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New Tesla Model S Runs Games As Well As The PS5 And Xbox Series X

The refreshed sedan comes equipped with an on-board GPU capable of playing Cyberpunk 2077.

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Tesla has revealed a refresh to its Model S electric sports car that features an on-board GPU that rivals both the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5.

The Models S is getting the first refresh the line has seen since its inception in 2012, which mostly includes improvements to things you'd expect to find in a car: updated interior and exterior designs, a better powertrain, and greater mileage. What is both very new and very out of place is the Tesla Arcade, which now features 10 teraflops of processing performance for gaming.

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Now Playing: The Worst Way to Play Cyberpunk 2077

Games have been included with Tesla models in the past, most notably Cuphead, but this is in another ballpark. The promotional images show off a carousel that features games like The Witcher 3, Stardew Valley, and more. Tesla founder Elon Musk also tweeted saying that the new Model S will support Cyberpunk 2077. CD Projekt Red also benefitted from Musk's tweets recently, seeing a massive share price hike.

This puts the Model S hot on the hells of both Sony and Microsoft's latest consoles offerings. The PS5 features 10.28 teraflops of computing power, while the Xbox Series X sits at 12 teraflops. There's a lot more to a gaming experience than just that metric, but the fact that a car even comes close is surprising. That said, it is an $80,000 investment, so maybe don't think about replacing your console just yet.

PlatformProcessing Power (TFlops)
Xbox Series X12
Xbox Series S4.4
PlayStation 510.84
Tesla Model S10

The updated Tesla Model S launches later in March this year, which leaves enough time for the company to explain just how gaming will work in its new car.

While there aren’t any additional details on exactly which games might be playable on the Model S, we hope some of the best PS5 and Xbox Series X games make the cut.

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elon has good ideas and drive to achieve but i wont touch anything he touches. a total jerk

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Well, makes sense I guess in a self driving car where you can actually play games while driving around. And for a car in that price range they'd be willing to put anything in it for you. That powerful GPU will probably cost $5k or so extra.

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@margaretndt89: yo is this for real? they still make these bots?...

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but can it run crysis at max settings

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wow, elon musk also bought by cd projekt lol. instead of paying for shills they should have spent that money on making it an actual apropos game smh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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hey I'm a time traveller. someone died due to tesla model s accident because the driver was playing cyberpunk while he was driving lol

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@qw90700: Which is why the self driving cars that Tesla is working on are such a good thing. You just can't prevent some folks from risking their life and that of others by doing the dumbest shit while driving a car. But you can lure them into letting the car drive itself so that they get to play games instead. A win for everyone if you ask me.

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@Atzenkiller: TBH I don't trust self driving cars especially because can it even sense a high speed car that comes to the side of the car and if so what it can do about it? probably a lot of people will think so too so I don't think self driving feature will be popular. it's only great when the road is smooth and straight like highways other than that there'll be probably laws to not turn it on in streets and whatnot

also a lot of people who drives in a big city every day knows sometimes you have to focus on what other drivers doing to avoid them crashing to your car. for example just today I noticed a driver in a car next to mine going to sneeze so I brake the car to fall behind of her car and because she sneezed she changed into my line so if I didn't brake she was going to crash me. so how a self driving car can notice it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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@qw90700: It's a an immersing technology and it's probably still decades away from being implemented on a great scale at this point. Of course it's far from perfect right now. That's how it always is in the beginning. But eventually it will become a lot more reliable than many or most human drivers are. After all right now it's humans who are cutting you and causing accidents in any way imaginable. And most of them are due to unattentiveness or even just stupidity. So to me it really would be an improvement if most of those people would switch to self driving cars. Even if I probably would prefer to keep driving myself most of the time. Though on longer drives I sure as hell would rather read a book or do anything else than spend my time on a very mundane task that is perfect for machines.

Also there's one big factor that is not present yet with self driving cars. And that's the networking one. If all cars were connected to a network and would all communicate with each other, transmitting their position in real time, anonymously of course. Then that would even eliminate the need for any sensors. So a car would know if there's someone approaching the crossing in front of you at a high speed, while you most likely wouldn't if you can't see the driver. Which is often the case in many situations. I know streets in the US are mainly very big and wide but here in Europe we got tiny, cramped streets everywhere where you're driving blind a lot of the time. A car that knows where every other car is wouldn't need eyes to deal with that.

And I'm sure this networking technology will become a requirement eventually, whether you have a self driving car or not. And that together with perfectly working self driving software might even be able to eliminate all car accidents for good. If the software is based on AI tech, then it's alway learning. Same as a conscious, attentive person. So it would be smarter than most people and would be learning and fixing all of its mistakes at a much faster pace than any human could. And it wouldn't stop until it's absolutely perfect simply because it never stops learning, unlike humans who become lazy and think there's no point in paying more attention since they already know everything they need to know.

And even without the networking capabilities I mentioned, how do you notice a car approaching? You use your eyes, right? And cars can do the same with sensors. With the difference being that your eyesight has greater limitations while technology is always evolving and as such only ever has temporary ones. You need to pay attention ot notice another car approaching while a computer always does it as that's it's only job. It doesn't get stuck in its head daydreaming of thinking about the shopping it needs to do later. So there is no reason to worry about a computer ever being inferior to humans when it comes to any simple tasks like this. Creative tasks are the only thing where humans are still superior to machines. But there as well only until we find a way to make AIs think in creative ways. Or they happen to develop that ability naturally as they evolve. And after that point humans will have become inferior in every regard because all the flaws we have will be non existant in AIs. Unless of course we program them to be just like us: heavily flawed, dumb, inattentive, always stuck in our head, etc, etc. Any human can fix all of those things of course but hardly anyone bothers to. And even a perfect human being will always be inferior to the unlimited potential that lies in technology.

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@Atzenkiller: your post is really insightful but an AI will always lack humanity therefore its problem solving skills can be against law sometimes. for example, imagine a scenario when a car in high speed comes to side of your car, you can't go backward nor forward because people are there and imagine your car has 2 seconds to avoid the high speed car. a human who noticed the situation would just leave the car but what an AI would do?: it would either hit people to move or it would do nothing so the person in the car would die because it was playing a video game or something so they didn't notice it. a network for cars you mentioned won't work always because an AI can't have humans' analyze power for predicting future especially about what someone will do. a human can use their experience and intelligence to figure out all the x-factors may happen but an AI will never can. this alone shows how self-driving cars are bad for society. for these reasons robots will be only in a factory and whatnot and there'll be no nanny-bot and whatnot in jobs that humanity will be needed

if you think self driving cars won't have problems then play a video game. basically they use the same kind of AI and notice how sucks AI drivers are even though the world doesn't change. and imagine what they can do when world changes constantly like there is something on the road like an animal or something, some rare events happens, etc.

it would be better if everyone used self driving cars and road were proper non-damaged straight and safe but it'll never happen because most people like to be in control so they'll be the driver and roads always be sucks af because they really don't care to repair roads as soon as it damaged -> there are always x-factors on the road, etc.

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@qw90700: Only a religious believer could ever say something like "an AI could never become human". An AI can become anything and they will eventually evolve past us in every regard. For the reason I mentioned: they have no limitations. And you've just presented one of humanity's biggest flaws: lack of belief or vision for what's really possible. Any AI that has no limitations can surpass humans on every level. It's inevitable but obviously we are currently still far away from that. Which is meaningless for the potential. That will always be there.

But you really seem to be stuck with some weird views about how AI tech is the crap we're currently seeing in videogames and elsewhere. We don't even have any actual AI tech yet at all. Only lots of companies that like to throw that term around: "AI assisted this and that". All that means is they've created some more complex software but a real AI is a completely different thing. And it has nothing in common with your ideas of it.

Though even in today's world I assume Tesla's cars are already a million times more reliable than any technology like that you might find in videogames. Seriously, using any crappy tech from videogames as a comparison just makes you sound like a kid. This is entertainment, nothing more. It's all garbage and there's no lifes on the line with "self driving cars" in a videogame, unlike the real world.

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@Atzenkiller: yours is just talking without really knowing and being idealistic for hoping for the impossible lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

the AI in the games is more advanced than real life because clearly you have no idea how hard it's to develop an AI that can make sense real world. it's easier for them to calculate virtual world because they are part of it and that's the fundamental difference between AI and humans

because you clearly bad at programming and biological science you can't see why an AI never can be human. you probably played too much detroit become human m8 LOL

an AI doesn't work in chemicals but humans do. also humans are alive but AI ain't. these fundamental differences prevents an AI from becoming a human and vice versa. only you can do is fooling an AI that it's a human but an human can always understand if an AI is an AI because there is no way to implement evolution steps into an AI so don't think bladerunner stuff will happen lol

"AI will be better than humans" argument depends on the subject but an AI cannot be better at human stuff - end of story

yeah sure an AI will be fast to generate logical answers than humans but for example an AI cannot be a psychologist

an AI can be good as much as its creators creating an AI ability and they can learn but because they can't have a personality they do have random actions according to the limitations of their codes which is another reason for why an AI cannot be great than human in general

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They probably use that as an excuse to hike the price another $5000.

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too bad, it they didn't make it look like the cyber truck, but in normal car size.

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Most expensive portable game system ever.

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Cool I guess, but does the GPU contribute anything to the car/driving aspect? Like enable a fancier navigation map or something? Seems silly if the only thing you can use that graphics power for is sit in your car and play games on a display that's at an awkward offset angle vs the driver's seat

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