
AMD rumoured to be revising Polaris
RUMOUR 50 percent improvement per watt
While no-one had expected much from AMD before Vega in the next few months, it appears the outfit is going to ship revised versions of the Polaris 10 and 11 graphics chips.

Graphics card makers doing rather well
Nvidia's big names making big cash
Demand from the gaming market and VR is pushing up demand for graphics cards, and some of the big players are laughing all the way to the bank.

Shadow Warrior 2 brings new Nvidia stuff
Among other Nvidia GameWorks visual effects
Shadow Warrior 2 is already out and has been getting some really good reviews and it appears that there are plenty of graphics effects including support for plenty of Nvidia GameWorks effects including support for Multi-Res Shading, which is a first for a non-VR PC game.

Kingpin breaks 40K barrier
With four EVGA Titan X Pascal graphics cards on LN2
Vince K|ngp|n Lucido is the first overclocker that has broken the 40K score barrier in Futuremark's 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme benchmark by running four EVGA Titan X Pascal graphics cards on LN2.

Brings official support for Oculus Asynchronous Spacewarp
AMD has released a WHQL-certified version of its earlier Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.10.1 drivers, which bring the same game optimizations as well as official support for the recently unveiled Oculus Asynchronous Spacewarp feature.