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welcome back to the final episode of news corner for 2018 there is one more week in the abode Steve know we'll be taking a bit of time off to get away from the benchmarks and actually see our families for once we do have a bit of content plan throughout the remainder of 2018 but we're only aiming for a video every second day rather than every day like we've been doing for well almost a year now we hope all of you guys watching have a great holiday period as well take some time for yourself and wind down after a busy 2018 anyway there have been a few interesting topics this week to finish up news corner for the year so let's get into them OMB has just scraped in before Christmas with the announcement of the Athlon 220 GE and Athlon 240 G which we've been expecting I guess for a little while now like the already released Athlon 200 GE the new at 220 G and 240g are 2 core for thread CPUs with three Baker compute units the only real benefit the 220 and 240g provide our increased clock speeds the 200 G was a 3.2 gigahertz part while the to 20 G pushes up to 3.4 gigahertz and the 240 G increases that to 3.5 gigahertz so very modest improvements there and as before there is no boost clock functionality all Athlon cpus come with a conservative 35 watt TDP which I guess makes sense consuming a low core count and modest clock speeds in terms of pricing there's a $10 difference between the CPUs the 200g is $55 the 220g is $65 and the 240g comes in at $75 and all are available to purchase today the 220 and 240 GE are kind of pointless products if I'm honest aim DS Athlon lineup are supposed to be multiplied a lot so you can't just overclock a 200 G up to the level of a 220 G or 240 G that would justify the price difference you know if you can't overclock them you left with spending a bit more cash to get a bump to clock speeds but right now you actually can overclock the 200 GE we recently did a video showing that on MSI motherboards with a certain bias revision the multiplier for the Yugi has been unlocked so you can overclock it just like any other Rison processor I believe something gigabyte boards have unlocked 200g overclocking now as well so with very little effort it's currently possible to overclock the 200 GE into a 240 GE so there's really not much point buying the $75 240g when you can just spend fifty five dollars on the 200 GE and do some quick overclocking it's actually even better than that because we were able to overclock the Athlon 200 g to 3 point 8 gigahertz which is 300 megahertz higher than what AMD provides with this stock Athlon to 40 g so while you can overclock the supposedly locked Athlon c u--'s there's really not a lot of point to buying the more expensive versions of this processor a quick update to the nvidia geforce r-tx 2060 situation marketing materials have been discovered by hardware locks showing that the upcoming cheering based GPU will indeed use our TX branding previous leaks have indicated the card will have 1920 cuda cores and 6 gigabytes of gddr5 a tracing but this hasn't been confirmed and we don't know at this point considering how the our TX 2070 performed with ray tracing enabled an ITX 2060 with fewer RT cause would struggle even more rumors are currently suggesting the our TX 2060 will launch in early 2019 perhaps a couple of weeks into January and that's also what we're hearing this old timeframe would line up with a CES announcement so stay tuned during CES for potential mid-range cheering unveils another leak appeared recently this time concerning AMD's upcoming rise in mobile 3000 series ap use confusingly the Rison 3000 series for mobile processors would actually be 2nd gen Russin mobile not 3rd gen because a.m. be launched the first rise of mobile parts as the 2000 series any case that's not really into the heck I guess new riser mobile AP us were actually spotted last week by Twitter user API sak with Geekbench results potentially revealing the horizon 3 3200 you Rison 330 300 you and Rison 5 3500 you although api sak also believes there will be a 3700 you and 300 you these processes is set to be quite similar to rise in mobile 2000-series ap use the 3200 you for example is a to call forth read part like the 2200 you but with a 100 megahertz increase to the base clock same story for the for call forth read 3300 you and for core 8 thread 3500 you these apos were allegedly benchmarked in a collection of HP laptops though there's probably not a lot of point reading into the exact benchmark numbers at this stage as always you should take these reports with a grain of salt but this one is looking quite likely in our opinion the original rise in mobile CPUs were built using AMD's first gen Zen architecture on 40 nanometers so it makes sense that the next products would be Zen plus on 12 nanometers as ambhi's aps have lagged behind the server and desktop CPU lines as far as architecture and process tech are concerned moving from 40 nanometers to 12 nanometers would only allow for small clock speed gains and that's what this leak is suggesting we can then expect 7 nanometre rise mobile parts at the end of next year or perhaps over 2020 we really don't know at this stage though we are expecting to hear more information about new rise in mobile products at CES in January 2019 intel has made a minor announcement regarding production capacity increases for a number of their fabs as we all know Intel are struggling to keep up with 14 nanometer demand so the company has pledged to expand their capacity at 3 fabs across the globe specifically their facilities in Oregon Ireland and Israel these expansions are set to begin in 2019 and although Intel aren't detailing exactly what they will be doing you'd think the focus would be on 14 nanometer capacity until also announced that they are making good progress at fitting fab 42 in Arizona with duv and EUV tools for their upcoming 7 nanometer process set to come after 10 nanometer although there's no word when that technology will be ready also next gen storage and memory technology will be worked on in the company's new mexico manufacturing facility LG is getting ready to unveil a selection of new gaming and workstation grade monitors at CES 2019 the most interesting of the new products is the ultra gear 38 GL 950 G a 38 inch ultra wide with a 38 40 by 1600 resolution and 144 Hertz refresh rate we've had 38 40 by 1600 monitors before but this is the first time we've seen one of those panels capable of a 144 Hertz refresh making it suitable for gamers in fact the monitor in general could be highly attractive as it offers a higher resolution and refresh rate than existing 3440 by 1440 ultra wise at 120 Hertz this new LG panel uses the company's nano IPS technology allowing for 98% DCI p3 gamut coverage and this particular model will feature g-sync along with 450 Nets of peak brightness LG is also set to show off the ultra wide 49 WL 95 and yes the product name actually is ultra white in this case this looks similar to the Dell you 49:19 DW in that it's a dual 27 inch 1440p monitor in other words it's actually 49 inches of monitor in total at a 50 120 by 1440 resolution offering the equivalent of 2 27-inch 1440p monitors side-by-side in the one display with just a 60 Hertz refresh rate it's designed for productivity featuring 99% srgb coverage and 315 years of brightness no word on a firm release date or pricing for either of these displays but we can expect to learn a bit more about them at CES final topic for this week bit of a shorter news corner because I guess not much has been happening a beta version of steam has hinted at Xbox cross-play integration some games on Steam like rocket league do already support Xbox cross play but it seems the latest steam better has several pieces of code that directly referenced the Xbox potentially paving the way for easier cross play between PCs and Microsoft's console without using the awful Windows Store I'm also hoping that one day Xbox consoles will just run steam considering they're basically x86 pcs and should be able to support the full library of Steam games I think that would be really awesome maybe Microsoft has something in the works for the next generation of Xbox consoles which apparently are not too far away anyway that's it for this week's news corner and the final news corner of 2018 subscribe for more news corner episodes which we'll be bringing back in 2019 consider supporting us on patreon to get access to our exclusive discord chat and monthly live streams and I'll catch you in the next one