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Monday, 2-October-2017 13:54:09 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Hope your long weekend is going well, and if you're suffering through the flu season like me, you have my sympathy! I haven't been that sick in a long time. Pretty much back up to speed now though, so let's have some news catchup.
NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang says Moore's Law is dead and GPUs will replace CPUs. Well, he does work for a GPU company. :) Intel would obviously disagree with Nvidia's assessment, and has on occasion. Around a year ago, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich downplayed reports of Moore's Law coming to an end. "In my 34 years in the semiconductor industry, I have witnessed the advertised death of Moore’s Law no less than four times. As we progress from 14 nanometer technology to 10 nanometer and plan for 7 nanometer and 5 nanometer and even beyond, our plans are proof that Moore’s Law is alive and well," Krzanich stated in a blog post outlining Intel's plans. "Intel’s industry leadership of Moore’s Law remains intact, and you will see continued investment in capacity and R&D to ensure so."
DigitalTrends have an article asking why video games are so big nowadays. Although the recent news of a 170 gigabyte install size for the upcoming PC port of Final Fantasy XV turned out to be just rumor, few gamers were incredulous about it. Games that need over 100 gigabytes are now reality, and install sizes are going up with alarming speed. Why is that? Most gamers may have assumptions about the answer — but we wanted to get the real story straight from the developer’s mouth.
AMD's CrossFire is a thing of the past, with mGPU covering AMD's multi-card technologies in future. Nothing has changed though. They just decided to call the ability to use multiple graphics cards as mGPU, instead of CrossFire. In other words – this is a branding decision. AMD will continue to use CrossFire for current and future DirectX 11 profiles, but refer to mGPU for DirectX 12 titles. AMD is also limiting the mGPU support to just two graphics cards. The 4-way mGPU capabilities that top-of-the-line Radeon cards used to support have been dropped. The AMD Radeon RX Vega family are therefore limited to two cards in mGPU mode :
PC Perspective looked into the iPhone X's performance. It's a safe bet to call the A11 Bionic the fastest mobile processor in the world. Of course, certain aspects of the A11 Bionic platform's performance will require extended hands-on testing, including network performance and battery life. The latter is an area where the iPhone 7’s A10 Fusion was disappointing, with lackluster overall battery life for a flagship device - both in controlled testing and everyday use.
Babeltech compared NVIDIA and AMD video cards using Project Cars 2 PC, with VR. We have been playing and benchmarking Project CARS 2 since it released last week. This Project CARS 2 PC and VR performance evaluation pits AMD’s Red Team versus NVIDIA’s Green Team using eleven video cards, and we also measure VR performance using FCAT VR.
This trend for mini classic game consoles is pretty cool - next up is a Mini Commodore 64 launching in 2018 with 64 games. Today there's a scramble to grab a SNES Classic before they inevitably sell out. And such was the demand for the NES Classic last year that Nintendo is set to re-release it next summer. But it won't be the only new mini retro gaming machine available in 2018. Retro Games is set to release a tiny version of the Commodore 64 complete with 64 games. What's next - mini Amiga?
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