RTX 50-Series Performance; New AMD CPUs and APUs; Minisforum MS-A2! - Talking Heads Ep.365

Welcome to Talking Heads, your once weekly show about everything happening in the world of tech, computers, gaming, craft beer and cocktails. You too can be a Bad Mother Flipper... Grab our new Minimalist Wallet from https://craftcomputing.store Check out this episode in Podcast form over at https://open.spotify.com/show/31ZxkU6RwPHG8A4jQjxSG3 Support us on Patreon and get access to our exclusive Discord server. Chat with all of the hosts from Talking Heads all week long. https://www.patreon.com/CraftComputing Want to fuel Craft Computing? Parts, beer, gifts? I've got a mailbox! Craft Computing 1567 Edgewater St NW, #51 Salem, OR 97304 Follow Jeff on Bluesky @CraftComputing@bsky.social Follow Jon on Everything @HopsAndBrews On tonight's show... - Tech News - RTX 50-series shows ‘15-33%’ improved performance without DLSS/AI vs 40-series https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-official-geforce-rtx-50-vs-rtx-40-benchmarks-15-to-33-performance-uplift-without-dlss-multi-frame-generation Reviews go live on Jan 24th https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-reviews-go-live-january-24-rtx-5080-on-january-30 Intel B580 noticeably slower when paired with slower CPUs https://www.pcgamesn.com/intel/arc-b580-performance-issues Minisforum MS-A2 announced at CES https://nascompares.com/news/the-minisforum-ms-a2-workstation-revealed-at-ces-2025/ AMD launches Ryzen 9950X3D + 9900X3D CPUs https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-launches-ryzen-9-9950x3d-and-9900x3d-claims-20-percent-faster-gaming-performance-than-intels-flagship-arrow-lake-processors AMD launches new slate of mobile powerhouses, muddies water https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-z2-apus-gaming-handhelds-z2-extreme-strix-z2-hawk-z2-go-rembrandt/