WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.440 It's day one of our CES 2025 coverage. 00:00:03.440 --> 00:00:06.880 We'll be giving you five episodes this week instead of three, 00:00:06.880 --> 00:00:12.320 so prepare yourself for a deluge of tech news that won't let up until we're all lying face down 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:16.960 in a pool of hypey buzzwords. At least we'll go out knowing all about smart toilets. 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:23.120 NVIDIA finally unveiled their RTX 50 series graphics cards at their keynote today as a treat 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:28.400 for the audience members who first had to sit through a supposedly inspiring montage about 00:00:28.400 --> 00:00:35.920 how AI tokens are enabling a borderline dystopia and then Jensen Huang burst onto stage wearing 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:41.200 alligator skin and roared at the audience. Do you like my jacket? Worship me? 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:45.760 After reminding us that GPUs just didn't pop out of the ground fully formed, 00:00:45.760 --> 00:00:53.360 Jensen finally got to the good stuff and it looks good. NVIDIA's claiming the RTX 5070 is 00:00:53.360 --> 00:01:04.720 on par with the RTX 4090 and will launch at 550 bucks. Huh? Then we got the RTX 5070 Ti at 750, 00:01:04.720 --> 00:01:15.040 RTX 5080 at 1000 and RTX 5090 at 2000 US dollars. That is quite the spread and I'm inclined to think 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:21.520 the Intel ARC B580 had to have something to do with the 5070 being priced that aggressively. 00:01:21.520 --> 00:01:26.640 And if NVIDIA's numbers are anywhere close to accurate, this is not an iterative upgrade. 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:33.520 With the help of the newly announced DLSS4, NVIDIA's claiming that all of these 50 series cards 00:01:33.520 --> 00:01:39.040 are twice as fast as their predecessors in some pretty demanding games. All that while 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:46.240 using a two-slot design with double flow through fans on the 5090 where the 4090 was a three-slot 00:01:46.320 --> 00:01:51.920 and many third-party designs used three and a half slots. This less beefy design might have 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:57.120 something to do with all of the AI gobbledygook Jensen was going on about. I'm gonna be honest, 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:03.600 I wasn't paying attention, but DLSS4 and the new NVIDIA Reflex 2 are leaning even more heavily 00:02:03.600 --> 00:02:08.880 into generating frames on the fly with AI instead of rasterizing. There's actually a 00:02:08.880 --> 00:02:14.560 bunch more interesting stuff than NVIDIA talked about and not just the AI you can interrupt your 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:19.440 game to ask about how many pixels are on your character's butt or something, but Mark and I 00:02:19.440 --> 00:02:24.960 would prefer to go home at some point, so I'll talk about that tomorrow. AMD also had gifts for 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:30.480 the tech world, ridiculous new naming schemes for their products, and an aneurysm for Linus. 00:02:30.480 --> 00:02:37.120 Yeah, as detailed in the LTT video, AMD confirmed that in the next few months GPUs would launch 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:45.760 based on the new R-DNA4 architecture, which is optimized and better. This is literally just 00:02:45.760 --> 00:02:52.160 a list of synonyms. They gave no details on the new graphics cards other than confirming that yes, 00:02:52.160 --> 00:03:00.080 they will be called the RX9070 and 9070XT, and yes, they explicitly did that to 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:05.760 match direct competitor compare, which is robot speak for we copy NVIDIA because we 00:03:05.760 --> 00:03:13.040 don't know who we are without them. Shhh, AMD, it's okay. I know who you are. You're chicken 00:03:13.040 --> 00:03:18.000 shit. I don't know who those people on stage were, but if Dr. Lisa Sue were here, she wouldn't allow 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:24.160 this. I take it back. AMD had the bravery to announce that their new FSR upscaling tech would be 00:03:24.160 --> 00:03:31.520 exclusive to RX9000 GPUs, and they also announced new versions of the world's best gaming processors, 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:42.320 the Ryzen 9900X3D and 9950X3D, which beat Intel's latest flagship even worse than the 9800X3D. 00:03:42.320 --> 00:03:48.480 That X3D stuff is good. So for the first time, AMD is putting it in a laptop processor, the 00:03:48.480 --> 00:03:57.680 Fire Range Ryzen 9955HX3D. Please, please, can we simplify this branding? If Dr. Lisa Sue was here, 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:07.760 she'd say no. Because joining last year's Ryzen AI 300 series laptop chips is another tier of CPUs 00:04:07.760 --> 00:04:17.520 above Ryzen 9. That's right, it's the Ryzen AI Max and AI Max Plus 300 series followed by more 00:04:17.520 --> 00:04:24.880 Ryzen AI 9, 7, and 5 300 series chips. And then just to make things more confusing, because at this 00:04:24.960 --> 00:04:30.080 point, why not, later this year, after the 300 series launches, we're going to get the Ryzen 00:04:30.640 --> 00:04:39.440 200 series mobile chips. There's also the new Ryzen Z2 Extreme, Z2 Normal, and Z2 Go. 00:04:39.440 --> 00:04:44.000 One of the Steam Deck team members had to correct people who thought a Z2 chip would 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:50.080 power the next gen Steam Deck. A wacky idea they had no reason to believe except for this 00:04:50.080 --> 00:04:56.080 AMD slide featuring two Ryzen Z1 powered handhelds and the Steam Deck. AMD, listen, 00:04:56.080 --> 00:05:01.520 it's okay to ask for help with marketing. There are people who do this professionally. 00:05:01.520 --> 00:05:10.400 Heck, just email me, I'll help you. Just, just stop. Intel CES keynote was opened up by Interim 00:05:10.400 --> 00:05:16.560 co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holt House, which is too many syllables for me to say all the time. 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:23.200 Where's Pat? I need to know he's alive. After digging through a maze of AI client edge scalability 00:05:23.200 --> 00:05:29.360 type jargon, I figured out that Intel was announcing more Core Ultra 200 series laptop chips, 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:37.200 the 200U series for Thinnenlites, 200H for some more beef, and 200HX for extra beef. Hold the 00:05:37.200 --> 00:05:45.120 mayo. These all use the same Aero Lake architecture as the desktop Core Ultra 200S series, not the 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:51.200 Lunar Lake architecture in the 200V series, which had on-package memory. That kind of design 00:05:51.200 --> 00:05:57.200 has been killed off, but not Team Blue's Arc graphics cards. We are very committed to the 00:05:57.200 --> 00:06:02.960 discrete graphics market, says Michelle Johnston Holt House. It takes too long to say all that. 00:06:03.520 --> 00:06:09.040 Please have a shorter name. Hey, believe it or not, there's even more tech news. Enough for 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:16.080 quick bits. Enough to drive you mad. Dell is chucking out its laptop and desktop brands, swapping 00:06:16.080 --> 00:06:23.600 XPS in Spiron, Latitude, and Precision for the much simpler and Apple flavored Dell, Dell Pro, 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:29.040 and Dell Pro Max. I can see the appeal. Dell executives were probably hoping teens with 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:34.960 frosted tips would once again exclaim, dude, you're getting Dell. As they did in 2001, 00:06:34.960 --> 00:06:41.520 but that was before Dell's debuted album in 2008. Whoa, uh-oh. Also, each form of Dell will be 00:06:41.520 --> 00:06:46.880 further divided into plus and premium variants, which kind of messes up the whole simplicity 00:06:46.880 --> 00:06:53.360 angle. But hey, at least some of them will come with swappable USB-C ports, so you can fidget 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:59.680 with those if you're bored. Qualcomm announced a new entry in its Snapdragon X series of laptop CPUs, 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:04.640 and just like the last time they did this with the X plus, the new chip called simply 00:07:04.640 --> 00:07:10.960 Snapdragon X is slotting in at the bottom of the list. I mean, the flagship X Elite went from 00:07:10.960 --> 00:07:18.160 extremely overhyped to extremely medium hyped, so you might as well go with that flow. For that 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:24.160 reason, I'm a little skeptical of Qualcomm's benchmarks when they say the X is up to 1.6 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:30.480 times faster than an Intel Core 5 120U, which I don't even know what that is, so 00:07:31.520 --> 00:07:38.720 happy for you, or I'm sorry that happened. The HDMI forum has announced HDMI 2.2, which will 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:44.960 double the bandwidth of HDMI 2.1 to support 96 gigabits per second, so you can play games on 00:07:44.960 --> 00:07:54.400 the PlayStation 6 at 8K and 240Hz. I'm sorry, that's ridiculous. 10K at 120Hz. But watch out, 00:07:54.400 --> 00:08:01.040 because Vesa is answering with an updated DisplayPort 2.1 spec that allows for 80 gigabits per 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:07.680 second transmission over cables three times the length they previously allowed, which was 1 meter. 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:12.720 So make sure your video data has enough snacks for the road trip it's about to go on. I'll see 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:19.600 you on the other side of this small room. The greatest trick Microsoft ever pulled was apparently 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:25.200 convincing users they're using Google when they're using Bing instead. As spotted by Windows 00:08:25.200 --> 00:08:31.360 latest, when users searched for Google through Bing, they're now served with a very Google Doodle 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:37.040 looking graphic above a search bar on a page that has been scrolled down slightly to hide the Bing 00:08:37.040 --> 00:08:42.080 logo at the top. What's the end game here? Gaslight people until they discover they've 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:47.920 been using Bing the whole time, and maybe they'll be like, hmm, I guess Bing's not so bad after all. 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:54.000 It's literally search engine Stockholm syndrome. And new leaks have led Nintendo fans to become 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:59.680 possessed of the idea that you might be able to use the Switch 2's Joy-Con as a mouse. 00:08:59.680 --> 00:09:04.960 First off, new images of the Joy-Con leaked on Baidu with a serial number that is valid on 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:10.240 Nintendo's check warranty page, so those look legit, and they appear to have a laser sensor on 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:16.480 the connector side. Combine that with shipping data mentioning adhesive tape to be used as a mouse 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:21.840 sole, which got people thinking about how you can do something similar with the Lenovo Legion Go 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:26.800 controllers. But instead of the controller sitting upright, you put the rail side down and use the 00:09:26.800 --> 00:09:33.520 trigger as a left click. I hope this is true, if only to strike fear into Xbox and PS5 owners 00:09:33.520 --> 00:09:39.360 in games that support cross-play once Switch players join the lobby. Oh no, the children are here. 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:43.920 And why don't you join me again tomorrow for more tech news, because I have to do something with 00:09:43.920 --> 00:09:47.840 all the extras. It's piling up in here. It's getting hard to breathe.