Hardware

Check out these latest hardware announcements for today from around the web. Also included are some hardware news bits, and on some days, a few rumors tossed in for good measure. Click on the links below to read the official press release, visit the products web page, or to an independent news source.

• noblechairs Creating Bethesda Licenced Gaming Chairs!
• TP-Link Intros Archer TX3000E 802.11ax PCIe WLAN Card
• Palit Releases the Turing architecture-GeForce GTX 1650 GamingPro GDDR6 Series
• GALAX Unveils GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 Prodigy, EX, and LP Graphics Cards
• Thermaltake Launches S100 Tempered-Glass M-ATX PC Cases
• Fractal Design Rolls Out Celsius+ Series AIO CPU Coolers
• ASUS Releases BIOS Updates for Radeon RX 5600 XT That Unlock 14 Gbps Memory On Select Cards
• DeepCool Launches New MATREXX 55 V3 Mid-Tower Case
• EK Releases Velocity PreciseMount in both Nickel and Black
• Zotac and EVGA Launch Their 1650 GDDR6 Graphics Cards
• CORSAIR Launches New DARK CORE RGB PRO Wireless Gaming Mouse
• Abkoncore Launches the T250 Mid-tower Case
• Genesis Outs Their Thor 420 Gaming Keyboard
• ASUS ROG Announces Electro Punk Gaming Laptops and Peripherals
• ASUS ROG Announces Premium Strix SCAR 17 Gaming Laptop

Source: TechPowerUp!

AMD has released a new beta driver on their Radeon Software Adrenalin suite. Driver number 20.4.1 beta brings with it support for Capcom’s Resident Evil 3, on which we’ve already written a deep-dive performance article for you to peruse (heads-up: it’s a pretty good and pretty good-looking game).

Alongside this support, AMD has also fixed a number of issues, including black screens or application hangs in both Overwatch and heroes of the Storm. One important known issue that is listed is the chance of a black screen or system hang when running Folding@Home while also running an application using hardware acceleration of video content. We shan’t have that – so if you run into issues like these whilst offering your processing power to the world, beware. (Release Notes)

The Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.4.1 Beta drivers are available online at the AMD driver download page.

Check out these latest hardware announcements for today from around the web. Also included are some hardware news bits, and on some days, a few rumors tossed in for good measure. Click on the links below to read the official press release, visit the products web page, or to an independent news source.

• NVIDIA Makes GDDR6 an Official GeForce GTX 1650 Memory Option
• MSI Announces GeForce GTX 1650 D6 Series Graphics Cards
• INNO3D Launches GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 TWIN X2 OC, COMPACT Graphics Cards
• SilentiumPC Releases Corona HP Evo ARGB Ring Frame Based Fans
• Acer Announces New Predator Triton 500 and Nitro 5 Gaming Notebooks Powered by the Latest 10th Gen Intel Core Processors
• ASUS Reveals ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 – 15″ Dual Screen Laptop Featuring Intel 10th Gen and NVIDIA RTX Super
• MSI Launches New 10th Gen Core Laptops With NVIDIA RTX Super And Mini LED
• Gigabyte Unveils AERO And AORUS Series Laptops Featuring Up To 10th Gen Intel Core i9 With RTX SUPER GPUs
• Razer Announces the All-new Razer Blade 15 Gaming Laptop

Check out these latest hardware announcements for today from around the web. Also included are some hardware news bits, and on some days, a few rumors tossed in for good measure. Click on the links below to read the official press release, visit the products web page, or to an independent news source.

• GIGABYTE Launches GeForce GTX 1650 GPU with GDDR6 Memory
• Aqua Computer Announces Ultitube D5 Glass Reservoirs
• Maingear Releases New RUSH System With Extremely High-End Specs
• Bitspower Intros Touchaqua Sedna H510i Reservoir-Pump for NZXT H510 Cases
• In Win Launches its 216 Mid-tower Chassis
• Samsung to Stop LCD Production – Focuses on Quantum Dot OLEDs
• Abkoncore Rolls Out T404B Hurricane CPU Cooler
• XIGMATEK Launches the Perseus Open-Frame Chassis
• ASUS Outs ROG Strix XG27WQ: 27-inch 1440p Fast Curved Monitor
• ABKONCORE Releases Ramesses 310 Chassis
• InWin Launches C200 Mid-Tower ATX PC Chassis

Source: TechPowerUp!

NVIDIA rolled out the GeForce software 445.78 Hotfix drivers. Hotfixes are released to expeditiously correct glaring bugs with GeForce software. The 445.78 Hotfix corrects a bug that causes some DirectX 11 games to fail to launch when Image Sharpening is globally enabled from the NVIDIA Control Panel. The drivers are otherwise identical to GeForce 445.75 software released earlier this week.

You can download the GeForce software 445.78 Hotfix drivers via GeForce.com.

Check out these latest hardware announcements for today from around the web. Also included are some hardware news bits, and on some days, a few rumors tossed in for good measure. Click on the links below to read the official press release, visit the products web page, or to an independent news source.

• LG Announces the UltraGear 27GN750 Monitor: 27″ 1080p IPS, 240 Hz, 1 ms, VRR Support
• Zalman Releases CNPS20X Cooler with 300W TDP
• KINGMAX Reveals the Latest M.2 PCIe Gen4x4 SSD
• Memblaze Launches PBlaze5 920 Series Enterprise NVMe SSDs in AIC and U.2 Form-factors
• EIZO Expands Availability of OLED Foris Nova Monitor
• Montech Launches its New High-Performance Air X ARGB Case
• MSI Launches Three New Monitors: 2x 1080p 144 Hz Panels, Availability of 240 Hz 1080p IPS MAG251RX
• Team Group Announces 32GB T-Force Vulcan and Dark Z DDR4 Memory Modules
• Bitspower Unveils Summit ELX CPU Water Block for AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3000
• DeepCool Launches the MATREXX 55 PWM 2F E-ATX Case
• EK Waterblocks Releases EK-Quantum Distribution Plate for Popular Phanteks Cases
• EK Waterblocks Releases EK-Quantum Reflection Obsidian Distribution Plate for Corsair Obsidian 1000D Super-Tower Case

Source: TechPowerUp!

NVIDIA today announced its new Deep Learning Supersampling 2.0 (DLSS 2.0) performance enhancement feature, being distributed through the new GeForce 445.75 Game Ready drivers. DLSS 2.0 is NVIDIA’s second attempt at a holy grail of performance boost at acceptable levels of quality loss (think what MP3 did to WAV). It works by rendering the 3D scene at a lower resolution than what your display is capable of, and upscaling it with deep-learning reconstructing details using a pre-trained neural network. Perhaps the two biggest differences between DLSS 2.0 and the original DLSS that made its debut with GeForce RTX 20-series in 2018, is the lack of a need for game-specific content for training the DLSS neural net; and implementation of a rendering technique called temporal feedback.

As mentioned earlier, DLSS 2.0 offers image quality comparable to original resolution while only rendering 1/4 or1/2 the pixels. It then uses new temporal feedback techniques to reconstruct details in the image. DLSS 2.0 is also able to use tensor cores on GeForce RTX GPUs “more efficiently,” to execute “2x faster” than the original DLSS. Lastly, DLSS 2.0 gives users greater control over the image quality, which affects the rendering resolution of your game: quality, balanced (1:2), and performance (1:4), where the ratio denotes rendering-resolution to display resolution. Resolution scaling is a sure-shot way to gain performance, but at noticeable quality loss. DLSS uses AI to restore some of the details. The difference between performance gained from resolution scaling and AI-based image quality enhancement is the net DLSS performance uplift. In addition to DLSS 2.0, GeForce 445.75 drivers come game-ready for “Half Life: Alyx.”

You can download the GeForce 445.75 Game Ready drivers via GeForce.com.

Source: TechPowerUp!

NVIDIA today posted GeForce 442.74 WHQL Game Ready drivers. These come with optimization and bug fixes for the weekend’s biggest release, “DOOM Eternal,” which goes live in Asia and ANZ in a few minutes from now. Besides this, the 442.74 WHQL drivers address just one bug: an issue with “Red Dead Redemption 2,” where task-switching with alt+Tab in the middle of the game may result in a black screen.

You can download the GeForce Software 442.74 WHQL drivers via GeForce.com.

Source: TechPowerUp!

AMD released the Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition drivers just in time for Asia and ANZ regions to begin “razing hell” with DOOM Eternal. Version 20.3.1 adds day-one optimization for DOOM Eternal, including an up to 5 percent performance improvement with “Ultra Nightmare” graphics settings. Optimization is also added for “Half Life: Alyx” and the Vulkan API mode of “Ghost Recon: Breakpoint.” The drivers also add a few Vulkan extensions: VK_EXT_post_depth_coverage (only supported on RDNA or later graphics architectures); VK_KHR_shader_non_semantic_info, VK_EXT_texel_buffer_alignment, and VK_EXT_pipeline_creation_cache_control.

The Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.3.1 drivers are available online at the AMD driver download page.

Check out these latest hardware announcements for today from around the web. Also included are some hardware news bits, and on some days, a few rumors tossed in for good measure. Click on the links below to read the official press release, visit the products web page, or to an independent news source.

• Fractal Design Cases Get a D5 Powered EK Distribution Plate
• CHIEFTEC Announces Scorpion 3 and HAWK ATX Gaming Cases
• Fractal Design Announces the Era ITX Case
• EK Unveils EK-Quantum Momentum TRX40 Aorus Master D-RGB Monoblock
• Abkoncore Launch the H600X Mid-Tower RGB Chassis
• SilentiumPC Unveils Fortis 3 EVO ARGB CPU Cooler
• ASUS Unveils the ROG Strix GA35-G35DX – A Truly Powerful Gaming PC!
• EK Launches Direct Vector – It’s Narrowest GPU Water Block to Date
• Everest Sets Stretch Goal for a Midnight Black Edition of its Innovative Keyboard