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The Division 2 | First Impressions (Proactive)edit
Anirudh has made an effort to walk the viewers through the gaming experience while putting different skills to use. He says, the game looks beautiful and is using RX 590.
The video has received about 8K views and 175 Likes.
Publication: Youtube (Anirudh Regidi’s – r4gs)
AMD To Power Google’s New Video Game Streaming Service; Shares Up 9%edit
Shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) are currently up 9% on Tuesday after Alphabet’s Google confirmed that the chipmaker will power its new game streaming platform. Earlier on Tuesday Google had unveiled a new game streaming platform called Stadia. At the event in connection with the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Google executives said the partnership with AMD will lead to thousands of exclusive custom AMD gaming chips in Alphabet data centers to run Stadia.
Publication: RTT News
AMD has a ‘significant’ opportunity from Google’s cloud gaming initiativeedit
AMD has a “significant” opportunity from Google’s cloud gaming initiative, Morgan Stanley says. In February, AMD revealed that it has been working with Google’s Project Stream, a video game-streaming service it began testing late last year. CEO Lisa Su announced during a CES 2019 keynote that Google’s service is using AMD’s Radeon GPUs.
Publication: Business Insider
AMD Says Not to Count on Exotic Materials for CPUs in the Next Ten Years, Silicon Is Still Computing’s Best Friendedit
AMD’s senior VP of AMD’s datacentre group Forrest Norrod, at the Rice Oil and Gas HPC conference, said that while graphene does have incredible promise for the world of computing, it likely will take some ten years before such exotic material are actually taken advantage off. As Norrod puts it, silicon still has a pretty straightforward – if increasingly complex – path down to 3 nanometer densities. And according to him, at the rate manufacturers are being able to scale down their production nodes further, the average time between node transitions stands at some four or five years – which makes the jump to 5 nm and then 3 nm look exactly some 10 years from now, where Norrod expects ...
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Google Stadia Specs Revealed – 16GB RAM, 10.7 TFLOP GPU, SSD Storage, And Moreedit
Google announced that their hardware uses a custom x86 CPU (which is best for compatibility with PC, PlayStation, and Xbox), with a 9.5MB L2+L3 cache and AVX2 SIMD. They also have a custom AMD GPU with 10.7 TFLOPs of power, HBM2 memory, and 56 compute units; 16GB of RAM, with bandwidth of up to 484 GB/s, and SSD storage.
Publication: Gaming Bolt
Apple announced refreshed 4K iMac and 5K iMac with 9th Gen Intel CPU and AMD Vega Pro GPUedit
The Apple iMac 4K comes with a 21.5-inch 4k (4096×2304 pixels) retina display, offering up to 500 nits of brightness comes with a starting price tag of Rs 1,19,900. The entry-level model is powered by the 7th Gen Intel Core-i5 Hexa-core processor with AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 GPU. The entry-level model is powered by the 7th Gen Intel Core-i5 Hexa-core processor with AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 GPU.
Publication: GizBot
Sharkoon Unveils WPM Gold ZERO Semi-modular Power Supply Seriesedit
RYZEN Compatible and Semi-Modular The semi-modular design enables the tidy and uncomplicated installation of the power supply, and the cables can be selected and installed according to the needs of the user. The exceptions to this are the cables for the ATX and the 4+4-pin CPU connections. The CPU cable supplies optimal power also to high-performance systems. Even PCs with AMD RYZEN processors can be operated without any additional adapters via one of the two PCIe / CPU sockets, which can also be used for connecting to graphics cards.
Publication: Tech Power Up
Dell launches Alienware Area-51m, Alienware m15 and Dell G7 gaming laptops in Indiaedit
*Enables full support for the Alienware Graphics Amplifier enabling dedicated PCI-Express bandwidth for desktop graphics cards from NVIDIA or AMD
* Thermal control: Alienware’s Advanced Cryo-Tech 2.0 technology platform offers the most robust notebook cooling solution yet moving more CFM of ambient air than any previous Alienware notebook
Publication: Var India
AI in Sports is Likely to be Very Lucrative Market in Upcoming Yearsedit
Some of the key players evaluated during the study includes; 24/7.ai Inc., Active.Ai, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Inc., AIBrian Inc., Amazon Inc., Anodot, AOL Inc., Apple Inc, ARM Limited, Atmel Corporation, Baidu Inc., Cisco Systems, DeepScale, Digital Reasoning Systems Inc., Directly, Facebook Inc., Fujitsu Ltd., Gamaya, Gemalto N.V., General Electric (GE), General Vision Inc., Google Inc., Graphcore, H2O.ai, Haier Group Corporation, Haptik, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., IBM Corporation, Imagen Technologies, Inbenta Technologies Inc., Intel Corporation, InteliWISE, IPsoft Inc., iRobot Corp., Juniper Networks, Inc., Koninklijke Philips N.V, Kreditech.
Publication: IT News Online
RPCS3 Emulator Shows Exceptional Progress in Latest Update Videoedit
Multiple titles have seen tremendous gains thanks to Nekotekina, who managed to approximate Xfloat. This has allowed more games to benefit from the SPU LLVM recompiler which delivers better performance compared to ASMJTT. It also results in LLVM seeing better compatibility with a broader range of titles that before did not run with it or had game breaking issues. They also demonstrated Improvements to SPU cache building with LLVM now being multi-threaded. This change cut the cache build time from 12 minutes and 34 seconds to a 1 minutes 28 seconds on an AMD Ryzen 7 1700.
Publication: Tech Power Up
Principled Technologies Compares VM Migration Between Intel Processor-Based Servers and Between Servers Based on Different Processor Architecturesedit
According to the report, “If your company selected servers powered by the AMD EPYC processor, you would not be able to carry out live migrations between existing servers powered by Intel processors and the AMD processor-based servers. The data center would, in effect, have two separate pools of servers and the mobility of VMs would remain limited for the life of those servers.”
Publication: Biz Wire Express
NVIDIA to Enable DXR Ray Tracing on GTX (10- and 16-series) GPUs in April Drivers Updateedit
Following AMD’s claims on software-based real-time ray tracing in games, and Crytek’s Neon Noir real-time ray tracing demo for both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, it makes sense in hindsight that NVIDIA would allow rudimentary DXR ray tracing support to older hardware that do not support RT cores. In particular, an upcoming drivers update next month will allow DXR support for 10-series Pascal-microarchitecture graphics cards (GTX 1060 6 GB and higher), as well as the newly announced GTX 16-series Turing-microarchitecture GPUs (GTX 1660, GTX 1660 Ti).
Publication: Tech Power Up
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Sharkoon Unveils WPM Gold ZERO Semi-modular Power Supply Seriesedit
RYZEN Compatible and Semi-Modular The semi-modular design enables the tidy and uncomplicated installation of the power supply, and the cables can be selected and installed according to the needs of the user. The exceptions to this are the cables for the ATX and the 4+4-pin CPU connections. The CPU cable supplies optimal power also to high-performance systems. Even PCs with AMD RYZEN processors can be operated without any additional adapters via one of the two PCIe / CPU sockets, which can also be used for connecting to graphics cards.
Publication: Tech Power Up
Building a killer 4K gaming rigedit
At Digit, if there’s one thing everyone loves, it’s gaming. Our team consists of people who are hardcore console lovers, those who proudly claim to belong to the PC Master Race and those who flip-flop between the two platforms. However, when Nvidia announced the new RTX cards, perspectives shifted and we decided to build the best possible gaming PC to understand just how much of a difference does RTX even make, visually. So, we reached out to some of our friends and here is a list of what we used to build the machine.
Publication: Digit
Principled Technologies Compares VM Migration Between Intel Processor-Based Servers and Between Servers Based on Different Processor Architecturesedit
According to the report, “If your company selected servers powered by the AMD EPYC processor, you would not be able to carry out live migrations between existing servers powered by Intel processors and the AMD processor-based servers. The data center would, in effect, have two separate pools of servers and the mobility of VMs would remain limited for the life of those servers.”
Publication: Biz Wire Express
NVIDIA to Enable DXR Ray Tracing on GTX (10- and 16-series) GPUs in April Drivers Updateedit
Following AMD’s claims on software-based real-time ray tracing in games, and Crytek’s Neon Noir real-time ray tracing demo for both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, it makes sense in hindsight that NVIDIA would allow rudimentary DXR ray tracing support to older hardware that do not support RT cores. In particular, an upcoming drivers update next month will allow DXR support for 10-series Pascal-microarchitecture graphics cards (GTX 1060 6 GB and higher), as well as the newly announced GTX 16-series Turing-microarchitecture GPUs (GTX 1660, GTX 1660 Ti).
Publication: Tech Power Up
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Asus ROG Zephyrus S GX701 hands-on reviewedit
The best of the best gaming laptops usually come to the Stuff HQ either in a bag big enough to fit an annoying colleague and have it shipped to the Himalayas or a Military grade suitcase that can withstand a stampede. Not here, the Zephyrus series has changed the trend of bulky gaming laptops.
Publication: Stuff
Dell launches Alienware Area-51m, Alienware m15 and Dell G7 gaming laptops in Indiaedit
*Enables full support for the Alienware Graphics Amplifier enabling dedicated PCI-Express bandwidth for desktop graphics cards from NVIDIA or AMD
* Thermal control: Alienware’s Advanced Cryo-Tech 2.0 technology platform offers the most robust notebook cooling solution yet moving more CFM of ambient air than any previous Alienware notebook
Publication: Var India
ASUS Announces ZenBook 14 (UX431)edit
ASUS has announced ZenBook 14 (UX431). It balances value and performance to deliver a sleek, sophisticated ultraportable that doesn’t compromise on power. This premium laptop is packed full of the latest technology that includes 8th Generation Intel®Core™processors, NVIDIA®GeForce®MX150 graphics, up to 16GB of RAM, ample SSD storage space and the latest connectivity options. The ZenBook 14 is available now, in two configurations, starting at $999.99.
Publication: IT Nerd Blog
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Building a killer 4K gaming rigedit
At Digit, if there’s one thing everyone loves, it’s gaming. Our team consists of people who are hardcore console lovers, those who proudly claim to belong to the PC Master Race and those who flip-flop between the two platforms. However, when Nvidia announced the new RTX cards, perspectives shifted and we decided to build the best possible gaming PC to understand just how much of a difference does RTX even make, visually. So, we reached out to some of our friends and here is a list of what we used to build the machine.
Publication: Digit
AI in Sports is Likely to be Very Lucrative Market in Upcoming Yearsedit
Some of the key players evaluated during the study includes; 24/7.ai Inc., Active.Ai, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Inc., AIBrian Inc., Amazon Inc., Anodot, AOL Inc., Apple Inc, ARM Limited, Atmel Corporation, Baidu Inc., Cisco Systems, DeepScale, Digital Reasoning Systems Inc., Directly, Facebook Inc., Fujitsu Ltd., Gamaya, Gemalto N.V., General Electric (GE), General Vision Inc., Google Inc., Graphcore, H2O.ai, Haier Group Corporation, Haptik, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., IBM Corporation, Imagen Technologies, Inbenta Technologies Inc., Intel Corporation, InteliWISE, IPsoft Inc., iRobot Corp., Juniper Networks, Inc., Koninklijke Philips N.V, Kreditech.
Publication: IT News Online
RPCS3 Emulator Shows Exceptional Progress in Latest Update Videoedit
Multiple titles have seen tremendous gains thanks to Nekotekina, who managed to approximate Xfloat. This has allowed more games to benefit from the SPU LLVM recompiler which delivers better performance compared to ASMJTT. It also results in LLVM seeing better compatibility with a broader range of titles that before did not run with it or had game breaking issues. They also demonstrated Improvements to SPU cache building with LLVM now being multi-threaded. This change cut the cache build time from 12 minutes and 34 seconds to a 1 minutes 28 seconds on an AMD Ryzen 7 1700.
Publication: Tech Power Up
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