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.
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AMD Monday posted the latest version of Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition. Version 19.8.2 beta comes with optimization for the week’s big AAA launch, “Control,” with up to 10 percent higher frame-rates compared to the older 19.8.1 drivers. The new drivers also include optimization for the interactive novel “Man of Medan.” The drivers add HDCP 2.3 support for Radeon RX 5700 series graphics cards.
Among the bugs fixed are a “Rocket League” application hang on task-switch, performance-drops with “League of Legends” when performing a task-switch; system instability seen with Radeon RX 5700-series when memory-overclocking while a 3D application is running; and minor stutter noticed with “Fortnite” in the first few minutes of gameplay.
The new Radeon Software Adrenalin 19.8.2 beta drivers are available online at the AMD driver download page.
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NVIDIA has released the GeForce 436.15 WHQL drivers. These drivers come game-ready for the day’s big AAA game launch, “Control.” The drivers also introduces Video Codec SDK 9.1, the software-end of NVIDIA’s on-chip video transcoding hardware, which adds a new NVEncode API, support for CUStream in the NVEncode API, and bug-fixes to H.264 MVC encoding. The drivers also pack Optical Flow SDK 1.1. Among the application-specific bug-fixes are display corruption of tracks in “Forza Motorsport 7,” and system crashes observed when installing NVIDIA drivers on systems that have multiple graphics cards with mixed GPU architectures (eg: a system that has a “Maxwell” graphics card and a “Pascal” graphics card.).
You can download the GeForce 436.15 WHQL Game Ready Drivers via GeForce.com.
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AMD late-Tuesday silently posted a WHQL-signed version of Radeon Software Adrenalin 19.8.1 drivers that it originally released as a Beta on August 12. The new 19.8.1 WHQL drivers, released on 20th August, are the first proper WHQL drivers since AMD’s Radeon RX 5700-series launch. Besides WHQL, the underlying code is identical to 19.8.1 Beta, and hence the changelog is untouched. TechPowerUp confirmed with AMD that there are no underlying code changes, and that WHQL signing is the only change. Adrenalin 19.8.1 adds Microsoft PlayReady 3.0 DRM standard compliance to Radeon RX 5700-series GPUs.
The new Radeon Software Adrenalin 19.8.1 WHQL 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.
- EK Water Blocks Launches Meltemi – 38mm Thick High-Performance Fan
- Thermaltake A700 Aluminum Tempered Glass Edition Full Tower Chassis Launched
- Lian Li Introduces the TU150 Chassis
- Comet Lake-S CPUs Allegedly Command New LGA 1200 Socket and 400-Series Chipset
- Thermaltake Launches RGB-Less H-ONE Gaming Memory Sticks With Little to no Fanfare
- BIOSTAR Launches the RACING B365GTA RGB LED Gaming Motherboard
- FSP Launches FlexGuru 250W & 300W Modular FlexATX PSUs
By Hilbert Hagedoorn @ Guru3D
Corsair has been going strong with their Slipstream based products, next to that another new technology they introduced was Capellix LED technology. Both now have been embedded in the new K57 RGB Wireless keyboard, and it is pretty darn nice folks.
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NVIDIA yesterday posted its much publicized GeForce 436.02 WHQL Gamescom Special graphics drivers that brought about performance improvements across a spectrum of games, and added new features such as low-latency input (akin to AMD Radeon Anti-Lag), and beat Intel to Integer Upscaling. The installer that brought all these goodies to you, however, was buggy, as NVIDIA admitted. It originally installed GeForce Experience regardless of obtaining GDPR-mandated user-consent, and made deselecting the application in the “Custom Install” components list impossible.
Later in the evening, NVIDIA temporarily pulled the driver from the Downloads section of its website, and hours later, re-uploaded the drivers with an installer that fixes this bug. The driver version number remains the same, all that’s changed is an “-rp” suffix in the installer binary’s file-name (eg: “436.02-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql-rp.exe”).
You can download the updated GeForce 436.02 WHQL Gamescom Special 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.
- G.SKILL Releases KM360 Tenkeyless Cherry MX Mechanical Keyboard at $49.99
- New HP Omen X 27 Gaming Monitor is: 27″ TN, 2560 x 1440, 240 Hz, FreeSync 2 and HDR
- InWin Announces A1 PLUS and 103 Phantom Gaming Edition Chassis In Partnership with ASRock’s Phantom Gaming Alliance
- WD Releases New Portfolio of WD_Black Hard Drives
- Dell OptiPlex 7070 Ultra has a zero footprint design (it’s small and hidden in a monitor stand)
- Dell Reveals Alienware 34 Curved Monitor: WQHD IPS with 120Hz G-Sync
- ROCCAT Unveils New Kain Mouse, Vulcan Keyboard Variants, and Sense AIMO Mousepad
- CORSAIR Launches K57 RGB Wireless Gaming Keyboard, Combining Vivid RGB Lighting with Wireless Freedom
- Colorful Launches SL500 960GB SSD in Glacier Blue
- Corsair’s Elgato Launches 4K60 Pro MK.2 Capture Card with 4K & HDR10 Support
- ASUS Uncovers ROG Rampage VI Extreme Encore, RoG Strix X299 and Prime X299-A IImotherboards
- MSI Introduces New Essential Gaming Gear
- ASUS Outs ROG Strix Scope TKL Deluxe Keyboard
- HyperX Expands Memory Lineup with FURY DDR4 RGB
- Thermaltake Launches its First Level 20 Gaming Mouse
- HyperX Reveals HyperX Aqua Keyboard Switches and Qi Certified Wireless Charging Products at Gamescom
- BenQ ZOWIE Announces the Updated EC Series Matte Black Edition With Large Mouse Feet
- AOC Launches New G2 Series Gaming Monitors
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.
- Antec Releases NX400 Mid-Tower Gaming Chassis: $65, Tempered Glass with aRGB
- Phanteks Launches the Enthoo Luxe 2 Dual-system PC Case
- Thermaltake View 71 Tempered Glass ARGB Edition Full-Tower Chassis Now Available
- Logitech Unleashes G915 Lightspeed, G815 Lightsync RGB Low-Profile Mechanical Gaming Keyboards
- PowerColor Announces its Custom Navi Series Including Red Dragon and Red Devil Series
- SK Hynix Announces the Gold S31 Consumer SATA SSD
- Realtek Uncovers New SSD Controllers, One Has PCIe 4.0 Support
- BitFenix Announces the Nova Mesh TG Chassis
- MONTECH AIR900 Series Gaming Cases Ready to Hit the PC Market
- Turtle Beach Unveils Elite Atlas Aero Wireless Gaming Headset, Atlas Edge PC Audio Enhancer
- MSI Reveals Radeon RX 5700 EVOKE/MECH Series Graphics Cards
By W1zzard @ TechPowerUp!
ASUS today launched the first fully custom-design Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card, the Republic of Gamers STRIX RX 5700 XT OC. The company leads a string of custom-design Radeon RX 5700 series “Navi” graphics card launches from AMD’s add-in board partners a little over a month after AMD debuted this 7 nm GPU on 7/7 (7th July). The RX 5700 XT and its sibling, the RX 5700, have until today only been available in AMD’s reference-design boards.
The Radeon RX 5700 XT is AMD’s first true performance-segment graphics card in over two years since the RX Vega series. It’s based on the brand new “Navi” architecture that leverages the 7 nm silicon fabrication process and brand new number-crunching machinery AMD calls RDNA compute units. These constitute the biggest update to AMD’s GPU design since the very first Graphics CoreNext (GCN) architecture circa 2013. Together with clock speeds, RDNA is designed to bring about massive IPC improvements over GCN. The silicon also has a number of architectural changes. An interesting series of price adjustments and product launches ensures that even at its starting price of $399, it offers a bit more price-performance than NVIDIA.
