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Roundup September 2016: Gamer Rebellion, a Road Trip And a Store Opening
I know last month I said the same thing, that we had a packed month with lots of events going on and all, but if I thought last month was hectic, I clearly didn’t know what hectic meant. September has been a hectic month, with an average of 1.25 events each week( haha, yeah I did the math). Events was pretty much the overarching theme for the month really. If there was one thing that defined the month it would have to be Gamer Rebellion. For those who didn’t hear about it or have heard about it and don’t quite know what it is, Gamer Rebellion is an initiative that we started wherein we went from college to college showcasing some of the best gaming hardware in the market right now. It all started with the launch of the RX 480 in India that we hosted in Radisson, Blu Dwar...
Gamer Rebellion — Indraprastha University
The Gaming Central team just got back from the second Gamer Rebellion at Indraprastha University, Dwarka and it was pretty damn good. First off a shout out to all the guys and three girls who made it to the event. It was great meeting all these students who were extremely helpful and way too polite (they kept calling me sir!). Gurnoor and I started the show with our lame jokes and constant fumbling up of words, but the students seemed to have a blast though. We had presentations by Shrey and Manas about AMD, G2A and Gaming Central. After which we did an interactive quiz with the attendees and gave away some goodies. We also had Nishant with us (the guy who won a RX 480 at it’s launch) and we presented him with his brand new RX 480. After that we opened the floor for the students to e...
Indie Game Jam Event Round Up
Last weekend, that is the 27th-28th of August, we got to be a part of something quite spectacular, The Indie Game Jame. A competition where game developers were to make a game around a given theme within a 24 hour time limit. Now this isn’t your regular competition where people are biting each other’s heads off to get in front. This event was more casual than our office’s dress code (and I wear shorts to work). Teams were encouraged to interact with each other, share ideas and even help competitors if they so wished. The aim for the 24 hour long marathon was simple -create a kickass playable prototype based on the themes announced on the spot. The winner gets INR 40,000 on the spot and additional funding support to complete the game. Before the event kicked off, Piyush an...
Review: AMD Radeon RX 480 Graphics Card
AMD had the world on its heels when they revealed the RX 480, a card aimed to bring high-end performance at a low cost. Priced at USD 200, it may just be the cheapest VR ready card in the market, with the best performance/dollar spent. Take a look at the specs. RADEON™ RX 480 GRAPHICS GCN ARCHITECTURE 4th Generation COMPUTE UNITS 36 STREAM PROCESSORS 2304 CLOCK SPEEDS (BOOST / BASE) 1266 MHz / 1120 MHz PEAK PERFORMANCE Up to 5.8 TFLOPS MEMORY SPEED (EFFECTIVE) 7 Gbps or higher MEMORY BANDWIDTH 224 GB/s or higher MEMORY INTERFACE 256 bit MEMORY TYPE GDDR5 BOARD POWER 150W AMD FREESYNC™ TECHNOLOGY Yes DIRECTX® 12 SUPPORT Yes VULKAN™ SUPPORT Yes VIRTUAL SUPER RESOLUTION Yes HDMI VERSION 2.0b DISPLAYPORT VERSION 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready The reference version of the RX 480 is a single fan radiat...
Prices For The Radeon RX 480 Further Dropped In India
AMD has just announced a decrease in retail price of the Radeon RX 480. This is part of AMD’s commitment to provide premium technology to the Indian market engineered to deliver the best performance at the best price in its class, democratize VR and deliver a wide range of future-proof technologies supporting current and forthcoming game and video standards. 4 GB variant – The new MSRP is INR 20,990 including taxes, a reduction of INR 2,000 from the previously stated INR 22,990 including taxes 8 GB variant – The new MSRP is INR 22,990 including taxes, a reduction of INR 4,000 from the previously stated INR 26,990 including taxes This price reduction will surely tend to boost the RX 480’s market presence as it makes probably makes it the cheapest card to offer premium VR experience. N...
AMD Radeon Graphics Leading Directx12 Performance
Futuremark® has today released its newest benchmark, 3DMark® Time Spy, and Radeon™ graphics results further demonstrate AMD’s performance leadership in DirectX® 12. AMD has secured the pole position in the DirectX 12 era, building out its roster of DirectX 12 games, many of which are extensively tuned for the Graphics Core Next and Polaris architecture. The DirectX 12 ecosystem is rapidly expanding as developers adopt the low-overhead API. With its wide range of industry partnerships, AMD has led DirectX 12 performance for the vast majority of game titles and benchmarks, including Ashes of the Singularity™, Hitman™, Total War™: Warhammer and the Total War™: Warhammer DX12 benchmark build, Quantum Break™, Gears of War™ and Forza APEX™. With DirectX 12, AMD products can deliver higher framer...
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060 Revealed
NVIDIA has finally revealed their response to the RX 480, AMD’s high performance budget GPU – the GTX 1060. The card promises huge improvements, claimed by NVIDIA to be faster than the GTX 980 which comes at a price tag of about $400, while the GTX 1060 is said to cost only around $250. The GPU will have 1280 CUDA Cores, a base clock speed of 1.5 GHz with about 6 GB of GDDR5 memory running at 8 Gbits/s. It will have about 4.4 Teraflops of computing power and is said to be VR ready with a TDP of only about 120 W. If the card delivers on what it promises, you can have a great GPU to run all your games in high settings without them straining your wallet. But while these specifications sound impressive on paper, we still need to find out how the card performs in real life and wheth...
New RX 480 Drivers Fix Excess Power Draw Issue
RX 480 driver update – Radeon Software 16.7.1- is now available. This follows the concerns around excess current from the PCIe bus. In this driver AMD has implemented a change to address power distribution on the Radeon RX 480 – this change will lower current drawn from the PCIe bus. Also included is an option to reduce total power with minimal performance impact. Users will find this as the “compatibility” UI toggle in the Global Settings menu of Radeon Settings. This toggle is “off” by default. Finally, they’ve implemented a collection of performance improvements for the Polaris architecture that yield performance uplifts in popular game titles of up to 3%. These optimizations are designed to improve the performance of the Radeon RX 480, and should substantially offset the p...
AMD RX 480 Price and Leaked Benchmarks: Both Better than Expected
Disclaimer: Gaming Central does not vouch for the accuracy of any of these benchmarks. They were leaked online and were deleted soon after. However, a YouTuber by the name of Alex was able to quickly upload these on his channel. The AMD Radeon RX 480 is available in two variants, a 4 GB and 8 GB . Powered by 2304 cores, this card is capable of gameplay at very high resolutions and VR as well. The memory on the Radeon RX 480 graphics card is clocked at 8 GB/s which gives us a total of 256 GB/s bandwidth on the graphics board along a 256-bit wide bus interface. Here are the specifications as given by TechPowerup. With these amazing specifications, it’s hard not to expect an equally amazing performance. And for a price tag of $200, the RX480 is a beast. Without further ado, let’s...
AMD Launches the Radeon Rebellion with the Radeon™ RX 480 Graphics Card
Today a revolution in PC gaming and VR began as AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) launched the Radeon™ RX 480 graphics card designed to deliver enthusiast-level gaming performance and features, the world’s most advanced graphics technology and an extraordinary value proposition to fans and gamers around the world. The Radeon™ RX 480 introduces premium technology engineered to deliver the best performance/$ in its class, democratize VR and deliver a wide range of future-proof technologies2 supporting current and forthcoming game and video standards. The cards will start at SEP $199 USD for the Radeon™ RX 480 4GB card, and SEP $239 for the Radeon™ RX 480 8GB card. Details regarding the new Radeon™ RX 480 graphics card and related technologies are available at AMD’s new gamer-focused website, Radeon.com. “Ou...