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reviews of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 590 graphics card went live yesterday and on
the whole reviewers found it performs about 30% faster than the 4090 without
dlss which may have something to do with the 30% more cores and 30% more power
but I'm not a scientist thankfully NVIDIA was kind enough to only add about
20% to the price but as Hardware unboxed
points out that doesn't save the cards cost per frame rating from its spot at
the bottom of the charts of course the 5090 also has that fun new dlss 4 with
multiframe Gen which can get you absurd
results like 600 FPS in cyberpunk as
long as you're okay with some wacky artifacts speaking of whack scalpers are
already charging double the 590s $2,000
MSRP but if you still really want an RTX
50 Series card it seems like the RTX 5080 is next on the release schedule
with leaks pointing to a performance boost of around 22% maybe if your
heart's set on the 90 though you should probably know that as Tech PowerUp noted
in their review NVIDIA removed the hotspot sensor from the GPU a decision
they told derbauer was made because the hotspot metric is no longer accurate and
no no longer relevant I mean for instance it doesn't count AI frames at
all Intel's been doing some thinking and have come up with a pretty wild idea for
making PCS more repairable and less wasteful what if we made PCS
modular yeah I don't know I just thought about it last night okay Intel's blog
post is actually about encouraging more manufacturers to work on modular designs
for laptop and compact PCS taking
inspiration from framework and MNT which is great but the article also asks the
reader to just imagine an Innovative
approach that we call desktop modular PC
architecture it's like they hired someone from Apple and immediately sent
them to the blog because yeah it turns out there's nothing stopping you from
building your own laptop right now like literal high schooler Byron hang who
built the custom open- source anyone
laptop using the same ARM so on a module
from this LTT video Wong says lonus doing a video on it reaffirmed his
decision which is not okay good luck open AI has unveiled
operator an AI agent available now for chat gbt Pro subscribers that will use a
computer for you which is perfect for anyone paying the $200 subscription you
probably already have chat GPT writing all your DMs how should I tell them I'll
be there you could say I'll be there there yeah that's good open AI CEO Sam
ultman and some other guys demoed operator in a video showing that you can
click the take control button if operator's about to buy a cyber trck or
something oh don't want to do that it's a good thing open AI released operator
now it'll distract a bit from R1 an
openweight downloadable model from Chinese startup deep seek that has AI
researchers all in a tizzy because it matches the performance of open AI 01
reasoning model the catch is thanks to its Chain of Thought being visible it'll
say straight up that it can't reference anything that's critical of the Chinese
government and then it'll Force download Tik Tok on your phone I didn't ask for
this I asked for our sponsor Jaa the place where you can sell your old
graphics card and offset the cost of a new one although you might need a couple
if you're eyeing the 590 okay all you got to do is follow the steps on their
site to get an instant quote and a free shipping label
what is this some kind of Online Marketplace built just for gamers and PC
enthusiasts yeah it is no more going through the hassle of making your own
listing and having to potentially touch grass it's all online and it's not just
graphics cards Java will take your old CPUs too just go to LMG doggel to Java
or click our Link in the description today we're going to do the quick bits
now so you can you can keep shaking that stick if you really like that but it's
okay you know whatever epic games says the first wave of thirdparty mobile
games are coming to the epic game store app on Android globally and on iOS in
the EU and to celebrate they're bringing their famous free games program giving
away a new one each month if developers participate in the program epic says
they'll cover Apple's core technology fee at least until the European
commission figures out whether apple is allowed to charge developers 50 EUR
cents for every install over a million on thirdparty App Stores epic's
decisions continue to shock me not because of Tim Sweeney's dedication to
open markets but because of what it implies about how much money people
spend on fortnite skins I know they're all thinking this helps developers aan
Neo has announced their newest handheld and it packs a cool trick modular
controls that let you place Hall joysticks six button micro switch pads
and even lettered face buttons wherever you want it's even got some different
screen options options and optional button packs pretty neat hey were you
guys speaking of Intel recently they got some crazy ideas Xbox held their
promised developer direct yesterday revealing that Doom the Dark Ages will
join Indiana Jones in the great circle and a handful of other titles in
requiring a GPU that supports R tracing
the game is also single player only because during a demon Invasion we
shouldn't fight amongst ourselves Xbox also showed off and gave release dates
for the artistic Ally impressive south of midnight the brand new ninja gay 4
and Claire obscure Expedition 33 which
makes up for its horrible name by featuring a character I can only
describe as Dollar Store Robert patson I'm sold and some users have been
reporting getting stuck watching hours long unskippable YouTube ads according
to a number of posts on the r/ yoube subreddit YouTube truly has gone too far
I mean look at this person who has served in almost thre hour ad wait what
is what is that skipping ads yeah it
seems like either YouTube might be detecting ad blockers and doing this to
punish the user or some ad blocking tools are erroneously blocking the skip
ad button Google directed Android authority to their policy limiting
unskippable ads to 15 seconds but we can't prove that this isn't all a prank
and Sundar Pichi didn't send that email and then sit snickering in his chair for
a good minute which maybe it'll be a good minute
before we'll be back on Monday for more Tech news and wow I can't believe I just
spread misinformation right to your face it'll be two days not a minute good or
otherwise I'll try to have an apology video up before then I won't I did it
again