The launch of the upcoming RDNA 2 based GPUs is on the cards for AMD, and in the middle of all this, it seems the last year’s AMD mid-range GPUs are likely to be discontinued. In fact, both RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT were the best-selling 1440p gaming GPUs in the market because of their incredible price-to-performance ratios.
As Videocardz points out, according to Cowcotland, AMD will no longer be manufacturing graphics processors for Radeon RX 5700 series. So, the current ones available in the market will be some last Navi 10 cards, which is why we have seen inflation in prices.
Later, Videocardz updated its article to confirm that Radeon RX 5700 XT will not be discontinued totally, but the card will be manufactured at least till Q1 2021. The lower RX 5700, on the other hand, will only be available on special orders, so AMD isn’t focusing anymore on its older RDNA based GPUs.
This is true because the upcoming RDNA 2 based GPUs shall deliver much better performance than last-gen and come with multiple variants. Naturally, AMD is focusing on the new RX 6000 series GPUs launching on October 28th and will be available from November.
However, AMD has no intention of discontinuing the Radeon RX 5600 XT GPU along with the budget Radeon RX 500 series and Radeon RX 5500 GPUs.
The weekend will end with another thrilling battle of heavyweights as defending champions Mumbai Indians will take on Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Mumbai Indians are coming off a clinical win over the mighty Kings XI Punjab. Sunrisers, on the other hand, has had a resurgence as they defeated the mighty CSK in their last match.
Mumbai Indians
MI defeated KXIP by a margin of 48 runs, which definitely helped them improve their net run-rate. Rohit Sharma again played a captain’s knock by scoring a match-winning 70 runs off just 45 balls. Ther middle-order has been in great form with Ishan Kishan, Kieron Pollard, and Hardik Pandya in great form.
As per bowling is concerned, the Sharjah pitch is a graveyard for bowlers anyway. Therefore, bowlers will have to pick wickets at regular intervals. The MI side has been doing that with Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, and James Pattinson. MI would be happy that their spin-bowling has gained some form as well.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Sunrisers are coming off two huge back-to-back wins overs Delhi Capitals and Chennai Super Kings. Their stacked top-order will have an important role to play. All of David Warner, Johnny Bairstow, and Manish Pandey have been getting starts but will have to show some consistency. They would be extremely happy as their middle-order showed up after the top-order collapsed. Youngsters Abhishek Sharma and Priyam Garg played beautifully to take the side to a respectable total.
SRH would be concerned about their bowling. Bhuvaneshwar Kumar isn’t 100% fit. They needed an experienced player like Kumar who could lead the young bowling attack of Khaleel Ahmed and Natarajan. SRH doesn’t have a complete fifth bowler and will have to rely on Abhishek Sharma and Abdul Samad for four overs. Both being spinners, they might leak runs on Sharjah.
(PC- Indian Express)
Fantasy XI team
ROHIT SHARMA (10.5) (C) – Rohit Sharma again played a captain’s knock by scoring a match-winning 70 runs off just 45 balls. He’ll be my captain.
DAVID WARNER (10.5) (VC) – David Warner has been in phenomenal form and has been consistent as well. He’ll be my vice-captain.
JOHNNY BAIRSTOW (9.5) – Bairstow has been in great form as well. He has adapted an anchor role and thus scores big.
MANISH PANDEY (9) – Manish Pandey has been in great form and has been given a new role of leading the middle-order.
ISHAN KISHAN (8.5) – After what he did in his first match against RCB, it’s pretty self-explanatory why he makes the place.
KIERON POLLARD (9) – Pollard has looked in great form. Especially against spin in Sharjah, he can change the course of the game.
HARDIK PANDYA (9.5) – Hardik Pandya has looked in great form. He does not take time to settle and can explode at any moment.
JASPRIT BUMRAH (9) – Bumrah is struggling with his form. However, he did well in the super over. He can establish consistency as time passes.
T. NATARAJAN (8) – Natarajan has impressed everyone with his death bowling. He justified himself being picked over Khaleel Ahmed, Siddharth Kaul, and Basil Thampi.
JAMES PATTINSON (8) – Pattinson has been bowling tight and picking wickets at regular intervals as well.
TRENT BOULT (8.5) – Boult has been doing a good job by keeping things tight and picking wickets as well.
PREDICTION
The matches in Sharjah are dependent on toss as well. The team batting first puts up a huge score and thus the team batting second is already under pressure. Therefore, MI has a more versatile set of batsmen who can bat in any situation. Plus all of them are in decent form.
Also, Sunrisers’ best bowler is Rashid Khan. Khan being a spinner might not be effective in Sharjah. Also, they lack a fifth complete bowler. MI will therefore defeat SRH.
As we that this month is going to be rich with the launch of smartphone accessories from different brands in India. There are already three new Bluetooth earphones listed in Flipkart and Amazon India. Let’s have a look at all the earphones launching this month.
Earphones
Launch Date
OnePlus Buds Z (Rumored)
14th October
Realme Buds Air Pro
7th October
Realme Buds Wireless Pro
7th October
Redmi (TWS earbud)
7th October
Redmi (Bluetooth Neckband)
7th October
boAt Nirvana 1007
Coming soon
Now the latest launch is on 7th October from Realme where they are revealing two new Bluetooth in-ear audio devices in India along with a smartphone in the online launch event.
Both the Bluetooth audio devices from Realme will be the pro version of the previously launched earphones and this time these audio devices will be launched with more modifications. Both the TWS and Neckband earphones had an amazing response last time and this time we are hoping for something more.
Read the full article on Realme Buds Wireless Prohere.
Now let’s talk about the competitor of Realme, Redmi India is here with two new Bluetooth Audio devices and the launch date also falls on October 7, which is on the same day of Realme’s launch event.
Worlds will collide! Angels 👼 and Demons 😈 are coming together for a fight of a lifetime! ⚔️
There will be one TWS earbud and one Bluetooth neckband launch at the event. This will be the first time we will see a Redmi neckband and right now we do not have any information about the specifications of both the audio devices. So, let’s wait for the launch event and see how it turns out to be.
OnePlus has already disclosed the upcoming in-ear audio device will be launching along with the OnePlus 8T on 14th October. The image is quite artistic where we can see the rubber ear tip of the earphone. This time we can expect another OnePlus Buds successor along with a rubber ear tip, whereas the previous earbud was all plastic design.
The new Nirvana 1007 ANC carries a massive 40mmaudio driver to provide you the boAt signature audio. As the name suggests, the key feature of this headphone is the Active Noise Cancelling technology. While activated, the headphone can run for up to 20 hours long, otherwise, it goes for up to 30 hours. To ensure the fast charging, boAt added the Type-C port in it.
In this COVID Pandemic situation, most people are looking for a phone which provides good features at an affordable price. Recently, a lot of smartphone companies have released many handsets that have an affordable range. Three noticeable handsets have released which are very close in terms of pricing- Xiaomi Mi 10T Lite 5G, OPPO F17 Pro, and Realme 7 Pro. So let’s check out the features comparison of these phones which may help you to choose your preference.
Let us have a detailed specification comparison among these three devices in this price range. We will discuss the price range of these smartphones later and will justify which one will be better for you.
Display
The Xiaomi Mi 10T Lite 5G features a 6.67-inches Full HD LCD display with 1080 pixels of screen resolution with a 20:9 aspect ratio, this phone also has 120Hz of refresh rate. Oppo F17 Pro sports a 6.43-inches display, whereas the Realme 7 Pro has a 6.4-inches display. Both phones feature Full HD Super AMOLED display with 60Hz of refresh rate.
Xiaomi 10T Lite
Camera
Coming to the camera comparison of these phones. All these three smartphone packs with a quad rear camera setup on the backside. Xiaomi Mi 10T Lite and OPPO F17 Pro have the same rear camera sensors, including- a 48MP main shooter alongside an 8MP ultrawide lens, 2MP Macro, and 2MP depth sensor. Whereas, the Realme 7 Pro has a 64MP main shooter with an 8MP ultrawide lens, a 2MP Macro, and a 2MP depth sensor. Regarding the front camera, the Xiaomi Mi 10T Lite, and Realme 7 Pro features a single front camera with a 16MP sensor and 32MP sensor respectively, but the OPPO F17 Pro has a dual selfie camera including 16 MP main shooter and a 2MP depth sensor.
Processor
Xiaomi Mi 10T Lite and Realme 7 Pro is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 750G and 720G chipset respectively, whereas the OPPO F17 Pro is powered by MediaTek Helio P95 chipset. All these phones have Android 10 OS.
OPPO F17 Pro
RAM & Storage
Xiaomi offers two storage options for the Mi 10T Lite phone- 6GB RAM + 64GB of internal storage and 6GB RAM + 128GB of internal storage. Oppo F17 Pro offers 8 GB of RAM capacity paired with 128 GB of internal support and the Realme 7 Pro two different RAM variants of 6GB/64GB and 8GB/128GB. The internal storage can be expanded by an external microSD card up to 256GB.
Battery Capacity
Xiaomi Mi 10T Lite is backed by a 4820 mAh battery and supported by 33W of fast charging. The OPPO F17 Pro is supported with a 4,015 mAh battery capacity that will offer users with 30W VOOC Flash charge technology. The Realme 7 Pro has a Li-ion type battery having a capacity of 4,500 mAH, which supports fast charging, comes with a massive 65 watt super dart charger.
Realme 7 Pro
SIM Slots and Network
All the three phones have a dual Nano SIM facility and is supported with 5G network.
Price
The Xiaomi Mi 10T Lite is set to be priced at 279 Euros(Roughly Rs. 23,969). The OPPO F17 Pro has a price tag of Rs. 22,990 and Realme 7 Pro is priced at Rs. 19,999.
Now, this is totally your choice which one to consider and which one not to. Among these, devices all are around INR 20,000 price range.
The match was between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Chennai Super Kings. If you needed to pick someone who could have been the surprise factor for Sunrisers Hyderabad against Chennai Super Kings in this match, you would have surely gone for David Warner, Jonny Bairstow, Kane Williamson & Manish Pandey. But IPL always gifts us some future stars and some unnoticed gems. In this match, it was Priyam Garg. He played a blistering knock of 50 runs in just 23 balls.
India’s Under 19 captain Priyam Garg and 20-year-old Abhishek Sharma made a 77 runs partnership in just 7 overs which is the lowest combined age for 50 runs stand in the IPL History.
The 19-year-old youngster from Uttar Pradesh was born in a very poor family. His father is a milk seller. But he has defied all odds and has shown the whole world his immense talent.
In an interview, Priyam said, “We couldn’t afford a television at home, so I used to skip studies to watch Sachin Tendulkar at a nearby ‘paanwala’ shop. That was a routine and I faced my father’s ire on a number of occasions. For him, cricket was not a priority.”
“My father did most of the hard work, he did all the odd jobs that you can imagine… selling milk, driving school vans, loading goods, he ensured that I got a good life. He went through all that just to see me become a cricketer one day. He took me to Meerut and made sure that I got into a decent academy.”, he added.
He was picked at INR 1.9 crores in the IPL auction by Sunrisers Hyderabad. If he continues to play like this he will surely catch the eye of Indian selector as well ver soon.
The Cupertino giant has already become a major player when it comes to making powerful SoCs and its latest A14 Bionic was the one that is hugely anticipated. Already the new chip from Apple has been detailed when it was launched alongside the new iPad Air and now we have the chip in action.
The new Apple A14 Bionic chip gives 40% better CPU performance & 30% better GPU performance than a much older A12 chip. In A14 Bionic, Apple has used 6 cores wherein 2 of them are high-performing cores while the other 4 are high-efficiency cores to handle simpler tasks.
Ice Universe has spotted the first Geekbench 5 score of the new Apple A14 Bionicon Twitter. It is indeed the iPad Air 4 running iOS 14, and it got a handsome single-core score of 1,583 while scoring 4,198 points in multi-core benchmarks.
A14's first Geekbench 5 results appeared, single-core 1583, multi-core 4198, still the king. pic.twitter.com/HXMgEfjSuW
This type of improvement is expected as this is the first 5nm SoC in the world making into the consumer space. Whereas if you compare with the leaked Snapdragon 875’s Geekbench scores (1,102 points in the single-core benchmark and 4,113 points in the multi-core test) on the Xiaomi Mi 11, you’ll see a why Apple still holds the lead.
Even my laptop powered by Ryzen 7 4700U is shy of Apple’s single-core performance to give you a reference. So, as Apple plans to use the A14X chip on the new MacBooks, it will easily offer superior performance better than many x86 CPUs out there in the market.
Google’s Nest Audio is still the hot product in the global smart speaker market and within a couple of days, the announcement of its arrival in India is confirmed. Thanks to India’s e-commerce platform, Flipkart and its one time in a year sale named Big Billion Days. Flipkart today (3rd October) reveals the dates i.e. from 16th to 21st October and with the announcements, the platform also unlocks the special packages.
Yah! you guess it right, the Nest Audio also includes the Big Billion Days special launches. Though it’s not clear whether the smart speaker will launch on 16th or on another day during the sale, the pricing will be less than Rs.10,000. The link is given at the end of this post so that you can check out.
Specs & details :-
The Nest Audio is coming with a vaguely rectangular shape with soft corners. Google says this design will help the device to blend in with your home’s decor. On top of the main hardware, a fabric is wrapped around completely.
A total of five colors for the fabric will be available – Chalk, Charcoal, Sand, Sky, Sage. Four LEDs are also added in the smart speaker that lights up when receiving any voice input or announcing some information.
It is obvious that along with the new design, Google also improved the audio part. The Nest Audio is 75% louder than the earlier Google Home and has a 50% stronger bass response. The company added a 19mm tweet and a 75mm mid-woofer.
As the Nest Audio is Google Assistant-enabled, it can do everything other smart speakers do, like playing music, managing smart home devices, getting weather reports, news, and so on. A stereo or other configuration for multiroom audio setups can be formed with a couple of units or more.
5G technology is the most anticipated networking update ever. Many people are still ignorant of the impact that 5G technology will have on the tech industry and our lives. So today, let’s discuss 5G!
What’s so Good about 5G?
The most important thing to know about 5G is that the tech will significantly impact the Internet of Things (IoT). Any high-tech company that embraces 5G will drive new growth and revenue opportunities in the future.
With the ability to support 1 million devices in a square kilometer radius, 5G is 10x faster than its processor 4G and is on par with most wired connections. It can offer up to 20 Gbps, while offering ease of deployment of a wireless network, becoming the first viable alternative to a wired connection.
The IoT industry, which stands to benefit more from 5G, is mostly High-tech Industries. Industrial manufacturing, Smart Buildings, and smart cities, health care, and automotive all these IoT based industries will be boosted by the high-speed and easily deployable 5G network. Technology companies are set to become major stakeholders in the overall IoT value chain and greatly contribute to 5G technology’s commercialization.
Why is the new tech so late?
Many prominent players in the global ecosystem are working aggressively to make worldwide 5G deployment a reality. They are faced with many problems with the deployment due to the technology being new. The best possible method for a successful deployment is linked with trials and errors as there are no possible tutorials available in the market to aid the engineers.
The COVID-19 has severely limited the co-operation between many industries and also limited most of the onsight operations. Not to mention the on-going scuffle between the US and China has pushed Huawei’s 5G development years behind other competitors.
Every tech giant is obtaining patents for their 5G innovative technology, which results in a lack of collaboration between investors and innovators.
The Future
Technologies such as cloud, security, AI, and edge computing can deliver significant economic advantages to businesses by incorporating 5G. IoT is moving our fragmented world of devices to a connected ecosystem that knows no boundaries. The Future of technology lies with the Internet of Things and the future of IoT is 5G.
Finally, Samsung has listed its cheapest 5G smartphone- Galaxy A42. According to the source, the company is demanding that this handset is the cheapest 5G smartphone in the Samsung smartphone family. This phone comes with three colour options- Black, White, and Gray. Let’s check out the features of this phone.
The Samsung Galaxy A42 has a 6.6″ super AMOLED, water drop-notch display with (1080×2400)pixels of screen resolutions, and a 20:9 aspect ratio. The power and volume button are present on the right side of the phone.
The Samsung Galaxy A42 is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 750G chipset, which is paired with 4GB of RAM capacity and the support of 128GB of internal storage. Users can expand the storage capacity through a MicroSD card. This phone runs on Android 10, One UI 2.5.
Enlighten to the camera section. The Samsung Galaxy A42 has a quad-rear camera on the backside, aligned in a rectangle-shaped module with a flash on the top left corner. The rear camera includes- a 48MP main sensor alongside an 8MP ultra-wide sensor and two 5MP for Macro and Depth sensors. The water drop-notch shape on the screen holds a 20MP selfie camera sensor. The fingerprint sensor may be placed on the screen.
The phone is packed with a Li-Po non-removable 5,000 mAh of battery capacity. The phone also has Dual-SIM(Nano) facility with 5G connectivity. Other connectivity options are- dual-band Wi-Fi, GPS/A-GPS, Bluetooth 5.0, and USB Type C port for charging. The onboard sensors include- accelerometer, gyroscope, proximity sensor, and an e-compass.
Regarding the price, the Samsung Galaxy A42 is set to be priced at about EUR 370(Roughly Rs. 31,787).
NVIDIA, this time will be launching its mid-range GPUs based on its latest Ampere architecture sooner than expected. Mostly this is because of the new Xbox and PlayStations along with the much anticipated AMD’s RDNA 2 based GPUs launching at the end of October.
Most of the specs of the upcoming GeForce RTX 3060 Ti have been confirmed and will be a beefier GPU than ever. The upcoming RTX 3060 Ti will sport 4864 CUDA cores with 8GB GDDR6 memory, and the card’s memory clock speed will be 14 Gbps.
It will have a bus width will of 256-bits for a total bandwidth of 448 GB/s of bandwidth. Now, in the middle of these rumors, GIGABYTE has submitted new GPUs for certification to Eurasian Economic Commission, brought to attention by Videocardz. There are four new models based on the new GeForce RTX 3060 Ti SKU:
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB AORUS Master (GV-N306TAORUS M-8GD)
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB GAMING OC (GV-N306TGAMING OC-8GD)
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB EAGLE OC (GV-N306TEAGLE OC-8GD)
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB EAGLE (GV-N306TEAGLE-8GD)
As we see, the 8GB GDDR6 memory is confirmed with the name of the GPUs while sporting 4864 CUDA Cores that’s even more than last year’s flagship RTX 2080 Ti. The new GPU will feature 152 Tensor Cores and 38 RT Cores, while the TBP of the board will be around 180W.
Even before the GPU’s actual launch, the retailers have already started listing RTX 3060 Ti cards from GIGABYTE. Soon, you will be getting to see this new GPU launch late October after AMD’s launch as per new rumors.
