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AMD’s Robert Hallock: “The vast majority of DX12 titles in 2015/2016 are partnering with AMD”

It appears that AMD is trying to capitalize on its GCN architecture and the fact that it’s more future proof than what NVIDIA is currently offering. Not only that, but according to the Head of Global Technical Marketing at AMD, Robert Hallock, the vast majority of DX12 titles in the next two years will be partnering with the red team. Continue reading AMD’s Robert Hallock: “The vast majority of DX12 titles in 2015/2016 are partnering with AMD”

Oculus Employees: “Preemption for context switches is best on AMD, Nvidia possibly catastrophic”

It appears that after the whole 970 VRAM fiasco, there is a new story that haunts NVIDIA. As we’ve already reported, NVIDIA’s GPUs are really weak in Async Compute scenarios. And according to some Oculus employees, Preemption for context switches is possibly catastrophic for NVIDIA’s GPUs. Continue reading Oculus Employees: “Preemption for context switches is best on AMD, Nvidia possibly catastrophic”

AMD: “There’s no such thing as “full support” for DX12 today”, Lists Missing DX12 Features For FuryX

Yesterday, we informed you about the missing DX12 features of NVIDIA’s Maxwell. A lot of people criticized the green team, however it appears that there is more to this story than meets the eye. After all, AMD’s Robert Hallock revealed that FuryX is also missing a number of DX12 features. Continue reading AMD: “There’s no such thing as “full support” for DX12 today”, Lists Missing DX12 Features For FuryX

AMD’s DirectX 12 Advantage Explained – GCN Architecture More Friendly To Parallelism Than Maxwell

Since the release of Ashes of the Singularity, a lot of controversy surrounded AMD’s spectacular results over NVIDIA’s underwhelming ones. Was this DX12 benchmark gimped in order to run faster on AMD’s hardware? Apparently not as Overclock.net‘s member ‘Mahigan’ shed some light on why there are so dramatic differences between AMD’s and NVIDIA’s results. Continue reading AMD’s DirectX 12 Advantage Explained – GCN Architecture More Friendly To Parallelism Than Maxwell

AMD/NVIDIA Market-Share Graph Shows NVIDIA Conquering, 4 Out of 5 PC Gamers Own an NVIDIA GPU

It appears that the gap between NVIDIA and AMD widens as more and more fans are equipping their PC systems with NVIDIA’s GPUs, despite the fact that AMD has recently released a brand new GPU. According to Mercury Research’s latest data, NVIDIA has jumped from 77% of the discrete GPU market in Q4 2014 to 82% in Q2 2015. Continue reading AMD/NVIDIA Market-Share Graph Shows NVIDIA Conquering, 4 Out of 5 PC Gamers Own an NVIDIA GPU

AMD Catalyst 15.7.1 Driver Released – Official Driver For Win10, Offers Full DX12 & WDDM 2.0 Support

AMD has also released a new driver for its graphics cards that supports Microsoft’s Windows 10. According to the red team, the AMD Catalyst 15.7.1 driver offers full WDDM 2.0 and DirectX 12 support which is available on all AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) products, – AMD Radeon HD 7000 and newer graphics products. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 15.7.1 Driver Released – Official Driver For Win10, Offers Full DX12 & WDDM 2.0 Support

AMD Catalyst 15.7 WHQL Driver Released, Includes CrossFire Profile Enhancements For Lots Of Triple-A Games

AMD has released a new driver for its graphics cards. According to its release notes, this driver comes with Performance Optimizations versus AMD Catalyst Omega, AMD FreeSync support, and AMD CrossFire Profile Enhancements for a lot of triple-A games. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 15.7 WHQL Driver Released, Includes CrossFire Profile Enhancements For Lots Of Triple-A Games