271: Big Honkin' Die

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

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4.8 • 521 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Will's gotten his hands on Nvidia's fancy new RTX 5090 in advance of its release at the end of the month, and he's spent the last several days feverishly benchmarking it and testing its new features, so this week we dive into the raw performance numbers he's seeing, consider the card's mammoth power requirements, talk about some of the most prominent new out-of-the-box features like multi-frame generation, better DLSS upscaling, and Reflex 2, and then attempt to demystify some of the more forward-looking tech coming to Nvidia cards like neural net shader programs and textures, mega geometry, and more.

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0:00.0	Okay, Brad, I finally got rid of the last Dell 24.
0:04.0	It's either an 08 or 05 monitor in my house.
0:07.5	I'm less concerned about the 05 or the 08 and more about the 24.
0:11.8	You have the 24 inch?
0:13.6	Yeah, so we got the 24s.
0:14.9	We all bought 24s.
0:15.9	I don't remember why.
0:16.6	I think we got, I think that we could buy them through the IPT department at our company.
0:20.7	Aha.
0:21.5	And that explains it.
0:22.7	A little bit of a deal.
0:23.8	Yeah.
0:24.0	Okay.
0:24.5	We all, we all bought the 20 inch version of that.
0:26.5	We're talking, we're talking that mid 2000s Dell monitor that literally everybody bought.
0:30.0	I think the 24.05 was specifically the 05 model and the 24A was specifically the 08 model.
0:35.6	That's correct. We all bought the 20 inch because even a 20
0:39.1	inch was pretty expensive for an LCD monitor at that time. But anyway, I thought it was like
0:43.9	500 bucks. But anyway, yeah. It's like 600 for the 20 inch, if I remember. They've been aging in my garage
0:48.5	for a long time now. And when my daughter wanted a computer during the pandemic, rather than buy a
0:53.9	monitor, which was kind of difficult to get as everybody's setting up their home offices, I just went out into the office into the garage and grabbed the one that had the display port port and plugged it into her small form factor.
1:04.7	You went into your monitor seller, grabbed one off the rack.
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