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Here are three bits of news for you:

AMD bundles Horizon Zero Dawn with select AMD Ryzen 3000 CPUs
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/amd-bundles-horizon-zero-dawn-with-select-amd-ryzen-3000-cpus/

Notice that it's for the "older" 3000 series, not the 3000XT. Also, you may wonder why they do it for these procs and not wait and do it for the 4000 series. Well, the reason is likely because the game will launch this summer while the new CPUs...

AMD’s Next-Gen Ryzen 4000 ‘Vermeer’ Desktop CPUs With Zen 3 & Radeon RX ‘Big Navi’ Graphics Cards With RDNA 2 Coming In October 2020
https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-4000-zen-3-vermeer-cpu-and-radeon-rx-big-navi-rdna-2-gpu-october-launch/

This news come from China, so take it with a pinch of salt. Like the next one, that looks more and more likely by the day:

NVIDIA Ampere Cooling Solution Heatsink Pictured, Rumors of Airflow Magic Quashed
https://www.techpowerup.com/268332/nvidia-ampere-cooling-solution-heatsink-pictured-rumors-of-airflow-magic-quashed

Although still a blurry-cam pic, this new picture of three GeForce RTX 3080 "Ampere" graphics card reference heatsinks on a factory-floor reveals exactly how the cooling solution works. The main heat-dissipation component appears to be a vapor chamber base, above which there are four flattened copper heat pipes, which hold the cooler's four aluminium fin arrays together. The first array is directly above the CPU/memory/VRM area, and consists of a dense stack of aluminium fins that make up a cavity for the fan on the obverse side of the graphics card. This fan vents air onto the first heatsink element, and some of its air is guided by the heatsink to two trapezium shaped aluminium fin-stacks that pull heat from the flattened heat pipes, and get airflow from the obverse fan.
The heat pipes make their way to the card's second dense aluminium fin-stack. This fin-stack is as thick as the card itself, as there's no PCB here. This fin-stack is ventilated by the card's second fan, located on the reverse side, which pulls air through this fin-stack and vents upward.