What's AMD (formerly ATi) up to?

[powerarmour]

AMD Trinity On The Desktop: A10, A8, And A6 Get Benchmarked! :-

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/a10 ... ,3224.html

Not bad, and I like the look of that 65W A10-5700

Piledriver is improved over Bulldozer also, still not enough to compete with Intel CPU for clock wise, but definitely a step in the right direction.

[ashland_thunder]

Has anyone tried to download AMD video drivers lately? Once I pick my card and OS it tries to go to the download page and says it can't find it.

[Seawolf]

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pa ... ver1.aspx/ ?
what card?

[impar]

Greetings!

Has anyone tried to download AMD video drivers lately? Once I pick my card and OS it tries to go to the download page and says it can't find it.

Been updating the drivers whenever the popup from a "new driver available" appears. Handy.

[Tabajara]

Greetings!

Has anyone tried to download AMD video drivers lately? Once I pick my card and OS it tries to go to the download page and says it can't find it.

Been updating the drivers whenever the popup from a "new driver available" appears. Handy.

Same happens at my work PC, you don't even need to restart your PC.

[thegrommit]

http://techreport.com/review/24086/a-fi ... n-hd-8790m

Traditionally, testing mobile GPUs involves using pre-assembled laptops. That can make comparisons with other offerings tricky, especially when you want to benchmark a previous-gen part that may only be available inside older systems with outdated CPUs.

With the help of AMD, we've tried a different approach this time. AMD supplied the aforementioned GPUs—the Radeon HD 8790M and 7690M—as bare MXM modules, each one with its own, dedicated cooler. For our test platform, AMD sent us an MXM to PCI Express x16 adapter alongside an off-the-shelf desktop processor, motherboard, and memory.

AMD's choice of CPU to showcase their latest mobile GPU was amusing.

[powerarmour]

AMD's choice of CPU to showcase their latest mobile GPU was amusing.

You could never imagine that happening the other way around though!

[thegrommit]

Seems AMD will be removing the auto-update feature from CCC:

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pa ... ation.aspx

[Tabajara]

Seems AMD will be removing the auto-update feature from CCC:

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pa ... ation.aspx

They should, the auto-update brought a defective opengl driver. Now opening google maps freezes the PC, and I think that was the only forced reboot it needed in a long while...

The must have happened in thousands, maybe millions, of Lenovo corporate desktops

[powerarmour]

GPU drivers these days are like mini operating systems, no way should they be auto updated IMHO.

The folks most likely to get burned by a bad driver update, are the ones that wouldn't care about updating their drivers anyway...