Amazon launches mobile-only Prime Video plan in partnership with Airtel

Amazon has launched a mobile-only edition of Prime Video called Prime Video Mobile Edition. The mobile-only plan has launched in partnership with Airtel. It will be available with the Rs 89 recharge from Airtel. The Rs 89 recharge is an introductory offer and there is no information on how long the introductory offer will last or what will be the price of the recharge after the introductory offer ends. 

Amazon Prime Video Mobile Edition available with Airtel prepaid recharges

Amazon Prime Video Mobile Edition is a single-user mobile-only plan. This means that only one person can consume content at a given time. It will provide playback in SD only, so you will have to recharge using a higher tier plan to get access to the full Prime Video experience if you want HD video and HDR support. 

According to the press release shared, “As part of the Prime Video Mobile Edition launch in India, all Airtel customers on bundled pre-paid packs can avail a 30-day free trial by simply signing up to Amazon from the Airtel Thanks app using their mobile number. After the 30 days free trial, Airtel customers can continue to enjoy Prime Video Mobile Edition through pre-paid recharges starting at an introductory offer of ₹89, to get 28-days of Prime Video Mobile Edition along with 6GB data or choose a ₹299 pack of 28-day validity that includes Prime Video Mobile Edition along with unlimited calls, data access of 1.5 GB per day”.

Put simply, Prime Video Mobile Edition is available with 2 recharges from Airtel. 

The Rs 89 recharge which gives users 28 days validity and 6GB data overall. 

The second is the Rs 299 plan that gives users access to Prime Video Mobile Edition, unlimited calling, 1.5 GB per day with a 28 days validity.  

For the complete Prime Video experience that includes multi-user access, streaming across devices including Smart TV and the ability to enjoy content in HD/UHD, users will have to resort to a higher tier recharge This complete access experience also includes other Prime benefits such as ad-free music with Prime Music and free fast shipping on Amazon.in 

For the full Amazon Prime experience, users “will have the option of recharging with a 30-day Amazon Prime membership at ₹131 or recharge with a Rs 349 pack of 28-day validity that includes Amazon Prime membership along with unlimited calling, data access of 2 GB per day”.

Users can make the recharge using the Airtel Thanks app or at one of Airtel's recharge points

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Dell Refreshes Alienware m15, m17 Laptops With GeForce RTX 30-Series GPUs, Ryzen-Powered R10 Desktop Announced

Dell Alienware m15 R4 and Alienware m17 R4, as per the company’s announcement at CES 2021, will be refreshed with Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs. It has not been confirmed exactly which GPUs will be powered these laptop models.

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Hitman 3 Release Date, System Requirements, Locations, Review, Gameplay, and More

Hitman 3 is set to release on January 20 across platforms. For the first time ever, players can step into the shoes of Agent 47 via PlayStation VR. Hitman 3 will also be the first title in the World of Assassination trilogy to be released on Nintendo Switch. Check out all the details regarding the upcoming stealth action game.

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Asus ROG Flow X13 Ultraportable Gaming Laptop, Strix Scar 17, Zephyrus Duo 15 SE Launched at CES 2021

The laptops use AMD's brand new Ryzen 5000-series CPUs and Nvidia GeForce RTX 30-series GPUs

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AMD Ryzen 5000 Laptop CPUs, Mobile 'RDNA2' Radeon GPUs, Mid-Range Desktop GPUs Announced at CES 2021

The new AMD Ryzen 500 series CPUs for ultraportable and gaming laptops promise class-leading performance across workloads.

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CES 2021 - NVIDIA announces GeForce RTX 3060 mid-range gaming graphics card at USD 329

NVIDIA’s CES offerings weren’t limited to just notebook RTX 30 GPUs. The company also announced their latest mid-range graphics card in the 60-class of GPUs with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060. The card will be priced at USD 329 which translates to approximately INR 24,000 and will feature 12 GB of GDDR6 video memory. Folks looking to purchase the new card will have to wait till the end of February 2021. It is unsure if NVIDIA will have Founders Edition cards for the RTX 3060 or if only partner cards will be available. NVIDIA did state that they were working on the stock situation for the new RTX 30 desktop graphics cards. Additionally, NVIDIA is enabling Resizable BAR starting with the RTX 3060 so we should see the launch drivers enabling the PCIe feature across all RTX 30 cards.

“There’s unstoppable momentum behind ray tracing, which has quickly redefined the new standard of gaming,” said Matt Wuebbling, vice president of global GeForce marketing at NVIDIA. “The NVIDIA Ampere architecture has been our fastest-selling ever, and the RTX 3060 brings the strengths of the RTX 30 Series to millions more gamers everywhere.”

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Specifications

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 will sport 12 GB of GDDR6 memory which is more than the 3060 Ti that has only 8 GB of VRAM. NVIDIA’s compression algorithm is good enough to make do with the high-speed low-capacity video buffers but with AMD’s RX 6000 launch it’s definitely feeling the pressure to include more video memory. The 3060 will use a 192-bit interface and can crunch out 13 TFLOPs for shader performance, 25 TFLOPs for ray-tracing performance, 101 TFLOPs for DLSS performance. More specifications will be released closer to launch.

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CES 2021 - NVIDIA unveils Ampere RTX 30 based mobile GPUs for gaming and content creation laptops

NVIDIA announced Ampere architecture based RTX 30 mobile GPUs for laptops built for gaming and content creation. These new GPUs will succeed to older gen RTX 20 series mobile GPUs. NVIDIA partners are reportedly preparing more than 70 models for launch in the coming months. The launch is centered around three RTX SKUs – RTX 3060, RTX 3070 and RTX 3080. NVIDIA states that these partner laptops featuring the new Ampere GPUs will begin later this month (January 26th onwards) even though desktop RTX 30 cards are extremely hard to come by in the Indian as well as global markets. NVIDIA also unveiled the RTX 3060 desktop GPU during their CES 2021 virtual event.

“After taking the desktop market by storm, our NVIDIA Ampere architecture is now powering the world’s fastest laptops,” said Kaustubh Sanghani, vice president and general manager of GeForce OEM at NVIDIA. “Nowhere does power efficiency matter more than in gaming laptops, a market that’s grown 7x in the past seven years. These new thin and light systems are based on our Max-Q technologies, where every aspect — CPU, GPU, software, PCB design, power delivery, thermals — is optimized for power and performance.”

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, 3070 and 3080 mobile details

NVIDIA has had Max-Q and Max-P GPUs for gaming and content creation use cases. Max-Q variants are slightly underclocked compared to their desktop variants whereas Max-P are closer to their desktop cousins. Thus far, the desktop RTX 3060 has proven to provide a significant performance increment over the desktop RTX 2080 and even equalling the RTX 2080 Super in some games. It remains to be seen if the same characteristics will be observed in these new notebook GPUs as well.

The RTX 3070 also boasts of a significant performance uptick over the RTX 2070 and is suited for 1440p gaming. And lastly, the RTX 3080 features a massive 16GB video buffer and claims to provide more than 100 FPS with ultra settings at 1440p. And when it comes to eSports, these new RTX 30 laptops claim to provide more than 240 FPS ensuring proper utilisation of the high-refresh rate panels that they generally ship with.

Pricing for RTX 3060, 3070 and 3080 laptops

Laptops featuring the RTX 3060 will be priced starting $999, the RTX 3070 laptops will start $1299 and the RTX 3080 laptops will start from $1999 onwards.

NVIDIA RTX 3060, 3070 and 3080 mobile GPU features

NVIDIA incorporates several features to make the RTX GPUs more suitable for mobile form factors. These primarily deal with power, thermal and acoustic management. Here are the features at a glance.

Dynamic Boost 2.0: This is a power management feature which allocates power intelligently between the CPU and GPU based on the dynamic power needs that the currently running task may require.

WhisperMode 2.0: This is another power and acoustic management feature that is customised per laptop model to suit the manufacturer’s thermal and acoustic limits.

Resizable BAR: This is a PCIe technology that allows the CPU to access all of the GPU’s memory pool providing performance boosts in games that can make use of the same.

NVIDIA DLSS: Perhaps one of the biggest improvements with RTX 30 series is DLSS 2.0 which is an upscaling algorithm that scales high-setting low-res images to fit higher resolution displays. Coupled with NVIDIA’s hardware-accelerated ray-tracing feature, this forms a powerful combination.

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