This week, a Cyberpunk 2077 patch added ray tracing support for AMD's Radeon RX 6000-series graphics cards, loosening Nvidia's (worryingly) exclusive grip on the cutting-edge lighting features. But that came with a bit of bad news too, as Cyberpunk 2077 drove home that AMD's missing DLSS rival, dubbed FidelityFX Super Resolution, can't come soon enough. AMD introduced real-time ray tracing support in the Radeon RX 6000-series GPUs, after Nvidia's GeForce RTX 20-series graphics card brought the technology to PCs in 2018. Nvidia didn't just focus on ray tracing, however; it also rolled out a complementary Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) feature. DLSS leverages machine learning and dedicated AI cores in RTX graphics cards to render games at a lower resolution internally, then upscale the final image to your chosen resolution.

This year's incarnation of the CES trade show will be like no other. Last year, nearly 175,000 attendees crammed into the Las Vegas Convention Center and hotels across the Strip to get a glimpse of the latest and greatest gadgets. That obviously can't happen now. But the show must go on, and we're still expecting a deluge of awesome hardware to be unveiled at the all-virtual CES 2021, running January 11 to January 14. A lot of CES is devoted to smart home technology, and the announcements have already started rolling out at our sister site TechHive.

With the debut of the Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT, AMD is clearly on a roll. Mere weeks ago, the company's Ryzen 5000 processors seized the unquestionable performance lead from Intel--yes, even in games--for the first time in over a decade. On Wednesday, it's the graphics division's turn to shine with these two Radeon RX 6000-series "Big Navi" graphics cards powered by AMD's new RDNA 2 architecture. Rival Nvidia has largely been competing against itself in the high-end GPU space for several years now. AMD's Vega offerings showed up disappointingly late and disappointingly underpowered in 2017, followed by (awesome) first-gen RDNA cards that sadly topped out with the midrange Radeon RX 5700 XT in 2019.