Now that Nvidia has stolen some of AMD’s thunder with their newly unveiled, dual-GPU GTX 690, the “red team” has to respond with something. Introducing into the fight, the AMD 7970 “Gigahertz Edition”. Reported by Australian based Atomic MPC as a potential option soon coming to AMD’s top-tier offerings, the GHz 7970 will bump the core clock up from the base 925 MHz up to at least a fat 1.0 GHz. But AMD could take it further. According to...

Mobile gamers with a disgust for team green can finally oogle over AMD’s new 28nm 7000M line of mobile GPUs. The 7700M, 7800M and 7900M include DirectX 11 support as well as AMD’s new “Enduro” technology — AMD’s own graphics switching technology similar to Nvidia’s “Optimus” tech. Enduro, according to AMD, can actively manage itself and doesn’t need to log off/restart or close/re-open apps to jump between...

While Nvidia is busy unveiling their next-gen 6xx desktop/mobile series AMD is inadvertently working hard to steal back the limelight. Chinese site inpai.com has managed to gather and post what it says are the specs of AMD’s upcoming dual-gpu 7990 graphics card. It is, of course, going to be extremely powerful with a combined 8.6 billion transistors and 4,096 stream processors between the two dies, as well as dual-384-bit memory channels, 6 GB of memory, 64 ROPs, and...

With each new year comes a resurgence in talk and rumors revolving around next-gen gaming hardware from both Microsoft and Sony. While gamers on both sides of the fence are chomping at the bit for some new hardware, the Xbox 360 and PS3 have managed to push the limits year after year, honestly impressing us despite their 5+-year age. With that said, as we begin to inch towards the spring months rumors are once again kicking into high gear. And wouldn’t you know it, the...

Originally scheduled for a late-2011 release, AMD’s next-gen Radeon 7900 series of graphics cards will reportedly (finally) debut in early 2012 (specifically January), according to a report by Fudzilla. Codenamed “Tahiti”, the 7900 series will be based off of AMD’s 28-nm architecture and be a rather important upgrade as it will be the first product line to support the company’s new raphics Core Next (GCN) architecture — this will allow...