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    Hardware support: Xbox Series S officially announce. Smallest box ever at $299usd

    Hardware support: Xbox Series S officially announce. Smallest box ever at $299usd


    Xbox Series S officially announce. Smallest box ever at $299usd

    Posted: 08 Sep 2020 02:47 AM PDT

    500GB SSD
    Digital only
    Target 1440p @ 120hz

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    (VideoCardz) AMD Ryzen 4000 "Vermeer" processors based on Zen3 might feature 10-core SKUs

    Posted: 07 Sep 2020 03:33 PM PDT

    Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM”

    Posted: 07 Sep 2020 05:58 PM PDT

    Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S release date and price finally revealed

    Posted: 07 Sep 2020 08:56 PM PDT

    AMD to Enter Network Hardware Market, Develop WiFi Controller Products with MediaTek

    Posted: 07 Sep 2020 10:04 AM PDT

    prices are up for NVIDIA 3080 and 3090 in germany

    Posted: 08 Sep 2020 05:39 AM PDT

    Phison's New E18 SSD Controller Rivals Samsung 980 Pro With 7 GBps of Throughput

    Posted: 07 Sep 2020 09:03 PM PDT

    Do you expect the increased tensor performance on Ampere to affect DLSS significantly?

    Posted: 08 Sep 2020 01:43 AM PDT

    As announced in the 30 series launch, Ampere will be shipping with massively increased tensor processing capacity. Does this have significant implications for DLSS?

    I'm sure DLSS 3.0, whenever it launches, will take advantage of increased tensor performance, but there's still a limit on how low resolution the ground truth image can be, as there is simply less information for the DL model to work with the lower you go.

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    Gigabyte's Aorus RTX 3080 & 3090 Xtreme GPUs appear to be 4-slot monsters

    Posted: 07 Sep 2020 04:13 AM PDT

    (Buildzoid/AHOC)Why blower heatsinks suck

    Posted: 08 Sep 2020 05:33 AM PDT

    With 3-4 slot GPUs coming out, when will we see an axial fan config as exhaust?

    Posted: 07 Sep 2020 04:54 PM PDT

    The 3090 is a 3 slot card, and it looks like some of the 3rd part cards will be 3-4 slot cards. I saw a Linus video recently of an Alienware pre-built that had a water cooled gpu with a PCIe mounted radiator, but the card took 2 slots, the rad took 2 slots, and there was 1 space in between. At that point, why not make a 5 slot gpu with a giant heatsink that's short, narrow, and long, with an axial fan or two. I'm thinking a U12A or D15 that's shorter but longer that blows air out the rear exhaust.

    It takes all the benefits of blower cards (exhausting heat, simpler heatsink design), and combines it with the pros of traditional cpu heatsinks (sheer mass of heatsink, low noise of axial fans).

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    Can someone explain GPU Architecture to me? (shader cores, tensor cores, fp32, int32, etc.)

    Posted: 07 Sep 2020 07:34 PM PDT

    So I'm a little lost as to what all of these are. I am aware that RT cores in Nvidia's line are responsible for ray tracing. However I get a little lost with CUDA cores (shader core) as well as TENSOR cores.

    So first question. Are Cuda cores (shader cores) and tensor cores the same?

    So inside a gpu you have SM's that contain FP32 cores and INT32 cores. Are these cores the same as shader cores or are they different?

    I'm just a little lost because I was reading about RTX 3000 cards and started looking at old 2080Ti numbers. The 2080Ti has 68 SM's each containing 64 FP32 cores and 64 INT32 cores. If you add those together (64 + 64) * 68 you get 8,704 which is greater than its 4,352 shader cores. Im just a little lost as to what these other cores are.

    Thanks!

    edit: also, what cores would be utilized if you were streaming from your GPU while playing a game on the same card?

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    Samsung Foundry to Manufacture Qualcomm Chips for 5G Smartphones

    Posted: 07 Sep 2020 10:10 PM PDT

    First Geekbench value for the GeForce RTX 3080 surfaced

    Posted: 07 Sep 2020 09:56 AM PDT

    Tech war chronicles: How a Silicon Valley chip pioneer landed in China

    Posted: 07 Sep 2020 11:28 PM PDT

    Ashes of the Singularity GeForce RTX 3080 Benchmark Leaked

    Posted: 07 Sep 2020 11:10 AM PDT

    Scythe Ninja 5: Silent Cooling to the MAX!!

    Posted: 07 Sep 2020 10:04 AM PDT

    My review of IcyDock's ToughArmor MB840M2P, a removable m.2 dock

    Posted: 07 Sep 2020 04:30 PM PDT

    IcyDock ToughArmor MB840M2P-B Specifications

    • Supported Drive Sizes : M.2 2230/2242/2260/2280/22110
    • Supported Drive Lengths : 30mm – 110mm
    • Interface: PCI-e 3.0 x4 / x8 / x16 expansion slot

    The Short Version (TLDR):

    GOOD

    • Disk Performance is indistinguishable vs being connected directly to the motherboard
    • Easy setup & installation

    Neutral

    • Only one removable tray for drives is included, limiting the utility of this Adapter

    Minor Inconvenience

    • If you don't power off your machine when switching drives, you have to go to Device Manager and "Scan for hardware changes" to use it again.

    The Longer Version

    • Unboxing and Installation

    This was very easy to setup and install. If you'd like to see the setup process, I uploaded a video here

    • Overall Performance

    IcyDock sent me a review sample of the ToughArmor, and I've been using it for a few weeks now. Overall, it does exactly what it's supposed to do - there is virtually no difference when running NVMe via the IcyDock, or via direct motherboard connection.

    Here's a comparison of Crystal DiskMark & Atto Disk Benchmark of Intel's 760p drive, tested both directly using an i5-9400/MSI z390 Gaming Plus and with the ToughArmor adapter.

    https://imgur.com/a/MpTuhfb

    As you can see, results are within margin of error. I tested other programs, like AIDA64's disk benchmarking tool, and those results were also equally similar.

    Some might ask - why not use a USB 3.1 Gen2 Adapater? I used one, and speeds were only ~1gb/sec in Crystal DiskMark vs 2.5gb/sec on the IcyDock. So if raw speed is essential, the USB adapters won't cut it.

    • Switching Drives

    IcyDock tells me this unit is mostly targeted towards professionals who are using it to quickly swap boot/OS drives. I used the IcyDock to move a games drive with multiple systems for benchmarking - and to that end, it worked almost flawlessly.

    I say almost flawlessly, because if you switch drives while powered on Windows will not always automatically recognize the drive. You'll have to open Device Manager, right click on disk drives, and then "Scan for Hardware Changes".

    Overall this is a good quality product, but I feel like it needs more included trays to really shine.

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    Chinese chip maker goes under after receiving $20B in investments

    Posted: 08 Sep 2020 04:29 AM PDT

    Which GPU(s) to get for Deep Learning (Updated for RTX 3000 Series)

    Posted: 07 Sep 2020 09:35 AM PDT

    Tim Dettmers just updated his legendary blogpost to include advice for the RTX 3000 series

    Blog: https://timdettmers.com/2020/09/07/which-gpu-for-deep-learning/

    PS: I had a chance to interview him earlier last year, this interview also has some very general PC Building advice (amongst other topics), hope this is helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fp9m4fNDQ4

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    [Techspot] Explainer: How USB Works (and How It's Remained Ubiquitous and Ever Evolving)

    Posted: 07 Sep 2020 05:39 AM PDT

    Tiger Lake appears to have up to 60% better performance with a higher configured TDP, w/ comparison to AMD

    Posted: 07 Sep 2020 09:31 PM PDT

    Geekbench 5 comparing the two

    As shown above, one sample of the i7 1165G7 appears to have a much higher benchmark score compared to the other. This trend is also shown throughout the many results for the 1165G7 (manufacturers appear to be testing their upcoming products now), where there is a cluster around multicore scores of ~3300 and ~5500.

    We can probably extrapolate that one is the 15W SKU and the other is the 28W SKU, which means that laptops with the same chip and different configured TDP could result in immense performance uplift/penalty depending on the manufacturer.

    In comparison to AMD, the higher TDP SKU essentially matches the 4700U at 25W source, while being about 15-20% slower than the 4800U source

    Once we start comparing the lower powered SKUs however, one thing is quickly evident: TGL-U does NOT appear to suffer from lowered single core performance due to the configured TDP, while the 4700U does. This is evident in this comparison, where TGL-U is a whopping 100% faster in single core than the lower powered 4700U. The multi-core score however, skews in favour of Renoir as its 8C8T against 4C8T. I was unable to determine whether there were any 4800U at 15W on the database, since all the results appeared to be fairly consistent.

    So what does this tell us about TGL?

    TGL unlike ICL appears to scale with power a lot better, which means that its very likely that Intel will launch a TGL-H line. A 30W 8C8T TGL chip should perform quite well, and 45W/60W seems completely feasible. SuperFIN appears to be also a much more refined process than ICL/10+, which bodes well for a 10nm desktop chip.

    Ultimately however, 4800U appears to keep the performance crown for lower powered SKUs. That being said however, the boosting behaviour of Renoir is very different to Intel, where Renoir often boost over their TDP for minutes at a time.

    TL;DR

    Intel gains immense performance uplift in multicore from higher TDP, while single core performance doesn't change much. At both high and low end TDPs, TGL-U performs much better than 4700U and 4800U at single core, while being close to the 4700U multicore, and losing out to the 4800U

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