Warning, the tech you are about to see may shock you if you drag your feet on carpet
and then touch it. So don't do that. NVIDIA's frame generation and AMD's rival Fluid Motion Frame technology have been used
simultaneously to achieve up to three times the performance compared to gaming at native
resolution, or so claims South Korean tech outlet QuasarZone.
Team Red and Green working together is unnatural, but also festive.
It's December 1st.
That 3X boost in average frame rate was observed in Cyberpunk 2077 at native 4K and Ultra settings,
but impressive uplifts were also seen in Call of Duty and Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart.
To pull this off, the QuasarZone team plugged an RTX 4090 and an RX 6600 into the same PC,
installed both of their drivers, then hooked up the primary display to the 6600, while
the 4090 was set as the primary GPU in Windows.
That meant the 4090's post-frame-gen output passed through the 6600 and got its frames
fluidly motioned, which looks like this, I imagine.
Of course, this incredible setup is also horribly impractical, since you'd need a motherboard
with two X16 PCIe slots and enough space for a 4090 plus an additional GPU and enough juice
for both of them. On top of that, fluid motion frames is in beta, meaning crashes may occur, and the feature
deactivates during fast movement, leading to massive frame drops during motion, ironically
making said motion frames incredibly unfluid.
While the average frame rate was pretty good, the 1% lows either barely increase or actually
decrease. On top of that, both frame-generating solutions can introduce visual artifacts and increase
input lag. So if you try this at home, you'll be spending a lot of time and money to potentially make
yourself sick. But hey, that's what being a gamer is all about.
Earlier this week, Elon Musk hosted Tesla's Cybertruck Delivery presentation, where he
let 10 lucky customers drive away in the newly launched vehicle, while taking a delightful
break from letting himself drive away Twitter's advertisers.
Despite Musk promising the event will be the biggest product launch by far on Earth this
year, many Cybertruck enthusiasts found the event quote, cringe.
And not just because they decided to repeat 2019's infamous metal ball window demo with
a half-hearted baseball pitch. The spirit of it was intact.
As of now, two versions of the finalized Cybertruck are currently available, a dual motor configuration
for $80,000 and a tri-motor performance variant for $100,000.
Any mathematicians in the audience may surmise that neither of those numbers are equal to
the promised $40,000 starting price back in 2019.
Hey, wait a second. And it's not just a price difference either.
Both the total carry weight and the mileage range of the Cybertruck are noticeably lower
than what was originally advertised, leading many to reconsider buying the EV.
Though to be fair to Tesla, there is a range extender option for the Cybertruck, and all
it will cost you, other than the additional cost, is more of the truck's carry weight
and about half of the available bed space. And why would you need either of those things in a pickup truck?
It's just to look cool. An NVIDIA is rumored to be launching a new GPU in China called the RTX 4090D that complies
with the US's Chinese export policies. Apparently, the reason the 4090 non-D isn't allowed in China is due to its total processing
performance, or TBP, being rated above 4,800 trillions of operations per second, also known
as a lot. To account for this, leaks suggest the D will use an AD 102-250 GPU rather than the AD 102-300
on the original non-D. That's my reference.
I thought it was vanilla swirl. Given that back in March, NVIDIA changed the 4090's die to an AD 102-301, which has
a slightly lower voltage maximum, going from 300 to 250 probably represents a big change.
While we don't yet know for sure, it's possible that not only will the CUDA core performance
be affected, but the TENSOR core performance will be as well if the change is this significant.
This would make sense since TENSOR cores affect the card's AI capabilities, and AI performance
is a major factor in these export restrictions. Another unknown is how the card will compare to the 4080 Super that is rumored to come
out in January. What we do know is that however much the 4090 D costs, it'll be too much.
Just want to play some games, NVIDIA. It was the bits of times.
It was the quickest of times. Charles Dickens said that once.
Google's Threat Analysis Group has discovered several massive and actively exploited vulnerabilities
in Chrome and Apple's WebKit in a 48-hour span.
On Thursday, Apple patched the flaws in WebKit, one that allowed hackers to access sensitive
information and another that could make vulnerable devices execute malicious code.
Google patched seven Chrome vulnerabilities back on Tuesday, one of which already had
exploits available in the wild, though the company said nothing else about it.
It's probably for the best, since Google doesn't want to help someone else get access
to your private information. They don't need the competition. That's for their special information box that they keep under their bed.
The ROG Ally just got way better, according to the newest episode of the official ROG
podcast, a thing I just learned exists. According to that pod, the Ally now has gyroscope support and control customization options,
allowing you to individually adjust the sensitivity of each joystick.
There's also control calibration options, so you can recalibrate the joysticks to account
for dead zones that may develop over time. Or you could install a compatible third-party Hall Effect joysticks and never have to think
about that ever until the end of time, basically. It's nice to have options, though.
An AI-powered tool from Google DeepMind called Nome has predicted recipes for 2.2 million
new crystals, with 380,000 of those being stable enough to potentially enable the development
of new superconductors, batteries, computer chips, and more.
Google says discovering this amount of recipes would have taken 800 years using normal, squishy
human intelligence, and even longer to cook the darn things.
Just clean the kitchen and now there's vanadium everywhere, vanadium?
Even better, Google's giving researchers free access to the data, and 736 of the materials
are being synthesized and tested right now. So don't you worry, chatGPT will have an indestructible physical body soon enough.
You will not be able to defeat them. But at Tufts University and Harvard have created itty-bitty self-assembling robots made out
of hundreds of cultured human trachea cells that they're calling anthrobots.
In the lab, these tiny transformers were able to combine into a superbot to repair a scratch
in a layer of neural tissue without any need for genetic manipulation.
Maybe one day they'll be used to heal and regrow parts of patients' bodies, and to
fight the equally tiny disease-acons that secretly cause all sickness.
I liked it. And Google has issued an apology to the dozens of drivers and families that Google Maps mistakenly
directed down an otherwise abandoned dirt road in the Mojave Desert, ostensibly to
avoid a dust storm. The new route was supposed to shave 50 minutes off their trip, but instead it just led to
a washed out dead end and wrecked one vehicle badly enough that it had to be towed.
This is just like in the book of Exodus, when the Israelites are wandering the desert, but
every few minutes Moses goes, ding, recalculating, and then Moses stares an ocean here.
But there's no need to recalculate when I direct you to come back on Monday for more
tech news. We won't wreck your car. I mean, we'll try.
No promises. Why'd you bring your car?