Summary of the week of February 15, 2021

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PCI Express 6.0 details

A few days ago, the first PCIE 5 hardware appeared. In a year and a half, the next generation is planned, which will allow 64GT/s.

Adding DLSS to Unreal Engine

The technique that allows images to be rescaled to a higher resolution while saving GPU execution time has arrived at one of the most popular graphics engines.

Linux 5.11 available

The new kernel version comes with integer scaling for Intel processors, performance improvements on AMD processors, and RTX30 support in Kernel Mode Setting.

The PS5 comes more cut than speculated

A cross-section of the console's GPU shows that it does not have Infinity Cache.

Anniversary of the anti-Windows licensing movement

22 years ago, a group of people started a movement that lasted until the decline of the PC began. They were Linux users who wanted Microsoft to return the money they had paid for a Windows license that came standard with their computers and they were not going to use.

When overclocking was important

Today, processors come with functions focused on squeezing every last MHz safely and automatically. In the past, OC was an art with which it was not uncommon to double the performance of a processor.

Plasma 5.21 available

One of the pillars of the triad that shapes KDE comes with improvements in the application launcher, changes in visual themes, and a completely renovated system monitor, among other things.

Celeron N4020

Someone brought us yesterday the fourth Goldmont Plus from our database. It is a micro that appeared just over a year ago and comes with 2 cores that can reach 2.8GHz consuming only 6W. It remains in second position in the architecture and needs to quadruple the performance to enter the top 100.

Arduino will make boards with Raspberry Pi

Specifically, the developer will use the new Raspberry Pi microcontroller to power a new board called Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect.

A lightweight Spotify client for Linux

Spot is a program written in Gtk/Rust faster than the official Spotify client.

Nvidia releases GPUs for mining

The graphics card developer has gambled in a market as volatile as that of cryptocurrencies. From now on, it will have a new product line called CMP. In addition, the drivers for GeForce will detect if the GPU is being used for mining and will limit performance.

Tiny Core 12 available

One of the lightest distros has a new version. Its iso weighs less than 16MB and can run on a 486 with 28MB of RAM.

Ryzen 3 2200G

Someone has brought us this first-generation Zen with 4 cores without SMT and a TDP of 65W that appeared exactly 3 years ago. Of the 8 Zens we have, it remains in sixth position in the architecture ranking and barely manages to enter the top 100, remaining in position 96.