Yesterday Nvidia released their GTX 1660Ti Super graphics card. It was a big release, giving a great performance in the reach of budget players. Along with that, a few rumours regarding Nvidia’s next generation of graphics card were also released, the Nvidia Ampere RTX 3000 series. This would be a good move since AMD’s latest Radeon series card seem to be catching up in performance to Nvidia’s cards, and they are also priced significantly lower. The launch of the new Nvidia Ampere cards is expected to be somewhere around the first half of 2020.

Publication: PC Quest

As the world’s most popular GAMING graphics card vendor, MSI is proud to announce its brand-new graphics card line-up based on NVIDIA’s Turing architecture with outstanding performance. Equipped with excellent thermal solutions, MSI GeForce GTX 16 SUPER series are designed to provide higher core and memory clock speeds for increased performance in games.

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Chip major Intel has announced full details and availability for the new 9 th Gen Intel Core i9-9900KS Special Edition processor. Delivering upto 5.0 GHz all-core turbo frequency out of the box for a superior gaming experience, the 9 th Gen Intel Core 19-9900KS will be available this week, with recommended customer price starting at $513. This special edition processor will be available for a limited time only and can be found at retailers worldwide.Intel has raised the bar for desktop gaming with the new 9th Gen Intel Core i9-9900KS Special Edition processor.

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Nvidia has launched the new mid-tier GTX 1660 Super GPU, which is the successor to the GTX 1060. This GPU is claimed to offer 2x performance compared to the previous generation 10 series GPUs on battle royale titles like Fortnite, PUBG, and Apex Legends. The Nvidia GTX 1660 Super is based on Turing architecture with GDDR6 video memory for faster and efficient graphics processing. The company is also releasing its Game Ready Driver from day one for AAA gaming titles for optimal performance at 1440p or 2K resolution.

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Nvidia has officially announced the GeForce GTX 1650 Super and GeForce GTX 1660 Super graphics cards for PC gamers. Aimed at the mainstream market, the 1660 Super comes with the same TU116 GPU as the standard GTX 1660, but includes faster, 14Gbps GDDR6 memory, replacing the 8Gbps GDDR5 technology. It also comes with an increased 125Watt TDP to accommodate the increased power needs. It will be interesting to see how the market receives these two cards, which will compete against AMD’s Radeon RX 5500 GPUs that are already in commercial production and are expected to start shipping by the end of the year.

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AMD’s 3rd Gen Ryzen 3000 processors are the most popular consumer CPUs to hit the market in the last decade or so and most of the global markets are seeing a steady rise in team red’s CPU share. The bulk of it, however, seems to be going to Europe. According to a report from The Register, 12% of the 5 million personal computers sold in Europe were AMD powered, up by 7% YoY. This means that in just one year AMD’s desktop sales rose from 355K to 629K, a 200% increase!

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Nvidia has expanded its ‘Super’ branded GPU offerings with the launch of the GTX 1660 Super. The new budget-friendly GPU will sit in between GTX 1660 and GTX 1660 Ti. The new GPU will be priced at Rs 20,500 and will offer improved performance as with other ‘Super’ cards. The new card will go on sale immediately, available from third-party OEM’s such as Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, Zotac, EVGA, Galax, Palit and others. Besides the new GTX 1660 Super, Nvidia has also announced the GTX 1650 which will go on sale starting November 22. There will be no ‘Founder’s Edition’ cards from Nvidia for the GTX Super line-up.

Publication: PC Mag

Processors: You should buy the latest of Intel Core processors that support hyper threading. Generally Intel Core i5 or i7 Processors are recommended as they come with a minimum 4 cores and support heavy file-handling, Office Software like multiple spreadsheets and e-mail, and creative software. Be sure to invest in a good Discrete Graphics Card from NVIDIA/AMD which are engineered for high-end graphic design and multimedia-rich applications.

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NVIDIA has today unveiled its latest addition to the GeForce GTX gaming GPU lineup — the GTX 1650 SUPER and the GTX 1660 SUPER. The two new GPUs fall under the company’s GTX 16-series and are based on the Turing architecture. Of the two, the GTX 1660 SUPER is a successor to NVIDIA’s GTX 1060, which is one of the most popular GPUs in the world.

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With the launch of the AMD Ryzen 5 3500 and the GeForce GTX 1660 Super, the budget DIY PC building market is heating up for another battle. AMD’s new Ryzen 5 3500 was launched quietly in the Asia Pacific a while back without any pomp or fanfare. We’re not sure what the reason might be for that, but we do know that it is a solid CPU, one that gives Intel’s Coffee Lake based i5s a run for their money. It performs on par with the 9400F in gaming workloads and beats it in multi-threaded applications used for content creation.

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Big Navi definitely seems to be on its way to release. The folks over at WCCFTech did some internet trawling and found that a mysterious AMD GPU was just sent in for certification with RRA, a South Korean authority. The part in question is code-named the ATI-102-D18805. This might appear to be a random string of numbers and letters, but a deeper look reveals a lot.

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Nvidia, one of the biggest players in the design and manufacture of graphics and AI acceleration hardware, has just announced its EGX edge computing platform to help telecom operators adopt 5G networks capable of supporting edge workloads. The new Nvidia Aerial software developer kit will help telecom companies build virtualised radio access networks that will let them support smart factories, AR/VR and cloud gaming.

Publication: The Indian Express

The fifth generation of mobile communication i.e. 5G is not going to be a mere traditional upgradation of Internet speeds from the already available 4G mobile communication technology. But it is expected to be the key to unlocking the future wave of disruptive innovation in a digital economy. Known to propel the Internet of Things (IoT), and be a catalyst for a world of interconnected devices, 5G is set to upscale the impact of digital technology driven products and services on a variety of stakeholders, in multifaceted ways. Some of them, we do not even know today, but will happen tomorrow due to ingenuity and need.

Publication: Deccan Chronicle

Looking at the specs, on paper the Ryzen 5 3600X has one major advantage, namely SMT. Luckily for Intel, most games don’t make use of SMT or HT. The 9600K has a higher boost clock which will help take the lead in single-threaded workloads unoptimized for higher-end CPUs. Then there’s the cache. The Ryzen 3000 CPUs feature a fat L3 cache, something AMD calls GameCache. This essentially makes up for the delay caused by the Infinity Fabric by holding a good amount of data, thereby cutting down on the latency.

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Almost 160 engineers who were working for Intel’s smartphone business in Bengaluru, will now become part of Apple’s global hardware team. This follows Apple’s acquisition of Intel’s smartphone business in a $1 milliion deal. Around 2200 employees of Intel from across the globe will now move to Apple. All intellectual property, equipment and leases will also be transferred along with them. These engineers will contribute to building and growing Apple’s cellular technologies.

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These NVIDIA reference-design graphics card boxes, with the recognizable bright green SKU insert in the bottom-right corners, dominate the shelves most YouTube-based tech journalists use as backgrounds in their video reports. According to the whistleblower, this isn’t a coincidence. NVIDIA is allegedly telling YouTubers to fill their shelves with NVIDIA graphics card boxes when reviewing Intel and AMD products. This could even include combinations of Intel and AMD products that have little to do with NVIDIA (such as a Ryzen processor review).

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While Qualcomm and MediaTek are examples of mobile chipset manufacturers turning their heads towards smartphone gaming, a notable entrant recently is Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), known for its Radeon graphics cards on full-scale gaming PCs. AMD recently licensed its new RDNA architecture to Samsung for use in its mobile chipsets. However, the features and hardware in these devices can be put to use for many other things, like augmented reality and virtual reality. Sasa Marinkovic, global gaming marketing director at AMD, concludes that, “phones are going to continue to evolve and become more and more powerful.”

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CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 – The Ryzen 5 3600 is a hex-core CPU featuring 12 threads and a fat L3 cache of 32MB. It runs at a base clock of 3.6GHz and a boost of 4.2GHz. Powered by the Zen2 microarchitecture, it offers the same multi-threaded performance as the 2nd Gen Ryzen CPUs and gaming performance on par with the rival Intel chips. With this bundle, you are getting the Ryzen 5 3600 for just Rs. 15,000.

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One of the first reviews of Intel’s new flagship HEDT processor, the Core i9-10980XE, just hit the web. Lab501.ro got their hands on a freshly minted i9-10980XE and put it through their test bench. Based on the “Cascade Lake-X” silicon, the i9-10980XE offers almost identical IPC to “Skylake-X,” but succeeds the older generation with AI-accelerating DLBoost instruction-set, an improved multi-core boosting algorithm, higher clock speeds, and most importantly, a doubling in price-performance achieved by cutting the cores-per-Dollar metric by half, across the board.

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While Qualcomm and MediaTek are examples of mobile chipset manufacturers turning their heads towards smartphone gaming, a notable entrant recently is Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), known for its Radeon graphics cards on full-scale gaming PCs. AMD recently licensed its new RDNA architecture to Samsung for use in its mobile chipsets.

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The Radeon RX 570 is at its old price, at least for now. If you are looking for a cheap 1080p capable card, then this is your time. It probably won’t last for long, not at this price anyway. For entry level builds featuring a Core i3-9100 or the older Ryzen processors, this should do just fine. The Sapphire variant of the Radeon RX 5700 is selling @ 30,799 INR. If you’re alright with skipping the first wave of ray-traced games, and instead want higher frame rates at 1440p or even 4K capability, then the Radeon RX 5700 is the best option.

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After months of speculation about Intel’s first discrete graphics card, we finally have an official announcement! The Intel XE GPU is based on Gen 12 graphics and will act as a testing platform for Intel. This is not just a great announcement for Intel fans. Another discrete GPU manufacturer in the mix means more choice and is, therefore, better for the consumer. Intel CEO Bob Swan confirmed the discrete graphics card in the latest earnings report. Chris Spook, Intel’s graphics marketing chief also confirmed this in a follow-up tweet.

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Best CPU For Video Editing: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X- Price: Rs. 29,475; Cores: 8; Threads: 16; Base Clock: 3.6 GHz; Boost Cock: 4.4 GHz; TDP: 65W; Socket: AM4. The AMD Ryzen 7 3700X is one of the best-valued CPUs around for pure performance. While there’s not much of a difference between the 3700X and the 3600X in gaming workloads, the extra cores make all the difference in multi-threaded loads. As mentioned before, the more the number of cores, the better the editing performance. It also has a lower rated TDP than the 3600X at only 65W. While it is hard to recommend the 3900X for the price, you can get the 3700X without a second thought. Second only to the ...

Best Gaming CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X – Price: Rs. 20,475; Cores / Threads Base Clock Boost Clock L3 Cache TDP6/12 3.8GHz 4.4GHz 35MB 65W. If you look at sheer gaming performance, then the Intel Core i7-9700K and the i9-9900K edge past the Ryzen 3000 parts, but the deltas aren’t significant. You should be able to push 150 FPS in every game with the Ryzen 5 3600X and get much better performance in other multi-threaded workloads such as content creation, encoding, and compression/decompression. You can go with the Ryzen 7 too but when it comes to gaming, the 3600X is every bit as capable. You can read our review here.

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ASUS TUF FX505DY-BQ002T : Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3550H (2.1 GHz Base, 3.7 Boost),Graphics card: AMD RADEON RX560X 4GB GDDR5; RAM: 8GB DDR4; Display: 15.6-inch 1080p LED-backlit at 60Hz refresh rate; Storage: 1TB 5400RPM 2.5’ HDD;Price: ₹ 47,990. Starting off with the entry level ASUS TUF laptop, the FX505DY-BQ002T features the AMD Ryzen 5 3550H coupled with a Radeon RX 560X. For I/O, this laptop comes with 1 x Combo audio jack, 1 x Type-A USB 2.0, 2 x Type-A USB 3.0 (Gen 1), 1 x RJ45 LAN jack for LAN insert and 1 x HDMI, HDMI support 2.0. Apart from a dated GPU, this laptop is a decent buy if you’re on a strict budget. We’d recommend getting a higher end ...

While Intels Tiger Lake-U processors may still be a long way out from its official release, the rumor mill has been churning new details about the next-gen processor. According to a report on Tom’s Hardware, the next-gen processor is likely to support LPDDR4X and LPDDR5 memory (RAM). While Intel have been having troubles recently, the speculation about these 10nm chips have excited fans as LPDDRs data transfer rate can be maxed out at a whopping 6,400 Mbps compared to LPDDRs 3,200 Mbps and LPDDR4Xs 4,266 Mbps.

Publication: Deccan Chronicle

Apple Inc is ramping up hiring for a team that is working on new smart-home software and devices in an effort to catch up in a field where Google and Amazon.com Inc have dominated, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The company is seeking engineers to work in its Cupertino, California, headquarters and in San Diego as part of a group revamping Apple’s smart-home platform. The overhaul is designed to spur more outside accessory and appliance makers to connect smart-home products such as lights and garage doors with the iPhone and Apple’s voice-activated digital assistant, Siri. The team also is exploring the possibility of building new home devices beyond the HomePod speaker.

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While Qualcomm and MediaTek are examples of mobile chipset manufacturers turning their heads towards smartphone gaming, a notable entrant recently is Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), known for its Radeon graphics cards on full-scale gaming PCs. AMD recently licensed its new RDNA architecture to Samsung for use in its mobile chipsets. However, the features and hardware in these devices can be put to use for many other things, like augmented reality and virtual reality. Sasa Marinkovic, global gaming marketing director at AMD, concludes that, “phones are going to continue to evolve and become more and more powerful.”

Publication: Mint

While Qualcomm and MediaTek are examples of mobile chipset manufacturers turning their heads towards smartphone gaming, a notable entrant recently is Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), known for its Radeon graphics cards on full-scale gaming PCs. AMD recently licensed its new RDNA architecture to Samsung for use in its mobile chipsets. However, the features and hardware in these devices can be put to use for many other things, like augmented reality and virtual reality. Sasa Marinkovic, global gaming marketing director at AMD, concludes that, “phones are going to continue to evolve and become more and more powerful.”

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Intel is working to develop 5G-based virtual reality (VR), 3D and 360-degree content development platforms for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 and the Olympic Games Paris 2024. To help create these experiences, Intel signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Sky Limit Entertainment (SoReal).

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SSD prices have been falling fast in China. Consumers may be happy, but vendors are wary of a looming price war that would further undermine their profitability from the SSD market. But in the motherboard market, makers may see ASP improve in the fourth quarter, thanks to Intel and AMD releasing new platforms. For major Taiwan-based ODMs, they have to look beyond consumer electronics for business growth. The smart healthcare sector is promising.

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An excellent buy if you are looking for a high performing 360-degree convertible notebook. Fancy a high-performance convertible laptop thafs stylish, has a touch-screen functionality and comes with a 360-degree hinge? We recommend you go for the HP Pavilion x360. It is an excellent buy for those on the lookout for a high-end touchscreen laptop. Alongside, it comes with a state-of-the-art processor and flash storage. Pre-bundled with a pen, performance smoothening 512 GB SSD, these laptops have a nearly borderless display that’s swanky to say the least.

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It turns out that the GeForce GTX 1660 Super will be joined by another “Super” SKU by NVIDIA, the GeForce GTX 1650 Super, according to a VideoCardz report. Slated for a November 22 launch, the GTX 1650 Super appears to be NVIDIA’s response to the Radeon RX 5500, which is being extensively compared to the current GTX 1650 in AMD’s marketing material. While the core-configuration of the GTX 1650 Super is unknown, NVIDIA is giving it 4 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 128-bit wide memory interface, with a data-rate of 12 Gbps, working out to 192 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Publication: Tech Power Up

The Snapdragon 700 series of processors have proved to be a successful range of processors for mid-premium range phones that bridge the gap between the flagship Snapdragon 800 series and the mid-range Snapdragon 600 series. After announcing the Snapdragon 730 and Snapdragon 730G back in April this year, it seems like Qualcomm will soon lift the veils of its next processor in the Snapdragon 700 series.

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Best CPU for Gaming @ 1080p: AMD Ryzen 5 3500; Price: Rs. 11,199; Cores/Threads: 6/6; Base Clock: 3.6GHz; Boost Clock: 4.1GHz; Cache: 16MB L3; TDP: 65W. AMD’s Ryzen 5 3500 based on the Zen 2 architecture is finally here to take the Intel Core i5-9400F down by a notch. It beats the Coffee lake chip in multi-threaded workloads and performs on par with it in most games. Courtesy of AMD’s AM4 platform we can save a bit of money on the motherboard and spend it on better storage.

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Like Google, Apple too will now have engineers in Bengaluru working on its chip design initiatives. This follows Apples $l-billion acquisition of Intels smartphone modem business in July Sources told TOI that nearly 160 Intel engineers in Bengaluru are part of this business, and will move to Apple to join its global hardware engineering team. Internet firms like Google, Facebook and Amazon, as also Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft are all accelerating efforts to design chips for functions critical to them, not wanting to depend entirely on traditional semiconductor specialists like Intel, Qualcomm, AMD and Nvidia.

Publication: The Times of India

Intel is already a household name for semiconductors, but it is little known that the Santa Clara, California-based company also works with telecom operators around the globe to help them reach new customers and empower their existing subscriber base. As 5G network rollout expands around the world, apart from serving various international markets, the chipmaker is actively involved with major telecom operators in India to bolster their 4G deployments and make them ready for 5G.

Publication: Communications Today

Ahead of the Mobile World Congress in Los Angeles this week, Nvidia announced new partnerships with Ericsson, Microsoft, and Red Hat in the areas of 5G, AI, and IoT. Arguably the most interesting of the lot is the partnership with Ericsson, that aims to let telcos build high-performing and efficient 5G radio access networks (RAN) that are completely virtualised. The companies believe that this will “enable faster and more flexible introduction of new AI and IoT services.”

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AOC today launched the AG273QX, a flat panel gaming monitor (meaning there is no curve, which makes sense due to the usual 16:9 aspect ratio). The AG273QX sports a 27″ diagonal with a VA panel, sporting a resolution of 2560 x 1440 and a 165 Hz refresh rate. This refresh rate is mated with support for AMD’s FreeSync 2, which makes an appearance due to this monitor also being HDR capable – though at the lowest end of the spectrum, with its HDR 400 certification. With its 1 ms response time, this monitor seems to have all the claims to fame.

Publication: Tech Power Up

With the recent launch of the Navi cards from AMD, you might be in the market looking to upgrade your GPU. The most competitive market is around the ₹ 35,000 mark, with offerings from both, team green and red having their own pros and cons. With this article, we will be focusing on the Radeon RX 5700 and the GeForce RTX 2060 Super, and help you decide which one to spend your money on.

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Ericsson and NVIDIA, the leader in accelerated computing, today announced they are collaborating on technologies that can allow communication service providers to build high-performing, efficient and completely virtualized 5G radio access networks (RAN). These virtualized networks can enable faster and more flexible introduction of new AI and IoT services. The collaboration brings together Ericsson’s expertise in RAN technology with NVIDIA’s leadership in graphics processing unit (GPU)-powered accelerated computing platforms, as well as AI and supercomputing.

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Following Microsoft, the GPU-making giant Nvidia is looking forward to stepping into enterprise space while the world of consumer graphics is becoming more competitive and messy than ever and the company wants to rely less on this core business. As part of the long-term plan, Nvidia has already unveiled a supercomputer called “EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform”, which is a match-up between certified GPU servers and Nvidia’s CUDA-X software.

Publication: Moby Geek 

It’s been a while since we covered the Steam hardware survey, mainly because nothing was really changing. Last month, that is, September however, saw some newer graphics cards make their way into the Steam database, including the GeForce GTX 16 series cards, the RTX 2070 Super and the Radeon RX Vega 11 (found in the Ryzen Zen+ APUs). Paired with AMD’s Ryzen 3000 (Picasso) APUs, these GPUs make for some really well priced portable rigs. ASUS’ TUF lineup is a shining example of the Ryzen-GeForce powered notebooks.

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Seeing that NVIDIA has created Super variants of pretty much the entire Turing lineup, we expect the 1650 to get one too. That’s mainly because these new cards are a response to AMD’s Navi lineup and as little Navi hits retail, NVIDIA will want to have all the Supers up and running. The GTX 1650 was already more of a disappointment, performing worse than the RX 570, so we can hope for a faster variant to battle the Radeon RX 5500.

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Intel is expected to counter AMD’s Ryzen 3000 CPUs with the 10th Gen Comet Lake-S parts, slated to launch in the first half of 2020. These processors will be based on the same Skylake core, featuring the same 14nm node for a fifth consecutive generation. We expect Intel to offer these parts at relatively lower prices with high clock rates and hyper-threading enabled across the board.

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AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 9 3950X socket AM4 processor beats Intel’s flagship 18-core processor, the Core i9-10980XE, by a staggering 24 percent at 3DMark Physics, according to a PC Perspective report citing TUM_APISAK. The 3950X is a 16-core/32-thread processor that’s drop-in compatible with any motherboard that can run the Ryzen 9 3900X. The i9-10980XE is an 18-core/36-thread HEDT chip that enjoys double the memory bus width as the AMD chip, and is based on Intel’s “Cascade Lake-X” silicon. The AMD processor isn’t at a tangible clock-speed advantage.

Publication: Tech Power Up

One of the main differences between FreeSync and G-Sync is that the former like most of AMD’s technologies is OpenSource. It leverages the VESA Adaptive-Sync that comes along with Display Port 1.2a. As such, there are no penalties or royalties that need to be paid to implement FreeSync, allowing OEMs to integrate it into even the cheapest of monitors. The lower end FreeSync models cost less than 10K. G-Sync, on the other hand, is NVIDIA’s own proprietary technology. Earlier there was only one version that required a PCB from Green team to enable it.

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The coming month is going to be like Christmas for content creators and high-performance HEDT enthusiasts alike. AMD is planning to launch the 16 core Ryzen 9 3950X flagship as well as the 3rd Gen Threadripper lineup packing as many as 64 cores. As if that weren’t enough, Intel’s Cascade Lake-X processors are priced half as much compared to their Skylake predecessors while offering better performance albeit on the same process. As November draws near, we’ve started seeing leaks and rumors pertaining to AMD’s HEDT lineup. Today, a well known Twitter source has shared the Geekbench and 3DMark score of the Ryzen 9 3950X, and guess what? It manages to beat the Intel Core i9-10980XE.

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Recently with the release of the Navi cards from AMD, Nvidia is in a bit of a rough spot in terms of price to performance, with the Radeon RX 5700 XT and the 5700 being similar offering similar rasterizing power compared to the GeForce RTX 2070 Super and 2060 Super respectively, but also being available for lower prices. Nvidia still has some bells and whistles which might draw you towards them, such as support for ray tracing, a video encoder that actually works with OBS in the form of NVENC and lastly a free game (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, at the moment).

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AMD recently launched their second generation of EPYC processors based on the Zen 2 architecture, which heavily outperform not only their predecessors but also the Xeon competition from Intel, leading to announcements such as the one from the UK government that it will be using AMD’s EPYC series of processors for ARCHER2, which is expected to be the most powerful supercomputer of its kind.

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This is actually new. Traditionally AMD GPUs have been superior when it comes to hardware but due to poor utilization and driver support haven’t been able to fully leverage it. With AMD’s RDNA architecture, gaming is the main focus, unlike GCN which was more compute-oriented. Although that’s not a bad thing, games mainly benefit from lower latencies, higher IPC and core clocks. This is exactly what the Navi cards focus on. As you can see, the specs of the two competitors are almost the same.

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Though Videocardz couldn’t catch any new details about the chips, we can piece together plenty from recent leaks. On Tuesday, Komachi found a product list confirming 24-core and 32-core Threadripper processors, the former of which Apisak assigned the 3960X title on Wednesday, making the 3970X the 32-core monster. It’ll perform well, too, if an engineering sample Geekbench run is to be believed.The 3990X remains a little more mysterious. As the Threadripper lineup generally mirrors the Epyc series, which now includes 48-core and 64-core parts, it seems likely the 3990X is one of these.

Publication: UC News

Best CPU for 20K Best Build: AMD Ryzen 3 3200G APU. Since we’re limited to just 20,000 INR here, we’ll be sticking to an APU instead of a distinct CPU/GPU combo. Our recommendation is the AMD Ryzen 3 3200G. Based on the 12nm Zen+ architecture and the Vega 8 iGPU, it’s the most balanced processor available in this range. Keep in mind, you won’t be hitting 1080p 60 FPS with this system but 30-40 frames per second at low-medium should be doable.

Publication: TechQuila

A favourite strategy of hedge funds that splits technology stocks into hardware and software makers has been sputtering for months. It finally blew up. The smart money piled into software shares such as Microsoft and Atlassian while cutting stakes in the likes of AMD and Intel for almost two years. The split created a dichotomy in exposure not seen since at least 2010, according to primary brokerage data from Morgan Stanley. Avoiding chips has burned fund managers since January as the group rallied 38%. And now, the outsize bet on software firms has stopped working, with some erstwhile high-flyers mired in declines exceeding 20%.

Publication: Mint

It won’t be long before Intel’s Xe graphics cards become a reality. As per industry insiders, team blue is aiming for a mid-2020 launch date for its Xe discrete graphics cards. These GPUs will be built atop Intel’s 10nm process and will be aimed towards gamers as well as professionals.It is expected to be a twin-pronged attack on NVIDIA’s shares in the gaming and Data Center market. Intel is planning to combine it’s 10nm Ice Lake CPU cores and the Xe GPU into a compelling professional processor, armed with the strong points of both the worlds.

Publication: TechQuila

The Lenovo’s new Legion Y740 belongs to a generation of gaining notebooks that are shedding the traditional bulky designs. Its slim and flat metallic design feels premium and sturdy. At 2.2kg, it’s quite light for a gaming notebook. It runs on Intel’s 9th gen six core i7-9750H processor, which is faster than the 8th gen Core i7 chipsets used in the predecessor. It is also Lenovo’s first gaming notebook to use Nvidia’s RTX series graphics. The model we reviewed ran on the mid-level RTX 2060, which is 15% faster than GTX1070 GPUs.

Publication: Mint

Intel Corp. says it will publicly release employee pay data, broken down by race and gender later this year. For the first time, every company with more than 100 employees is required to report the same to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, but the agency keeps the filings private, unless a company voluntarily discloses it.

Publication: Business Standard 

AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB- Memory 4GB GDDR5Boost Clock 1255MHz; Cores 2048; Mem. Clock 7Gbps; Bus Width 256-bit; PSU 450W; Dimensions H=40 L=232 W=116 mm; Connectors 1 x 8-pin; Warranty 3 Years. If you don’t want to go with the lower-end Turing card, the Radeon RX 570 4GB is a GPU worth looking at. Although, it may not be available for the same rock bottom prices as before, at 12K INR it’s still very competitive.

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AMD Ryzen 7 3700X: Price: Rs. 29,475 ; Cores: 8; Threads: 16; Base Clock: 3.6 GHz; Boost Cock: 4.4 GHz; TDP: 65W; Socket: AM4. The Ryzen 7 3700X is one of the best-valued CPUs around for pure performance. While there’s not much of a difference between the 3700X and the 3600X in gaming workloads, the extra cores make all the difference in multi-threaded loads. As mentioned before, the more the number of cores, the better the editing performance. It also has a lower rated TDP than the 3600X, at only 65W. Compared to Intel’s offerings, it beats the 9700K by a mile and even offers stiff competition to the 9900K.

Publication: TechQuila

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X: Cores/Threads: 8/16; Base Clock: 3.6 GHz; Boost Clock: 4.4 GHz; Cache Size: 36 MB; TDP: 65 Watt; Price: Rs. 29,465. An Intel Core i7-9700K or an i9-9900K would also make sense, but given that we’re aiming for 4K, it wouldn’t make a lot of sense to opt for a CPU that’s 5% faster in gaming but 50% slower in everything else. As such, we’ll be opting for the octa-core Ryzen 7 3700X which is one of the best CPUs for just about everything right from rendering to video-editing, streaming as well as high-resolution gaming.

Publication: TechQuila

Courtesy of VideoCardz, the ZOTAC variant of the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER was leaked a couple of days ago. Now, according to the sources from the same, the GTX 1660 SUPER might launch this week. Given the leaked specifications for the GTX 1660 SUPER, the card has some distinct improvements over the vanilla GTX 1660.

Publication: TechQuila

With Intel offering price-cuts on their existing line-up of products, this is not a bad time to go for an Intel-based build. That said, a motherboard is extremely important for your system. While it won’t have a huge impact on performance, it is required to keep all the other components functioning properly. More importantly, if you’re planning to overclock, you need to be careful. You can get away with a fairly cheap motherboard for AMD processors. However, you need to opt for a more robust solution when it comes to Intel motherboards.

Publication: TechQuila

CORSAIR, a world leader in PC gaming peripherals and enthusiast components, today announced the availability of several new models of its signature CORSAIR ONE family of gaming PCs. The latest to join the CORSAIR ONE lineup are the CORSAIR ONE i145, the CORSAIR ONE i164, and the new range-topping CORSAIR ONE PRO i182. Every new CORSAIR ONE system is powered by a liquid-cooled 9th-gen Intel Core processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics card, housed in an incredibly compact and unique chassis.

Publication: Tech Power Up

The Ryzen 7 3700X is one of the best-valued CPUs around for pure performance. While there’s not much of a difference between the 3700X and the 3600X in gaming workloads, the extra cores make all the difference in multi-threaded loads. As mentioned before, the more the number of cores, the better the editing performance. It also has a lower rated TDP than the 3600X, at only 65W. Compared to Intel’s offerings, it beats the 9700K by a mile and even offers stiff competition to the 9900K. The 3700X is, without a doubt, the best CPU you can get for video-editing.

Publication: TechQuila

Diversity is the name of the game when it comes to the edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) chipset industry. In 2019, the AI industry is witnessing the continual migration of AI workloads, particularly AI inference, to edge devices, including on-premise servers, gateways, and end-devices and sensors. Based on the AI development in 17 vertical markets, ABI Research, a global tech market advisory firm, estimates that the edge AI chipset market will grow from US $2.6 billion in 2019 to US $7.6 billion by 2024, with no vendor commanding more than 40% of the market.

Publication: Tech Power Up 

Is there going to be an NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti Super or isn’t there? Inno3D has added fuel to the fire by mentioning the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Super on its website multiple times. If at all there’s more substance to the Inno3D listings, we’d be looking at a new high-end part from Nvidia, just in time perhaps for the Big Navi, or the “2080 Ti-Killer” from AMD. This wouldn’t be the first time that AMD’s forced a new product release from Nvidia. Nvidia quickly put a damper on expectations by releasing the 980 Ti, a part that performed trivially worse than the Titan X.

Publication: TechQuila

HP-245 laptops are the most reasonably priced laptops in the tally. The laptop is equipped with a 14-inch screen and is powered by an AMD A6 processor that runs this 47 x 29.2 x 7.8 cm dimension laptop. Easy to carry around and with efficient portability quotient, the laptop weighs around 2.5 Kg. It comes with an in built 4 GB RAM with SATA 500 GB hard drive. It runs on the DOS OS which is partnered with NVIDIA graphics coprocessor. If web browsing is one of the major tasks at hand, this laptop is a must need. Moreover, it has an attractive price range for the users based at offices or educational institutions.

Publication: Dainik Jagran

The third edition of the India Mobile Congress kicked off in the national capital on Monday. The spotlight on the first day of the event was on 5G. Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was present at the event. Addressing the gathering, he said that the 5G spectrum auction shall be done this financial year. The video also features Nivruti Rai, Country head Intel India, along with representatives from Cisco, Huawei and OnePlus, all talking about the 5G ecosystem in India.

Publication: CNBC TV 18 

Nvidia’s Ray Tracing technology has been around for a while, but it really took off when Control featured it. The game showed how beautiful Ray Tracing can be if correctly implemented and the feature received positive impressions. Nvidia is now trying to capitalise on the opportunity and the hype. Recently they had remastered Quake 2, an old classic from id Software. This remaster of the game featured real time Ray Tracing and was called Quake 2 RTX. But apparently this was just the start. Nvidia is looking to remaster another game.

Publication: PCQuest

Advanced Micro Devices has notched another win: Microsoft recently announced that its next-generation Xbox gaming console — due to hit the market late next year — will be powered by AMD’s semi-custom chips. That decision effectively ends NVIDIA’s chances of benefiting from the rising popularity of gaming consoles.

Publication: True Viral News

In a shocking piece of news, Intel has reportedly scrapped plans to launch its 10 nm “Ice Lake” microarchitecture on the client desktop platform. The company will confine its 10 nm microarchitectures, “Ice Lake” and “Tiger Lake” to only the mobile platform, while the desktop platform will see derivatives of “Skylake” hold Intel’s fort under the year 2022!

Publication: Tech Power Up

With Intel offering price-cuts on their existing line-up of products, this is not a bad time to go for an Intel-based build. That said, a motherboard is extremely important for your system. While it won’t have a huge impact on performance, it is required to keep all the other components functioning properly. More importantly, if you’re planning to overclock, you need to be careful. You can get away with a fairly cheap motherboard for AMD processors. However, you need to opt for a more robust solution when it comes to Intel motherboards.

Publication: TechQuila

In a gaming PC, the graphics card is the single most important component, but that doesn’t mean you should opt for an inferior CPU that can’t keep up with it. This might cause a processor bottleneck, leading to under-utilization of your fancy flagship GPU. It’s best to go with a processor that compliments it, but at the same time, it’s not advisable to spend too much on it. As a thumb rule, the CPU should be cheaper than the graphics card in gaming builds. For the vast populace, this might sound like an overly complicated task, so we’ll be simplifying things for you.

Publication: Techquila

AMD has finally let go of the GCN architecture, giving way to the RDNA powered Navi design built from the ground up for gaming.  The Sapphire variant of the Radeon RX 5700 is selling @ 30,799 INR. If you’re alright with skipping the first wave of ray-traced games, and instead want higher frame rates at 1440p or even 4K capability, then the Radeon RX 5700 is the way to go. Priced at 31.8K INR, it consistently beats the GeForce RTX 2060 Super while costing less and also maintains decent thermals. Furthermore, it can be overclocked to perform more or less on par with the RTX 2070 and the RX 5700 XT.

Publication: Techquila

When AMD’s Ryzen 3000 processors first landed, we published the review of the Ryzen 7 3700X which performed on par with the much more expensive Core i9-9900K in most non-gaming workloads while being slightly slower in gaming. Since then, there have been a lot of debates on the Matisse chips, especially if you take into account the boost clocks. There have been several BIOS updates, AGESA microcode updates and so on. We tested the 3700X with the newer firmware and although the boost behavior was slightly more aggressive than before, it’s still within the margin of error. Regardless, we’ll be re-conducting gaming benchmarks because:

Publication: Techquila

If you’re going for an AMD build, the Ryzen 7 3700X is the best bang for your buck you’ll get at the moment. Offering similar performance to the Intel Core i7-9700K at a much lower power rating of 65W is impressive as it is, but it also comes bundled with a bundled Wraith Prism RGB cooler in the box. While it offers robust performance in games optimized for multi-core chips like Ashes of Singularity and Total War: Warhammer II, its performance in older titles like Shadow of War is impressive as well, matching the $484 Core i9-9900K blow-for-blow.

Publication: Techquila

In what appears to be an obvious move, Intel has decided to discontinue its lineup of Kaby Lake G processors which come with Radeon RX Vega M graphics. The company issued a statement claiming they preferred their in-house graphics engine over AMD. With Intel’s Gen11 integrated graphics nearly doubled the performance over its previous iterations, we saw this coming.

Publication: Techquila

AMD is directly competing with Intel in the desktop, mobile and server markets all at once. While it’s barely been a year since the Ryzen 3000 series launch, AMD is gaining market share at a very rapid pace. Since Intel is still building their new infrastructure, they’re looking at other ways to disrupt the market. According to a slide by AdoredTV, Intel is going to offer some very deep price-cuts on their existing and upcoming line-up to keep up with AMD. Going by the slide, these price cuts might add up to around $3 Billion.

Publication: Techquila

We have the ASUS TUF FX505DY-BQ002T. This is a pure AMD system with a quad-core Ryzen 5 3550H, paired with a Radeon RX 560X. The latter is a cut-down Polaris part that offers more or less equivalent graphics performance to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050. For 45K, a 3K increase from the Acer model, you get graphics performance that’s on par, but significantly better CPU power. With laptops, CPU bottlenecks are often exacerbated, even with lower-power graphics hardware.

Publication: Techquila

Price: Rs. 29,475 (Link) -Cores/Threads: 8/16 -Base Clock: 3.6 GHz -Boost Clock: 4.4 GHz -Cache Size: 36 MB -TDP: 65 Watt . The Ryzen 7 3700X is one of the best gaming CPUs around. While the 3600X performs on par with it in 1080p and 1440p, the 3700X pulls ahead in 4K performance. This is also the reason why we opted for this instead of the 9700K. With 8 cores and best-in-class multi-threaded performance, the 3700X offers unmatched value as compared to any other CPU on the market. Moreover, it also comes included with a Wraith Prism Cooler in the box that is more than sufficient for gaming workloads.

Publication: Techquila

GIGABYTE 750W ATX12V SLI CROSSFIRE CERTIFIED 80 PLUS GOLD CERTIFIED MODULAR ACTIVE PFC POWER SUPPLY GP-G750H: Available in a jet black colour, Gigabyte Crossfire 80 plus Gold Certified PSU is a 750watt power supply, which renders long term durability and improved power delivery. It supports AMD Crossfire and NVIDIA SLI and is designed with premium quality 100% Japanese electrolytic capacitors and a 140 mm smart control fan, which functions only when needed. It is very compact and easy to install. The product comes with a 5-year warranty so you can purchase it worry free.

Publication: Digit

People always want things that they can’t have. That’s especially true in the tech space. It’s why there are so many reviews and videos out there of the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and 4K gaming when barely a few percent of gamers have hardware in that ballpark. Today, we’re going to share something that’s so out of reach, you probably won’t be able to buy it even if you had the money. The folks over at Tom’s Hardware summarized a Chinese-language review of the Ryzen 5 3500X.

Publication: Techquila

Intel and Brown University have begun work on a DARPA-funded Intelligent Spine Interface project that aims to use Artificial Intelligence (Al) technology to restore movement and bladder control for patients paralysed by severe spinal cord injuries. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.

Publication: Financial Express

No wonder NVIDIA has been marketing ray-tracing as a major feature of its Turing lineup, as without it the newer GPUs seem like a rather luke-warm upgrade. We can only hope that AMD comes up with that promised Big Navi (Navi 20) as soon as possible so that the flagship space once again becomes viable for people who actually work for money.

Publication: TechQuila

Semiconductor giant Intel has unveiled Intel Xeon W and X-series processors, which it claims will address the demand for artificial intelligence acceleration in high-end desktop (HEDT) PCs and mainstream workstations.

Publication: TechCircle

A GPU is one of the most important components of modern-day artificial intelligence and deep learning architecture. Enterprises and developers are constantly on the lookout for tools that help them build and manage end-to-end data science and analytics pipelines seamlessly. RAPIDS is one such a tool incubated by NVIDIA® based on the company’s expert experience in hardware and data science.

Publication: Analytics India Magazine

Two persons oflndian origin (PIOs) have been named by American magazine Fortune in its annual list of 40 most influential and inspiring young people in business under the age of 40. Intel’s vice-president of artificial intelligence software and the lab Arjun Bansal and fashion platform Zilingo’s chief executive officer and co-founder Ankiti Bose make it to Fortune’s 2019 ’40 under-40′ list,

Publication: Business Standard 

According to the sources over at Igor’s Lab, NVIDIA could launch its next generation of GPUs, codenamed “Ampere”, as soon as first half of the 2020 arrives. Having just recently launched GeForce RTX Super lineup, NVIDIA could surprise us again in the coming months with replacement for it’s Turing lineup of graphics cards. Expected to directly replace high-end GPU models that are currently present, like GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 Super, Ampere should bring many performance and technology advancements a new graphics card generation is usually associated with.

Publication: Tech Power Up 

HP Inc has introduced the new HP Pavilion x360 in India that will reinvent the computing experience for modern consumers. Powered by 10th Gen Intel Core processors, the new range of the HP Pavilion x360 is designed to manage multi-tasking and demanding workloads. It is engineered for hands-free voice interactions with the built-in Alexa app. Consumers can control music, timers, alarms, calendars, smart-home devices and more, simply by speaking to Alexa while web browsing, working, or streaming content.

Publication: Tech Trail

Since 2017, AMD has gone from effectively zero market share in the enterprise server market to securing well over 10 percent and putting Intel’s monopoly in question for the first time. There’s a good reason for this: AMD’s EPYC server processors deliver substantially more performance for less money than Intel’s Xeon equivalents.

Publication: Techquila

A competitive market for PC CPUs is great for consumers but not so great for market leader Intel(NASDAQ:INTC). Before rival Advanced Micro Devices(NASDAQ:AMD) began launching its innovative third-generation Ryzen CPUs, Intel didn’t have much trouble charging premium prices for its chips. That era of unchecked pricing power is now over. Case in point: Intel’s new lineup of processors aimed at high-end desktops. With legitimate competition from AMD this time around, Intel has been forced to do something foreign to the company for quite some time: compete on price.

Publication: UC News 

HP Inc. introduced the new HP Pavilion x360 in India that will reinvent the computing experience for modern consumers. Powered by 10th Gen Intel Core processors, the new range of the HP Pavilion x360 is designed to manage multi-tasking and demanding workloads. It is engineered for handsfree voice interactions with the built-in Alexa app. Consumers can control music, timers, alarms, calendars, smart-home devices and more, simply by speaking to Alexa while web browsing, working, or streaming content.

Publication: Trinity Mirror 

Intel’s finally returned to a more reasonable pricing strategy with its tremendous cuts to Cascade Lake X pricing. While these parts are still more or less respun variants of Skylake X, the large number of cores means that Intel finally has something that can compete on price with the higher end Ryzen offerings. Intel’s finally returned to a more reasonable pricing strategy with its tremendous cuts to Cascade Lake X pricing.

Publication: Techquila

The Core i9-10920XE is a $689 12-core/24-thread chip priced under AMD’s upcoming flagship AM4 model, the Ryzen 9 3950X. It’s marginally faster than its predecessor, the i9-9920X, with 3.50 GHz base clocks (same), 4.60 GHz Turbo Boost 2.0, 4.80 GHz Turbo Boost Max 3.0, and 4.30 GHz all-core turbo. Interestingly, the increase in core-count doesn’t bring additional L3 cache, you get the same 19.25 MB.

Publication: Tech Power Up 

Best Gaming CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3500. AMD’s mid-range performance king, the Ryzen 5 3500 based on the 7nm Zen 2 architecture is finally here. With a price lower than the Intel Core i5-9400F, it promises to be the go-to CPU for builders in the sub-60K range. It’s almost the same as the 3600 except drops SMT which isn’t a must for games anyway. Although we haven’t tested it just yet, knowing how potent the other 3rd Gen Ryzen processors are, we’re pretty confident that it’ll give the Intel competitors a run for their money.

Publication: Techquila

Nvidia is working with chip designer ARM on technology that’s designed to allow for more energy-efficient supercomputers. VentureBeat reports that the graphics company will give the ARM ecosystem access to all its high-performance and AI-focused software by 2020, in a move which Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang said will help to “boost” the industry to achieve so-called exascale computing, systems capable of a billion billion (or a quintillion) floating point operations a second. The announcement means that Nvidia now supports all major CPU architectures.

Publication: True Viral News 

Minimum Graphics Card for 4K: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT. AMD’s upper mid-range Navi card, the Radeon RX 5700 XT is the utter minimum if you want to grace the 8 billion pixels of a 4K screen. Although in the Indian market, the aftermarket models are overpriced to the point of being redundant, the reference 5700 XT from Sapphire is now priced less than 35K, a good seven thousand less than the cheapest RTX 2070 Super (while being less than 10% slower). This makes it the ideal card for 1440p gaming and even mild 4K if you are willing to drop some of the more intensive effects.

Publication : Techquila

The AMD Ryzen 5 3500 was first listed on MDComputers on October 1, but won’t be shipping for a while, However, PrimeABGB has taken a step further by listing the processor along with a “ready to ship” tag for ₹11,149. The processor features 6 cores running at a base clock of 3.6 GHz and a boost of up to 4.1 GHz. It comes with 16 MB of L3 cache and is perfect for pairing with just about any GPU, be it a GeForce GTX 1660 or the beastly RTX 2080 Super.

Publication: Techquila

Best Budget CPU For Video Editing: AMD Ryzen 5 3600. Price: Rs. 17,069. Cores: 6, Threads: 12, Base Clock: 3.6 GHz,Boost Cock: 4.2 GHz, TDP: 65W, Socket: AM4. The Ryzen 5 3600 is probably the best mid-range CPU for multi-threaded workloads. For video-editing tasks, a higher core count improves performance by a huge margin. With a boost clock of 4.2 GHz, it can handle single-threaded workloads without a hitch as well. Combined with only a 65W TDP, it makes for a great pick for a budget video-editing PC. Moreover, it comes with a Wraith Stealth Cooler included in-the-box which is more than sufficient.

Publication: Techquila

If reports from prominent outlets are to be believed, then NVIDIA’s answer to little Navi, the GeForce GTX 1660 Super will end up beating the latter. Although these are estimates and might not actually turn out to be 100% correct, we have reason to believe that that won’t be the case. The source (Igor from Germany) is one of the more reputed people in the industry, and it’s highly possible that he already has the cards on hand and/or the official performance figures. Since of course, he can’t disclose anything at this point officially, he might have published these as estimates.

Publication: Techquila

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today launched the X299X Series Motherboards based on the newly upgraded X299 chipset. With up to a 16-phase digital power design, GIGABYTE X299X motherboards raise the bar for performance on enthusiast grade Intel Core X processors. Coupled with an 8-DIMM Quad Channel DDR4 design with up to 256 GB memory support, the motherboards enable users to easily handle memory intensive tasks such as file conversion, video editing, and more.

Publication: Tech Power Up 

Following a premature leak, Intel has released information about its upcoming Cascade Lake-X generation of high-end desktop (HEDT) processors. While these CPUs are not yet officially listed, Intel has published information about their pricing and specifications. The four models that have been revealed feature between 10 and 18 cores, and are based on a revision of the current Skylake-X HEDT platform.

Publication: Gadget 360 

HP Inc. has expanded its Chromebook portfolio with new HP Chrome-book 14 series for Gen Z and modern consumers in India. Powered by Intel Apollo Lake dual-core processors, this new HP Chromebook is equipped with a 35.6cm (14-inch) HD ultra-bright touchscreen display, supports local language and syncs with Android smartphones seamlessly. It is best suited for the tech-savvy, on-the-go Gen Z who prefer to use the Google ecosystem for their various computing needs.

Publication: Electronics for you 

Intel has always priced its high-end HEDT offerings right up in the sky. This was largely because there was no meaningful competition. Prior to Ryzen, you needed an Intel processor if you were in the market for a deca-core CPU or better.  AMD’s Ryzen today doesn’t just offer a great price-point. It offers performance parity with Intel’s latest, even in gaming workloads. And with Ryzen pricing the way it is, AMD’s been able to offer more cores and more threads at nearly every price-point. Faced with such an untenable situation, Intel did something drastic.

Publication: Techquila

If you’re in the market for a gaming monitor, there are a lot of things you need to take into account: from display resolution to refresh rates and input lag. But most importantly, whether you will be opting for an AMD FreeSync or an NVIDIA G-Sync compatible monitor. While the choice is already made for you depending on your GPU, if you’re building a new Gaming PC, there’s no harm in considering your options beforehand.

Publication: Techquila

Global shipments of gaming desktops, notebooks, and monitors reached 10.4 million units in the second quarter of 2019 (2Q19), up 16.5% year over year, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Gaming Tracker. A combination of better comparisons against an abysmal 2018, easing CPU shortages, and improved GPU inventory helped the overall market achieve growth.

Publication: Tech Power Up

Remarkably, the 11th gen Iris Plus seems to outdo the Vega 10, and sometimes by a substantial margin. Before we get to the figures, keep in mind that the Gen11 iGPU comes with the 10th Gen Intel Ice Lake CPUs, team blue’s first 10nm offering. Although limited to the laptop market as of yet, the server parts are expected to come in 2020 but there’s still no word on the desktop versions. We expect the Comet Lake-S CPUs featuring as many as 10 cores (again based on the 14nm Skylake Core) to succeed Intel’s 9th Gen lineup.

Publication: Techquila

NVIDIA today released its latest GeForce software suite. Version 436.48 WHQL of these drivers come game-ready for the week’s biggest AAA game release, Tom Clancy’s “Ghost Recon: Breakpoint,” and “Asgard’s Wrath.” The drivers also add support for the HTC VIVE Cosmos VR headset. Among the fixes with this release are an application crash with Tom Clancy’s “The Division 2” in DirectX 12 mode, an error when trying to invoke GeForce Experience Freestyle or Ansel via hotkeys in games that use the Vulkan API, game crashes with “UBOAT,” missing objects in “Tradesmen OS3DE,” and a ghosting effect observed in Maxon Cinema 4D in with certain brushes.

Publication: Tech Power Up 

October 7 promises to be an action-packed day, with not just AMD’s launch of its Radeon RX 5500 series graphics card, but also Intel’s 10th generation Core X “Cascade Lake” HEDT processors in the LGA2066 package. With AMD having achieved near-parity with Intel on IPC, the focus with the 10th generation Core X will be on price-performance, delivering double the number of cores to the Dollar compared to the previous generation.

Publication: Tech Power Up 

According to VideoCardz, AMD is about to announce the mid-range RX 5500 that will compete with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660. The RX 5500 is expected to be announced on the 7th of October. The RX 5500 will run on a 128-bit bus and might feature memory of up to 8GB GDDR6. The card is expected to feature similar core counts to GTX 1660, giving it a slight edge over the GTX 1650.

Publication: Techquila

Best CPU for Gaming: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X – Price: Rs. 29,475 (Link) – Cores/Threads: 8/16 – Base Clock: 3.6 GHz – Boost Clock: 4.4 GHz – Cache Size: 36 MB – TDP: 65 Watt – The Ryzen 7 3700X is one of the best gaming CPUs around. While the 3600X performs on par with it in 1080p and 1440p, the 3700X pulls ahead in 4K performance. This is also the reason why we opted for this instead of the 9700K. With 8 cores and best-in-class multi-threaded performance, the 3700X offers unmatched value as compared to any other CPU on the market.

Publication: Techquila

NVIDIA and VMware have announced their intent to deliver accelerated GPU services for VMware Cloud on AWS to power modern enterprise applications, including AI, machine learning and data analytics workflows. These services will enable customers to seamlessly migrate VMware vSphere-based applications and containers to the cloud, unchanged, where they can be modernized to take advantage of high-performance computing, machine learning, data analytics and video processing applications.

Publication: VAR India 

Nvidia makes the best Android TV-based media streaming devices, hands down. The first version of the Shield TV was launched in early 2015, and then it received a spec bump in 2017 in the form of a more powerful Tegra X1 processor but dropped the microSD card slot and the IR receiver. Now, the company seems ready to launch a newer version of the Shield TV in not one but two variants, if recent reports are anything to go by. We managed to find a recent Bluetooth SIG certification listing that mentions an upcoming Shield TV, and we think that the media streaming device is very close to its launch.

Publication: My Smart Space 

The demand for GPUs has increased over time, with graphic card vendors NVIDIA and AMD building their positioning strategies and vying with each other to grab the top position. As per the Jon Peddie Research, NVIDIA has a peak market share of 81.2% (Q4 2018), which is the highest in the last decade. NVIDIA has grown strongly from 66.3% share in 2017 to a solid 81.2% by the end of 2018.

Publication: VAR India