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Tue. 06/01 – Flagship GPU Headlines From Computex

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🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Whole bunch of chip news from Computex. New Flagship Nvidia GPUs. New AMD graphics adapters. The thinnest gaming laptops in the realm? Twitter launches a weather news collective. Amazon is signing you up to Sidewalk whether you like or it not. And yeah, that Uber ride really has gotten more expensive. Here’s why. Sponsors: Grammarly.com/techmeme for 20% off Cybereason.com Links: Nvidia announces new RTX 3080 Ti, priced at $1,199 and launching June 3rd (The Verge) AMD Announces Radeon RX 6000M Series: RDNA2 Makes Its Laptop Debut (AnandTech) AMD and Samsung are collaborating on Exynos mobile chips capable of ray-tracing (Engadget) Alienware's New X-Series Laptops Are Its Thinnest Gaming Notebooks Yet (Gizmodo) Twitter teams with climate vet to launch local weather news service (Axios) Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors (ArsTechnica) Prepare to Pay More for Uber and Lyft Rides (New York Times) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, June 1st, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

0:09.0

Whole bunch of Chip News from Computex, new flagship

0:13.4

NVIDIA GPUs, new AMD graphics adapters,

0:16.5

the thinnest gaming laptops in the realm.

0:19.5

Twitter launches a Weather news collective.

0:22.7

Amazon is signing you up to Sidewalk

0:25.0

whether you like it or not.

0:26.0

And yeah, that Uber ride really has gotten more expensive lately.

0:30.2

Here's why.

0:31.3

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

0:34.0

Ah, it's another Chip News banana today.

0:39.0

That's mostly because Computex is going on, so everyone has an announcement or three so let's run

0:45.2

through this first up invidia has announced a new flagship gaming GPU the

0:49.7

g-force RTX 3080T, which promises to deliver one and a half times more performance over

0:56.8

the RTX 280T.

0:58.8

It will be available worldwide on June 3rd for $1199 dollars, quoting the verge. The RTX 3080

1:06.9

looks very much like the RTX 3080 with an identical design and ports. The main difference is a power jump and V-ram.

1:16.2

The RTX 3080 ships with more V-ram than the RTX 3080 with 12 gigabytes of GDDR 6X in total. The new

1:26.4

GPU is essentially as close as you can get to an RTX 3090 on paper

1:30.4

with half the V-ram. $1,199 price matches the same pricing

1:35.9

and video uses for the RTX 2080 T Founders Edition cards and it's $300

1:41.0

less than the giant RTX 3090.

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