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I do know that many of us love gaming, although our gaming priorities have been changed somewhat to accommodate the mobile lifestyle in the form of portable consoles, smartphones and tablets. Gaming on a laptop is not something that most folks do, but this does not mean that road warriors should do away with all sorts of games and focus solely on work alone. No sir, MSI’s announcement of their latest GX Destroyer Series boasts of an AMD A10 processor, an AMD Radeon R9-M290X graphics chipset as well as a slew of gaming features that were specially designed to deliver optimal performance.

Thanks to MSI’s GX Destroyer Series, avid gamers would not find dropped frame rates when playing on this unique laptop, since it comes with the perfect combination of multimedia capability and gaming performance. Specially equipped with AMD’s state-of-the-art mobile processor, both the GX70 and GX60 Destroyers will sport AMD’s latest GPU and its proprietary Mantle Graphics technology, where gaming performance is improved so that your eyes will be able to enjoy a higher resolution count, smoother gameplay as well as a more immersive gaming experience.

Apart from that, the GX Destroyer units happen to be the first gaming laptops that feature MSI’s Dragon Gaming Center, which is a gaming shortcut key that has been specially designed to maximize performance and speed through the inclusion of full system check-ups. This enables an instant configuration of your machine to your preset gaming environment profile, while doing away with unnecessary background applications so that processing power is increased and applied in the right manner. “Right” here meaning for your game, and not to crunch spreadsheets.

Apart from that, the GX Destroyer Series would also boast of the Killer E2200 Game Networking card for lag-free gaming, SoundBlaster Cinema for ultra-realistic sound, MSI’s Cooler Boost and Audio Boost technology and AMD’s Eyefinity technology. Sounds like a decent belated Christmas present for yourself, no?

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AMD might have already unveiled their HD 8000M series graphics back in December and at CES 2013, but they left out a certain chip in particular and saved it for today. The company unveiled the Radeon HD 8970M, which they claim is the world’s fastest laptop graphics chip, saying that it outpaces NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 680M graphics.

The new chip features AMD’s new “Graphics Core Next” architecture, and it’s quite a big jump up from the company’s HD 8800M series. The 8970M features 1,280 stream processors, and a clock speed of 850MHz with a memory speed of 1.2GHz. The new chip should be able to handle pretty much any new game you throw at it on your laptop.

As for the first laptop to get the new 8970M, it’ll be the MSI GX70, which will come with an AMD A10 quad-core processor, Eyefinity support, Killer gaming network card, and will have a 17.3-inch display with a 1920×1080 resolution. However, we should be seeing more laptops with the new graphics chip later this year, possibly next month at Computex.

Of course, you’ll be paying a pretty penny for any machine that will run AMD’s latest graphics chip, with the GX70 most likely exceeding well over $1,000, but they also have slower 8000M series chips that the company unveiled in January, including the 8500M, 8600M, and the 8700M. Of course, the 8500M may not live up to AMD’s 8970M chip, but the 384 stream processors along with the 650MHz clock speed and 1,125MHz memory speed should keep you humming along with most games while on the go.

AMD Radeon HD 8970M claims world’s fastest laptop graphics crown is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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During this year’s Computex, one of the products that caught our eyes was this Shuttle XPC (model: SZ77R5). It is a fairly small machine so you tend to walk by very quickly, however we stopped to read the specifications sheet of this little black box claiming to be a fully-fledged gaming rig. First impression was quite obviously “yea, like this baby case will… “
After agreeing to test one of these XPC (eXtreme PC) models, we have to admit there is a lot more than meets the …

AMD has been suffering a conspicuous brain drain, with executives like ATI veteran Rick Bergman and CTO Eric Demers crossing over to tangentially or directly competitive companies like NVIDIA and Qualcomm. Chalk up another one for the list — strategic development VP Bob Feldstein has bounded towards NVIDIA’s (literally) greener pastures. The blow cuts deeper than usual through Feldstein’s responsibility for graphics in most of the consoles from the past few years: he headed up work behind the Xenos chip in earlier Xbox 360s and the Hollywood core in the Wii, and he likely had some say in the Wii U’s video hardware as well. While the staff shuffle won’t directly affect AMD’s Fusion processors or Radeon cards, it’s hard to see much of a positive for AMD’s future in video gaming, even in the light of rumors that the next PlayStation and Xbox might use some of Feldstein’s work.

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AMD exec behind Wii and Xbox 360 graphics jumps the fence to NVIDIA originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Poor AMD. While Chipzilla just keeps shattering its own earnings records, the little company that could from Sunnyvale is struggling to chug its way uphill. Its total revenue of $1.57 billion represents a two-percent drop from the last quarter and five percent from the same time last year. Total profits fell from half a billion in Q1 to just $61 million. News was particularly bad at the graphics division which saw revenues plummet 11 percent from Q1. In total, the former ATI brand lost $7 million. It’s not all bad news, though — the company did ship a record number of mobile CPUs, won some awards, and increased its presence on the top 500 super computer list by 15 percent. That’s gotta count for something right?

[Thanks, Matt]

AMD earnings continue to drop despite record CPU sales, GPU business loses $7 million originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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