The most interesting information from the past week: October 12 – October 18, 2020
Source: Pure PC added 19th Oct 2020Every year we think that we have less and less time, among other things because this impression is intensified by, for example, technology that is developing at an alarming pace. That is why the series of the Most Interesting News of the Last Week was created (or actually reactivated). Every week on Monday, for the busiest PurePC Readers, there will be a material presenting a summary of the news that has enjoyed your greatest interest in the last seven days. Perhaps you will also find in it news that you have missed so far. Without extending it, I invite you to an overview of the most interesting topics of the week from 12 to 18 October 2020.
Last week’s highlights: 12 – 18 October 2020. What interesting happened in the hardware, gaming and broadly understood technology industries? You can find the telegraphic abbreviation below.
An overview of the most interesting topics of the week:
| Watch Dogs Legion – hardware requirements for Ray Tracing and DLSS |
| Entertainment |
| Ubisoft has published updated hardware requirements for the PC version. In the case of requirements without active Ray Tracing and DLSS, one thing has changed – the AMD Radeon VII card has disappeared in 4K resolution and ultra settings, instead we will find a new NVIDIA GeForce RTX card 3080. More changes have been made to the requirements for the game with ray tracing and DLSS 2.0 enabled. |
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| Apple iPhone 12 officially – 4 smartphone models with 5G for everyone |
| Mobile devices |
| During the “Hi, Speed” event, Tim Cook reminded not only of the recent premieres of the bitten apple. He also presented the latest model of a smart speaker belonging to the HomePod family (Apple HomePod Mini), but most of all, he presented a new generation of iPhones that stand out from the previous editions primarily with 5G network support. |
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| NVIDIA may refresh GeForce RTX graphics cards 3000 in 7 nm |
| Graphic cards |
| According to DigiTimes, NVIDIA wants to upgrade its Ampere consumer GPUs to the technol process general 7 nm from TSMC. According to the source, the size of this transition is to be very large. TSMC has now allegedly become more “NVIDIA-friendly”, which may be because much of the company’s production capacity is now focused on the new 5nm lithography. |
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| Assassin’s Creed Valhalla – we know the hardware requirements of the PC version |
| Entertainment |
| Ubisoft revealed that the absolute minimum resolution 1080 pi 30 Frames per second are Intel i5 Quad Processors – 4460 or Ryzen 3 1200 working with graphics cards like GeForce GTX 960 or AMD R9 380. So these are the hardware requirements similar to Watch Dogs Legion. Also recommended configuration for Full HD and 30 FPS looks almost identical. |
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| Cyberpunk 2077 – style above all else? These are the vehicles and mods in the game |
| Entertainment |
| The fourth Night City Wire show revealed a trailer showing a selection of vehicles in the game, from trucks to armored cars , and ending with limousines and sports carriages (they will have different versions). The representative of the studio revealed that we will “summon” them just like Roach in The Witcher 3 (there was also a reference to her jumping on the roofs). |
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| AMD A9 – 9820 – Xbox Console Performance in APU for 125 USD? |
| Motherboards |
| Unique motherboards appeared on Aliexpress. They have a soldered APU chip in the form of AMD A9 – 9820, which probably comes from the console Xbox One S and offers performance close to the Intel Core i5 processor – 7400. Its price is 125 dollars, or approximately 489 PLN. On the AMD website you won’t find an APU chip like the AMD A9 – 9820, but Chuwi he uses them in his mini PC in the form of the Chuwi AeroBox. |
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| AMD Ryzen 9 5950 X with OC up to 6 GHz on Apple iMac Pro |
| Processors |
| Every day new information about the upcoming Zen 3 processors and a new report appear on the network is directly related to the popular GeekBench 5 benchmark. It tested a new version of the Apple iMac Pro with 16 – AMD Ryzen 9 core processor 5950 X. The information from the GeekBench database shows that the processor during the tests was overclocked to 6 GHz. |
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| All MSI B motherboards 450 and X 470 will support AMD Ryzen 5000 |
| Motherboards |
| MSI has officially confirmed that all motherboards with AMD chipset 400 will get a BIOS (beta) that adds support for the latest Ryzen processors 5000. Updates for individual models will be released in January 2020 year. As an aside, we would like to remind you that owners of boards with the AMD chipset 300 (X 370, B 350 and A 320), according to the Reds statement, they will not receive BIOSs with Ryzen support 5000. |
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| AMD Radeon RX 6000 – new information about graphics cards |
| Graphic cards |
| To Partial specification (of course, these are still unofficial parameters) of Radeon RX cards 6000 based on NAVI cores 21 XT and NAVI 21 XL, thanks why we more or less know what to expect. According to the information that appeared on the network, the upcoming cards are to be characterized by high core clocks and a high TGP factor. |
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| Samsung Galaxy S 21 – the first smartphone renders are disappointing |
| Mobile devices |
| Leakster Ice universe has uploaded Samsung Galaxy S renders to its Twitter profile 21 (or S 30, we do not know yet what names the manufacturer will use). First impressions? The presented model looks very similar to the latest top Korean smartphones – on the back we still have a camera island on the left , but this time it has been stretched over the device’s frames, which looks quite interesting. |
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Here are some larger materials, which appeared on PurePC last week:
Is CPU restricts GeForce RTX 3080 in graphics places ?
Samsung Galaxy S smartphone test 20 FE – cheaper, not worse
Corsair K Keyboard Test 60 RGB PRO with Cherry Viola switches
EK AIO cooling test 360 D-RGB – Performance above all!
NZXT H1 Case Test – Xbox Series X Better?
Xia Smartphone Test omi Mi 10 T Pro: Pro Edition Night Photography
GeForce RTX Test 3080 and RTX 3090 in resolution 3440 x 1440 with HDR
Creative Sound BlasterX Katana test – soundbar with sound card
ADATA XPG Summoner Keyboard Test – Affordable and Good Mechanic
ASUS ZenBook Test 14 with Intel Core i7 – 1165 G7. Premiere of Tiger Lake
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