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Nvidia shares RTX 3000 graphics card details ahead of August 31 unveiling

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Shows off RTX 3000 cooler design, confirms 12-pin power connector By Shawn Knight on August 26, 2020, 10:51 AM 43 comments In brief: Nvidia confirmed that it created a new 12-pin power connector to replace the commonly used 8-pin connector. The company said the new connector is smaller than its predecessor but is able to carry more power. Nvidia on Wednesday published a video in which it explained some of the design philosophies that went into creating the thermal solution for its upcoming Ampere family of GPUs. As Nvidia thermal architect David Haley recounts, the first law of thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed in a closed system. Thus, in order to get more performance out of a GPU, you need to be able to bring in more power and effectively dissipate the increased heat. To do that, Nvidia’s engineering team used computational fluid dynamics tools to simulate how air flows through a system. From there, they tweaked the PCB design, created a new spring ...
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Upcoming free software brings more performance to Zen 2

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  Something to look forward to:  The person responsible for the excellent DRAM calculator for Ryzen is releasing another piece of free software that will help owners get more out of their Zen 2 platform. ClockTuner for Ryzen (CTR) not only squeezes extra performance out of your AMD processor, but also decreases its power consumption. Yuri "1usmus" Bubliy is known for creating the DRAM calculator for Ryzen program ( download here ), a free tool that makes overclocking the memory on Ryzen-based systems easier and safer. As reported by  Guru3D , their next project will likely be just as welcome by AMD fans. Unlike DRAM calculator, CTR is limited to Zen 2 processors as it takes advantage of AMD's chiplet design. It supports both the Ryzen 3000-series and Threadripper 3000-series processors, and 1usmus says the software will work with Zen 3 CPUs as per-core voltage and frequency adjustments are possible with the upcoming architecture. CTR works by undervolting each CCX (Core C...
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The Best AMD Ryzen Gaming Laptops

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  As a culmination to our testing of Ryzen Mobile 4000-H processors and the various laptops they are found in, today we’re discussing the best AMD gaming laptops on the market so far. It's clear that mobile Ryzen is not as widely available as we wished, but various new laptops have been released and reception has been great, including the  Asus ROG Zephyrus G14  and most recently the  HP Omen 15 , which launched with 10th-gen Intel chips and is now shipping the long awaited AMD model as well. These recommendations are based on a number of factors. We’ve been fortunate to test a number of these options in-depth although some models are not available everywhere, so to strengthen this look we’ve spoken to other testers and gathered their impressions. We’ve also looked at every laptop in most available configurations, assessing all hardware options to see what products out there offer the best value, using the US retail market as a baseline. Our recommendations are split...
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Benchmarked Next-Gen Graphics and Performance

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Today we’re benchmarking a cargo plane load of graphics cards in the new Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. The game was released this week, so we pre-ordered it for testing and the second it was available we got to it... only to waste an enormous amount of time downloading the 100 GB game. For some reason Microsoft won't use Steam servers, at least for the bulk of the install. Instead you download a 500 MB mini-installer from Steam which downloads effortlessly, then loads up an inferior installer which doesn't work as smoothly and kept bugging out. Sadly we're not alone as we've heard from plenty of people that have reported issues downloading the game. Not a great start. Thankfully, the installation pain was worth it as the game is incredible. Visually the game is breathtaking and we’d say that we’re looking at truly next generation stuff here. From a technical standpoint the game is very impressive, though on the hardware front there are some limitations that we’ll dis...
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