AWS is hoping to slash costs, saying the new service will get 40 percent better price-to-performance than its similar offerings from AMD and Intel. AWS’s own technology will quickly pass data through multiple Graviton processors, a key supercomputing process in which many chips act as a hive mind to tackle a large task. AWS will rent the service out so that researchers need not build or manage a system.

Publication: Gadgets 360 

The upcoming Radeon RX 6900 XT is supposed to be the fastest card among the Radeon RX 6000 line-up. The menu will feature the Big Navi GPU. A Russian outlet called Overclockers is recently claiming that AMD has given greenlit to its board partners to manufacture custom Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics cards. We already know that AMD was in talks with its AIB partners to develop custom RX 6900 XT models. And the news comes just a month after the initial discussion. The Radeon RX 6900 XT launch is close by, and according to sources, the card’s custom models will not be available at the launch.

Publication: TechnoSports

If you’re looking for a premium 24-inch monitor under Rs 10,000, then the Samsung 24-inch LED monitor is an excellent choice. It offers full HD resolution as well as a faster refresh rate of 75Hz, which is great for gaming. The monitor boasts of a high quality build with a slim design, and also supports AMD FreeSync. It gets excellent viewing angles, superior eye care, and has multiple connectivity ports.

Publication: 91 Mobiles 

Lenovo has just launched its Legion 5 Gaming laptop in India. The laptop comes with AMD’s 7nm 4000 series CPU that can be paired with up to a GeForce GTX 1650Ti discrete GPU. The base variant of the laptop starts at Rs 75,990 and comes only with the Phantom Black colour option in India. The laptop is currently available only at lenovo.com and at Lenovo exclusive stores for offline purchase. Currently, the device comes with one-year free Premium Care and one-year Accidental Damage Protection worth Rs 3,900.

Publication: Digit

The first benchmark of the upcoming Ryzen 5000H gaming processors have been leaked by @TUM_APISAK and even though it doesn’t seem promising enough but proves AMD is working to brings its next-gen mobile gaming processor soon. It is the same 8 core, 16 threaded processor but having 3.20 GHz base frequency as well as boost, which means this is most probably an engineering sample.

Publication: TechnoSports

The latest AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin driver has introduced support for ray-tracing on Vulkan based titles. Keep in mind that games that use NVIDIA’s Vulkan extension for implementing ray-tracing won’t be supporting, instead, the newly launched VRTEs will be supported. The driver version 20.11.3 also supports optimizations for Immortals: Fenyx Rising, an open-world title from Ubisoft. Other than that, you get your regular list of fixes for various titles, most notably Crysis: Remastered, COD Block Ops: Cold War, etc.

Publication: Hardware Times 

The new year is upon us and with that, the first tech event, CES. Once again, AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su will be delivering the keynote at the 2021 edition of CES. There are a bunch of announcements expected from the keynote, primarily for mobile devices. After the success of the Renoir notebooks, AMD will be looking to continue the momentum this year, with the new Cezanne and Lucienne parts. Both APUs feature the Vega graphics, with the former using the Zen 3 and the latter retaining the Zen 2 core.

Publication: Hardware Times