Intel’s CES livestream included plenty of new chips to chew over, including new Rocket Lake and Tiger Lake models, but the company held out one teaser for the end – a quick demo of an Alder Lake-S system. During the keynote, Intel also announced that its 10nm Ice Lake processors, which have experienced a seemingly-unending string of delays, are finally in production.
Intel’s Alder Lake-S demo wasn’t much – the company simply showed the system running an air-cooled processor as it played a video. We can also see two DRAM sticks in the system, which according to the latest information on the chips, should be the first chips to support DDR5.
The system was clearly running the Windows operating system, which is an important step in the development process: Alder Lake-S is the first x86 hybrid architecture, which merges both larger and smaller cores, for the mainstream desktop. That presents both software and operating system challenges that require dedicated support for hybrid architectures.
Intel’s Alder Lake-S architecture features a design reminiscent of ARM’s big.LITTLE, with the larger Golden Cove cores used primarily for high-priority work, while the smaller Atom Gracemont cores execute less-intensive tasks and background workloads.
Aside from mentioning that the chips come with the 10nm SuperFin process, Intel didn’t share any new details about the design. Intel says these chips will come to market in the second half of the year.
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Intel also announced that its 10nm third-gen Xeon Scalable Ice Lake server processors have finally entered production, and that the chips are being ramped for volume production. This announcement comes after a long string of delays; the chips were originally pegged for launch in 2020, signaling problems with Intel’s 10nm process.
Intel CEO Bob Swan commented on Ice Lake server products during a recent roundtable with Tom’s Hardware:
“The last thing I’d say about the execution as we exit the year – we launched the Ice Lake server product, qualified it at the end of the year, and started production of the Third-Gen Xeon Scalable processors. We are ramping [production] in the first quarter.”
Swan’s comments on Ice Lake’s launch probably refer to early shipments to members of the Super Seven (hyperscalers), like Amazon, Google, and Facebook, which traditionally occurs before official launch announcements. Intel recently detailed the Ice Lake architecture during the recent Hot Chips event and will formally announce the lineup in the coming months.
Sony’s new line of Bravia XR television sets will allow customers to watch and stream movies at some of the highest quality available in the consumer market through its new Bravia Core platform, according to the company.
Bravia XR owners will be able to choose from a number of Sony Pictures titles and watch them using Sony’s “Pure Stream” technology, which achieves “near lossless” ultra high-definition, Blu-ray disc quality, according to Sony. Pure Stream also allows for streaming of up to 80 megabits per second. To compare, most streaming services recommend maintaining an internet speed between 15 and 25 megabits per second to achieve proper 4K Ultra HD streaming quality. If Sony’s numbers are accurate, that’s better than a lot of the competition.
The platform comes preloaded on all new Bravia XR models (MASTER Series Z9J 8K LED, MASTER Series A90J and A80J OLED, and X95J and X90J 4K LED) and effectively uses a voucher system. Depending on the model that someone purchases, they’re given a number of credits. Those credits can be cashed in for a number of new titles. It’s unclear if people can keep those titles after they’re purchased with the credits, but The Verge has reached out to Sony for more information.
On the streaming front, Sony’s website states that customers can stream a number of titles “anytime and as many times as you like, in up to 4K HDR quality,” but there are limits to this, too. Time periods for streaming availability are depending on the Bravia XR model purchased, according to the site.
Bravia Core isn’t going to replace Netflix, but it seems like it was specifically designed to show customers the ultimate capabilities of their new TV set. Kind of like when you buy a TV with true 4K HDR capabilities, and you play the best 4K YouTube channels to try to see the difference between your new set and that old clunker you just tossed. Bravia XR TVs also have “the largest IMAX Enhanced movie collection,” according to Sony. It’s unclear exactly how many movies that works out to, though.
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.
Twitch had a good 2020. Events were virtual; people stayed inside. The live-streaming site managed to clock 17 billion hours watched last year, which is a full 83 percent higher than 2019’s 9 billion, according to the latest report from StreamElements and Arsenal.gg. The jump wasn’t limited to Twitch; Facebook Gaming and YouTube Gaming also posted their best numbers ever last year.
“Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook all experienced major jumps in viewership traffic, which includes Twitch hitting 3 back-to-back milestones from October to December to end with a record high of 1.7B hours watched in that final month,” writes Doron Nir, CEO of StreamElements. For YouTube, that meant 10 billion watch hours in 2020; Facebook Gaming hit 3.59 billion, a jump of 166 percent.
The pandemic gave live-streaming its best year ever. Streamers became household names and made waves in the press. The barriers between gaming and the rest of the internet seemed to break open, especially with the runaway success of games like Fall Guys and, crucially, Among Us (though neither game broke into Twitch’s top 10 most-watched list by the end of the year).
Probably the most important streaming moment last year happened when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) joined some of the stars in Twitch’s firmament to play some cheeky games of Among Us. Her stream broke site-wide records: Ocasio-Cortez peaked at 435,000 viewers, which is good enough for the fifth largest individual stream of all time on Twitch. It’ll be exciting to see what happens to streaming in 2021.
With the arrival on the market of PS5 and Xbox Series X arise new needs of acquisition and sharing of content. Here’s how to tackle the problem brilliantly …
by Dorin Gega , Rosario Grasso published on 11 January 2021 in the Peripherals channel Elgato Corsair
Elgato is a company that has always specialized in components for players . If you have recently focused on those accessories that can improve your streamer’s station such as the Stream Deck , Key Light Air or the microphone Elgato Wave , in a first phase it had been able to win the attention of the player community for its solutions for the acquisition of the gameplay . In a historical period where sharing the gaming experience is increasingly important, Elgato has been able to be in the right place at the right time.
With quality solutions, easy to use and affordable for any type of player. But now we need to take a further step forward: with the introduction of the new generation consoles , capable of process images at 4K resolution , you need to record gameplay at high resolution and high frame rate. If then these products are equipped with technologies of passthough and instant views , which allow you to play consoles through a PC, is even better.
We find all these features in the new Elgato 4K 60 Pro , one PCIe capture card capable of capturing image streams up to 4K resolution at 60 frame per second and in accordance with the specification HDR 10 . Elgato’s capture card works instantly with all streaming software including OBS Studio, Streamlabs OBS and XSplit . It is then able to simultaneously acquire videos from multiple apps and it is possible to install more than one on the same PC, in the case of advanced and professional uses.
The card is robust and protected by a casing in black electrogalvanized steel . Like all Elgato solutions aimed at gamers, it is characterized by an attractive aesthetic, with sharp geometric edges, elegant grilles, well-highlighted door labels and iconic branding, which will certainly be appreciated by enthusiasts who want everything to be in order inside. del case, perhaps to show it off in a tournament. Inside the package, in addition to an HDMI cable, there is also full or reduced height support, for greater practicality in managing HDMI cables depending on the shape of the case.
The acquisition card, like all solutions of this type, it is equipped with a video input and a video output, both HDMI , so that you can capture from an external device such as a console and at the same time view the device’s image stream on a second monitor. The release also boasts lag-free passthrough, meaning it does not introduce latency to allow you to play through the capture card without compromising game performance.
The 4K 60 Pro is currently the most complete solution among those made available by Elgato for the acquisition. Going into detail in the specifications, it supports passthrough up to 240 Hz in 1080 p , so that you can take advantage of the latest high refresh rate monitors. In passthrough we also have HDR a 10 bit, also supported at the recording level. In addition, the card allows you to register and manage the passthrough to 1440 pa 144 Hz , allowing you to capture very fluid image streams (while giving up, in this case, the resolution 4K).
All this is possible through the technology that Elgato defines Instant Gameview , which allows you to manage image streams with very low latency. Even if you move a very large number of pixels, there are no delays and not a single frame is lost. In this way, as mentioned, it is also possible to play through the acquisition card, a very interesting feature that simplifies the configuration of the gaming station. Alternatively, in fact, the possible PC to be captured should be separately connected to a second monitor.
Elgato 4K 60 Pro is also equipped with dedicated software 4KCU , designed to make the most of the card’s features. The software allows you to capture in 4K at 60 fps and in HDR 10 while adding the vocals as a separate track for easy post-production. You can browse the recorded videos and customize them, while an archive allows you to organize the previous recordings and find them easily.
With the arrival of the new consoles, and with the diffusion of flows of images at 4K and high refresh rate, another need arises, parallel to what concerns the acquisition. That is the compatibility of streaming platforms with new formats. From the point of view of popularizers who want to show their readers the game images at their highest quality, YouTube and other streaming platforms place huge limitations. Not only for limiting the refresh rate to 60 Hz, but also for the way to manage the bitrate , the so-called bit rate.
We noticed this specifically when we reviewed the new PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and, specifically, when we wanted to publish their respective gameplay footage. The new consoles support i 120 Hz , unlike YouTube, and this remains a limit in communicating the full potential of these systems that for the moment is unavoidable. But, as we said, the discussion also concerns the quality of the images, which now benefits from very high resolutions.
When you upload a movie to YouTube, the compression algorithm of this the last one exercises adjustments according to the resolution and other technical characteristics of the uploaded movie . As you can see here, bring the bit rate to 53 – 68 Mbps in case of image streams at 2160 p with frame rate of 48, 50, 60 fps ea 35 – 45 Mbps in the case of frame rate of 24, 25, 30 fps. Speaking of HDR movies the bit rates are 56 – 85 Mbps for 48, 50, 60 fps and di 30 – 56 Mbps for 24, 25, 30 fps.
The problem is that in the case of videos in 1080 p the bit rate is reduced to 12 Mbps in the case of frame rate of 48, 50, 60 fps and 8 Mbps in the case of frame rate of 24, 25, 30 fps. In other words, if the uploaded video is at this resolution, YouTube greatly reduces its quality, because it evidently believes that those who are sharing it are not very interested in details. For almost all of the videos this reduction is fine, but in the case of streams drawn from graphically very complex games this can become a problem.
We realized this when we loaded this gameplay footage recorded on Xbox Series X with the game DiRT 5 . Codemasters guide title turns to 120 Hz on consoles, and unfortunately, with the tools that YouTube makes available right now, we can’t show that feature. But we still wanted to show the quality of the graphics. Here is the video in question.
What happened? This game movie is very particular due to the presence of mud, dust and many particles that conflict with the compression algorithm, which in fact very often simplifies the voluminous squares. When YouTube did the processing of the movie it checked the resolution 600 eg then made a significant reduction in the bit rate. We captured the gameplay with a previous generation capture card unable to handle the stream at 4K. Here is what happens when we redo the same acquisition, on the same track (Foci di Giovo) of DiRT 5, with 4K 60 Pro (select 4K mode 60 fps in YouTube) .
This footage was recorded at 68000 Mbps and YouTube has not compromised its quality. If in the latter you go back up to 1080 more big squares due to low bit rate will return. Conclusions? 4K gameplay needs to be captured and shared in order to preserve the quality we need. Which is possible with the new 4K 60 Pro, not with previous capture cards .
We also repeated the experiment with Spider-Man: Miles Morales for PlayStation 5. The differences in this case are minor, precisely due to the different conformation of the images, which in the case of DiRT 5 does not suit the operating logic of the YouTube compression algorithm, but in any case the movie in 4K makes a much better figure than the corresponding to 1080 p.
Perhaps it is worth pointing out that in this article we did not want to point out that the 4K resolution guarantees a quality higher than 1080 p, it would be like “discover hot water”. We simply want to bring to the attention of the player how modern acquisition solutions are more effective with the new consoles and in all those cases where 4K resolution must be managed, also depending on the limitations posed by network sharing platforms at this stage.
Normally, at this time of year, most of the Tom’s Hardware staff is in Las Vegas, combing the show floor at CES and going hands-on with the latest technology. Sadly, due to COVID-19, the entire show and adjacent activities have gone virtual. So we’re all attending from our homes, but we’re inviting you along to join us.
This week, we’re doing more than a dozen different live streams with some of today’s top tech companies, talking about and demoing their latest products while taking your questions in chat.
All of these Tom’s Hardware Live shows will air on YouTube, Facebook, Periscope and Twitch, along with our internal video player. If you’re joining from YouTube or Facebook, we’ll see your comments live and can address your questions.
Here’s a current schedule of Tom’s Hardware Live events, along with links to watch / participate in them.
Monday: January 11, 2021
12 pm ET / 9 am PT: Sapphire Technology (YouTube, Facebook)
4 pm ET / 1 pm PT: HyperX (YouTube, Facebook)
5 pm ET / 2 pm PT: Thermaltake (YouTube, Facebook)
6 pm ET / 3 pm PT: HP (YouTube, Facebook)
7 pm ET / 4 pm PT: Intel (YouTube, Facebook)
Tuesday: January 12, 2021
2 pm ET / 11 am PT: Acer (YouTube, Facebook)
3:30 pm ET / 12:30 pm PT: Lenovo (YouTube, Facebook)
4 pm ET / 1 pm PT: Asus Graphics Team (YouTube, Facebook)
5:15 pm ET / 2:15 pm PT: Dell (YouTube, Facebook)
Wednesday: January 13th, 2021
1 pm ET / 10 am PT: Kingston (YouTube, Facebook)
2 pm ET / 11 am PT: Asus Motherboard Team (YouTube, Facebook)
Affordable TV brand TCL has announced a new TV tech, at CES 2021, that allows its sets to be slimmer and better performing than ever. The TCL OD Zero Mini-LED TVs eliminate the optical distance (OD) between the Mini-LED backlight layer and the LCD screen, creating an ultra-thin build and imaging advantages.
The Hong Kong-based firm claims that the tech delivers striking brightness with “even richer colours, precise contrast, and smooth uniformity”. The idea is that by reducing the distance between the light source and the diffuser plate, it reduces refractive errors, helping to minimise haloing and increasing precision.
TCL has, so far, stopped short of announcing any TVs featuring this tech, though. These will be detailed later in the year. It also hasn’t said exactly how slim we should expect this new generation of TVs to be.
TCLs Mini-LED TVs use thousands of mini LED backlights, local dimming zones (adjustable in real time) and a brand new lens design in what the company hopes will be a more nuanced and contrast-rich viewing experience.
It showed off its first Mini-LED TV in 2018, and launched the first consumer model the next year. In 2020, it launched the very affordable 6 Series Mini-LED TV.
The company has reiterated its commitment to 8K and quantum dot technologies which it will develop along with Mini LED.
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Though many of SEGA’s Japan-focused games have historically seen staggered releases, with the Western release arriving months after its Japanese debut, the wait for Persona 5 Strikers’ localisation was longer than most. Though no specific reason was given at the time, one of the game’s voice actors has now confirmed that the extra long delay between its Japanese and Western release was due to COVID-19 and the global pandemic.
Erika Harlacher, who serves as the english voice actor for Ann Takamaki, recently revealed in a recent YouTube video that the release of Persona 5 Strikers in the West was delayed due to COVID-19, saying “It was like about to start – right when quarantine went into effect, and then we had to like kind of put it on hold, thinking that we would just go back into the studio in a couple of weeks, and then we didn’t. Then we had to come up with a plan B.”
Though this likely comes as little surprise, as many industries were impacted by COVID-19, it is encouraging at least to see that the wide disparity in release was not a purposeful decision by SEGA, as it perhaps had been in the past.
Persona 5 Strikers originally released in February 2020, meaning that by the time it launches in the West on the 23rd of February 2021, it would have been a year since the game originally came out.
Again, while delayed Western releases for many of SEGA’s games has not been uncommon in the past, the publisher had begun to make an active effort in providing more simultaneous releases (as will be the case with Shin Megami Tensei V). It is therefore a relief to see that the situation with Strikers was a consequence of outside forces, meaning Western fans should not have to wait so long for future games.
KitGuru says: Are you excited for Persona 5 Strikers? What do you think of staggered releases? Have you ever imported a foreign game? Let us know down below.
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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.
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.
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With a video teaser Nvidia has anticipated the themes, or at least a part, that will be at the center of the GeForce RTX “Game On” event on Tuesday at 18: 00 to CES 2021. Expect GeForce RTX 3000 “Amps” for notebooks, new titles with RTX functionality, news on Resizable BAR and a desktop video card.
by Manolo De Agostini published 10 January 2021 , at 11: 01 in the Video Cards channel GeForce NVIDIA
A very short nine second video published by Nvidia on Twitter anticipates the announcements of the GeForce RTX “Game On” event which will be streamed on 12 January at 18: 00 on the company’s Twitch and YouTube channels. The video confirms the presentation of the GPUs GeForce RTX 3000 for the mobile world , in fact you can see the outline of an open laptop. The second image in succession shows a frame of Outriders , a game developed by People Can Fly and the first is coming out. April: It could be an “RTX” title, with support for ray tracing and DLSS, but during the event we expect a broader look at the world of gaming.
third image shows the written GeForce RTX on what looks like the side of a Founders Edition desktop video card . We know that Nvidia is working to expand the range of its offerings and in particular the company could announce the GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB (last week there were rumors of a possible Ultra denomination, but there are no confirmations and it could be a fake).
The fourth image instead shows a GPU surrounded by eight memory chips, connected in turn to a CPU via eight PCIe lanes. The image seems to indicate the ability to exploit the memory to the maximum, implying that the event will talk about the functionality Resizable BAR , introduced by AMD under the name Smart Access Memory (SAM). Nvidia could support it on both desktop and mobile, as the image in the movie suggests.
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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.
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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.
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