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AMD Catalyst 13.10 Beta Released, CrossFire Improvements In Rome 2, Saints Row 4, Metro: Last Light

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AMD has released a new set of beta drivers for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the AMD Catalyst 13.10 Beta come with CrossFire performance improvements in Total War: Rome 2, Saints Row 4 and Metro: Last Light. In addition, AMD has included a number of frame pacing improvements for Tomb Raider, Metro Last Light, Sniper Elite, World of Warcraft, Max Payne 3 and Hitman Absolution. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.10 Beta Released, CrossFire Improvements In Rome 2, Saints Row 4, Metro: Last Light

AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta Now Available – Includes Frame Pacing Option, Fixes Stuttering

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AMD has finally released the highly anticipated drivers for its graphics cards. Catalyst 13.8 Beta mainly fix the latency issues that have plagued the entire HD 7000 series. This means that the stuttering issues that have been reported in the past few months should be fixed. AMD users can enable/disable the frame pacing fix from their control panels. By default, this option is set On. AMD noted that this option may bring a slight performance drop, so those interested in benchmarking these new drivers should disable it. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta Now Available – Includes Frame Pacing Option, Fixes Stuttering

AMD Announced New Titles For Its ‘Gaming Evolved’ Program

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AMD announced today some new titles that will be part of its ‘Gaming Evolved’ program. Among those titles we can find Thief, CryEngine 3-powered Shadow of the Eternals and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. AMD’s Gaming Evolved program is similar to Nvidia’s The Way It’s Meant To Be Played program, and will be interesting to see whether the following titles will include any ‘special’ DX11 features. Continue reading AMD Announced New Titles For Its ‘Gaming Evolved’ Program

AMD’s Latest Commercial Goes Up Against Nvidia, Claims To Be THE Best PC Graphics Solution

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Okay, AMD has balls. I mean big, big red balls. The red team has released a new commercial in which it goes up against Nvidia. This commercial shows a PC gamer who bought a new graphics card and is facing some technical issues with his favourite games. And then, out of nowhere, a guy appears to help him out with his problems. Naturally, instead of lowering some settings, tweaking his PC or overclocking his GPU, that guy suggests him to get a new AMD card, as those cards are said to ‘be the best for PC gaming these days.’ Naturally, that’s not the only thing that happens in this commercial, so make sure to watch it. Let’s see now how Nvidia will react to it. Let the ‘commercial’ battle begin! Continue reading AMD’s Latest Commercial Goes Up Against Nvidia, Claims To Be THE Best PC Graphics Solution

AMD Catalyst 13.4 Released, Performance Improvements In Several Games Noted

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AMD has officially released a new set of drivers for its GPUs. AMD’s Catalyst 13.4 come with support for AMD Radeon HD7790 and AMD Radeon HD 7990, and feature optimizations to improve performance in Far Cry 3, Crysis 3, and 3DMark. In addition, there are significant latency performance improvements in Skyrim, Boderlands 2, Guild Wars 2, Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.4 Released, Performance Improvements In Several Games Noted

Crytek and AMD Collaborate – “Project Phoenix” GDC Tech Demo – Off-Camera Footage Leaked

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Last month, we informed you about something really ‘cool’ coming from AMD. Our guess back then was that the red team was creating a new tech demo, and it appears we were right. Crytek has published a PowerPoint presentation on its official website, in which it describes how they were able to create this new tech demo. Continue reading Crytek and AMD Collaborate – “Project Phoenix” GDC Tech Demo – Off-Camera Footage Leaked

Nvidia: PS4 & X720 are 3X slower than the GeForce Titan – AMD: We gave PS4 what Nvidia couldn’t

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Now this is great. Almost two weeks ago, Nvidia claimed that it was not worth investing on consoles and that was precisely why they did not bother with PS4 and X720. As Tony Tamasi, Senior VP of content and technology at Nvidia, stated back then, Nvidia came to the conclusion that it didn’t want to do the business at the price Sony was willing to pay. And as you’d expect, AMD decided to stand up and face Nvidia, claiming that they were able to offer PS4 the hardware Nvidia couldn’t. Continue reading Nvidia: PS4 & X720 are 3X slower than the GeForce Titan – AMD: We gave PS4 what Nvidia couldn’t