Ever since AMD announced Fiji and its new memory interface, there’s been one major question on the minds of enthusiasts — could this new memory architecture give Team Red the performance it needed to compete with Maxwell? Fiji, after all, is based on the R9 285 (aka Tonga), a modest update to AMD’s 2013 Hawaii GPU. The entire product family is 3.5 years old at this point. While GCN more than held its own ...
At a major launch event timed to coincide with E3, AMD announced its new lineup of Radeon Fury GPUs. As expected, the company formally declared that the leaked “Fury” brand name was legitimate and that the upcoming GPU would feature 4GB of HBM memory and 4096 cores in total. What was less expected were the three SKUs the company announced and its claims regarding performance per watt improvements ...
Now that the E3 press events are out of the way, we have a firm idea of what the gaming landscape looks like for the next year or two. The major events were brimming with games of all sizes, and the near future is looking extremely bright. So today, I want to highlight ten of the most impressive games at E3, and help you figure out which titles are worth keeping an eye on. ...
Ouya got a lot of people excited when it raked in more than $8 million on Kickstarter in 2012. The premise was simple — make a small, inexpensive console running on Android with a game store populated with exclusive content and titles ported from Android. It sounds interesting, but Ouya hasn’t found success and today the company has been bought out by gaming accessory maker Razer. A previously leaked ...
Earlier today, Microsoft kicked off E3 with an incredibly solid stage show. It delivered loads of new games, unveiled the crazy “Elite” customizable controller, and it even announced an early access program called “Xbox Game Preview.” But the most interesting part of today’s event has to be the introduction of local 360 backwards compatibility on the Xbox One. Announced as ...