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Welcome to our daily column, where we recap the biggest (and not only) IT and tech stories that happened in the last 24 hours that we feel you should know about.

Epic Games presented a new tech demo of their 5th generation Unreal Engine, running on PS5

The performance has already taken place on YouTube today 5st generation very popular Unreal Engine, behind which developers from Epic GAMES. The new Unreal Engine boasts a huge amount innovative elements, which includes the ability to render billions of polygons along with advanced lighting effects. It also brings a new engine new animation, materials processing and a ton of other news that game developers will be able to use. Detailed information about the new engine is available on the website Epicu, for the average player is mainly commented techdemo, which presents the capabilities of the new engine in a very effective form. The most interesting thing about the whole record (besides the visual quality) is probably that it is a part-team yield from the console PS5, which should also be fully playable. This is the first sample of what should be new PlayStation capable. Of course, the visual level of the technology demo does not correspond to the fact that all games released on PS5 will look like this in detail, rather it is demonstration of what the new engine can handle and what it can handle at the same time hardware PS5. Anyway, it's a very nice one example what we will more or less see in the near future.

AMD introduced the new Radeon Pro VII designed for professional use.

AMD introduced another novelty, this time it is a specifically focused one graphic Radeon Accelerator Pro VII. It is mainly intended for professional use and both the specifications of the chip itself and other equipment correspond to this. The Radeon Pro VII is essentially stripped down Radeon Pro Vega II, which Apple offers as an additional graphics solution for its Mac Pro. At the heart of the Radeon Pro VII is the chip Vega 20, made with a 7nm manufacturing process. In this particular configuration, it contains 3 cores, 810 computing units, 64 GB of HBM 16 memory and a performance of 2 TFLOPS (FP13,1), respectively. 32 TFLOPS (FP6,5). The novelty offers PCI-e 64th generation support and the TDP value is set at 4W. The price of the card is 1900 dollars and more or less corresponds to the competing "pro" cards nVidia Quadro RTX 5000. The interesting thing is that AMD does not offer a fully unlocked core for free sale Vega 20, which is currently only available to owners Macs Pro.

The competition for new MacBook Pros is here, Dell has added to its XPS model line

Dell has prepared a major revival of its super-successful notebook line for this year XPS. 15″ model XPS 15 underwent a major redesign and after almost 10 years the top variant returns XPS 17 with a 17″ display. In the field of laptops with the Windows operating system, XPS models are often taken for granted top of what is on this platform to available. This year's updated models prove this claim to be true. Dell installed the new machines the latest processors he Intel, updated premium dedicated graphic karty, modernized display (1920×1200, 16:10, 500 nits, sRGB), which is now at a very similar level to those found in MacBook Pro, improved connectivity (up to 4x TB3 port and SD reader), speakers, fundamentally remodeled cooling system a airflow inside the chassis. Prices start at 1300 or 1400 dollars according to the chosen configuration and the first impressions from the website indicate that it will be about very well done machinery.

Sources: YouTube, Videocardz, Anandtech

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