How Microsoft Achieved Xbox One Backwards Compatibility & Why Sony Struggle

Microsoft’s announcement they’d managed to get the Xbox One to run Xbox 360 code at E3 2015 scored them a lot of points, both from those present at the event and those watching at home. It’s an impressive achievement, considering how very different the Xbox 360’s architecture is compared to the Xbox One. Sony stated […]

AMD Radeon Fury X Specs Leaked | Over 8 TFLOPS of Performance

While these specs aren’t officially released by AMD, a new set of rumors have popped up concerning AMD’s Radeon Fury series and they look quite accurate given recent benchmarks which confirm that the Fury X will indeed feature a full 4096 shaders/ AMD have already called the Fury the “world’s fastest GPU” and given the […]

AMD Radeon R9 390X Fiji Images & Information Released By Dice

While the cards haven’t been officially released to the public, the Radeon R9 390x’s (assuming that’s what they end up being called) are in the hands of developers. Johan Anderrson, Dice’s Technical Director, has been playing around with AMD’s new flagship and calls them “seriously impressive”. That’s not all he did either – ‘leaking’ (but […]

AMD Radeon R9 300 Series Debuts June 3 & Hawaii Details Leaked

A few days ago, we’d reported that you’ll be able to march into your local store (or, more realistically, point your web browser to your favorite online store) and purchase the R9 300 series by June 24th (or the 18th for Fiji), and while that hasn’t changed, AMD are planning to announce their cards prior […]

AMD Radeon R9 300 Series to Launch In June Says Rumor

There’s been no shortage of rumored release dates for AMD’s Radeon 300 series, but a new set of rumors (which look fairly solid) indicate the 300 series will indeed be launched in June. The ‘lower’ end parts of the Radeon R9 300 series will be launching on June 18, while the R9 390X Fiji will […]

DX12 Asynchronous Shader & Command Buffer Analysis | AMD Exclusive Interview & Details

With Windows 10’s release drawing ever closer, DirectX 12 news continues to pop up thick and fast. A few days ago, AMD revealed that the Asynchronous Shaders, (which is part of DirectX 12 specs) and the Graphics Core Next (GCN) Asynchronous  Compute Engine architecture powering Radeon graphics cards will drastically improve performance of DX12 games […]

AMD X86 Zen Based APU Features 16 Cores, 16GB HBM & DDR4 Support | Rumor

There are rumors floating about that AMD are planning to release an APU containing no fewer than 16 Zen CPU cores, 16 GB HBM and a built in Greenland GCN based GPU. This supposed leaked slide focuses on the highest end part, which is targeted to both servers and High Performance PC systems – think […]