A variety of RX 6600 models as made by various GPU manufacturers, since AMD isn’t making a “reference” model this time around. This is the model Ars received for review purposes from Sapphire. [credit: AMD ] AMD’s latest lower-end graphics card, the RX 6600, is its sixth RDNA 2 offering in the past 12 months—a fact […]
A retail listing has leaked the existence of AMD’s Radeon RX 6600, a midrange GPU that will be a bit slower (but hopefully also a little bit cheaper) than the RX 6600 XT. [credit: VideoCardz ] People hoping to get their hands on an affordable graphics card may soon have one more new model to […]
Enlarge / The Radeon RX 5700 XT. (credit: AMD ) GPU driver releases normally aren’t very newsworthy; they usually fix bugs, boost performance in some games, and add support for new GPUs. But owners of last-generation AMD Radeon RX 5000-series graphics cards should take note of today’s Adrenalin 21. 9. 1 release . This update […]
MSI’s version of the AMD RX 6600XT, which is the one Ars Technica tested for this review. [credit: MSI / AMD ] In a traditional PC hardware cycle, AMD’s new RX 6600XT could have been a welcome stopgap for a budget audience. Over the years, we’ve regularly seen this kind of GPU from both major […]
Enlarge / Sure, it’s cheaply produced clip art… but it’s also a disturbingly accurate picture of the current state of supply and demand in the semiconductor product market. (credit: tommy via Getty Images) 2021’s infamous chip shortages aren’t only affecting automakers. In a post-earnings conference call Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said, “We’ll do everything we […]
The RTX 3080 Ti. [credit: Sam Machkovech ] Nearly nine months ago, the RTX 3000 series of Nvidia graphics cards launched in a beleaguered world as a seeming ray of hope. The series’ first two GPUs, the RTX 3080 and 3070, were nearly all things to all graphics hounds. Nvidia built these cards upon the […]
This exploded diagram shows an additional 64MiB of L3 cache atop the center of the CCD, with structural silicon inserts to either side of the new layer. [credit: AMD ] Yesterday at Computex 2021, AMD CEO Lisa Su showed off the company’s next big performance play—3D stacked chiplets, allowing the company to triple the amount […]
Enlarge / RDNA 3 is expected to run on TSMC’s 5nm process, and become available in late 2022 or early 2023. (credit: AMD) According to wccftech and well-known hardware leaker @KittyYYuko, AMD’s next-generation Radeon graphics cards should be a massive upgrade—as much as three times faster than AMD’s current flagship graphics cards. 2.5x is too […]
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