The Radeon RX 5500 XT graphics card closes out 2019 for that most desirable of gaming segments, reasonable-quality AAA 1080p play or fast 1080p for esports at a reasonable price. AMD’s twist in its competition with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Super is the ability to buy it configured with 8GB memory; that lets you …
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Rumors had AMD planning to announce its new flagship consumer processor, the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X, at CES in January. But the company decided to drop a little information in advance, essentially confirming that it will have 64 cores, 288MB of cache and designed for a 280-watt power draw. “More to come in 2020” probably means CES. I’d say that’s pretty …
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You can finally get a MacBook with a totally redesigned keyboard — but it’s going to cost you at least $2,399 (£2,399, AU$3,799). The longstanding rumors about Apple’s newest jumbo laptop were nearly all true. The newest 16-inch MacBook Pro, unveiled Wednesday, finally ditches the flat “butterfly” keyboard that has vexed Apple laptops for the better part of half a …
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Other than your character meeting an untimely end, nothing takes you out of an immersive game quicker than screen tearing where elements of a particular scene don’t line up. When a monitor’s refresh rate and a graphic card’s frame rate are out of sync, distracting and annoying artifacts like screen tearing show up. The 54 best Cyber Monday 2019 deals …
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The core wars are incomprehensible to many people. But those people don’t need to work in four (or more) of Adobe’s applications at the same time, encode and decode 4K (or bigger) video, render high-quality 3D stills or animations, mix complex multitrack audio or perform any number of other tasks that absorb CPU cycles like a power sponge. If you …
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AMD‘s new mainstream graphics cards and mobile GPUs will be coming to midpriced gaming systems just in time for the holiday shopping season. The Radeon RX 5500 and 5500M are based on the same Navi 7nm architecture as the higher-end RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT. They’ll go head-to-head with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 and 1650 in systems designed …
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Microsoft announced the new Surface Laptop 3 on Wednesday at its Surface event in New York. Like the Surface Laptop 2, the Laptop 3 is a 13.5-inch clamshell touchscreen laptop, but will now also come in a larger 15-inch size. They’ll also be the first Surface Laptops to have a USB-C port instead of mini-DisplayPort, and will run on Intel’s …
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We knew we’d get a bunch of new laptops at Microsoft’s Surface event on Tuesday. What we didn’t know is we’d also get a new Microsoft processor, a Qualcomm-derived chip called the SQ1. That chip in the new Surface Pro X carries a message from Microsoft: It’s time for laptops to get phone-like all-day battery life, but not if that …
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With its newest Surface devices unveiled at its Surface event in New York Wednesday, Microsoft has returned to the Arm chip family for power-sipping laptops. And it’s not just any Arm chip, but Microsoft’s own SQ1 design that the company engineered in partnership with Qualcomm. The event also saw the launch of the Surface Neo dual-screen tablet and Surface Duo dual-screen …
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In time for the IFA show in Berlin, Lenovo revealed its refreshes of its budget consumer products: the sub-$500 Chromebook S340 and C340 two-in-one as well as the IdeaPad S340 and S540 Windows laptop sport slightly more streamlined designs and new sizes, while the updated IdeaCentre A540 all-in-one gets a striking new organic design. The 11-inch Chromebook C340 two-in-one comes …
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