September 3, 2021

AMD specific news

The MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT Gaming X available to buy on Amazon for ₹68,990edit

Though its true GPUs are overpriced currently but you can at least buy them than previously when you couldn’t even get one after a lot of hunting. The recently launched AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT is a lot more available everywhere than AMD’s other cards.

Publication: TechnoSports

AMD brand mentions

Asus ROG STRIX G15edit

ROG aka Republic of Gamers is a fantastic line of gaming-centric laptops with souped up internals and ultra clear screens. I tried out the STRIX G15 over the last few weeks and came away quite thrilled. The Strix range comes with AMD Ryzen processors which run fast and run efficient, loading everything in a flash, and sport cutting edge NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU to ensure graphics are smooth and seamless.

Publication: The Indian Express

Far Cry 6 PC System Requirements Out: AMD RX 6900 XT/RTX3070 for 1440p Ray-Tracing, FSR Support Confirmededit

Ubisoft has announced the PC system requirements for Far Cry 6. The game will launch in early October with DXR (ray-tracing) support, as well as AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution on Day 1 for all hardware. The hardware requirements are fairly modest, as long as you’re not looking to take advantage of ray-tracing. However, with ray-tracing enabled, they do go up quite significantly.

Publication: Hardware Times

Intel Kaby Lake-G Featuring Radeon RX Vega Graphics Getting Windows 11 Supportedit

Intel’s Kaby Lake-G lineup was one of the more bizarre products the chipmaker has designed over the years. Pairing the Skylake CPU architecture with AMD’s Vega graphics architecture, along with on-package HBM memory, it was a one-of-a-kind APU. Unfortunately, AMD announced the discontinuation of driver support for the latter last year (just two years after launch), and ever since, the fate of the hybrid has been in limbo.

Publication: Hardware Times

AMD Discrete GPUs Make up for Less than 5% of the Overall PC Graphics Card Market, Radeon APUs Make up 13%edit

According to the latest data from JPR (extrapolated by 3D Center), 68% of users still rely entirely on Intel’s integrated graphics processors. Of the remaining 32% users, 16.5% run NVIDIA GeForce graphics (7.9% DT, 7.3% mobile), 13.1% run Radeon APUs, while just 3.6% rely on AMD’s discrete graphics cards (2% DT, 1.6% mobile).

Publication: Hardware Times

Cloudflare: Intel Ice Lake-SP Draw Several Hundred Watts More than AMD’s Epyc Milan at Same Performance Levelsedit

Intel’s 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processors (codenamed Ice Lake-SP), although capable of performing on par with AMD’s Epyc Milan processors, consumed several hundred watts higher per server.

Publication: Hardware Times

NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3070 TI Graphics Card Review: An Odd Predicamentedit

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti puts gamers in an odd predicament. There’s barely any performance to be gained with the RTX 3070 Ti since it’s practically similar to the RTX 3070’s performance but has a much higher price tag.

Publication: Digit

Best Gaming Laptops That Can Handle The Most Demanding Games On The Marketedit

Best gaming laptops pack some serious power. With powerful graphics, gorgeous displays, and great audio, the perfect gaming laptop provides an immersive entertainment experience in a portable package.

Publication: The Times of India

Chunks of Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs from Sapphire, PowerColor and XFX sold by crypto mining hardware retaileredit

Cryptominers Bahrain is now boasting bulk shipments of AMD Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs by various OEMs like Sapphire, PowerColor and XFX. This mining retail company which is located in Bahrain and Dubai has revealed that it has received a fresh shipment of PowerColor, Sapphire, and XFX graphics cards.

Publication: TechnoSports

In pics: Take a look at the ROG Flow X13edit

The ROG Flow X13 supports up to an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS processor is inside, an 8-core, 16-thread processor paired with the Nvidia GeForce GPU.

Publication: HT Tech

Competition in news

Asus ROG STRIX G15edit

ROG aka Republic of Gamers is a fantastic line of gaming-centric laptops with souped up internals and ultra clear screens. I tried out the STRIX G15 over the last few weeks and came away quite thrilled. The Strix range comes with AMD Ryzen processors which run fast and run efficient, loading everything in a flash, and sport cutting edge NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU to ensure graphics are smooth and seamless.

Publication: The Indian Express

Far Cry 6 PC System Requirements Out: AMD RX 6900 XT/RTX3070 for 1440p Ray-Tracing, FSR Support Confirmededit

Ubisoft has announced the PC system requirements for Far Cry 6. The game will launch in early October with DXR (ray-tracing) support, as well as AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution on Day 1 for all hardware. The hardware requirements are fairly modest, as long as you’re not looking to take advantage of ray-tracing. However, with ray-tracing enabled, they do go up quite significantly.

Publication: Hardware Times

Intel Kaby Lake-G Featuring Radeon RX Vega Graphics Getting Windows 11 Supportedit

Intel’s Kaby Lake-G lineup was one of the more bizarre products the chipmaker has designed over the years. Pairing the Skylake CPU architecture with AMD’s Vega graphics architecture, along with on-package HBM memory, it was a one-of-a-kind APU. Unfortunately, AMD announced the discontinuation of driver support for the latter last year (just two years after launch), and ever since, the fate of the hybrid has been in limbo.

Publication: Hardware Times

AMD Discrete GPUs Make up for Less than 5% of the Overall PC Graphics Card Market, Radeon APUs Make up 13%edit

According to the latest data from JPR (extrapolated by 3D Center), 68% of users still rely entirely on Intel’s integrated graphics processors. Of the remaining 32% users, 16.5% run NVIDIA GeForce graphics (7.9% DT, 7.3% mobile), 13.1% run Radeon APUs, while just 3.6% rely on AMD’s discrete graphics cards (2% DT, 1.6% mobile).

Publication: Hardware Times

Cloudflare: Intel Ice Lake-SP Draw Several Hundred Watts More than AMD’s Epyc Milan at Same Performance Levelsedit

Intel’s 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processors (codenamed Ice Lake-SP), although capable of performing on par with AMD’s Epyc Milan processors, consumed several hundred watts higher per server.

Publication: Hardware Times

Upcoming Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake desktop CPU prices leakededit

Intel has already announced their new 12th Gen Alder Lake desktop processors based on the 10nm process and will adopt the new hybrid architecture with big & small cores, now it’s time for pricing.

Publication: TechnoSports

Juniper Networks ties up with Intel to augment Open RANedit

Juniper Networks announced that it is collaborating with Intel to accelerate advancement in the Open RAN (ORAN) ecosystem.

Publication: CRN

Dell Latitude 15 9520 review: A premium business laptop that deserves your attentionedit

The 15-inch Latitude 9520 is a part of the new generation of business notebooks, but has Dell done enough to make this laptop compelling enough for top executives to shell out Rs 1,45,000? Here’s my review of the new Dell Latitude 15 9520. My review unit came loaded with an 11th Gen Intel Core i7 vPro chip with 32GB RAM, 512GB of storage, and Xe graphics.

Publication: The Indian Express

Best Laptops under 15000 in Indiaedit

You’ll notice that some products mentioned in the list fit the budget but we’ve carefully considered them to add some good options, albeit a bit expensive. If you are not willing to splurge anything more than Rs 15,000, then we recommend you check out some tablets in and around the same budget.

Publication: Digit

NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3070 TI Graphics Card Review: An Odd Predicamentedit

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti puts gamers in an odd predicament. There’s barely any performance to be gained with the RTX 3070 Ti since it’s practically similar to the RTX 3070’s performance but has a much higher price tag.

Publication: Digit

Best Gaming Laptops That Can Handle The Most Demanding Games On The Marketedit

Best gaming laptops pack some serious power. With powerful graphics, gorgeous displays, and great audio, the perfect gaming laptop provides an immersive entertainment experience in a portable package.

Publication: The Times of India

In pics: Take a look at the ROG Flow X13edit

The ROG Flow X13 supports up to an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS processor is inside, an 8-core, 16-thread processor paired with the Nvidia GeForce GPU.

Publication: HT Tech

Partner in news

Asus ROG STRIX G15edit

ROG aka Republic of Gamers is a fantastic line of gaming-centric laptops with souped up internals and ultra clear screens. I tried out the STRIX G15 over the last few weeks and came away quite thrilled. The Strix range comes with AMD Ryzen processors which run fast and run efficient, loading everything in a flash, and sport cutting edge NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU to ensure graphics are smooth and seamless.

Publication: The Indian Express

Dell Latitude 15 9520 review: A premium business laptop that deserves your attentionedit

The 15-inch Latitude 9520 is a part of the new generation of business notebooks, but has Dell done enough to make this laptop compelling enough for top executives to shell out Rs 1,45,000? Here’s my review of the new Dell Latitude 15 9520. My review unit came loaded with an 11th Gen Intel Core i7 vPro chip with 32GB RAM, 512GB of storage, and Xe graphics.

Publication: The Indian Express

Best Laptops under 15000 in Indiaedit

You’ll notice that some products mentioned in the list fit the budget but we’ve carefully considered them to add some good options, albeit a bit expensive. If you are not willing to splurge anything more than Rs 15,000, then we recommend you check out some tablets in and around the same budget.

Publication: Digit

Best Gaming Laptops That Can Handle The Most Demanding Games On The Marketedit

Best gaming laptops pack some serious power. With powerful graphics, gorgeous displays, and great audio, the perfect gaming laptop provides an immersive entertainment experience in a portable package.

Publication: The Times of India

In pics: Take a look at the ROG Flow X13edit

The ROG Flow X13 supports up to an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS processor is inside, an 8-core, 16-thread processor paired with the Nvidia GeForce GPU.

Publication: HT Tech

Industry news

Chip nirbhartaedit

Just as the festive season nears and automakers hope for a recovery from the damage done by the covid pandemic, they have more trouble to deal with. A global chip shortage is forcing them to make sharp production cuts. On Thursday, Mahindra & Mahindra announced a 20-25% reduction in output this September, close on the heels of similar moves by Tata Motors and market leader Maruti Suzuki, which expects its assembly lines to run at just 40% of their usual rate this month.

Publication: Mint

Chip shortage: Mahindra to shut plants for seven days this monthedit

Mahindra & Mahindra announced on Thursday that there will be a 20-25 per cent dip in production volumes of its automotive division in September as it faces shortages of semiconductors. Consequently, Mahindra will shut its plants for seven days this month.

Publication: The Hindu BusinessLine

Airtel conducts cloud gaming test on 5Gedit

Homegrown telecom giant Bharti Airtel has successfully conducted India’s first cloud gaming session in a 5G environment, it said on Thursday.

Publication: Mint

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