AMD specific news
AMD Radeon RX 5700 16% Faster than NVIDIA RTX 2060 in UserBenchmarkedit
In AMD’s first-party benchmarks at E3, the Radeon RX 5700 was 10-20% faster than NVIDIA’s competing GeForce RTX 2060 but like always it’s best to take these tests with a grain of salt. Today, we have the first third-party benchmark of the RX 5700 and we compare it to the GeForce RTX 2060.
Publication: Techquila
AMD brand mentions
Asus and Biostar A320 Motherboards to Support Ryzen 3000 CPUs (Matisse)edit
After the Zen 2 reveal, AMD had announced that none of the A320 boards would support the Ryzen 3000 processors, but it seems like Asus and Biostar have gone ahead and released BIOS updates that allow users to run the new 7nm processors. There had been rumors surrounding unofficial hacks that allow the older chipsets to run the Zen 2 chips, but nothing concrete. Now, Komachi has confirmed this by sharing two Geekbench results which show a Ryzen 5 3600 running on an Asus A320M-K and A320M GAMING motherboards.
Publication: Techquila
A Laptop For Every Data Scientist: PCs Compared Across 5 Price Rangesedit
Apart from this, if you are playing for team Red, there is the ASUS TUF laptop with AMD’s Ryzen 7 3750H with the GTX 1650. This processor is slightly better than the 9300H, and boosts up to 4.0GHz. It is also equipped with a 512GB+512GB SSD and HDD combo, and 8GB of RAM.
Publication: Analytics India
MOST ADMIRED BRANDS IN THE INDIAN ICT INDUSTRYedit
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Publication: Var India
ASUS Rolls Out the Prime A320I-K Mini-ITX Motherboardedit
ASUS today rolled out an entry-level mini-ITX motherboard for the AMD socket AM4 platform, the Prime A320I-K. Based on the AMD A320 chipset, the board supports 1st and 2nd generation Ryzen processors out of the box, including the 8-core models. The tiny A320 chipset is tucked away behind a metal heatspreader underneath the M.2-2280 slot. The board draws power from a combination of 24-pin ATX and 8-pin EPS connectors, conditioning it with a 6-phase VRM that makes do without a heatsink.
Publication: Tech PowerUp
Best student laptops under Rs 35,000 in India in June 2019: Dell, HP, Asus and moreedit
For someone with an even lower budget, the Asus VivoBook X540BA on Amazon India could be a good option. It is available for Rs 20,990 and comes with AMD 2-core A9 processor. You also get 4GB RAM, 1TB HDD and Windows 10 OS.
Publication: BGR.in
5 Innovative laptops introduced in Computex 2019edit
HP is decking out the Envy 13, Envy 17, Envy x360 13, and Envy x360 15 in the new timber-ish livery, which is available in “Nightfall Black with Natural Walnut,” “Ceramic White with White Birch,” and “Natural Silver with Pale Birch.” But siding the wood the machine is pretty much the same with the latest Intel Core processors or 2nd-generation AMD Ryzen processors.
Publication: MyMobile
HPE Advances Hybrid Cloud Strategy by Extending AI, Composability and Partnerships Across Portfolioedit
The new HPE SimpliVity 325 model that’s ideal for remote offices or space-constrained locations and provides a highly dense, scalable 1U enclosure with an AMD EPYC single CPU processor and all-flash storage.
Publication: IT Voice
Competition in news
Intel Core i7-9700K Available for a Discounted Price of Just $375edit
The processor has a base clock speed of 3.6 GHz which can go up to 4.9 GHz with Turbo on a single core, 4.8 GHz in dual-core, 4.7 GHz in quad-core and 4.6 GHz in either 6 or 8 Core operations. It has a modest TDP of 95 W. It has 12 MB of Cache memory and can support up to 128 GB of DDR4 RAM at 2666 MHz frequency. The integrated graphics are Intel UHD Graphics 630 with 4K video support at up to 60 Hz. These graphics are good enough for casual gaming on some older titles at low to medium settings.
Publication: Techquila
NVIDIA Releases GeForce Hotfix Driver Version 431.18edit
NVIDIA released their latest driver package version, updating the software number up to 431.18. The new hotfix driver builds upon the previous 430.86 release, already fixed upon by another, previous hotfix driver 430.97. This new release fixes BSODs on hibernation wake-up for ASUS’ ASUS GL703GS/Asus GL502VML notebooks; game crashes or TDR on Shadow of the Tomb Raider when launching the game on Pascal GPUs; Shadow of the Tomb Raider’s benchmark exiting abruptly should ray tracing be enabled; and flickering issues on Grand Theft Auto V when MSAA is enabled. Look below for the updated driver.
Publication: Tech PowerUp
MSI Releases a Low-profile GeForce GTX 1650 Graphics Cardedit
MSI released one of first low-profile (half-height) graphics cards based on the GeForce GTX 1650. The card uses a monolithic aluminium heatsink that’s ventilated by two 60 mm fans. Although there’s just one row of display outputs, the cooler is over 1 slot thick, and so you get dual-slot I/O shields for both full-height and half-height (low-profile). The card relies on the PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slot for all its power, and sticks to NVIDIA-reference clock speeds of 1665 MHz boost, and 8.00 GHz (GDDR5-effective) memory.
Publication: Tech PowerUp
Best student laptops under Rs 35,000 in India in June 2019: Dell, HP, Asus and moreedit
For someone with an even lower budget, the Asus VivoBook X540BA on Amazon India could be a good option. It is available for Rs 20,990 and comes with AMD 2-core A9 processor. You also get 4GB RAM, 1TB HDD and Windows 10 OS.
Publication: BGR.in
5 Innovative laptops introduced in Computex 2019edit
HP is decking out the Envy 13, Envy 17, Envy x360 13, and Envy x360 15 in the new timber-ish livery, which is available in “Nightfall Black with Natural Walnut,” “Ceramic White with White Birch,” and “Natural Silver with Pale Birch.” But siding the wood the machine is pretty much the same with the latest Intel Core processors or 2nd-generation AMD Ryzen processors.
Publication: MyMobile
NVIDIA Joins Tencent E-Sports Technology Alliance as Founder Partneredit
NVIDIA was invited to attend the Global E-sports Summit and Tencent E-sports Annual Conference held in Hainan, Chinaon June 20th 2019. Tencent E-sports will establish E-sports technology standards in China, including technology of E-sports network, hardware, and broadcast to improve the management of the industry. As a founder member of E-sports Technology Alliance, NVIDIA is committed to constantly supporting the development of E-sports industry, boosting technological progress of the industry, and bringing better E-sports equipment to gamers.
Publication: Tech PowerUp
Partner in news
Asus and Biostar A320 Motherboards to Support Ryzen 3000 CPUs (Matisse)edit
After the Zen 2 reveal, AMD had announced that none of the A320 boards would support the Ryzen 3000 processors, but it seems like Asus and Biostar have gone ahead and released BIOS updates that allow users to run the new 7nm processors. There had been rumors surrounding unofficial hacks that allow the older chipsets to run the Zen 2 chips, but nothing concrete. Now, Komachi has confirmed this by sharing two Geekbench results which show a Ryzen 5 3600 running on an Asus A320M-K and A320M GAMING motherboards.
Publication: Techquila
NVIDIA Releases GeForce Hotfix Driver Version 431.18edit
NVIDIA released their latest driver package version, updating the software number up to 431.18. The new hotfix driver builds upon the previous 430.86 release, already fixed upon by another, previous hotfix driver 430.97. This new release fixes BSODs on hibernation wake-up for ASUS’ ASUS GL703GS/Asus GL502VML notebooks; game crashes or TDR on Shadow of the Tomb Raider when launching the game on Pascal GPUs; Shadow of the Tomb Raider’s benchmark exiting abruptly should ray tracing be enabled; and flickering issues on Grand Theft Auto V when MSAA is enabled. Look below for the updated driver.
Publication: Tech PowerUp
ASUS Rolls Out the Prime A320I-K Mini-ITX Motherboardedit
ASUS today rolled out an entry-level mini-ITX motherboard for the AMD socket AM4 platform, the Prime A320I-K. Based on the AMD A320 chipset, the board supports 1st and 2nd generation Ryzen processors out of the box, including the 8-core models. The tiny A320 chipset is tucked away behind a metal heatspreader underneath the M.2-2280 slot. The board draws power from a combination of 24-pin ATX and 8-pin EPS connectors, conditioning it with a 6-phase VRM that makes do without a heatsink.
Publication: Tech PowerUp
Best student laptops under Rs 35,000 in India in June 2019: Dell, HP, Asus and moreedit
For someone with an even lower budget, the Asus VivoBook X540BA on Amazon India could be a good option. It is available for Rs 20,990 and comes with AMD 2-core A9 processor. You also get 4GB RAM, 1TB HDD and Windows 10 OS.
Publication: BGR.in
5 Innovative laptops introduced in Computex 2019edit
HP is decking out the Envy 13, Envy 17, Envy x360 13, and Envy x360 15 in the new timber-ish livery, which is available in “Nightfall Black with Natural Walnut,” “Ceramic White with White Birch,” and “Natural Silver with Pale Birch.” But siding the wood the machine is pretty much the same with the latest Intel Core processors or 2nd-generation AMD Ryzen processors.
Publication: MyMobile
HPE Advances Hybrid Cloud Strategy by Extending AI, Composability and Partnerships Across Portfolioedit
The new HPE SimpliVity 325 model that’s ideal for remote offices or space-constrained locations and provides a highly dense, scalable 1U enclosure with an AMD EPYC single CPU processor and all-flash storage.
Publication: IT Voice
Industry news
Opinion | The outsider’s perspective and the wisdom of lateral hiringedit
There is a feeling among insiders in the government—bureaucrats and politicians—that outsiders give rather high-level (30,000 feet) advice and that it is mostly useless for policymakers and politicians. For the most part, it is true. For example, it is easy to say that India should do structural reforms, improve its banking system, make its labour market more flexible, improve the ease of doing business, reduce the cost of capital for businesses, keep inflation under check, make its agriculture viable and make its fiscal deficit sustainable.
Publication: Mint
Augmented Intelligence & not just AI: Right fit for hiringedit
Artificial intelligence a.k.a AI is the current buzzword in the HR circles. With AI making waves in multiple industries and across functions such as marketing, sales and customer care, it was only a matter of time before staffing technology experienced the AI revolution. In the context of recruitment, however, AI is used for studying large volumes of candidate and business data and generate insights from it in order to make better-informed staffing choices.
Publication: People Matters
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