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AMD Confirms That An APU Powers The Xbox One

AMD Confirms That An APU Powers The Xbox One

Now with the announcement of Xbox One, AMD has confirmed through a Tweet that it is powered by a single-chip, semi-custom APU co-developed by AMD and Microsoft. This tweet reveals that Microsoft and AMD have worked closely for the APU powering Xbox One which features 8 cores, an embedded GPU and 8GB of RAM. It is rather strange that why Microsoft is so quite about the specs while Sony has openly announced the internals of their PS4.

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AMD Launches the 8970M For Notebooks

AMD Launches the 8970M For Notebooks

As claimed by AMD late last year of their upcoming higher end offering which was expected to come in 2013, now that 2013 is here AMD debuts the new Radeon HD 8970M. This new HD 8970m is actually more or less the rebranding of HD7970 that came out last year. They say that these are not 100% identical; they are a few modifications which are mentioned as following.

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AMD Releases FX-6350 and FX-4350 CPUs

AMD Releases FX-6350 and FX-4350 CPUs

When it comes to AMD all we have been talking about lately is the Radeon HD 7990 graphics card, but they have just launched two new Vishera CPUs. The units are the six-core FX-6350, which has a base clock of 3.9 GHz and the quad core FX-4350 which has a base clock of 4.2 GHz.

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MSI Radeon HD 7730 Revealed

MSI Radeon HD 7730 Revealed

It looks like AMD is prepping a new lower-end graphics cards in their Radeon 7000 series. User Toppc from Coolaler forums has leaked images and well as benchmarks of a Radeon HD 7730 from MSI. Not much is known about the specifications of the card just yet, but we do know the card is clocked at 800 MHz core and 1125 MHz memory clock. We would assume it is also running 1 GB of GDDR5 memory. No official word on what core this card is running, our guess is a cut down version of either the Bonaire XT chip or Cape Verde chip.

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EK Working on Full-Cover Water Block for AMD’s Radeon HD 7990

EK Working on Full-Cover Water Block for AMD’s Radeon HD 7990

AMD has officially released their Radeon HD 7990 graphics card today and EK Water Blocks is hard at work on a full-cover water block for the new dual-GPU card. The upcoming water block will be called the EK-FC7990 SE and will directly cool both GPUs, memory as well as the VRMs (voltage regulation module). Water will flow directly over these areas. With this block users will be able to have stable overclocks as these critical areas will be kept nice and cool.

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AMD Officially Announces the Radeon HD 7990 “Malta” Graphics Card

AMD Officially Announces the Radeon HD 7990 “Malta” Graphics Card

AMD has officially announced their latest flagship graphics card in the Radeon HD 7990. This is a dual-GPU solution that is based off two 28 nm “Tahiti” chips. AMD says this card is different than the HD 7990 “New Zealand” graphics cards that were launched in Q3 of 2012 as it has a much lower power draw, requiring only two PCIe power connectors. The new card also features a dual-slot cooling solution, which AMD says is “whisper quiet”. Most of the “New Zealand” cards required three PCIe connectors and triple slot cooling solutions.

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AMD Radeon HD 7990 Benchmarked!

AMD Radeon HD 7990 Benchmarked!

AMD’s latest graphics card the Radeon HD 7990 is expected to launch this week so it is no doubt we would see some benchmarks surface before the official release. Below you will find benchmarks testing the Radeon HD 7990 against NVIDIA’s GTX 690 and NVIDIA’s GTX Titan. The two tests include 3DMark Fire Strike and Battlefield 3 running at 5760 x 1080 resolution. Read on to see the benchmark results!

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Most Detailed AMD Radeon HD 7990 Specifications Emerge

Most Detailed AMD Radeon HD 7990 Specifications Emerge

With the launch of the AMD Radeon HD 7990 less then a week away it now seems we have the most detailed specifications for the card to date. The card will feature two 28nm “Tahiti” GPUs with 8.6 billion transistors and 4096 stream processors, 256 texture units and 64 ROPs. Below you can see a detailed chart comparing the Radeon HD 7990 to the HD 7970 GHz Edition and the HD 7950.

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AMD Radeon HD 7990 Launch Date Revealed

AMD Radeon HD 7990 Launch Date Revealed

It looks like we now know the launch date for the very anticipated AMD Radeon HD 7990 “Malta” dual-GPU graphics card! According to a report on OCaholic AMD plans to launch the graphics card on April 24, 2013. The report also states that reviews of the card should already be underway. The AMD Radeon HD 7990 will feature a pair of 28nm “Tahiti” GPUs and will have a total of 4096 stream processors, and 6 GB of GDDR5 memory across two 384-bit wide memory interfaces.

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AMD Radeon HD 7990 Listed on Ebay!

AMD Radeon HD 7990 Listed on Ebay!

It looks like someone was lucky enough to get an engineering sample of AMD’s upcoming Radeon HD 7990 and decided to put it up for auction on eBay to make a quick buck! The opening bid started at $0.99 and as of writing this post it is at $3,050! The eBay listing says, “You are bidding on the world’s first ‘Malta’ graphics card – engineering sample. Don’t miss your chance to be the first to own the world’s fastest graphics card.”

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