Elgato 4K60 S+

Elgato is arguably the leader in game capture and streaming hardware. This comes as a surprise to no one that it managed to make an external card that can record and stream in 4K HDR. The Elgato 4K60 S+ allows the content creator to record anywhere without the need of a PC thanks to the much-requested SD card slot. This means you can record your footage any time without the need for a PC. Plug in, hit the record button on the capture card, and pull the files from your SD card. Now you can put together that sick Call of Duty headshot montage to Linkin Park in no time.


AMD Ryzen 7 4800U

With AMD now offering mobile Zen 2 processors, the CPU wars are moving to new ground. The Ryzen 7 4800U is AMD's first 8-core/16-thread mobile chip, and it sports a 15W TDP. It can probably easily exceed that and have to throttle down on clocks, but the base clock is still a respectable 1.8GHz, can turbo up to 4.2GHz, and it has Vega Graphics integrated.

AMD isn't including a number on this round, but the GPU has eight compute units, or 512 graphics cores. That's less than last year's 3700U (10 CUs), but the GPU clock is higher and we're told to expect a decent boost in graphics performance thanks to the 7nm tech. Basically, the chip will be able to run higher clocks within the 15W TDP this year, and some laptops will have the power limit bumped to 25W for better performance. Intel's 10th Gen mobile CPUs are going to be facing some stiff competition.


AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

There were only two candidates for the best new graphics chip shown at CES: Intel's Xe Graphics (a developer test vehicle board that didn't impress us with its current level of performance), and AMD's trimmed down RX 5600 XT. The latter is an easy pick, and performance should be compelling. You get all the cores and ROPs of an RX 5700, but with 6GB of GDDR6, so less memory and less memory bandwidth. But it shouldn't hurt performance too much, and we're looking forward to testing the card for its January 21 debut to see how it compares to Nvidia's RTX 2060.


Origin Big O

For 10 years, Origin has paraded the monstrous Big O gaming desktop at various trade shows by packing three gaming consoles into a super PC. To mark the decade anniversary Origin went ahead and surprised the CES showgoers with the news of a consumer version of the Big O.

The noticeably smaller hybrid gaming desktop starts at $2,499. You can configure your own Big O desktop that comes equipped with either a PS4 Pro or Xbox One X All-Digital (not both, sadly). The console and PC halves of the Big O have their own cooling, power supplies, and HDMI outputs. The console chip also gets liquid cooling, so it won't run nearly as hot as normal. This makes the Big O a powerful streaming machine as you can throw in an internal card for an added cost. More importantly, Big O is a ridiculous name and this means we will be saying more often, which I'm totally okay with.