Intel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake-H CPUs for gaming laptops are reportedly launching on the 2nd of April. Paired with NVIDIA’s RTX Super GPUs, these notebooks will try to fight off AMD’s new Renoir machines. Considering that Comet Lake-H is another 14nm Skylake spinoff, the results aren’t going to be all that positive. The main highlight of Intel’s 10th Gen high-performance gaming laptops is the 5GHz boost clock, offering premier gaming performance.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Although Intel’s 10nm node failure can be attributed to an overly aggressive policy or perhaps the death of Moore’s Law, the 14nm shortages are a different case altogether. Intel didn’t anticipate that AMD’s Ryzen CPUs would be as disruptive as they turned out to be. And they certainly didn’t expect that their 14nm offerings would fail to match up to the 3rd Gen Ryzen parts even after doubling the die size. In the end, this reminds me of the tale of “The Hare and the Tortoise“.

Publication: Hardware Times 

We’ve been hearing a lot about DirectX 12 and ray-tracing (RTX in NVIDIA terms) over the last 10-15 months. While ray-tracing (DXR) is a core feature of the new low-level API, it’s not all there is to it. DirectX 12 changes how games are developed and rendered in many ways. Ever since games built atop the new API arrived, there’s been a lot of debate as to how it differs from DirectX 11 and whether it’s actually as big as the industry wants you to believe. In this post, we explore DirectX 12 and see what makes it such a step up from DirectX 11.

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Alongside the Snapdragon 865 and a few other smartphone chips, Qualcomm also announced that it will update GPU drivers through the Google Play Store. At the Google for Games Developer summit yesterday, Qualcomm listed out the first few smartphones that will receive these updates. But what do these updates bring?  Smartphone GPUs have traditionally been quite locked down, unlike its PC components that receive regular updates with optimisations in place to run various games smoothly without taking up too much power. Similarly, Google announced the Android GPU Inspector which makes building and optimising games on the Android platform much easier.

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Last year, Intel did launch its entire 10nm based Ice Lake lineup for laptops and we do have a number of laptops in the market with the SoC. Intel did tease the Core i7-1068G7 last year as the crown jewel of the Ice Lake series but it did never appear on any laptop or mini PCs. The Intel Ice Lake family consists of at least 5 different Y-series CPUs and 6 different U-series CPUs.  Intel is expected to make the CPU available to OEMs before the end of Q1 2020 for a launch in Q2 to give competition to the Ryzen 4000 APU laptops. Both the Ryzen 7 4700U & 4800U can be a tough competitor to Intel as the ...

When NVIDIA launched its Geforce RTX lineup of cards, many exciting things were promised. The ability to use raytracing features was certainly a big one, but another one – namely DLSS was launched to boost framerates while playing with RTX On. As promised, NVIDIA has updated the DLSS network in a new Geforce update that provides better, sharper image quality while still retaining higher framerates in raytraced games.

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Along with removing its own Software Guard Extensions(SGX), Intel has incorporated some really exciting features to the new platform. It includes a newer processor core architecture, which is most probably Willow Cove cores designed over a 14nm architecture. It is also rumored to bring the new Xe Architecture for integrated graphics(codenamed Gen12). this will additionally bring in HDMI 2.0b and DisplayPort 1.4a support.

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