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Some new info about the upcoming RTX 2060 and AMD's new Adrenalin driver have appeared online:

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 OC pictured, features 1920 CUDA cores
https://videocardz.com/79237/gigabyte-geforce-rtx-2060-oc-pictured-features-1920-cuda-cores
Our sources at Gigabyte have confirmed GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card launching soon. The card features TU106 GPU with 1920 CUDA cores and 6GB of GDDR6 memory. The model pictured below is factory-overclocked, but the exact clock remains unconfirmed.

>>Sadly, I can't post the included pic. In any case, the specs of this card should be 1920 shaders and 120 TMUs, the same as the GTX 1070, but with 48 ROPs instead than 64.

 

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition: all you need to know
https://videocardz.com/79307/amd-radeon-software-adrenalin-2019-edition-all-you-need-to-know
Adrenalin 2019 is not really a performance uplift driver. The only slide with meaningful performance figures compares the new driver to (now) ancient 17.12.1 driver. Most of the games in this comparison were not even out when 17.12.1 was available. A claim is made that average performance increased (up to) 15% for Radeon RX 570.

From my understanding, the new driver is focusing on features rather than performance. However, there are slides devoted to Chill or ResX improvements, which some of you may find interesting.

As for the rest, here are my notes from the whole press deck.