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CES 2025 has officially begun and it has brought new products from Samsung, LG and, now, Razer. We have a first look at Razer's next generation Blade 16, a model the company claims is its "thinest Razer gaming laptop ever." The news comes one year after Razer announced its predecessor at CES 2024. So, how thin is thin? According to Razer, the newest Blade 16 is up to 32 percent slimmer than the 2024 model at 0.59 inches thick. We'll have to see how this reduced space impacts its battery life. The Blade 16's keyboard has also undergone a change, with 50 percent more travel at 1.5mm. Plus, the 16-inch screen has a QHD+ 240Hz OLED display that can respond in 0.2ms. Razer has also given the Blade 16 AMD Ryzen AI processors for the first time to support any AI-powered applications. The Blade 16 doesn't have a price yet but, given its predecessor starts at $2,700, it's unlikely to be cheap. Razer also used CES to announce an "AI esports coach" called Project Ava. It provides real-time support that draws from the slightly vague "community wisdom and knowledge bases." Gamers will be able to access it during breaks, in their headset while playing or in a chat box. It should be available in an upcoming beta version. Plus, Razer rolled out a range of new gaming accessories, including the Monitor Stand Chroma for $200. It can hold up to 44 pounds, has a 4-port USB-C hub and supports 16.8 million colors for custom lighting all great features but still $200 for essentially a stand. There's also the Iskur V2 X, which has similar features to the Iskur V2 but with a larger seat base (over 21 inches) and a much more accessible price, $300 compared to $650. Speaking of chairs, Razer announced Project Arielle, a concept chair that offers heating and cooling systems. We're reporting live from CES 2025 in Las Vegas from January 5-10. Read our CES 2025 preview, and take a look back at our picks for Best of CES 2024.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/computing/laptops/razers-new-blade-16-laptop-is-its-thinnest-model-yet-140032671.html?src=rss
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On the same day NVIDIA briefly became the most valuable company in the world, CEO Jensen Huang took to the CES 2025 stage to announce the company's new, long-awaited Blackwell family of graphic cards. The first salvo of RTX 50 series GPU will arrive in January, with pricing starting at $549 for the RTX 5070 and topping out at an eye-watering $1,999 for the flagship RTX 5090. In between those are the $749 RTX 5070 Ti and $999 RTX 5080. Laptop variants of the desktop GPUs will follow in March, with pricing there starting at $1,299 for 5070-equipped PCs. As for specs, the RTX 5090 Founders Edition will feature 32GB of GDDR7 RAM and 21,760 CUDA cores. Depending on the game, NVIDIA says the 5090 will deliver as much as twice the relative performance, with RT-intensive titles like Alan Wake 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 seeing the largest gains. In the latter, for instance, NVIDIA shared a video that showed the game running at 242 frames per second on the 5090 compared to a relatively paltry 109 fps on the RTX 4090. Of course, the performance uplift consumers can expect will depend, in large part, on whether a game supports NVIDIA's new DLSS 4. The tech can generate up to three additional frames for every one frame the GPU renders with traditional rendering techniques. Looking at the performance charts NVIDIA shared, games that are limited to DLSS 3 will see a smaller performance boost. However, the good news is that older RTX GPUs will support DLSS 4, though the tech's killer feature, multi-frame generation, will be exclusive to the company's new 50 series cards. Okay, but what about the RTX 5070, you ask? It will boast 6,144 CUDA cores and 12GB of GDDR7 memory (I can already hear groaning in the comments section). With DLSS 4, NVIDIA claims the 5070 will be as fast as the 4090. Again, it's important to stress those gains will come courtesy of DLSS 4, and rasterization gains, if there are any, will be far more modest. As for the 5070 Ti, the company says it's up to two times faster than the 4070 Ti. We knew going into tonight that the 50 series family would almost certainly be power hogs, and that proved to be true. On the top end, NVIDIA recommends a 1,000-watt PSU for the 5090 due to its 575 watts of total graphics power. If there's a silver lining, it's that all the new Founders Edition cards feature two-slot designs. RTX 5090 RTX 5080 RTX 5070 Ti RTX 5070 RTX 4090 Architecture Blackwell Blackwell Blackwell Blackwell Lovelace CUDA cores 21,760 10,752 8,960 6,144 16,384 AI TOPS 3,352 1,801 1,406 988 1,321 Tensor cores 5th Gen 5th Gen 5th Gen 5th Gen 4th Gen RT cores 4th Gen 4th Gen 4th Gen 4th Gen 3rd Gen VRAM 32 GB GDDR7 16 GB GDDR7 16 GB GDDR7 12 GB GDDR7 24 GB GDDR6X Memory bandwidth 1,792 GB/sec 960 GB/sec 896 GB/sec 672 GB/sec 1,008 GB/sec TGP 575W 360W 300W 250W 450W NVIDIA kicked off the Blackwell portion of its CES presentation with a demo of a next-generation Assassin's Creed game featuring the most realistic ray-traced graphics the series has ever featured. "All of this, with AI, is the house that GeForce built," said Huang, wearing a new snakeskin-like jacket instead of his signature leather jacket. "Now, AI is coming home to GeForce." Be sure to visit Engadget in the coming days as we'll have more on NVIDIA's new GPUs then. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/nvidias-rtx-5090-graphics-card-costs-2000-031133416.html?src=rss
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At CES 2025, Anker has a pair of new speakers under its Soundcore brand. The first, the Soundcore Rave 3S, is a $349 party speaker with AI-powered karaoke tricks and built-in light shows. Joining it is the SoundCore Boom 2 Pro, a more powerful follow-up to its non-Pro namesake, which adds boomier bass and better protection from water and dust. The appropriately named Rave 3S is described as an AI party speaker with 200W output and 108dB volume. Anker says it can fill spaces of up to 1,076 square feet. Like some other Soundcore models, its RGB LEDs can create a light show that syncs with the beat of your music. Red-shirt dude has perfected the art of couch-dancing.Anker The Rave 3S includes a pair of wireless microphones for karaoke nights. Thats where the AI comes in: The speaker has a vocal removal feature that can turn any song into a karaoke track with just one click. If it works as advertised (we havent tested it yet), it could save you the trouble of scouring YouTube or paying for a service like KaraFun to get de-voiced versions of your go-to jams. It also includes a vocal enhancement feature, which adds clarity to your voice, and a reverb effect so you can sound like Phil Collins on your air-drum-inducing cover of In the Air Tonight. The Rave 3S has an estimated 12 hours of playtime, a bass-boost feature, IPX4 water resistance and a Spatial Audio mode. The party in a box will be available on March 10 for $349. Anker Also coming soon is the Soundcore Boom 2 Pro the follow-up to last years Boom 2 and Boom 2 Plus. The new model has four drivers and a 140W output, making it better than its predecessor for outdoor spaces. Its bass can reach as low as 40Hz. The speaker has IP68 dust and water resistance (the Boom 2 and Plus variant were only rated IPX7), and Anker says it can float on water for pool parties. Like the party speaker, the Boom 2 Pro can produce an RGB light show, and it ships with a portable strap for slinging it over your shoulder. Anker says it has a 20-hour playtime. The Boom 2 Pro will launch in April (no exact date yet) for $249.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/audio/speakers/ankers-ai-party-speaker-can-automatically-remove-vocals-for-karaoke-nights-030057069.html?src=rss
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