Amazon now lists Sapphire's upcoming Radeon RX 5500 XT model. SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Special Edition with NAVI 14 GPU The Special Edition is an upgrade over NITRO+ non-SE edition with additional ARGB fans. It's a custom design with a full cover backplate, which interestingly is much bigger than the PCB itself. You can, in fact, see the 8-pin power connector located almost in the center, right where the PCB ends. A very large heatsink combined with two wide fans

Today AMD launches its annual driver overhaul. Adrenalin 2020 19.12.2 The 2020 Edition of Adrenalin promises to deliver a 12% performance increase over Adrenalin 2019 launch driver. In total, there are 20 new features or changes to the driver stack. Radeon Software 2020 New UI (now also available in-game) AMD Link enhancements (new ultra bitrate (50 Mbps, x265 encoding, instant GIFs) Cleaner

It appears that our story from last week is already finding a confirmation. AMD Radeon RX 5600 with 6GB or 8GB memory? Both ASUS and ASRock have submitted new Radeon RX 5000 series graphics card to Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC). The entries reveal Radeon RX 5600 XT and non-XT models, but also RX 5500 non-XT in a custom form. According to ASRock's product coding schema, the RX 5600 would

MSI preps MECH and GAMING Navi-14 series MSI is set to launch Radeon RX 5500 XT graphics card featuring MECH and GAMING series. The cards pictured below are both 8GB models, but MSI is also preparing 4GB models. The new models feature 1408 Stream Processors and both have the same display configuration (3x DP + 1x HDMI). While the reference boost clock for RX 5500 XT series is 1845 MHz, the GAMING series will

Kopite was right. NVIDIA HOPPER and NVIDIA AERIAL Last month 3DCenter posted a story that NVIDIA's next-generation architecture will be called Hopper, which is allegedly coming after Ampere. The story was based on an old rumor from June, where a Twitter user called kopite7kimi shared information that Hopper is NVIDIA's upcoming MCM architecture. There was no indication that this is true. Until now. On December 4th NVIDIA filed a trademark request at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Just a few

The first screenshots of the upcoming annual wonder driver from AMD have been leaked. AMD Adrenalin 2020 Edition It appears that AMD made a mistake and the current driver already displays an advertisement for the upcoming Andrelin 2020 update. The ad also reveals a new feature called Radeon Boost. It is speculated that Radeon Boost is based on HiAgo Boost technology. AMD acquired the company three years ago and already implemented their Chill technology, and launch it as Radeon Chill. The HiAlgo Boost is basically a frame by

It's time to talk about the imminent launch of custom Navi 14 graphics cards. ASRock Challenger RX 5500 XT The first model is from ASRock. This fairly new manufacturer in graphics space will also launch a Phantom Gaming series for Navi 14 series. The card pictured below is called Challenger D 8G OC (there is also a 4GB model). This card is factory-overclocked to 1737 MHz (reference boost clock is 1717 MHz). It ships

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT is just an overclocked non-XT? In our previous story, we speculated that Radeon RX 5500 XT may actually be a rebadged non-XT version, as both cards would essentially feature the same specs. Today, we can say that is in fact confirmed. The non-XT variant, tested by our colleagues at Golem.de, Heise.de and TechPowerUp.com, are OEM variants that will not be available in the retail channels. These cards

AMD Enables Ecosystem for High-Performance Mini PCs Powered by AMD Ryzen™ Embedded Processors — ASRock Industrial, EEPD, OnLogic and Simply NUC are delivering mini PCs for industrial, media, and enterprise markets — SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 03, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced it is enabling an open ecosystem for OEMs to create and customize high performance Mini PCs, powered by AMD Ryzen™ Embedded V1000 and R10

HIS launches pink and blue Navy Navi It has been a while since we covered HIS Radeon graphics cards. It appears that the manufacturer is not entirely dead, and the very few cards they released in the past three years are not their last. The company has been quietly developing brand new series called Pink and Blue Army. These cards are based on IceQ X2 design, in fact, they are almost identical. The difference lies in the color scheme, a controversial one for sure. In total there are four models