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AMD Named Brand Of The Year In Trusted Reviews’ Best Tech 2017 Awards
AMD has won twice at the prestigious Trusted Reviews Awards 2017, including the reader’s choice of “Best Tech 2017 Brand of the Year” and “PC Component of the Year” for AMD and for the AMD Ryzen™ processors, respectively. Trusted Reviews, a highly respected news and media website in London, UK, is a comprehensive source of independent expert reviews, user reviews and news about consumer electronics, and holds their annual awards celebrating the very best products launched in the tech world each year. “AMD redefined what gamers could expect from their PCs this year, which is a major factor in winning the reader-voted award. In doing so, it beat Samsung, Apple, and Intel,” said Evan Kypreos, Editor of Trusted Reviews, at its 10th annual Trusted Reviews Awards. “The award tops off a sterling ...
AMD Reveals Its Most Powerful GPUs with Vega at Siggraph 2017
Finally, the wait is over. At Siggraph 2017, AMD revealed its most powerful range of graphics cards. Known as Vega, these GPUs are aimed at the high-end gaming enthusiast market. The RX Vega family of cards will launch with two major variants, the Radeon RX Vega 56 and the Radeon RX Vega 64 on 14th August. Vega 56 is the base model, comes with 56 compute units and will come at a price on USD 399. On the other hand, the Vega 64 has 64 compute units and will cost about USD 499. Both cards will have 8GB of VRAM. Additionally, AMD is also releasing three different packs, each with its own sets of features. Both the Vega 56 and 64 are air cooled by default, but there will also be a liquid cooled version of Vega 64 which is only available as part of one of the aforementioned Radeon packs. Each p...