

Gaming
When it seemed that it could not be cheaper. Ayn Loki Zero handheld game console unveiled for $200
Ayn has unveiled yet another handheld gaming console in the Loki line. The novelty is called Loki Zero and costs only $200. This is the cheapest portable Windows game console on the market.
The parameters here, however, are appropriate. For example, the APU Athlon Silver 3050e serves as the heart. This is a mobile hybrid processor based on the Zen architecture of the first generation with two cores, support for SMT and iGPU Vega 3. That is, the performance here is very modest, in addition, the 14-nanometer process technology does not allow such an APU to be as energy efficient as possible.
The console also has 4 GB of RAM, 64 GB of eMMC flash memory and a six-inch screen with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. The latter aspect will have a positive effect on the load on the GPU.
From the rest, we can note a battery with a capacity of 40.5 Wh, an M.2 SSD slot, a microSD slot, Wi-Fi 5, a USB-C 3.2 port and stereo speakers.
The same price of $ 200 is relevant as part of the pre-order. Then the console will rise in price to $ 250, and it will be on sale at the very end of the year. True, it is not clear why Loki Zero would be needed at that time, if for $ 240 the company promised to release Loki Mini with the new AMD Mendocino APU, which should be much more productive.

Gaming
Sony’s first TWS headphones specifically for PlayStation. The company showed a yet unnamed novelty

The other day, Sony not only introduced the Project Q portable console, but also showed the first fully wireless headphones (True Wireless Stereo; TWS) created specifically for the PlayStation.
There are already high-quality images of this product on the Web, while the company did not give a date for their launch on sale, or even a name. However, you can recall that earlier on the Web there were rumors about Project Nomad headphones created just for the PlayStation, so this is probably them.
Then it was reported that Project Nomad will receive some kind of innovative technology for wireless data transmission without loss and low latency. At the same time, headphones can also be connected to a smartphone or PC via Bluetooth.
There are no other technical details yet.
Gaming
AMD, this is just some kind of gift for budget gamers. Radeon RX 7600 unveiled for $270, 30% faster than RX 6600

AMD just announced the Radeon RX 7600 graphics card, which is indeed priced at just $270, as we reported yesterday. This is quite unexpected, since earlier rumors attributed to the card a price of 300-330 dollars.
The Radeon RX 7600, as expected, received a Navi 33 GPU with 2048 stream processors, as well as 8 GB of memory at 18 GHz and a 128-bit memory bus. The amount of cache memory Infinity Cache is 32 MB. You can also note the GPU frequency of 2250-2625 MHz and a TDP of 165 watts.
To make the announcement even more interesting, AMD has published the results of comparing the RX 7600 and RX 6600. Recall that the tests in 3DMark showed an average increase of 34%.
As you can see, the increase is really huge. The average rate in games is 29%, while in some projects the increase exceeds 40-50%! And at the same time, the price relative to the RX 6600 has decreased by almost 20%. In comparison, the RTX 4060 Ti is only 12% faster than the RTX 3060 Ti on average at the same price.
RX 7600 reviews coming later today. But if you look at the reviews of the RX 6600, you can see that a 30% increase gives the performance of the RTX 3060 Ti, and there it is not far from the RX 6700 XT. So the $270 RX 7600 will likely fall behind the $400 RTX 4060 Ti.
It is also worth noting that the RX 7600 appeared after the RX 7900, and AMD has not yet announced other cards of the new line for some reason. Apparently, this is the first such precedent, and so far its reasons are completely incomprehensible.
Components
Even the GeForce RTX 4090 can no longer cope with Cyberpunk 2077, and they are going to add a new Neural Radiance Caching technology for path tracing to the game

Cyberpunk 2077 was originally one of the most technologically advanced games, then path tracing was added to it, and now there is information that the Polish project may be the first game to support Neural Radiance Caching (neural radiation caching?) for path tracing.
How the technology will affect the visual component and performance is still unclear. CapFrameX software developers claim that the technology will be added to the game with the upcoming DLC.
As for the technology itself, Nvidia described Neural Radiance Caching in one of its articles back in 2021. In fact, this is a method of replacing the preliminary training of the model with generalization through adaptation. In this case, the model will not be pre-trained to reflect light from specific surfaces, but will adapt on the fly and will be trained directly during rendering.
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