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AMD Ryzen Z1 Series announced for handhelds, ASUS ROG Ally first to get it

By Liam Dawe, 25 Apr 2023

After many leaks, AMD has now formally announced their brand new Ryzen Z1 Series, which directly target the handheld gaming space like the Steam Deck.

HDR and Colour Management patches for Steam Deck + AMD GPUs under review

By Liam Dawe, 24 Apr 2023

Developer Melissa Wen recently sent in patches to improve HDR and Colour Management on Linux for Steam Deck and potentially other AMD GPUs.

Driver updates for AMD RADV to give nice boost for Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 12 Apr 2023

The upcoming Mesa driver 23.1 release is sounding like it's going to be pretty great, with the Graphics Pipeline Library ("GPL") being enabled by default, plus we're looking at smaller shader cache sizes too.

AMD RADV driver will soon stop eating RAM with some games

By Liam Dawe, 28 Mar 2023

Developer Mike Blumenkrantz has continued blogging about Linux graphics driver improvements, with a fix from developer Samuel Pitoiset landing to stop the AMD RADV (Vulkan) driver eating up RAM.

AMD detail more on FSR 3 and their new open source FidelityFX SDK

By Liam Dawe, 24 Mar 2023

AMD had plenty to show off at GDC, and they've done a bit of a summary and some of it is quite exciting for future games.

AMD releases source code for FidelityFX FSR2 v2.2

By Liam Dawe, 16 Feb 2023

Last year AMD announced FSR version 2.2 and today AMD has actually released the source code on GitHub for FidelityFX FSR2 v2.2.

AMD reveal prices and availability for Ryzen 7000X3D CPU series

By Liam Dawe, 2 Feb 2023

AMD has now revealed how much you can expect to be poorer by when picking up one of the new 7000X3D CPUs, along with release dates.

AMD GPU driver on Linux and Steam Deck to get big improvement on stuttering problems

By Liam Dawe, 31 Jan 2023

The work to improve gaming performance on Steam Deck and Linux desktops for AMD GPUs is always ongoing, and it seems we're set for another nice improvement to how smooth games are.

System76 teasing new fully AMD powered Pangolin Linux laptop

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jan 2023

System76 saw your many comments and they're going to deliver. The Pangolin is making a return, powered by all AMD.

AMD reveal Ryzen 7000 X3D processors, desktop 65W CPUs and new mobile chips

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2023

AMD came out with a bang at CES with a whole bunch of new products, including some impressive looking X3D processors added to the Ryzen 7000 lineup.

AMD Ray Tracing on Linux gets closer with Mesa enabling specific games

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2023

The work going into the open source Mesa graphics drivers continues on, with AMD Ray Tracing picking up speed and they're going to enable Quake II RTX and Doom Eternal support by default now.

AMD Radeon RX 7000 launched today for the select few able to beat the crowds

By Liam Dawe, 13 Dec 2022

AMD has today released the Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs starting with the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Radeon RX 7900 XT.

Mesa 22.3 open source graphics drivers released

By Liam Dawe, 1 Dec 2022

Mesa 22.3 is the latest and greatest the open source community has to offer for graphics drivers, and it's now available with lots of improvements.

FSR 2.1 is a game-changer for Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 9 Nov 2022

Cyberpunk 2077 from CD PROJEKT RED recently had a big 1.61 patch out, and with it came support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 2.1.

AMD becomes a 'Diamond' sponsor of OBS Studio

By Liam Dawe, 7 Nov 2022

The team behind OBS Studio announced that AMD have become a Diamond Sponsor of the OBS Project, helping fund future development.

AMD announce RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT, plus FSR3 teased

By Liam Dawe, 3 Nov 2022

Today at the AMD "together we advance_gaming" event, AMD revealed their new RDNA3 architecture along with the RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT GPUs.

AMD to fully reveal next-gen AMD Radeon RDNA 3 in November

By Liam Dawe, 20 Oct 2022

A short but sweet announcement was sent out by AMD today, as they've now set a date for when they will fully reveal AMD Radeon RDNA 3, their next-gen GPU architecture.

AMD driver update gets Red Dead Redemption 2 working better on Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe, 3 Oct 2022

Are you having issues with Red Dead Redemption 2 on either the Steam Deck or a Linux desktop with an AMD GPU? Well, upcoming driver updates should improve it.