who's ready for tech news
we're finally getting a look at the specs of the new xbox series x which we
already expected to be impressive i mean the thing has three x's in its name
the xbex specs oh the announcement
revealed that the heart of the new system will be a CPU and GPU based on
AMD's zen 2 and rdna 2 architectures
respectively and keep in mind that rdna 2 is supposed to be the same
architecture used in AMD's upcoming desktop radio online not not from last
gen this is the new stuff wow blown away
this will allow 12 teraflops of computing power twice as much as the
current xbox one x and you'll also get variable rate shading to improve
performance ray tracing will also be supported so the console people will be
able to be elevated up to the pc master race level welcome oh and
there's an SSD which i guess is supposed to be impressive
not GeForce now is off to a hot start but it looks like some popular titles
will be missing at least for the time being bethesda has asked NVIDIA to yank
a number of their games from the fledgling streaming platform including
skyrim and the fallout series although you'll still be able to play wolfenstein
youngblood the other games in that franchise won't be available on the
platform either weapon nine well finn
fired it NVIDIA stated that they don't expect this whole removing popular titles to be
a recurring pattern but this news does come on the heels of activision
blizzard's games also being pulled off the service due to what NVIDIA called a
misunderstanding hopefully NVIDIA is right and we won't be relegated to
playing candy crush with ray tracing for five bucks a month sounds great though
have you played a game it's as shiny as candy most of us still don't even have a
pci express 4.0 compatible motherboard but the PCIe express 6.0 spec has just
been released get out of here five yeah we skipped right to six the pci special
interest group which is responsible for developing the spec called it momentous
progress as the new version can handle 64 giga transfers per second per lane
which translates to about 256 gigabytes
per second or 128 gigabytes per second each way
wow of course seeing as modern graphics cards won't even saturate a pci express
4.0 link the new spec may be more useful for applications like machine learning
and other data center applications in any event the spec should be finalized
next year but you'll probably have to wait a bit longer for it to land on
consumer motherboards with RGB pci slots
which obviously imply performance and luxury now it's time for the quick bits
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i must ask you about the quick bits
is it happening now yes we're all waiting patiently for Intel's new comet
lake desktop cpus but it looks like a distributor that serves the czech
republic and slovakia has jumped the gun listing the chips for sale typically
something like this is a sign that something is very close to launch so hopefully we'll be seeing the chips
somewhere other than prague sooner rather than later
activision is very upset that someone on reddit leaked a screenshot of the not
yet released call of duty war zone that's the battle royale mode the poster
claimed that they stumbled upon the image and they weren't sure what it was from
although the post has been deleted the image is out there and activision is
asking reddit to identify the poster so that they can go after the culprit in court
somebody call phoenix wright hey users find this guy yeah
gamers never snitch dude gamers rise up get ready for your Windows 10 desktop to
look a little different in the near future as soon as today if you're a Windows insider microsoft is rolling out
new icons for its operating system which are supposed to look bolder simpler and
more modern that actually sounds like a good idea for a tinder bio if you're
excited for the upcoming release of cyberpunk 2077 but also want to wait for
the xbox series x there's good news the game will support smart delivery meaning
that it'll detect which version of the xbox one you're using and only download
and install the appropriate features and this also means you won't have to buy a
new copy of the game once the series x drops wow how generous of our corporate
masters so this basically means it'll download the right game for your console
i accidentally downloaded a ps4 game on my xbox whoops
and microsoft's upcoming flight simulator will now feature every airport
in the world yes originally it looked like it would have 24 000 airports which
is already a dizzying number but the final version will have around 37 000
and it'll also have environmental effects like baggage vehicles i didn't i
thought that i didn't know that was enough for me just think you could
finally live out your fantasy of flying from fresno to jakar bhutan and if you
don't get why that's funny look up the airport codes for those two cities when
you're done watching this video oh i will you're done watching this video
right now because that's our show come back on wednesday as we shoot more tech
news at you from 35 000 feet or actually
from zero feet since vancouver is on the on the west coast and we're at sea level
so broadcast live from whistler decidedly less exciting