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AMD has just unveiled its new Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards based on the new RDNA 2 architecture, but more excitedly -- AMD is projecting forward with the new RDNA 3 architecture.

RDNA 2 is not even here yet, but AMD has said that they have RDNA 3 teams in execution and that the next-next-gen GPU architecture is doing "very well". AMD adds that it is "really excited" on the trajectory of the new RDNA 3 architecture.

We should begin to hear more from AMD on the RDNA 3 architecture sometime in 2021, after it begins to knock things around considerably with the release of the RDNA 2-based Radeon RX 6800 XT and Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics cards.

NVIDIA has reigned supreme so far without any competition from Team Red, but AMD has come out swinging with the new RDNA 2 architecture and the mainstream 4K gaming card with the Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card.

AMD is cramming 72 compute units into the Radeon RX 6800 XT, a drop down from the 80 compute units on the flagship Radeon RX 6900 XT. The GPU will reach up to 2015MHz game clock, while GPU boost clocks will see the RX 6800 XT (at least in reference form) reaching 2250MHz for $649 -- $50 cheaper than the $699 for the GeForce RTX 3080.

It retains its large 16GB of GDDR6 with the same 128MB of Infinity Cache that delivers some far-above-its-class memory bandwidth on its 256-bit memory bus.

AMD has a serious ace up its sleeve with the Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card, which is the very best SKU of the entire Big Navi family of RDNA 2-powered graphics cards and it'll cost $999.

We have 80 compute units, a GPU game clock of 2015MHz while the GPU will boost up to around 2250MHz. AMD uses 16GB of GDDR6 on the Radeon RX 6900 XT, which falls in between the GeForce RTX 3080 (10GB) and GeForce RTX 3090 (24GB).

AMD is really going for the throat with the Radeon RX 6900 XT, with it competing and even beating NVIDIA's very best -- and $1499 in price -- GeForce RTX 3090. We have better performance at 4K with games like Battlefield V, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Gears of War 5, and more. I want to do my own testing, but these results from AMD are beyond promising.

Sony's Jim Ryan confirms more studio acquisitions and buyouts will happen to boost PlayStation's first-party brand.

PlayStation's Worldwide Studios has swelled with acquisitions like Insomniac and Sucker Punch, both of which have pushed innovation with games like Spider-Man and Ghost of Tsushima. Will that spree continue? Microsoft's recent buyout of multiple high-profile AA studios and its huge $7.5 billion ZeniMax acquisition has gamers worried.

In a recent interview with Reuters, PlayStation boss Jim Ryan says that acquisitions will continue in a more discerning way. Sony will be more selective with its buyout offers and will only acquire studios that will organically fold into the existing PlayStation brand.

What is the best format to rip DVD? There is no single answer to this question. If you want to convert DVD for playback on a mobile device, MP4 is a good choice. If you want to create a 1:1 copy to save on computer, I'll suggest converting DVD to ISO image.

Have no idea about ISO image? Let's see the explanation on Wikipedia - "An ISO image is a disk image of an optical disc. In other words, it is an archive file that contains everything that would be written to an optical disc, sector by sector, including the optical disc file system." An ISO file contains all the data on your DVD and its file size and quality are as same as the data on your disc. This way, you can recreate the ISO file to DVD in the future if necessary and mount the ISO file as a virtual drive. Well, how to convert DVD to ISO file?

We know a lot free DVD converters, like HandBrake, DVDShrink, and MakeMKV. However, those programs either can't read the source DVD or they don't support ISO output. If you're looking for the best software to rip DVD into ISO file, I suggest you try WinX DVD Copy Pro. I have a few good supporting reasons for my recommendation.

CD Projekt RED developers are working hard 100-hour work weeks to finish Cyberpunk 2077, the studio's biggest and most ambitious game to date.

Cyberpunk 2077 was recently delayed twice--first to November 19, and just today it was pushed back to December 10. This extra 21-day period will prolong the reported studio-wide crunch that demands employees work 7 day workweeks. Finishing up Cyberpunk 2077 is taking a heavy toll on CDPR's workers, who are now working overtime hours from home due to coronavirus.

Recent reports said devs are working 16 hour work days with no real end in sight. The crunch is expected to continue after the game's launch as more people work on the day one patch. Cyberpunk 2077 just went gold, but that doesn't mean the work is done, just that the game is playable from start to finish. There's still lots to do.

UPDATE: CD Projekt RED confirms this is the last delay for Cyberpunk 2077;

Cyberpunk 2077 has once again been delayed, and will now release on December 10, 2020.

Today CD Projekt RED announced their massive sci-fi FPS-RPG has been delayed 21 days to December 10, 2020. The reason? The developers have to test the game out on nine separate platforms across current- and next-gen hardware to ensure compatibility. To make things harder, they have to do the testing remotely from home. Cyberpunk 2077 is technically finished and has gone gold, but that doesn't mean it's 100% streamlined on every platform. It just means the game can be completed from start to finish.

Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition won't support ray tracing on the Xbox Series S, Capcom recently confirmed.

Capcom dials back expectations for Devil May Cry 5's next-gen performance on the Xbox Series S console. According to the devs, DMC5SE won't have ray-traced visuals and reflections when playing on the lesser-powered Xbox Series S. Ray tracing will enabled via a post-release patch download on Xbox consoles. Capcom previously confirmed the new DMC re-release would support the following performance on Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5:

The developers have yet to detail the kind of performance Xbox Series S owners can expect. Now that ray tracing has been omitted, we should at least see 1080p 60FPS as a baseline, possibly even 1440p 60FPS that's upscaled for 4K UHDTVs.

AMD has announced it will be acquiring Xilinx in a gigantic deal worth $35 billion, literally on the eve before its huge RDNA 2 reveal event for the Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards.

The deal sees AMD acquiring Xilinx in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion, which gives AMD a serious edge against all of its competitors. AMD now has kick ass CPU, GPU, SoCs, and more -- but the acquisition of Xilinx allows the company to expand its claws deeper into its competitors' markets.

Xilinx on the other hand takes its focus and laser beams it into high-performance FPGAs, SoCs for datacenter, communications, automotive, industrial, aerospace, and defense markets. You can see from these markets alone why AMD wants to acquire Xilinx -- a very big move going forward.

We've heard rumors of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti before, but it disappeared pretty quick -- but now a leaker it putting it back out into the world.

The purported GeForce RTX 3080 Ti would have 9984 CUDA cores, up from the 8704 CUDA cores on the GeForce RTX 3080, and less than the 10496 CUDA cores on the GeForce RTX 3090. The big difference here is the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti would have 12GB of GDDR6X on a wider 384-bit memory bus (compared to the 320-bit bus on the RTX 3080).

We've previously heard a new GeForce RTX 3080 with 20GB was expected for December 2020, but then a few days ago those plans were reportedly canceled. Remember that AMD is right around the corner with Big Navi and the new RDNA 2-powered Radeon RX 6000 series being unveiled on October 28,.

Cambridge Mechatronics Limited (CML) recently announced it is building a depth camera for smartphones that is better for AR than Apple's LiDAR system.

Apple recently revealed the iPhone 12 Pro lineup, which comes equipped with a LiDAR depth camera system that enables advanced AR applications that understand your surroundings' spatial map. The LiDAR camera in the iPhone 12 Pro can capture 600 points of data up to five meters away. Apple then uses AI to fill in the missing information to build a 3D mesh of your environment to enable impressive augmented reality experiences.

CML's new camera can capture depth at up to 10 meters, and it does so with much higher precision than Apple's LiDAR camera. CML said its camera collects 300,000 points of data, which gives its captures high enough resolution not to warrant additional processing from a neural network.

Global entry! We have teamed up with Sabrent to give away one of its sought after Rocket Q 8TB NVMe PCIe M.2 SSDs worth $2000 to one lucky winner.

The Sabrent 8TB ROCKET Q NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Internal SSD High-Performance Solid State Drive (SB-RKTQ-8TB) delivers all the advantages of flash disk technology with PCIe Gen3 x4 interface and it is fully compliant with the standard Next Generation Form Factor (NGFF), commonly-known as M.2.

Power consumption is much lower than traditional hard drives, making it the best-embedded solution for new systems.

Lenovo and Varjo announced the Lenovo would become an official reseller of Varjo's VR and XR headsets. You can now purchase Varjo's high-end headsets suitable workstation computer.

Varjo offers some of the highest-end VR and XR headsets on the market today. The company's VR-2 and XR-1 headsets offer incredible visual clarity, which comes at a high cost for both the headset and the hardware you need to operate it. The partnership with Lenovo won't alleviate the cost of buying a Varjo device, but it will simplify the buying process by offering the headsets and computers as a bundle package.

Lenovo and Varjo created the "Certified for Varjo" program, which pairs Varjo headsets with workstations guaranteed to deliver the required performance to power the device.

It was only last week that I reported the current-gen consoles would be receiving a new "Framerate Priority mode" that would usher in 60FPS for PS4 and Xbox One... but now next-gen consoles get some 60FPS lovin'.

The developer has been asked by console gamers about the new 60FPS mode for PUBG on next-gen consoles, with the developer explaining: "The Xbox Series X will leverage the Xbox One X game build. The game will run at 60 FPS by selecting the Framerate Priority option*. The Xbox Series S will leverage the Xbox One S game build, which runs at 30 FPS. We are working to provide an option to raise the framerate cap on Xbox One S and Xbox Series S consoles in the future".

They continued: "PlayStation 5 will leverage the PlayStation 4 Pro build. By selecting the Framerate Priority option*, the game will run up to 60 FPS. *Framerate Priority option releases on live servers for Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro with the October 9.1 Update".

We're very, very close to the release of NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 3070 and now we have some juicy leaks on the slightly lower-end GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card.

The new leaks are coming from a public GPU-Z validation, where we have some specs on the purported GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. We're looking at 4864 CUDA cores, a GPU base clock of 1410MHz and GPU boost clock of 1665MHz (at least as reported by GPU-Z).

NVIDIA is expected to slap 8GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit memory bus that will have 448GB/sec of memory bandwidth on the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. We will have more information on this card as it comes.

The Mandalorian will soon be streaming its second season on Disney+ and right after that we a newly-announced Xbox One controller bundle.

The new Mandalorian Xbox One controller looks pretty damn nice, but you better have those Benjamins ready as it costs $160 on its own. The weird thing here is that The Mandalorian S2 drops on October 28, the new Xbox Series X and Xbox Series X consoles drop in November -- while the new Mandalorian controller will be released on December 31, 2020.

The new controller will work on the current-gen Xbox One and next-gen Xbox Series X/S consoles, with Microsoft using a unique design and pattern "reminiscent of beskar steel". What is beskar steel? That's what the armor that Din "Mando" Djarin's bounty hunter is made from.

Huawei recently revealed a compact VR headset that tethers to a smartphone for its compute power. We don't know much about the headset, but we're very curious about its unique design.

The new Huawei VR headset is a compact device that looks similar in size to a pair of ski goggles. The visor isn't very deep, and it looks like the screens would be close to your eyes in this configuration. The headset images make it look somewhat like an AR device, but from what we understand, this is an upcoming VR headset.

The new Huawei VR Glass supports 6-DoF tracking for both the headset and a pair of wand controllers that come with it. The controllers look a lot like Oculus Touch controllers, with a couple of face buttons and a menu button, along with a thumbstick on each controller. Huawei's controllers also double as a stand for the headset, which is a novel idea.

Palit has just revealed its GeForce RTX 3070 JetStream ahead of its release on October 29 when NVIDIA will unleash the GeForce RTX 3070 and hopefully -- there will be lots of cards for gamers to buy.

The new Palit GeForce RTX 3070 JetStream has a super-short PCB, which ends at the point when the dual 8-pin PCIe power connectors are placed. It seems Palit has dropped most (if not nearly all) RGB lighting from the RTX 3070 JetStream graphics card, with the JetStream logo on the front looking like it will light up.

On the back we have a backplate that extends past the PCB itself, with dual fans keeping the Ampere GPU and GDDR6 memory nice and cool. We will have more details on the card when it's made official on October 29.

COLORFUL has just launched its custom iGame GeForce RTX 3090 Vulcan X OC graphics card, which rocks a glorious LCD display and unique style.

The new iGame RTX 3090 Vulcan X OC graphics card is a hefty triple-slot, triple-fan beast that requires 3 x 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and a full custom PCB with 14+8+4 power stage design. COLORFUL ramps things up with a TGP of 390W, which is 40W more than the GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition.

COLORFUL has a factory overclock up to 1785MHz, with a physical Turbo button on the back of the graphics card for some easy one-touch OC. We don't know what price to expect just yet with availability starting this week. I've got the COLORFUL iGame RTX 3080 Vulcan X OC graphics card up in the review table, and it's one of the most unique cards I've tested so far -- with the special star being that LCD display.

Facebook's new policies are causing a lot of confusion for Oculus account holders and Facebook's support agents. Last week, reports surfaced that suggested you could get banned from Facebook for using two Oculus headsets at the same time. Facebook says that false.

On Saturday, Reddit user kommanderk33n posted screenshots of what looked like an unfortunate interaction with Oculus support. Kommanderk33n has two Oculus accounts; one for himself and one for guests. Facebook's new policy requires that Oculus accounts be associated with Facebook accounts, but Facebook's terms of service forbid users from creating multiple accounts. I'm sure you see the problem here.

While seeking guidance, Oculus Support gave kommanderk33n what looked like the worst possible response: Having two headsets associated with one Facebook account would be grounds for account termination.