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welcome back to the hard round boxing news corner lots of big topics emerge this week including some actual legitimate concrete information on next-gen geforce cards and a few intel related stories AMD also of course launched second gen thread rip of this week which we already covered earlier with our comprehensive review in case you missed that so yeah all up it's been pretty massive on the news front let's kick things off by looking at invidious latest teaser for next gen geforce cards i'm sure a lot of you have already seen this but just in case you missed it in a video posted a video titled be for the game to hype their event of games calm that's happening on August 20th at this point it's virtually a certainty that the video will announce new geforce cards on that day which is actually only a few days from now so that's pretty exciting i think the evil and methinks it would be extremely funny if nvidia came out and hosted an entire event on August 20th without mentioning new geforce cards whatsoever to the shock and disappointment of thirsty gamers worldwide but it seems like that's not going to happen instead we're in for a boring or launch event however the launch date isn't the interesting thing about that video king viewers spotted a number of easter eggs in the video that point to the name of invidious next generation geforce cards there's been a fair bit of discussion surrounding whether in video will go with the gtx 1180 or gtx 2080 for this generation but it seems from this teaser video that the name nvidia has chosen is the RT x 2080 yep RT x 2080 video cards has a neat list of all the Easter eggs in the video mostly from the various chat apps shown for a split second the key ones are stuff why not underscore 11 and plenty of references to 20 like Mac 20 and Zenith 20 there's also a user name of Roy Tex with arty and X capitalized which again suggests RT X 2018 aiming this fits with the naming scheme from videos new Quadra GPUs which are called things like the RT X 8000 the reason for RTX browning is the architecture these cards are using Turing has a new ray tracing unit we'll get the truing architecture in just a moment but apparently this inclusion of ray-tracing functionality is large enough to warrant a revamped naming scheme Steve will be extremely happy to hear it's the GeForce 20 series and not the eleven series because he's been predicting the 20 series since the start of the year despite countless rumors suggesting eleven series branding so he'll be reminding me of that for a long time and no doubt everyone in our patreon exclusive discord chat will be hearing about it as well NVIDIA has been using gtx branding for generations the 200 series was the first line to use GTX as a prefix to the numbered name but was also used for many generations prior as a suffix for high-end cards like the 9800 GTX the first ever card to use the GTX name appears to be the GeForce 7800 GTX which launched in 2005 anyway enough of that history lesson for now let's hold that until August 20th where we'll learn more about the r-tx 2080 in other interesting and video news this week Nvidia announced their next generation truing architecture at SIGGRAPH 2018 this is almost certainly the architecture that will be used for the GeForce 20 series though at SIGGRAPH in video is focused entirely on the architecture for compute cards and in fact announced the new series of quad row products as truing will be used for the RT x 2080 most likely let's take a look at what we can expect an antic has a great article in the specifics but we're going to be taking a bit of a high-level look the SM which is very important for gaming workloads packs up to 16 teraflops of single precision compute performance and that's compared to 13 teraflops in Pascal so that's a 23% uplift in compute performance but of course that will only be unleashed in the highest-end configuration with Pascal that was the Titan XP with the little P that saw nearly the full 13 teraflops unleashed while the GTX 10 atti was more around 11 teraflops in the GTX 280 more like 9 teraflops with the geforce 20 series will once again be getting that top-end performance with a titan class product but with truing we can expect it to outperform the best pascal card it should also that perform invidious Volta architecture the fully unlocked a Quadro GB 100 packs 14.8 teraflops of computer indicating cheering built on the same 12 nanometer process will improve performance by around 8% a large uplift from Pascal's possible as in videos jumping from 60 nanometers down to 12 nanometers not as relevant for gaming workloads truing includes a tensor core for deep learning compute type stuff this is a specialized unit ants designed for low precision compute with 125 teraflops of FP 16 performance along with new support 4 into 8 and into four at a huge 250 and 500 Terror ops respectively new tutoring and something that will no doubt be interesting for both compute workloads and gaming is the specialized article which is a hardware unit that provides accelerated ray tracing top entering GPUs will be capable of processing 10 billion Ray's per second which is a 25 times improvement on Pascal which does not have an accelerated rate racing scheme this will be key to improving ray tracing performance for rendering workloads in 3d design but I suspect it will also help bring ray tracing two games for significantly improved lighting at least in a limited capacity with the first generation of the RT core in geforce products for memory truly supports GDD r 6 the next generation of GD r memory at speeds up to 14 gigabit per second at least initially samsung has g DDR six available up to 16 gigabit per second however for now we're looking at the more common 14 gigabit per second configuration on a 384-bit bus which is the widest truing supports G DDR 6 at 14 gigabit per second will provide 672 gigabytes per second of bandwidth which is up 23% on the fastest gddr5 X configuration in the Titan XP it's also faster than the HBM 2 included with the Titan VIII and of course that used a massive 3090 2 bit bus other features ensuring include native support for real-time 8k 8gb see encoding with the 25% improved bit rate 8k DisplayPort support invidious new virtual link connector for VR headsets and NV link that provides 100 gigabytes per second of bandwidth it's hard to say exactly what is included in the largest fully unlocked truing GPU in terms of core configuration and so forth however we do know it features eighteen point six billion transits is nuts down slightly from the 21 point 1 billion included with voltage GV 100 this 18 point six billion transistor truing GPU is being used in the new Quadra RT x 8000 card and that card provides 16 teraflops with 4608 cuda cores which suggests a fully unlocked churring GPU has 4600 night cause there are also 576 tentacles and with the RT x 8000 you'll be getting 48 gigabytes of gddr5 6000 gives you the same compute performance but just 24 gig of GEDs the $6,300 an antic are estimating clock speeds for these Quadro cards at 1730 megahertz to achieve 16 teraflops of performance there's a possibility a consumer-grade card will push this even higher like has been the case with past geforce cards vs Quadra anyway that's the cheering architecture will be interesting to see how it's cut down next week for the launch of the ITX 2080 as we're probably not going to be getting a fully unlocked GPU straight off the bat a lot of cool stuff in there though I spent about half this episode talking about invidious new GPU stuff so let's move into some other stuff Intel also you see graph two T's some graphics related stuff the company set up a new Twitter account called Intel graphics and posted a teaser video talking about all their graphics achievements so far the video reiterates that Intel is set to unveil their discreet graphics architecture in 2020 to compete against nvidia and AMD this isn't new information but there were a few rumors floating around earlier this year the suggested Intel would be announcing their GPU at CES 2019 which is clearly not true judging by everything in tower said so far and factoring in the usual GPU development cycle become 20/20 the GPU market could be getting a whole lot more exciting as usually it wouldn't be a news corner without a few dodgy sounding rumors here's one from HD technology our website I hadn't heard of before today suggesting Intel is working on an x5 99 express chipset to support their 28 core h EDT platform you might remember back at Computex Intel discussed a new 28 core h EDT cpu and claimed it could run at 5 gigahertz despite the demo system using cooling and being overclocked then it was discovered that CPU is basically a zealand platinum 8180 running on a modified server class board with an LGA 3647 socket a suicide aboard called the rog dominus while gigabyte also had a prototype board with a ridiculous vrm configuration to support the high end chip apparently if this room is to be believed in tones going ahead with the launch of LGA 3647 CPUs in a new h EDT platform that will use an ex 599 chipset will likely be getting 24 to 28 core CPUs on its platform while the existing LGA 2066 socket and supporting platforms will be used for up to 18 core CPUs another quick rumor here this one from video card showing that the core o 999 hundred K and possibly other 9000 series processes will be soldered an official-looking slide suggests a new feature for these chips is a soldered thermal interface material or what they're calling a stim among other things it can be easy to fake these slides but it would make sense that an eight-core 16 thread CPU like the Cora 999 hundred K would use solder rather than crappy Tim it shouldn't be too long before these CPUs are announced so we'll find out soon enough whether this is true final news topic of the week as Seuss's announced what they're claiming is the world's slimmest gaming laptop the rog Zephyrus s which joins they're already pretty slim zephyrus line up the laptop uses a similar design to the original Zephyrus but it's obviously a few millimetres slimmer while still packing an Intel Core i7 87 58 CPU and either nvidia geforce gtx 1060 or gtx 1070 max-q graphics the laptop should be available in September although pricing hasn't been announced just yet that's it for this week's news corner stay tuned for more news next week because in video will almost certainly be announcing new graphics card so the joy of all gamers subscribe for our special coverage of that and also to get this segment in your inbox every Friday like this video if you enjoyed it and I'll catch you in the next one