As the first countries move into the year 2020, on behalf of Guru3D.com, we wish you a terrific new year, good health, happiness, and lots of cool new hardware to fool around alongside the hottest PC games of course. 2019 was amazing, we do not expect 2020 to be any different with new technology releases. On behalf of the staff, we want to say to you, that you guys for your support, have a great one and be careful with fireworks you guys!
As we move into 2020, we have one last and final giveaway, today we'll hand out a ROG STRIX Z390-E GAMING motherboard from ASUS.
Xbox Series X is coming later next year and it is powered by an AMD SoC. The specs in relation to the GPU however have been scarce. That might have changed as some information appeared on AMDs Github page, listing the SoC at 3584 shaders processors.
It's not a surprise really, in fact, we have been noting the 48-core part in our initial Threadripper 3000 reviews already, but yes next year (or this year depending on how late you read this) AMD will release a 64-core Threaqdripper, the 3990X and a 3980X as well, with 48-cores.
Samsung Electronics will introduce its premium, bezel-less TV at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 2020.
The last one for 2019, here are the ten top-selling titles on Steam for the week as reported by Valve, and yes ever since the TC series appeared on Netflix, the Witcher 3 is selling like hot cakes again:
Red Dead Redemption 2
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order
Halo: The Master Chief Collection
Grand Theft Auto V
MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
Monster Hunter World: Iceborne
Raft
In this article, we review the Endgame XM1 mouse, which debuted on the market in July 2019. The German manufacturer, Endgame Gear, isn't a household name in PC peripherals yet, having debuted on the market only recently (in 2019), with this particular model. The sensor is a Pixart PMW-3389 with 16,000 DPI, and the polling rate is 1000hz (1ms). Yes, that’s absurd and not necessarily useful, but still.
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In this article, we review the Endgame XM1 mouse, which debuted on the market in July 2019. The German manufacturer, Endgame Gear, isn't a household name in PC peripherals yet, having debuted on the market only recently (in 2019), with this particular model. The product is a wired gaming mouse, without any RGB lighting. The most important features are the weight and the sensor. The device looks very classic at first glance. The weight is 70g including the cable. The sensor is a Pixart PMW-3389 with 16,000 DPI, and the polling rate is 1000hz (1ms). Yes, that’s absurd and not necessarily useful, but still.
Much like an onion, the more layers the more mass and volume. In this case, NAND mass storage. A while ago SK Hynix already shared word that they delivered the first samples of its solution products based on its 128-layer NAND. As it turns out, they might be ready for volume production already.
The signs for GDDR graphics memory are not good pricing wise, market research institute Trendforce expects a jump in prices for GDDR video memory to rise in the upcoming quarter
It has been a topic of discussion by many, MLC, TLC, QLC but the holy grail in relation to endurance still is SLC written NAND, that however is expensive. Well, Trancend is thinking outside the box and is releasing an M.2 SSD that is written 100% SLC.
It has been quite often that with Sapphire and ASRock we often need to say, whoops. This round a pretty bad leak appeared as ASRock, as they've had the entire specs of the unannounced Radeon RX 5600 XT online. The card is basically a 5700, just with a notch less GDDR6.
The flash drive utilizes the latest 3D NAND technology for up to 420 MB/s and 400 MB/s read and write speeds and an excellent endurance level of 3,000 P/E cycles - the equivalent of MLC NAND flash.
One more Intel related post today as a heavy on impact series of slides just leaked including information on the Core i9-10900K CPU with 10 cores and 20 threads. Indeed 125W but it clocks at 3.7 GHz base towards a 5.2 GHz in boost. A new feature called Velocity Boost will unlock clock speeds up to 5.3 GHz, but only for two SKUs: 10900K and 10900 non-K.
MSI is launching a new monitor range with the Optix MAG272QR, this 27-inch monitor aimed at gamers comes with a VA panel with a resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels. The refresh rate is 165 Hz, with a response time of 1 ms.
A new technical diagram was posted by @momomo_us and is listing the upcoming gen Intel Desktop processor base design specs, developed Comet Lake goes for 10 cores, Rocket lake is listed at a maximum of 8 CPU cores.
Some info on Intels' pending Comet Lake processors has surfaced. The 14nm node fabricated processors are assumed to launch in April. Earlier on it was kind of confirmed that the lower positioned products would get hyper-threading, that is now confirmed.
