
Radeon HD 8000
Eurocom Adds AMD Radeon HD 8970M CrossFireX to Panther Series
Eurocom adds the World’s Fastest AMD Radeon HD8970M CrossFireX graphics to the World’s Fastest dual graphics EUROCOM Panther series of High Performance Laptops. Are you ready for CrossFireX with 8GB DDR5 and 2560 Cores? Eurocom is adding the AMD Radeon HD 8970M in CrossFireX, the world’s fastest notebook graphics card, to the Panther series of [...]
AMD Announces Radeon HD 8970M
AMD today launched the AMD Radeon HD 8970M, the world’s fastest notebook graphics card. The AMD Radeon HD 8970M graphics processing unit (GPU) delivers the best mobile gaming experience imaginable to gamers, powered by AMD’s award-winning Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. “Today’s gaming notebooks need a graphics card that is fast, powerful and energy-efficient,” said [...]
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M On Sale, New AMD Radeon HD 8970M Benchmark
This week is surely dominated by mobile graphics cards news. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M on sale Following the recent news about the GeForce GTX 780M, we have a first unit being sold separately. A qualification sample, which passed a 3DMark testing has been listed on ebay. For a price of $1,499.95 you have the opportunity [...]
(Update) Possible Specifications of the AMD Volcanic Islands’ Hawaii GPU
Over the past few days there were only two GPU related topics discussed on many sites and forums. That’s obviously the launch of the upcoming GeForce 700 series and AMD’s future Volcanic Islands architecture. UPDATE The picture of the Hawaii GPU is from SemiAccurate forums. Looks like a pure speculation. Thanks Skr for finding the [...]
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Performance Leaked, GTX 760M Unveiled
NVIDIA’s new mobile flagship has been finally spotted running on a laptop. The GeForce GTX 780M, presumably featuring a GK104 GPU, offers a 20% performance increase over its predecessor — GTX 680M. However the GTX 680M is not the fastest mobile Kepler out of the pack, there’s the GTX 680MX, which is supposedly using the [...]
(Update) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 and AMD Radeon HD 8970 Spotted in CPU-Z Database
Guys over at OCaholic are monitoring the database of validated entries from CPU-Z. This way they not only discovered multiple Z87 motherboards, but also two new graphics cards, which happen to be the upcoming flagships of both main manufacturers. GeForce GTX 780 and Radeon HD 8970 Believe it or not, they also found the AMD [...]
AMD Presents Radeon HD 8970M Benchmarks
Back in December, AMD announced its Radeon HD 8000M series, which are obviously the mobile GPUs. The current lineup consists of mainstream and performance segments, while the high-end was still not officially announced. Well, this has changed a bit today, because AMD together with MSI has showcased it’s new APU and GPU with a MSI [...]
AMD Confirms No Radeon HD 8000 Series Until Q4 2013 (Updated)
A combination of a twitter post and an interview with 4Gamer.net has confirmed AMD fans worst fear, the HD 8000 Sea Islands series is without a doubt being delayed until Q4 2013 and possibly even Q1 2014. “Yes, I made that comment. I cannot say anything more than what I’ve already said, really. [...]
AMD May Introduce A True GPU Dynamic Boost Clock
TechPowerUP reports that they discovered a trace of AMD’s upcoming GPU Boost Clock feature, only now in full hardware mode. NVIDIA did a remarkable job with this new feature called GPU Boost. NVIDIA’s boost is a dynamic GPU clock adjustment, found only in Kepler based cards, that is made depending on the demand of the [...]
AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM Pictured and Tested
It appears that the rebranded Radeon 7950 into HD 8950 OEM is already available for some manufacturers. A member of the HKEPC forums has shared the few pictures and benchmark results of this new addition to the AMD lineup. The AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM is basically a HD 7950 under a new name. It [...]
AMD Radeon HD 8760 and HD 8570 Listed with the HP ENVY Desktop
A month ago the first trace of the new Radeon HD 8000 series was found in the Lenovo desktop. Only to be followed with the official launch of the HD 8000 OEM series few days later. Since then, we know that Radeon HD 8000 OEM series are nothing new, just a typical rebrand of the [...]
NVIDIA GeForce 700 and AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series Postponed to Q4 2013
It looks like you may have an extra 8-10 months to save money for your next AMD/NVIDIA GPU upgrade. Both AMD’s “Sea Islands” 8000 Series and NVIDIA’s 700 Series have apparently been pushed back all the way to the fourth quarter of 2013 according to SweClockers, or have they? This comes as a big [...]
AMD Radeon HD 8950 Listed in Catalyst 13.1
There’s is a lot of news about new Radeon cards these days, only none of them really worth writing about. The rebranding of the current Radeon HD 7000 series into OEM HD 8000 series generated a lot of confusion and even more questions. But this might not be the only thing that AMD is preparing [...]
OEM AMD Radeon HD 8000 Graphics Cards Are Rebranded HD 7000 Series
Let me just start this post by saying, what the hell AMD?? This is probably the most stupid idea ever. While there is still no confirmation about the ‘real’ graphics cards release date, we are presented with the new OEM solutions by AMD, which include all variety of HD 8000 graphics cards. So if you [...]
AMD Launches Radeon HD 8000M Mobile and HD 8000 Desktop Graphics for OEMs
AMD Delivers Enhanced Gaming and Improved Application Performance With Latest Mobile and Desktop Graphics Technology AMD Radeon HD 8000M Mobile and HD 8000 Desktop Graphics for OEMs Deliver Award-Winning GCN Architecture, Full DirectX 11.1 Support and Exceptional Performance-per-Watt LAS VEGAS, NV, Jan 07, 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show – AMD today launched the AMD Radeon(TM) [...]
Meet Aruba, Curacao, Hainan and Bonaire, The Codenames of Radeon HD 8000 Series
If you found previous posts about the new series quite confusing, since there was no solid information about the naming, then you will be even more perplexed with the latest leak. So it appears that AMD will use two different names for their series, one for the desktop Radeon HD 8000, and the second one [...]
AMD Radeon HD 8950 3GB Shows Up in Lenovo Gaming Desktop
You heard that right, AMD may still not be ready to announce this high-end graphics card, but Lenovo is already listing this model with their new gaming rig — Erazer X700. The Erazer X700 is a brand new high-performance desktop for gamers, which was announced today at the CES 2013 event. This PC is packed [...]
AMD Radeon HD 8000M Solar System Series Detailed
Well, that was unexpected! AMD has fast-forwarded the launch of the Radeon HD 8000M graphics cards. I know what you are thinking, these are not desktop units (yet), but we can draw some conclusions for them from this announcement. What we are looking at are completely “new” GPUs, these are not re-brands of refreshed chips. [...]
Solar System – AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Finally we have a new product to discuss after a long period of fruitlessness from AMD and NVIDIA in terms of new products. An article by Sweclockers revealed that AMD’s new mobile series (HD 8000M) will be codenamed “Solar System” and is rumored to arrive in early 2013, right in time for CES 2013. The [...]
AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series Specifications (Analysis)
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