At CES Nvidia showed off a few interesting new things. The biggest of which is Jensen Huang’s new leather jacket. I mean look at that thing: is this a tech keynote or a fashion show?
Are You Not Entertained?
Honestly, I’m a little surprised more people are not commenting on this. It’s Jensen’s best leather jacket to date.
There are also some other things. The new RTX 50 series. Surprisingly the vast majority of the coverage around them has been positive. I particularly like this comment on the Linus Tech Tips video:
Linus Tech Tips comment: blink twice if Jensen is holding you hostage
Because as it has been pointed out the 50 series is a good value compared to the 40 series but not compared the 30 series. I think Nvidia knows the demand for new GPUs is dropping. At the keynote they showed off Cyberpunk running at 240 FPS at 8K. Seriously? 8K? Is anyone gaming at 8K? Also Cyberpunk was released in 2020. Is there honestly no better game to show off the 50 series’ power?
I don’t think there will be many people that want to buy these new cards. The old cards are good enough. Hence the price drop. And many of the improvements are in software, specifically their DLSS, which they’ve purposely restricted to the new…
