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Update: Lisa herself has responded to the rumor, slamming it -- and that she loves AMD and the "best is yet to come".

Prepare the salt because this rumor is a juicy one, but AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su is reportedly looking at leaving the company and joining IBM. Shock horror, right? The latest rumor from Wccftech is a big one, and something I've heard whispers (but didn't want to believe them) of, too.

According to sources of Usman Pirzada from Wccftech: "Lisa Su is eyeing the #2 position at IBM with the eventual goal to end up as CEO and President of IBM, replacing Ginni Rometty. The advanced groundwork for this transition has apparently already been laid down as you will read further in this article. While I do not know the exact reasons for why Lisa would choose IBM of all companies to move to, I am told that this is something that she has wanted for a very long time".

XFX is swinging back into the market with its new custom Radeon RX 5700 series, with two new designs of cards coming out in the new RAW2 and THICC2.

Older gamers will remember the old school days of XFX with its custom Double Dissipation cards, which was a great design and popular at the time. XFX is bringing it back with the new Radeon RX 5700 XT THICC2 graphics card, with a 2.5-slot design and a wickedly-styled 1950s style grille on the end of the card.

XFX is using dual 10cm fans on the THICC2, a full metal backplate and is wider and longer than the PCB itself... so the XFX RX 5700 XT THICC2 is truly well endowed.

NVIDIA has some new downloads that will light up the RTX abilities on your compatible graphics card, with developers working on tech demos for the DXR Indie Spotlight contest which just saw three winners.

The developers tech demos using Microsoft's DXR (DirectX Ray Tracing) API as well as Unreal Engine 4.22 which packs ray tracing effects including reflections, shadows and ambient occlusion. NVIDIA has announced three winners in the contest, with dozens of developers making tech demos -- the three winners scored themselves the highest-end TITAN RTX graphics card that NVIDIA sells for $2499.

The first tech demo we have is the Attack from Outer Space by Cristian Hecht, who is a 3D artist for Tendril out of Toronto. Attack from Outer Space is a 1950s style sci-fi film era tech demo that has beautiful ray-traced reflections, shadows, and ambient occlusion. Check it out:

It looks like we're witnessing the start of a new style of graphics cards from Chinese manufacturer Yeston, with some pretty-in-pink custom Radeon RX 5700 series cards.

These cards will have their specific niche market to drive into, but the new Yeston Radeon RX 5700 XT Game Master is one of the cutest graphics cards ever, while underneath it is based on the reference design from AMD. We have higher boost GPU clocks of up to 1905MHz, but the same everything else down the line.

What Yeston is doing here is branching out from the vast range of custom graphics cards on the market, and appealing directly to female gamers and livestreamers. The female livestream audience and also gamers, is absolutely huge across Asia -- far larger than the US and other countries.

Intel will be launching its new Xe graphics cards in 2020 and we should expect the first one out of the gate to impress, but it won't dethrone NVIDIA or AMD overnight. The latest hype over the weekend was a crazy $200 price that was simply a mistranslation.

Yeah, there is no $200 graphics card coming that will beat the $1000+ GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. Sorry guys. In a recent interview with now ex-RTG boss Raja Koduri, where he said: "Not everybody will buy a $500-$600 card, but there are enough people buying those too - so that's a great market". The original story saw a mistranslation from Koduri by a Russian YouTube channel, which saw Koduri purportedly say Intel is aiming at the $200 mainstream market with its first Xe GPU. Yeah, no.

He continued: "So the strategy we're taking is we're not really worried about the performance range, the cost range and all because eventually our architecture as I've publicly said, has to hit from mainstream, which starts even around $100, all the way to Data Center-class graphics with HBM memories and all, which will be expensive".

We're getting our first look at the new designs of the ROG STRIX and TUF cards coming in the custom Radeon RX 5700 series from ASUS, with Hardware.info behind the new leaks.

ASUS is expected to launch its new ROG STRIX RX 5700 on August 16, with samples already hitting the media.

We can expect the ASUS ROG STRIX RX 5700 (and RX 5700 XT) to rock dual 8-pin PCIe power connectors and a thick 2.5-slot design.

EVGA has just launched its new Precision X1 overclocking software, with v0.4.8.0 including something of interest: Boost Lock. Grab EVGA Precision X1 0.4.8.0 here.

Boost Lock is something you can toggle in Precision X1 that locks the maximum GPU boost state at all times, meaning you get maximum performance, all the time. Boost Lock would override the normal dips in GPU clocks when your GPU load is reduced, keeping clocks at their set-high amount.

This new feature seems perfect for enthusiasts, overclockers, and reviewers ras you can lock a specific GPU clock that, something further than the reaches of what the GPU would normally boost up to. I think it is a great addition to Precision X1 by EVGA, hell one of the best new features in a while.

One of the hottest rumors in the GPU world has just dropped, with TechPowerUp writing up an article that explores the lid on Pandora's Box for the Turing GPU architecture... flashing NVIDIA graphics cards might have just become a possibility.

In its efforts adding support into GPU-Z for NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX SUPER graphics cards, W1zzard from TPU said he "noticed something curious". He continued:

AMD has just unleashed a plethora of products on the new 7nm node including its new Zen 2 architecture (Steve's reviews on Ryzen 3000 CPUs) and the Ryzen 3000 series of CPUs, launching alongside the new Navi-based Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 graphics cards (my review on those here).

In a recent Q&A session AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su was asked about the existence of high-end 7nm Navi GPUs and mobile 7nm CPUs, to which she replied: "I would say they are coming. You should expect that our execution on those are on track and we have a rich 7-nanometer portfolio beyond the products that we have currently announced in the upcoming quarters".

This means we can expect a competitor to NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER (my review here) and the higher-end RTX 2080 Ti in the near future, which should arrive as the Navi 20 (although I'm seeing Navi 12 online). I've heard from some industry sources that 'Navi 20' is a 'beast' and really where 4K and high FPS gamers are wanting, a competitor to the RTX 2080 Ti.

The future of gaming is definitely ray tracing whether you like it or not, as it's the next evolution in graphics, lighting, and so much more for games.

NVIDIA has just dialed the ray tracing hype meter to 11 with NVIDIA staffer Morgan McGuire saying the first AAA title that will require a GPU supporting ray tracing will ship in 2023. McGuire said: "I predict that the first AAA game to REQUIRE a ray tracing GPU to run will ship in 2023, and every gaming platform will offer accelerated ray tracing by that year".

So we're expecting every single gaming platform to have accelerated ray tracing by 2023, meaning Nintendo will jump into the ring with ray tracing in the near future. NVIDIA above all would know, as they're the supplier of the Tegra chip inside of the Nintendo Switch family of devices.