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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super: 1080p Performance Across 10 Games, 1% Lows, Thermals & Overclocking (PROACTIVE)edit
The AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT is the faster sibling of the OEM-centric RX 5500, competing directly against NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1650 Super. Team red claims that their offering is superior with first-party benchmarks showing the latter as around 10-15% slower. AMD favored titles like Red Dead Redemption and Borderlands 2 see the Radeon RX 5500 XT taking a massive lead over the GTX 1650 Super. In terms of overclocking, like the rest of the Turing Supers, the 1650 S fares much better than the RX 5500 XT.
Publication: Hardware Times
ASUS ZenBook Flip 14 is killing it! (PROACTIVE)edit
This AMD powered laptop is available in two configurations – AMD Ryzen 7 and AMD Ryzen 5. He says AMD has improved their processors over the years and that his personal desktop is powered by AMD. Giri says he did not face any heating issues as such when using the AMD Ryzen 5.
Publication: Giri Sonna Seri (YouTube)
Best CPUs of 2019: Gaming, Productivity & Overalledit
The year 2019 has been really great with a bunch of new CPUs and APUs. 2019 will be remembered to the year for 7nm CPUs as the key player here, AMD has stepped up the game with their Zen 2 CPUs and overtook the market that was predominantly captured by the Team Blue. Thanks to the Ryzen 3000 processors which have completely changed the game for AMD. Before this AMD was an option for productivity works only but now with the superiority of the Ryzen 3000, AMD CPUs have impressive gaming performance as well.
Publication: TechnoSports
The US$85 AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF looks to be a new 12nm Zen+ part and even outperforms the Ryzen 5 2600edit
It is not often that we see a new fabrication process ‘backported’ to the previous generation, but AMD seems to have done just that. Last week, news emerged of the appearance of a variant of the Ryzen 5 1600 that is interestingly fabbed on a 12nm Zen+ process unlike the 14nm process of the original. The new Ryzen 5 1600 ‘AF’ version as it is called, is essentially a Ryzen 5 2600 and can be identified by the part number that ends with AF such as YD1600BBM6IAF. CPU-Z also identifies this chip as a 12nm Zen+ Pinnacle Ridge part.
Publication: Notebook Check
Here is what made PCs cool again in 2019edit
While there were some in the PC industry that sort of saw this coming, AMD’s Ryzen 3 desktop CPUs really did throw an ‘epyc’ monkey-wrench into Intel’s machine. While Intel had been struggling with going sub-14nm with their processors, AMD’s third-generation Ryzen processors are fabricated using the 7nm process by TSMC. This allowed AMD to deliver some eye-watering performance across its entire third-gen portfolio. Retailers across the world initially had a hard time maintaining stock of not just certain AMD Ryzen processors, but also X570-based motherboards.
Publication: Digit
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Can innovation make personal computing more customized than it is today?edit
If millennials can take personal computing for granted today, it is because of 50 years of innovation that has gone into power-packing the central processing unit (CPU) chip. The power in each sleek machine today would have taken up an entire room of equipment a few decades ago. The invention of the transistor changed everything. While vacuum tubes would be several inches long, transistors were much, much smaller —they were just millimeters in size when they were initially built, enabling compact designs for the first time.
Publication: Livemint
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super: 1080p Performance Across 10 Games, 1% Lows, Thermals & Overclocking (PROACTIVE)edit
The AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT is the faster sibling of the OEM-centric RX 5500, competing directly against NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1650 Super. Team red claims that their offering is superior with first-party benchmarks showing the latter as around 10-15% slower. AMD favored titles like Red Dead Redemption and Borderlands 2 see the Radeon RX 5500 XT taking a massive lead over the GTX 1650 Super. In terms of overclocking, like the rest of the Turing Supers, the 1650 S fares much better than the RX 5500 XT.
Publication: Hardware Times
Partner in news
Here is what made PCs cool again in 2019edit
While there were some in the PC industry that sort of saw this coming, AMD’s Ryzen 3 desktop CPUs really did throw an ‘epyc’ monkey-wrench into Intel’s machine. While Intel had been struggling with going sub-14nm with their processors, AMD’s third-generation Ryzen processors are fabricated using the 7nm process by TSMC. This allowed AMD to deliver some eye-watering performance across its entire third-gen portfolio. Retailers across the world initially had a hard time maintaining stock of not just certain AMD Ryzen processors, but also X570-based motherboards.
Publication: Digit
LENOVO THINKBOOKedit
Lenovo, with its new ThinkBook 14 and 15, wants to change the way we perceive work laptops. These aren’t your chunky, brick like machines crafted from aluminium that you would want to show off, event at home. There’s a fingerprint reader embedded in the power button, plenty of ports to connect all those external hard drives and even a few Type C ports thrown in.
Publication: Stuff
Industry news
Can innovation make personal computing more customized than it is today?edit
If millennials can take personal computing for granted today, it is because of 50 years of innovation that has gone into power-packing the central processing unit (CPU) chip. The power in each sleek machine today would have taken up an entire room of equipment a few decades ago. The invention of the transistor changed everything. While vacuum tubes would be several inches long, transistors were much, much smaller —they were just millimeters in size when they were initially built, enabling compact designs for the first time.
Publication: Livemint
5G will drive edge computing, IoT in India in 2020edit
With more and more Indian enterprises striving to go digital, the increased speed and bandwidth of 5G networks will drive a new round of transformation across India from next year, industry leaders said on Thursday. There will be a shift of computing to the edge, as India’s businesses take advantage of the benefits of cloud and hyper-converged infrastructure to deal with increasing data gravity. “With legacy three-tier architectures already struggling to cope with high volumes of data generated by today’s enterprises, 5G will be the catalyst that drives edge computing and IoT,” Balakrishnan Anantharaman, VP and MD-Sales, India and SAARC, Nutanix, told IANS.
Publication: ET Brand Equity
AI in demand but 2,500 jobs remained vacant in 2019, says reportedit
The rising demand for artificial intelligence (AI), the technology that mimics the human brain, is a no brainer. However, although the number of AI professionals in India has doubled, 2,500 related positions remain vacant indicating that the number of jobs getting created in AI has outpaced the talent available in the sector, according to a study by Great Learning, India’s leading ed-tech company.
Publication: Livemint
2019 tech that may help shape the decade ahead for gadgetsedit
The coming year is a big one for technology. With 5G finally making its way to the market, a lot of things that were once considered futuristic are set to become reality. The footprints of some of these technologies that were seen this year will create even stronger ripples over the next decade.
Publication: Livemint
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