Custom Radeon RX 5700 cards come in mid-August
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If all goes well

According to our sources, custom Radeon RX 5700 won't be available before mid-August.

Nvidia preparing Super Turing RTX refresh
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RTX 2080, 2070 and 2060 to get a more CUDA cores, faster memory

According to fresh leaks, it appears that Nvidia will launch a full refresh of its RTX series in mid-July, giving all cards a slight bump in CUDA core count as well as more or faster 16Gbps memory in some cases.

Rest of AMD RX 5700 specifications revealed
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Might explain why non-XT is priced higher than expected

AMD has released full specifications of its upcoming Radeon RX 5700 series, which reveal a few more details regarding the actual RDNA architecture behind first 7nm Navi GPUs as well as explains why the RX 5700 (non-XT) is priced a tad bit higher than expected.

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X breaks benchmarking records
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And it is not out yet

AMD's Ryzen 9 3950X isn't out yet but it appears to be breaking benchmarking records.

Radeon 5700 Navi doesn’t have Ray tracing
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A different angle look

The Navi paper-launched when I was still in sunny Tuscany taking a break from the tech, but here are some of the things that have caught my attention. No Ray tracing, no high end, and only performance/mainstream, not much benefit from 7nm, and nine months late to fight 2070 are just a part of it.