Hardware

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is a third Navi-10 desktop model in RX 5000 lineup . This card features 2304 Stream Processors, so just as many as RX 5700 non-XT. This is undoubtedly, a very interesting decision by AMD, especially considering the price.

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT features 6GB of GDDR6 memory across a 192-bit interface. The official specs put 12 Gbps memory cap on the cards, but board partners can now boost that number to 14 Gbps. This increases the bandwidth from 288 Gb/s to 336 Gb/s,

The RX 5600 XT has a game clock of 1375 MHz. The official boost clock is 1560 MHz, but again, AIB cards will go up to 1750 MHz, depending on a cooling solution and pre-configured graphics power. The TBP for 5600XT is officially 150W but there are models going up to 180W (Gigabyte Gaming OC).

The RX 5600 XT is available starting from today (January 21st) for 279 USD but of course, custom models will cost slightly more (Thanks Videocardz).

The hardware review embargo has been lifted on the Radeon RX 5600 XT,  so a number of reviews are now available, reviewing cards from AMD’s add-in board partners.  We have gathered up some of these reviews, which you can check out via the links below.

• ANANDTECH - Sapphire RX 5600 XT Pulse
• GURU3D - Gigabyte Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming OC
• GURU3D - ASUS STRIX Radeon RX 5600 XT TOP
• OVERCLOCKERS -  XFX RX 5600 XT Thick II Pro
• THINKCOMPUTERS - MSI RX 5600 XT Gaming X
• ETEKNIX - ASUS TUF Gaming RX 5600 XT OC

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 Lowers RTX 2060 Pricing – AMD Reconfigures Radeon RX 5600 XT
• Cooler Master Redesigns its TIM Packaging so Parents Don’t Think Their Kids are Doing Drugs
• Ek Waterblocks Reveals Soft Tube Cutter and Hard Tube Bending Tool
• Abkoncore HELIOS 500G SYNC Middle Tower with Two 200mm ARGB Fans
• Sharkoon Announces Four New Gaming Products
• AOC Launches Two New VA Monitors Based on 2560×1440 (Quad HD) Resolution
• Palit Introduces the Triple Fan GeForce® RTX 2080 SUPER™/2070 SUPER™ GP Series
• BIOSTAR Introduces 4 Top Picks for Your New PC Build In 2020
• Philips Launches New Over-Ear Wireless Active Noise Canceling Headphones

Source: TechPowerUp!

NVIDIA late Thursday released the GeForce 442.01 Hotfix driver. A hotfix driver is that which is pushed out to correct glaring bugs with the driver immediately, and tend to have much shorter change-logs than beta or WHQL releases. The driver fixes a bug with “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare” streaming using StreamLabs OBS randomly stopping. Also fixed is a bug with “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine,” where a game-crash is observed in a specific cutscene. Lastly a minor stutter in SLI machines with G-Sync enabled has been fixed. The driver is otherwise identical to GeForce 441.87.

You can download the GeForce 442.01 Hotfix drivers via GeForce.com.

By Krzysztof Hukalowicz @ Guru3D

Today, we are reviewing an AIO cooler from Arctic: the LIQUID FREEZER II 280. The series has been introduced on the 9th of December this year. Arctic is no “newbie” in the AIO segment of the market. It’s already been four years since they announced the Liquid Freezer I series. This time around, there’s no RGB either, and the system is still not expandable (similarly to most of the solutions on the market today), unlike the Alphacool Eisbaer 280 Extreme or Swiftech H240 X3 that we reviewed this year.

Read the Review Here

Source: TechPowerUp!

AMD has released the latest version of Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition. Version 20.1.2 beta is released to the main driver update channel, and adds support for the new Vulkan 1.2 graphics API. This is in comparison to the GeForce 441.99 drivers with Vulkan 1.2, which were released as a “developer beta.” In addition, the drivers add optimization for “Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot.” Among the two fixed issues with this releases are Unreal Engine 4 titles such as “KovaaK 2.0: The Meta,” “Tetris Effect” and “Snooker 19″ failing to launch with Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020; and a bug where single-display systems running Radeon RX 5700 series graphics cards experience intermittent reboots when the system is left idle on the desktop.

The new Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.1.2 drivers are available online at the AMD driver download page.

Source: TechPowerUp!

Today, The Khronos Group, an open consortium of industry-leading companies creating advanced interoperability standards, announces the release of the Vulkan 1.2 specification for GPU acceleration. This release integrates 23 proven extensions into the core Vulkan API, bringing significant developer-requested access to new hardware functionality, improved application performance, and enhanced API usability. Multiple GPU vendors have certified conformant implementations, and significant open source tooling is expected during January 2020.

Vulkan continues to evolve by listening to developer needs, shipping new functionality as extensions, and then consolidating extensions that receive positive developer feedback into a unified core API specification. Carefully selected API features are made optional to enable market-focused implementations. Many Vulkan 1.2 features were requested by developers to meet critical needs in their engines and applications, including: timeline semaphores for easily managed synchronization; a formal memory model to precisely define the semantics of synchronization and memory operations in different threads; descriptor indexing to enable reuse of descriptor layouts by multiple shaders; deeper support for shaders written in HLSL, and more.

Source: TechPowerUp!

NVIDIA today released its first developer beta drivers that support the new Vulkan 1.2 3D graphics API. Labeled GeForce 441.99, under the R440-series, the drivers extend Vulkan 1.2 support to all NVIDIA graphics architectures going back to “Kepler.” That would include GTX 600/700-series “Kepler,” GTX 700/900-series “Maxwell,” GTX 10-series “Pascal,” and GTX 16/RTX 20-series “Turing,” along with TITAN and Quadro graphics cards based on these architectures. NVIDIA states that its API support for Vulkan 1.2 is “full,” including including support for timeline semaphores, descriptor indexing, buffer device address and SPIR-V 1.5 features.

You can download the GeForce Software 441.91 Beta 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.

• EVGA Introduces the EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 KO Graphics Cards
• Thermaltake Releases Level 20 RS ARGB Mid Tower Chassis
• Sapphire Launches the Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT Graphics Card
• Razer Announces the DeathAdder V2 and Basilisk V2 Gaming Mice
• Lenovo Unveils G32qc and G27c and Legion Y25-25 Gaming Monitors
• MMD Unveils the Philips 243B9 Monitor
• Thermaltake Reveals New ‘Shock XT 7.1’ and ‘Shock XT Gaming Headsets’
• Thermaltake RIING Pro RGB 7.1 Gaming Headset Announced
• ASRock Offers HYPER QUAD M.2 CARD as PCIe 4.0 Compatible M.2 Expansion Card
• EK Announces Quantum Momentum Chipset Waterblock for AORUS X570 Motherboards
• Kolink Launches ‘Big Chungus’ PC Cases

Source: TechPowerUp!

AMD today released the latest version of Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition. Version 20.1.1 Beta comes with follows up on the previous 19.12.3 release with an equally long list of fixes and stability improvements in the wake of AMD radically updating its driver software, particularly the Radeon Software application. Before that, 20.1.1 includes performance optimization for “Monster Hunter World: Iceborne.” The company has also fixed SETI@Home result errors when using RX 5700 series GPUs. To begin with, AMD removed audible beeps for toggling of Radeon Chill, Boost, and Anti-Lag features (the beep is now optional). Radeon ReLive indication on screen timer during recordings has been disabled by default. V-sync settings now hide or disappear when Enhanced Sync is enabled, so as to not conflict with it and destabilize your gaming session. ReLive experiencing performance issues with high-resolution cameras has also been addressed. Radeon Game Advisor causing in-game CPU usage spikes has also been resolved. Issues with software updates through Radeon Software have been fixed. Also fixed is abnormal CPU usage with DuplicateDesktop process when gaming. A Radeon Software (application) crash when resuming from machine sleep has been fixed.

Radeon Software Overlay toast message persisting even when disabled, has been fixed. Stuttering issues with “Lost Ark” have been fixed. Custom stream hotkey failing to stream with Radeon ReLive has been fixed. Radeon R9 200, R9 300, and R9 Fury series GPUs experience instability in a number of games with over 120 Hz refresh-rates. This has been fixed. MJPEG video payback on RX 5700 series experiencing a green tint when viewed with WMP or Movies & TV application has been fixed. “MechWarrior 5″ crashing with DXGI dialog error when using FreeSync displays over HDMI, has been fixed. DouYu live streaming with hardware-acceleration on RX 5700 series was experiencing display corruption, which has been fixed. Excessive fog/smoke effects in “Trials Rising” has been fixed. Right-eye display corruption with “Boneworks” VR has been fixed. “Resident Evil 2″ flashing screen at start up in DirectX 12 mode has also been fixed.

The new Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.1.1 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.

• GELID Launches the FlexLight RGB LED Strip
• New Thermaltake AH T600 Full Tower Chassis Outplay Games with a Military Style Open Frame Chassis
• CORSAIR Shows New A500 Air CPU Cooler and iCUE RGB PRO XT Liquid CPU Coolers at CES 2020
• Thermaltake Announces TK5 RGB Gaming Keyboard, TM5 RGB and ‘TM5 RGB Wireless Gaming Mice
• Corsair Shows Concept Orion Chassis with Capellix LED Lit Glass Panels at CES 2020
• Thermaltake Reveals ToughDesk 300 with Built-in RGB Mouse Pad and CyberChair E500
• Cherry Updates MX Switch Lifetime, Introduces New VIOLA Mechanical Switch
• Phanteks Announces Three New Products at CES 2020 – Eclipse P300A Case, D120 Distribution Plate, and Evolv Sound Mini Speakers
• Netgear Adds WiFi 6 Range of Mesh WiFi-enabled Network Devices
• MSI Announces Optix MAG251RX eSports Gaming Monitor
• MSI Reveals MAG Core Liquid 240R & 360R Series LCS
• GIGABYTE Showcases New Gaming Monitor Lineup at CES 2020
• Thermaltake Reveals the Floe RC360 / RC240 ARGB – The World’s First Liquid All In One CPU & RAM Cooler Kit
• GIGABYTE Unveils Radeon™ RX 5600 XT Graphics Card
• NETGEAR Launches Nighthawk Mesh WiFi System
• be quiet! Presents High-end Power Supplies, Airflow-focused PC Chassis and Two New CPU Coolers
• ASRock Announces Radeon RX 5600 XT Phantom Gaming & Challenger Series Graphics Cards
• Crucial Releases All-new Crucial Ballistix MAX Gaming Memory
• MSI Intros Gaming and Mech Series Radeon RX 5600 XT