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I think I'll pass on Outlast. Horror games, like movies, are not my thing. But thanks for sharing!

 

Anyway, let's go with a round of news and rumors: a confirmation of a rumor, AMD using common sense and, if true, Intel not making any sense at all:

 

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Specs and Details - Based on GP104-300
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/geforce-gtx-1070-ti-specs-and-details-based-on-gp104-300.html
First off I have confirmed this product with some of my industry sources, they will not say the final name just yet but I have learned that the GPU used is the ,GP104-300. This is now a confirmed fact. The product also is referred to as "Ti" within the companies I spoke to. Next to my sources also confirm a release end of October.

That is all the info I was able to pry loose, however MyDrivers posted information of specifications that might be spot on. The GPU has 20 Shader clusters, just one would be disabled totalling towards 2432, which is just 128 shader procs lower than that of the GTX 1080.

The clock speeds of the GTX 1070 Ti would be higher than the GTX 1070 as well at 1607 MHz and a 1683 MHz GPU Boost woth 8.00 GHz (GDDR5-effective) memory clock. The TDP would be 180W, similar to the GTX 1080. If I perform some reverse math on tyhis, the product would offer just over 8 TFLOPS in perf.

Reference GeForce	GTX 1080	GTX 1070 Ti	GTX 1070	GTX 1060
GPU	GP104-400-A1	GP104-300-A1	GP104-200-A1	GP106-400-A1
Architecture	Pascal	Pascal	Pascal	Pascal
Transistor count	7.2 Billion	7.2 Billion	7.2 Billion	4.4 Billion
Fabrication Node	TSMC 16 nm	TSMC 16 nm	TSMC 16 nm	TSMC 16 nm
CUDA Cores	2,560	2,432	1,920	1,280
SMMs / SMXs	20	19	15	10
ROPs	64	64	64	48
GPU Clock Core	1,607 MHz	1,607 MHz	1,506 MHz	1,506 MHz
GPU Boost clock	1,733 MHz	1,683 MHz	1,683 MHz	1,709 MHz
Memory Clock	2,500 MHz	2,000 MHz	2,000 MHz	2,000 MHz
Memory Size	8 GB	8 GB	8 GB	3 GB / 6 GB
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	192-bit
Memory Bandwidth	320 GB/s	256 GB/s	256 GB/s	192 GB/s
FP Performance	9.0 TFLOPS	8.17 TFLOPS	6.45 TFLOPS	4.61 TFLOPS
GPU Thermal Threshold	94 Degrees C	94 Degrees C	94 Degrees C	94 Degrees C
TDP	180 Watts	180 Watts	150 Watts	120 Watts

>>Personally, I think it's a silly move from Nvidia to counter AMD's Vega 56 win over their 1070, only to be able to brag that AMD doesn't perform better than them at any price point.

 

AMD Transitioning To 12nm LP Process For Vega, Ryzen In 2018
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-vega-12nm-lp-2018,35502.html
At the Global Foundries Technology Conference, AMD’s CTO Mark Papermaster announced that the company will be transitioning “graphics and client products” from the Global Foundries 14nm LPP FinFET process it uses today to the new 12nm LP process in 2018. Global Foundries also announced that 12LP will begin production in 1Q18.

>>As I said, it makes perfect sense. Their graphic cards are very power hungry, so they would benefit from a better node, and this could also help improve their CPUs performance when overclocked.

 

Intel preps dual-core i3-7360X for X299, but why?
https://videocardz.com/72775/intel-preps-dual-core-i3-7360x-for-x299-but-why
Intel is not done with Kabylake-X yet. A prototype of i3 dual-core processor has been spotted in China.

This is a really bizarre processor. A platform that is designed for high-performance computing might soon get a new CPU… with two cores.

The i3-7360X is a HEDT alternative to i3-7350K, which, by the way, will soon be succeeded by 8350K.

The specs of this new processor are not overwhelming. It’s only 100 MHz faster than 7350K. The turbo clock is 4.3 GHz. The TDP though, skyrockets to 112W.

According to the leaker, the i3-7360X is 1.25% faster than 7350K. The price of 7360X is expected around 1699 Yuans (220 USD), so it’s not cheap.

>>I really hope this is a misunderstanding, because the 4 cores chips were already an odd move, and this would be like a bad joke.