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52. Nvidia RTX 3090 24GB, AMD RDNA 2, Intel Ocean Cove | GPU Blood in the Water Jun 10, 2020

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RTX 3090 may actually replace the Titan at a lower price point with 24GB, and it has to be because RDNA 2 is a beast. We discuss this and much more on the 1-Year ANNIVERSARY EPISODE of Broken Silicon!!!

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0:00 Intro Banter (Park the Car in Harvard Yard)
4:13 A few words about the Unrest. We are from Minnesota. (Feel free to skip!)
10:10 Let’s Lighten up the mood
13:00 Corrections and Omissions (OLED, RADEON Pro VII)
18:29 Nvidia RTX 3080 Pictured – How the cooler works.
24:39 RTX 3090 24GB Update
37:19 RDNA 2 RT, RX 5300, Rebranding Navi 10, Big Navi is a Cichlid?
45:26 Big Navi before Consoles? And AMD says you shouldn’t buy their 4GB cards.
55:24 Willow Cove, Golden Cove, Ocean Cove IPC – and Intel’s Ringbus Plans
1:00:19 TSMC 5nm+ Goes into production THIS year
1:04:20 Linus Tech Tips makes his mistake a Net Positive
1:11:22 Bad AMD Experiences
1:13:43 Consoles vs PC Gaming
1:20:35 Remembering 1 Year of Broken Silicon & Moore’s Law Is Dead
1:24:53 What’s next for Moore’s Law Is Dead?
1:32:58 Cloning George Washington
1:37:49 Deus Ex, Battlefield, Gaming Opinions
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-pictured
https://wccftech.com/nividias-rtx-3080-getting-spec-upgrade-might-ship-with-ga-102-200-and-4352-cuda-cores/
https://www.igorslab.de/en/exclusive-info-to-nvidias-ampere-cards-with-gddr6x-short-pcb-and-extreme-expensive-cooler-for-the-fe-and-the-search-for-the-leak/

https://www.techpowerup.com/267720/amd-radeon-rx-5300-desktop-surfaces-on-geekbench
https://wccftech.com/amd-rdna-2-sienna-cichlid-gpu-big-navi-21-radeon-rx-graphics-cards-spotted/
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-big-navi-to-arrive-before-next-generation-consoles
https://www.overclock3d.net/news/gpu_displays/amd_says_that_the_era_of_4gb_graphics_cards_is_over_-_future_games_need_more_vram/1
https://twitter.com/mooreslawisdead/status/1267175772722266112
https://wccftech.com/intel-next-gen-10nm-willow-cove-golden-cove-ocean-cove-ipc-increase-rumor/
https://wccftech.com/intel-11th-gen-tiger-lake-cpus-launch-mid-2020-ice-lake-sp-xeon-sampling-now/
https://www.techpowerup.com/267793/tsmc-5-nm-node-manufacturing-goes-high-volume-in-q4-amd-one-of-the-major-customers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMJZOjbsMeE&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehDRCE1Z38&feature=youtu.be
https://youtu.be/bhZyc2KOLlE

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51. AMD vs Intel IPC at 5GHz, and what to expect from Zen 3 | Hardware Numb3rs Jun 03, 2020

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Max from Hardware Numb3rs joins Tom to discuss everything AMD & Intel Overclocking! What are the benefits? Do some architectures benefit more from overclocking? What got us into tweaking?
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0:00 Opening PSA
3:51 Guest Introduction
9:41 What got us into Overclocking? Would we still recommend overclocking anymore?
21:01 Did you think Zen 1 would be a success?
28:00 Was Coffee Lake good enough?
32:00 How IPC scales with Frequency…or doesn’t!
36:17 Zen 2 vs Coffee Lake @5GHz
41:46 Zen+ vs Zen 2 @5GHz
44:44 The importance of Zen 2 DDR4 + FCLK Overclocking
52:27 Intel’s Mesh Architecture
58:17 What FCLK is required for Zen 2 to dominate at 5GHz?
1:01:17 Zen 3 & Matisse 2 Expectations
1:06:32 Should we use God-Tier components to benchmark budget products?
1:18:05 Intel’s diminishing of 14nm IPC with Security Updates, & their 10nm Architectures.
1:25:35 Is AMD preparing to get more Monolithic? What will Zen 4 look like?
1:34:46 Future Testing & Horse Riding

Hardware_Numb3rs:
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https://youtu.be/X6RSEU1d-g8

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50. AMD Matisse 2 v Comet Lake, Unreal Engine 5 v Fanboys | A Tale of Two Flame Wars May 26, 2020

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Matisse vs Comet Lake, EPIC vs Fanboys – a lot of debates are going on lately in the tech news realm, and we want to talk about all of it in detail.

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0:43 Intro Banter
5:13 Nintendo Switch 2 Speculation
14:13 Zen 3 & Matisse 2 Support on X470, B450, X370
22:13 Threadripper 4000 Thoughts
24:52 Desktop Renoir with 8CU @2.1GHz
37:09 AMD Matisse 2 News & Discussion
50:15 Tiger Lake coming at 4.7GHz with decent graphics
54:00 i9-10900K & Comet Lake Launch
59:48 Advice for Intel Fans: Wait for Alder Lake!(+Xe DG1 Leak)
1:06:36 Unreal Engine 5 Impresses Developers, & angers Fanboys
1:16:08 No, a laptop wasn’t running the Unreal Engine 5 Demo
1:25:58 Nvidia A100 Official Launched, and some AI Talk
1:32:51 Nvidia’s Crypto Scam
1:37:20 The Future of Game AI
https://hardwareleaks.com/2020/05/23/exclusive-future-amd-gpu-stack-navi21-navi10-refresh/
https://mobile.twitter.com/RyanSmithAT/status/1260576719699877897
https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-3000-valhalla-cpus-x370-x470-motherboard-bios-support/
https://twitter.com/_rogame/status/1260648822285332480
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-7-4700g-8-core-apu-pictured
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-to-announce-ryzen-9-3900xt-3800xt-and-3600xt-on-june-16th
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM2fFpzPKPg&t=23m30s
https://www.techpowerup.com/267174/intel-tiger-lake-u-processor-with-relatively-high-clock-speed-spotted
https://wccftech.com/intel-tiger-lake-cpu-xe-gpu-2x-graphics-performance-faster-than-amd-ryzen-4000-renior-7nm-vega/
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i9-10900k-cpu-review/7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O1nhAd7V9I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk9JMtH3cm4
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-lowers-the-price-of-ryzen-9-3900x-in-response-to-core-i9-10900k-launch
https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-xe-dg1-geekbench-benchmark/

Unreal Engine 5 Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC5KtatMcUw&feature=emb_logo
https://www.pcgamer.com/unreal-engine-5-tech-demo/
https://youtu.be/9PmjQvowfAI
Sweeney tweet:
https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1261810528269279233
chinese epic stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgMTjMRPrLk&t=54s
Mistranslated Laptop Running UE5:
https://www.pcgamer.com/unreal-engine-5-tech-demo-pc-performance/
Reddit Post translating dev's comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/XboxSeriesX/comments/gkskus/ue5_tech_demo_on_a_rtx_2080_970_evo_plus_notebook/fqvb449?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

XSX Running Gears better than a 2080:
https://www.destructoid.com/gears-5-wants-to-hit-120fps-on-xbox-series-x-583564.phtml

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/nvidia-ampere-architecture-in-depth/
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-allegedly-drops-tesla-brand
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/05/22/gamegan-research-pacman-anniversary/
https://twitter.com/iancutress/status/1261028849183326209?s=21
https://youtu.be/9PmjQvowfAI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erxUR9SI4F0

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49. Nvidia A100, Training Game AI, Neural Networks | AI Developer Interview May 20, 2020

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Hot off the heels of the announcement of Nvidia A100, we have an AI Developer on to talk about what these massive GPU’s are actually used for – AI & ML applications.

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1:21 AI Buzzwords & Introductions (some sound issues)
6:03 What is a Neural Network?
12:53 Challenges in Training Neural Networks
16:21 Sparsity and Pruning
24:03 How will AI Improve our Lives?
35:42 Bottlenecks to AI Research
42:03 AI & ML in Gaming
47:38 CUDA Intrenchment, AMD’s ability to enter the market
50:58 Cerebras & Graphcore
55:53 AMD vs Nvidia Graphics
1:03:13 Comparing Synthetic AI to Biological Brains

https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/nvidia-ampere-architecture-in-depth/
https://www.cerebras.net/cerebras-wafer-scale-engine-why-we-need-big-chips-for-deep-learning/
https://cirrascale.com/graphcore-cloud.php?utm_term=graphcore&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=Graphcore&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_grp=86815837387&hsa_mt=p&hsa_tgt=kwd-606839681642&hsa_kw=graphcore&hsa_src=g&hsa_acc=2793442874&hsa_cam=8112712212&hsa_ver=3&hsa_ad=397149594120&gclid=CjwKCAjwwYP2BRBGEiwAkoBpAuc9L_R5wt9rbYuJ7jeopg5W5YdYxaFBkNVpQz336TjcNJYg9jyZ2BoCX0MQAvD_BwE
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03635.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.01281.pdf
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9jaGFuZ2Vsb2cuY29tL3ByYWN0aWNhbGFpL2ZlZWQ/episode/Y2hhbmdlbG9nLmNvbS83LzcwNA?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwiuzYfG_7jpAhUIHs0KHSavAhAQjrkEegQIBxAE&ep=6
https://twimlai.com/upside-down-reinforcement-learning/?fbclid=IwAR18e99xWPGUN0_SVG84IKUaT5KYSKVhzwMdq37goiOdDwRuUf8s9Z_8GSI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_learning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsupervised_learning#cite_note-2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02875
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.02877.pdf
https://www.alexirpan.com/2018/02/14/rl-hard.html
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/turing-nlg-a-17-billion-parameter-language-model-by-microsoft/
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/state-of-the-art-open-source-chatbot/
https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/116/43/21854.full.pdf

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48. Nvidia Ampere GA100, AMD AM4 Support, Intel 10nm++ | Too Many Leaks! May 13, 2020

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Nvidia Ampere info is out, but there is a lot more to discuss – including GA100 clarifications. Additionally, there are just so many leaks: CDNA 2, RDNA 3, Zen 3+, Zen 4, and Intel 10 everything!
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7:06 A word on all of the recent leaks.
13:58 Start of Ampere Discussion
24:01 MORE INFO on Clockspeeds, DLSS 3.0, & RTX 3090
29:15 GA100 & GA101 Titan Clarifications
35:17 Samsung 8nm, TSMC 7nm, Performance Crown
42:28 The Future of HBM & 8K Gaming…or not?
54:51 Intel Meteor Lake, Alder Lake, 5nm Xe, Comet Lake
1:11:33 R3 3100 & 3300X
1:15:15 AMD AM4 Support – Is longevity obligated?
1:26:40 XBOX Series X Reveal, and Console Release Dates
1:39:58 Reader Mail & Corrections

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJU4RFs3Dp8&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ups8FrRFNR0&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKJ9amSDIE0&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7dtqdbJQW8&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KOfURU1kjc&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3ToDA4Gvzs&feature=youtu.be
https://hothardware.com/news/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-ti-ampere-specs-leak
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/72449/geforce-rtx-3080-ti-is-up-to-50-faster-than-2080-in-4k-gaming/index.html
https://www.techpowerup.com/266331/intels-first-7nm-client-microarchitecture-is-meteor-lake
https://twitter.com/KOMACHI_ENSAKA/status/1255031365289906176
https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1257250381949571072
https://wccftech.com/intel-xe-hpc-7nm-gpu-xeon-sapphire-rapids-cpu-powered-aurora-supercomputer-detailed/
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/sapphire_rapids
https://wccftech.com/tsmc-5nm-products-leaked-amd-zen-4-cpus-rdna3-gpus-nvidia-hopper-and-potentially-an-intel-xe-gpu/
https://videocardz.com/newz/exclusive-intel-10th-gen-core-comet-lake-s-final-specs-and-pricing-leaked
https://coreteks.tech/articles/index.php/2020/05/07/ryzen-3-3100-3300x-review/
https://www.techpowerup.com/266710/amd-b550-chipset-detailed-its-ready-for-zen-3-older-am4-motherboards-not-compatible
https://community.amd.com/community/gaming/blog/2020/05/07/the-exciting-future-of-amd-socket-am4
https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1256986793875927040
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ramps-up-cpu-production-for-playstation-5-and-xbox-series-x
https://twitter.com/rockmanX103/status/1258791305829847043
https://www.techspot.com/news/85201-playstation-5-distribution-position-lists-october-2020-release.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_obMmLXlP4

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47. PS5 Kraken, XBOX BCPack, PC SSD Requirements | Next Gen SSD Talk May 06, 2020

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It’s time for gamers to start taking next gen storage seriously, and that’s what this episode is about. Meyer’s Tech Rants joins Tom to talk PS5’s SSD, XBOX’s SSD, & how PC will also evolve its storage.
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2:08 Opening Thoughts on why this SSD Discussion is Important
6:13 Meyer’s Background
10:48 Our first SSDs, and last gen consoles with SSDs
16:40 Designing for SSDs vs HDDs
32:26 Will devs program for the “lowest common denominator”?
38:31 Bottlenecks to Loading, Differences between consoles
48:39 XBOX SSD with BCPack – Next Gen Texture Streaming
57:53 PS5 Marvell SSD with Kraken – Next Gen Rendering
1:20:48 Ray Tracing on Consoles & Nvidia Ampere
1:25:22 Next Gen Storage in Gaming PCs
1:45:33 Could Intel Optane or MRAM be the solution?
1:57:00 Software, Next Gen Cooling, PCIE 6.0, Earth Sized Worlds
2:11:08 Closing Thoughts on how Gaming is about to Evolve

Guest: https://meyertechrants.blogspot.com/2020/04/hardware-accelerated-io-in-consoles.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph8LyNIT9sg&t=848
https://youtu.be/nKJ9amSDIE0
https://www.techspot.com/article/1992-nvidia-dlss-2020/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DOGA2_GETQ
https://youtu.be/uqillUSZvMM
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/71277/xbox-series-enhanced-games-arent-compatible-with-hdds/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR2_SDRAM
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/amd-explains-its-monster-radeon-pro-ssg/
https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-discontinues-StoreMI-replacement-version-with-new-features-being-planned-for-Q2-2020.460013.0.html
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-radeon-pro-ssg,32365.html
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15592/amds-2020-client-gpu-roadmap-rdna-3-on-the-horizon
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15352/ces-2020-samsung-980-pro-pcie-40-ssd-makes-an-appearance
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-says-get-amped-for-gtc-2020-keynote-on-may-14

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46. AMD Zen 4, RDNA 3, Nvidia 5nm, Intel Trouble | 5nm 2022 Showdown Apr 29, 2020

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In this episode we discuss a lot of upcoming 5nm products, next gen storage, and how far laptops have come in terms of performance. Things will keep getting increasingly more interesting in the world of gaming hardware!
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5:19 DDR Memory Transfer Rates
7:08 Notebooks with 4700U + MX350
19:28 Apple Laptops
23:45 Intel Planned 8-core 10nm in 2018, they got tunnel vision.
30:13 Intel Rocket Lake on Z490
37:38 12nm R3 1200AF, 3100, 3300X
44:43 AMD Cezanne Update (There’s more info than I told you)
47:23 AMD 5nm Enhanced, TSMC 3nm Delay
56:28 DLSS & Ray Tracing Talk
1:08:52 How Far Laptops have come…
1:17:48 AMD Arcturus
1:21:33 Ampere Announcement in May, 5nm Nvidia
1:24:08 2022 will be a BIG Year for Silicon Wars!
1:26:01 Lumens & Nits
1:29:58 Next Gen Storage, Consoles, RDNA 3

https://www.notebookcheck.net/3DMark-confirms-Ryzen-7-4700U-and-GeForce-MX350-combination-in-upcoming-ZenBook-14.461887.0.html
https://wccftech.com/apple-will-start-selling-macs-with-arm-processors-in-2021/
https://adoredtv.com/leaks-reveal-that-intel-actually-made-6-8-core-cannon-lake-cpus-but-never-released-them/
https://wccftech.com/intel-rocket-lake-desktop-cpus-z490-compatible-pcie-gen-4-support/
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-3-1200-af-12nm-zen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqsQ56U7R5U&feature=youtu.be
https://www.techpowerup.com/266216/amd-renoir-successor-is-c-zanne-powered-by-zen-3-and-rdna2
https://twitter.com/_rogame/status/1253665313259995137
https://www.pcgamer.com/amd-zen-4-specific-5nm-enhanced-node/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFy1VHipYys&feature=emb_logo

https://static.techspot.com/articles-info/1992/images/F-33.jpg
https://static.techspot.com/articles-info/1992/images/F-32.jpg
https://static.techspot.com/articles-info/1992/images/F-9.jpg
https://static.techspot.com/articles-info/1992/images/F-8.jpg
https://static.techspot.com/articles-info/1992/images/F-7.jpg

https://www.techspot.com/article/1992-nvidia-dlss-2020/
https://www.pcmag.com/news/razer-launches-updated-blade-stealth-13-laptop-with-geforce-gtx-1650-ti
https://www.techpowerup.com/266164/amds-next-generation-radeon-instinct-arcturus-test-board-features-120-cus
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-says-get-amped-for-gtc-2020-keynote-on-may-14
https://www.techpowerup.com/266205/nvidia-is-secretly-working-on-a-5-nm-chip
https://www.techspot.com/news/84971-tsmc-sees-increase-orders-nvidia-plans-5nm-product.html
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-radeon-pro-ssg,32365.html
https://youtu.be/nKJ9amSDIE0

XSX Running Hellblade 2 at 4K 120Hz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n35eWL59Kuc

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45. From Phenom II to Zen+ | Dan PC Building History Apr 22, 2020

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There have been several episodes and video series that go through Tom’s PC building history…but what about Dan? He has owned entirely different CPUs vs Tom, and some of them have some interesting stories…
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2:38 Early Consoles & PC Gaming
14:08 The SEGA Dreamcast
18:08 Nuh-Vidy-Uh
23:08 When did Dan get into building Desktops?
30:22 i7-930 & Phenom II x4 Horror Stories
32:48 Midrange Vs High-End CPU Quality over the past 10 Years
42:48 GTX 560 Ti SLI, HD 6950 Crossfire
48:50 The HD 7950 & FX-8320 Era
1:02:40 Dan’s 4K 60Hz Monitor from 2014…still waiting for reasonably priced 4K 120Hz!
1:10:00 Broadwell i7-5775C & Vega 56
1:15:50 Graphics Settings, Resolution, or Framerate?
1:24:20 L3 Cache in Mobile Chips, Nano Bot Rambling

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44. AMD Renoir & Zen 3 Desktop, Nvidia MX450 Rushed, DDR5 > GDDR5 Apr 14, 2020

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Nvidia is already replacing the MX350, & that’s because it is completely pointless next to Renoir. We also discuss Zen 3, DDR5, Console Overheating, and much more!
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9:43 DDR5 as fast as GDDR5
17:28 SSD IOPS & Budget Storage
21:33 GTX 1650 GDDR6, GDDR5 going Obsolete
26:43 Nvidia MX450 is Desperate & Rushed
35:53 RDNA vs Turing Aging
42:13 Renoir in Desktop, & Budget Laptops
46:03 Zen 3 in September…Starting at 8-cores (?)
54:03 Comet Lake is a Disaster with 224w Power Draw
59:33 Alder Lake & Xe 10nm Products in 2021
1:03:33 Surface Neo Delayed…Is Lakefield Vaporware?
1:07:23 Intel Working Conditions (AdoredTV Whistleblower)
1:15:33 4K @144Hz vs 1440p@240Hz Eve Spectrum Monitor
1:23:53 Will AMD remember the 6950 or 7970?
1:25:42 Does XBOX Overheat? Who “bet on RDNA” correctly?
https://wccftech.com/sk-hynix-ddr5-memory-up-to-8400-mhz-speeds-64-gb-dram-mass-production-this-year/
https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidias-gtx-1650-gets-gddr6-because-the-industry-is-running-out-of-gddr5/
https://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-planning-a-Turing-based-MX350-successor-to-take-on-Intel-Tiger-Lake-s-Xe-DG1-iGPU-will-be-a-GTX-1650-class-chip-with-PCIe-Gen4-support.453559.0.html
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https://wccftech.com/intel-10nm-alder-lake-desktop-cpus-2021-launch-full-7nm-cpu-gpu-family-2022/
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/9/21214637/microsoft-surface-neo-windows-10x-release-date-delay
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https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-playstation-5-the-mark-cerny-tech-deep-dive
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43. Hardware Unboxed | Next Gen Laptops & Monitors Apr 08, 2020

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Tim from Hardware Unboxed joins Tom for a discussion on Renoir 4900HS, Tiger Lake, Lakefield, and next gen monitors.
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1:53 Tim’s Origins
8:13 AMD Renoir & the R9 4900HS
14:33 R7 4800U & Release Date
19:18 Cost to Produce Renoir
22:00 The Perfect Laptop
30:55 Portable Gaming Performance Against Next Gen Consoles
40:16 Tiger Lake Expectations
51:58 Surface Neo & Intel Lakefield
56:38 APUs & Laptops in the next 2 Years
1:12:03 When will HWUB have AMD for their Test Rigs?
1:19:07 OLED & HDR
1:25:08 The Perfect Monitor
1:36:58 What monitor should gamers get with a $600 Budget?
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