Radeon FINALLY launches a GPU!
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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oh that's me
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i have to i have to come back i have to come back into to do the hosting though
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after much leaking AMD's Radeon rx 590 is official and reviews are out except
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for Linus's review it'll be up on the weekend you can't rush art got em
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got Linus yeah anyways for the 590 AMD is squeezing as
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much as they can out of their more than two-year-old polaris architecture
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they've shrunk the process used for the GPU to 12 nanometer from 14 nanometer
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and clocked it higher which appears to boost its performance to about 12
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percent faster than the rx 580 and nine percent faster than the reference gtx
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1060 although you could likely find overclocked 1060s that break that rule
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at an msrp of 280 usd it's comfortably
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positioned between the gtx 1060 and 1070. a niche that's all the more
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important given NVIDIA's lack of announcements concerning their mid-range
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20 series gpus and it's being bundled with devil may cry 5 the division 2 and
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resident evil 2 so the 590 apparently is
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decent let's cross our fingers that this is the last time we see polaris however
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which is not something you'd hear coming out of a sailor's mouth that's for sure
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that's your joke that's it's polaris that's brutal speaking of 20 series gpus
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NVIDIA has finally partially identified what could have caused all those issues
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reported by rtx 2080 ti owners in a tiny
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blog post on the GeForce forums a moderator known as tim
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at NVIDIA said that limited test escapes from
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early boards caused the issues some customers have experienced which
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included black screens system crashes and artifacting as bits and pieces on
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the Linus tech tips forums explains test escapes refer to parts of the graphics
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card's pcb that are tested off-site so if there's a problem with them it might
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not become apparent until after launch that's still
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pretty vague but at least NVIDIA has identified that it's an early batch of
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the cards that are experiencing problems so hopefully later batches will be fine
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addressing this issue won't fix the fact that enabling ray tracing tanks
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performance by two or three times but hey at least they won't catch on fire right
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you gotta take the small victories i'm just disappointed that guy's twitter
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handle isn't tim vidya tim vidya swing and i missed him that
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was a good one get him next time tim and speaking of fire facebook is embroiled
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in a scandal do you like that one that's good yeah
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you like that one yeah you didn't like polaris keep it going it's the north
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star so the new york times released a report accusing facebook of a couple key
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things that they knew about russian interference in the u.s election as
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early as spring 2016 and that they hired the pr firm definers public affairs to
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conduct a campaign that would shift the public's anger away from facebook's
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mistakes and towards their competitors perhaps in not quite so legal ways
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facebook ceo mark zuckerberg responded to the report by of course denying any
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knowledge of russian interference that early and also denying that he or ceo
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sheryl sandberg even knew that the pr firm was hired at all facebook promptly
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fired the firm following the new york times report the story has renewed calls
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for facebook to undergo some sort of regulation from washington and this new
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crisis is apparently so intense that the company's top lawyer colin stretch was
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called off his resignation from the company to help sort things out his
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name's funny yeah it's a funny name
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that's the end of that story it's a funny name see ya speaking of tweets
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thanks james um okay well i guess it's time for quick bits uh
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google pixel fans were disappointed after we didn't see a pixel 3 light at
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google's event last month after it was heavily rumored but now photos of what
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looks like a pixel 3 light have been posted by russian tech blog rosettekid i
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don't think that's how you say it which was also responsible for a ton of legit
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pixel 3 leaks prior to the launch of that phone it looks like a smaller pixel
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3 with a headphone jack and a snapdragon
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670 inside oh
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a bunch of pixel phone i don't want to get my hopes up that this is real
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i've been hurt before by james a techcrunch report revealed that a
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massive database of text messages which included two-factor authentication codes
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password reset links and more have been leaked as a result of being stored on a
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server with no password by a company called
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vovox and that's why you use an authenticator app seriously guys use
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lastpass or google authenticator or something do it
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after the episode verizon has sort of addressed the lack of dual sim card
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functionality in north american phones by launching the my numbers app which
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lets you put as many as four extra phone numbers on your existing sim it's not
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quite the same as having two distinct cards which can be on different carriers
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and plans but it's a start sony is not going to e3
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meaning we won't be seeing any playstation 5 announcements at one of the game industry's biggest trade shows
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they're also skipping their playstation experience event guess they don't have
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much to say microsoft on the other hand is still going although they pretty much
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make big announcements about anything halo's getting an update to fix a bug
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better hold a news conference
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halo yeah
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and sharp has unveiled a phone with not one notch but two
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yes the aquos r2 compact has a camera
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notch at the top and a home button notch
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at the bottom they not understand the phone industry
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as a whole is trying to get rid of the notch
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they thought it was like a fun game it's like ooh we're doing notches cool
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i get it it's like this right
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no but what you did get just now is your
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daily dose of tech news even though it's not actually daily it's monday wednesday
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friday so we'll see you on the first day of that week next week unless you think
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sunday is the first day of the week and i can't help you in that case i'm sorry
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mondays am i right tell me about it