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welcome back to the hard run box news corner in the most important news of the day I'm very happy to report that it's not 40 degrees Celsius in here unlike the last couple of weeks so it should be a much more pleasant news corner the first topic for this week is about thread Ripper AMD has officially stated that third-gen thread Ripper CPUs are on track for release in 2019 at some point after the launch of rise in desktop processors considering AMD has released new thread Ripper CPUs in August in both 2017 and 2018 it's probably not hard to guess we'll be getting something similar in 2019 but it is still nice that we're getting official confirmation these chips aren't delayed into next year however amy hasn't shared any additional information on what third gen thread ripper might look like it's highly likely the chips will be based on AMD second gen epic design with seven nanometers and two triplets but will we be getting the full 64 core count of the top-end SKUs will it top out at 32 cores we just don't know at this stage although certainly some epic features will not make it to thread Ripper so aim D doesn't cannibalize its server chip sales as for other products we're getting second gen rise and promo of our AP users in spring which are expected to be the same base chip as second gen rising mo box I'll be using these n+ architecture and will be built on 12 nanometers then we have third gen rising desktop processors coming mid-year namely hasn't shed any new information there when they first taste for Gen rise and they also mentioned a media release so again no real updates there there have been a few rumors flying around about exact dates for when AMD will unveil and release these hotly anticipated chips it's also been some alleged pricing leaks at this stage though we don't have any insights to share in big news for the benchmarking world and you know how much we love our benchmarks here at Hardware boxed Maxon has finally released a new version of Cinebench one of the most popular benchmarking tools for testing CPU rendering performance Cinebench has always been a benchmark that shows how various CPUs would perform in Maxson's cinema4d application while rendering a typical scene sin 40 is a popular 3d modeling app used across the industry so Cinebench has sort of been this synthetic benchmark tool that's neatly related to a real-world app which makes it more useful than just a straight synthetic workload the problem with Cinebench in recent years is the ar-15 version of the benchmark has lagged several versions behind the latest version of the actual cinema 4d app so it was getting outdated and less useful as a benchmarking tool even though most people still heavily rely on it thankfully the new version of Cinebench that's just been released r20 brings the benchmark back up to match the current release of cinema 4d several changes have been made with Cinebench R 20 it now renders an entirely new scene that requires newer AVX instructions through intel's Embree technology which works on AMD and intel processes and doesn't really appear to be biased to either side it also now scales beyond 64 threads which will come in handy as cpus like thread ripper pushed beyond that limit it also drops the useless GPU benchmark to only focus on CPU performance overall it should be more reflective of how modern CPUs should perform in modern rendering workloads of course while Cinebench r20 is a nice tool it still shouldn't be used as the sole comparison point between CPUs it's always a good idea to run a number of other benchmarks across a range of workloads to get a better idea of how CPU is stack up it isn't it you can get a simple number out of the benchmark this is just one tool in the tool chest we also still recommend you validate any overclocks on a longer workload we use an hour long blender test for example you can expect us to begin using Cinebench our 24 future CPU reviews so look out for those I guess get ready for even more USB confusion as this week the USB promoter group has announced a new incoming specification USB 4 thanks to Intel opening up their Thunderbolt technology us before will be based on Thunderbolt and essentially absorb its feature set including bandwidth up to 40 gigabits per second power delivery and support for display protocols the spec is set to be finalized and published in the middle of 2019 although we do know it will use existing USB type-c connectors and will maintain backwards compatibility with both USB 2.0 USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt 3 which is pretty neat a lot of the features that have been revealed so far make it sound like this is just a USB version of Thunderbolt 3 so we'll have to wait on the final spec to see how it differs usually it takes several years to go from a final USB specification to the first chips that support it so while it looks that USB for will replace Thunderbolt 3 it's probably still a few years away NVIDIA has launched a new game bundle for their geforce artex graphics cards called our TX triple threat it's not a bad deal to be honest with some cards getting three games bundled with the purchase battlefield 5 Metro Exodus and the highly disappointing anthem all of these titles use our TX functionality in some form both battlefield 5 and Metro Exodus have both ray-tracing and do SS while anthem will get deal SS in an update soon those who purchase either a geforce r-tx 20 80 TI or a 90 X 20 80 will get all three games if you buy either an RT X 2070 or our TX 2060 you get to choose one of the three games meanwhile if you want to truing gtx card like the gtx 1660 TI you won't get anything at least those who buy the 1662 i will be getting the best value nvidia card anyway so not really a huge loss there the usual conditions apply here you have to buy a card from a participating retailer in select countries the promotion lasts until April 4th and the codes themselves must be redeemed before May 2nd IOC has a new entry level 4k gaming monitor called the G 2868 pqu it's a 28 inch 4k TN panel with the 60 Hertz refresh rate and freesync although not expecting to see LSC here as most 60 hertz monitors only have a minimum refresh rate of 40 Hertz in fact 102 percent coverage of the srgb spectrum 82% of dobie RGB and it's advertised as HD are ready however it doesn't even meet display HDR 400 certifications due to peak brightness of just 300 nits so I think that probably tells you how good of an HDR experience it will be this mullet is set to go on sale this month it's starting in the UK at 320 pounds this converts around 350 US dollars which makes it a pretty affordable 4k display even if it is only TN dil has accidentally leaked the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 16 60 TI to laptops notebook check discovered that Dells product page for a new g5 15 laptop.this said that some models come with an ITX 2050 now that would be interesting itself given there is no r-tx 2015 at this stage but when they're corrected it Dells still managed to give out interesting information basically they replaced the text RTX 2015 3 TX 1660 TI which means they've effectively leaked the existence of a GTX 1660 TI mobile chip NVIDIA has only announced this GP for desktop cards at this point although you think it will eventually come to laptop sitting below the RT X 2060 there's no word on when it might be available although I'm sure at some point someone at BB getting a stern talking-to final topic for this week relates to Intel processors over the last few weeks on news corner we've been steadily updating you with details on the rest of Intel's coffee Lake Refresh lineup we've had lower end models leaked one week KF models another week and team models as well but there's no need for that anymore because Fujitsu of all people has revealed the entire night gen desktop process of lineup before Intel has managed to get around to it now these chips will be super exciting to enthusiasts desktop builders we know you guys are more interested in stuff like the 9900 K and 9700 K but this list does indicate that Intel will add another 32 CPUs to the current lineup that officially includes just nine chips at the moment this includes morals like the i9 9900 ti3 9100 pentium gold g56 20 so on G 49 50 and even some Xeon a 2200 chips we only have basic information at this point so core count and TD pay which means we'll have to wait for Intel to fill in the gap see seen the clock speeds for the Cora 9 and 9900 teen particular will be interesting given it's listed as a 35 watt part the same with the same 8 cores and 16 threads is the power-hungry 99 K we also have to wait and see for the full specification list there's no real indication of when Intel will provide that information that's it for this week's news corner subscribe to get this segment in your inbox every week consider supporting us on patreon to get access to our exclusive discord community and monthly live streams now catch you in the next one