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we are here in gigabytes booth where they are showing off the latest
iteration of their arrow 15 gaming laptop and this is
actually an interesting one so it can be equipped with up to an rtx 2080 max q
graphics card and up to a core i9 8950
hk so yes my friends that is the unlocked six core hyper threaded
processor and it's all in this tiny slim
form factor how have they crammed this amount of hardware in here well
conveniently the unit that i picked up actually had the bottom of it fall off
while i was standing here getting ready to shoot so you can go ahead and take a
peek inside with me see look it has no screws in it hold on wait for it
honestly i did not i did not remove those screws the battery just started
like like popping out in my hand and i was like what's going on here so here's
our GPU here's our CPU here's the cooling for the vrm we've got a dual fan
design like we've seen in previous generation arrow 15s couple memory slots
we've got NVMe storage just a single one of those no two and a half inch storage
but that's okay i wouldn't have expected it there's only so much they can do for something like that but if you really
wanted to add more storage look at that you've got another easily accessible
NVMe slot but here's the thing
Gigabyte's main selling point for this is not actually just that they've taken
a very impressive spec and put it in a compact laptop as you guys might have
seen if you were paying really close attention there this
is the world's first ai laptop
so what exactly does ai laptop mean well they partnered with microsoft azure and
so they're kind of working together to share the cost of development here but
the idea is that they've got this demo here with this appears to be pubg
running 50 45 50-ish FPS without ai and high 50s
low 60s with ai now i had some uh
questions about how exactly it would be that ai would make a game run at a
higher FPS and i'm going to have to consult my notes here for a second
so i asked what exactly does ai do
in a laptop and they said it allocates CPU and GPU power according
to the workload then i pointed out that normally while gaming neither the CPU
nor the GPU is power constrained and asked what benefit there would be then
the answer was well you don't have to turn it on if you don't want to but it's
designed to make life a little bit easier for the average end user
my next question why exactly are you running these as
pre-recorded videos rather than having the actual games running to show the FPS
difference okay they had a pretty good answer for that these are rtx graphics cards and
NVIDIA's not letting anyone run actual games on them fair enough
and then i asked okay what about other stuff and they were
like okay well here's the thing it's designed to be able to predict what a
particular application needs based on a machine learning data set and i went
okay cool so what other demos do you have
allow me so here we have an ai laptop versus a
non-ai laptop and they actually got rid of their
their pre-recorded videos and fired up adobe premiere for me so that i could do
a side-by-side test now it's adobe premiere cs5 and i asked why it was cs5
which is about 10 year old software at this point and i said well that was what we had time for and i kind of went uh
okay and we went ahead and ran our demo um as
i expected i'm not sure if i was the only one here but as i expected the ai
and non-ai ones finished the encode at exactly the same
time um so
really this whole experience has raised more questions than answers i asked um
why they finished at the same time they said well it's pre-production
and um i guess we're gonna have to follow up
and take a closer look at the ai laptop
in the future uh once it's had a little bit more time to
train its ai to do something
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