- Wow, being in Vegas is so exciting.
I'm gonna try and catch a show and nothing else.
Now, day two is when CES really gets started
with press conferences from AMD, Nvidia, and Intel,
a.k.a. Team Red, Green, and Blue, RGB.
Did they do that on purpose?
We're gonna start with the announcement
that Nvidia saved for the last part of their conference,
the RTX 3090 Ti.
It's real, even though Nvidia's Jeff Fisher
kept calling it the 3090 Tie for some reason.
I think the camera crew was too scared to correct him.
- [Andy] It's a T-T-I.
- It's a T- (stammers)
Listen to Andy!
Jeff didn't say much about it
other than to expect more details later this month,
but he talked more about the new RTX 3050,
saying it will, unsurprisingly,
outperform the GTX 1050 and 1650 for just $250,
which is the actual price you'll pay.
Gamers on the go will have more options for gaming laptops
equipped with the new mobile versions
of the RTX 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti.
But the most interesting thing Team Green announced today
may have been it's collaboration with manufacturers
on 27 inch 1440P G-SYNC displays
with up to 360 Hertz refresh rates and Nvidia Reflex.
That's kinda like the laundry list
of all the good stuff you want
in case you were wondering.
Man, I wanna see those rollout
almost as bad as the weird car AI assistant they showed off
during all the car stuff at the end of the stream.
We get it, Jensen likes cars. (explosion effect)
We don't-
Skip it.
Next up, AMD,
who announced the Ryzen 7 5800X3D.
It's too many letters.
The first processor with the company's vertically stacking,
3D V-Cache technology,
apparently allowing it to beat AMD's own Ryzen 9 5900X
and Intel's Core i9-12900K,
making it the world's fastest gaming processor
according to Lisa Su, anyways.
She is a doctor.
I will keep saying that.
AMD also announced
its lineup of Ryzen 6000 series processors for laptops,
not desktops.
Once again, AMD is skipping a generation there,
and will be releasing the Ryzen 7000 series on desktop
later this year,
built on the Zen 4 architecture,
with support for DDR5 and PCIE 5.0,
and it will also come with a new LGA socket.
Bye-bye backwards compatibility, I guess.
What do you think this is?
A fricking Xbox, they're really good at it.
Finally, AMD announced a budget GPU of their own,
the RX 6500 XT and it's only $199.
That's $50 cheaper than Nvidia's price.
- Whoa, they got it. - What? Oh.
Sorry, I forgot which timeline I was in there for a second.
Things were, things were priced normally.
(organ playing) It was great.
And Team Blue didn't let AMD's blustering go unchallenged.
Intel said to watch out
for a new KS-series processor,
probably the rumored Core i9-12900 KS
to arrive later this year
with a 5.5GHz boost clock.
But even if that doesn't win the gaming crown
Intel says their new 12th-gen H-series mobile processors
are the best for gaming.
And furthermore,
they've got a new P-series lineup
for high performance thin and light laptops too.
Now, not to disparage Intel,
but what we're all really waiting for
are Team Blue's Arc desktop GPU's, which did not,
should make an appearance today,
and which have been promised to release by March.
Those are expected to make use
of Intel's Deep Link technology
to combine their performance
with the CPU's integrated graphics.
And that'll be so cool and very important
probably for the Metaverse and the future,
it's gonna enable experiences.
Just give us the fricking GPU's.
Andy's NFTs will be high resolution.
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Quick bits were made to be enjoyed quickly.
Don't hold them in your cheeks,
like a chipmunk puffing them up, that's weird.
LG had a conference today too,
but they didn't have a lot of real,
innovative stuff to show off,
other than the actually kinda cool, brighter EX OLED tech
they showed off last week.
They had a fancy car display called the Vision OMNIPOD,
(chuckles)
and another one of their CLOi GuideBots.
But that's the thing about CES,
you know you gotta show up even if you don't really want to.
It's like Thanksgiving.
Unfortunately for LG,
Sony and Samsung did bring something interesting
to the table,
with Sony being the first to show off a 4K TV
built with Quantum Dot OLED technology,
which brings together the color saturation of LCDs
with the perfect blacks of OLED.
Samsung is expected to launch a QD-OLED TV
at their conference tonight,
along with a QD-OLED gaming monitor.
Alienware though already showed off theirs.
So once again, the moral of the story is,
better displays are coming and LG missed out.
But, hey, they have really cool washers and dryers.
Qualcomm made some announcements today
saying they've formed another partnership with Microsoft
to make custom chips this time for new AR glasses.
And they're also getting serious about processors
for autonomous cars.
Now, if Qualcomm and Microsoft's SQ1 and 2 chips
are any indication,
this news isn't particularly exciting,
but maybe they just feel more comfortable
holding each other, soothing each other.
Every time Apple announces new M1 chips,
the pain is less like that.
Asus showed off some new laptops,
but the most interesting one is definitely the Flow Z13,
which is the company's latest take
on a Surface Pro style 2-in-1
that can hook up to an external GPU for extra gaming chops.
It's like a refined version
of the mothership prototype they sent Linus.
And I think LTT might have a video on it soon.
(chuckles) Okay, we'll see.
And Dell debuted some new laptops of their own,
by which I mean, new laptops
that copied Apple's designs from five years ago.
The new XPS 13 has something like a touch bar,
but worse, with capacitive buttons
that can switch from a function row to a media controls row.
And instead of putting in more ports,
like the microSD card slot and it's predecessor,
this one has only two Thunderbolt 4 ports.
Dell, come on, come on.
We're past all that, try to keep up.
And I'm gonna try to keep up with all the news this week.
Geez, Louise, there's a lot.
You should come back tomorrow to stay up to date.
Share in my pain.
(thunder rolling) Oh, it's real.