Hundreds of new products were announced at CES 2024, including lots of exciting gear for content makers and other creatives. Here are some of the most exciting creator-friendly products.
Monitors
Big-name monitor manufacturers like Samsung and LG tend to go hard at CES, and this year’s tech showcase was no exception.
Along with some gorgeous new televisions and QLED displays, Samsung announced several monitors that should appeal to gamers and content creators. Of those, we’re super excited about the updated Odyssey OLED G8. The newest model features a 32" 4K OLED panel with 240 Hz refresh rate and near-instantaneous 0.03 ms response time. This year’s model also ditches last year’s ultrawide screen for a flat panel with a more traditional 16:9 aspect ratio. Assuming your rig is powerful enough to get the most out of this screen, the new Odyssey OLED G8 should serve gamers and other creatives quite well.
No surprise, LG also showed out at CES, announcing updates to its signature lineup of OLED TVs, as well as several new monitors. One that really caught our eye was the new UltraGear OLED, a 32" Dual-Hz monitor that lets you switch from 4K 240 Hz to 1080p 480 Hz (!) with the press of a button. No word yet on whether the human eye can even perceive the difference between 240 Hz and 480 Hz—all we know is that we want it.
Not to be outdone, ASUS announced that the next generation of ROG Swift PG27 monitors will feature NVIDIA’s all-new G-SYNC Pulsar technology, which Team Green describes as “the next evolution of Variable Refresh Rate (VRR).” NVIDIA claims that G-SYNC Pulsar will allow monitors like the upcoming ASUS ROG Swift PG27 to claim an effective clarity of more than 1,000 Hz. In other words, this year’s ROG Swift PG27 could potentially offer the smoothest on-screen action we’ve ever seen.
Laptops
The forecast for CES called for high winds, mid temps, and a deluge of creator-friendly laptops from big-name manufacturers like ASUS, Lenovo, and Razer.
Lenovo arrived at CES with a legion of new products, including new laptops designed specifically for content creators. Among those, one of the most exciting (and most unique) is the updated Yoga Book 9i, a laptop contortionist featuring dual OLED screens you can arrange in multiple configurations (classic clamshell, dual portrait, dual landscape, etc.). Along with its malleable body, the Yoga Book 9i boasts a powerful array of specs and software, including the latest Intel® Core™ processors and Windows 11, so it will bend but it won’t break.
Lenovo wasn’t the only company showing off a dual-screen laptop at CES. ASUS announced a slew of new laptops, including the newest Zenbook DUO, which features a pair of 14" 3K 120 Hz OLED screens. Unlike previous generations of the DUO, which featured a smaller, secondary display above the laptop keyboard, the latest model comes with two equally sized touchscreen displays connected by a 180° hinge. Combined with a full-size Bluetooth keyboard with an integrated touchpad and built-in kickstand, the DUO’s versatile hinge design allows you to use it in several different modes, including dual-screen viewing, desktop mode, laptop mode, and sharing mode.
Razer unveiled its new Blade 14 and Blade 16 laptops at CES 2024, both of which look ideal for gamers and content creators. The Blade 16 is especially appealing, since it features arguably the most powerful specs we’ve ever seen packed into such a lightweight form factor. Highlights include a 14th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-14900HX 24-Core processor, 64GB of DDR5 memory, dual 2TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSDs, and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics. Whatever game you’re playing or content you’re making, the Blade 16 should be up to the task.
Hardware
Serious content creation requires serious hardware, and there was no shortage of powerful new processors and graphics cards at CES 2024. Intel®, ASUS, and AMD all came to play.
Intel® dropped a ton of new processors at CES 2024, including new additions to its 14th generation Core™ processor lineup. The new CPUs cover the Core™ i9, Core™ i7, Core™ i5, and Core™ i3 series, and are available with or without integrated graphics. Except for the Core™ i3, all CPUs feature the signature hybrid-core design that helps boost performance by using Performance cores to drive applications, while the Efficient cores take care of background tasks.
ASUS announced several new RTX 40 SUPER graphics cards, which are designed to deliver enhanced performance for AI-related tasks (such as image and video generation) in addition to their top-tier graphical performance. One of the standouts from the new ASUS cards is the 4080 SUPER ROG Strix OC. The powerful new card features 10,420 CUDA cores with 16GB of GDDR6X VRAM, a 23 Gb/s memory speed, and it can be overclocked up to 2670 MHz, allowing creators to reduce video and photo rendering times significantly.
AMD finally released its long-awaited Ryzen 8000-series chips at CES 2024. As one of the first desktop processors to feature a dedicated AI engine, the Ryzen 7 8700G combines the power of an integrated NPU, Radeon 780M GPU, and processing cores to accelerate tasks ranging from content generation to noise-cancellation and virtual backgrounds during video chats.
The CES showroom was packed with more content-creator-friendly gear than we could shake an AI-generated stick at. What were the announcements that caught your eye? Tell us about them in the Comments section.
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