AMD specific news
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT Specs and Slide Leaked: 8GB GDDR6, 9.75 TFLOPs FP32 and 40 CUsedit
AMD is expected to reveal the RDNA based Radeon RX 5000 GPUs tomorrow at the Horizon Next Gaming event, but it seems like someone has already gotten their hands on the slides meant for the show. The leaked picture mentions the entire GPU specs, and also includes a picture of the Radeon RX 5700XT, the GPU expected to go up against the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070.
Publication: Techquila
AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 GL XTA Appears in Drivers: Radeon Pro Vega II?edit
AMD recently launched the Radeon Pro Vega II graphics card that will debut in the newly announced MacBook Pro workstation. The GPU features the complete Vega 20 die with 4,096 shaders (64CUs) paired with 32GB of HBM2 memory and a 4096-bit wide bus, resulting in a massive bandwidth of 1TB/s. The cores run at a maximum frequency of 1.7GHz, with a base clock of 1.57GHz. The memory is clocked at 800MHz, and the super-wide bus makes up for the low speed, one of the signature features of HBM memory.
Publication: Techquila
AMD to Talk about Ray Tracing on Navi at Next Horizon Gaming Event at E3edit
AMD mainly focused on the Zen 2 based Ryzen 3000 and Epyc “Rome” processors at its Computex keynote, and rightly so. These 7nm chips probably sent shivers down Intel’s 14nm spine. However, the Navi GPUs were briefly discussed, with the focus on the new RDNA macro-architecture designed specifically for gamers.
Publication: Techquila
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Running on X370 Motherboard Spottededit
AMD was quick to point out that the 1st Gen Ryzen motherboards might not support the 3rd Gen Zen 2 CPUs. The lower-end A320 board will completely lack support for the new processors while the B350 and X370 platforms may or may not be compatible depending on the OEM. We’ve already seen multiple benchmarks of the Ryzen 5 3600, from GeekBench to Userbench and even SiSoft, but most of them were using an X570 board.
Publication: Techquila
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 SC Perf 25% Higher than R5 2600, 40% > R5 1600; On Par with Intel Coffee Lake (with Faster RAM)edit
The AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Geekbench and UserBenchmark scores were leaked soon after the global Zen 2 launch at Computex 2019. The 7nm based Zen 2 chips were faster than both the Ryzen 7 2700X as well as the Threadripper 1920X in both the single-threaded as well as multi-threaded tests, but a tad bit slower than the Coffee Lake chips on account of the slower clocks. Now, a Ryzen 5 3600 benchmark has surfaced with faster 3000MHz DDR4 memory and the CPU is even faster than the earlier leaked benchmark.
Publication: Techquila
AMD hints at ray tracing in the futureedit
AMD has hinted that it’s going to start working on ray tracing in the future, during the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2019 Global Technology Conference. But, of course, these discussions will happen after AMD Navi hits the streets.
Publication: NewsR Tech Radar
AMD to Release the World’s first 16-Core Gaming CPU at E3: Ryzen 9 3950Xedit
A major leak has confirmed the existence of a 16-core Ryzen 3000 series processor, the Ryzen 9 3950X. This top-end Zen 2 consumer part will be the world’s first 16C/32T gaming CPU with a boost clock of 4.7GHz and a TDP of 105W.
Publication: Techquila
AMD Might Launch 5 Radeon Navi Cards Based on the RDNA Architectureedit
AMD is going to announce the Radeon RX 5000 GPUs based on the brand new RDNA macro-architecture during the Next Horizon Gaming event on June 10th. As of now, the company has only spoken of one Navi GPU, namely the RX 5700 that’ll go up against NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 2070 (most likely at a lower price), but there has been evidence of multiple graphics cards being prepped for the mid-range gaming market, and going by AMD’s history, the company has almost always unveiled 2+ non-flagship GPUs at once.
Publication: Techquila
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Microsoft says the next Xbox will arrive late next year, and it’ll have faster loading times and incredible graphics hardwareedit
To that end, Microsoft is using AMD’s Navi processors, GDDR6 memory, and solid-state drives instead of traditional hard -drives. What all that means in English is that the next-generation Xbox console is using pretty similar tech to what Sony’s using with the PlayStation 5.
Publication: Business Insider Gaming Bolt Digital Conquerer IT News Online
Intel Challenges AMD to Beat it in “Real World Gaming”edit
AMD is on the verge of launching its 3rd generation Ryzen “Matisse” processors that are widely expected to take the performance crown from Intel. At its Computex 2019 reveal, AMD CEO Dr Lisa Su claimed that these processors beat the competition in all areas, including gaming. Motherboard manufacturers threw their weight behind AMD by pulling out their most premium brands for the AMD “Valhalla” desktop platform that consists of these processors, mated with an AMD X570 chipset motherboard. Ahead of its E3 2019 keynote Monday afternoon, Intel has come out with a challenge. Chipzilla dares AMD to beat it in “real-world gaming.”
Publication: Tech PowerUp
The Capabilities of Tensor Virtual Machine, an Open Deep Learning Compiler Stackedit
Tensor Virtual Machine or TVM is an open deep learning compiler stack to compile various deep learning models from different frameworks to the CPU, GPU or specialised accelerators. TVM supports model compilation from a wide range of frontends like TensorFlow, Onnx, Keras, Mxnet, Darknet, CoreML and Caffe2. TVM-compiled modules can be deployed on backends like LLVM (JavaScript or WASM, AMD GPU, ARM or X86), NVidia GPU (CUDA), OpenCL and Metal.
Publication: Open Source
PUBG Lite is Coming to India, Everything You Need to Knowedit
Recommended System Requirements
-OS: Windows 7,8,10 64Bit
-CPU: Core i5 @2.8Ghz
-RAM: 8GB
-GPU: Nvidia GTX 660 or AMD Radeon HD 7870
-HDD: 4GB
Publication: News18
Intel’s Twin River dual-screen laptop design is an ambitious attempt to change the status quoedit
It is almost impossible to imagine a laptop without Intel processor inside it. While AMD has re-emerged as a competitive force in the computing world with its Ryzen platform, the team Red is still a smaller force in laptops. The leverage Intel has with its superior platforms for laptop design allows the company to dictate the terms for evolution, like how Microsoft can dictate software design.
Publication: BGR.in
Next Xbox Specs: What To Expect From Microsoft’s Next Line-up of Consolesedit
Khronos—the folks who oversee Vulkan—have a listing of hardware that’s compatible with the API, and “Google Games Platform Gen 1” is listed as being based on the GCN 1.5 architecture (AKA Vega). For Google it makes sound business sense to leverage the Vega platform. Vega is a great choice for 4K gaming but neither the Vega 64 nor the 56 sold very well. AMD likely has a large inventory of unsold and binned Vega GPUs lying around—exactly what Google needs to build up a server infrastructure.
Publication: Gamingbolt
India Inc Leaders Now Walk the Green Talkedit
In Bengaluru, AMD’s India engineering lead Jaya Jagadish has invested ?25 lakh in powering her house completely using solar energy The extra units generated flows back through the grid to the state’s electricity board.
Publication: The Economic Times (Delhi) The Economic Times (Hyderabad) The Economic Times (Chennai) The Economic Times (Bangalore)
ASUS Announces TUF Gaming FX505DVedit
ASUS today announced TUF Gaming FX505DV, a gaming laptop that combines the latest AMD Ryzen™ processors and NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 2060 GPU with an up to 144Hz/3ms IPS-level NanoEdge display, delivering immersive, high-performance gaming at an affordable price.
Publication: IT Nerd
PUBG Lite for low-end PCs launching in India soonedit
PUBG Lite is confirmed to launch in India soon. The ‘Lite’ version of battle royale game, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds was launched in beta earlier this January.
Publication: Hindustan Times Business Today Jagran Gadgets 360 Zee Biz Times Now News Track
Can ‘Cricket 19’ score big?edit
PC version: Recommended system requirements include Windows 10, Intel Core i5, 8 GB RAM, AMD Radeon R9 390X/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, 25 GB space, and a game controller
Publication: Mint
Quake 2 RTX is Out now with Powerful Graphicsedit
Unfortunately, the game is not playable with GTX graphics card. To play this RTX edition, you need a GeForce RTX 2060 or higher RTX graphics card. If we talk about the other configurations, you will need an Intel Core i3-3220 or AMD equivalent processor with up to 8GB of RAM and 2GB of free space to handle the game.
Publication: Technocodex
PUBG PC Lite will be releasing soon in Indiaedit
GPU: Nvidia GTX 660 or AMD Radeon HD 7870
As for the availability, there is no fixed date published by the Tencent Games but it is expected to be arrived by the end of this month.
Publication: Technocodex
PUBG LITE is coming to India soon: Full PUBG experience for low-end PC with all weapons, vehicles and moreedit
If you have a PC with low-end specifications and are willing to try PUBG LITE when it comes out, here are the minimum system specifications required at least Intel Core i3 2.4Ghz, 4GB RAM, DirectX11 Intel HD Graphics 4000 and 4GB hard drive space. To get the best experience, you would require an Intel Core i5 2.8Ghz processor, 8GB RAM, up to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 / AMD Radeon HD 7870 and 4GB of storage
Publication: India Today
Week 23, 2019 Launch Roundup – Nokia 3.1 A, Nokia 3.1 C, Mac Pro 2019, Infinix Xband 3 And Moreedit
AMD Radeon Pro 580X / AMD Radeon Pro Vega II / Two AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo, each with 64 compute units and 4096 stream processors Two MPX Modules or up to four PCI Express card slots, Three full-length PCI Express gen 3 slots, One half-length x4 PCI Express gen 3 slot with Apple I/O card installed
Publication: Gizbot
Google Stadia will be launched in November; Here are the detailsedit
The most notable thing about Stadia is you don’t need expensive hardware for enjoying games. You can use your TV, smartphone, or computer for streaming high-end games. Actual games processing will be done on server computers located on Google Stadia’s data center. Google Stadia’s data centers are powered by a custom AMD GPU, which sports 10.7 teraflops of GPU power that makes it more powerful than Xbox One X (6.0) and PS4 Pro (4.2).
Publication: Techlo Media
AMD vs Intel: which chipmaker does processors better?edit
Although the battle between Coffee Lake Refresh and AMD Ryzen 2nd Generation is still raging on, the war between Ryzen 3rd Generation, Ice Lakeand Sunny Cove is about to begin. It’s also time for us to dive into the perennial deathmatch: AMD vs Intel. And, right now AMD is on top, selling twice as many processors.
Google Stadia Coming in November: Price, games list, supported devices and moreedit
Google Stadia draws the processing power from its data centers aided by a custom AMD GPU. Google claims the chip will deliver 10.7 teraflops of power, which is more than the combined processing might of PS4 Pro (4.2 teraflops) and Xbox One X(6 teraflops). Each Stadia instance will also be running on a custom 2.7GHz x86 processor with 16GB of RAM.
Publication: Smartprix
#GamingBytes: Google officially confirms Stadia’s pricing, availability, and gamesedit
All the processing is done on Google’s powerful machines with 2.7GHz x86 processors and 16GB RAM. Its custom AMD GPUs will soon generate a whopping 10.7 teraflops of power!
It ideally requires a 30 Mbps internet connection for 4K resolution.
Publication: News Bytes
Competition in news
Intel’s Twin River dual-screen laptop design is an ambitious attempt to change the status quoedit
It is almost impossible to imagine a laptop without Intel processor inside it. While AMD has re-emerged as a competitive force in the computing world with its Ryzen platform, the team Red is still a smaller force in laptops. The leverage Intel has with its superior platforms for laptop design allows the company to dictate the terms for evolution, like how Microsoft can dictate software design.
Publication: BGR.in
Save $630 on the Alienware m15 Gaming Laptop (Intel Core i7-8750H & NVIDIA GTX 1660 Ti)edit
Dell’s sub-brand Alienware is responsible for some of the fastest gaming laptops, though they usually cost a fortune. If you are in the market for a decent 1440p portable gaming machine, then we have something for you. The Alienware m15 otherwise priced at $1,929.99 is on a massive discount of $630, bringing the cost down to $1,299.99.
Publication: Techquila
Qualcomm, Intel, Samsung invest in US-based chip-makeredit
After cutting ties with Huawei because of US government’s ban on the Chinese tech giant, Qualcomm, Intel and Samsung have invested money in a US-based chip-maker SiFive that produces computer chips based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture.
Publication: Business Standard
NVIDIA GeForce RTX Super Specs Allegedly Leak Out, Launching in Juneedit
We reported a short while back that the Super cards might be Ti variants of the existing 20-series cards. Well, it seems like they might not be called “Ti” after all. Instead, the newer GPUs will come with a “Super” suffix. Yeah I know, sounds very cheesy, but time will tell if this info is correct or wrong.
Publication: Techquila
NetApp-NVIDIA Strengthen The AI Journeyedit
Recently, on NetApp’s Data Visionary Centre’s (DVC) one-year anniversary, the data storage and management company emphasised on strengthening its partnership with NVIDIA. The AI Centre of Excellence has been announced jointly with NVIDIA to create an environment where they can showcase technologies to help customers and partners navigate the world of AI thereby helping them drive businesses of today and enterprises of tomorrow.
Publication: Express Computer
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Ti, RTX 2070 Ti Listed in Ring of Elysium’s Requirementsedit
We expect NVIDIA to announce a refresh of its Turing RTX graphics cards at E3 with faster GDDR6 memory and perhaps even an increased shader count (faster clocks?). However, most sources have only confirmed the souped-up memory while the core count and clocks are more or less based on speculations and rumors. Now, someone over at Reddit has spotted two announced RTX-20 series GPUs, namely the RTX 2060 Ti and the RTX 2070 Ti.
Publication: Techquila
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‘Bullish’ on enterprise sales, Dell focusses on premium, ultra-slim segment in laptopsedit
Computer-maker Dell will focus on the premium, ultra-slim segment of PCs in India and is “bullish” on its enterprise business. “It is a growing part of the market. If you look at where we are placed , in the high-price band category, which cuts across ultra-slim (greater than $800), we are number 1 in the commercial segment.
Publication: The Hindu Business Line
Save $630 on the Alienware m15 Gaming Laptop (Intel Core i7-8750H & NVIDIA GTX 1660 Ti)edit
Dell’s sub-brand Alienware is responsible for some of the fastest gaming laptops, though they usually cost a fortune. If you are in the market for a decent 1440p portable gaming machine, then we have something for you. The Alienware m15 otherwise priced at $1,929.99 is on a massive discount of $630, bringing the cost down to $1,299.99.
Publication: Techquila
Industry news
AI adds teeth to security efforts against fast-evolving cyberattacksedit
In February 2018, a Windows user in North Carolina, US, was tricked into clicking a malicious email that carried a payload for a malware attack. Over the next half an hour, thousands of users were infected. Microsoft was immediately alerted about the attack by its cloud-based Windows Defender AV software.
Publication: Mint
Qualcomm, Intel, Samsung invest in US-based chip-makeredit
After cutting ties with Huawei because of US government’s ban on the Chinese tech giant, Qualcomm, Intel and Samsung have invested money in a US-based chip-maker SiFive that produces computer chips based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture.
Publication: Business Standard
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