Variable refresh rate, otherwise known as Adaptive Sync is one of the most important technologies in modern gaming. Both NVIDIA and AMD have their own respective implementations of adaptive sync. Although they do the same thing (make your gameplay smoother at lower refresh rates), the way they work is quite different. More importantly, which one is superior for gamers: G-Sync or FreeSync? Should you buy a FreeSync monitor or one that supports NVIDIA’s G-Sync technology.

Publication: Hardware Times

AMD is in a very competitive position at the moment. Their market shared in both the consumer and server segments are growing and they’ve got a process lead over Intel. This is all thanks to the new Zen microarchitecture that powers the existing Ryzen CPUs. Before Zen, AMD was in a very precarious situation, on the verge of bankruptcy. The older Bulldozer based FX processors were slow, inefficient and in every way an architectural disaster.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Before AMD launched the Ryzen CPUs in 2017, Intel was having a field day with a total monopoly in the notebook and server markets. The DIY and console markets kept AMD from going bankrupt, but even then Team Red was on the brink of ruin. The new Zen microarchitecture not only brought the company back into the fight, but it also put some serious pressure on Intel. For the first time in over a decade, AMD is approaching a double-figure market share in the server segment.

Publication: Hardware Times

When Nvidia Corp abruptly dropped Activision Blizzard Inc games from its new GeForce Now service earlier this week, it left customers wondering what happened. Nvidia said on Tuesday that Activision had asked to have its titles removed from GeForce, but didn’t explain why.

Publication: Indian Express 

Graphics giant Nvidia has said that it expects to take a $100 million hit in revenue next quarter as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. This comes days after it pulled out of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) and the world’s biggest tech conference was called off in the wake of the deadly coronavirus outbreak.

Publication: Hindustan Times

We’ve reported earlier about Intel’s plans of launching the Comet Lake-H and Comet Lake-S series as early as March 2020 to possibly counter AMD’s advances in desktop and mobile. Now, it looks like that may indeed happen as trays of Intel Comet Lake-S CPUs were briefly put up for sale on a Chinese e-tailer site.

Publication: NoteBook Check

With time, Chromebooks are getting more and more popular because of its simplicity and low cost. Even though they are less expensive they lack a significant performance and the ones with Intel Core CPUs are even more expensive.  The AMD Ryzen Mobile processors can help this situation obviously, and so we have some leaks of the upcoming Chromebooks featuring the previous-gen Ryzen 3000 mobile processors based on 12nm rather than the latest Ryzen 4000 which are a bit more costly.

Publication: TechnoSports

Its no brainer that AMD is leading in the laptop space now as well with its new AMD Ryzen 4000 mobile processors and now with more leaks and benchmarks this is becoming much more evident. Already we had the leaked benchmark of the Ryzen 7 4700U which beat the Intel’s flagship Core i7-1065G7 in multi-core while losing in single-core performance.

Publication: TechnoSports

Nvidia has listed a couple of mobile GPUs under its new MX300 series, on its website. This lineup currently consists of the MX330 and the MX350, and we can expect a few more to be announced under this new series. True to previous rumours, the two new chips are based on ṭhe now ageing Pascal architecṭure. The MX330 and the MX350 are said to be 2x and 2.5x faster as compared to (Ice Lake) Iris Plus Graphics on the Intel i7-1065G7 processor. Some specs of both the GPUs are also listed on the official website, which reveal that they support GDDR5 memory interface and support a number of APIs, OSes and interfaces.

Publication: Digit

NVIDIA corp tops on Thursday forecast first-quarter revenue that topped Wall street expectations, powered by sales of its chips to cloud computing vendors, even as it projected a $100 million hit from the coronavirus outbreak. The forecast reinforced expectations of a rebound in chip demand and sent Nvidia shares up nearly 7% in extended trading. Last month, Intel Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc , Nvidia’s primary rivals in selling chips to data center customers, both forecast positive trends in that market.

Publication: Gadgets Now 

Nvidia gave a strong revenue forecast for the current period, spurred by increasing demand for data-center and gaming chips. Revenue will be $3 billion, plus or minus 2%, in the fiscal first quarter, the Santa Clara, California based company said Thursday in a statement.

Publication: The Times of India