The new 1080p KING!?
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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that's right it's techlinked the tech show linking you to tech news
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linked to tech i'm ultra bold winchester and here
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are today's top stories i don't get it either guys
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after some teensy little rumors AMD has officially announced their latest
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graphics card the rx 5500 while the rx
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5700 and 5700 xt that launched earlier
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this year targeted 1440p and even some 4k gameplay the 5500 is focused solely
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on producing banging 1080p performance
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AMD hasn't announced pricing yet but the fact that it's targeting 1080p means
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that it'll be going up against NVIDIA's gtx 1650 which can be bought for as low
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as 150 us dollars AMD's own performance slides show the rx 5500 beating the 1650
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by as much as 37 percent at 1080p in a range of titles so if team red is still
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using the playbook from the rx 5700 series launch we could see the rx 500
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undercut the 1650s msrp however while we
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have yet to see actual physical cards it looks like the 5500 is going to require
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a 6 pin power connector now there are some variants of the 1650 that draw
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power only from the PCIe slot plus NVIDIA is gearing up to launch the gtx
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1660 super so they're not just letting AMD make all the big moves you know
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they're adding super to more things and that's not easy to do red dead
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redemption 2 was universally praised when it came out on console a year ago
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and pc players had to sit in the corner and just just watch since then it was
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humiliating but now we're getting our due as the
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enhanced version of the game is coming to pc and google stadia at launch red
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dead redemption 2 will release november 5th on rockstar's own game launcher the
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epic game store green men gaming the humble store and gamestop you may have
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noticed i didn't say the word steam in the last sentence and that's because the
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steam version isn't arriving until december
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that means you'll be able to play the pc version of red dead redemption 2 on
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stadia before you can play it on steam you got to think uh gabe newell is
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getting a little frustrated by steam constantly getting shafted with all
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these new exclusives when he's not swimming in his gold encrusted money
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pool like scrooge mcduck and microsoft might be finally getting
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into the vr game with xbox scarlett if
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recently he discovered patent filings are to be believed the patents cover a
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headset motion controller a stylus and a virtual reality floor mat activity
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region so like a vr carpet
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the mat would apparently include pressure sensors that would track your
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feet position in game and could even have vibration built in it's the biggest
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rumble controller ever images show someone using vr in such a matte in
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front of a tv with a kinect clearly visible on top that by itself might
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invalidate these patents as microsoft has pretty much given up on the kinect
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as a gaming device but scarlet might just be the thing it needs for a
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comeback right let's bring back the connect come on
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quick bits now with less sodium depending on the host
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i'm salty the marker for pixel 4 leaks is about fully saturated at this point
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but we got one more baby before the official
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launch next week google's next flagship will apparently allow you to speak to
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the assistant just by raising your phone this will almost certainly be janky and
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less useful than the squeeze to talk feature that they already have uh but
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hey it's a leak and i'm not talking about any more until tuesday
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turns out we might have only until june next year to wait for Intel's z graphics
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cards the company's chief graphics architect raja kuduri tweeted an image
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on friday of the license plate reading think z with a june 2020 expiration date
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that is of course when computex happens so this could be a clever tease
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or it could be nothing and we're wasting our time
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also the z gpus could suck can anyone think of that
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i think they should call him zed david thinks they should call him zed
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i like that actually it's i i got it finally
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sony has remembered that sony has remembered that not many people
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own xperia phones anyways and has opened
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up ps4 remote play functionality to all Android devices
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now you can connect a dual shock 4 controller to any Android phone via
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bluetooth and stream your ps4 games over your home network something that iOS
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users have been able to do for many months is this what it feels like to be a
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second class citizen i don't like it Intel continues its streak of price
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drops now slashing the msrp of its 9th gen f and kf series desktop chips and
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it's just announced xeon w line of enthusiast processors you think price
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drops will save you blue
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brother red tag cometh
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who writes this stuff and days after paypal left the facebook led libra
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association apple ceo tim cook has publicly spoken against it telling a
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french newspaper that the currency should stay in the hands of countries
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and that a private company shouldn't be looking to gain power this way cook's
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statement comes as facebook faces questions from the european commission
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concerning libra's privacy security and stability
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it's hard out here for a lizard person hey he's not a lizard person he's an
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Android and it's too hard to continue this episode so now it's over come back
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on wednesday for more tech news or you're going to have a bad time
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a bad time stand darsh
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