Man, AMD is on FIRE!
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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i don't know about you but i'm ready for a healthy heaping dose of tech news
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jeremy would you just call me john
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jamiroquai that's not important
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at AMD's next horizon gaming event at e3
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the company took the wraps off the Radeon rx 5700 and 5700 xt as well as
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their ryzen 3000 lineup yeah oh he was
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excited you've been waiting
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all right the rx 5700 xt will be going up against
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NVIDIA's rtx 2070 in performance while
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undercutting its price by 50 at 449 while the rx 5700 will face off against
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the rtx 2060 at a cheaper price point as well of 3.79 there's also a fancy
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anniversary edition of the xt that's clocked a little higher for 4.99 now
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there's no ray tracing to be seen but AMD did show off intelligent sharpening
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yep which can make game visuals more crisp with virtually no performance
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impact on the verizon side we got a very promising set of chips from the six core
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ryzen 5 3600 to the ryzen 9 3950x
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the first mainstream processor with 16 cores and 32 threads we're gonna have to
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wait until july 7th when AMD will launch all of these gpus and cpus to get
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real-world benchmarks but i don't think anyone could argue that dr lisa sue is
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telling the whole tech industry they need to go in for a checkup because they
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haven't been to the clinic in like 10 years they've probably got some weird
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growths somewhere they should probably get looked at the doctor is it ah yeah
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but hold on just a minute because NVIDIA just isn't going to take these blows
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lying down that's not like NVIDIA they blow standing up
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remember that super teaser that NVIDIA posted a while back we've now got some
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ideas what it might mean thanks to sources inside the company now these are
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rumors so get your salt shaker out but NVIDIA is reportedly going to release
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supercharged versions of the rtx 2060
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2070 2080 and 2080 ti
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with the 2080 ti super having a completely new chip
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now those super versions would come out at the same price point as their
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non-super counterparts counterports yep
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with the original rtx cards being bumped down in price i wouldn't normally pay
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much attention to rumors like this but i did this time because if it's true
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it basically nullifies the competitiveness of the rx 5700 series
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unless they also do a price drop
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so the leaks say we could see the super cards announced in june but given
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NVIDIA's love for gamescom it might be as late as august i didn't have a joke
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for that it's just kind of crazy speaking of leaks the internet was
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riddled with ones concerning google's upcoming pixel 4 and its probable
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multi-rear camera setup renders were posted showing a square-shaped rear
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camera bump similar to the one seen in leaks of the iphone 11 and google
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apparently had enough of it so they just went ahead and posted a teaser image of
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the pixel 4 on twitter confirming the square camera bump design
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yeah we did it we did it yes
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leaks work google has resisted including multiple
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rear cameras in previous pixels but i guess they've given in to peer pressure
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this time let's just hope apple doesn't go jumping off any bridges
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google did not however comment on the other rumors about gesture sensing
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features on the pixel 4. those rumors might make some sense since google's
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project solely has been working on a tiny chip to enable touchless
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interaction with mobile devices hopefully those gestures are
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customizable because i've always wanted to literally shoo away incoming calls
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you know project solo like you could go oh i'm getting nap no no later
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yeah there were too many game trailers and announcements and stuff for me to
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properly sum up here from e3 but i'll tell you what i was most tickled by
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new super smash bros ultimate characters
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the hero from dragon quest is coming to the game and he's joined by finally
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banjo-kazooie what you wanted me to talk about rainbow six quarantine yeah
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yeah those are cool too
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banjo-kazooie though
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but also at e3 ubisoft announced their own version of xbox game pass you play
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plus with over a hundred games accessible for 15 bucks a month it'll be
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available for Windows pc this fall and on stadia
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in 2020. wait
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what bad news for china nintendo and google
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are reportedly moving at least some of the production of switch consoles and
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nest devices respectively out of china and into southeast asia meanwhile
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taiwanese company foxconn who's the manufacturer behind many apple devices
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also said the company has enough capacity to make every iphone outside of
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china and that apple might do just that and we have the american trade war to
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thank or curse depending on depending on where you're
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sitting gamers aren't happy using regular old keyboards mice or monitors
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and now we have our very own web browser
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opera is currently beta testing opera gx
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that's how you know it's for gamers gamerx
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opera gx allows users to control how much of their CPU and memory the browser
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is using so you can leave it open and not have it steal all the RAM away from
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your game so that's pretty cool but the gamer cred you'll get from your friends
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for using it that's bonus that's an extra life
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uber will begin testing drone food delivery this summer as part of its uber
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elevate program
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food food bird no bluebird
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no elevate yeah
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customers in the san diego area will be able to order food from mcdonald's and
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only mcdonald's for the test and have a drone deliver it to a drop-off location
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at which point an uber driver will pick it up and complete the delivery
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so it's it's not as cool as it sounds but there are drones involved and drones are cool
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so it's not dumb and french tech company
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OLED com will demo its light-powered li-fi
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wireless internet onboard a passenger plane at the international paris air
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show next week li-fi could enable in-flight internet speeds of up to 100
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megabits per second per seat the fastest available on us flights is currently
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around 15 megabits per second now there won't be any lan parties in the sky just
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yet as this is maybe yeah this is just a demo but uh yeah
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well they're not they're not making the internet that goes to the plane faster
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it's just once it's there it's a bit of a bottleneck issue all
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