I'm Furious But NVIDIA Is Right - WAN Show September 22, 2023

The WAN Show

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🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 218 minutes

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Timestamps (Courtesy of NoKi1119) Note: Timing may be off due to sponsor change:

0:00 Chapters.

0:55 Intro.

1:20 Topic #1: NVIDIA releases DLSS 3.5.

2:02 NVIDIA's claims, "AI is the future of gaming."

3:44 Linus on native res gaming, DLSS implementation, Luke on possible issues.

8:52 Linus on using AI to game dev, data processing.

15:02 Game dev, graphical fidelity, Luke's "story."

20:41 Stream dies, spliced VOD.

20:43 Topic #2: Microsoft's Nintendo acquisition plans leaked.

21:57 How rumors spread, LTT food & LinusCatTips

22:58 Documents leaks planned projects for Xbox.

25:11 ZeniMax's planned games, Luke on Tomb Raider.

28:52 Microsoft's interest to acquire companies, Luke on companies that fell off.

30:51 Nintendo Switch's power, lack of roadmap, "it's Tomb Raider, who cares?!"

36:00 Luke on Microsoft's roadmap presentation, "pyramid scheme."

39:02 Lack of themed Xbox, Linus's & Luke's experience, Luke's TV, Confused Dan.

45:53 Merch Messages #1 ft. Not-so-smart Linus.

1:01:17 Topic #3: Microsoft's Copilot AI companion.

1:04:02 M365 Copilot's release date, OpenAI's DALL-E 3, new Surface devices.

1:08:44 Trying out Copilot, failing miserably.

1:17:13 Viewer logs in using Steam's QR, crew baffled & impressed.

1:18:35 Luke's prompt suggestions, Linus's drawing, Luke on Copilot's preview.

1:35:55 Linus vents about Microsoft's search ft. Sleep Country.

1:38:01 Topic #4: House LAN center update.

1:41:09 Linus on rack ports, custom terminated cables, pool watercooling.

1:45:20 Planned LTT videos, thermal camera, heat exchanger & transfer.

1:59:08 Server-heated fireplace, Linus on existing tubes & hot water pipes.

2:05:10 Sponsors

2:09:07 LTTStore's new onesie ft. Linus & Luke wearing it.

2:10:20 Merch Messages #2.

2:10:24 Logistics team's reaction to the M&P truck ft. G4 cube, Z Fold 3 repair.

2:32:48 How did Luke get the Starfield Constellation Edition Smartwatch?

2:34:39 Would the badminton center include rental rackets?

2:36:29 RAM in Intel & AMD chips? ft. Luke's phone, old hardware, CD movies, RF-blocking paint.

2:51:28 Topic #5: LTX2024 is not happening.

2:54:17 Whale LAN, potential to improve Whale LAN.

2:59:33 Whaler_99, OG LTT forums mod, officially hired as LMG's IT guy.

3:01:55 LMG employees' comments on M&P's owner & video production.

3:04:12 Best parts that didn't make it into the video? ft. Linus is a fainter.

3:11:26 Topic #6: Asus's ROG Ally base model.

3:11:44 Topic #7: New YouTube policy allows channels to change YT name only.

3:13:06 Topic #8: Unity swaps their install fees change with a new plan.

3:14:25 Merch Messages #3 ft. WAN Show After Dark.

3:15:03 What's the itch factor on the LTT merino T-shirt? ft. Onesie photos.

3:16:44 Tech projects wanting to stay independent despite purchase offers?

3:18:42 Precision screwdriver showcase.

3:18:24 5M face shield Canadian Government formal order story.

3:19:09 Tech in its early days that would become the norm for schools?

3:20:29 Would LTT x Noctua screwdriver be available through Noctua in Europe?

3:20:58 Opinions on tech leaks & its impact on purchases?

3:22:18 What was the best product in a game bundle you got?

3:24:34 Cancelled video project you wished to release and why did you cancel it?

3:25:49 What is Linus's opinion on Ben & Jerry's ice cream.

3:26:47 Favorite LTTStore merch you've ever done?

3:28:46 Opinions on Supreme Commander 2?

3:29:05 Anything felt different since the week break? Any noticeable improvements?

3:33:50 Tech tips on cooling without a pool?

3:35:50 Tell a story about a time you felt like a Sims character.

3:36:52 Thoughts on the GR Corolla & the intelligent manual transmission?

3:37:41 Thoughts on selling 3D printed LTT screwdriver case?

3:39:20 Outro.

Transcript

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0:00.0	What is up everyone and welcome to the win show. I was up until 5 a.m. two times this week and about 3 30 last night.
0:08.1	So the energy might be a little lower and highly trained. We've got a great show for you guys today.
0:14.1	We're going to be talking about Nvidia's recent assertion that native resolution gaming is dead long live DLSS and
0:23.2	I don't know if I can argue with them about this. There was a massive Xbox leak revealing plans for consoles, controllers, games, and dreams of acquisitions. What else we got to talk about this week?
0:36.5	Microsoft announces co-pilot for the 7-8th time or something around there. I'm not entirely sure. And a video that came out recently that was actually quite fantastic.
0:46.2	The mom and pop computer shop video that came out yesterday. Was that yesterday? That's a topic.
0:51.2	We're going to talk about some of the behind the scenes stuff. Oh, fun. All right. Let's go ahead and roll that intro.
0:56.5	One, let's jump right into our first topic yesterday. Nvidia officially released DLSS 3.5.
1:24.1	So far, it's only supported in Cyberpunk 2077 and creative tool chaos vantage, but DLSS 3.5. It's kind of cool.
1:34.5	It adds ray reconstruction, which uses a super computer-trained AI network. So buzzwords and AI network. Cool.
1:46.1	To generate higher quality pixels in between sampled rays by recognizing lighting patterns from training data and recreating them during play.
1:57.2	Nvidia claims an 8% frame rate boost in Cyberpunk 2077 over DLSS 3. And also claims that it is less demanding on the GPU, though, that has not been quantified.
2:11.3	This is, this is wild, though. In response to a question about whether Nvidia plans to prioritize native resolution performance in GPUs, Brian Catanzaro, sure, Nvidia's VP of applied deep learning research stated that relying on brute power to improve graphical fidelity is a suboptimal solution when Moore's law no longer seems to hold.
2:33.6	Instead, the future of gaming graphics will be a greater reliance on AI-assisted rendering and upscaling.
2:42.4	According to Catanzaro, smarter technologies like DLSS need to be implemented to improve graphics fidelity and circumvent the otherwise low-gen on-gen performance improvements seen in today's graphics hardware.
2:58.1	This is a quote I think. Yeah, DLSS AI will eventually be able to replace traditional rendering entirely. Now, I think there's a ton for us to unpack here because first of all, looking at it from a right now today perspective, I think it's fair to say that most gamers would strongly prefer to just render it native resolution and have an identical experience every time the game is rendered.
3:27.9	Accurately, no matter what hardware they're on, right? And it just all comes down to, well, how well optimized is your hardware? But I would actually, okay, there's there's a few things that I want to kind of bring up as as sort of a devil's advocate sort of argument, but I mean, do you think that's fair to say most gamers would rather just game at native res?
3:52.5	Not necessarily. I think I would be a little bit sketched out if I was a competitive player, trying to put something that's going to potentially like, yeah, it seems pretty good most of the time, but maybe it doesn't show me the thing that I need to see perfectly the one time I need to see it.
4:13.6	Right, because you might actually be aiming at a pixel. Yeah. So like, I don't know. But if I'm playing single player games, I don't know how much I care.
4:22.4	As long as it looks really good. It's probably fine. You know, so here's, and I mean, I think we can see from the not just sorry, not just aiming at a pixel either. And maybe this kind of ruins the competitive game argument.
4:39.2	But also like pixel perfect jumps, pixel perfect timings. Sure.
4:44.4	Are you serious? You could be competitive in a single player game that you're trying to speedruns or speedruns like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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