Summary of the week of April 6, 2020

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DLSS 2.0 in action

In this video from Digital Foundry we can see the new version of DLSS upscaling a game from 540p to 1080p. It also shows the improvements over the previous version of this image reconstruction technique.

More details on DDR5

Although JEDEC has already provided some of the specifications for the new standard, it is now a manufacturer, Hynix, that has revealed some details. The maximum speed will be 8400Mbps, the maximum capacity will quadruple compared to DDR4, the operating voltage is reduced to 1.1V from DDR4's 1.2, and the memories will come with ECC by default.

Details of Comet Lake-S are published

Intel's marketing team has published tables with information about their upcoming architecture that will be released at the end of May. In summary, we see micros with 6 to 10 cores and frequencies around 5GHz in all cases.

Firefox 75 improves the search bar

For a few hours now, the new version of the Mozilla browser has been available for download. It comes with aesthetic and speed improvements in the search bar, security improvements in HTTPS connections, and the integration of Direct Composition in the Windows edition, which will bring performance improvements to users of Intel iGPUs in future versions. For Linux users, from now on, Firefox will also be distributed in Flatpak.

File Explorer will have support for Linux files

The new Windows file explorer will come with support for Linux file systems. It is currently in beta and can be tested through the Insider Preview Build 19603 that was announced yesterday.

Clipper finishes its mod

In this forum thread you can see the process along with the final result.