November 2, 2020

AMD specific news

You Should Probably Upgrade To An SSD On Your Gaming PC; Not For Improved Performanceedit

No matter if you have the Ryzen 5000 CPU or the NVIDIA RTX 3080 GPU, a bad storage device can impact the overall gaming performance of your rig. It could be a brand new gaming PC with the latest GPU and CPU, or a PC from a couple of years, you should do this to get a better gaming experience.

Publication: Gizbot

RX 6000 Price And Specifications: Know All About Upcoming AMD RX 6000 Graphic Cards (PROACTIVE)edit

After AMD claimed that their Ryzen 5950X is the fastest processor in the world in every way possible, the company now decided to reveal another new and much better model which they claim to be the world’s fastest graphics card. The card is named Radeon RX 6900 XT and is built using the new RDNA 2 architecture. This was also known as Navi 21 and is faster than Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3090.

Publication: Republic World 

2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processor is the World’s first x86 Datacenter Processor (PROACTIVE)edit

Vinay Sinha, Managing Director, India Sales at AMD: The IT landscape is in a constant state of evolution and is at the forefront of digital transformation. In the current times, IT leaders are reimagining their on-premise data centers to simplify and scale their IT infrastructure for better outcomes. This is driven by the current and the future way of business functioning and the need to gain insights and analyze vast amounts of data quickly and maximize returns on the data center investment.

Publication: Enterprise IT World 

AMD takes on Nvidia with next gen graphics cards for PC gaming (PROACTIVE)edit

Based mostly on graphics big Nvidia, AMD said that the flagship Radon RX 6900 XT is the final word 4K graphics card and the quickest AMD gaming graphics card. The AMD Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics playing cards are anticipated to be accessible beginning November 18 for $ 579 and $ 649 respectively. The corporate stated in a press release on Wednesday that the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT is anticipated to be accessible from December eight for $ 999.

Publication: Jobsvacancy

AMD Unveils Next-Generation PC Gaming with AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD unveiled the AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics cards, delivering powerhouse performance, incredibly life-like visuals, and must-have features that set a new standard for enthusiast-class PC gaming experiences. Representing the forefront of extreme engineering and design, the highly anticipated AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series includes the AMD Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics cards, as well as the new flagship Radeon RX 6900 XT – the fastest AMD gaming graphics card ever developed.

Publication: Enterprise IT World

AMD’s Smart Access Cache might not deliver massive performance gains, but Big Navi’s raw raster performance could compensate (PROACTIVE)edit

Benchmarks compiled by tipster @_rogame indicate that, while AMD’s Smart Access Cache technology might not be a major factor in Big Navi RX 6000 performance. According to the compiled benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6900 XT was just 1.8 percent faster on average at 4K with both Smart Access Cache and Rage Mode auto overclocking enabled. The Radeon RX 6800 XT saw a more pronounced improvement, with 3.9 percent better performance with Smart Access Cache enabled.

Publication: Notebook Check 

New AMD Ryzen 7 5800X & Ryzen 5 5600X CPUs dominates Intel in single-core benchmarksedit

The Red team’s latest Ryzen 5000 series processors are based on the revolutionary Zen 3 architecture that promises a great performance uplift up to 26% on the gaming front. This is due to the incredible feat achieved due to the great single-core performance. These new processors have a new design and a new cache implementation that has helped these chiplets to gain a maximum fast cache memory.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD Ryzen 5000 series doesn’t seem to stop in crushing inteledit

We already know that AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series is the town’s buzz and has the community going wild because it reportedly clocks higher than Intel’s Core- i9 processors. According to SiSoftware, the 6-core Zen 3 CPU is 15% to 40% faster than Zen 2 Ryzen 5 3600X, while the 8-core 5800X is 25 to 40% faster than its 3700X. The Ryzen 5 5600X was even able to overtake 8-core Intel i9-9900K processors, which is a massive win since the 9900K is the leader in gaming CPUs.

Publication: TechnoSports

NVIDIA GTX 1650 Super vs AMD RX 5500 XT: Which one Should you Buy? (PROACTIVE)edit

The RX 5500 XT is the clear winner here. It maintains notably higher frame rates than the GTX 1650 Super across all ten games tested, all the while costing less. The gap swells to a significant 20-30% in the Navi favored titles in-line with AMD’s official figures.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Gigabyte Releases Beta BIOS for B450 Boards Supporting Ryzen 5000 CPUsedit

In an official press release, Gigabyte has announced the release of the BIOS updates supporting the Ryzen 5000 CPUs on the 500 series motherboards. However, as per a source on Twitter, the latest F60b BIOS also adds support for the Zen 3 chips on all B450 boards. This isn’t preliminary support we’re talking about here, rather full-fledged compatibility. We haven’t been able to confirm this for obvious reasons, but will update this post as soon as we have a confirmation.

Publication: Hardware Times 

AMD Radeon RX 6800 Ray-Tracing Perf Faster than the RTX 3070 (W/O DLSS)edit

The first ray-tracing benchmark of AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 (Navi 21 XL) GPU has surfaced, showing rather impressive performance in Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Despite the game being a GeForce partner title and featuring an RTX optimized implementation of DXR, the RX 6800 manages to beat the rival Ampere card, the RTX 3070. Without DLSS, that is.

Publication: Hardware Times 

AMD can allow partner-made Radeon RX 6900 XTedit

Prior to AMD’s presentation of the graphics cards in the Radeon RX 6000 series, rumors circulated that the top card RX 6900 XT, the largest of the large “Big Navi” cards, would be sold exclusively by AMD themselves. During the unveiling, AMD did not disclose any details in the matter, but only mentioned the price and launch date. New reports indicate that AMD is in talks with partner manufacturers to let them build their own variants on the top card.

 Publication: Aroged
AMD Ryzen 5000 creates buzz with benchmark scores (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD is all over the news with powerful processors and its sudden rise in quarter three earnings. But now it seems that the companies upcoming processors the AMD Ryzen 5000 based on the Zen 3 architecture process is garnering everyone’s attention. The Ryzen 9 5950X is a 16C/32T CPU with a base clock of 3.9 GHz and a boost clock of up to 4.9 GHz. The single-thread performance of the 5950X in PassMark benchmark shows the CPU scoring about 3,693 points in the test, and the Ryzen 5 5600X’s score was 3,455.

Publication: TechnoSports

What is AMD Smart Access Memory Technology? (PROACTIVE)edit

Recently, AMD announced its new revolutionary Radeon RX 6000 GPUs based on the new RDNA 2 architecture. These top-of-the-line graphics cards sum up against NVIDIA’s flagship GPUs and performs head-to-head as per AMD’s slides in the presentation. However, in the total launch event, one new feature that surely has excited you are the new AMD Smart Access Memory that is completely new concept that only AMD could have thought of and implemented.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD Enters Major Leagues, Big Tech’s Big Gains And More In This Week’s Top Newsedit

In the last week’s top news, we briefed about the AMD-Xilinx rumor mill. And, it turned out to be true. AMD bagged their rival Xilinx for a hefty $35 billion deal. This marks another tectonic shift within the semiconductor industry followed by NVIDIA’s deal with ARM last month. AMD’s goal of chipping off market share from Intel is no more a secret now. Read more about why AMD bought Xilinx and what is at stake for Intel in this week’s top news brought to you by Analytics India Magazine.

Publication: Analytics India Magazine 

AMD Buys Rival Xilinx For $35 B, Troubles Mount For Inteledit

On Tuesday, AMD announced that it would be acquiring Xilinx in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion. Advanced Micro Devices(AMD) specializes in making chips for personal computers, especially gaming PCs. Whereas, Xilinx’s highly-flexible programmable silicon, enabled by a suite of advanced software and tools is designed to drive rapid innovation across a variety of industries and technologies. With this purchase, AMD looks to diversify its market share and customer reach, which would definitely send warning signals to its competitors like Intel.

Publication: Analytics India Magazine 

AMD is looking to fight Nvidia in 4K gaming technology (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD is busy taking on its rival companies like Intel and Nvidia. It seems that the company is doing so while offering high performance and innovations to its customers. According to sources, the company is currently testing a new supersampling feature designed to increase performance during ray tracing. Sources claim that this feature is an alternative to NVIDIA’s DLSS feature and will be open and cross-platform. So we can assume that it may come to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, both of which are powered by AMD technology.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD brand mentions

MSI’s Entire Line-up of AMD 400 Series Motherboards will support Ryzen TM 5000 series processorsedit

AMD has officially announced Zen3 architecture Ryzen TM 5000 series processors on October 8th. The latest Zen3 processors have significant performance improvements compared to the previous significant performance improvements compared to the previous 7nm Ryzen 3000 series processors.

Publication: IT Voice 

Competition in news

You Should Probably Upgrade To An SSD On Your Gaming PC; Not For Improved Performanceedit

No matter if you have the Ryzen 5000 CPU or the NVIDIA RTX 3080 GPU, a bad storage device can impact the overall gaming performance of your rig. It could be a brand new gaming PC with the latest GPU and CPU, or a PC from a couple of years, you should do this to get a better gaming experience.

Publication: Gizbot

AMD takes on Nvidia with next gen graphics cards for PC gaming (PROACTIVE)edit

Based mostly on graphics big Nvidia, AMD said that the flagship Radon RX 6900 XT is the final word 4K graphics card and the quickest AMD gaming graphics card. The AMD Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics playing cards are anticipated to be accessible beginning November 18 for $ 579 and $ 649 respectively. The corporate stated in a press release on Wednesday that the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT is anticipated to be accessible from December eight for $ 999.

Publication: Jobsvacancy

Nvidia offers free COD bundled with its RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 GPUsedit

Nvidia is the leading manufacturer of graphics processing units, and we already know that the company is gearing to expand its dominance further. We discussed a lot on the soon to be released Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series line-up. The cards will be based on the company’s ampere GPU’s and are said to be high-performing than its domineering 2080 Ti GPUs.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD Ryzen 5000 series doesn’t seem to stop in crushing inteledit

We already know that AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series is the town’s buzz and has the community going wild because it reportedly clocks higher than Intel’s Core- i9 processors. According to SiSoftware, the 6-core Zen 3 CPU is 15% to 40% faster than Zen 2 Ryzen 5 3600X, while the 8-core 5800X is 25 to 40% faster than its 3700X. The Ryzen 5 5600X was even able to overtake 8-core Intel i9-9900K processors, which is a massive win since the 9900K is the leader in gaming CPUs.

Publication: TechnoSports

Intel Rocket Lake Details Revealed: Finally Not Skylake, But Still 14 nmedit

It is not an exaggeration to say that Skylake had overstayed its welcome on Intel CPUs. It had been around since 2015, part of the 6th Generation! The many successors of it were present in the 7th through 10th Generation of Intel desktop CPUs. So finally, Intel has decided to move on. In the previous generation, we saw Intel move to a newer socket, LGA 1200 as well, so Skylake managed to be on two different sockets for the same target market too.

Publication: TechQuila

 

Intel launches IRIS XE Max Discrete graphics for low-power notebooksedit

Since Iris MAX Xe is designed to compete in the same league as NVIDIA’s MX-class GPUs and AMD’s RX Vega Integrated GPUs, it hosts several features such as variable rate sharing, Intel DLBoost, AV1 decode support, PCIe Gen 4.0 support, adaptive sync and Intel Deep Link which we will get to shortly. It should be noted that Iris Xe MAX supports DirectX 12.1 and has Variable Rate Shading which is a DX12 Ultimate feature.

Publication: Digit

NVIDIA GTX 1650 Super vs AMD RX 5500 XT: Which one Should you Buy? (PROACTIVE)edit

The RX 5500 XT is the clear winner here. It maintains notably higher frame rates than the GTX 1650 Super across all ten games tested, all the while costing less. The gap swells to a significant 20-30% in the Navi favored titles in-line with AMD’s official figures.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Intel Launches DG1 as the Iris Xe Max: 768 Cores, 4GB Memory, and a 128-bit Busedit

After much waiting and a ton of speculation, Intel has finally announced its first discrete GPU in the form of the Iris Xe Max (or the DG1) for ultra-portable laptops and notebooks. Technically speaking, you’re basically looking at the Gen 12 Xe LP iGPU found on Tiger Lake with its own bus and L3 cache. Sure, the clocks have been ramped up and the GPU gets its own memory in the form of 4GB LPDD4x (not GDDR6), but ultimately it’ll mostly bounce around the iGPU space.

Publication: Hardware Times 

NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti Expected to Launch on 17th Nov: Slightly Slower than the RTX 2080 Ti @ $349-399edit

With both the top-end Ampere and Navi 2 graphics cards announced, it’s time for the budget parts to be unveiled. The first one to take the stage will likely be the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti: a cut-down variant of the GA104 core, featuring 4,864 FP32 shaders (1,024 less than the RTX 3070) and the same 8GB of GDDR6 memory, paired with a 256-bit bus. The boost clocks will likely be slightly lower than the RTX 3070 to ensure that it doesn’t come too close to the latter. Mydrivers reports a base clock of 1410MHz and a boost of 1665MHz (RTX 3070 tops out at 1.73GHz).

Publication: Hardware Times 

AMD Enters Major Leagues, Big Tech’s Big Gains And More In This Week’s Top Newsedit

In the last week’s top news, we briefed about the AMD-Xilinx rumor mill. And, it turned out to be true. AMD bagged their rival Xilinx for a hefty $35 billion deal. This marks another tectonic shift within the semiconductor industry followed by NVIDIA’s deal with ARM last month. AMD’s goal of chipping off market share from Intel is no more a secret now. Read more about why AMD bought Xilinx and what is at stake for Intel in this week’s top news brought to you by Analytics India Magazine.

Publication: Analytics India Magazine 

AMD is looking to fight Nvidia in 4K gaming technology (PROACTIVE)edit

AMD is busy taking on its rival companies like Intel and Nvidia. It seems that the company is doing so while offering high performance and innovations to its customers. According to sources, the company is currently testing a new supersampling feature designed to increase performance during ray tracing. Sources claim that this feature is an alternative to NVIDIA’s DLSS feature and will be open and cross-platform. So we can assume that it may come to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, both of which are powered by AMD technology.

Publication: TechnoSports

Partner in news

MSI’s Entire Line-up of AMD 400 Series Motherboards will support Ryzen TM 5000 series processorsedit

AMD has officially announced Zen3 architecture Ryzen TM 5000 series processors on October 8th. The latest Zen3 processors have significant performance improvements compared to the previous significant performance improvements compared to the previous 7nm Ryzen 3000 series processors.

Publication: IT Voice 

Gigabyte Releases Beta BIOS for B450 Boards Supporting Ryzen 5000 CPUsedit

In an official press release, Gigabyte has announced the release of the BIOS updates supporting the Ryzen 5000 CPUs on the 500 series motherboards. However, as per a source on Twitter, the latest F60b BIOS also adds support for the Zen 3 chips on all B450 boards. This isn’t preliminary support we’re talking about here, rather full-fledged compatibility. We haven’t been able to confirm this for obvious reasons, but will update this post as soon as we have a confirmation.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Industry news

Chip-making a big opportunity for Indiaedit

“While multicore chips is one of the alternatives to get faster processing, there is also a limit on how many cores you can put inside a chip,” says Kris Gopalakrishnan, co-founder and former CEO of Infosys, and also an angel investor. “India can play a role there and on the fab side, you need to track the new materials and new technologies that are coming, and see whether you can take a lead there.”

Publication: Business Standard 

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