Even if AMD’s focus of the keynote on the CES 2021 was certainly due to the mobile Ryzen processors, there was still at least one other announcement. This affects other GPUs based on the RDNA-2 architecture. This started in mid-November 2020 with the Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon RX 6700 XT and found its preliminary climax in the Radeon RX 6900 XT. All details about the RDNA-2 architecture can be found in the start article on AMD’s latest generation.
For prices from 579 Euro (the street prices are much higher due to the high demand), many are certainly waiting for the smaller models that will follow sooner or later. AMD now talked about notebook solutions as well as other desktop variants that are supposed to cover the market at the bottom.
There are two new reference designs on the associated presentation detect. These have two or one axial fan and since there is no such design so far, we may already see the other models of the Radeon RX – 6000-Series. The card with an axial fan is reminiscent of the AMD Radeon RX Vega Nano, which we in the form of the PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Nano Edition also tested. The reference design never made it onto the market.
For the mobile GPUs, AMD DIRT 5 demonstrated in 1440 p with ultra settings and a smooth gameplay should have been achieved. However, it is difficult to make a real assessment of performance on the basis of this data. In the end it remains to be hoped that AMD will also be able to offer the mobile RDNA-2 GPUs in many notebooks. Mobile versions of the Radeon-RX order book issued, mobile versions of the Radeon RX series were also presented, but they made it hardly in gaming notebooks, which are largely dominated by NVIDIA’s GeForce GPUs.
The Radeon RX – 6000 series and other smaller models are due to hit the market in March. However, AMD itself did not name a period or even a date.
The American brand has announced several products Alienware branded, with a GPU refresh on Aleinware m models 15 em 17, and the new Aurora Ryzen Edition R desktop 10
by Nino Grasso published 12 January 2021 , at 18: 41 in the Portable channel Dell Alienware
When it comes to Alienwar and we know that the speech will be monothematic, with gaming in the foreground. On the occasion of CES 2021 the company announced a refresh of the GPUs of the Alienware models m 15 R4 em 17 R4, which starting from 26 January 2021 can also be configured with the latest generation NVIDIA GPUs.
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The two systems will remain unchanged, with Intel Core CPU of 10 but generation, up to 32 GB of RAM, options up to 4TB for storage, on PCIe NVMe SSD in M.2 format, also in RAID0 configuration.
The systems will continue to use Cryo-Tech technology for dissipating the heat released by the components, with dedicated fans for the CPU and GPU, both from 66 fins and diameter of 64 mm, and a strong technology-backed copper alloy layer via steam chamber. Alienware m 15 R4 uses displays from 15, 6 “with options for a 4K OLED panel at 60 Hz or a 300 Hz, while Alienware m 17 R4 makes use of panels from 17. 3 “Full HD from 144 or 360 Hz, or 4K at 60 Hz as well as fans from 66 mm (therefore slightly larger). They weigh respectively 2,1Kg and finop to 2, 64 Kg for the model from 17, 3 “.
The systems are equipped with various solutions aimed at gaming, such as ports and wireless connectivity solutions very fast, but the real news is given by the support for the latest generation NVIDIA GPUs just presented. The price is starting from 2. 149 dollars for both models, with availability in the USA for 26 January.
Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition R 00
Dell’s gaming division also announced an upgrade for the CPU counterpart on the desktop system Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition R 00 , which can also be configured with Ryzen CPU 5600 X, Ryzen 7 5800 / 5800 X, and Ryzen 9 (5900, 5900 X and 5950 X). The form factor does not change, as does the integrated motherboard which remains a Micro ATX. The system can be configured with a maximum of 128 GB of RAM, 2TB of storage on PCIe NVMe technology in M.2 format, while on the graphic side there will be several options starting from the Radeon RX 5300 with 3GB of VRAM or from the GeForce GTX 1650 Super with 4GB of RAM, up to Radeon RX 6800 XT from 16 GB or the GeForce RTX 3090 with 24 GB of RAM onboard.
Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition R 10 will be sold with Windows 10 Home or Pro, Gigabit Wi-Fi 5 or 6 wireless solutions and power supplies 550 W finboa a maximum of 1000 W for the highest range solutions. This is a system with a volume of 33, 8 liters, with dimensions equal to 482 x 432 x 223 mm, and a weight of well 18 Kg.
The new models will be available in the USA starting from 26 January 2021, at a price not yet formalized to the public.
Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, has announced that the RDNA 2 graphics architecture present both in its Radeon RX graphics 6000 as in the next-generation PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles, will finally arrive on laptops this year, during the first half.
This is an expected step considering that this architecture is already available in several products on the market and its arrival in laptops to create computers with AMD CPUs and GPUs was a matter of time.
AMD has shown an RDNA 2 laptop GPU running Dirt 5 Ultra to 1440 pa more than 60 FPS
Not many details have been revealed, but we did see a small Dirt 5 gameplay running at a resolution of 2. 560 x 1. 440 pixels with the maximum level of detail with a fluent frame rate per second by above the 60 FPS
the company has also commented that before the end of June we will have new desktop graphics with RDNA architecture to complete the models currently available.
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A year ago, at CES 2021, AMD introduced the third generation of APU for laptops. The Renoir family, based on the Zen 2 architecture, was much more efficient than its predecessors. AMD was also the first company to introduce low-voltage processors with 8 cores and support for 16 threads simultaneously. The processors have gained recognition, mainly due to unprecedented energy efficiency, beating competing Intel systems on the head. Manufacturers, however, did not fully believe in these processors, so we did not meet any high-end configuration that would combine AMD Ryzen processors 4000 with NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics cards 2021 and above. A year has passed, the next edition of CES has started. It is time for the next AMD conference and the presentation of the fourth generation APU. In the case of AMD Cezanne, the situation is different. For the first time in history, the manufacturer enters the top gaming laptops.
AMD at the CES conference 2021, officially unveiled the fourth generation of Cezanne APUs, which will be powered by .in. high-performance gaming laptops with NVIDIA GeForce RTX cards 2100. The new APUs are based on the improved Zen 3 architecture.
AMD has unveiled a total of thirteen new Ryzen processors for laptops, of which 10 uses the new Zen 3 architecture (Cezanne-U and Cezanne-H), while the other three to refresh last year’s models Renoir (Lucienne-U). Among the novelties in architecture it is worth mentioning, among others doubling the amount of L3 cache and reducing delays, which should translate into, among others for higher gaming performance. The new AMD Cezanne-H processors will this year be combined not only with less powerful graphics cards, but also with top NVIDIA GeForce RTX systems 3060, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080. This is a completely new situation, as previously NVIDIA’s flagship notebook cards were only used with Intel. The fact that more and more manufacturers are switching to AMD systems is certainly a blow to Intel. We will see what the situation will look like after the premiere of 8-core Intel Tiger Lake-H processors 45.
For the first time, AMD is introducing a Zen-based APU that will have an unlocked multiplier. I’m talking about AMD Ryzen 9 processors 5900 HX and AMD Ryzen 9 5980 HX. The latter will be exclusive to ASUS, as will the AMD Ryzen 9 5980 HS. Most of the presented processors have 8 cores and 15 threads. The exceptions are AMD Ryzen 5 5600 H and AMD Ryzen 5 5600 HS which have 6 cores and 12 threads – talking about the more efficient Cezanne-H series. For low-voltage processors, we can replace: AMD Ryzen 7 5800 U (8C / 16 T, Zen 3), AMD Ryzen 7 5700 U (8C / 16 T, Zen 2), AMD Ryzen 5 5600 U (6C / T, Zen 3), AMD Ryzen 5 5500 U (6C / 12 T, Zen 2) and AMD Ryzen 5 5300 U (4C / 8T, Zen 2). The TDP on low voltage units is 15 W, while for full voltage Cezanne-H it is 45 In upgradeable to 54 W. For unlocked AMD units Ryzen 9 5900 HX and AMD Ryzen 9 5980 HX, TDP default is 45 In, however, it will be increased after the OC (not specified specific value).
Parameters
Ryzen 5 5600 H
Ryzen 5 5600 HS
Ryzen 7 5800 H
Ryzen 7 5800 HS
Ryzen 9 5900 H
Ryzen 9 5980 HS
Ryzen 9 5900 HX
Ryzen 9 5900 HX
Architecture
Cezanne Zen 3
Cezanne Zen 3
Cezanne Zen 3
Cezanne Zen 3
Cezanne Zen 3
Cezanne Zen 3
Cezanne Zen 3
Cezanne Zen 3
Lithography
7 nm
7 nm
7 nm
7 nm
7 nm
7 nm
7 nm
7 nm
Number of cores
6C / 12 T
6C / 12 T
8C / 16 T
8C / 16 T
8C / 16 T
8C / 16 T
8C / 16 T
8C / 16 T
Base clock
3.3 GHz
3.0 GHz
3.2 GHz
2, 8 GHz
3.3 GHz
3.0 GHz
3.3 GHz
3.3 GHz
Turbo Clock
4.2 GHz
4.2 GHz
4.4 GHz
4.4 GHz
4.6 GHz
4.8 GHz
4.6 GHz
4.8 GHz
Cache
19 MB
19 MB
20 MB
20 MB
20 MB
20 MB
20 MB
20 MB
iGPU
Radeon
Radeon
Radeon
Radeon
Radeon
Radeon
Radeon
Radeon
Memory controller
DDR4 3200 MHz
DDR4 3200 MHz
DDR4 3200 MHz
DDR4 3200 MHz
DDR4 3200 MHz
DDR4 3200 MHz
DDR4 3200 MHz
DDR4 3200 MHz
TDP
45 In (54 W)
35 In (45
45 In (54
35 In (45 )
45 In (54 )
35 In (45 W)
45 W +
45 W +
Parameters
Ryzen 3 5300 U
Ryzen 5 5500AT
Ryzen 5 5600 U
Rice en 7 5700 U
Ryzen 7 5700 U
Architecture
Lucienne-U Zen 2
Lucienne-U Zen 2
Cezanne-U Zen 3
Lucienne-U Zen 2
Cezanne-U Zen 3
Lithography
7 nm
7 nm
7 nm
7 nm
7 nm
Number of cores
4C / 8T
6C / 12 T
6C / 12 T
8C / 16 T
8C / 16 T
Base clock
2.6 GHz
2.1 GHz
2.3 GHz
1 , 8 GHz
1.9 GHz
Turbo Clock
3 , 8 GHz
4.0 GHz
4.2 GHz
4.3 GHz
4.4 GHz
Cache
6 MB
8 MB
19 MB
8MB
20 MB
iGPU
Radeon
Radeon
Radeon
Radeon
Radeon
Memory controller
DDR4 3200 MHz LPDDR4x 4266 MHz
DDR4 3200 MHz LPDDR4x 4266 MHz
DDR4 3200 MHz LPDDR4x 4266 MHz
DDR4 3200 MHz LPDDR4x 4266 MHz
DDR4 3200 MHz LPDDR4x 4266 MHz
TDP
15
15 In
15 In
15 In
15 In
New AMD Ryzen series processors 5000 from the Cezanne family boast twice the amount of L3 cache, up to 16 MB (total 20 MB, including L2 cache). There will also be integrated Radeon Graphics graphics chips that reuse the Vega architecture. However, it will be the last generation of the APU, which will use the already perfected Vega. We will get a maximum of iGPU Vega with 8 Compute Units and clocking 2100 MHz. However, specific details about the graphics chips were not presented at the conference. More APUs will go to iGPU NAVI based on RDNA 2 architecture. In 165 we will receive a total of over 150 notebooks from all leading manufacturers that will use AMD Cezanne processors. A large part of these laptops will be designs using efficient Cezanne-H chips in combination with NVIDIA GeForce RTX cards 3000. The new generation of APU is to bring smooth gameplay in AAA games while maintaining maximum graphics settings in Full HD and 4K resolutions. Most details on the specifications of the individual Ryzen series processors 5000 you will find in the tables above. The first laptops will be available from February.
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su took to the stage at the virtual CES 2021 to announce new ‘Cezanne’ Ryzen 5000 Mobile processors that bring the powerful Zen 3 architecture to the notebook market for the first time, opening the door for the company to finally have a larger presence in the highest-end gaming notebooks. That means that we’ll finally see AMD’s chips paired with the highest-end mobile GPUs when the new Ryzen 5000 Mobile processors come to market in February, which could shake up our Best Gaming Laptops rankings.
AMD says the new chips set the new standard for battery life in x86 notebooks and remain the only 8-core x86 chips for ultrathin laptops. The 13 new processors span from low-power 15W chips up to two new 45W+ HX-series models designed to bring desktop PC-like gaming performance to notebooks. These eight-core HX models carve out a new high-performance niche by bringing CPU, memory, and fabric overclocking to AMD-powered notebooks for the first time.
AMD also expanded its HS series with four flagship chips that slot in with boost clock speeds that stretch up to 4.8 GHz within the 35W TDP envelope. Two new 45W H-series models, which come in both six- and eight-core flavors, are trailed by five U-series processors.
AMD also conducted a demo of its RDNA2 mobile graphics cards that will come to market in the first half of this year. They’ll be accompanied by unspecified new RDNA2 cards for the desktop PC. But first, let’s take a look at the mobile CPUs.
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The Ryzen 5000 mobile processors all come with threading enabled, higher boost clocks than the previous-gen, and support CPPC (Collaborative Power and Performance Control) technology. This is the same thread-targeting feature present in the Ryzen 3000 and 5000 desktop CPUs, but now it’s debuting in AMD-powered laptops. Ultimately, this allows for tighter performance and power control, resulting in higher boost clocks on the fastest cores and extends battery life.
While we have detailed clock speeds and other particulars for the CPU portion of the SoCs, we do know the chips come with the same enhanced 7nm Vega architecture as the previous-gen Ryzen 4000 models (not the company’s newest Navi engine). AMD says the units have seen ‘double-digit increases’ due to higher frequencies, precise clock selection, better power state management, and the increased performance of the Zen 3 CPU cores.
AMD’s 7nm Radeon Vega graphics engine touts up to 59% more performance per CU (compute unit) than the first-gen 14nm Vega, which previously allowed the company to use 8 CUs instead of 11. We don’t know any other details about the integrated graphics engine, like the graphics clock rates or core (CU) counts for the various SKUs, but AMD says it will share more info in technical briefings as we come closer to the launch next month.
AMD recently chose to unify its Ryzen Mobile branding under the same Ryzen 5000 umbrella as its desktop chips, clearing up the confusion with the Ryzen 4000 series processors that came with an older architecture than desktop Ryzen 3000 models. However, AMD also sprinkled in three Zen 2 chips in the Ryzen 5000 Mobile stack. AMD says this approach meets specific pricing criteria and customer (OEM) demand on the lower end of its product stack. As seen in the second slide, these Zen 2-powered Ryzen 3, 5, and 7 models slot into the lowest-end 15W U-series category, muddying the branding for value seekers.
AMD U-Series Ryzen 5000 Mobile
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AMD shared a series of head-to-head benchmarks, but as with all vendor benchmarks, we should take them with a grain of salt.
AMD’s 15W U-series includes the Zen 2-powered Ryzen 7 5700U, Ryzen 5 3500U, and 5500U, but as you can see, they outperform their previous-gen Zen 2 equivalents in the Cinebench R20 multi-threaded test (as listed in the test notes). However, this test result is a bit unclear as it appears that AMD has used a multi-threaded metric to derive a single-threaded performance rating.
The PCMark 10 tests are a bit more definitive. The 15W Ryzen 7 5800U outperforms the previous-gen Ryzen 7 4800U easily and notches substantial wins over Intel’s four-core eight-thread Core i7-1165G7. Intel’s processor has a 12W to 28W TDP range, and it’s unclear if it was set to the maximum settings in these tests.
AMD says the Ryzen 7 5800U offers up to 17.5 hours of battery life during general usage and up to 21 hours of battery life during video playback, both of which are the longest in the ultrathin category.
AMD HS-Series Ryzen 5000 Mobile
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AMD’s 35W HS-Series processors are geared toward compact notebooks, and the flagship Ryzen 9 5980HS comes armed with four cores and eight threads that operate at a 3.0 GHz base and 4.8 GHz boost frequency — the highest of the Ryzen 5000 Mobile series. AMD’s benchmarks show the chip beating the eight-core 16-thread Intel Core i9-10980HK by ~1% in the single-threaded Cinebench R20 benchmark, and ~11% in the multi-threaded test.
AMD HX-Series Ryzen 5000 Mobile
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AMD shared a few benchmark comparisons of its highest-end overclockable Cezanne chip, the 45W Ryzen 9 5900HX, against Intel’s 45W Core i9-10900HK in a battle of the highest-end chips in both chipmakers’ stables. AMD claims a 14% advantage in single-threaded performance measured by Cinebench R20, a 37% advantage in overall performance as measured by Passmark PT10, and a 21% game physics advantage in the Fire Strike Physics benchmark. How that translatest to actual games is another matter.
Thoughts
AMD’s Ryzen 4000 series mobile processors have already taken the notebook market by storm, granting the company its biggest slice of the mobile market in history, and the Ryzen 5000 Mobile chips look to continue that momentum. AMD pulled off this feat in record time — the Raven Ridge chips didn’t come to the mobile market for a year after debuting on the desktop, while this Zen 3 transition should take roughly four months.
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Speaking of Raven Ridge, those chips came to market in 75 designs, while the next-gen Ryzen 4000 chips landed in 100 devices. AMD expects Ryzen 5000 to land in over 150 notebooks by the end of the year, many with the highest-end graphics cards, a distinction that has long eluded the company.
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AMD has its own higher-end discrete mobile graphics cards coming, too. The company demoed an RDNA2 GPU running at over 60 fps in Dirt 5 at the 1440p resolution. The RDNA2 mobile graphics cards will come to market in the first half of this year. AMD also says that new RDNA2 graphics cards for the desktop PC will also land in the first half, but didn’t share any further detail.
Based on what we know about RDNA2 GPUs, these mobile chips are most likely unannounced Navi 22 or Navi 23 parts. Navi 21 goes in the current RX 6900 XT, 6800 XT, and 6800, but it can be quite power hungry and is a large 520mm2 chip. We expect AMD will have RX 6700 XT and RX 6700 cards in the near future, which will use less power. Mobile optimized versions of these would be the logical choice for gaming laptops.
We’ll have to wait to see how the Ryzen 5000 Mobile chips perform in real-world testing, and we’re particularly eager to see how the 7nm Radeon Vega graphics engine performs in tandem with the Zen 3 CPU cores. It won’t be long before we learn more about the chips — AMD says it will share more details before they come to market in February.
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su will take the stage to deliver her second CES keynote today, and you can watch the action unfold here, live, in the embedded video below. The keynote begins at 11am ET / 9am PT, and be sure to check for our deep dive coverage following the event.
AMD has taken the world by storm, upsetting Intel on the CPU side for the first time in 15 years and giving Nvidia a stiff challenge in GPUs. We expect the company to build on that momentum with its CES 2021 announcements, perhaps with the rumored announcement of the next-gen Cezanne Ryzen 5000 Mobile processors.
AMD’s official press release about the keynote doesn’t give us any clue what the company will unveil, but Zen 3-powered Threadripper and new mid-range Radeon RX 6700 series graphics cards are among the potential contenders.
We’ve also seen new DIY-focused motherboards emerge for the Threadripper Pro series that we recently took for a spin, so there’s a possibility that we could learn more about those processors at the show, too. Anything’s possible, pull up a seat!
iBuyPower announced a new 18.34-liter small form factor PC case at CES 2021 called the Revolt 3 MK3. I’m not sure what I find so enthralling about it, but it’s the kind of case I’d find myself staring at for an embarrassing amount of time if I were in the market to upgrade my build. (Maybe I am, after all.) If you’re a fan of minimalist cases like me, with next to no added LEDs, you might find yourself under the spell of this case, too.
Okay, I also really like its top-mounted handle. It’s not like I move my PC around a lot, though it would make it far easier and safer to carry this around when I need to give it a deep cleaning or swap some of the tech inside. Beyond the handle’s utility, it reminds me of the Nintendo GameCube — if the handle were attached to a chassis that’s far more refined than that console’s actual devkit.
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This case design isn’t entirely original. The Lian Li TU150 is a beloved small form factor (mini ITX) option for people who want a small PC with a handle on top, and it’s not like there aren’t other solid choices that arrive sans handle (Velocity Micro, Silverstone, and Sliger, to name a few). The Revolt 3 MK3’s huge amount of ventilation gives it a unique look. Beyond how it looks, each side of the machine can be removed for cleaning, and to make cable management easier to manage. The Revolt 3 MK3’s retractable headphone hook is a thoughtful feature, too.
You’ll be able to purchase this case sometime in the second quarter of the year filled with some pre-selected components from iBuyPower, including a 700W 80 Plus Gold SFX-L power supply that’s just below the suggested 750W for the Nvidia RTX 3080. The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT and cards below in both AMD and Nvidia’s field should be covered with this power supply for the pre-built crowd. At launch, the company hasn’t actually shared what other specs you’ll be able to have crammed in.
An exploded view of the Revolt 3 MK3 shows that it’s likely very good at catching dust.Image: iBuyPower
Alternatively, you’ll have the option to purchase just the case alone in black or white (it supports swappable parts so you can mix white and black how you please), and you can fit an ITX motherboard inside with all of the components you desire. It can actually fit GPUs as big as Nvidia’s RTX 3090, so you can make yourself a powerful machine in this case if you have the right power supply. The company hasn’t shared a price for the case by itself. You can find even more specs for the case on iBuyPower’s site.
Intel announced four new 11th-Gen Tiger Lake H-Series processors at CES 2021, but they aren’t the eight-core 45W models we expected. Instead, Intel has developed quad-core Tiger Lake ‘H35’ chips with a 35W TDP and defined a new laptop segment, dubbed “ultraportables,” to house them. These chips will serve as the alternative to AMD’s potent Ryzen Mobile processors, which have steadily gained ground over the last year.
Up to 40 new designs with the H35 chips will come to market this year, with several being launched today at CES. Intel also announced that it has collaborated with Nvidia to add support for Resizable BAR, a feature that boosts GPU performance, to the new ultraportable laptops.
For now, Intel’s new flagship Tiger Lake chip comes as the four-core eight-thread Core i7-11375H Special Edition that can boost up to 5.0 GHz on a single core and up to 4.3 GHz on all cores. Intel says its long-awaited eight-core 45W H-series chips are still in development, with headline specs including a 5.0 GHz boost on multiple cores, but the company’s first eight-core 10nm processors won’t come to market until later this quarter.
Intel Tiger Lake UP3 Processors
PROCESSOR
CORES/THREADS
GRAPHICS (EUs)
OPERATING RANGE (W)
BASE CLOCK (GHZ)
SINGLE CORE TURBO FREQ (GHZ)
MAXIMUM ALL CORE FREQ (GHZ)
Cache (MB)
GRAPHICS MAX FREQ (GHZ)
MEMORY
Core i7-11375H Special Edition
4C / 8T
96
28 – 35W
3.3 (35W) / 3.0 (28W)
5.0 (with TB3)
4.3
12
1.35
DDR4-3200, LPDDR4x-4266
Core i7-11370H
4C / 8T
96
28 – 35W
3.3 (35W) / 3.0 (28W)
4.8
4.3
12
1.35
DDR4-3200, LPDDR4x-4266
Core i5-11300H
4C / 8T
80
28 – 35W
3.1 (35W) / 2.6 (28W)
4.4
4.0
12
1.3
DDR4-3200, LPDDR4x-4266
Core i7-1185G7 (UP3)
4C / 8T
96
12 – 28W
3.0
4.8
4.3
12
1.35
DDR4-3200, LPDDR4x-4266
Core i7-1165G7 (UP3)
4C / 8T
96
12 – 28W
2.8
4.7
4.1
12
1.30
DDR4-3200, LPDDR4x-4266
Core i5-1135G7 (UP3)
4C / 8T
80
12 – 28W
2.4
4.2
3.8
8
1.30
DDR4-3200, LPDDR4x-4266
Core i3-1115G4 (UP3)
2C / 4T
48
12 – 28W
3.0
4.1
4.1
6
1.25
DDR4-3200, LPDDR4x-3733
The three new Tiger Lake H35 processors feature the 10nm SuperFin process and Tiger Lake architecture, so the H35 feature set is mostly the same as the 28W (UP3) processors already on the market. However, while the UP3 models have a configurable TDP that spans from 12 to 28W, the new models can operate at either 28W or 35W. Naturally, the higher-TDP rating allows Intel to dial up the clock speeds to extract a bit more performance from the chips.
The Core i7-11375H H35 Special Edition leads the new lineup with up to a 5.0 GHz boost frequency on a single core. Notably, this is a Turbo Boost Max feature, meaning the 5.0 GHz boost will apply to one physical core only. The chip can also reach up to 4.8 GHz on two cores, and 4.3 GHz on all four cores. As you would expect, boost frequency and duration will depend upon each laptop’s thermal capabilities.
Intel’s Core i7-11370H and i5-11300H slot in beneath the flagship, both with four cores and eight threads. The primary difference between these two chips boils down to clock speeds and cache capacity. Naturally, the i5 model has lower clocks, but it also comes with only 8MB of cache compared to the 12MB found on the two Core i7 models.
The chips feature the Xe LP graphics architecture found in the current Tiger Lake models, with similar peak clock frequencies as the existing quad-core models. Both Core i7 models come equipped with 96 EUs, just like the flagship 28W model, while the Core i5 variant comes with 80 EUs.
Intel is adopting the same Resizable BAR technology, a standard capability of the PCIe interface, that AMD adopted with its Ryzen 5000 CPUs and Radeon 6000 series GPUs (dubbed Smart Access Memory). Nvidia also recently joined the Resizable BAR party, announcing that it will support the feature shortly after AMD, and has worked with Intel to enable that same feature with its next-gen GPUs that will power the H35 and future Tiger Lake platforms. This feature promises to boost gaming performance, and it appears that Intel will be the first to bring the tech to the laptop market.
We’re curious to see how this plays out for the quad-core Tiger Lake chips, which apparently only have an x4 PCIe link for dedicated graphics cards or SSDs. Will resizable BAR help more with a narrower link width, or will it make less of a difference? This is something we’ll test once we have hardware in hand.
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Intel provided a few benchmarks for the new chips, but as with all vendor-provided benchmarks, take them with a grain of salt. Here we see that Intel compared the existing quad-core i7-1165G7 to the new i7-11375H chip to derive the performance claims in the second slide in the album. That slide says the processor offers 9% more performance than the 1165G7, but Intel tested the latter at 15W. The 1165G7 has a configurable TDP that allows it to run at 28W, which the company tells us shrinks the lead for the new H35 chip to 4%.
Intel also based these performance projections on an integer workload, which it says is more representative of consumer workloads than the floating-point test that tends to be more demanding (particularly in terms of thermals and peak clock speeds). Intel says it will share the floating point benchmarks, which we’ll add when we receive them. Intel also isn’t sharing gaming performance projections yet, citing an NDA for Nvidia’s next-gen mobile GPUs.
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The destination for the chips? A newly-defined ultraportable segment that consists of thin-and-light laptops designed for enthusiast-level gameplay. These laptops will come in 14″ and 15″ form factors with a maximum thickness of 18mm. Intel has set a 1080p gaming performance goal for the new designs — they should achieve 70 fps (or higher) at high fidelity settings. Intel says that its partners have 40 new designs based on the chips coming to market in the first half of 2021, including designs launched at CES by Acer, Asus, MSI, and Vaio. Intel hasn’t released any firm battery life projections compared to the existing Tiger Lake chips, but given the higher TDP range, we don’t expect an improvement.
New platforms based on these chips will arrive to market over the coming months, with more than 40 devices planned. In the meantime, we await the full-fledged 45W eight-core Tiger Lake processors that are still under development. Intel did provide a demo showing a future eight-core Tiger Lake chip running a 4K gaming session with ‘desktop caliber’ gaming performance at its event, so the company is apparently bullish on the performance front. That will be a needed addition to fend off AMD’s Ryzen Mobile processors.
In the interim, Intel’s Comet Lake 10th Gen processors will still soldier on as the eight-core vanguard of Intel’s laptop fleet, with the recently-added 45W Comet Lake Core i7-10870H and Core i5-10500H serving as the eight-core mainstays while Intel awaits its 45W Tiger Lake models.
As part of the consumer electronics fair CES 2021, AMD and Nvidia are organizing on Tuesday, the 12. January 2021, your keynotes. It starts at German time with AMD’s CEO Lisa Su, followed by Nvidia boss Jensen Huang 18 o’clock.
heise online accompanies both press conferences with one own livestream in which we comment on the event and – as far as possible – classify it. The two editors Alexander Spier and Mark Mantel as well as video man Michael Wieczorek are part of the party.
Start at 16: 45 Clock To shortly before 17 Our livestream begins with the embedded streams from AMD and Nvidia – so you don’t have to open the keynotes separately. Probably by 19 clock both events should be over. If necessary, we take a break between the two events; basically we run these via the same stream URL via YouTube so that you don’t have to switch.
Live commentary from heise online on AMDs and Nvidias CES – 2021 – Keynotes.
AMD should tomorrow the mobile processors of the series Ryzen 5000 H and Ryzen 5000 Announce U alias Cezanne. Also included: Zen 3 computing cores with high single-threading computing power. There could also be an outlook on the mid-range Radeon RX 6700 graphics cards. At Nvidia, mobile graphics chips from the GeForce RTX series 3000 for notebooks should be in focus – Leaks for the mobile GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3070 already existed.
The consumer electronics fair CES 23 opens today 11. January their virtual gates – this year due to the coronavirus pandemic purely virtual in the form of (live) streams. Some manufacturers have already announced their new products in advance; Now the so-called keynotes follow, which interested parties can follow for themselves thanks to YouTube and Co.
For PC users and gamers, the streams from AMD, Intel and Nvidia will be the most interesting ones taking place this Monday and Tuesday. We will report on the events so that you can read all the news when you get the chance.
Intel Intel’s head of the client division, Gregory Bryant, speaking on 11. January 2021 at 22 Clock German time, among other things via desktop and notebook processors (keyword: Rocket Lake and Tiger Lake). Before, from It At the start, Intel embeds the keynotes on its own newsroom website.
AMD Tuesday afternoon of 12. On January 1st at 15 AMD’s keynote with company boss Lisa Su follows. Interested parties tune in via YouTube. An announcement is expected about AMD’s upcoming mobile processors Ryzen 5000 U and Ryzen 5000 H with Zen 3 architecture alias Cezanne. In addition, there could be a first preview of the mid-range graphics cards Radeon RX 6700.
Nvidia Directly afterwards, i.e. on 12. January at 17 clock German time, starts Nvidia’s stream with CEO Jensen Huang, also via YouTube . The event runs under the motto “Game On” and should focus on the mobile graphics chip series GeForce RTX 3000 for notebooks . Entries in benchmark databases already have an outlook on the mobile GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3070 given.
LG, Microsoft, Samsung and Sony There will be a few more streams running over the next few days, but due to the numerous advance notice, they should only be of limited interest. LG’s keynote, for example, starts today 11. January at 14 o’clock. Messages about LGs 2021 he TVs, including smart TVs with mini LEDs and OLED gaming that can be bent at the push of a button -Displays, as well as the particularly light Gram notebooks are already online.
To 15 o’clock follows an event by Samsung’s television division – here too there was an advance notice. On Thursday the 14. January, a “Galaxy Unpacked” event will take place separately, in which Samsung will launch the next generation of smartphones, the Galaxy S 21.
Samsung’s 2021 Smart TVs introduced.
(Source: Samsung) Sony’s keynote will start tonight of 11. January at 23 o’clock. Sony has already presented the smart TVs for the year 23 in advance. Big news in the gaming environment is not to be expected as the Playstation 5 console has only just appeared. Microsoft is on the afternoon of 13. January at 14, usually with a view of Surface devices.
The Consumer Electronics Show officially begins this week. Thankfully, the Consumer Electronics Association capitulated in July and switched the whole thing over to being online-only. But it’s hard to know what CES is even supposed to be without giant convention halls filled with ostentatious displays, blinking lights, and hordes of exhausted and smelly people in off-the-rack suits. Whatever happens, you will be able to find all our coverage right here.
The chief executive of the CEA Gary Shapiro told the Wall Street Journal that his organization did its best to try to translate some of the experience online. I can tell you that many on our staff here at The Verge are absolutely dreading being made to click through 3D software models of booths like we’re playing the worst Myst remake ever.
But my guess is that it’ll be a lot smoother than that and really the thing we’ll miss the most is that it will be harder to serendipitously stumble upon some strange or clever new gadget at a tiny booth in the back reaches of the Sands convention center.
The CEA has smartly limited official keynote presentations to 30 minutes a pop. That should mean we’ll get to the announcements more quickly and have to spend a little less time hearing vague hand-waving about innovation. We’ll be covering those live (though without liveblogs), so stay tuned starting today and through the first half of the week.
The main CES keynote will come from Verizon (so expect 5G talk), but the usual suspects like Sony, Samsung, LG and others will have their own presentations. One consequence of moving the entire show online is that companies seem to be stretching out their announcements to fill the suddenly larger virtual space. So although CES’s official start is this week, many of the biggest announcements have already happened. This year’s TV announcements are essentially half-finished thanks to Samsung and Sony going so early.
This year, there will be a few trends to watch for. In TVs, 8K will continue to be everywhere but the real showdown is going to be between more traditional OLED TVs and Mini LED. But the real thing to watch for is HDMI 2.1, the new iteration of the spec that has the necessary bandwidth for more advanced gaming features. It ought to be everywhere this year. Oh, and LG has already shown off its weird concepts this year — transparent TVs are cool.
LG’s bendy TV for 2020LG
There will be plenty of 5G talk, but since this isn’t a phone show much of it will amount to more promises. Verizon is doing the keynote, however, so perhaps it will have something to say about improving its lackluster 5G network, which can often be slower than LTE. (Verizon’s 4G LTE network remains great, at least.)
Laptops and PCs will likely show up with their usual mix: a few weird concepts and a lot of decent spec bumps. I’m going to keep an eye out for two things: whether AMD can pick up more models from Intel and whether Intel can get a critical mass of “Evo” laptops with decent battery life. Because like it or not, the stunningly good Arm-based MacBooks are going to loom like a shadow over the whole proceeding. Perhaps a few companies will take a shot at making a better Arm-based Windows laptop, too.
As for smart home stuff, there’ll be the usual mix of oddities like smart toilets and improvements to the basics like fridges, ovens, and smart lights. I do wonder if there will be a small lull this year as we await the new CHIP industry standard that should reduce fragmentation in how these things communicate with each other.
Image: JBL
One thing we’ll definitely keep an eye out for is health gadgets — and that eye will be extremely skeptical. CES is always the place where quackery and technology team up, but this year my worry is that more than a few overzealous companies will try to make COVID-specific pitches for their gadgets.
Last and perhaps least: phones. CES is rarely a phone show, and this year the fact that Samsung will be announcing its flagship Galaxy S21 just afterwards will tamp those announcements down further. I suspect we’ll see a lot of low and mid-range phones that bring down the cost of access to 5G, but I doubt anybody will try to front-run Samsung.
There may be surprises, too! You never know. We’ll be covering it all from the safety of our homes, so stay tuned. I’ll send out more newsletters than usual this week to try to keep up. And speaking of keeping up, below are the CES and CES-adjacent announcements that have already happened.
TVs
┏ Samsung’s 2021 TVs have dramatically better picture, thanks to Mini LED. Samsung’s big bet on Mini LED continues, including more dimming zones. Not having the chance to see Samsung’s TVs in person is one of my bigger regrets this year, because it is doing so much to try to innovate with LED tech instead of just going to OLED like everybody else.
But to me, the best thing Samsung did was tout a whole new set of accessibility features. In particular I like that its TVs will give users the option of enlarging the ASL bubble that appears on the lower-right of the screen. But it’s doing much more than that.
┏ Samsung made a solar-charging Eco Remote for its latest TVs. Samsung also made a lot of noise over the environment and here I was less sympathetic. If one were to do a study of the extra carbon cost of building this remote with its solar panel and integrated battery versus just letting users replace a couple of AA cells every so often, I wonder which would come out ahead.
┏ LG imagines a bed with a hidden see-thru OLED TV set. I dunno LG, a semi-transparent TV is cool enough on its own that adding a motorized gimmick and suggesting it go at the foot of a bed is just gilding the pixel lily.
The screen achieves 40 percent transparency, LG Display says, which is an improvement over past transparent LCDs the company claims achieved only 10 percent transparency. … LG imagines the screen sitting at the foot of a bed, where it can rise up partially or in full to show information or videos while retaining a view of the other side of the screen.
┏ Watch this flexible LG gaming TV bend from flat to curved. Okay I dig this.
┏ Sony’s 2021 TV lineup runs Google TV and fully embraces HDMI 2.1. Sony’s TV lineup is a little less flashy but a lot more functional this year. It’s switching over to Google TV from Android TV, for one thing. And I love this bit about the legs:
Sony has also focused on small touches, like adjustable legs that can be configured to allow enough space for a soundbar in front of the TV without obstructing the picture. Going down the lineup, you lose certain niceties (like an antireflective coating exclusive to the 8K set), but all of the TVs support Dolby Vision HDR.
┏ Roku says Roku TV was best-selling smart TV OS in North America for 2020.
Other very good big screens
┏ Acer’s latest gaming monitors include its first with HDMI 2.1. At some point, I am going to need to figure out a way to play PS5 games without using the main television for hours on end — there’s other people who want to watch TV. This looks like a great, overkill solution for that which could also serve as a really solid gaming monitor. Not cheap, though, and as Cameron Faulkner points out it is getting awfully close to “just buy an actual TV instead” territory.
In terms of specs, the standout product is the new Nitro XV28, a 28-inch 4K monitor with an IPS display and a 144Hz refresh rate with FreeSync Premium. It’s Acer’s first gaming monitor to use HDMI 2.1 ports, giving it the spec (assuming you’re using an HDMI 2.1-compliant cable) to support up to 4K gaming at 120 frames per second with variable refresh rate (VRR). … So, not only is this a solid option for PC gamers hoping to squeeze the most out of their Nvidia RTX 3080 or AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, it’s an option about which PS5 and Xbox Series X owners can be equally excited.
┏ Mercedes-Benz unveils its absolutely massive 56-inch ‘Hyperscreen’ display. CES is nothing if not a show about screens, and I am sad that I won’t have a chance to go behold this screen (which is technically three screens) in person.
┏ Sony is going to start selling its Mandalorian-like virtual set displays. I’ll take two.
Audio
┏ These are Sony’s first 360-degree audio speakers. These speakers look really interesting! I do wonder how they sound, of course. I also wonder just how much content is really going to support 360-degree audio.
┏ Sony’s 360-degree audio is coming to streaming video.
┏ JBL’s new stereo amplifier pairs retro looks with modern connectivity. Click through and look at this thing. It’s very pretty!
The JBL SA750 is a new stereo amplifier pairing modern streaming technologies like Airplay 2 and Google Chromecast with a design that wouldn’t look out of place in a hi-fi rack from the ‘60s or ‘70s. It’s got a set of reassuringly chunky-looking dials and switches as physical controls, an understated display, and its sides are covered with wood veneers. The amplifier, whose release coincides with JBL’s 75th anniversary, will cost $3,000 when it goes on sale beginning this May.
┏ JBL’s Bar 5.0 Multibeam is an all-in-one soundbar with Virtual Dolby Atmos.
┏ The JLab JBuds Frames are open-ear headphones you clip to your glasses.
PCs
┏ LG’s 2021 Gram laptops feature Intel’s 11th-Gen processors. There are “Evo” laptops, Intel’s badge for devices that meet certain benchmarks for battery life and included features. As Monica Chin notes, LG might have exceeded those benchmarks in at least one category:
LG claims you could see up to 19.5 hours from the Gram 17, Gram 16, and 16 2-in-1. That’s a claim I’d usually be skeptical of, but I will say the 2020 Gram 17 had some of the longest battery life I saw from a laptop last year. It lasted around 10 hours of my daily workload (which is fairly intense). So LG knows what it’s doing when it comes to efficiency, and there’s reason for optimism.
┏ Samsung Galaxy Chromebook 2 hands-on: promisingly boring. Last year Samsung and Google did their level best to steal the CES show with a very red, very pretty Chromebook that ended up being very disappointing. This year Samsung is retrenching — this laptop is not a successor at all. As Monica Chin calls it, it’s a “regular-ass Chromebook.” Nothing wrong with that as long as it’s executed well. We’ll see.
┏ Lenovo’s new IdeaPad 5 Pro includes AMD Ryzen mobile processors. Lenovo is joining the 16:10 aspect ratio club, which is the hottest laptop screen club even though it’s not quite as fancy as the 3:2 aspect ratio club.
┏ Lenovo’s new Yoga all-in-one has a rotating display for better TikTok videos and Twitter scrolling. Sure, the monitor rotates and that’s rare in AIOs, but I am jealous of the feature that lets you plug in your laptop and make the two computers a little more symbiotic.
Of particular note is how Lenovo is taking advantage of USB-C with the Yoga AIO 7. Plug in your laptop with a USB-C cable, and you’ll be able to use the Yoga AIO 7’s hardware — including the display, speakers, mouse and keyboard, power supply, and even the integrated hard drive — directly with your laptop.
┏ Lenovo chases dream of making a PC Nintendo Switch with the LaVie Mini concept. Another concept that is unlikely to actually end up on store shelves, as Mitchell Clark notes:
Most, like Alienware’s UFO concept from last year, don’t ever end up making it to market, as these prototypes are often less about making viable consumer products and more about experimenting with new ideas and form factors and getting the requisite press attention during CES. Some do go on sale but don’t end up appealing to enough gamers to really make an impact, like Razer’s Edge or the initial Nvidia Shield handheld.
Gadgets and gizmos
┏ LG’s newest cordless vac automatically empties itself. I don’t know if LG will actually sell this or not — the company loves doing weird concept stuff at CES. I do know that I very much hate emptying out my vacuum so having a stand that does it for me is very appealing. Probably not appealing enough to actually buy the thing, but appealing enough for me to pay attention. That, after all, is the point of weird concept stuff.
┏ Intel launches RealSense ID, facial recognition tech that uses the company’s depth-sensing cameras. As Ian Carlos Campbell, Intel has been trying to make RealSense a Real Thing that gets included in devices for a long time now.
Intel’s RealSense tech has been knocking around for several years, popping up in odd, tech demo use cases like inserting your face into Fallout 4, and more useful ones like unlocking a laptop with Windows Hello. Intel suggests this new application of RealSense could be used in a variety of settings, like ATMs, registers, and smart locks. What the company doesn’t mention is the other popular use of facial recognition: governments and law enforcement agencies tracking and profiling people.
┏ I hope to someday sit in Kohler’s new voice-activated smart bath. If your bathtub doesn’t have color-changing lights and a literal fog machine built in, well, Kohler has the solution for those pressing problems.
┏ The 2021 Moto G Stylus, Power, and Play focus on big batteries, bigger screens, and low prices. Of all of these, the one I’m most interested in is the Power. At these price points, it seems unlikely that these phones could compete with flagships in any way. That’s true except in one case: the Power might have battery life that’s hard for any phone to beat.
┏ Kensington’s SD5700T Thunderbolt 4 dock has all the ports you could need. Monica Chin:
Thunderbolt 4 is here, and so is the first fully powered Thunderbolt 4 docking station. Kensington’s SD5700T includes a whopping 11 ports, 90W of power delivery, and transfer speeds of up to 40Gbps. It provides either one 8K output at 30 Hz or two 4K outputs at 60 Hz. … Make no mistake: This is a fancy dock. It’s listed for $289.99 on Kensington’s site.
Thermaltake first showed us their Mini-ITX The Tower 100 case during a virtual Expo that replaced Computex in 2020 and we were intrigued, especially when we learned the price was around the £90/$90 mark. Fast forward six months and as we prepared for a virtual CES, and the delayed launch of The Tower 100, we were truly surprised when Thermaltake offered KitGuru a world exclusive review of this intriguing case. Naturally enough we accepted with almost indecent haste.
Watch the video via our VIMEO Channel (Below) or over on YouTube at 4K HERE
Main features
Minimise the iconic The Tower 900 to support Mini-ITX
Tool-free tempered glass panel x3
Pre-installed 120mm standard fan x2
Supports the latest PC hardware
Front I/O ports with 2x USB 3.0 and 1x Type-C
Specification:
Motherboard support: Mini-ITX. Expansion slots: 2. Included fans: 1x 120mm top exhaust, 1x 120mm rear exhaust. Fan mounts: 1x 120mm/140mm on PSU cover, 1x 120mm/140mm roof, 1x 120mm/140mm rear. Radiator mounts: 120mm roof. 5.25-inch optical drive bays: None. Internal drive bays: 2x 3.5-inch/4x 2.5-inch, 2x 2.5-inch. Dimensions: 463mm H x 266mm D x 266mm W.
Once you have removed the glass panels you will find that building a PC inside The Tower 100 is relatively easy as you have good access to the Mini-ITX motherboard. On the other hand, it is questionable to claim the glass panels are tool-free as you first have to unscrew the top cover of the case before you can remove the glass. Our video shows you chapter and verse on the subject, including the bizarre cable routing we used for our Seasonic Focus PX-850.
The other reason we state it is easy to build a PC inside The Tower 100 is that you have very few options. You might install a 120mm AIO cooler on your CPU or you might go for an air tower, and that is pretty much the end of the matter. We were slightly surprised that Thermaltake does not include any RGB with the Tower 100 as the glass would show lighting to good effect however this clearly keeps costs low and certainly reduces complexity.
While The Tower 100 is rated as a Mini-ITX chassis we calculate the volume at 31 litres so it is fairly large. On the plus side you have plenty of space for the power supply, CPU cooler and graphics card. You have a great many options with your build and should have no difficulty arriving at a combination of parts that deliver decent performance.
Testing
To put this case through its cooling paces we will be using a test system consisting of an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 XT and an SSD. This system allows us to produce a substantial amount of heat and effectively test the Thermaltake The Tower 100‘s cooling capabilities.
The ambient temperature during our testing was a mere 15 degrees Celsius so you should add five or six degrees to our figures to get representative temperatures however the takeaway is that The Tower 100 is absolutely fine. Our Sapphire RX 6800 XT was effectively breathing fresh air and was completely happy, and it was clear the Noctua NH-U12S had no difficulty cooling our Ryzen 5 5600X.
The downside is that The Tower 100 has pretty much zero noise reduction and when you crank up the fans it gets pretty darned noisy. If you were keen to improve cooling while keeping the fans speeds low, it might be interesting to experiment with a fan installed on the power supply shroud.
Closing Thoughts
Here at KitGuru we love a decent Mini-ITX chassis such as the Cooler Master NR200P, however we acknowledge the expense of an SFX power supply and the hassle of cramming your hardware into a tiny space.
Thermaltake has gone down a different route with The Tower 100 which is relatively large for an ITX build but still small enough that you can place it on your desk without it looking ridiculous. The major design choice is an ATX power supply which is necessarily quite large with long cables. The good news is that while it seems you should be able to see all the hardware through the three glass panels, in fact the mess is contained in the lower compartment and behind the back panel.
Where we applaud Thermaltake is in their decision to go for mesh on every panel and also to employ a huge number of dust filters to ensure your PC can breathe while also keeping the innards clear. We are so used to seeing Thermaltake cases with huge slabs of glass and arrays of RGB fans that The Tower 100 comes as a welcome relief.
Our major complaint about The Tower 100 is that it is rather noisy, and we hope there is scope to work on fan locations to improve air flow at low fan speeds. We are treating The Tower 100 as Thermaltake’s first serious bid to build a small chassis and we hope we can expect more of the same in the future.
We don’t yet have a retail link, but you will be able to buy The Tower 100 for approximately £92.49 in Snow White and £83.24 in Black, converted from USD MSRPs.
Pros:
The Tower 100 is more mesh than glass and has decent air flow.
Air filters on every panel.
Interesting looks and quirky style.
Good access to the components and a relatively easy build.
Cons:
Supplied 1,200rpm fans are quite noisy
The user manual is fairly basic.
Relatively large for an ITX chassis.
Cable routing requires some thought.
KitGuru says: Thermaltake’s The Tower 100 is novel and interesting, but above all it breathes well and does a decent job.
Nvidia has taken to its Twitter account to announce the special “GeForce RTX: Game On” virtual event on January 12 at 9AM PST. Due to the circumstances that have engulfed the world, Nvidia will transmit the event via the company’s official Twitch and YouTube channels.
Nvidia didn’t actually detail what it’s revealing on January 12. However, if you look closely at the nine-second-long video, you can get a vague idea of the chipmaker’s itinerary for that date. The first image of the gaming laptop seemingly references Nvidia’s mobile GeForce RTX 30-series (Ampere) graphics cards. There have been a couple of retailer listings and reasonable specifications of mobile Ampere lately, so Nvidia will likely announce the lineup very soon.
The second image from the video is artwork from Outriders. Outriders is an upcoming co-op shooter from People Can Fly, the same team behind Bulletstorm and Gears of War: Judgment. It’s unknown if Nvidia had a hand in the game’s development, but its inclusion in Nvidia’s teaser video implies that it might use some of the chipmaker’s technology.
👀👀👀 pic.twitter.com/AHn0BWTYBhJanuary 9, 2021
Shortly after the Outriders artwork, we see a flash of the GeForce RTX logo. Nvidia may be hinting at the announcement of a desktop Ampere-based graphics card. There have been long rumors that the chipmaker would launch the GeForce RTX 3060 at CES 2021. Early leaks suggest that the graphics card will come with a 12GB and 6GB configuration, while the first is the rumored variant that’s launching in January.
Nvidia finished the video with an illustration of what appears to be the company’s take on the Resizable BAR (Base Address Register) technology. Since the release of AMD’s Smart Access Memory, the Radeon team has worked with Intel and Nvidia to bring the same goodness to the Intel platform and Nvidia’s graphics cards. Ampere-based graphics card support Resizable BAR and only requires a simple software update to get the feature up and running. If Nvidia references it in the video, it could mean that its rendition of Resizable BAR is ready for primetime.
AMD Ryzen processors 5000 for laptops will be revealed next week – of course, we’re talking about the fourth generation APU Cezanne, which will be used both in slim laptops as well as much more efficient models for players and for work. During the CES 2021, however, we expect only the Cezanne mobile APUs to be revealed. Desktop variants will most likely be introduced not earlier than this summer. We also do not know whether this year’s models will be available exclusively for OEM or immediately available for retail sale. Meanwhile, the first AMD Ryzen 7 5700 G APU engineering sample was tested in China, which already performs quite well, especially when compared to the AMD Ryzen 7 3700 X.
The first tests of the AMD Ryzen 7 APU engineering sample 5700 G from the Cezanne family. The early version is already better than the AMD Ryzen 7 3700 X.
First engineering sample of AMD Ryzen 7 processor 5700 G is marked as 100 – 000000263 – 30. It is characterized by, among other things, clocking at 4.4 GHz in Turbo mode. According to the disclosed information, the APU also offers the possibility of OC up to 4.7 GHz. AMD Ryzen 7 5700 G is an 8-core processor and 16 – threaded with a monolithic structure and with an integrated Radeon Vega with 8 Compute Units – here we expect a higher clock than last year’s variant (2100 MHz), but we still do not know the specific details.
The processor in the engineering version has been tested in the CPU-Z program. In the single-thread test he got 613, 6 points (over 30 points more than AMD Ryzen 7 3700 X), in turn, in the multi-thread test it scored 6296, 2 points, which is a result of approx. 16% better compared to the already mentioned Ryzen 7 3700 X. The result is also a few percent better compared to the AMD Ryzen 9 mobile unit 5900 H. After the OC to 4.7 GHz, the single-threaded score increased to 647, 4 points, while the multi-threaded score was 6960 points. Therefore, we are talking about an increase of 5.4% and 10, 5% for the single-threaded and multi-threaded tests, respectively .
AMD Ryzen processors 3000 C-Series and AMD Radeon Integrated GPU for Chromebook Spin 514 and its Enterprise variant, available in Europe from March starting respectively from 529 is 799 EUR.
by Manolo De Agostini published 08 January 2021 , at 17: 01 in the Portable channel Acer Chromebook RyZen AMD
Acer announced the new Chromebook Spin 514 , his first Chromebook with processor AMD Ryzen and integrated Radeon GPU . The model intended for the consumer sector, Acer also supports a business variant called Chromebook Enterprise Spin 514 with Chrome Enterprise Upgrade which unlocks some business features.
Acer’s Chrome OS convertible has an anodized aluminum chassis sandblasted (weighs 1, 55 kg and has a thickness of 17, 35 mm) designed to comply with the resistance dictates of the military standard (MIL-STD 810 H) and hinges that rotate by 360 degrees. On board we find a Full HD IPS touch display from 14 inches with 6.1mm thick side bezels giving the device a screen-to-body report of 78 %. The Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection and a renewed keyboard with concave keys complete the picture.
Regarding the hardware equipment, the AMD CPUs are the Ryzen 3000 C , more precisely the models Ryzen 7 3700 C or Ryzen 5 3500 C . Both have 4 cores / 8 threads (Zen architecture + a 09 nanometers), with the model 3500 C working between 2.1 and 3.7 GHz. Next to the cores there are 6 MB of cache and a GPU with 8 CUs at 1200 MHz. The TDP is 15 W. The Ryzen 7 3700 C has a configuration similar to the 3500 C, but operates at different frequencies (2.3 / 4 GHz) and has a GPU with 10 CU a 1400 MHz.
Next to the CPU we find up to 16 GB of DDR4 memory and a PCIe storage space up to 256 GB . The new Chromebook features two USB Type C , both USB 3.2 Gen 1 (up to 5 Gbps), DisplayPort over USB-C and USB charging. There are also two USB A 3.2 Gen 1 that can charge external devices even when the computer is off. The Chromebook also offers a microSD reader, microphones, two stereo speakers, HD webcam and dual WiFi 5 connectivity -band with 2×2 MU-MIMO technology. Some variants of the Acer Chromebook Spin 514 also have an HDMI port.
As regards the autonomy , the Taiwanese company speaks of a maximum of 10 hours . Three colors – Pure Silver, Steel Gray and Mist Green ?? while prices start from 529 euro for the Spin 514 and 799 euro for the Enterprise Spin model 514. Availability in Europe is expected for March .
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