we know what the tech news is all about if a story doesn't have computer in the
headline sorry champ noticed not interested Chief
get out of here all right no thanks NVIDIA finally announced new RTX 40
series gpus at the GGC keynote yesterday and proved once again now when it comes
to making numbers go up they really are the best in the business baby Synergy
model numbers performance prices numbers of buzzwordy Technologies all going up
and to the right like a hockey stick to the Moon baby this train has no bread
NVIDIA said the RTX 490 is two to four times faster than the 3090 TI and of the
launch on October 12th for 1600 US Dollars while the RTX 4080 arrives in
November at 900 for the 12 Gigabyte version and a whopping twelve hundred
dollars for the 16 Gigabyte version that's a 500 price bump over the 3080s
MSRP many are already pointing out that
NVIDIA's own performance graphs contradict that two to four performance
claim with four of the five current gen games NVIDIA listed showing the 4090
performing less than two times faster making those pumped up prices harder to
swallow especially when you realize that the 12 Gigabyte 4080 has a significantly
cut down Cuda core count memory bandwidth and power dry in addition to
less RAM is this even would give when asked where the RTX 4070
was in today's presentation NVIDIA told PC Meg that it's coming which is what
you say when you realize you've already announced the 4070 and now I have to
hiss at the engineers to whip up something else because he renamed it 4080.
the good news is that NVIDIA announced some very promising looking Tech
advances in DLS S3 and Shader execution
reordering which apparently provide massive boost to Ray tracing performance
maybe that's the two to three x huh there's so many good words in here
opacity micro Maps displaced micro
meshes 2D sgm Optical flow silicon and
grain flux capacitors that one's made up NVIDIA is knocking out of the park with
these words they're also taking a page from the bad naming handbook that has
been oh so very popular this year with the new Quadro GPU called the RTX 6000
Ada generation not to be confused with the RTX 6000 from 2018 or the RTX a6000
from 2020. so different hey duh Jensen
you made so many of the other numbers go up why not this one
Jensen did confirm that NVIDIA plans to keep pumping up the prices telling PC
world's gornong that the idea that the Chip is going to go down in price is a
story of the past
leather jackets don't grow on trees and neither does sass thankfully AMD is
doing their part and announced they'll announce new rdna 3 gpus on November 3
also the fight rages on Uncle versus
doctor you can be only one and streaming video sites you may have heard of twitch
YouTube have announced fairly big platform changes in response to several
high-profile streamers threatening a blackout to protest twitch's promotion
of gambling content the Amazon owned platform banned some types of streams
featuring slots roulette or dice games not to be confused with dicey games
we can all get like that however the ban only applies to the streaming of
gambling sites that are not licensed in the US or other jurisdictions that
provide sufficient consumer protection and sports betting content is unaffected
so still gonna be a lot of gambling streams just less crypto probably but to
make up for this twitch announced its top creators would make less
subscription Revenue wait that's not good oh but it makes sense because they
can only make some of that money back by showing more ads
this is a real roller coaster of emotion as for YouTube they are expanding
monetization allowing shorts views to count towards eligibility for the
YouTube Partner program and announcing a 45 ad Revenue sharing scheme for shorts
get ready for a future full of short vertical videos with multiple ad breaks
the way the good load intended format watch me lip sync now it's time
for the quick brought to you by Shadow the service that lets you stream
an entire PC and all its applications across a multitude of devices so it's
not stuck in one room it's whole life which is bad for them you get to help
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main stories chunky bits and we just want to share that with you it's kind of
cute the trunk bits logitech's previously leaked handheld console has been
officially announced by the company it's called the gcloud and as some predicted
it's geared toward cloud gaming through Xbox game pass and GeForce now since
putting Snapdragon 720g chips and a handheld for local gaming would be
enough to make a dragon snap you know what I
the G cloud is still kind of confusing though you can pre-order it for 299 I'm
calling out 300 I don't like this 300 but it's apparently a discount off its
full price of 350 which is only 50 bucks
cheaper than a vastly superior steam deck so almost nothing has been cleared
up and I'm still upset as pointed out by verified USBC expert Benson lung the
folks behind USB have apparently decided to have pity on the poor souls trying to
decipher their ridiculous naming conventions and will reportedly change
USB branding going forward to display straightforward numbers for power and
data transfer speed humans work there
so instead of seeing super speed USB or usb4 you'll see USB 240 watt to 40
gigabit per second or some variation so I guess Benson was right when he said
this would happen and that we shouldn't worry about usb 4 version 2 but I'm
still kind of mad and just let me feel that feeling until
it passes there's a certain Half-Life I fix it as
posted a tear down of the iPhone 14 lineup and discovered that the space for
the SIM card tray which was removed for US models has been filled with
a useless plastic block hey wait like
it's one thing to force the industry towards a new standard but as iFix it
points out they could have put like an SD card reader or something there like a
headphone jack or some battery or instead a little sticker with a you
emoji this simply means the US model is
straight up less functional than International ones so that's dumb moving
on modular laptop company framework which my boss invests in has announced
that they're working with Google on the framework laptop Chromebook Edition the
laptop will obviously focus on long-term repairability with replaceable parts and
up to eight years of Chrome OS updates that all sounds pretty cool and only for
a thousand dollars USD for a Chromebook
I mean this is gonna Outlast my kids school career
it's true I just get him to fail a couple times and Star Citizen the
experiment to see how long a game can stay in development and still raise
funds has hit another funding Milestone people real life people I don't know who
they are or why they're doing this have contributed 500 million dollars to
developer Cloud Imperium games I mean that's that's gonna be enough now guys
maybe it'll probably come out pretty soon probably
I say that's enough Tech news for now come back on Friday for more and I
promise we won't have any news that isn't Tech we hate that stuff yucky
Tech news only the tea for me
and that's the T