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In the previous article , I had mentioned that I am inclined towards Nvidia graphic cards currently. The main reason for this has been the performance improvement over the previous generation along with almost no increase in pricing. It is not cheap but compared to the pricing of the previous generations, this is relatively reasonable. Another reason being Radeon not really having anything comparable in their previous generation. Nvidia pushed back the release dates for RTX 3070 due to stock issues it faced during the release of RTX 3080 and 3090 cards. The new release date is on October 29, 2020 which a day later than the Radeon launch event on October 28, 2020. This is great as those looking to buy the RTX 3070 can at least know what AMD has for its Radeon lineup. So based on this I have decided to wait till the AMD Radeon launch over and then finalize on the graphics card. I will update this article after the launch of AMD Radeon Big Navi. So stay tuned... Update: AMD revealed it...

AMD announced it's Zen 3 lineup on 8th October, 2020. The launch was exciting as it was the first time AMD has got so close to Intel and in some cases outperformed it in terms of gaming performance. Let's look at the main highlights of the launch: 8-core CCX (core complex) AMD has changed its layout to fit 8 cores in a single CCX module when compared to 4 cores in Zen 2. This avoids the need to split 32MB L3 cache into 2x 16MB making the entire 32MB accessible directly to all cores. This not only reduces memory latency but also provides great improvements in gaming and single core performance. This is one of the major reasons for such increase in performance when compared to the previous generation. 19% higher instructions per clock Before the launch, it was expected that Zen 3 would bring in 15% higher IPC but it has brought in 4% more than what was expected which is tremendous. IPC is nothing but the number of instructions that the CPU can execute in a single clock cycle. Thi...