals first Radeon Pro Duo performance figures
Published in Graphics


Faster than GTX Titan Z

The official press slides for the recently announced Radeon Pro Duo graphics card also brought the first performance figures from 3DMark FireStrike benchmark where the new dual-GPU graphics card is significantly faster than the GTX Titan Z.

AMD claims VR lead at GDC 2016
Published in Graphics
Tuesday, 15 March 2016 10:55

AMD claims VR lead at GDC 2016


Stock gains 7.94 percent

AMD's Radeon Technology Group had a good day yesterday. It announced a $1499, dual Fiji card, its 2017 and 2018 GPU roadmap and claimed 83 per cent of the total addressable market for dedicated VR HMDs. All this saw a 7.94 per cent jump in share value.

Get VR by strapping an AMD PC to your face
Published in Graphics


Sulon teams up with AMD for a new VR

Sulon Q in partnership with graphics giant AMD is has created yet another VR headset to boldly go where no one has quite managed to go yet.

AMD's stonking VR market boost depends on PlayStation VR
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Not that AMD is telling anyone

AMD told the Games Developer Conference press event that it had 83 per cent of a market share in VR. The claim appeared to be legit as it quoted Jon Peddie Research, however we had some severe doubts.

AMD reveals Navi GPU architecture
Published in Graphics
Tuesday, 15 March 2016 01:17

AMD reveals Navi GPU architecture


Comes after Vega and feature next-gen memory

During its Capsaicin event at GDC 2016 in San Francisco, AMD has unveiled its new roadmap showing a bit more details about upcoming GPU architectures, including Polaris, Vega and the new Navi architecture.

AMD officially unveils the Radeon Pro Duo
Published in Graphics
Tuesday, 15 March 2016 01:00

AMD officially unveils the Radeon Pro Duo


Dual Fiji-GPU graphics card priced at US $1499

Just a few moments before its Capsaicin event at GDC 2016 show, AMD has officially announced its new dual-GPU flagship graphics card with two Fiji GPUs, the US $1499 priced Radeon Pro Duo.

GPU market falling
Published in Graphics
Monday, 14 March 2016 12:35

GPU market falling


Down by 20 per cent

The global GPU market has fallen by 20 per cent over the last year.

Otoy allows CUDA to run on AMD
Published in Graphics
Monday, 14 March 2016 10:43

Otoy allows CUDA to run on AMD


Sheep and goats together


Graphics start-up Otoy has claimed it has developed a means of running software written for Nvidia's Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) platform on unmodified on rival graphics cards and CPUs from AMD.