MMD, a leader in technology innovation and owner of the Philips Monitors brand, announces the launch of the Philips E1 range. The new family impresses with performance and looks, combining elegant design and innovative features to provide an exceptional user experience at home and at work. The Philips E1 range consists of eight models with 24", 27" or 32" displays in Full HD, Quad HD or 4K UHD resolutions. With innovative features such as Adaptive Sync/AMD FreeSync, LowBlue mode, Flicker Free technology and DisplayPort connectivity, the Philips E1 series enables you to work productively on any project - personal or professional.
 
Philips E1 monitors have their own style

Sleek and elegant, the Philips E1 monitors are designed to fit perfectly into the modern home or workplace. The curved models (241E1SCA, 271E1SCA, 272E1CA, 322E1C, 325E1C and 328E1CA) feature a slim body of just 8.9mm on the outer bezel and a 1500R bend radius for total immersion. The monitors also come with a handy stand that not only looks great, but also provides easy cable management to keep your desk organized. The flat screen models (245E1S and 275E1S) feature a widescreen IPS LED backlight for ultra-wide viewing angles in addition to image clarity and color fidelity.

Philips E1 monitors deliver vibrant visuals

New models of monitors provide stunning visual effects through the use of several innovative technologies. Full HD models (241E1SCA, 271E1SCA, 272E1CA and 322E1C) feature enhanced resolution for superb picture quality, while Quad HD models (245E1S, 275E1S and 325E1C) deliver incredible picture quality with CrystalClear technology. Equipped with UltraClear 4K UHD (328E1CA), the model delivers superb clarity, ideal for CAD, 3D and other situations where maximum detail is important. Select models (245E1S, 325E1C and 328E1CA) also feature Ultra Wide-Color technology for wider color gamut and realistic rendering, while the entire E1 range delivers rich blacks thanks to SmartContrast technology. All models feature smooth, artifact-free images with Adaptive Sync/AMD FreeSync technology and Philips SmartImage gaming mode. This mode offers a convenient OSD (On Screen Display) specially designed to enhance the gaming experience.

Philips E1 monitors are user-centric

Whether at home or at work, today's users demand the versatility to multitask and that's another reason to look at the Philips E1 range. Equipped with the latest connectors, the monitors offer many convenient features. Depending on the model, devices can be equipped with DisplayPort, HDMI or VGA connectivity, built-in stereo speakers for multimedia, and more. Philips E1 monitors provide optimal comfort even during extended use. LowBlue mode reduces harmful blue light emissions, Flicker-Free technology adjusts brightness and eliminates flicker for a more comfortable and enjoyable viewing experience, and the adjustable stand can be tilted -5/20° to allow the user to choose the ideal position and reduce neck strain and back.

Philips E1 monitors are designed with the environment in mind

The Philips E1 range is environmentally friendly. The E1 Series monitors are made from materials that are free of harmful substances such as lead and mercury, are RoHS compliant, and come in 100% recycled packaging. Some models are also Energy Star 7.0 certified.

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Just one year after the announcement of NVIDIA RTX™ technology at SIGGRAPH 2018, ray tracing has established itself as the new industry standard in design, architecture, gaming, effects, and scientific visualization.

The world's leading developers have already introduced over 40 RTX-enabled apps, enabling tens of millions of users to apply ray tracing and artificial intelligence algorithms. More recently, all these technologies were too resource-intensive for interactive work. The list of these 40 applications includes seven from leading independent developers, which are presented this week at SIGGRAPH.

Ray tracing companies include Pixar, Renault, New Balance, Woods Bagot, and Siemens Healthineers from a wide variety of industries. Leading game engines - Unity and Unreal Engine - support ray tracing with RTX. Visual computing giants such as Adobe, Autodesk, Blackmagic Design, and Dassault Systèmes are also adding support for the technology.

“Designers, artists, hardware manufacturers and software developers around the world have embraced real-time ray tracing and AI acceleration as the new industry standard in design and content creation,” said Greg Estes, vice president of corporate marketing and Developer Programs at NVIDIA. "The power of NVIDIA RTX is available from the RTX Studio laptops used by millions of content creators to the data centers of global corporations, enabling you to create better products and more immersive entertainment even faster."

Ray tracing calculates each photon of light in a scene as it interacts with materials and surfaces. This makes images more accurate and realistic than traditional CG methods. The NVIDIA RTX platform, which includes software tools and hardware-accelerated ray tracing and AI algorithms, enables real-time ray tracing for the first time.

RTX. On: Leading Apps Take Content Creation to New Heights

RTX allows designers to iterate interactively on their product or model and see physically based lighting, shadows and reflections. Entertainment digital artists can apply the same techniques to their animations and visual effects.

RTX technology can also be used in servers for batch rendering of scenes that are difficult to render in real time, or for pre-calculations of "light baking", i.e. modeling how textures will look in certain environments for games and other interactive visualizations. And AI acceleration simplifies noise removal, spatial posing, and more, providing new opportunities for animators and visual artists.

At SIGGRAPH, seven leading developers showcased new NVIDIA RTX-enabled applications, including:

Adobe Substance Painter: RTX ray tracing speeds up baking up to 192x compared to CPU.
Autodesk Flame: RTX Tensor Cores greatly accelerate the new machine learning capabilities of Autodesk Flame v2020.1. Built-in machine learning analysis algorithms help artists isolate, extract, and modify objects in footage, dramatically speeding up visual effects and compositing.
Blender Cycles: NVIDIA OptiX™ 7 with CUDA® greatly increases the speed of the open source renderer.
Dimension 5 D5 Fusion: RTX ray tracing in UE4's implementation allows architects and designers to quickly simulate lighting and shadows just like in real life.
Daz 3D Daz Studio: NVIDIA Iray® allows content creators to assemble scenes with interactive RTX-accelerated ray tracing to quickly bring their creative projects to life and render them at the highest quality.
Foundry MODO: RTX performance with OptiX in a completely redesigned renderer MODO offers much faster rendering speed than CPU.
Luxion KeyShot: RTX-accelerated ray tracing and AI denoising for photorealistic 3D data visualization in product design analysis, marketing, animation, illustration with OptiX in KeyShot 9. These new additions to existing design and content creation
applications offer powerful RTX capabilities and high performance.

Popular applications such as Adobe Dimension CC and Chaos Group V-Ray offer users a smooth, highly realistic experience thanks to RTX technology RT cores. Adobe Substance users will see a performance boost of up to 800% over CPU when using RTX over DXR for light baking.

The latest BlackMagic Design DaVinci Resolve with DaVinci Neural Engine revolutionizes video production with NVIDIA AI libraries and Tensor Cores in NVIDIA RTX GPUs for faster inference.

RTX everywhere

In less than a year, RTX technology began to be applied everywhere. All key 3D design applications in the world will receive RTX support before the end of the year. The entire gaming industry is also involved with its powerful ecosystem, including support for the technology in standard APIs such as DirectX 12 and Vulkan, as well as in leading game engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine.

All major hardware manufacturers have introduced RTX-based systems. Designed for content creators, 27 RTX Studio laptops and mobile workstations offer desktop performance on the go. The new wave of high performance RTX workstations has revolutionized the way millions of designers, artists, researchers and scientists work, enabling them to render photorealistic scenes in real time and apply new AI algorithms.

Equipped with fully optimized software stacks for OptiX RTX rendering, gaming, VR/AR, and professional visualization, NVIDIA RTX servers deliver cinematic-quality graphics enhanced by ray tracing at a fraction of the cost of CPU-based rendering electricity for the same performance.

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NVIDIA today announced 10 new NVIDIA RTX™ Studio laptops and professional mobile workstations from key partners that enable 40 million content creators worldwide to experience real-time ray tracing, advanced AI, and ultra-high definition video processing.

New releases from Dell, HP, Lenovo and BOXX bring the total number of RTX Studio models to 27, including the previously announced 17 models. These laptops support over 40 RTX-enabled content creation and design applications, allowing millions of users to apply ray tracing and artificial intelligence to their projects. NVIDIA RTX capabilities are being showcased this week at SIGGRAPH across a wide range of applications from a variety of developers including Adobe, Autodesk and Blackmagic Design.

NVIDIA also announced the availability of a new NVIDIA Studio driver that optimizes popular CG applications including OTOY Octane Render, Blender, Autodesk Arnold, Maxon Cinema 4D, Adobe's Substance Painter and Magix VEGAS Pro. The latest driver adds a frequently requested feature - 30-bit color support in OpenGL applications such as Adobe Photoshop and Premiere for all GPUs. Designers can now work with their HDR photos and videos in high fidelity without the aliasing associated with 24-bit color.

“RTX Studio laptops and mobile workstations create new opportunities for everyone who works with content,” said Jason Paul, director of software and technology at NVIDIA. “The CG industry and creatives now have real-time ray tracing, artificial intelligence, and ultra-high-definition video editing in their arsenal. Technology that previously required an entire studio is now available in a mobile form factor.”

Among the new models certified for the RTX Studio initiative (certified models range from consumer laptops with GeForce RTX™ 2060 GPUs to professional mobile workstations with Quadro RTX™ 5000 graphics) are:

Lenovo Legion™ Y740 Laptop Studio Edition with up to GeForce RTX 2080 GPUs in 17" and 15" form factors, available in the market this fall.
Lenovo ThinkPad™ P53 and P73 mobile workstations supporting up to Quadro RTX 5000 in 17" and 15" form factor. ThinkPad P53 available now; The ThinkPad P73 will be released in August.
Dell Precision 7540 and Dell Precision 7740 mobile workstations, now on the market, up to Quadro RTX 5000.
HP ZBook 15 and 17 Quadro RTX mobile workstations, 17-inch model with up to Quadro RTX 5000 graphics. BOXX
mobile workstations GoBOXX SLM is available with Quadro RTX 3000 GPU in 15" case and Quadro RTX 4000/3000 in 17" case.
 

RTX Studio laptops and mobile workstations are part of the NVIDIA Studio platform, which integrates RTX GPUs and a set of specialized SDKs and Studio drivers. They meet the hardware and software requirements of RTX Studio and have a corresponding badge, which allows users to easily find systems that suit their configuration.

Systems and drivers are rigorously tested at the hardware and software levels in key content creation applications. RTX Studio mobile workstations powered by Quadro RTX GPUs offer additional enterprise-class benefits such as ISV certifications, IT infrastructure management tools, and advanced imaging capabilities.

RTX Studio systems include GeForce RTX 2080, 2070 and 2060 or Quadro RTX 5000, 4000 and 3000 GPUs. RTX GPUs accelerate content creation from video editing to 3D rendering with up to 7 times the performance of a MacBook Pro(1). Models based on the Quadro RTX 5000 are equipped with 16 GB of video memory - the largest amount of memory in a mobile form factor, allowing you to simultaneously work with large 3D models in several CG applications.

Many laptops feature 4K displays and support NVIDIA Max-Q technology, delivering superior performance and long battery life in a thin and light design.

Available RTX Studio models include Acer ConceptD 7, Gigabyte AERO 15 OLED and AERO 17 HDR, BOXX GoBOXX SLM 15 and 17, Dell Precision 7540 and 7740, HP ZBook 15 and 17, Lenovo ThinkPad P53, MSI P65 Creator, P75 Creator, WS65, WS75 and WE75 and Razer Blade 15 Studio Edition. A little later, new RTX Studio laptops from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Razer will enter the market.

For more information about NVIDIA Studio, see https://www.nvidia.ru/studio.

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Transcend Information Inc., the world's leading media and storage manufacturer, introduces the new MTS430S and MTS830S SSDs in the M.2 form factor. Transcend's MTS430S and MTS830S SSDs are built with the latest TLC 3D NAND technology, SATA III 6Gb/s interface and DDR3 based DRAM cache, perfect for high performance systems and can be installed in even the most compact devices. Through the use of high-quality flash memory chips and advanced firmware algorithms, Transcend drives provide unsurpassed data storage reliability.

High reliability and high performance up to 560 MB/s

Transcend's MTS430S and MTS830S solid-state drives are based on TLC 3D NAND flash, equipped with DDR3-based DRAM cache, and perform sequential read and write operations at speeds up to 560MB/s and 500MB/s, respectively. In addition, the MTS430S and MTS830S drives deliver performance up to 85,000 IOPS in random file reads and writes for 4K blocks of data. They reduce computer boot time and provide almost instant system response when working with resource-intensive graphics and multimedia applications.
The drives not only offer high performance, but also support RAID, LDPC (Low-Density Parity Check) and ECC technologies, which ensure the reliability of storing and transferring your data. And thanks to the full support of Device Sleep Mode (DevSleep), drives are able to increase the battery life of the laptop by implementing an intelligent scheme to turn off the power of the SATA interface during its inactivity.
 
Ideal for Ultrabooks

Compliant with M.2 Type 2242 and 2280 standards, Transcend SSDs are ideal for Ultrabooks and other lightweight laptops. At just 42mm and 80mm long, the MTS430S and MTS830S M.2 SSDs are designed to make upgrading your PC as easy as possible - they're extremely compact yet packed with the features you need.

SSD Scope Software The proprietary SSD Scope software package, which can be downloaded free of charge from Transcend's website, is a specially designed software for monitoring the health of SSDs. Among its functions: View Drive Information (information about the drive), View SMART Status (SMART status), Diagnostic Scan (diagnostic scan), Secure Erase (secure data deletion), Firmware Update (firmware update), TRIM Enable (enable TRIM function) , Health Indicator (drive health indicator) and System Clone (system cloning).
 

Capacity and Warranty

Transcend's MTS430S SSDs are available in 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB, while the MTS830S is available in 128GB, 256,512GB, and 1TB. Both drives are covered by Transcend's five-year limited warranty.

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NVIDIA Game Ready driver with support for Wolfenstein: Youngblood and GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GPU

A new Game Ready driver for Wolfenstein: Youngblood is available, which also adds support for GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GPUs available starting today. The new driver also supports Madden NFL 20 and Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot and three new G-SYNC compatible displays.

NVIDIA Game Ready drivers are released on or before the release of popular games to ensure the best gaming experience for new games. An additional guarantee of the quality of Game Ready drivers is the WHQL certification from Microsoft.  

GeForce 2080 SUPER video cards are available for sale

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER graphics cards are available for sale today: Founders Edition directly from NVIDIA, as well as versions from manufacturers. The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GPU is equipped with all the advanced Turing architecture technologies that bring ray tracing effects to games, including the upcoming blockbusters Cyberpunk 2077 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

The action "SUPER power in your PC" continues

We remind you about the promotion, in which when buying SUPER models you get Control and Wolfenstein: Youngblood (both ray-traced games) as a gift. ALL RTX graphics cards and desktops and laptops powered by ALL RTX GPUs are eligible for this promotion. More details and a list of participating stores.

More G-SYNC Compatible Monitors

The G-SYNC Compatible program will help customers choose a display with a good VRR. Three new models have been added to the G-SYNC ecosystem: AOC AG272FCX6, AOC AG272FG3R and HP 24X.

As part of the "G-SYNC Compatible" program, NVIDIA works with monitor manufacturers to test compatibility for monitors that support Adaptive Sync technology. Monitors that pass the test are G-SYNC compliant. See the full list of such monitors here.

 Useful links:

Game Ready Drivers:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/wolfenstein-youngblood-game-ready-driver

RTX 2080 SUPER Availability:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-super-out-now

RTX 2080 SUPER:

https://www.nvidia.com/ru-ru/geforce/graphics-cards/rtx-2080-super/

G-SYNC compatible monitors:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/g-sync-monitors/specs/

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AMD has released Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.7.2 drivers for the release of GEARS 5™ BETA.

You can download AMD Radeon Adrenalin 2019 19.7.2 from the following link.

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Resource Cowcotland confirms from its knowledgeable sources that the AMD Radeon VII graphics card was discontinued last month. Stores are selling the remaining units, and apparently Radeon VII cards will no longer be made.

Radeon VII is AMD's first 7nm Vega 20 graphics card with 3840 stream processors. The Radeon VII was also AMD's first with 16 GB of memory for the consumer market.

Perhaps AMD is preparing its new top solution, which will replace the Radeon VII, in the face of the Radeon RX 5800 or the Radeon RX 5900, based on the Navi architecture.

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NVIDIA has released GeForce Game Ready 431.36 WHQL drivers that improve performance in Tom Clancy's The Division 2, Strange Brigade, and Metro Exodus. It also adds support for GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER and RTX 2070 SUPER graphics cards.

You can download them from the following link.

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Availability of SUPER graphics cards

The new GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER and GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER graphics cards, Founders Edition and OEM versions, are available at retailers. They are 25% faster in games than their predecessors. The Founders Edition can be purchased from the NVIDIA online store.

Extended promotion "SUPER power in your PC"

We remind you about the promotion, in which when buying SUPER models you get Control and Wolfenstein: Youngblood (both ray-traced games) as a gift. The promotion now includes ALL RTX graphics cards, as well as desktops and laptops based on ALL RTX GPUs.

New GAME READY drivers: better DX12 performance

NVIDIA has released a new Game Ready driver that provides significant performance improvements for DirectX12 versions of Metro Exodus, Strange Brigade, and Tom Clancy's Division 2.  Learn more here.

The new driver also includes support for the new GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER and GeForce 2070 Super GPUs, as well as three new G-SYNC compatible monitors: LG 34GL750, HP 25mx and HP Omen X 25f.

NVIDIA FRAMEVIEW is a new application for assessing the performance and power consumption of the GPU

Today, NVIDIA FrameView graphics card performance and power consumption evaluation application became available to users. Video cards are usually bought with the expectation that they will provide excellent performance in their class within 2-3 years. Therefore, it is important that video card benchmarks are available at any time and reveal all the basic parameters: frame rate, frame time, power consumption, performance per watt, etc. Until now, no tool or application has been able to produce such data with high accuracy. That's why we created the FrameView application, which every user can download and use for free.

FrameView can receive data from all major APIs and almost all games, thanks to support for DirectX 9, 10, 11 and 12, OpenGL, Vulkan and Universal Windows Platform (UWP).

The application hardly affects performance during tests, and the built-in overlay allows you to track performance and statistics during gameplay. The application is manufacturer independent and allows you to collect detailed comparative data. With one exception: AMD's GPU Power Consumption API returns some kind of average between chip and board power consumption instead of the real value. Therefore, you must contact AMD for exact values.

If you want to monitor real-time GPU performance and power consumption in games, then FrameView will allow you to do this with a higher degree of accuracy than many other tools and algorithms.

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Today, Nintendo released a video introducing the Nintendo Switch Lite, a console specially designed to play Nintendo Switch games in handheld mode. Nintendo Switch Lite will go on sale September 20 and will be available in three colors: yellow, gray and teal. In addition, a set of cover and screen protector for Nintendo Switch Lite will be available. You can view the full video presentation of Nintendo Switch Lite on the official Nintendo Switch Lite website
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The flagship Nintendo Switch console was released in March 2017 and offers three different game modes: TV mode, for which the console is docked on the Nintendo Switch, tabletop mode, where players can share Joy-Con controllers and play together, and handheld mode. The console comes with gray Joy-Con controllers or neon red and neon blue Joy-Con controllers.
 
The Nintendo Switch Lite console has built-in controllers; it's more compact than the flagship version and lacks a kickstand. This unit is designed for handheld gaming and does not have a video output to a TV, so it does not come with a docking station or HDMI cable. A complete list of differences between Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch Lite can be found on the official Nintendo Switch website.
 
 
You can play all of the games in the extensive Nintendo Switch library that support handheld mode* on the new console, but some games will be limited. The game's packaging on the back and on the game's description page on the official Nintendo website provide information about which features and modes the game supports.
 
In addition to the Nintendo Switch Lite in three standard colors, Nintendo will also be preparing a special version of the Nintendo Switch Lite "Zatian and Zamazenta"**, which will go on sale in Russia on November 15th. It will feature stylish cyan and magenta buttons, as well as illustrations of two new Legendary Pokémon from Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield. In Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield, players will embark on a new adventure across the Galar region, where they will have to catch new Pokémon, fight in battles, and solve the mystery of the legendary Pokémon Zatian and Zamazent. The Nintendo
Switch Lite console (Zathian and Zamazenta version) will be released in a limited edition.
 
Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch Lite owners can play a variety of multiplayer games together, including Super Mario Maker 2, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Splatoon 2, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, in local wireless multiplayer*** or online with Nintendo Switch Online****.
 
For more information about Nintendo Switch Lite, visit the official Nintendo Switch website.
 
Nintendo introduces the Nintendo Switch Lite console, which is designed for portable gameplay. The Nintendo Switch Lite console will be released on September 20 and will be available in three colors: yellow, gray and teal.
 
Notes:
* For games that support tabletop mode, players can wirelessly connect Joy-Con controllers (sold separately) to Nintendo Switch Lite. In this case, users will need a device to charge their Joy-Con controllers, such as the Joy-Con Charging Holder.
** Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield games are not included.
***Additional consoles and game instances required.
**** An internet connection is required to play online. To use online services, you must create a Nintendo Account and accept the related agreement. The Nintendo Account Privacy Policy applies. Some online services may not be available in all countries. A paid membership is required to play online. Learn more about paid memberships athttps://www.nintendo.ru/nintendoswitchonline.

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