Powercolor spooks out its "Red Devil" RX 6800 series
Published in Graphics


Impressive design and high-end components

Powercolor announced a seriously sinister product called a Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 series graphics cards, and according to our information, we could see them on retail/e-tail shelves as early as late next week. Scary!

AMD Radeon RX 6800 series rare as a hen's tooth
Published in Graphics
Thursday, 19 November 2020 16:40

AMD Radeon RX 6800 series rare as a hen's tooth


Sold out and practically impossible to find

It appears that AMD is having similar problems as Nvidia with its recently launched Radeon RX 6800 series, as these cards are practically unavailable or out of stock in every retail/e-tail shop that we checked.

Biostar rolls out its own Radeon RX 6800 series graphics cards
Published in Graphics


Reference for now, but custom versions are incoming

As AMD's first RDNA 2-based Radeon RX 6800 series cards are finally available, AIB partners are moving to the market with their own cards, and Biostar is starting off with reference versions, while custom ones should be coming soon.

AMD Radeon RX 6800 series gets loads of reviews
Published in Graphics
Wednesday, 18 November 2020 16:37

AMD Radeon RX 6800 series gets loads of reviews


Review roundup: Beats RTX 3070 and breaths down RTX 3080 neck

AMD's first RDNA2 graphics cards, the Radeon RX 6800 and the RX 6800 XT, are finally available and AMD has lifted the NDA so we can now see the official reviews.

AMD launches AMD Instinct MI100 accelerator
Published in Cloud
Tuesday, 17 November 2020 11:45

AMD launches AMD Instinct MI100 accelerator


HPC computing on Azure

AMD launched the new AMD Instinct MI100 accelerator with ROCm  4.0 open ecosystem support and has been showing off its list of AMD EPYC  CPU and AMD Instinct accelerator based deployments at this year’s SC20 virtual tradeshow.

IBM and AMD team up on AI
Published in AI
Thursday, 12 November 2020 13:03

IBM and AMD team up on AI


Want to enhance each other’s products

IBM and AMD have announced a multi-year joint development agreement to enhance and extend their security and artificial intelligence (AI) products.

G.Skill updates Trident Z Neo DDR4 to DDR4-4000 CL16
Published in PC Hardware


Ready for Ryzen 5000 series

G.Skill has unveiled its new DDR4 memory specifications under the Trident Z Neo series, which will be optimized for Ryzen 5000 series CPUs and available in high-frequency, low-latency, or high-capacity kits, reaching DDR4-4000 frequency, CL14 latency, or 64GB capacity.

AMD Ryzen 5000 series CPUs get reviewed
Published in PC Hardware
Thursday, 05 November 2020 20:00

AMD Ryzen 5000 series CPUs get reviewed


Review roundup: Plenty of performance but a higher price tag

The embargo on reviews for AMD's first Ryzen 5000 series desktop CPU SKUs have been lifted and we now have a chance to see how well these four SKUs, the Ryzen 9 5950X, Ryzen 9 5900X, Ryzen 7 5800X, and the Ryzen 5 5600X, perform in benchmarks, games, and applications.

Custom Radeon RX 6800 series coming by end of November
Published in Graphics


AMD still in talks for the RX 6900 XT

As most AMD AIB partners are gearing up for Radeon RX 6800 launch on November 18th, we will first see reference-based cards, but custom versions won't be far behind as these are expected by the end of November.

AMD's ray tracing comes to all existing games
Published in Graphics
Wednesday, 04 November 2020 00:19

AMD's ray tracing comes to all existing games


Updated: Shows ray tracing in DIRT 5 and Godfall

AMD has confirmed that its RNDA2-based Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards will support ray tracing in existing titles, which was not a big surprise considering we had a chance to see it do ray tracing in two games, DIRT 5 and Godfall.