DELL GAMING-G3 3590: Powered by ninth Generation Intel Core i5-9300H processor and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 (4GB GDDR5), this gaming laptop is a powerhouse in the mid-range segment. Moreover, users also get the trust of Dell. This gaming laptop, which boasts of 8GB DDR4 RAM and a 512GB SSD, is a solid choice in the segment.

Publication: Deccan Chronicle

Intel has acquired Israel-based artificial intelligence firm Habana Labs for about $2 billion, the chipmaker said on Monday, in a bid to strengthen its fast-growing data-center business. As PC sales have stagnated, Intel has increasingly been depending on its sales to data centers, which provide behind-the-scenes computing power for mobile and web-based apps. Those apps, in turn, rely on artificial intelligence for features like photo and speech recognition.

Publication: ET Tech

At this point, AMD has got Intel on its last legs, at least in the desktop CPU market. The 9th Gen lineup can’t compete with the Ryzen 3000 CPUs, be it in terms of performance, power efficiency or the core architecture. Things are far from over though. Intel is around 10x bigger than AMD in terms of revenue and R&D. That’s one of the main reasons the company hasn’t buckled under and gone bankrupt. But that’s beside the point. Intel launched the 10nm Ice Lake parts earlier this year, at least for low power notebooks. That’s what this post will explore.

Publication: TechQuila

Best performing desktop processor: The battle rages on in the desktop processor segment. Intel and AMD have been dishing out SKU after SKU with the hope of retaining and expanding their market shares. However, AMD seems to be having a better year since Intel hasn’t been able to switch up to the 10nm process node whereas AMD has moved on to 7nm and is slowing gaining in the clock speed race as well. Intel has also been facing supply issues which are supposedly going to be resolved this coming year. Intel has, however, released a new HEDT processor which is a polished version of what they’d released last year and the year before that.

Publication: Digit

Best Budget 1080p Graphics Card: AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB (DEAL); AMD Radeon RX 5700 8GB; If you’re alright with skipping the first wave of ray-traced games, and instead want a 1440p graphics card that can shell out 75+FPS with ease, then the Radeon RX 5700 is the card for you. Priced at Rs. 29,499, it consistently beats the GeForce RTX 2060 Super and being cheaper at the same time. Furthermore, it can be overclocked to perform more or less on par with the RTX 2070 and the RX 5700 XT, although that’ll need a water block or custom cooling solution.

Publication: TechQuila

Towards the end of 2019, Asus launched the ZenBook 14, an AMD Ryzen 5 powered thin and light laptop which costs only a fraction of what you’d expect. While the Dell XPS 13 and the ZenBook 13 are within a few points of each other when it comes to performance, the Zen-Book 14 doesn’t lag too far behind.

Publication: Digit

While the little skirmish between Team Green and Team Red goes on, Intel has been watching from the shadows. They unveiled the Ponte Vecchio exascale GPU and made it dear that a consumer grade gaming graphics card isn’t on the horizon yet. Perhaps they’re being discrete, perhaps there never will be a GPU for garners. For now, it’s just NVIDIA and AMID for us all.

Publication: Digit

In all of our Creative workload tests, such as Premiere Pro rendering, Adobe Lightroom Classic RAW file export and even the fractal render tests, the Prestige 15 managed to score fairly well. It took 17 minutes to export the 20-minute 4K video file, and 23 minutes to export 500RAW files from a Nikon D810

Publication: Digit