Here's the difference between you and me, okay? You love tech news and
I love you. Speaking of, what's not to
love about today's announcements from AMD? Holy snikes. Did you see that? Wow.
Dr. Lisa Sue and her minions graced us with new Radeon graphics cards,
specifically the RX6800, 6800 XT, and 6T900 XT. Nice.
Thank you. AMD's performance numbers have the RX6800 beating the RTX 2080 Ti
at 4K for $579 and the RX6800 XT trading blows
with the RTX3080 for $649. That's $50
less than the 3080 price, James Math.
And the RX6900 XT matches the performance of the $1,500
RTX3090 for $9.99. Nice. Turns out Big
Nav'i was no joke. Hey, listen.
You get that? It's a Zelda joke. The cards are packing a few new interesting
features. Some are less exciting, like rage mode, which will boost performance
by 1 or 2%. But some are more exciting, like smart access memory, which will
give Ryzen 5000 series processors direct access to these new Radeon GPUs 16 GB of
GDDR6 memory, potentially boosting performance by as much as 6 to 10%.
Okay, man. No wonder AMD bought Zillinks for 35 billion a couple days ago. Right
now, they are just high on life. Now, we didn't see any ray tracing performance
claims today or AMD's answer to NVIDIA's DLSS that they're supposedly working on,
but I think it's official. Radeon is no longer the ugly sister to Ryzen. Hot
cousin. Radeon got a nose job. Damn. Radeon is on a glow up. You got a butt
lift. What's that? There was another graphics card launch yesterday, too. Oh,
that's weird. I thought NVIDIA had already released their cards, but no, they actually delayed the unveiling of
the RTX 3070 until the day before AMD's
Radeon event in what seems like a sad attempt to be like, "Hey, uh uh wait, uh
don't look over there. That's not You know what? Uh we got backwards fans."
But the 3070 actually seems pretty good. It's got RTX 2080 Ti level performance
for $499, which would probably blow our minds a bit more if we weren't being
spoiled for GPU performance across the board with this new generation. The 3070
will be available tomorrow, but if leaks are any indication, this is far from the
last 3000 series card NVIDIA has in the pipeline. References to both an RTX 3080
Ti and a 360Ti are popping up online, so budget
gamers might see some nice trickle down effects of all this sudden competition
in the graphics market. More like NVIDIA is getting trickled down on by AMD
because they're it's like they're move on peeing on them. And Apple may be
getting serious about building a search engine competitor to Google. It's
estimated that Google pays Apple 8 to 12 billion dollar a year to be the default
search engine on iOS. But Google is currently being sued by the US
government over antitrust because of deals just like that. If the Department
of Justice deems those deals anti-competitive, Apple may lose that
income. So, it makes sense Apple would want their own in-house search solution.
They call it I search. I I search iOS 14
has actually already integrated some of Apple's search technology as the swipe
down search box shows its own results
and links users directly to websites. This is all speculative though and an
Apple search engine would definitely be an anomaly in Apple's business model. I
find I got my own unless they sell access for
six bucks a month. Apple web plus it's a
more curated experience. Very very tight. It only goes to apple.com. It's
time for
QuickBits. Nintendo has already released cloud streaming versions of a few games
in Japan, but now they're bringing the technology to the rest of the world. The
Switch is getting cloud versions of Hitman 3 and Control, which makes sense
since that second title specifically can be pretty graphically intensive.
Hopefully, this means we get more Switch ports of fancy looking games, even if it
means that it kind of negates the entire portable side of the Switch equation.
Don't try to play these on the bus. You look so stupid. The Oculus Quest 2 has
reportedly been jailbroken by a nonprofit group called XRSi, meaning the
headset's mandatory Facebook login can be bypassed. Plus users rejoice.
Plus, a Mosilla developer and Oculus's
exiled founder, Palmer Lucky, had both put up $5,000 as a prize for
jailbreaking the device. It's unclear how Facebook will respond, but we might
see a Nintendo Switch situation where they patch the flaw and release new
unjailbreakable devices. So, if you want in on the hackery, you better start your
quest now. Listen,
games are having a hard week. That's right, games in general. Cyberpunk 2077
has been delayed again to December 10th. And please don't get mad at the
developers. They're working like 18our days right now on the 31st. Okay. is uh
the director for Halo Infinite has stepped down from the project. Always a
great sign. And Watchd Dogs Legion apparently has a bug that causes Xbox
One X's to overheat and shut down during a mission. The mission's title is 404.
Is that for real? Yes. Oh my god. But good news for PSVR owners. Sony is
giving out free PS5 adapters for the headset so you can jump right into VR
when you get your new console. Take me on in squadrons. Just kidding. Don't.
I've only played one multiplayer match. Babies, you know, the kids been playing
a lot, just not me. And the website for the Trump campaign was briefly hacked
last night. The perpetrators took the opportunity to display a badly
misspelled allegation that Trump was involved in the origin of the Corona
virus and asked people to vote by
sending the hackers money. Very confusing development overall, but the
site's back to normal now and at least everybody had fun. And if you want to
have some more fun, come back on Friday for more tech news.