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NVIDIA RTX 30 Series – Everything You Need To Know

by Robin Sunny September 13, 2020

written by Robin Sunny

Finally NVIDIA unveiled the NVIDIA RTX 30 series cards in their keynote on the first day of September, after being teased about it for so long especially with the ‘Ultimate Countdown’. Promising us the biggest generational leap ever in the history of NVIDIAs gaming GPUs. The new Ampere architecture consumer cards are as follows:

NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3070
NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3080
NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3090

This new series is said to provide double the performance and power efficiency as the previous generation NVIDIA RTX 20 series. The series comes with next-generation of RT core, the fastest memory currently available i.e., GDDR6X and even more tensor cores for faster A.I. performance.

The new generation is also packed to the boot with software for the casual Gamers, Streamers and Creators, which we will go into later. To read about the earlier leaks about the NVIDIA RTX 30 series cards click here.

NVIDIA RTX 30 Series Specifications

NVIDIA had made some substantial claims about the performance of the latest GPU, but we were still overwhelmed after seeing the specifications of the current third-tier of the NVIDIA RTX 30 series GPUs i.e., the RTX 3070 when its compared to the flagship NVIDIA RTX 2080Ti.

Graphic Card	CUDA cores	RT Cores	Tensor Cores	Memory	Memory interface	Boost clock	Graphics card power
RTX 3090	10496	256	1024	24GB GDDR6X	384 bit	1.70GHz	350W
RTX 3080	8704	144	576	10GB GDDR6X	320 bit	1.71GHz	320W
RTX 3070	5888	112	448	8GB GDDR6	256 bit	1.73GHz	220W
RTX 2080 Ti	4352	88	544	11GB GDDR6	352 bit	1.54GHz	250W
RTX 2080 Super	3072	64	384	8GB GDDR6	256 bit	1.82GHz	250W
RTX 2070 Super	2560	64	320	8GB GDDR6	256 bit	1.77GHz	215W

Comparison Of The RTX 30 Series And RTX 20 Series

These are still just the official details provided by NVIDIA (although the benchmarks have been leaked online), the official benchmarks have yet to be released. Although these aren’t the first Ampere GPU to show up in the market.

NVIDIA RTX 3070

The NVIDIA RTX 3070 was introduced alongside the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 on the September 1st keynote event, but in spite of that the card will not be released along with the other cards. The NVIDIA RTX 3070 will be released on October 2020 with the MSRP of $499.

Out of the cards that were introduced in the keynote, the RTX 3070 is the cheapest and on par (even slightly better on paper) compared to the earlier high-end NVIDIA RTX 2080Ti. Considering its price which is less than half of the 2080Ti.

But the thing that might hold the RTX 3070 back from being the best 4K gaming GPU is the 8GB GDDR6 especially with the 256-bit Bus. However, this might be the best gaming GPU for those who want to game in 4K while on a budget.

NVIDIA RTX 3080

With the NVIDIA RTX 3080, the story might be a bit different compared to the RTX 3070. With more CUDA Cores, Tensor Cores, higher Memory Capacity and speed, the power consumption spikes along with that.

The RTX 3080 goes from around 220W of the RTX 3070 to a kookie 320W. NVIDIA doubled the CUDA Cores in the RTX 3080 to an insane 8704 from the 4352 CUDA Core in the RTX 2080 Ti.

The card is scheduled to be released on 17 September at $699 MSRP, which is actually way better than the estimated prices that were being thrown around prior to the keynote. Although still a bit pricey, but considering the huge leap in performance, it isn’t as bad as we thought.

But what we feel odd is how NVIDIA bought down the memory from 11GB to 10GB, considering RTX 3080 is the successor of the previous RTX 2080 (Yes, we realise the memory is faster).

NVIDIA RTX 3090

If you thought that the NVIDIA RTX 3080 was bonkers, check out the specs for the RTX 3090 in the above table. Along with that 350W TDP comes the epic 10496 CUDA Cores powering this beast leaving the NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti far behind in performance. Even the Titan RTX falls short in-front of this behemoth of a card, boasting 256 RT Cores and 1024 Tensor Cores.

During the Keynote even the NVIDIA Co-Founder Jensen Huang called this card the ‘Big Ferocious GPU’ or ‘BFGPU’ in short.

NVIDIA announced that the RTX 3090 would come out after RTX 3080 in September 2020. Pricing-wise, we were expecting Team Green to follow its own trend of increasing the price vastly every new generation, but fortunately and to our surprise the MSRP wasn’t the estimated around $2000 but $1500.

Yes, its still one of the most expensive graphic cards on the market, but given its huge leap in performance, it was not as expensive as everyone predicted. That does not make it cheap, but to buy this card at launch you better have been saving up some dough.

That Weird Cooler Design

In case there are still people who haven’t seen the new cooler design that NVIDIA has put into its RTX 30 series cards, these were even leaked a few months ago, here it is again:

The card has a fan on both sides (one on top and one on the bottom) of that massive heatsink which spans the entire length of the card. Even the card is designed in a weird way to accommodate this heatsink.

Due to this design there is some chatter in the community if the hot air blown out of the GPU will increase the thermals of a CPU AIO mounted on top of the case chassis due to hot being sucked up by the AIO unnecessarily increasing the CPU temperatures, but we will see how this fares as time goes go and we have more information on this card. This heatsink will only be available for the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 and as for the RTX 3070, it will feature the good o’l tried and tested dual fan setup we all are used to.

NVIDIA Reflex

In the Keynote NVIDIA reflex was also introduced, focused as an E-Sports technology to dramatically reduce latency. It was explained that Reflex optimizes the rendering pipeline across CPU and GPU to reduce latency by up to 50%, it’s to be released along with the newer NVIDIA drivers. Keeping up with the theme of E-Sports, four new 360Hz G-Sync Gaming monitors were also announced from Asus, Alienware, Acer and MSI.

NVIDIA Broadcast

During the Keynote Jensen Huang spoke of some of the feature that were coming out along with RTX 30 series cards one among them was the NVIDIA Broadcast. It was shown as an AI assisted feature that could help streamers on a budget.

NVIDIA Broadcast had features like Noise Cancellation, Video effects and more. Here is the video below if you want check it out for yourself.

NVIDIA Omniverse Machinima

As stated by Jensen Huang “Omniverse is a universal design tool asset exchange, with a viewer based on photo-realistic path tracing. The engine is designed to be physically accurate simulating light, physics, material, and artificial intelligence” or in other words you can bring in assets to make a photo-realistic cinematic experience, with the help of AI to make face animations with your voice and extremely accurate physics simulations to help a user create a short animated videos or to help make movies. The Beta to this application starts this October.

NVCache

This is a piece of technology that was rumored to be in development, the way that a CPU loads data onto a GPU is by copying it on the system memory and then decompressing it onto the GPU,this is how it used to work but now with much faster PCIe Gen 4 SSDs PCs can transfer file much quicker, now the bottleneck is the part where a CPU copy’s data into the system memory. But with this the storage directly loads the data onto the GPU memory thereby reducing load times. The GPU now dynamically uses the RAM, VRAM and SSD to complete multiple tasks much faster than what was previously possible.

DLSS 2.0

Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) was announced in the NVIDIA Keynote as a way to play your favorite RTX games at a higher resolution with minimal performance penalty. DLSS was unveiled with four games that are going to receive DLSS through patches. These games are:

Control
Deliver Us The Moon
MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries
Wolfenstein: Youngblood

Benchmarks

Now there are leaked benchmarks of the RTX 3080 from Videocardz that have been verified by them and just as we expected the new 30 series card out performs the previous generations enthusiast cards. Here are the benchmarks:

September 13, 2020 1 comment

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So here’s the new Intel 11th Gen CPUs and it will be available from this fall.

by Amal Varghese September 3, 2020

written by Amal Varghese

Intel has officially announced its new Intel 11th gen CPUs, stating it to be the worlds Best Processors that could run on light and thin laptops. The news takes on that the new 11th Gen Tiger Lake processors for laptops will feature the company’s new integrated Xe graphics, Thunderbolt 4 support, Wi-Fi 6, and a big leap in performance and battery life which is significantly better than the previous Ice Lake chips.

With this launch, Intel plans to put forth its new nine 11th Gen designs, for both its U (referred as UP3) and Y series (referred as UP4) which would be ultimately led by the Core i7-1185G7, which offer base speed of 3.0GHz with a massive single core turbo boost of 4.8GHz. With which the device can attain upto 4.3Ghz on all core boost. Almost all the processors feature a very capable integrated version of Intel’s Iris Xe graphics, at a maximum speed of 1.35GHz graphic speed.

Configuration of the Intel 11th gen CPUs

Model	Cores/ Threads	Graphics	Graphics (EUs)	Watts	Base Frequency (GHz)	Single Core Turbo (GHz)	All Core Turbo (GHz)	Cache
Core i7-1185G7	4C/8T	Intel Iris Xe	96	12-28W	3.0	4.8	4.3	12MB
Core i7-1165G7	4C/8T	Intel Iris Xe	96	12-28W	2.8	4.7	4.1	12MB
Core i5-1135G7	4C/8T	Intel Iris Xe	80	12-28W	2.4	4.2	3.8	8MB
Core i3-1125G4	4C/8T	Intel UHD Graphics	48	12-28W	2.0	3.7	3.3	8MB
Core i3-1115G4	2C/4T	Intel UHD Graphics	48	12-28W	3.0	4.1	4.1	8MB
Core i7-1160G7	4C/8T	Intel Iris Xe	96	7-15W	1.2	4.4	3.6	12MB
Core i5-1130G7	4C/8T	Intel Iris Xe	80	7-15W	1.1	4.0	3.4	8MB
Core i3-1120G4	4C/8T	Intel UHD Graphics	48	7-15W	1.1	3.5	3.0	8MB
Core i3-1110G4	2C/4T	Intel UHD Graphics	48	7-15W	1.8	3.9	3,9	6MB

On its Architecture Day 2020, the company had already made a preview of the new chipsets, the new Intel 11th Gen CPUs had proved to be maintaining its challenging features. Besides all these factor the device is still developed on a 10 nanometer node, which is similar to its previous gen Ice Lake models. But the chipset upgrades tp the Willow Care architecture titled as 10nm SuperFin design which according to intel has maintained a power efficiency feature which intel has not been keeping up since some time. With an increased power efficiency the device might also offer better speed.

Apparently Intel was under the impression of poor defensive performance in the past years with lack of complete competitors. With the launch of these new CPUs Intel is aiming for something big. The Intel 11th gen CPUs have strikingly updated its competition with AMD. AMD has already picked up this rivalry to another level by introducing the Ryzen 4000 chipset which has a 7nm node and is significantly ahead of the pre-gen and the new-gen Intel CPUs, at many cases these chipsets have outperfomed Intel’s laptops. As if this rivalry was insignificant, other major laptop manufacturers like Microsoft and Apple began to shake hands with ARM chipsets which are far superior to any current CPUs.

Intel also vouches on its new Integrated Xe graphics, which according to the company will offer a considerable advance in its graphic department. Intel claims that it could potentially offer a huge benefit than just numbers. At the demonstration of this this new chipset, it had a competition with the Nvidia MX350 GPUs.

Along with with the support for 8K HDR displays are also a significant upgradation for the chipset, it also powers four 4K HDR displays at once. An improvement to the built in AI engine could benefit camera quality.

Along with the Intel 11th gen CPUs, the company is planning to start a new certification standard called Intel Evo. Evo is said to consist of a higher requirement stats which would guarantee that your laptop will run over nine hours of real world usage in a single charge along with fast charging, Thunderbolt 4, WiFi 6 and system wake in less than a second. A system with an Evo logo would guarantee a high quality machine and more than 20 Evo verified machine should be available this year. The Intel 11th gen CPUs will be packed in various upcoming laptops.

September 3, 2020 0 comment

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Microsoft Surface Duo: Excitement andAnticipation ends here

by Mebin Varghese August 18, 2020

written by Mebin Varghese

Microsoft introduced the surface Neo and Surface Duo last October. These both were meant to be the Surface line’s future. The Surface Neo is a double-screen laptop running Windows 10X while the Surface Duo was an Android dual-screen tablet. Originally, Microsoft had teased both of these devices for late 2020, but they speeded up the Surface Duo timeline and announced it officially, with sales starting from 10th of September 2020. We’ll take a look at specs, features, details, pricing and availability in this article!

Image Credit: Microsoft.com

Microsoft Surface Duo: Specifications

Display	-Display Material: Corning Gorilla Glass -Wide color gamut: 100% SRGB and 100% DCI-P3 -Single PixelSense Displays: 5.6” AMOLED, 1800×1350 (4:3), 401 ppi -Opened: 8.1” AMOLED, 2700×1800 (3:2), 401 ppi -Dual PixelSense Fusion Displays
Dimensions & Weight	-Weight: 250g -Closed: 145.2mm (H) x 93.3mm (W) x 9.9mm (T at hinge) -Open: 145.2mm (H) x 186.9mm (W) x 4.8mm (T)
RAM & Storage	-6GB RAM -128GB/256GB UFS 3.0
SoC	-Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 855 Mobile Platform optimized for dual-screen experience
Camera	-Up to 4K 60fps with EIS -Multi-frame HDR, dynamic range scene detection, portrait mode with adjustable depth -Adaptive camera: 11MP, f/2.0, 1.0 μm, PDAF, 84.0° diagonal FoV, optimized with AI for front and rear
Battery & Charging	-Fast Charging using 18W charger in-box -3577mAh (typical) dual battery
Security & Authentication	-Security applications pre-loaded on device: Microsoft Authenticator -Biometric lock type: Fingerprint reader
Connectivity	-LTE: 4×4 MIMO, Cat.18 DL / Cat 5 UL, 5CA, LAA Up to 1.2Gbps Download / Up to 150Mbps Upload -Bluetooth: Bluetooth® 5.0 -WiFi: WiFi-5 802.11ac (2.4/5GHz) -Location: GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, BeiDou, QZSS Bands Supported: -GSM/GPRS: GSM-850, E-GSM-900, DCS-1800, PCS-1900 -WCDMA: 1, 2, 5, 8 -TD-LTE: 38, 39, 40, 41, 46 -FDD-LTE: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 66
Audio	-Qualcomm aptX Adaptive -Audio formats supported: 3GP, MP3, MP4, MKV, WAV, OGG, M4A, AAC, TS, AMR, FLAC, MID, MIDI, RTTL, RTX, OTA, IMY -Mono speaker, Dual mic with noise suppression and echo cancellation optimized for productive use in all postures.
Android Verison	Android 10 with Microsoft Surface Duo UI
Pen & Inking	-Supports all in-market generations of Surface Slim Pen, Surface Pen and Surface Hub 2 Pen
Exterior	-Color: Glacier -Exterior Material: Corning Gorilla Glass
Price	$1,399

These specs may not seem too spectacular, but this is primarily meant to be a device for productive output. Generally, productivity devices don’t need the latest and best specs, but rather a valuable combination of specifications that can make the device function in the best possible way. Microsoft made it very clear that with this system they cared more about thickness and weight than almost anything and it shows. The unit would actually perform well during its lifetime.

Display and Design

The Surface Duo display’s are really different. There are two 1080p PixelSense AMOLED displays which are identical. They both come with an aspect ratio of 4:3 and a resolution of 1800X1350 pixels each. They both cover 100 per cent of the color gamut of sRGB and DCI-P3.

Image Credit: Microsoft.com

The display panels aren’t all that remarkable, but the Microsoft technology that’s gone into them. All displays use the patented dual-screen calibration supported by Microsoft. It is to ensure that all shows are 100 per cent the same. The two displays should be mutually indistinguishable. Microsoft Active Pens supports the displays, so you can use any of the recent Surface Pens on them.

samsung s20 ultra — **Samsung S20 Ultra**

The handset is extremely slim when opened at just 4.8 mm, which is only a little bit thicker than the USB Type-C port. It is one of the thinnest products to be introduced recently. It is still a slim 9.9 mm when folded, potentially coming in very close proximity to the Galaxy S20 Ultra. When unfolded, either the two screens can be used as two separate screens running two different applications, or two parts of one device, or the monitor can be rotated and used as an 8.1′′ phone.

Like the Surface Book 3, the Surface Duo is an extremely evolutionary device. You can fold the display down 360 degrees on the Surface Duo. It is a complete hinge for display. It also uses watch mechanics to lock in place, so you can fold it as a laptop or as a hut to watch something like Netflix or YouTube.

Experience with the Software

Microsoft made this device a dual-screen, because they said windows and the two-screen flow were natural. Microsoft claims that you’ll still have to lose focus on a single screen computer by closing apps and moving, breaking focus and flow. The idea was to have two screens that work together intelligently is much better than just a single screen. The two screens of the Surface Duo allow you to drag and drop images, files and text along with apps in order to get the work done more quickly.

Microsoft has adapted its Office suite of applications and OneDrive to cover the displays and some third-party apps including Amazon Kindle will emulate a book-like reading experience to take advantage of the dual-screen configuration. Instead of these, every Android device will work on all of the screens, even if the design does not actually take advantage of them. Microsoft has also created dual-screen apps APIs to function in the Android codebase, and plans to upstream them for use by other manufacturers and third parties.

It’s not much larger than your average glass slab phone yet it offers a lot more versatility and productivity. This helps you to work and not stop. Any need to avoid switching apps or close an app for copying and pasting, or even switching apps to open a connection. On the second screen it simply lets you open it. LG has attempted to make a dual-screen system but there is still scope for development in key areas even after several attempts. The program was just not there, the case of the dual-screen felt bulky and the dual-screen felt like an afterthought. The Surface Duo solves all of these problems.

Image Credit: Microsoft.com

However, that phone isn’t for everyone. It’s a phone for Surface and Office fans as Microsoft told us. It has no fancy high refresh rate monitor, quad-camera system or crazy fast charging. This was only designed to take the Surface look Microsoft has been working on and introduce it to phones for years.

It is just a Windows computer, so it’s not a bad thing by any means. This just means that not everyone ‘s going to opt for this device, and that’s cool. Microsoft knows for whom this phone is intended and to whom it will sell. It’s not early adopters or Android lovers but Surface fans.

Microsoft Surface Duo: Availability and Pricing

The Surface Duo is available for pre-order in the US. For the 128GB/6 GB model base the phone will cost $1,399. This will also be available in a model of 256GB/6 GB. You can buy it in advance from Microsoft Store, Best Buy, or AT&T. The phone will be available online and in-store from 10 September 2020. It comes just in one colour, Glacier. It comes with an Unlocked edition and a locked AT&T model as well. The unlocked model is eSIM while the AT&T edition is not.

Anyways, Microsoft is not providing any pre-order bonuses with the device, but you’ll get a bumper cover in the box.

Image Credit: Microsoft.com

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August 18, 2020 0 comment

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The powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus 5G Mobile Platform | Latest Updates (2020)

by Mebin Varghese July 24, 2020

written by Mebin Varghese

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus comes with Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2, faster CPU and GPU support

A reference design of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus.

Image Credit : Qualcomm.com

Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 865, their new mobile platform for 2020 new Android mobile apps, at the 2019 Snapdragon Tech Summit. The system-on-chip has proved to be the best SoC smartphone so far in 2020, beating the Exynos 990, Kirin 990, and MediaTek Dimensity 1000L. It was used in lauded flagships such as the OnePlus 8 series, the Xiaomi Mi 10, the Snapdragon Galaxy S20 models, and many more. Although the Snapdragon 865 remains the best-in-class on the Android smartphone market, Qualcomm has launched the Snapdragon 865 Plus, a mid-cycle refresh. It fits the pattern of previous mid-cycle Snapdragon refreshments including the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus in 2019 and the Snapdragon 821 back in 2016.

The Snapdragon 865 Plus is a continuation of the Snapdragon 865. According to Qualcomm, the Snapdragon 865 has powered more than 140 devices (announced or currently in development). The number is the largest number of individual premium-tier designs driven this year by a single mobile platform (although we have not seen these designs yet released on the sector).

Image Credit: Qualcomm.com

With the exception of three points, the latest Snapdragon 865 Plus is exactly the same as the original Snapdragon 865. Firstly, the Prime core of the Kryo 585 (ARM Cortex-A77) CPU is now clocked at 3.1GHz, up from the standard Snapdragon 865’s 2.84GHz clock speed. The peak speed of the 3.1GHz clock finally matches the ideal predictions of ARM as regards the Cortex-A77. Snapdragon 855 Plus last year had increased its Prime core (ARM Cortex-A76-based) clock speed to 2.96GHz. The Kryo 585 ‘s Prime Core 3.1GHz clock speed is the highest ever seen in any Snapdragon SoC so far. The residual clock speeds of the CPU cores are untouched.

Image Credit: The Verge

Second, the Adreno 650 GPU has a 10 per cent faster rendering of graphics. This makes it clear that Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus has increased the GPU’s clock speed, but in the press release the details about this were not given. Last year’s Snapdragon 855 Plus also featured 15 percent improvements in graphics performance over regular Snapdragon 855, so the incremental improvement level is similar. It should be noted that the 10 percent increase in GPU performance will not be sufficient to equal the GPU of the Apple A13, for example, as the peak delta and constant GPU performance will remain too high to resolve a 10 percent improvement in the performance of the Adreno 650.

Also expected to expand Apple’s lead over Qualcomm here is the upcoming Apple A14. At the other hand, the 10 percent improvement in GPU output would expand Qualcomm’s advantage over its SoC competition exclusively in the Android segment, as none of the other SoC vendors have even matched the GPU performance of the standard Adreno 650 so far. In the Exynos 990, Kirin 990, and Dimension 1000L, respectively, the Mali-G77MP11, the Mali-G76MP16, and the Mali-G77MC9 have all accomplished worse than Qualcomm in GPU tests performed, showing inferior per-watt performance.

Finally, and most notably, the Snapdragon 865 Plus sports the latest FastConnect 6900 mobile Wi-Fi and Bluetooth communication system from Qualcomm. This was announced in May 2020 and the headline features it brings are Wi-Fi 6E support (Wi-Fi 6 extended to 6GHz) and Bluetooth 5.2 support. According to Qualcomm, the peak Wi-Fi speeds of the FastConnect 6900 reach up to 3.6Gbps-the highest in the industry. The speed improvements were done thanks to the U.S. FCC freeing up the 6GHz spectrum to 1200MHz for Wi-Fi.

The Snapdragon 865 Plus also bears characteristics of the standard Snapdragon 865, such as the full range of capabilities of Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite Gaming, global 5 G, and “ultra-intuitive” AI. High-quality gaming with first-to-mobile apps such as updatable GPU drivers and screen forward rendering, 5 G gameplay up to 144fps, and real 10-bit HDR gaming is said to be delivering. Compared to the standard Snapdragon 865, the Snapdragon 865 Plus includes Qualcomm’s Hexagon 698 with Hexagon Vector Extensions and Hexagon Tensor Accelerator, 5th-generation AI Processor, Dual 14-bit Spectra 480 ISP, Snapdragon X55 5 G modem-RF device, and more. It is developed on a 7 nm DUV (N7P) second-generation process by TSMC.

In the next generation of flagship phones will include the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Processor, including the ASUS ROG Phone 3 and the Lenovo Legion. Qualcomm says commercial devices based on the Snapdragon 865 Plus are scheduled to be released in the third quarter of 2020 and we believe this month will be the first announcements.

Key Features Of Snapdragon 865 Plus

Qualcomm ® KryoTM 585 offers a 10 per cent improvement in efficiency compared to Snapdragon 865
Qualcomm ® AdrenoTM 650 GPU presents graphics from Snapdragon 865 up to 10 per cent faster
Snapdragon Elite Gaming ‘s complete suite of apps including: Screen Forward Rendering, Qualcomm ® Game Color Plus v2.0, Qualcomm ® Smoother App
Real 10-bit HDR gaming and GPU drivers for the first time enabled on smartphones
Supports worldwide roaming and Multi-SIM services
To support crisp, stable and sensitive audio, Bluetooth 5.2, Dual Bluetooth Antennas, aptX Pack and latest LE audio features combine.
4-Stream (2×2 + 2×2) Dual Band Simultaneous harnesses of multiple antennas and bands to deliver superior speed / latency performance compared to common two-stream implementations.
6 GHz (Wi-Fi 6E) operation dramatically expands the Wi-Fi capacity by adding up to 1200 MHz of additional Wi-Fi spectrum.
FastConnect 6900 extends leading features of Wi-Fi 6 technology, and incorporates advanced audio capabilities.
Suitable for standalone and non-standalone modes
Suitable for standalone and non-standalone modes
Appears to support all key regions, which include mmWave, sub-6, TDD, FDD and Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) bands.
CV-ISP functions at 2 Gigapixels per second
Dolby Vision for Smartphone Video Capture
No limit on HD video slow motion capture at 960 FPS
Qualcomm ® Sensing Headlight
Supports speech, audio, sensors and Accelerator Hexagon Voice Assistant for advanced voice use cases
Qualcomm AqsticTM Audio Technologies offers native DSD support, PCM up to 384 kHz/32-bit and “Golden Ears” filter that can be customized
Low power AI voice assistance assistant with contextual knowledge
Qualcomm ® aptXTM Audio adapter for powerful, low cost and high remarkable featured wireless audio

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July 24, 2020 4 comments

Computer GPU Nvidia

NVIDIA To Cease Production Of It’s RTX 20 Series Lineup

by Robin Sunny July 16, 2020

written by Robin Sunny

NVIDIA has reportedly shut down the production of it RTX 20 series cards for the new Ampere Architecture cards set to come out soon, most likely to push customers to buy the new upcoming lineup.

Due to this, we might start seeing the prices of the ‘Turing’ GPU’s to rise even higher due pandemic and the sudden mining craze that is being revived.

According to Ithome, NVIDIA might start to suspend the production of it’s high-end RTX 20 series cards due to TSMC’s insufficient production quantity. The subsequent high end cards like the RTX 2080 and the RTX 2080 Ti might be out of stock soon.

The RTX 20 series lineup that are having their production halted are as follows :

GeForce RTX 2070
GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

All cards utilize different Turing GPU, we get the TU102 on the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, the TU104 on GeForce RTX 2080 & RTX 2070 SUPER and the TU106 GPU on the GeForce RTX 2070. The report also claims that not only would the production be halted on these four graphics cards but they will also be de-listed by major vendors including NVIDIA themselves in the coming months.
Those who are looking to get a Turing graphics card right now will be disappointed by the fact that a price hike on the GeForce RTX 20 series is being talked around by several retailers across the globe. That and with the resurgence of the mining craze is going to end up inflating prices on all existing high-end cards. The price hike is suggested to occur this month & ‘My Drivers’ report that even the mainstream GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER & the GeForce RTX 2060 will be affected. It is stated that NVIDIA has internally notified its AIB partners to adjust prices with the demand accordingly.
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We are not sure how reliable this news is just yet, and the mining craze would probably die down just as soon as it is being bought back to life. But this price hike of the RTX 20 series cards might just be a silver lining for the next generation Ampere lineup. During the last generation, large quantities of Pascal GPUs were prepped due to the mining craze and several OEMs and retailers had to price hike the initial Turing cards to clear away inventory of older cards. But now, if the stock of Turing cards are empty we might start seeing the upcoming card at MSRP (Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price) that NVIDIA suggested rather than the inflated prices retailers used earlier to clear the old GPU’s.

But as of now most PC builders do not have an option other than to wait out these price hikes and hope that the prices of upcoming NVIDIA lineup don’t cost an arm and a leg.

July 16, 2020 0 comment

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NVIDIA’s Ampere Lineup with the RTX 3070/3080/3080 Ti. Significantly More Faster than the Current Top Tier GPU’s

by Robin Sunny July 2, 2020

written by Robin Sunny

With the rumours floating around Nvidia’s next gen GPU with it’s brand spanking new architecture Ampere, along with news of the alleged fact that NVIDIA has been discussing Ampere and the RTX 3000 series cards with it’s AIB partners, there are quite a few tid-bits that might be amazing to see if its true.

GeForce RTX 3000 Series

The 3000 series will have “HUGE” performance improvements in Ray Tracing due to its newer Ampere architecture which gives it faster ray tracing than the older Turing architecture, along with being more power efficient. Rasterization will also receive a big upgrade allowing for more realistic looking worlds in games when paired with Ray Tracing.

The GeForce RTX 3000 series card will also have significantly more VRAM than other consumer cards so we might just see:

GA102-400 – 24GB
GA102-300 – 12GB
GA102-200 – 10GB

We might also see an increase in clock speeds compared to the Turing cards in around the range of 100/150-200MHz, while having better power efficiency thanks to Ampere and its new 7nm process.NVIDIA will be using the 7nm EUV (Extreme ultraviolet lithography) process node for Ampere, something that will deliver NVIDIA some amazing power savings.

But the Intersting part is that NVIDIA has had really great power efficiency since Pascal architecture, and went right into Turing with improved power efficiency and that’s on larger 14nm and 12nm nodes. 7nm gives NVIDIA much more room to play in, joined with the Ampere GPU architecture. Rumor has it the new Ampere GPUs can run at under 1.0v which is absolutely huge and could mean for the most power efficient GeForce cards yet.

Although it might be wise to take these rumours/speculations with a grain of salt until we get closer to a time period where we would actually expect a new NVIDIA GPU Arch to release. Many rumours might be inaccurate or contain half-truths.

NVIDIA had been slowly but steadily preparing the launch of their Ampere generation GPUs starting from March 2020 starting with its high-end cards like the A100. While the 3000 series cards might take a while to release (around August or September-ish) on the consumer PC’s thanks to the pandemic.

There have been various graphics card names thrown around for the cards mentioned above, its a speculation that it might fall under these names:

GeForce RTX 3090 or RTX Titan
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti or 3080 Super
GeForce RTX 3080

Benchmarks

The prominent “leaker” Rogame (@_rogame) found a private listing on 3DMark, which he claims to have identified as being uploaded by an NVIDIA employee and this is how the card stacks up:

The 6000MHz memory on the ‘Unknown’ NVIDIA is probably due to 3D Mark (the software that was used for this benchmark) not having no data on the type of memory. With the cards having a 1935MHz clock speed.

Specifications aside, this mystery card blows the stock RTX 2080Ti out of the water performing 31% better than the current top gaming card (although 2080 Ti is not specifically for gaming, it falls between the line of professional/content creation and gaming chores) the exception being EVGA’s overclocked Kingpin card.

This is very impressive even if we consider this as the top-end card, things are looking good for Ampere on the consumer side. We also have to consider that the performance will most probably increase from this point on (assuming this leak is legit) as NVIDIA’s driver team polishes the rough edges.

Possible Design Leak

The leaked image appears to feature the RTX 3080 Founders Edition and its interesting fan design. From the photos, it looks like the card will feature two fans and while that’s nothing out of the ordinary, it should be noted that the fans are positioned on the opposite sides of the heat sink.

We don’t know how this will influence airflow just yet but we’re certain that Nvidia has already addressed this and know what they are doing. It does, however, raise the issue of cost as this design definitely costs extra.The accepted speculation sets the price point of this design at around $150 and that definitely adds fuel to the fire of some rumours guessing that the overall price of this next gen card would be even steeper than the previous generation.

What makes these leaks credible is the fact that Nvidia itself announced that it will be making an internal investigation to the nature of those leaks, thereby confirming their validity. It’s said that these images got leaked before even product and sales managers got to see them.

July 2, 2020 1 comment

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macOS Big Sur is the beginning of macOS 11 series

by Amal Varghese June 26, 2020

written by Amal Varghese

Along with the iOS 14 launch, Apple also confirmed its newest Operating System macOS Big Sur. At the firm’s first virtual World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple announced its first official 11 series of Operating System since the launch of OSX (X- 10 in Roman Numbers) on September 13, 2000.

Big Sur is no more just a mountainous region of Central Coast, California but has recorded itself into the Apple OS line.

How big is macOS Big Sur?

According to Apple, macOS Big Sur is the most advanced desktop Operating System that introduces a beautiful redesign that is entirely new yet instantly familiar.

“macOS Big Sur is a major update that advances the legendary combination of the power of UNIX with the ease of use of the Mac, and delivers our biggest update to design in more than a decade,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “With its modern and clean look, huge improvements to key apps including Safari, Messages, and Maps, and new privacy features, we think everyone is going to love the breakthrough experience that macOS Big Sur offers.”

The new update is said to feature

A new redesigned Safari, the default Macintosh Browser packed with new features, including a customisable start page, elegantly designed and more powerful tabs, quick and easy translation, and a new Privacy Report.
An updated Messages app lets Mac users send and receive more personal and expressive messages, and easily keep track of and interact within group messages.
Maps that offers an all-new experience with immersive features for exploring and navigating the world.

Apple claims it to be the biggest update since Mac OS X

The beta version of macOS Big Sur adds a customisable menu bar that features an all-new Control Center. This feature enables quick access to controls important functions from the desktop itself. This menubar is similar to smartphone notification panel or iOS control panel. Along with an updated Notification Center which includes more interactive notifications and redesigned widgets that come in different sizes, providing users with more relevant information at a glance. And a new design for core apps brings more organisation to multiple open windows and makes interacting with apps even easier.

Safari update might be a game changer

Apple claims that Safari might now be 50% faster than Google Chrome and claims it to be the fastest browser at time. Tabs have now been entirely redesigned to make navigation with Safari faster and efficient by showing more tabs onscreen, displaying favicons by default to easily identify the opened tabs, and giving users a quick preview of a page by simply hovering over the tab.

Safari brings new features for greater personalisation while browsing the web. Users can customise the new start page with a background image and sections like their Reading List and iCloud Tabs.

Safari Privacy

This feature has definitely redefined the entire browsing system, the new safari introduces Privacy Report which delivers added visibility into how Safari protects browsing activity across the web. Users can choose when and which websites a Safari extension can work with, and tools like data breach password monitoring now does not reveal your password information — not even to Apple.

New Design

With Big Sur, Apple gives macOS an updated look, with more translucent, simplified 2D system icons (which is not likeable to a lot of reviewers), and controls that light up when you use them. It some what resembles the Microsoft’s Fluent design system, though Apple has kept the system unnamed.

Big Sur also updates the OS’s sounds. The Mac startup sound has been unmistakable for over a decade, but the new system sounds have been “remastered and refined,” says Alan Dye, Apple’s VP for Human Interface, while remaining recognizable.

Messages

With Big Sur’s new Messages implementation, your Mac has become something of a big iPhone: You can now create Memoji on the desktop. Pinned conversations keep important chats at the top between devices, and threaded responses make the app more useful. Finally, a new search box lets you find text within messages.

New group messaging features streamline interactions with family, friends, and colleagues. Inline replies enable users to respond directly to a message, and now they can direct a message to an individual in a group conversation by simply typing their name. And users can now set a photo or an emoji for their group conversation that’s shared with all members of the group.

Supporting Devices

Unlike the previous update, MacOS Big Sur has avoided certain Mac devices from getting the macOS Big Sur update.

Apple rigorously tests all new releases of its operating systems for compatibility among existing devices. In recent years, Apple has denoted which devices and its release years are capable–at a minimum–to support the majority of the newest features included in each release of macOS. This method of testing and verification continues with macOS Big Sur, with the official list generated by Apple included below.

MacBook (2015 and newer)
MacBook Air (2013 and newer)
MacBook Pro (Late-2013 and newer)
iMac (2014 and newer)
iMac Pro (2017 and newer)
Mac Pro (2013 and newer)
Mac mini (2014 and newer)

June 26, 2020 0 comment

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Intel Lakefield processor is brought to challenge ARM

by Amal Varghese June 11, 2020

written by Amal Varghese

Details of the new Intel Lakefield processors are out

After their failure with Atom SoC that was launched with the ASUS ZenFone 2, Intel had dropped plans to produce SoCs. This was mainly because of their technology being inferior to the smartphone SoC giants like Snapdragon or Apple Bionic series. However, the company has carried out its pursuits in low voltage chips designed to power 2-in-1 devices, laptops, foldable devices, etc, while completely keeping away from smartphone industry. But, Intel’s Core M, later came to be known as the Core Y series, which is still being used in laptops such as the Apple MacBook Air.

Now, Intel has disclosed more details about its upcoming “Lakefield” chip, which is not an Atom chip nor a pure Core based chip (although they will be branded as part of the “Intel Core” lineup). They can be viewed as the successor of the Core M/Core Y-series philosophy, and are designed to harden Intel’s leadership position against ARM in the ultra-mobile device space.

Focus of Intel Lakefield Processor

Intel Lakefield Processor is its first chips to merge its Core i3 and i5 hardware together with low-power “Tremont” Atom cores. Officially, they’re called “Intel Core processors with hybrid technology.” The company is positioning Lakefield as the ideal hardware for incredibly thin laptops and foldable.

It is of no doubt that the 10 nanometer based core i3 and i5 hardware will handle ponderous workloads, while this less challenging tasks move over to the Atom cores, similar to the arrangement Qualcomm uses. And unlike the Snapdragon 8cx laptop chipset, which is limited to ARM compatible apps, Lakefield processors will also run all 32-bit and 64-bit Windows software.

Intel is able to combine multiple chip architectures and onboard memory onto a single processor thanks to its Foveros 3D packaging technology. That allows the company to stack multiple logic and memory dies on top of each other, instead of spreading them out on a flat 2D plane like traditional processors. The basic takeaway is that Intel Lakefield processors also won’t need to take up much physical space, making them ideal for very thin devices.

There will be two Intel Lakefield processors available at first in the form of the Core i5-L16G7 and the Core i3-L13G4. The differences between the two can be seen in the table below.

Processor Number	Graphics	Cores / Threads	Graphics (EUs)	Cache	TDP	Base Freq (GHz)	Max Single Core Turbo (GHz)	Max All Core Turbo (GHz)	Graphics Max Freq (GHz)	Memory
i5-L16G7	Intel UHD Graphics	5/5	64	4MB	7W	1.4	3.0	1.8	Up to 0.5	LPDDR4X-4267
i3-L13G4	Intel UHD Graphics	5/5	48	4MB	7W	0.8	2.8	1.3	Up to 0.5	LPDDR4X-4267

The i5 Intel Lakefield Processor has more graphics Execution Units (EUs): 64 vs. 48. The grahics maximum frequency is capped at up to 0.5GHz which is comparatively much less than Amber Lake’s 1.05GHz, which again proposes that Intel is taking a broad but measured way to enhance their performance while keeping power requirements in check at the same time. Both of them have the same TDP at 7W. The base frequency of i5 is 1.4GHz, while the i3 has barely of 0.8GHz base frequency.

The max single core turbo frequency (applicable only for the Sunny Cove core) is 3.0GHz and 2.8GHz for the i5 and the i3 respectively, while the max all core turbo frequency is 1.8GHz and 1.3GHz respectively. Presumably, Intel Lakefield Processor is relying on Sunny Cove’s increased IPC over Skylake to offset these low clock speeds. Keep in mind there is only one “big” core (in comparative) terms, so don’t expect these ultra-mobile chips to compete with regular U series chips found in the Ice Lake, Comet Lake, and Tiger Lake platforms. The memory support is LPDDR4X-4267, which is incidentally higher than Ice Lake.

Gregory Bryant, Intel senior vice president in the Client Computing Group, displays a “Lakefield” reference board during Intel Corporation’s news event at CES 2019 on Jan. 7, 2019, in Las Vegas. Lakefield features a hybrid CPU architecture with Intel’s Foveros 3D packaging technology. Intel displays how its technology is the foundation for the world’s most important innovations and advances at CES 2019 from Jan. 8-11 in Las Vegas. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)

AnandTech was able to provide more detail on the Intel Lakefield Processor. Supposedly, Intel told the publication that the Intel Lakefield Processor will use the Tremont cores for almost everything, and only call on the Sunny Cove core for user-experience type of interactions, such as typing or interacting with the screen.

Overall, the Lakefield platform seems to be very promising. The biggest flaw of Intel’s low-power chips has been that up until now, they have been priced too expensive. It doesn’t seem that this will be changing with Lakefield, but at least consumers will get to expect new types of PCs such as the aforementioned first three devices powered by Lakefield. At least for now, Intel remains dominant in PC because of the overwhelming advantage of app support, and announcements such as Lakefield mean that ARM and Qualcomm will need to keep iterating to overcome Intel’s intrinsic instruction set advantage.

June 11, 2020 0 comment

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Is Intel Sabotaging Zephyrus G15 and GA502 to hurt AMD

by Robin Sunny June 7, 2020

written by Robin Sunny

Zephyrus G15 :

To most people the Zephyrus G15 is a pretty good laptop in terms of spec and design with a AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS Processor running at 2.9GHz – 4.2GHz, a 15.6″ 240Hz 1080p IPS Display with 3ms response time, up to 32GB DDR4 3200MHz Memory, up to 1TB NVMe SSD and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q (6GB) GDDR6 Graphics Card. Having dedicated heat pipes for the CPU and GPU is essential in a system this powerful and compact. If you want to know more about Nvidia’s upcoming cards check this out.

With a price tag of US$ 1,400 (around ₹1 lakh) you would expect it to run smoother than butter, and it does, but here is where the issue lied, when reviewers and customers started opening their brand new systems they found that there was a piece of black paper covering the vents, blocking the airflow to the system. This made people start asking question so as to what was its purpose.

Why are the fan vents on the bottom of my Zephyrus GA502 covered? from r/ASUS

Speculation :

Now there are some people who speculate that it might be Intel who bribed Asus to ‘make the AMD 4000 look hot and generally bad’, but this sounds a bit far fetched even though Intel has done some VERY shady (and even illegal) things in the past, there is not enough evidence to prove these claims. Although it is odd that only the G15 and the older GA502 have this ‘black paper’ while Asus’s other models have an open fan ventilation.

While some people also speculate that Asus wouldn’t just ‘shoot their own foot’ so the black paper might be some kind of noise dampener for the fan intake as there perhaps might have a lot of customer complaining about the noise.

Asus hasn’t been given any adequate explanation for why these cover exists as removing them would yield a temperature improvement of 5-10°C, now that wouldn’t seem like much of a difference but this temperature difference would mean your laptop running at lower clock speeds and effecting your productivity or gaming.

For now the general consensus is that if you have a G15 or a GA502 and are suffering from performance loss or high temperature in these laptops, it is recommended you remove this cover, although keep in mind doing this will VOID THE WARRANTY. So in the end it is up to you, the customer, will you void the warranty or risk overheating your laptop.

June 7, 2020 0 comment

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