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João Silva 54 mins ago CPU, Featured Tech News
Intel Rocket Lake-S processors are expected to launch soon and we’ve seen plenty of rumours regarding specs. So far, the line-up has 4 SKUs: the i5-11400, the i5-11600K, the i7-11700K, and the i9-11900K. The expected specs of all four CPUs have now been revealed.
Twitter user @davidbepo (via Wccftech) shared the alleged specifications of the 8C/16T Intel Core i9-11900K, claiming that it would feature TVB (Thermal Velocity Boost), allowing it to reach an all-core boost of 4.8GHz, and a single-core boost of 5.3GHz. The TDP/PL1 is expected to be at 125W, while the PL2 doubles to 250W.
Crossing this information with @harukaze5719’s chart, the 11th Gen Core i9 specifications seem to match each other, but @davidbepo later corrected the chart by claiming that the only SKUs featuring TVB are the Rocket Lake and Comet Lake Core i9 CPUs and that the all-core boost of the Core i5-11600K should be 100MHz less, reducing it to 4.6GHz.
The following table shows the rumoured specifications of the whole Intel Rocket Lake-S line-up:
CPU Name
Cores / Threads
Base Clock
Boost Clock (1-Core)
Boost Clock (All-Core)
Cache
PL1/PL2
Core i9-11900K
8 / 16
3.50 GHz
5.30 GHz
4.8 GHz
16MB
125W/250W
Core i7-11700K
8 / 16
TBC
5.00 GHz
4.6 GHz
16MB
TBC
Core i5-11600K
6 /12
TBC
4.90 GHz
4.7 GHz
12MB
TBC
Core i5-11400
6 /12
TBC
4.40 GHz
4.2 GHz
12MB
TBC
Comparing the Rocket Lake Core i9 processor to the current Comet Lake-S Core i9 SKU, both processors share the same PL1/PL2 values. Clock frequencies are also very similar, sharing the same single-core boost but reducing the multi-core boost by 100MHz in the upcoming Core i9 CPU.
Intel Rocket Lake-S desktop processors are expected to release sometime in Q1 2021.
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The alleged technical specifications appear on the web of several 11th generation Core CPU models for the desktop sector, codenamed Rocket Lake. A test also emerges, in which the Core i9 – 11900 K seems to take advantage of the new Cypress architecture Cove.
by Manolo De Agostini published 10 December 2020 , at 09: 01 in the Processors channel Intel Core Rocket Lake
Intel has long announced the arrival of the processors Rocket Lake for the desktop sector by the end of the first quarter 2021 . The new CPUs, compatible with both the platforms of the series 250 that future chipsets 500, will offer up to 8 cores and 16 thread . Products again at 14 nanometers , these chips will be the first desktop PC chips to adopt a new architecture : Intel talks about core Cypress Cove , an adaptation of the Sunny Cove architecture we’ve already seen on Ice Lake mobile chips at 01 nanometers. The CPUs will also be fully compatible with PCI Express 4.0 and will support memory DDR4 – 3200 (more info here).
Waiting for Intel to officially unveil the new offering which will challenge the latest Ryzen 5000 AMD Zen 3 , at least with regard to gaming given the maximum number of cores, the alleged specifications emerged on the network of some of the new models that will make up the range. The Standard Bearer Core i9 – 11900 K should have a maximum boost frequency (single-thread) of 5.3 GHz , like the current Core i9 – 10900 K equipped however with two more cores. The clock in “ all-core boost “, ie the one obtainable with all active cores, should instead settle a 4.8 GHz, 100 MHz less than 10900 K . There are also rumors of a base frequency of 3.5 GHz, a drop of 200 MHz compared to its predecessor, as well as values of 125 W for Power Limit 1 and 250 W for Power Limit 2.
Not required forget that in the face of frequencies not too different from the current top of the Rocket Lake range, in gaming the two cores less should not weigh, while we expect a increase in IPC between 10% and the 20% from the new architecture . The Core i9 – 11900 K will apparently not be the only chip with 8 cores and 16 thread in the future Intel offer, in fact there will also be the Core i7 – 11700 K (successor to Core i7 – 10700 K).
CPU
Core / Thread
Base Clock
Boost Clock (1-Core)
Boost Clock (All-Core)
Cache
TDP (PL1)
Core i9 – 11900 K
8 / 16
3.5 GHz
5.3 GHz
4.8 GHz
16 MB
125 W
Core i7 – 11700 K
8 / 16
–
5 GHz
4.6 GHz
16 MB
125 W
Core i5 – 11600 K
6 / 12
–
4.9 GHz
4.7 GHz
12 MB
65 W
Core i5 – 11400
6 / 12
2.6 GHz
4.4 GHz
4.2 GHz
12 MB
65 W
To differentiate the Core i9 and the Core i7 there could therefore be only the frequencies , which seems odd given the core and thread differences between the two series over the past few years. The Core i7 – 11700 K, accompanied by an all-core boost frequency of 4.6 GHz , should be able to push to 5 GHz in single core by supporting Thermal Velocity Boost (TVB) technology.
Regarding the Core i5 range, Intel should continue to offer a configuration at 6 cores / 12 thread , fielding two models like the Core i5 – 11600 K and the Core i5 – 11400 , the first with an unlocked multiplier as indicated by the letter K. Both should not support the TVB, but could still be of interest to gamers, in particular the 11600 K with boost frequencies that should touch 4.9 GHz in single-core and i 4.7 GHz with all cores active . The Core i5 – 11400 should instead run at 4.2 GHz in single core and 4 , 4 GHz with all cores active.
The Core i9 – 11900 K also appeared in the benchmark database of Ashes of The Singularity in the past few hours . Chip did mark 62, 8 FPS average at 1080 p with Crazy preset on a platform with 32 GB of DDR4 memory and an RTX 2080 Ti. The result, compared with that scored by a Core i9 – 10900 K obtained on same platform, shows a performance improvement of 9% . At the same time, the chip would look like the 10% faster than a Ryzen 9 5950 X tested on a similar platform.
By inviting you to take both the technical specifications and the test with caution, it seems that the fundamentals of the new architecture, albeit readjusted to the process a 14 nanometers, manage to preserve the Intel’s competitiveness in the gaming sector . Of course, we will have to wait for the complete picture (consumption, prices, etc.) to establish the goodness of the products in relation to the Ryzen 5000, however Rocket Lake would appear to be able to grant Intel a buffer period until the transition to i 10 nanometers and a more dynamic and innovative roadmap.
A few months ago we prepared a large comparison of two Hyperbook notebooks. I’m talking about the Hyperbook V models 13 and Hyperbook Z 15 that were equipped with Intel processors 10 generation (Comet Lake) and AMD Ryzen series 4000. This time for testing, we received a larger model with a diagonal 17, 3 “. This is the premiere Hyperbook Pulsar V notebook 17, which in addition to the larger matrix has also been equipped with solid components. The laptop itself, like other models of the company, has a very simple design. Nevertheless, I have some concerns about the profitability of choosing any laptop with an NVIDIA GeForce card RTX 2000 as the premiere of the next generation GPU for high-performance gaming laptops is approaching.
Author: Damian Marusiak
Compared to many other Clevo or Tongfang hulls (the tested model is based on the design of the latter company ), here it was decided to prepare a laptop with a housing largely made of magnesium alloy. You can feel it in everyday use, because the material used for production is characterized by a much better quality and overall better stiffness. Adding to this efficient components in the form of the 8-core Intel Core i7 processor – 10875 H and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics card 2070 SUPER, we get a solid notebook for gaming and work at first glance. At first glance, it looks very good, but I am curious if the relatively slim design will cope with cooling the components – experience makes me look at such a set with a pinch of salt.
Hyperbook Pulsar V 17 is a new one CPU-based gaming notebook 10 Intel Core i7 generation – 10875 H and NVIDIA GeForce RTX mobile graphics 2070 COOL.
Notebook Hyperbook Pulsar V 17 was equipped with the NVIDIA graphics chip belonging to the architecture Turing. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX card 2070 SUPER was made in an improved, 12 nm process FFN (NVIDIA FinFET), including 13, 6 billion transistors, and everything was placed on a much larger surface of 545 mm². this is due to the addition of dedicated Tensor cores and RT units which support pro tracking technology by default changes in real time (Ray Tracing) and a new form of upscaling (DLSS and DLSS 2.0) based on artificial intelligence algorithms. The base clock of the GeForce RTX card used 2070 SUPER was set at 1140 MHz, while in GPU mode Boost 4.0 increases to 1380 MHz with a TDP of 115 W. Unfortunately, you can see that in relation to the desktop version of the card the clocking has been severely twisted due to energy limits.
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10 Home 2004 Version
Hyperbook Pulsar V 17 is equipped with a powerful Intel Core i7 processor – 10875 H. It is “almost” the top representative of the latest, 10 generation of Intel Comet Lake-H chips, which is equipped with 8 physical cores and 16 threads, however being a model with a locked multiplier. The processor also supports the Intel Thermal Velocity Boost technique, thanks to which the clocking for up to two cores under appropriate conditions can be 5.1 GHz. The default CPU TDP is 45 In And Yes is also set in the presented notebook. In turn, with a short-term load, the TDP increases to 60 Hyperbook Pulsar V 17 therefore offers very slight increase in TDP, and therefore lower power consumption compared to other laptops with these processors. Processors 10 Intel Comet Lake-H generation also have a 2-channel DDR4 memory controller 2933 MHz.
Premieres of AMD Ryzen processors 5000 and AMD Radeon graphics cards The RX 6000 turned out to be quite successful, finally we have tough competition in both segments, so the situation seems more comfortable than ever. You can find the results of new AMD products in our article database. However, I decided to extend the measurement procedure a bit and perform the first AMD Ryzen 7 5800 X and Radeon RX 6800 XT, consisting in checking the performance of such a set in strictly processor places. The results I obtained made me quite stunned, because I expected an increase in performance, but I saw a series of huge drops …
AMD Ryzen 7 5800 X has a performance degradation when connected to the AMD Radeon RX graphics card 6800 XT, however on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 2080 Everything works fine. Has the overhead come back?
Anticipating the questions – I did all the tests on fresh 64 – Windows bit 10 build 2004 (I also checked the versions 1909 and H2), the latest drivers and updated UEFI of the motherboard (2502). Previously, I obtained identical results on the media from the CPU and GPU platforms, so out of curiosity, I put everything from the beginning to rule out possible driver conflicts. The course of measurements and settings were, of course, the same as during the premiere tests of the processors, and the only difference in the hardware was the insertion of the Radeon RX 6800 XT instead of GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.
Because I got three times same results, I decided to share my conclusions hotly. Other computer games that I use in processor tests also usually show drops, which will be the subject of a separate article. I originally planned to test two overclocked platforms – AMD Ryzen 7 5800 X and Intel Core i7 – 10700 KF – seasoned with fast DDR4 memory in a 4x 8 GB system, which were alternately accompanied by AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT and GeForce RTX 3080. The results on the NVIDIA card brought the expected increases compared to the standard set on which I test the processors, while the Radeon RX 6800 XT caused me a lot of problems, resulting in the following performance drops:
As you can see, AMD Ryzen 7 5800 X has performance drops in four out of five proven productions when paired with the AMD Radeon RX graphics card 6800 XT. Some cases are downright devastating (Watch Dogs 2, Kingdom Come: Deliverance), others are slightly hit (Far Cry: New Dawn, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt), but there are also ups (Shadow of the Tomb Raider). However, I would like to add that tests performed on an overclocked AMD Ryzen 5 processor 5800 X and Radeon RX 6800 XT included SAM (Smart Access Memory), while the default setting was disabled. AMD Ryzen 5 5800 X and NVIDIA GeForce RTX Kits 2080 Ti / GeForce RTX 3080 they work without any anomalies. Let me remind you – everything checked on three systems, two motherboards and DDR4 sets.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is the most interesting case to analyze because I included in the tests CPU and GPU place. In the first scenario, AMD and AMD performs significantly worse in combination with the Radeon RX 6800 XT than the GeForce RTX 3080. However, when we move to the GPU place, it suddenly turns out that Radeon is exactly the same as in the premiere tests and is ahead of the GeForce RTX 3080. As the problem mainly affects DirectX-enabled titles 11, and the only one using DirectX 12 is Shadow of the Tomb Raider, this prompts you to conclude that there is a recurring driver issue. Strictly speaking, the so-called CPU driver overhead that reduces / inhibits AMD & AMD kits performance. This can be seen in the screenshot below from the task manager, showing the load of individual components, which is not a determinant, but illustrates certain trends. I have been showing the problem of AMD driver overhead for a long time (LINK and LINK), some tests still reach 2015 of the year, but BIG NAVI emphasizes it additionally. As GPU performance has increased, the loss to NVIDIA automatically becomes more apparent. More results coming soon.
In early September, ASUS unveiled new ZenBook laptop models that will feature processors 11 Intel Tiger Lake generation. Attention was also focused on screens, thanks to which we will get more models with OLED matrices or IPS panels with a 3: 2 aspect ratio. One of the most interesting new products is ASUS ZenBook Flip S UX 371 a few days ago it also started in Poland. We, on the other hand, are in a hurry in our premiere test of this device, which looks great visually. Black and gold colors, aluminum housing, quite good processor and a very good, integrated graphics chip. The whole is seasoned with an OLED screen, characterized by excellent blackness and rich colors. The icing on the cake is the support for the ASUS Pen. Is it worth spending close 7500 zlotys for such a configuration? Damian Marusiak
One of the novelties of the Taiwanese manufacturer, which is slowly going on sale in Poland, is the ASUS ZenBook Flip S (UX 371), which uses Intel Tiger Lake processors, Xe Graphics and an OLED matrix (Ultra HD 4K) with 100% coverage of a wide range of DCI-P3 colors and brightness 500 rivets. For people who prefer a Full HD screen, the manufacturer has prepared the ZenBook Flip S UX model 363, which will be equipped with a Full HD 1W screen. In both cases the panel has a diagonal 13, 3 “. The version I tested (the only reviewer in Poland!) Was equipped with an Intel Core i7 processor – 1165 G7 and 4K OLED matrix with HDR support 10.
ASUS ZenBook Flip S UX 371 is a brand new laptop that uses both Intel Tiger processors Lake as well as the 4K OLED matrix.
One of the new features of the ASUS ZenBook Flip S laptop is undoubtedly the use of Intel Tiger Lake processors (11 Intel Core generation) There was a lot of talk about processors long before their final debut (September 2). First of all, they use the redesigned Willow Cove architecture, based on last year’s Sunny Cove. Mainly the cache subsystem was changed, increasing the number of L1 cache, L2 cache and L3 cache. Moreover, a noticeably improved 10 nm technological process, named 10 nm SuperFin. Name associated primarily with using new SuperF transistors in, which are to allow you to work with a higher clock with lower voltages. The tested version of ASUS has an Intel Core i7 – 1165 G7, equipped with 4 cores and 8 threads. The base clock of the processor is 2.8 GHz with the possibility of increasing in Turbo Boost 2.0 mode to a maximum of 4.7 GHz. Intel Core i7 – 1165 G7 has a default TDP of 28 W. The processor supports not only the Thunderbolt 4 platform, but is also the first to introduce PCIe 4.0 for notebooks. Also supports DDR4 3200 MHz, LPDDR4X 4267 MHz and LPDDR5 5400 MHz – the latter will appear in laptops, however, only next year.
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Microsoft Windows operating system 10 Pro 2004
Also new is the integrated Intel Iris Xe Graphics (Intel Gen. 12), which for the first time completely severs itself from older architectures and is based on a completely new Xe architecture. Intel Iris Xe Graphics is a representative of the weakest line of Xe-LP (Low Power), which have built-in maximum 96 EU (execution units). This translates into the presence of a total 768 stream processors. The integrated Iris Xe Graphics chip still uses RAM, while the manufacturer is also preparing a dedicated version of the Xe-LP chip called Intel DG1. Unlike the iGPU, it will have its own VRAM of either 3 or 6 GB GDDR6, which in many games will definitely improve the results even further. The new Intel Xe-LP also has low energy consumption and uses the same technological process known as 10 nm SuperFin. The computing power of the new iGPU is 2, 07 TFLOPS, which at least in theory should give priority. In the case of an integrated graphics chip, performance in e.g. games will also be heavily dependent on bandwidth, and therefore on the clock speed of the RAM.
GeForce RTX 3060 Ts are settling according to the first listed prices in Europe depending on the model 500 and 600
NVIDIA is currently preparing a new GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card for release. Based on the available data, the video card based on the Ampere architecture is based on the same GA 3070
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti was rumored to be released already 14. November, but the final release date would seem to be 2 December. Now, the web has leaked not only custom models from several manufacturers of upcoming graphics cards, but also the first prices and performance data outside of NVIDIA slides. The first listed prices for graphics cards in Europe are around 485 – 133 euros. However, it should be borne in mind that the prices listed before publication may not be correct.
According to the images taken over by VideoCardz, RTX 3060 Ti should be obtained with an unspecified configuration from 3DMark Fire Strike 30 706 and Time Spa 12 2020 points. According to the tables on the site, the results would be five percent better than RTX 2080 Super. RTX 3070 is in the same tables 11 – 12% faster than RTX 3060 Tue
In Ashes of the Singularity tests, the graphics card gets a Core i7 – 8700 K processor with Crazy 1080 p settings resulting in 7900 points and 67 , 2 FPS when RTX 3070 readings are 9000 points and 93 FPS
The Geesekch results highlighted by Tum Apisak, in turn, ensure that the video card has SM unit, ie 4864 CUDA core and 8 gigabytes 14 Gbps GDDR6 memory. The maximum clock frequency of the graphics circuit is Geenekch multiplied by 1, GHz. RTX 3060 Ti got Geesekch from OpenCL tests 123 343 points, from CUDA tests 133 974 points and in Vulkan tests 107 979 points.
Sources: Tum Apisak @ Twitter, VideoCardz (1), (2), (3), (4)
Mobile processors from AMD’s upcoming Ryzen notebook family 5000 U can be found in Geekbench’s online benchmark database. The top model Ryzen 7 5800 U (code name Cezanne) is there with 16 MByte level 3 cache noted – twice as much as in the previous Ryzen 7 4800 U. The specification of a single L3 cache pool confirms that it is the first mobile Zen 3 offshoot. In Zen 2, the cache is divided by two CPU core clusters.
Combining them into one large core complex helps with single-threading performance, because a single CPU core can access the entire L3 cache. Further architecture improvements and higher clock frequencies (stable 4.4 GHz) bring the Ryzen 7 5800 U in Geekbench a single threading result of 1421 Points – about 23 Percent more than the Ryzen 7 4800 U manages in a Lenovo IdeaPad 5. The 5000 he test system ran with DDR4 – 2666 – instead of DDR4 – 3200 – memory or even faster LPDDR4X-RAM, so that there would still be potential for more performance.
6450 Points in the multithreading benchmark are meanwhile below the result of a good Ryzen-7 – 4800 U notebooks, which could be due to insufficient cooling or reduced power consumption.
Ryzen 7 5700 with Zen 2 architecture An entry for Ryzen 7 5700 U in Geekbench coincides with rumors that AMD is in the 5000 U series Zen 3 processors (Cezanne) with a Zen-2-Refresh (Lucienne). According to the data, the Ryzen 7 5700 U corresponds to a higher clocked Ryzen 7 4800 U with a good 4.3 instead of 4.2 GHz boost, but still 2 × 4 MB L3 cache. The single threading result increases accordingly (1192 points); However, the multithreading rating is too low here (6284 points).
The final mobile processors from the Cezanne family would have to run a bit faster in order to be able to compete with Intel’s current Tiger Lake CPUs in terms of single threading performance. The Core i7 – 1185 G7 almost manages 1421 Points in Geekbench – but lags behind in multitheading benchmarks because of its four processing cores (just 5000 Points in Geekbench at 15 Watt TDP). Apple’s M1 processor from the new ARM MacBook sets itself apart at least in the Geekbench from AMD and Intel: A performance core creates 1740 Points, all eight together just under 7700.
In the United States a small producer of gaming notebook is the first to adopt a 1440 p panel with a refresh rate of
by Manolo De Agostini published 25 November 2020 , at 12: 31 in the Portable channel
Eluktronics , a US company based in Delaware, announced the first notebooks equipped with one IPS screen 1440 p with refresh rate up to 165 Hz . The panel – from 15, 6 o 17, 3 inches – is made by Chinese BOE and is coupled to high-end configurations defined “QHD Edition” and part of the Mech lines – 15 G3, Max – 15 and Max – 17 with prices of 2200 – 2300 dollars.
On board these laptops we find a processor Intel Core i7 – 10870 H (8 cores / 16 thread, introduced in September) whose cooling is facilitated by liquid metal, a GPU Nvidia RTX 2070 Super , a 1TB M.2 SSD and 16 GB of DDR4 memory.
The BOE panel – for which we speak of 318 nit of brightness, sRGB coverage of the 100% and Adobe RGB of 87% – it is not a custom made product for Eluktronics, so we expect to see it in the near future on board solutions from Asus, HP, Acer and MSI .
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti reappears in view of the whole world despite the absence of an official announcement, and that is, After appearing in different stores, both online and physically, it is now their performance results that appear, specifically in the Ashes of The Singularity benchmark.
As we see in the benchmark results, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 You get an average of 25 FPS on GPU , obviously falling below the RTX 3070 with 93 FPS , remember, it has the same GPU p ero with more CUDA cores enabled, as well as below RX 6800 with 96 FPS and RX 6800 XT with 102 FPS.
This gives us a rough idea of what this new graphics card will be capable of, at least paired with an Intel Core i7 – 8700 K , whose speed values are not too far from what the card is capable of removing, thus giving a fairly balanced combination for this benchmark.
This graphics card is expected to hit the market early next year alongside other models, as has been forecast for some time in this part.
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João Silva 14 mins ago Featured Tech News, Graphics
As we get are getting closer to the alleged release of Nvidia’s RTX 3060Ti, new benchmarks of this SKU have emerged in the Ashes of The Singularity and Geekbench 4 and 5 databases.
Starting with the Ashes of The Singularity benchmark results, the RTX 3060Ti scored 7900 points on the Crazy_1080p preset. The benchmarked system also had an Intel Core i7-8700K and 32GB of RAM.
Comparing this result with similar systems with an RTX 3070 (9000), an RX 6800 (9500), and an RX 6800XT (10100), the RTX 3060Ti does fall behind. The RTX 3070 seems to be about 14% faster, while the RX 6800 is about 20% faster. The Radeon RX 6800 XT increases this difference to almost 28%.
Geekbench 4/5 results were brought to our attention by @TUM_APISAK. These Geekbench 5 scores seem to be from an MSI card, while the Geekbench 4 scores were from an Asus one. Unfortunately, we don’t know what models were used in these benchmark runs. But we know that the MSI card was paired with a Ryzen 7 5800X and 32GB of ram at 3000MHz, while the Asus card was in a system powered by an Intel Core i9-10900K with 16GB at 3600MHz.
One important thing to note is that these benchmarks confirm the boost frequency of the RTX 3060Ti, which seems to be 1670MHz. The Nvidia RTX 3060Ti hasn’t been announced yet, but rumours point to a launch on December 2nd.
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The first installment of Call of Duty debuted in 2003 year, and from 2005 subsequent parts are released regularly, which is why the series already includes seventeen full-fledged computer games, being an indispensable element of the autumn-winter publishing schedule . Although the realities and characters have been changed many times over the decades, and not necessarily sensible solutions have been introduced, one thing has remained untouched – the cinematic formula of the game intended to increase the immersion of the player. The age-old graphics engine, once considered the most archaic in the world of first-person shooters, has not been changed for a long time, but last year’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has finally made a decisive step in the right direction. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War uses the achievements of its predecessor and adds some new things, catching up with the competition, among others Battlefield. We will soon find out how programmers approached the optimization issue.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is based on the modified IW 8.0 engine that drove its predecessor, but introduces DLSS in addition to ray tracing.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War hardware requirements are divided into four categories, depending on what settings and additional functions we plan to enable The basic configuration should have an Intel Core i3 processor – 4340 / AMD FX – 6300, which are really old units with the performance of today’s low-end. The same applies to eight-year-old NVIDIA graphics systems GeForce GTX 670 / AMD Radeon HD 7950, whose counterparts currently occupy the lowest segments, but everything needs to be replaced with 8 GB of RAM and 175 GB of free disk space. and the machine includes an Intel Core i5 processor – 2500 K / AMD Ryzen 5 1600 X and NVIDIA GeForce GTX graphics 970 / AMD Radeon RX 580, so the equipment that is within reach of the average player is again indicated. The stairs only start when we want to turn on ray tracing, because then the requirements grow exorbitantly. According to the developers, you will need at least NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 / AMD Radeon RX 6800 and Intel Core i7 – 8700 K / AMD Ryzen 7 1800 X .
Minimum
Recommended
RTX Medium
RTX Ultra
AMD processor
FX – 6300
Ryzen 5 1600 X
Ryzen 7 1800 X
Ryzen 7 3700 X
Intel processor
Core i3 – 4340
Core i5 – 2500 K
Core i7 – 8700 K
Core i9 – 9900 K
AMD card
HD 7950
RX 580
RX 6800
RX 6800 XT
NVIDIA Card
GTX 670
GTX 970
RTX 3070
RTX 3080
RAM
8 GB
12 GB
16 GB
16 GB
Disk space
175 GB
175 GB
165 GB
250 GB
Operating system
Windows 10 64 – bit
Windows 64 -bit
Windows 10 64 – bit
Windows 10 64 – bit
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War uses the Black Ops Cold War Engine, which is essentially a modification of the IW 8.0 developed for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Production works only under the DirectX command 12, using PBR lighting (Physically-Based Rendering), volumetric lighting and realistically reproduces thermal thermal radiation. The engine also supports NVIDIA Reflex, Adaptive Shading, DLSS 2.0 and real-time ray tracing. The ray-tracing implementation is primarily focused on lighting effects and shading, including sun shadows, local shadows and ambient occlusion, i.e. the package has been extended to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. The previous version did not receive DLSS support, which was made up for by introducing DLSS 2.0, which offers a much better quality of the reproduced image and a significant increase in performance compared to the native resolution. It is also worth adding that the buyers of GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3090 (eg ASUS TUF) at selected partners, should get Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War for free.
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Until now, QHD high refresh rate displays were usually associated with desktop PCs, but it seems Eluktronics is about to change that. The company has announced the world’s first QHD 165Hz laptops, offering “the most crisp and snappy experience out of any laptop on the market”.
Instead of using the more commonly used 1080p high refresh rate screens in their laptops, Eluktronics is introducing 1440p displays with a 165Hz refresh rate, allowing laptop gamers to benefit from high refresh rates at higher resolutions.
Eluktronics will add this [email protected] display option to three of their “most popular laptop models”: the Mech-15 G3, the Max-15, and the Max-17. Besides featuring 1440p 165Hz displays, the QHD Edition of these laptops will come with an Intel Core i7-10870H with liquid metal, an Nvidia RTX 2070 Super, 1TB PCIe SSD, and 16GB of DDR4 RAM.
As per HardwareLuxx, these displays aren’t custom-made, meaning that we may see other brands such as Asus, HP, Acer, and MSI using them in the future. The manufacturer of these displays is BOE, a Chinese display manufacturer that focuses on the production of LCDs, OLEDs and flexible displays.
The Mech-15 G3 QHD Edition and the Max-15 QHD Edition start both at £1818.79, while the Max-17 QHD Edition starts at £1901.50. Additionally, these three laptops come with the Eluktronics 2021 Gaming Bundle, which includes a large mousepad, a 3-meter HDMI cable, a Covert Cans 7.1 gaming headset, and a Hive-65 mouse.
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Khronos Group’s alternative to DXR is almost here, as Vulkan Ray Tracing gets its final specifications detailed ahead of release next month.
Nvidia’s RTX 3060 Ti has been highly rumored by now, to the point where we now know the card is in the works, with a rumored debut on December 2nd. To add even more information to the mix, we’ve spotted an RTX 3060 Ti benchmark run in Ashes of the Singularity, giving us our first inkling as to how the GPU will perform.
In the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark, the RTX 3060 received a total score of 7900 points, running the “Crazy_1080P” preset and DX12 API. The 3060 Ti was able to maintain an average (GPU) frame rate of 95.3 FPS. For comparison to other current-generation GPUs, the RTX 3070 scores 9000 points, and Radeon RX 6800 scores 9500 points.
But of course, we already knew it would be less powerful than the RTX 3070. What’s most interesting is how it compares to Nvidia’s previous-generation Turing architecture. The only GPU that can keep up with the 3060 Ti from Turing is the RTX 2080 Super, and it manages to pull just ahead of the 3060 Ti with 8400 points and an average frame rate of 101.6 FPS.
(Image credit: ashesofthesingularity.com)
Note that Ashes is very much a CPU benchmark, but both GPUs were tested on a Core i7-8700K. There are other differences that may account for some of the change in performance, but things are still looking quite good.
For a 60 series card, this is certainly excellent performance and something we usually see with every new generation of Nvidia GPUs. For example, Nvidia’s Pascal-based GTX 1060 6GB was able to match the Maxwell-based GTX 980 in performance for half the price.
If Nvidia follows this same trend, mathematically the RTX 3060 Ti could land with a $349 MSRP. More likely, it will take over the 2060 Super’s $399 price point. Either way, this will be one of the best Ampere based cards for the price. You will get roughly 13% less performance than the RTX 3070, but it will cost 20-30% less.
Again, the price is purely speculation but at least we have some idea as to where the RTX 3060 Ti will land in rasterization performance. Hopefully, Nvidia will maintain an excellent price to performance ratio for the 3060 Ti, as is usual for Nvidia’s beloved 60 series cards.
ZLUDA, described as “a drop-in replacement for CUDA on Intel GPU,” is threatening Nvidia’s propiertary CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) ecosystem. The independent project (via Twitter user Longhorn) has already provided a proof of concept to run unaltered CUDA applications on non-Nvidia graphics cards.
The foundation of ZLUDA is none other than Intel’s oneAPI Level Zero specifications. It’s a private project and in no way connected to Intel or Nvidia. Confessedly, ZLUDA is still in its early days and lacks full CUDA support. Therefore, many CUDA applications will not work with ZLUDA. As a matter of fact, the author has only been able to get Geekbench 5 to run with ZLUDA, which brings us to the next topic: Performance.
The creator of ZLUDA claims that it provides “near-native” performance, insinuating that there is almost no performance loss. He provided GeekBench 5.2.3 results for an Intel Core i7-8700K, which wields Intel’s UHD Graphics 630 iGPU, with an OpenCL and ZLUDA run. For the latter, the author tricked GeekBench into thinking that the Intel iGPU was a slow Nvidia GPU. Nevertheless, the results are from the same iGPU.
ZLUDA (Image credit: GitHub, Inc.)
The result showed that ZLUDA’s performance was up to 10% faster in comparison to OpenCL performance. Overall, we’re looking at around a 4% uplift from the set of benchmarks.
The author made it clear that ZLUDA is completely dissimilar to AMD HIP or Intel DPC++ in the sense that the latter two are tools for programmers to port applications to the the specific API of choice. ZLUDA, on the other hand, doesn’t require any extra effort since CUDA applications simply work on an Intel GPU — as long as the CUDA subset is supported, of course.
In its current state, ZLUDA is only compatible with Intel Gen9 iGPUs (Skylake through Comet Lake), but there is planned support for the chipmaker’s upcoming Xe GPUs as well. ZLUDA doesn’t support AMD GPUs, however, the author delved into the idea that it should be technically possible to do so. Nvidia might not be too happy with the idea, but others surely will be.
In mid-January, NVIDIA will officially unveil GeForce RTX mobile graphics cards 3000 for laptops. This will be the first time in over 4 years that a manufacturer will release a mobile GPU in a lower technological process – Pascal used 16 nm TSMC lithography, while Turing it was 12 nm, i.e. de facto powdered 16 nm. Along with the new graphics cards, the Intel Tiger Lake-H processors will also be presented (10 nm SuperFin) and AMD APU Cezanne (7 nm, Zen 3). Such a large accumulation of premieres at one time will primarily cause a large flood of completely new notebooks for players and for work. NVIDIA materials have entered the network, discussing individual configurations of graphics cards with selected processors. This clearly confirms that the top GeForce RTX cards 3070 and RTX 3080 will be combined not only with Intel systems, but also AMD.
New information about NVIDIA GeForce RTX cards has got to the network 3060, GeForce RTX 3070 and GeForce RTX 3080 for laptop versions.
ASUS TUF Gaming A 17 with AMD Ryzen 7 5800 H and RTX 3070 Max-Q
The graphics disclosed by WCCFTech show that laptops with top cards will be available for sale in January NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 and GeForce RTX 3080. Thus, a more powerful RTX based on the Ampere GA core 102 will also come to notebooks. There will be one change for sure – instead of GDDR6X memory with higher bandwidth, slightly slower GDDR6 modules with unknown clock speed will be used. In the case of RTX 3070, these will be GDDR6 14000 MHz. In the case of the top RTX 3080, NVIDIA can use either the same modules or faster ones with an effective clock 16000 MHz .
The graphics also show that the debut of the mobile version of GeForce RTX 3060 will occur at a later date, but still in the first quarter 2021 of the year, i.e. in March at the latest. Laptops with GeForce RTX cards 2000 will be retired, but models with GeForce GTX cards will remain 1650, GTX 1650 Ti and GTX 1660 Ti. If the above chart is genuine, there will be no plans for further increases in laptop prices. These should remain close to the current GeForce RTX devices 2000. Another important piece of information is the GeForce RTX 3060, RTX 3070 and RTX cards 3080 can be combined with both Intel and AMD processors. For GeForce RTX 3060 Intel Core i5 / AMD Ryzen 5 are recommended, while for two top graphics – Intel Core i7 and AMD Ryzen 7.
Source: WCCFTech
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