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welcome back to the hardware unbox news corner I've been traveling a bit this week so haven't been keeping up with absolutely everything going on in the tech space but a couple of interesting things did happen this week that I'll be talking about including the first benchmarks for KB Lake G with RX Vega graphics as rocks official announcement of phantom gaming cards NVIDIA Quadro GV 100 and more so first up let's talk about those asrock phantom gaming graphics cards as expected as ROC has entered the graphics card market as an AMD add-in board pata and their very first set of four phantom gaming cards covers the Radeon rx 500 series unfortunately there are no custom Vega cards here with asrock instead of covering the mid-range and entry-level product segments first but hopefully that'll happen further down the track the naming scheme for these new cards it's pretty simple the rx 550 and rx 560 carry the phantom gaming brand with a simple 2g at the end of the name and that indicates the memory capacity while the RX v 7t + RX 580 our phantom gaming X cards with 8g OC at the end despite the lower end rx 550 and rx 560 not carrying an OC in their name they are also overclockable like the higher end cards using a setting in as rocks overclocking utility in fact that's how you access the factory overclock on all of these cars they'll ship with AMD default clocks and a simple button in the utility will push those clocks up by 40 or 50 megahertz as rock has developed the coolers for all the graphics cards themselves the rx 570 and 580 get a dual fan solution with an aluminium radiator copper base and three heat pipes the RX 560 and rx 550 uses smaller single fan design with an aluminium radiator that's designed to be compatible with mini ITX systems asrock even mentions premium thermal grease and of course there are display port HDMI and DVI outputs on these cards you'll be able to purchase phantom gaming cards in to 2018 at least let's hope so with the current mining situation no pricing has been announced probably that so asrock can set the price to match whatever is the going market price at the time of launch earlier today the first reviews went live for Intel's latest Hades Canyon NOC powered by KB Lake G we should be getting a sample soon to test for ourselves but I thought I'd quickly go through some results to show how the NOC and the core i7 8800 9 G performs so a quick recap the i7 88 0 9 G is the highest-end kb lake and qi processor on the CPU side there are 4 cores and 8 threads with a base clock of 3.1 and a maximum turbo of 4.2 gigahertz the biggest inclusion is the AMD Radeon rx mega M GPU with 24 compute units a base clock of 1063 megahertz and a boost clock of 1190 megahertz pair with 4 gigabytes of HBM - this all fits within a 100 watt TDP and there's even Intel integrated graphics for low-power tasks when the AMD GPU isn't required kb lake g is specifically designed to provide decent levels of graphics performance when paired with that Intel H series like quad-core CPU on a single package so that om is looking to build laptops and small form-factor pcs have a single integrated compact solution capable of 1080p gaming it should be noted that while the nook as expected uses the top-tier 100 watt cable 8g processor most laptops will opt for the 65 watt variant with a 20 Cu Vega GPU instead looking at a number of reviews most of which have fairly limited test results it seems the ice of an AC 809 g2 of is GPU performance between an NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti and a GTX 1060 though on the closer end to the GTX 1050 Ti that's impressive for what is essentially an integrated GPU and the CPU also appears to perform well and edge ahead of the popular i7 7700 HQ hopefully our unit will arrive soon so we can provide you with our own set of results across a range of games so at GTCC 2018 this week Nvidia announced the quad road v100 professional GPU which in many ways is similar to the other Volta products NVIDIA has announced so far the Titan V and the Tesla V 100 all three used the massive GV 100 GPU with 5120 CUDA cores though the Quadro GV 100 provides a huge 32 gigabytes of faster HBM to up from 12 gig on the Titan v which I guess explains why it costs $9,000 instead of just 3,000 this new quad row card will provide 14.8 teraflops of single-precision performance and 7.4 teraflops of double precision plus you get a hundred 18.5 teraflops of tensor processing if you can afford two of these beasts you can connect them together with invidious envy link to to pool resources and demolish those compute workloads in video also announce the DG x2 at GTCC which is a deep learning system that for some reason Nvidia calls a GPU anyway it actually has a bunch of GPUs in its 16 Tesla V 100's to be precise along with jewel zeal and platinum cpus 1.5 terabytes of system memory and 30 terabytes of nvme SSDs when you pull the Tesla V 100 resources you get 512 gigabytes of HP m2 and to petaflop of tensor compute performance this whole system only draws 10 kilowatts of power and will be available for a cheap $400,000 in q3 this year so I know a lot of you guys out there will be rushing out to purchase one of those notebook check discovered NVIDIA has quietly launched a slower variant of their MX 150 discrete GPU that has been designed for 13-inch notebooks the 1d 10 variant is the standard model we've been seeing in large laptops for a while while the 1d twelve variant has a more strict power limit so it can fit into smaller thin and light systems while there are no published edp's for each vari the 1d 10 is approximately 25 watts while the 1d 12 appears to be more like 10 watts this power limit means clock speeds are reduced on both the GPU and mem Murray down from 1532 megahertz on the GPU boost and 15 or two megahertz on the memory to just ten thirty eight megahertz boost and 1253 media hurts memory notebook check says this causes a twenty to twenty-five percent performance hit relative to the fully fledged MX 150 annoyingly as well and video doesn't have a separate brand for the one day twelve variant so there's no way for a consumer to know whether they're getting the full MX 150 or the slow MX 150 however at least luckily so far the 1d twelve has only been spotted in 13-inch devices this new 1d 12 m x 150 entering the market seems to coincide with the announcement of a lot of 13 inch laptops with the MX 150 inside so I wouldn't be surprised if invidious specifically launched this new variant to combat rise and mobile and its integrated graphics that already blows away Intel's 8th gen parts the new MX 150 allows NVIDIA to pair up with Intel for faster graphics in 13-inch notebooks and that allows both companies to compete more strongly with AMD and even keep a and B which is relative newcomer completely out of the market this week we ran a couple of quick polls on Twitter and YouTube about the GPU and GPU configurations in your systems just to get a better idea of what you guys are actually using and hopefully that will be a bit more accurate than the steam hardware survey that's influenced recently by a lot of different factors we asked you guys whether you were using an AMD Radeon on video GeForce graphics card and the results were pretty similar in both polls on YouTube we've got 11,000 responses with 68% of you saying you currently have an NVIDIA GPU and 32% AMD that number was slightly higher for Nvidia on Twitter with 2.6 thousand responses at 71% versus 20 and 9% we also asked you whether you use crossfire or SLI multi-gpu setups are offered just a single GPU on YouTube from 13,000 responses 90% of you said you don't use either tech with 6% for SLI and 5% for crossfire presumably with some strange rounding there by youtube on twitter from 2,000 votes 88% opted for neither tech 8% for and 4% for crossfire it's not surprising to see in video still the favorite GPU of our viewers that their market share is nowhere near as high as in the steam hardware survey I was a little surprised to see around 10% of people still use crossfire or SLI and considering how poorly these technologies are supported in modern games but I guess judging by a few of the comments it does seem affair of those systems that you guys have been telling us about are using older graphics cards in a dual GPU setup a few quick topics to jump into now and this one I'm really excited about chrome 66 will block unwanted Auto playing videos with sound from all of those annoying news websites Auto playing videos with sound on a news article is extremely annoying and such a garbage practice so it's great to see Google cracking down on those internet criminals Google have outlined their rules for when Auto playing videos will be blocked I'm not going to list them here but it all makes sense basically videos with no sound will be allowed and videos with sound will only be allowed if you frequently visit a site and choose to play their videos sounds pretty good to me Xiaomi known for their smart phones and other products has launched a gaming laptop there's a 15.6 inch display a 7th gen intel core i7 CPU and nvidia geforce gtx 1060 or gtx 1050 TI graphics the 1060 model costs 8999 u1r about 1400 USD it looks fairly ok from the outside though it's unlikely it will go on sale outside of China at least for now final topic for this week Foxconn has acquired Belkin in a deal worth 866 million dollars in cash Belkin also owns the Linksys and Remo brand so all of those products will now come under the control of Foxconn an interesting move though Foxconn does want to expand its portfolio and the company said they will increase the R&D budget for Belkin and grow their product line that's it for this week's news corner if you like this weekly segment don't forget to subscribe to watch it every Friday and consider supporting us through our patreon at patreon.com slash Hardware unboxed I'll see you in the next one