The Falcon, Author at Logical Increments Blog

The Sharks and Whales Update

AMD has released two new 2nd-generation Threadripper CPUs (the TR 2920X and the TR 2970WX).

The Big Fish and Small Fries Update

Intel i9-9900k

There are new high-end CPUs available from Intel, and new low-end CPUs available from AMD. And we’ve taken a look at both!

The RTX 2070 Launch

RTX 2070

So, the new RTX 2070 got released last night, to mixed-but-mostly positive reviews.

The RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti Launch (For Real This Time)

After much teasing and waiting, the reviews for nVidia’s RTX cards are now available, which means we can finally properly evaluate how the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti stack up against the prior generation.

Adding the TR 2950X (and a Few Extra Details)

Greetings!

Major Change:

The recently-available-for-purchase TR 2950X easily and smoothly replaces the TR 1950X in our Extremist tier. The 1920X stays put till the 2920X get released (rumoured to be in October). If the 2950X has not been released in your country, then the 1950X will remain till it is available.

The nVidia RTX Family (Non-)Update

I hope you did not miss nVidia’s conference yesterday! Lots of tech/game demos were shown, and lots and LOTS of fancy words (two hours worth) were used to tell us that nVidia is launching the new RTX series of cards.

The Threadripper 2 Launch (a.k.a. AMD Flexes its Muscles)

AMD launched two CPUs today. The first is the 2990WX, a gargantuan 32-core/64-thread CPU $1800 ubermonster that will give every Intel board-member nightmares for the next ~2 years. Yes, you read that right: Thirty-two cores! Barely 2 years ago, a quad-core was the standard, recommended CPU for most people, and this 2990WX behemoth does not double or triple or even quadruple that: It octuples it! Maybe “octuples” is not a proper verb, but this is not a proper launch either.

The second CPU is the 2950X, a more modest 16-cores/32-threads $900 affair, but make no mistake: That makes it on par with Intel’s best consumer CPU, for half the price. In fact, if you took the time to read the reviews linked below, you will find that most reviewers enjoyed the 2950X more than the 2990WX.

The End of the DDR3 Era

I cannot claim that DDR3 was my first RAM-love; DDR2 has that honour. Or shame, if you prefer. But DDR3 has a special place in my heart, for it was the only RAM that was available when I built my PC. It was also the only RAM available when Orion and I built our office. For about a decade, it was the only RAM for normal users.

A Small Update Now, but a Big Update Later?

For some months now, there have been no new releases from any major company. As such, the only updates we have for now are price/availability related.

The Ryzen+ Update

This quick post on changes to the main chart was started many moons ago (after the Ryzen+ release)—and the chips themselves were added to the US version of the chart back then, too.

But in the interest of getting this announcement out sooner rather than later, there will be no flavour text. If you like Magic The Gathering, you are out of luck!

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