In a rather controversial (and rather hollow) claim, NVIDIA’s CEO, Jensen Huang has claimed that the company’s GPUs are “easily twice as energy efficiency compared to the second-best architecture (AMD) on the market, regardless of the number in the transistor side”. Speaking to analysts at the Q2 earnings report after the company’s Data Center revenue outpaced gaming, Huang was quick to downplay the impact of the process node on the final product.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Intel’s Core i5-9600K has dropped to an all-time low of $192, something that should have happened months ago. This puts it nearly on the same level as AMD’s Ryzen 5 3600/3600X processors. Although the Zen 2 chips still offer better multi-threaded performance with a significant lead in content creation workloads such as video editing and rendering, the Core i5 isn’t a bad choice for gamers. That is if you already have an older LGA1151 board.

Publication: Hardware Times 

With PC makers introducing new upgrades thanks to the arrival of more powerful 10th-gen Intel mobile CPUs, HP recently updated its gaming portfolio introducing two new models. While the Pavilion Gaming gets a new 16-inch model, the flagship Omen series added a new sleek looking 15-inch model. Now I’ve liked what HP has done in the past with its Omen lineup especially with the top-of-the-line Omen X it launched a couple of years back. The new Omen 15 is claimed to be one of the most portable gaming notebooks, and while that’s not entirely true, it does look sleek.

Publication: News18

Both next-generation consoles, the PS5 and Xbox Series X, will include hardware raytracing support, albeit on AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture. While we’ve seen a lot of leaks regarding Ampere’s specifications, we still have to see what AMD will bring to the table. It is widely expected that both NVIDIA and AMD’s next-generation graphics cards will include highly improved raytracing support compared to the RTX 2000 series, which are currently some of the best graphics cards on the market for gaming and content creation.

Publication: TechQuila

The Asus VivoBook S14 has the same AMD Ryzen 5 4500U processor as the more expensive ZenBook 14 and comes in a sleek and thin form-factor. The 1.4mm keystroke provides a satisfying typing feel, and also a keyboard that’s easy to get used to quickly. Other specs include a 512GB NVMe drive and an empty m.2 slot for additional storage. A 3-cell 50Whr battery ensures you don’t run out of juice at the worst moment possible.

Publication: Digit

If you are someone who hates thick bezels on laptops, then the Asus Zenbook 13 can turn out to be a good buy for you as it comes with an impressive screen-to-body ratio of 95%. The laptop sports a 13.3-inch display with thin bezels on all four sides, which should deliver an immersive viewing experience for you. Furthermore, you can expect to get robust performances under most user-case scenarios, as it runs on the 10th Gen Intel Core i7-10510U quad-core processor with the base speed of 1.8GHz that can Turbo Boost up to 4.9GHz, as per company claims.

Publication: Digit

Gaming laptops are just for gaming enthusiasts. Yes and no, both. Most of these devices come with cutting-edge technologies and top-of-the-line specifications. They are not perfect, though. Most of the gaming laptops are unwieldy, lack right software optimisations, and do not score high on portability scale – probably why productivity-oriented users stay at bay. Lenovo sees this as an opportunity to rope in its Legion laptops as the perfect product for both gaming and non-gaming users.

Publication: HT Tech – Hindustan Times 

PC-brand HP is gearing up to launch its new Envy series of laptops for content creators in India on August 25. The new range of HP Envy laptops is expected to be priced around Rs 75,000. The new Envy series is likely to be targeted specifically at the everyday content creators and not meant for high-end gaming. HP recently announced its Envy 15 laptop series in the US at a price of $1,350. It is quite possible that HP may introduce the same in India now. The USP of the Envy 15 laptop is the vapour cooled 10th gen Intel Core-i9 processor with two 12-volt fans, which, as per the company, boost the processing power by 33%.

Publication: The ...

The Dell XPS 17 packs an immersive 17-inch FHD+ IPS display. Powering the machine is intel’s latest 10th generation Core i7-10750H processor paired with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650Ti with 4GB VRAM. There’s also 16GB DDR4 memory, and a fast 1TB NVMe drive onboard. The display has 100 per cent sRGB coverage, something that content creators would love. The Dell XPS 17 offers four Thunderbolt 3.0 ports for ultimate connectivity but also manages to fit in a full-sized SD card reader.

Publication: Digit

MSI opts for an Intel Core i9-9900K for the processor while using the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti for their gaming desktop. The MSI Infinite X Plus 9SF-270US comes in a mid-tower form factor and has 32 GB of RAM to take care of all your multi-tasking needs and for storage they’re giving a 512GB NVMe SSD as primary storage and they’re throwing in an additional 2TB hard drive for additional storage. Since the Intel Core i9-9900K performs better than the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X in gaming, this combination seems to be apt. For all this, they have quite a steep price tag.

The AMD Ryzen 4000 processors have been a hit this year for the Red team, it has been unable to deliver to the huge surge in demand of these revolutionary mobile processors. Most laptops with these new APUs have become hot cakes and people have aware of AMD and its performance gains over Intel this year along with incredible efficiency. If you are an AMD fan, then there’s some good news for you as the Red team is just not stopping with this success and plans to bring more unique products for its fans this year.

Publication: TechnoSports

Speaking at the annual summit of the India Electronics & Semiconductor Association (IESA) last week, both noted that chips are at the heart of everything around us – smartphones, PCs, cars, watches, agriculture, drones, medical devices. And yet, India is nowhere in this ecosystem, and is heavily dependent on imports. India has enormous chip design talent, but almost all of that resides in the India centres of global companies like Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom, AMD, Micron, Texas Instruments, and Nvidia. Paulraj said many of the technologies of these companies remain under the control of the governments of countries where they are headquartered – for national security and other reasons.

Publication: The Times of India