TweetYes, it’s true, the new AMD Radeon HD 6800 series of cards (Barts core) perform slightly worse than the previous generation of 5800 series cards … on purpose. It might be hard to wrap your head around the concept of increasing a model number while decreasing performance but AMD’s thinking is that they wanted to [...]
TweetIn the name of Science, we destroy. In this case, the $79 million LCROSS spacecraft NASA sent crashing into the Cabeus crater at the south pole of the Moon on October 9th, 2009. Now the reports are in and what did we find? Water, and lots of it … compared to, you know, what you’d [...]
TweetOK, so you can’t really buy it or anything but at least AMD is finally showing off hardware prototypes of it’s 32nm Llano APU (Accelerated Processing Unit, according to AMD). No idea what any of that mean? I forgive you, it’s been a while since AMD promised us this golden age. The Fusion APU’s are [...]
TweetThat image, dear friends, is the future. Well, OK, the future of ATI AMD’s line of Radeon video cards anyway. And for the moment, that’s about all we know. AMD teased us with a barrage of images but the specs will have to wait until a Friday reveal. Until then I can tell you that [...]
TweetThe story goes like this: a professor in Sweden, who wishes to remain anonymous, places his bag containing laptop, keys, credit cards, calendar and various important documents under the stairwell in his apartment complex while he goes to the laundry room. When he comes back, the bag is gone, naturally. The most upsetting for him [...]
