Summary of the week of October 26, 2020
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Testing the Intel Xe
Larabel has done an analysis of Intel's new iGPU on Linux and the results are that it triples the performance of Gen11 in some GPGPU tests and that it almost reaches the GTX 960M.
Core i5-10400
Someone has brought the third Comet Lake to our database, a processor that came out on the market 5 months ago. With its 6 cores with HT, it stays number one of the architecture and in position 18 of the general ranking.
They achieve a 10000ppi screen
It is an OLED screen whose pixel density would allow to build 8K screens with the size of a stamp.
MicroOS, a new distro
OpenSUSE has presented its new distro of minimum size thought for very specific uses.
AMD buys Xilinx
AMD has bought the company that invented FPGAs for 35 billion.
Oculus Quest 2 no longer needs Facebook to work
Someone has managed to make the virtual reality glasses work without having to go through Google's services. This achievement is reached after a Mozilla developer offered $5000 from his own pocket as a reward to whoever achieved it.
Analysis of the RX 6000
As usually happens every time AMD releases something new, many analyses have appeared simultaneously that are listed below:
Gamers Nexus
Hardware Unboxed
BuildzoidIntel's Vulkan driver with ray tracing
Intel is developing a driver for Vulkan with ray tracing for its new dedicated Xe HPG graphics cards.